Forbes Healthcare

MAY 22, 2025

Walgreens is only buying prescription files and not brick and mortar stores among the pharmacy assets being sold across the U.S. by Rite Aid.

The Healthcare Blog

MAY 22, 2025

By OWEN TRIPP Creating a healthcare experience that builds trust and delivers value to people and purchasers isn’t a quick fix, but its the only way to reverse the downward spiral of high costs and poor outcomes Entrepreneurs like to say the U.S. healthcare system is “broken,” usually right before they explain how they intend to fix it.

Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

MAY 22, 2025

Neal Baer was the longstanding show runner for Law & Order: SVU. Now, he directs a new program on Medicine and the arts at his Alma mater, Harvard Medical School.

Medication

Minority Nurse

MAY 22, 2025

Reading is nothing new for nursing students. Nurses in training read textbooks in classrooms, but its not the same as reading stories that speak to the heart. Oftentimes, biographies and nonfiction books written by nurses are more interesting and action-packed than medical texts. Many of these books and essays about nurses lives are based on what happens in the real world. nursing student books, best books for nursing students, must-read nursing books, nursing school reading list, books for futu

Triage

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

Clinical Operations

Forbes Healthcare

MAY 22, 2025

Fresh off a $275 million fundraisethe largest in digital health so far this yearInnovaccers cofounder and CEO Abhinav Shashank has a plan to pull together data and AI tools all in one place.

Hospital

MedQuest College

MAY 22, 2025

Prepare for Success in Healthcare Interviews Interviewing for a healthcare position requires more than just knowledge of clinical skillsit involves showcasing your ability to communicate, stay composed under pressure, and demonstrate empathy and professionalism. Whether youre applying for a role as a medical assistant, dental assistant, or another allied health position, you can expect to face several types of questions.

De-Escalation

Medical Economics

MAY 22, 2025

Vague terms like "common" and "rare" are misleading your patients.

Forbes Healthcare

MAY 22, 2025

Study explores if toxin from gut bacteria causes colon cancer

Medical Economics

MAY 22, 2025

Responses focus on health care as House approves One Big Beautiful Bill federal spending legislation.

Billing

Performance Health

MAY 22, 2025

Not all patient safety software is created equal. Some platforms promise efficiency, but leave teams bogged down in complexity. Others offer flashy features, but lack the support needed to turn data into action. In an industry where the smallest detail can impact lives, healthcare organizations need more than just software to track, manage, and prevent safety events.

Patient Safety

Medical Economics

MAY 22, 2025

AAFP board chair details potential effects in critique of federal spending plan.

Billing

Practice Index

MAY 22, 2025

On our recent half-day training at the practice, we spent the whole afternoon focused on safeguarding. It was such a valuable session for the whole team. We began together, then split into clinical and non-clinical groups to work through scenarios relevant to our roles. I joined the non-clinical session, and it made me pause and really reflect on the difficult situations our teams face every day.

Billing

Usherk Khan

MAY 22, 2025

Skin is the bodys largest organ, so it is incredibly important that we take care of it. Most people have moles on their skin, and most of the time they are completely harmless.

Medical Assistant

Medical Economics

MAY 22, 2025

The top news stories in medicine today.

Medication

Practice Index

MAY 22, 2025

Neighbourhood health plans revealed but caution urged NHS England Medical Director Dr Claire Fuller has said very few parts of England are ready to implement new neighbourhood health services. She said ICBs should not fall into the trap of handing over functions too early to new management. It will not happen overnight, she added, and should be done properly.

Huddles/Rounds

Medical Economics

MAY 22, 2025

New analysis of Medicare billing data shows high turnover among advanced practice providers, especially in hospital-based and smaller practices.

Billing

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 22, 2025

The digital musculoskeletal care company opened at $39.25 per share Thursday, rising 23% above its public offering price.

Practice Index

MAY 22, 2025

Long-term absence can leave us feeling pulled in different directions: its one of those situations where compassion, business needs, legalities and general frustration seem to collide. A little while back I wrote a blog about the secrets to managing persistent short-term absence. Its time to pay long-term absence situations some attention too. Firstly, of course, what is a long-term absence?

Follow-Up

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 22, 2025

The agreements cap monthly out-of-pocket costs for Zepbound and Wegovy at $200 and more deeply discount the drugs for Evernorth’s employer and health plan clients.

Health Populi

MAY 22, 2025

With women’s health and “femtech” investing in the spotlight in 2025, most of the focus has been on either women’s access to health care services (e.g., for abortion and prenatal/primary care) to start-ups focusing on fertility technology and benefits, along with growing awareness of the long-overlooked menopause market opportunity.

Communication

Physicians Practice

MAY 22, 2025

Practices must prepare for stricter fraud reporting and compliance as the DOJ Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program and bipartisan AI Whistleblower Protection Act expand protections beyond the False Claims Act.

Forbes Healthcare

MAY 22, 2025

Treating artificial intelligence as just one ingredient in the recipe for business success was emphasized by health care investors and start-ups at MedCity INVEST 2025.

Best Practices

Physicians Practice

MAY 22, 2025

Boost efficiency and cut burnout with these 11 technology-driven strategies medical practice administrators can use to empower staff and improve patient care.

Patient Care

Medical Economics

MAY 22, 2025

Food, chemicals, behavior, medicine all play a role in helping or hurting Americans health, according to new MAHA report, but farmers say theres junk science behind some claims.

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 22, 2025

A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved Rite Aid’s pharmacy asset sales to a variety of buyers. Purchase prices were not disclosed.

Practice Index

MAY 22, 2025

In October 2024, the RCGP introduced the Safeguarding Standards for General Practice, which apply to anyone working in general practice across the UK. The standards combine and include both safeguarding children and adults. In line with these requirements, our safeguarding courses, part of the Learning Package , have been updated, and weve introduced some new annual refresher courses.

Health Care Assistant

Relias

MAY 22, 2025

We know every employee’s experience is unique, but one thing remains constant: our people are at the heart of everything we do. From supporting healthcare heroes to building smarter systems behind the scenes, our teams bring their full selves to work each day, and were proud of the Relias culture theyve helped create. We asked four employees across different departments to share what work looks and feels like at Relias, from the small wins to the big growth moments.

Collaboration

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 22, 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson negotiated a number of last-minute changes to the megabill to ensure passage, including moving up the start date for Medicaid work requirements. The House passed the bill 215-214 on Thursday morning.

Billing

The HIPAA Journal

MAY 22, 2025

An anatomic pathology laboratory and healthcare provider in North Carolina have experienced cyberattacks involving the theft of patient data. Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology, North Carolina Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology, P.C. (MCP) in Pinehurst, North Carolina, has recently reported a data breach to the HHS Office for Civil Rights that involved the theft of the protected health information of 235,911 individuals.

HIPAA

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 22, 2025

The agency said it would increase the number of MA plan audits and complete its backlog of reviews by investing in technology and growing its medical coding workforce.

Medical Coding