The HIPAA Journal
MAY 21, 2025
April saw a 17.9% month-over-month increase in healthcare data breaches, with 66 data breaches of 500 or more records reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, it looked like data breach numbers were starting to reduce; however, Aprils figures are well above the 12-month average of 57 data breaches per month, with breaches reported in similar numbers to April 2024.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
Medical Economics
MAY 22, 2025
Aptar Digital Health and AstraZeneca collaborate to revolutionize chronic kidney disease detection using AI algorithms in eye exams, enhancing early diagnosis.
Relias
MAY 23, 2025
High turnover and low retention of direct support professionals (DSPs) continues to be a top-of-mind concern for intellectual and developmental (IDD) providers. For several years now, the national turnover rate for DSPs has lingered around 50%, with some agencies having as many as one-in-eight DSP roles consistently vacant. While low wages are commonly a factor in high turnover, what other factors can organizations address to combat turnover and support DSPs?
The HIPAA Journal
MAY 21, 2025
Harbin Clinic has been affected by a cyberattack on the debt collection agency Nationwide Recovery Services, Gardner Health Services has fallen victim to a cyberattack by the Cl0p group, and Gilead Sciences has reported a data breach at a mailing vendor. Harbin Clinic, Georgia Harbin Clinic, a primary healthcare provider with locations throughout Northwest Georgia, Northeast Alabama, and Southeast Tennessee, is one of the latest healthcare providers to confirm that they have been affected by a d
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.
Medical Economics
MAY 19, 2025
U.S. tariffs are disrupting European medtech growth, forcing firms to adapt supply chains and prioritize cost optimization amid rising challenges and uncertainties.
Relias
MAY 21, 2025
Achieving behavioral health equity is essential to ensuring that all individuals receive high-quality mental health care. Yet, persistent disparities continue to affect people across the country. These inequities are often fueled by stigma, implicit bias, and systemic barriers that hinder access to effective and culturally responsive services. As behavioral health providers, we have a critical role to play in closing these gaps.
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.
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).
Medical Economics
MAY 22, 2025
Vague terms like "common" and "rare" are misleading your patients.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 19, 2025
The BedMed trial, published in JAMA this month, looks like a regular randomized controlled trial (RCT). One group of patients with high blood pressure took their meds in the morning, the other took the same meds at night. Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were not different. The Canadian investigators randomized more than 3500 patients and followed them for nearly 5 years.
The Healthcare Blog
MAY 18, 2025
By KIM BELLARD I feel like Ive been writing a lot about futures I was pretty worried about, so Im pleased to have a couple developments to talk about that help remind me that technology is cool and that healthcare can surely use more of it. First up is a new AI algorithm called FaceAge, as published last week in The Lancet Digital Health by researchers at Mass General Brigham.
Performance Health
MAY 19, 2025
A missed dosage. A wrong label. A delayed response. Preventable mistakes like these contribute to harm in one out of every ten patients during hospital care, according to the World Health Organization. But they dont have to. By implementing smarter incident management strategies , healthcare organizations can catch problems early, prevent harm before it happens, and make safety a foundational component of care rather than a lucky break.
Minority Nurse
MAY 19, 2025
Ali Morin speaks two languages fluently: nursing and tech and shes built a career around translating one into the other. As the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) at Symplr , Morins superpower is showing nurses how technology can make their lives easier and showing tech teams how real-world nursing actually works. I help nurses understand how tech can make their lives easier, and I show the tech team how it fits into nursing practice, she explains.
Relias
MAY 19, 2025
Healthcare providers are no strangers to service challenges missed appointments, long wait times, communication breakdowns, or billing confusion are part of the everyday operational landscape. But in a patient-first world, its not the mistake that defines your organization its how you recover from it. Service recovery is the process of identifying, addressing, and resolving negative experiences quickly and effectively.
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.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 23, 2025
A grantee of the Gates Foundation, Hong Kong-based Phase Scientific built a business on the back of Covid-19 tests. Up next: using urine to compete with industry gold standard HPV screening methods.
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.
Physicians Practice
MAY 19, 2025
Jeffrey A. Singer, M.D., a general surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, joins the show to talk patient autonomy in health care.
Medical Economics
MAY 22, 2025
Responses focus on health care as House approves One Big Beautiful Bill federal spending legislation.
Relias
MAY 19, 2025
In todays digital-first world, a healthcare organizations reputation is shaped as much online as it is in the exam room. Patients dont just rely on word of mouth anymore they turn to Google, online review sites, and social media to inform their choices. A strong reputation can be a growth engine, while a weak or unmanaged one can erode patient trust and volume.
The HIPAA Journal
MAY 20, 2025
HIPAA incident management is the process of tracking, responding to, and documenting HIPAA security incidents as they are detected by automated security tools or reported by members of the workforce. An effective HIPAA incident management process not only supports compliance with the Administrative Safeguards of the HIPAA Security Rule, but it can also help identify gaps in an organizations security defenses.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 23, 2025
Billy Joel cancelled his tour because of a brain disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus. What is NPH? How is it treated? And what does it mean for the singer?
Medical Economics
MAY 22, 2025
AAFP board chair details potential effects in critique of federal spending plan.
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.
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