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Words can Harm, Words can Heal

Sensible Medicine

The picture below shows how a treatment can make patients better. I see four ways. The drug/procedure may work biologically. The Voltaire effect relates to his quote saying that the art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. AKA: natural history. Placebo effects can also contribute. I will show you an elegant experiment demonstrating how positive energy and words can add to improvement.

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Beyond the Bedside: Building Financial and Emotional Security as a Minority Home Health Nurse

Minority Nurse

Home health nursing offers numerous rewards, especially if you bring compassion and commitment. But as a minority nurse, you may face challenges that put your physical, emotional, and financial well-being at risk. However, you can meet these challenges and succeed. The Challenges Facing Minority Home Health Nurses You are the foundation of the home healthcare industry, providing necessary support in homes and communities nationwide.

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Healthcare Orgs Fined for Employing Nurses on the HHS-OIG Exclusion List

The HIPAA Journal

This month, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) agreed to settlements with two healthcare providers who employed nurses on the HHS-OIG exclusion list, who provided items or services that were billed to federally funded healthcare programs. The exclusion list, formally known as the List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE), contains entities and individuals excluded from participating in federally funded healthcare programs.

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What Is Web Accessibility, and Why Is It Important?

Practice Builders

Your online resources should be adaptable to all people. This way you will reach everyone interested in your medical services. This is called web accessibility. It ensures that your site is designed and developed so that everyone, including potential clients with different disabilities, can use it effectively. Unfortunately, many platforms still have problems with it.

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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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Prevent Burnout With These Field-Tested Time Management Tips

NHA Now

As an allied health worker, theres a lot on your plate. Depending on your specific discipline, youre responsible for managing complex equipment, working directly with patients and colleagues, as well as filing billing paperwork. Suffice it to say, its easy to get burnt out. That is, unless you prepare. Weve prepared these field-tested time management tips to help you beat the burnout that can become a nasty side effect of a job as busy as yours.

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Ascension Notifying Patients About Data Breach at Former Business Partner

The HIPAA Journal

Ascension in St. Louis, Missouri, has started notifying certain patients about a security incident at one of its former business partners. Ascension learned on December 5, 2024, that the business partner had experienced a hacking incident. An investigation was launched, and it was determined on January 21, 2025, that Ascension had inadvertently disclosed patient data to the former business partner, and that data had likely been stolen in the hacking incident.Ascension confirmed that its own syst

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The Prototype: These Bacteria Can Generate Electricity

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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To Beat Parkinson’s, You Must Stand on Your Head

The Healthcare Blog

By WOJCIECH WASILEWSKI Dear Reader, if youre looking for something soft and easy, please buy a different book. This one isnt here to comfort you its here to shake your lazy world, to shock you, to drag you out of the same lethargy I was trapped in for years after being diagnosed. If you feel anger, rebellion, or even a surge of motivation while reading, then it was worth writing this book , each and every hour.

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Exploring Good Caribbean Medical Schools for International Students

We Care Online

International students often pursue medical education through various routes, depending on their background, financial situation, and career goals. Caribbean medical schools have become a popular choice for international students, especially for those who are unable to get into US medical schools. Studying medicine in the US or Canada can be competitive, expensive and challenging.

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Somnia’s $2.4 Million Data Breach Settlement Receives Final Approval

The HIPAA Journal

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,

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Native communities deserve better: the truth about Pine Ridge health care

KevinMD.com

Driving through the barren lands of South Dakota after visiting the Badlands, I noticed a sign denoting I was entering the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. As a medical student at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM) in Scranton, PA, I rarely encounter Native American reservations. What I saw shocked meoverwhelming poverty, neglected homes, and a Read more Native communities deserve better: the truth about Pine Ridge health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Rural Healthcare Deserts Are A National Security Risk — We Need A Smarter Delivery Model

Forbes Healthcare

Entire regions in the U.S. have become healthcare deserts. Failure to act is both a public health risk and a systemic vulnerability.

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Loneliness As Risk Factor for Health and Medication Adherence

Health Populi

The role of loneliness and social isolation plays into every aspect of human health, beyond mental and behavioral impacts: loneliness is a risk factor for overall health status and well-being, as well as a barrier to medication adherence, we learn in Loneliness and Health Behaviors: A Missing Link in Chronic Care from Pleio. Pleio launched the report at the Assembia AXS25 Conference in Las Vegas yesterday, Pleio surveyed 2,008 U.S. adults in March 2025 living with at least one chronic condition

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Endue Software Confirms Data Breach Affecting Multiple Providers

The HIPAA Journal

Cybersecurity incidents have been announced by Endue Software, Whitman County Public Hospital District No. 3, Palo Verde Hospital, and Northern California Children’s Therapy Center. Endue Software Endue Software, an infusion management platform provider, has recently confirmed it has been affected by a cyberattack that involved unauthorized access to patient data.

