Fri.Apr 11, 2025

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Why Amgen Hired An AI Head From Nike

Forbes Healthcare

Big Pharma and biotech startups alike are counting on AI to speed the process of drug discovery and make their operations more efficient. But most of the best data scientists arent working in healthcareat least not yet.

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C. Everett Koop takes the lead, seeking specialty recognition

KevinMD.com

An excerpt fromDr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General. “I was the salesman for pediatric surgery. I have the knack of talking to an audience and convincing [them] about what I’m saying is true.” – CEK The early 1950s witnessed an extraordinary burst of professional activity on the part of the young surgeon, Read more C.

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The Prototype: Scientists Turn Paper Into Plastic

Forbes Healthcare

Plus: A $3 million prize for scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider, why were one step closer to a holodeck and more.

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Resources for Students Struggling with Alcohol Abuse

MedQuest College

Alcohol abuse is a pervasive and serious issue among college students, with the potential to cause significant disruptions to academic progress, personal relationships, and long-term health. The transition to college life presents unique challenges, including increased academic demands, exposure to new social environments, and a newfound sense of independence.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

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.

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How Health Insurers Can Fix The Broken Patient Experience

Forbes Healthcare

CignaGroup recently announced plans to simplify its claims process and link executive compensation to customer satisfaction, which is a much-needed transformation.

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Why Good communication Matters in Healthcare

Practice Builders

How to work successfully in the field of modern medicine? After all, the lives of patients depend on the quality of interaction between specialists. The better the professional connection, the more important things the patient will tell about his health. Unfortunately, many medical institutions face problems that interfere with coordinated work. We will consider the main difficulties in communication and tell you how to overcome them.

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Radiation Safety: How Radiography Technologists Protect Themselves

Northwest Career College

As a Radiography Technologist , you will use specialized equipment to capture images of the inside of the body. These help the doctors understand what is happening inside the patient’s body and help them diagnose problems. Since radiography deals with radiation, the patients and technologists must be kept safe. Low exposure to Radiation is helpful for medical imaging, but it can be harmful if protective measures are not taken.

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Medicaid to curtail spending on state programs not related to health care

Medical Economics

Overly creative programs tally up to $2.7B in spending that will end, according to CMS.

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On Other Channels.

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Below is a digest of new blog posts across all the Connect Care clinician blog channels in the last week. For more info on the blogs, click here. Note: A camera icon in a post on any of our channels indicates that there is an accompanying screenshot - just click the icon to view.

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Older adults are using patient portals — some are getting charged for it

Medical Economics

One in eight portal users over 50 report being billed for messaging their doctors, with Medicaid and private plans charging at similar rates.

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Redefining biometrics & liability implications

Physicians Practice

As biometric technologies expand in health care and consumer surveillance, regulators are cracking down on companies that misuse sensitive data with HIPAA, FTC orders and billion-dollar state settlements setting the tone.

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New senate bill would create Medicare payment pathway for AI-enabled devices

Medical Economics

Experts say the lack of a consistent payment mechanism through Medicare has become a major roadblock to adoption.

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Public Health: Support Science. Support Health.

UVM Larner College of Medicine

This opinion piece ran in VTDigger on April 9, 2025 by Jan K. Carney, associate dean for public health and health policy and a professor of medicine at the University of Vermonts Larner College of Medicine.

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Targeted alerts may help doctors choose the right antibiotics

Medical Economics

Large NIH-funded studies show real-time alerts help doctors reduce unnecessary use of strong antibiotics

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Human trafficking isn’t what you think: Why education is key to stopping it

KevinMD.com

The recent focus on the Canada-U.S. border has led to frequent confusion between human smuggling and human trafficking. Smuggling involves people moving across international borders. In most cases, irregular migrants who are smuggled into the country consent to assistance. Human trafficking, on the other hand, involves the exploitation of people for sex or labor through Read more Human trafficking isn’t what you think: Why education is key to stopping it originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Heavy drinking and your brain; patients taking Ozempic for T1D; memory-inspired AI – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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Post Herpetic Churnalism

Sensible Medicine

There I was, enjoying a Wednesday morning clinic session, when my phone vibrated with a notification from the New York Times. 1 I looked down, wondering what disaster was afflicting the stock market, our country, or the planet, when instead I see: Shingles Vaccine Can Decrease Risk of Dementia, Study Finds. Instead of being annoyed, I had a couple of pleasant thoughts: 1.

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Most Americans Don’t Want to Cut Medicaid (Including Republicans)

Health Populi

With potential down-sizing of Medicaid on the short-term U.S. political horizon, a fascinating poll found that most people identifying as Republican would not favor cuts to Medicaid. What fascinates me about this survey, published earlier this week, is that it was conducted by FabrizioWard , a polling firm that has often been used by President Trump.

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Trump nominee Dr. Oz sets Medicare agenda with price transparency, detecting fraud

Medical Economics

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What the Trump tariffs mean for independent practices

Physicians Practice

Stephen A. Dickens, JD, MAEd, FACMPE, VP of medical practice services at SVMIC, discusses how President Trump's tariffs could trigger a chain reaction for independent practices.

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Adam Cifu, Churnalist

Sensible Medicine

I liked my previous post on why I don’t think the shingles vaccine (actually our previous shingles vaccine, Zostavax, rather than the present one, Shingrix) does not prevent dementia, despite a Nature article and coverage pretty much everywhere to the contrary. I stand by my conclusions. However, a couple of astute readers, one in the comments and one email, called me out for a bit of an unintentional sleight of hand in the math.

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