The HIPAA Journal
MAY 26, 2025
WellNow Urgent Care (formerly Five Star Urgent Care), a network of walk-in urgent care clinics in New York, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio, has agreed to settle a class action data breach lawsuit for $4.4 million. The lawsuit was filed in response to a cyberattack and data breach detected on or around April 25, 2023, when ransomware was used to encrypt files.
Relias
MAY 27, 2025
Substance use among adolescents continues to be a critical concern for healthcare providers, educators, and behavioral health professionals. Early identification is key to prevention and intervention but traditional screening tools designed for adults often fail to capture the unique risks and behaviors of younger populations. Thats where the CRAFFT screening tool comes in.
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Northwest Career College
MAY 26, 2025
Do you have what it takes to be a good Phlebotomy Technician? Drawing blood isn’t simple; being a competent phlebotomy technician isn’t just technical know-how. Imagine a trypanophobia patienthow can you calm them? Soft skills of patience, communication, and empathy are as helpful as being able to draw blood from them. Discover what critical soft skills can be the key to your future career.
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.
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 26, 2025
Data breaches have been reported by the Cooper Health System in New Jersey, Union County Children and Youth Services in Pennsylvania, Balance Autism in Iowa, and the Carpenter Health Network in Louisiana. The Cooper Health System, New Jersey The Cooper Health System in New Jersey has recently notified the Maine Attorney General about a security breach that potentially involved unauthorized access to the personal and protected health information of up to 57,412 individuals.
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Relias
MAY 30, 2025
Even when organizations dont directly engage with trauma, they are touched by it. The effects of trauma are present when employees call in sick. They are present when tensions build between staff and clients. And they are present when high turnover occurs and stretches budgets. Trauma-informed organizations change these painful patterns by acknowledging both the far-reaching effects of trauma and the many paths to heal it, becoming more effective in the process.
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.
Medical Economics
MAY 27, 2025
A new national survey finds loneliness is widespread among academic family physicians, especially women and minority doctors, and may be hindering efforts to address the same issue in patients.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
MAY 27, 2025
Young adults could struggle to navigate government bureaucracy and face other challenges managing work requirements or increased eligibility checks in the safety-net insurance program, the Urban Institute found.
Relias
MAY 28, 2025
It came up over and over again in our national survey of direct support professionals ineffective supervision results in frustrations among experienced DSPs and dissatisfaction with their job. Certainly, supervision in intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) services is challenging. Providing IDD services is often a personal and intimate experience, and it can be difficult to quantify the characteristics so important to person-centered care respect for the individual, kindness, empathy,
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 29, 2025
HHS secretary Kennedy announced that the COVID-19 vaccine no longer would be recommended for healthy children or healthy pregnant women. Experts criticized the change.
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.
Northwest Career College
MAY 25, 2025
Dental Administrative Assistant is a commendable job that opens up an opportunity to work in one of the fastest-growing areas of the healthcare industry. A Dental Administrative Assistant plays a vital role in the flow of a dental office: from patient schedules to necessary paperwork, they handle many things. If you are eager to pursue your career in this field, here are some top technical skills that will be in demand to give you confidence in succeeding.
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.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 30, 2025
The secret to maintaining your brain health and staying sharp as you age might just be cultivating your sense of curiosity, a recent study found. Being curious during old age could also help in preventing or at least off-setting Alzheimers disease.
Healthcare Leadership Council
MAY 27, 2025
From drug makers and device manufacturers to care providers, HLC members are investing significantly in domestic facilities to ensure greater supply chain resilience, improve access to critical therapies, and strengthen the nations healthcare infrastructure. These efforts have been recognized by President Trump and align with White House communications promoting domestic manufacturing.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 27, 2025
Last year I wrote a Sensible Medicine post about the MAHA movement, urging physicians to approach it with an open mind and to embrace some of its guiding principles. At the time, there was little detail to discuss. We now have the first formal MAHA Report , presented to the public last Thursday afternoon in a splashy formal White House presser , led by the President, with comments from several commission members.
Practice Index
MAY 29, 2025
Row over fragmentation of primary care Changes to the NHS will lead to the end of one size fits all practices. The plans for neighbourhood health services will see movement away from the 1948 NHS system, said NHS E Primary Care Director Dr Claire Fuller, but there will still be a universal and improved primary care offer. The Royal College of GPs warned against the fragmentation of primary care.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 26, 2025
Many parents seek ways to support incoming students who have a history of serious mental health concerns. Providing such vital support doesn't have to be daunting.
Relias
MAY 28, 2025
In the Relias 2025 DSP Survey Report , we asked direct support professionals about the traits that make a good supervisor. Across the board, DSPs told us that one of the most valuable supervisor traits is holding all staff accountable in an equal manner. Additionally, the longer a DSP has worked in the IDD field , the more important this supervisory trait becomes to them.
Physicians Practice
MAY 30, 2025
AI-driven ambient listening tools show promise in health care but require careful oversight to ensure accurate documentation and patient safety.
Medical Economics
MAY 29, 2025
Medical groups warn of eroding trust, reduced access and insurance fallout after HHS bypasses expert vaccine advisory panel.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 29, 2025
CVS Health sued Arkansas, trying to thwart a law the healthcare company said would lead to the closure of all 23 CVS drugstores in the state.
Practice Index
MAY 29, 2025
The Governments decision to accept the headline recommendations from the Review Body on Doctors and Dentists Remuneration (DDRB) means a 4% increase has been recommended for salaried GPs, GP Partners, educators and practice staff. The good news is that a 4% increase will also be applied to the pay element of the GP contract (a change from the 2.8% originally planned before the review was accepted), with the intention of allowing practices to offer a similar uplift to all salaried practice staff.
Relias
MAY 29, 2025
Wound care providers are entering a new compliance landscape, which will impact 10.5 million Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. with chronic wounds. Starting on January 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement new Local Coverage Determinations (LCD), which will affect the use of cellular and tissue-based products (CTPs), also known as skin substitute grafts, for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) and venous leg ulcers (VLUs).
Northwest Career College
MAY 28, 2025
Have you ever wondered how legal assistants secure information? In law practice, one small mistake can ruin the relationship and cause the clients case to be lost. Thats why one of the greatest assets for the job of a legal assistant is the ability to maintain confidentiality. But how will you handle confidential documents, client conversations, and courtroom documents?
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 29, 2025
When given information on a patient's insurance coverage, physicians still had trouble estimating their out-of-pocket costs
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
MAY 28, 2025
The percentage of overweight or obese adults prescribed GLP-1s jumped by almost 587% between 2019 and 2024, according to a new Fair Health report.
Medical Economics
MAY 29, 2025
Factors across U.S. health care pose a dire threat to severely destabilized independent private practice, threatening patient access.
Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management
MAY 30, 2025
A pulmonologist sued for malpractice, found liable by a jury, and ordered to pay $2.7 million gets a new trial after appealing the decision; why does this happen? The post Medical Malpractice: Physician Found Liable by Jury Gets New Trial After Appeal appeared first on Pulmonology Advisor.
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