Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Italy didn't allow field trials for genetically modified crops for twenty years — until this year. But anti-GMO activists destroyed it, repeating echoes of history.
Scrubs
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Being a nurse means you are in one of the most demanding professions that exist today. Undoubtedly, the field is challenging, even more so for night-shift nurses. The irregular hours, lack of natural daylight, and disrupted sleep cycles make it difficult to maintain a balanced lifestyle. For night-shift nurses, finding effective strategies to care for both their physical and mental health is essential for personal well-being and to provide quality patient care.
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Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
I am a proud American and an avowed capitalist. I am sure that Adam Smith’s “invisible hand of the free market” maximizes social benefits. Capitalism has its flaws – the concentration of wealth and environmental degradation among others -- but no other system is as good at organizing societies and improving standards of living.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The leaders of Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts had until Wednesday to walk back statements they made in July — or face potential legal action. However, the executives are sticking to their guns.
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.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Researchers at Stanford University made the skin of mice transparent using the yellow no. 5 food dye otherwise known as tartrazine that's typically found on Doritos.
Healthcare Support Central brings together the best content for healthcare support professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
PJ is a 53-year-old woman referred for a consultative visit. For the last 12-18 months she has been suffering from fatigue, headache, joint pain, and rashes. She has been seeing a primary care internist and has had consultations with a neurologist, a dermatologist, and a rheumatologist. She presents with a folder of records and codes for outside EMRs.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Just over 5% of companies selling AI to health systems have matured beyond seed and early-stage funding rounds, according to an analysis by Flare Capital Partners.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Newly updated 2024-2025 Covid-19 vaccines are available across the United States. Vaccines represent the best protection against sever illness and hospitalizations.
The Healthcare Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
By KIM BELLARD For several years now, my North Star for thinking about innovation has been Steven Johnson’s great quote (in his delightful Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World ): “You will find the future where people are having the most fun.” No, no, no, naysayers argue, inventing the future is serious business, and certainly fun is not the point of business.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Sensible Medicine is excited to publish this rejected letter to the editor of the journal JACC-HF. Our excitement comes from a) the specific lessons about the design of clinical trials, and b) we love being a place where strongly argued but contrary viewpoints can be read. The specifics concern Chagas cardiomyopathy, which is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi infection.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
More than 300 telehealth and provider groups say time is running out for regulators to propose a rule before pandemic-era flexibilities expire at the end of the year.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Understanding protein structure and folding is crucial to progress in biology and drug discovery.
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
As long as you live, you will never hear an article from news media contending that “America Runs On Duncan.” Why? Because the line is a marketing allegation created by the advertising company and designed to sell product. Yet news media repeat medical claims from drug makers found in journals like they are news––which gives Read more… Why isn’t medical advertising regulated like other advertising?
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Value-based care is the future of medicine. Health care organizations must adapt technology, venues, primary care and prevention to survive and thrive.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Hospitals are primed for natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes, but many haven’t thought about the domino effect cyberattacks can have locally, said Scott Gee, who joined AHA last month.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Cellino, cofounded by 30 Under 30 alumni, got a $25 million grant to develop self-contained biomanufacturing units for stem cells that treat degenerative diseases.
Scrubs
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Hawaii’s healthcare industry is facing significant turbulence as the Hawaii Nurses’ Association (HNA) and Kapi‘olani Medical Center continue their contentious contract negotiations. At the heart of this dispute are issues that have long plagued the nursing profession nationwide: unsafe staffing levels, worker burnout, and retaliatory practices. The potential fallout is a looming strike that could leave the hospital scrambling to fill critical care gaps, with the nurses alleging unfair labor prac
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
When possible, patients prefer to recover in their own beds instead of hospital beds, according to a new survey. National health care policy needs to catch up to patient need.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Though CVS Caremark holds a dominant share of the commercial, Medicare Part D and Medicaid managed care markets, each large pharmacy benefit manager seems to be focusing on one particular arena.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Organizations have invested massively in AI with visions of it saving healthcare. But AI's net impact has been limited so far. Are we expecting too much too soon?
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
I want to express my frustration with the state of health care in the United States, particularly in the context of my own experiences within the system. Over the past 12 years, I have submitted articles to KevinMD advocating for quality patient care and fair working conditions for health care professionals. I have urged hospital Read more… Why is our health care system going down the drain and no one seems to care?
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Let’s continue to celebrate women’s advances in medicine, science, law and other fields. But we also must recognize that the shortage of men in health care professions is becoming a critical issue.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The sweeping deal between Steward, its creditors and landlord Medical Properties Trust at times appeared impossible.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Under EMTALA, emergency rooms are required to medically screen and stabilize all patients. Some patients withhold their identity to avoid the medical bills.
Minority Nurse
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Technology can significantly help nursing students learn the complexities of nursing practice or act as a source of frustration that takes valuable time away from education. Here is a brief look at some of the technologies in use in nursing education , the impact of AI, and practical tips for using educational technology effectively. Tech in Use Technologies advancing nursing education include simulations and virtual reality. “Simulations are a cornerstone in nursing education, offering st
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
When planning for retirement, most of us focus on building a nest egg that will support us in our golden years. We diligently contribute to our 401(k)s, IRAs, and other retirement accounts, hoping to maximize our savings and minimize our tax burden. However, the passage of the SECURE Act and SECURE Act 2.0 have introduced Read more… The hidden estate tax: How the SECURE Act could impact your heirs originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Still, plans are expected to rake in $11.8 billion in bonuses, with half of that tranche going to just two insurers: UnitedHealthcare and Humana.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Although women lost more weight, all participants saw significant decreases in total body weight on all doses of the medication.
Practice Index
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Data. It’s a word that sends a shiver down many a Practice Manager’s spine. And with the imposed 2024/25 contract requiring practices to provide data on eight metrics, it’s no wonder. As one Practice Manager put it to us, “Data is one of those classic areas where the NHS simply can’t stop itself.” Now, with the data-sharing mandate about to take effect, the need to submit digital telephony data is causing a stir among Practice Managers, who are grappling with the implications of submitting data
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
In the state of New York (you already know it’s going to be bad), a doctor and a pharmacist were arrested in a sting operation conducted by a joint task force of the DEA, FBI, IRS, and probably CIA and CBS, though I have no proof of the latter two. The doctor, Mordechai Bar, and Read more… Doctors under fire: Is the DEA turning them into drug dealers?
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