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Primary care news round-up (24th to 30th April 2025)

Practice Index

Digital tech helps end 8am pressures NHS England has reported that practices are successfully using digital technology to put an end to the 8am rush. It cites Lingwell Croft, Leeds as a successful practice where online consultation forms have successfully reduced pressure on the telephone. Meanwhile its phone system uses voice recognition to transcribe patient voice messages, enabling rapid triage by GPs and care navigators.

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The hidden bias in how we treat chronic pain

KevinMD.com

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.

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InnovationRx: A Patent Fight Over The World’s Top-Selling Drug

Forbes Healthcare

In this weeks edition of InnovationRx, we look at a patent fight over the worlds top-selling drug, breakthroughs from the American Association for Cancer Research, Verilys Parkinsons dataset, the relationship between microplastics and heart disease, and more.

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City of Long Beach Notifies Individuals Affected by November 2023 Cyberattack

The HIPAA Journal

It has taken more than a year for current and former residents of the City of Long Beach in California to learn that some of their personally identifiable and protected health information was compromised in a cyberattack. Notifications have been sent to multiple U.S. states confirming that the information of 470,060 individuals was exposed and potentially stolen in the attack.

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Medicaid rollbacks could account for more than 14,000 additional deaths, study warns

Medical Economics

Researchers warn federal cuts could drive mortality, medical debt and delayed care.

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When America sneezes, the world catches a cold: Trump’s freeze on HIV/AIDS funding

KevinMD.com

On the 20th of January 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that initiated a freeze on foreign aid, including the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This abrupt suspension of funding has triggered a global health crisis, undermining decades of progress in combating HIV/AIDS and endangering millions of lives across the globe.

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Cigna Profits Hit $1.3 Billion As Health Insurer Gets Handle On Costs

Forbes Healthcare

Cigna swung to a first quarter profit of $1.3 billion as the health insurer gains control of rising medical costs and its Evernorth business continues to perform well.

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Verisource Services Increases Data Breach Victim Count to 4 Million

The HIPAA Journal

Verisource Services, an employee benefits administration service provider, has determined that a previously announced data breach was far worse than initially thought and has affected up to 4 million individuals.The Houston, Texas-based company detected a hacking incident on February 28, 2024, that disrupted access to some of its systems. Third-party cybersecurity and incident response experts were engaged to investigate the incident and determine the nature and scope of the unauthorized activit

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5 ways to talk about affordability with patients before they get to the pharmacy

Medical Economics

Navigating prescription affordability is crucial for patient care, ensuring access to necessary medications and fostering open discussions about financial options.

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Senate Report: Hospitals Made Millions Abusing 340B Program

Patients Rising

According to the report by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, two major hospital systems, Bon Secours Mercy Health and Cleveland Clinic, generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue by receiving discounts on 340B drugs from drug manufacturers, and then charging higher prices to patients. The post Senate Report: Hospitals Made Millions Abusing 340B Program appeared first on Patients Rising.

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Trump Executive Order Addressing `Pill Penalty’ In Drug Pricing Law Faces Uphill Battle

Forbes Healthcare

Successfully eliminating the so-called pill penalty faces an uphill battle, whether its attempted through executive changes or by way of legislation.

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Like Father, Like Son—35 Years Later

UVM Larner College of Medicine

Vinh Le completed medical school training with the Class of 2024 at the University of Vermonts Larner College of Medicine and has been working as a research associate in the lab of Dr. Mary Cushman. His father, Phil Le, M.D. 90 is a Larner alum, current site director of the Family Medicine residency program at the Coatesville VA Medical Center in Pennsylvania, and Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Education.

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A Critical Access Hospital's Success with Incident Report Software

Performance Health

Recognizing the limitations and inefficiencies of its long-standing paper-based incident report software , Sparta Community Hospital District (SCHD) sought a modern solution to enhance safety and improve operational processes. The implementation of Performance Health Partners led to a dramatic increase in incident reporting due to its ease of use, enabling the hospital to identify critical safety trends, resulting in swift corrective actions and improved patient safety.

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Democrats introduce resolution demanding transparency in HHS

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The lawmakers are asking the Trump administration to reverse course on an HHS policy that breaks the longstanding practice of giving notice and accepting public comments about policy changes.

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Signing bonuses and taxes: What physicians should know

KevinMD.com

When physicians accept a job offer from a hospital, they are often enticed with a signing bonus in the form of a forgivable loan. Given the complexities of looking for a job and negotiating an employment contract, it’s easy to see the words “signing bonus” and overlook the term “forgivable loan.” However, while this may Read more Signing bonuses and taxes: What physicians should know originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Google’s Chief Health Officer Is Retiring

Forbes Healthcare

Google's healthcare work and portfolio has rapidly expanded in recent years.