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How Real-Time Data Analytics is Revolutionizing Patient Care 

CollaborateMD

Patient care remains the top priority for healthcare providers. But in a swiftly evolving technological world, conventional methods for managing and enhancing care might fall short. Real-time data analytics is an innovative tool revolutionizing healthcare operations and reshaping perspectives on patient outcomes.

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Friday Reflection 41: Sometimes I Just Need to Complain

Sensible Medicine

They also repeated all the tests that the community hospital had done. Even though the patient was already up to date on age-appropriate cancer screening (cervical, colon, and breast) and was perfectly well, with no symptoms, the medical center doctors completed an upper endoscopy with ultrasound (EUS), MRCP, and genetic testing.

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From Guideline Recommendations to Articulated Harms and Benefits

Sensible Medicine

Both clinicians and patients often have unrealistically positive assumptions about the benefits of medical treatments and tests, and guidelines perpetuate these assumptions by recommending treatments and tests that have small or unclear benefits.

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Insights from Digital Health Leaders at ViVE 2025

EvidenceCare

Innovation, AI, and the Future of Patient Care At the ViVE conference leaders in digital health shared their experiences and forward-thinking strategies for improving patient care, streamlining operations, and integrating technology into clinical workflows. We look for breadcrumbs in the EHR.

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Supplementing Your EHR To Improve Patient Care and Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

The article Supplementing Your EHR To Improve Patient Care and Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Despite widespread adoption, a 2018 Quest Diagnostics survey was among the first to cast doubt on overall usefulness of “basic” EHRs. Only 39% of physicians surveyed believed […].

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The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

Sensible Medicine

For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. ” We simply don’t know whether using this test will do more good than harm.

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5 Side Gigs for Healthcare Professionals

We Care Online

Healthcare workers can venture into medical writing, whether through publishing blogs, contributing to journals, or developing patient education materials. With a deep understanding of medical terminology and patient care, they can address topics ranging from disease prevention to healthcare policy. and as low as $13.70.