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This Digital Health Startup Wants To Help Hospitals Make Sense Of All Their Tech

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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The Guy in Room 20

Sensible Medicine

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.

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5 ways to help patients understand risk

Medical Economics

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

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UnitedHealth downgraded by investment banks

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

TD Cowen, Raymond James and Bank of America have all downgraded UnitedHealth’s stock, citing dogged internal challenges facing the company.

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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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Colon Cancer Rising In Young Adults, Research Examines Gut Bacteria

Forbes Healthcare

Study explores if toxin from gut bacteria causes colon cancer

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Fiscal reform that Americans want, or gutting the health care system?

Medical Economics

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

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Pennsylvania governor pushes private equity reform following Crozer Health closure

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

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.

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Unlike CVS, Walgreens Interested In Rite Aid Patient Files, Not Stores

Forbes Healthcare

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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What is HIPAA Incident Management?

The HIPAA Journal

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.

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AAFP: Big Beautiful Bill could affect physicians through Medicare pay, direct primary care, student loans, business taxes

Medical Economics

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

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House passes reconciliation bill with massive Medicaid cuts

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

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.

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From Harvard To “Law And Order” And Back Again: A Conversation With Neal Baer, MD

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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Why Social Workers Are Key to Solving the US Youth Mental Health Crisis?

We Care Online

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.

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April 2025 Healthcare Data Breach Report

The HIPAA Journal

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.

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Nearly 30% of early-career APPs leave their first job within 3 years, study finds

Medical Economics

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

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This Biotech Startup Raised $34 Million For Urine-Based Tests To Help Diagnose Cancer

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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How Healthcare Roles are Shifting with Aging Populations in the U.S.

We Care Online

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).

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CMS expands audits to crack down on Medicare Advantage overpayments

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

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.

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Ep. 65: Patient autonomy with Jeffrey A. Singer, M.D.

Medical Economics

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.

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Make America Tan Again: “Big, Beautiful Bill” Burns The Tanning Tax

Forbes Healthcare

Tucked among the trillions of dollars in tax cuts in the Houses just passed big, beautiful bill is repeal of a 10% tax on tanning services.

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Out of sight = out of mind? Managing long-term absence within your team

Practice Index

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?

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Judge shuts down drugmakers’ 340B rebate plans, for now

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

A district court ruled that the HHS does have the power to review drug manufacturers’ plans to pay hospitals rebates instead of upfront discounts on 340B medications. But it left the door open to the controversial reforms.

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White House plan to Make America Healthy Again will start with children

Medical Economics

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.

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The Prototype: New Bacteria Discovered On Chinese Space Station

Forbes Healthcare

In this weeks edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still cant rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could make your next EV cheaper, how to build a black hole bomb and more.

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Smart Strategies to Minimize Anesthesia Denials and Maximize Revenue

Health Prime

All medical specialties have unique rules and nuances when it comes to billing and revenue cycle management. However, anesthesia billing stands apart due to its highly specialized charge formulas , time-based units, and the level of precision required to ensure full reimbursement. On top of that complexity, anesthesia groups face another challenge: while denials are common across all specialties, they tend to be especially costly in anesthesiology.

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Ohio’s Kettering Health hit by cyberattack

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Elective inpatient and outpatient procedures at the health system’s facilities were canceled Tuesday.

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What you don’t know about annuities can hurt you

Medical Economics

Lack of awareness leads many to overlook these potent financial tools

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What Brain Disorder Does Billy Joel Have? A Neurosurgeon Explains

Forbes Healthcare

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?

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Developing Leaders Using Leadership Book Clubs

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many health systems today face strong financial headwinds in 2025. Not surprisingly, CNOs frequently ask me about cost-effective ways to provide ongoing development for their nurse managers and emerging leaders. Professional development staff are so tied up with onboarding and the professional development of clinical staff that […] The post Developing Leaders Using Leadership Book Clubs appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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And Now for Some Fun Future

The Healthcare Blog

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.

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