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Walmart To Close Health Clinics In Latest Blow To Retail Healthcare

Forbes Healthcare

Walmart is closing its doctor-staffed Walmart Health centers and virtual care business, shuttering 51 centers over the next three months.

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A Discussion with Dr. Dena Zeraatkar regarding analytic flexibility in observational studies

Sensible Medicine

Gosh was this a great conversation about her recent paper on specification curve analysis of nutritional observational studies. Here is Dr. Zeraatkar’s bio: Dena Zeraatkar, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anesthesia and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University. She earned her doctoral degree at McMaster University in the Health Research Methodology graduate program.

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How CMA Classes Can Lead to a Successful Healthcare Career

Athena Career Academy

The pathway to a successful career in healthcare often begins with foundational training, such as that provided by Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) programs. Specifically, in-person CMA courses offer immersive, practical experiences crucial for excelling in medical environments. This article highlights how accredited CMA programs can shape your career prospects and why selecting the right training program is essential.

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Walmart Health shuts down

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The unexpected closure of Walmart’s 51 health centers and virtual care business highlights the difficulty of providing healthcare at this moment in time.

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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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Bird Flu (H5N1) Explained: USDA Will Test Ground Beef Samples From Grocery Stores

Forbes Healthcare

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows. Here’s why so many experts are worried about a possible new pandemic.

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Should we teach business literacy to medical trainees?

KevinMD.com

Today is the day I live for as a hematology/oncology fellowship program director. There are balloons filled on stage, dinner buffet stations brewing in the back of the conference room, and fellows entering with their proud families in tow for the graduation ceremony. On average, our graduating fellows have completed 14 years of education and Read more… Should we teach business literacy to medical trainees?

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CVS slashes 2024 outlook — again — as Medicare seniors drive spending

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Runaway inpatient spending in particular caused CVS’ insurance costs to snowball after returning “to patterns we have not seen since the start of the pandemic,” its CFO said.

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Why You Might Be Responsible For Paying Your Parents’ Medical Debts

Forbes Healthcare

With Baby Boomers aging and nursing home care costs climbing, obscure old sleeper laws could come back to haunt the children of seniors who can’t pay for their own care.

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Protecting your practice: cybersecurity defenses in the age of generative AI

Medical Economics

Generative AI offers many benefits for physicians, but also brings new risks of data breaches

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BakerHostetler Report Identifies Healthcare Data Breach and Litigation Trends

The HIPAA Journal

BakerHostetler has released the 10 th edition of its Data Security Incident Response Report , which shares data from the incidents the law firm has helped to manage. The report provides insights into the current cyber threat landscape and litigation trends. Data Breach Insights Healthcare accounted for 28% of data breach incidents, followed by finance and insurance (17%), business and professional services (15%), and education (13%).

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Ransomware attacks on healthcare impact nearly five times more sensitive data: report

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Twenty percent of a typical healthcare organization’s sensitive data holdings are affected in a ransomware encryption event, compared with just 6% for an average organization.

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Bird Flu H5N1—What We Know So Far About Its Spread To Cows

Forbes Healthcare

Information about the bird flu outbreak is rapidly changing. This post summarizes our current knowledge and gaps.

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The benefits of a physician MBA program

Medical Economics

Many physicians are eager to find a way to transform health care in a way that better benefits both patients and providers. They would be well served by enrolling in an MBA program designed for doctors.

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What’s behind all these assessments of digital health?

The Healthcare Blog

By MATTHEW HOLT A decent amount of time in recent weeks has been spent hashing out the conflict over data. Who can access it? Who can use it for what? What do the new AI tools and analytics capabilities allow us to do? Of course the idea is that this is all about using data to improve patient care. Anyone who is anybody, from John Halamka at the Mayo Clinic down to the two guys with a dog in a garage building clinical workflows on ChatGPT, thinks they can improve the patient experience and impro

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Cigna writes down VillageMD investment amid shrinking value

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Walgreens’ decision to slash VillageMD’s clinical footprint has reverberated to the financial accounts of the primary care chain’s minority owner — Cigna.

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10 Drug-Free Ways To Sleep Better According To Andrew Huberman

Forbes Healthcare

Sleep's the bedrock of mental health, physical health and performance, according to Andrew Huberman, a podcaster / scientist. Here's 10 ways he suggests to sleep better.

