Forbes Healthcare
MAY 30, 2025
With every 100 grams of ultra-processed foods you consume each day, your risk of developing cardiovascular disease, hypertension, digestive diseases, and cancer increases.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 30, 2025
I did my residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Some people think of it as The House of God , I think of it as the home of Open Notes. 1 Dr. Tom Delbanco was the chief of General Internal Medicine while I was there and was already advocating that patients have access to their medical records. He encouraged me to document clinic visits in notes that I’d be comfortable with my patients reading.
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EvidenceCare
MAY 16, 2025
Written by Carol Howard, VP of Clinical Strategy After a tough few years marked by the pandemic, staffing shortages, and rising costs, hospitals are finally starting to catch their breath. New data reveals a rebound in hospital margins, offering hope for health systems. Yet, beneath the surface of these improving numbers lies a growing concern that federal Medicaid policy could threaten the financial stability of hospitals that disproportionately serve low-income populations.
Emerging RN Leader
MAY 28, 2025
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nurse Managers have one of the most challenging roles in healthcare today. They are at the frontline of care and usually among the first to witness trends in both the workforce and workplace. I pay close attention to the questions they ask during the leader development session […] The post Ten Questions Nurse Managers Are Asking appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
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.
Minority Nurse
MAY 8, 2025
When it comes to the power of nurses, Angel Toney, BSN, RN, is the real deala critical care force fueled by compassion, community, and the drive to pay it forward. As an ICU nurse at Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center , Toneys superpower isnt just handling high-stakes moments but weaving humanity into every heartbeat of her day. Her journey into nursing was born from personal heartache.
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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.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 17, 2025
On a recent shift, I received sign-out for Room 20, a 46 year old man with a history of schizophrenia as well as alcohol and cannabis abuse. He came to us from a nursing home where he lives. He accidentally set his room on fire with a cigarette, prompting the nursing home to kick him out for being a risk to the facility. Although he had no acute medical issues, he was sent to the emergency department so “the health care system” could find him a new home.
Medical Economics
MAY 22, 2025
Vague terms like "common" and "rare" are misleading your patients.
KevinMD.com
MAY 8, 2025
Why has faith in government health agencies never been lower? Because conflicts of interest (COIs) have never been higher. At the FDA, concerns about drugmakers “buying” drug approvals go back to passage of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) in 1992. Since then, the many doctors with research and speaker grants, drug stocks, and Read more Conflicts of interest are eroding trust in U.S. health agencies originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
The HIPAA Journal
MAY 21, 2025
Kettering Health, a large health system with 14 medical centers and 120 outpatient facilities in western Ohio, has experienced a system-wide technology outage that has affected all 14 of its medical centers and disrupted its call center. The outage occurred on the morning of Tuesday, May 20, 2025, and without access to critical IT systems, the decision was taken to cancel scheduled inpatient and outpatient procedures on Tuesday.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
MAY 16, 2025
Researchers said staff turnover following Chapter 11 filings drove some of the adverse patient outcomes, noting less experienced staff tended to provide subpar care.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 2, 2025
In this weeks edition of The Prototype, we look at quantum computing for image recognition, a gene therapy using a patients own skin cells, electricity-generating bacteria, using physics to cook perfect pasta and more.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 8, 2025
John and Adam discuss our hopes for Vinay’s tenure at the FDA and how we intend to keep Sensible Medicine a vibrant place on Substack, a place where we will continue to showcase a range of ideas and opinions about all things bio-medicine. We also answer some of the questions from our recent “ask us anything” post.
Medical Economics
MAY 22, 2025
Responses focus on health care as House approves One Big Beautiful Bill federal spending legislation.
KevinMD.com
MAY 2, 2025
As a health care writer and data analyst, I hear frequently from patients who are being denied safe and effective pain care due to unscientific bias on the part of U.S. health care agenciesand sometimes on the part of otherwise once-reputable medical journals. These are among millions of U.S. citizens who are now being deserted Read more The hidden bias in how we treat chronic pain originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
99MGMT
MAY 29, 2025
Referral relationships are part of everyday operations in a medical practice – but they can also create unexpected legal risk. If a physician refers patients to a facility where they have or a family member has a financial interest, that referral could violate federal law. The Physician Self-Referral Law , known as Stark Law, was created to prevent these conflicts and reduce unnecessary services billed to Medicare or Medicaid.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
MAY 20, 2025
TD Cowen, Raymond James and Bank of America have all downgraded UnitedHealth’s stock, citing dogged internal challenges facing the company.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 13, 2025
Physician assistants are increasing in number and so is their pay, eclipsing $130,000 a year, according to new compensation data.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 26, 2025
Today we talk about the environment and procedures of a trial and how it affects translation of the results to patients. Think of two extremes: one trial requires that patients stay on their assigned strategy with no deviations; the other trial allows oodles of physician discretion and crossover. The latter trial is called pragmatic. Keep in mind though that pragmatism is not dichotomous, all trials have degrees of pragmatism.
Medical Economics
MAY 22, 2025
AAFP board chair details potential effects in critique of federal spending plan.
We Care Online
MAY 19, 2025
You see headlines about kids and tough feelings. The news talks about anxiety and sadness in young people across the United States. This isn’t just typical growing pains. It is an unprecedented youth mental health crisis affecting the country. CDC reveals that nearly 2 in 5 high school students felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2023, and 1 in 5 strongly considered suicide.
The Healthcare Blog
MAY 12, 2025
By EMMANUEL ANIMASHAUN The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Star Ratings system represents a cornerstone of quality assessment in Medicare Advantage (MA), designed to empower consumers with transparent information while rewarding plans that deliver superior care. Yet recent developments, particularly the seismic downgrading of Humanas ratings reveal an unintended consequence: a system created to measure and incentivize quality may now be actively undermining it.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
MAY 7, 2025
The abrupt end of $11 billion in public health grants nationally disrupted a program in Colorado that provides residents critical access to behavioral health and substance abuse support.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 5, 2025
Supported by Singapores Economic Development Board, the establishment of the office in the city state will help accelerate the progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals, the foundation said in a statement.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 2, 2025
One of the many great things about being a general internist is the exposure to the wondrous diversity of humanity. I am a better person for having brief, but intense, visits with some 50 people every week. These people grew up all over the world and have worked in every imaginable field. I see people barely scraping by financially and people with unimaginable wealth.
Medical Economics
MAY 7, 2025
Former Medicare innovation chief forecasts the future of payment for focusing on the patient.
The HIPAA Journal
MAY 1, 2025
A $2.4 million settlement has received final approval from the court to resolve a class action lawsuit against Somnia Inc. and others over a 2022 cyberattack and data breach. Somnia manages anesthesiology services at more than a hundred surgery centers across the country. In the summer of 2022, Somnia experienced a cyberattack that saw hackers access parts of its network where patient information was stored.The forensic investigation confirmed that names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth,
We Care Online
MAY 19, 2025
A single, undeniable demographic trend is reshaping the healthcare landscape in the United States: the population is getting older. Data shows that older adults may outnumber children for the first time by 2034. This highlights the growing longevity among Americans, which leads to an increased demand for healthcare workers. You can also see this in the Employment Situation Summary published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
MAY 19, 2025
Prospect Medical Holdings’ bankruptcy prompted two hospital closures in Pennsylvania. The closures caused layoffs, disrupted patient care and renewed calls for oversight from lawmakers and Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 26, 2025
Thwarted in her ambition to become a brewmaster, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw channeled her frustrations into building a knockoff drug powerhouse and has become one of the worlds most successful female entrepreneurs.
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