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AI: A powerful tool for improving health care efficiency and safety

Medical Economics

Technology has the ability to streamline administrative tasks, reduce medical errors

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Health Data Analytics Firm Reports 1.1-Million Record MSP Data Breach

The HIPAA Journal

A Portland, ME-based accounting and consulting firm has recently reported a data breach to the Maine Attorney General that involved the personal information of 1,107,354 individuals. Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, LLC (BerryDunn) provides health data analytics services to healthcare providers, health insurers, and government regulatory and healthcare policy agencies and its clients provide BerryDunn with personal and health data to allow the firm to perform its contracted services.

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What Walmart said & What Walmart Did: Not the same thing

The Healthcare Blog

Walmart surprised us all and changed its mind about primary care yesterday. It’s out. Because so few people have seen it I want to show what Walmart ‘s head of health care said just 18 months ago (Nov 2022). Today they are finally killing off the 6th different strategy they’ve had (maybe it was 4). I guess (unlike CVS & Walgreens) they don’t have to write down investment in Oak Street or VillageCare, but they never worked out that primary care is only profitable if it

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Bird Flu (H5N1) Explained: Grocery Store Baby Formula, Other Dairy Products Are Safe, FDA Says

Forbes Healthcare

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows. Here’s why so many experts are worried about a possible new pandemic.

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Join us at the Primary Care Show!

Practice Index

It’s just two weeks until the Primary Care Show at the NEC, Birmingham, where, in conjunction with the IGPM, we’re hosting an incredible stream of sessions tailored specifically for primary care managers On day one of the show (Wednesday 15th May), we'd love you to join us in the Business and Management stream, chaired by Kay Keane, Director of the IGPM and Practice Manager at Urban Village Medical Practice, for the following sessions: The new GP contract - What You Need to Know What do the ch

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Congress grills UnitedHealth CEO over Change cyberattack

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Legislators slammed Andrew Witty over the company’s lack of cybersecurity practices and the impact of the breach, which may have compromised the data of a third of Americans.

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FTC Issues Final Rule Updating Health Breach Notification Rule

The HIPAA Journal

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule on April 26, 2024, that updates the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule. The update includes revised definitions that encompass health apps and other technologies not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), clarification of what the FTC considers a breach of security, new requirements for the content of breach notifications, changes to the timeframe for issuing notifications, and an expansion of the permit

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Pharmacy Industry Pushes Pharmacist Prescribing As Specialty Drugs Emerge

Forbes Healthcare

Amazon, CVS Health, Walgreens and Walmart are pushing for more ways pharmacists can prescribe drugs.

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Insurance doesn’t always protect patients from medical debt. Here’s how providers can help.

Medical Economics

In a world of high deductibles and copays, health insurance offers less protection from medical debt than it did a generation ago.

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A Camp Nurse Volunteer Shares the Joy

Minority Nurse

Dorma Liz Davila (Lizzy) RN, BSN, CPN, EMT never expected a quick volunteer weekend as a camp nurse to provide a transformative experience, but it did. And now she wants other nurses to know how helping kids at Paul Newman’s The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp can breathe new life into their nursing careers. The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is an organization that provides what the organization calls “a different kind of healing” to thousands of seriously ill children and family mem

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BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services Proposes Settlement to Resolve Data Breach Lawsuit

The HIPAA Journal

BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services has proposed a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2021 data breach that exposed the data of up to 350,000 patients. Hackers gained access to the BioPlus network for more than 2 weeks between October and November 2021, and potentially stole names, dates of birth, contact information, health insurance information, prescription information, and Social Security numbers.

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Advanced Stage Colorectal Cancer In Young Adults Is A Growing Crisis

Forbes Healthcare

Colorectal cancer in young adults is occuring at alarming rates. Here are steps to take to prevent this disease from affecting you and loved ones.

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Modern payment methods are key to healthy practice cash flow, patient satisfaction

Medical Economics

Many providers aren’t offering the online payment options patients increasingly prefer

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Expanding your practice? Here’s how to manage an unruly tech stack

Physicians Practice

When healthcare practices scale rapidly, they tend to accumulate an unruly, disharmonious tech stack that can complicate administrative, communication and marketing efforts.