FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

One of the first pain equity courses for medical students is launching at the Morehouse School of Medicine this fall. | The course offers insights into fostering safe, trustworthy, transparent and empathetic patient-provider interactions. It also emphasizes how to address the unique preferences and needs of Black patients in pain.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Of course, EMR has brought tremendous advantages to the medical profession, and we are all […]. I have written, or more accurately ranted, about electronic medical records (EMR) systems throughout this blog. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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KevinMD

JUNE 9, 2021

Therefore, when surgeons learn a technique and master it over the course of years and decades, it will take. Medtech companies realize that it’s not a trivial task to get a surgeon to just start using a new device. Surgeons have a great deal of responsibility, and their job involves learning a lot of techniques. Read more…. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

As the healthcare industry emerges from the pandemic, its leaders are embarking on a major reboot of their priorities in order to improve the delivery of patient care. That is one of the big findings of the Future Health Index 2022 report, entitled "Healthcare hits reset: Priorities shift as healthcare leaders navigate a changed world."

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 31, 2024

UnitedHealth Group partnered with the University of Minnesota's medical school to launch a four-week elective course that exposes fourth-year medical students to value-based care and has them working in person with Optum clinicians.

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KevinMD

AUGUST 5, 2021

Of course, the term organ is a somewhat generous description for this rather overqualified gland. Hidden in the epigastric region of the abdomen concealed by a curtain of peritoneum is a moody, often forgettable little organ. The pancreas has its own set of rules as it mischievously lurks behind the stomach waiting for its cue. Read more….

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A follow-on analysis found tentative evidence that, unlike in-person CBT, the online intervention could become more effective over the course of a year.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The newly released PDTx, now RESET and RESET-O, deliver a self-directed 12-week course of cognitive behavioral therapy that incentivizes patients to conform to treatment.

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Over the course of several years, IBM’s fledgling Watson for Oncology program has received a wide range of reviews. Among them is a harsh critique published by Gizmodo. The article is filed under the keywords “AI,” “Watson,” “health,” “health care,” and “Doctor: This product is a piece of s**t.” The last keyword is courtesy of […].

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With the rise of digital health solutions, the healthcare industry has an opportunity to reimagine care delivery – and the Digital Medicine Society’s Applied Digital Health Ethics course is ready to prepare healthcare professionals for this new future.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

During one long ago very hot Washington, DC summer, at the suggestion of my parents, I enrolled in a typing course that was given at our elementary school. This was the summer between sixth and seventh grades, and there were lots of things I would've preferred to have been doing, but my dad, who started […].

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The researchers used data from more than 8 million Fitbit users over the course of a randomly selected 24-hour period.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 4, 2022

Also: Pediatric behavioral health company Brightline partners with a youth health education nonprofit to develop teen programs, and digital fitness startup FitOn launches courses for seniors and people with chronic conditions.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the course of the show, MobiHealthNews will be updating this list of new products and other announcements being unveiled this week in Las Vegas.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The startup is able to digitally connect nurse practitioners and offer training courses to providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2024

"This is what created the need for the outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) program, where patients are discharged to receive courses of intravenous antibiotics at home, often for weeks," said infectious diseases physician Dr. Joseph Sassine, assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is dropping its appeal of a June U.S. | The department's white flag came 10 days after the administration had filed its appeal of the June decision to the Fifth Circuit.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Of course, it’s common for new Moms (and Dads too) to catastrophize what we do not know, clinically, in our babies. Like many moms who were going online to seek medical counsel — from a table in the Hanoi hotel’s lobby lounge, I identified a pediatrician who had a Prodigy site: DrGreene.com.

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KevinMD

MARCH 8, 2023

“That’s the nurse’s job, of course.” . “For those not selected, when PRIMA gives its report, or whatever… and if it says the treatment won’t work, how do you tell the patient?” ” “We don’t.” ” Hope paused.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Of course, with all of these users, I had to ask Lebrun to share some of the stories of their customers’ experience with the product. Finally, I ask Lebrun to comment on where Nabla is at with EHR integration and of course where people can go to get a demo. Check out the video below to hear them.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2023

We know folks dealing with one social determinant risk tend to have more than one risk, and in this instance it’s a greater burden of heath expenses over the course of a year. Fifty0six percent of these consumers are less likely to no t be actively managing their health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We must connect the dots between public policy for food security, safety, and accessible nutrition; a clean environment and climate health; education; fair wages; and, of course, health security. Donald Berwick re-named these factors that underpin our health as “The Moral Determinants of Health.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 9, 2021

The courses may be used for Continuing Medical Education or Continuing Nursing Education credits. One open question, of course, is reimbursement : If providing telehealth isn't financially feasible, patient demand may not be enough to compel mass adoption. Reimbursement. Ethical considerations.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Those we interviewed offered some great perspectives on what’s happening with AI, cybersecurity, and of course leadership. While at the CHIME Fall Forum conference in San Diego, I had a chance to get a number of quick video responses to some of the most important things impacing healthcare CIOs today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

"DEA has determined that the best course of action to ensure patient access to care, while maintaining sufficient safeguards to prevent and detect diversion of controlled substances, is to establish and maintain a regulatory scheme," the agency said in the notice published Wednesday.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These relaxations have of course made it easier for many patients to access virtual care. Awareness, of course, is vital: Employees should be trained to watch out for attempted cyber threats, particularly via phishing emails. To protect against these kinds of threats requires a multi-pronged approach, wrote the researchers.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 27, 2024

From AI (of course) to PBMs to women's health, here are some topics that got our attention at HLTH 2024. Fierce Healthcare reporters returned from Las Vegas on Wednesday after four days packed with meetings, interviews and on-stage conversations all focused on healthcare innovation.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

I connect the dots of this phenomenon in my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Why it’s telehealth, of course, which has experienced hockey-stick growth in the U.S. Intriguingly, most patients would be comfortable getting that coronavirus test in their doctor’s office, which many would still be uncomfortable accessing other care from their personal physicians in the bricks-and-mortar office.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

So, of course, healthcare and healthcare costs are important to me. A patient’s right to access information regarding their healthcare is crucial and with this movement I hope we can engage and shed a light around this conversation,” Erivo asserted.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Prescription drugs (and costs) are on the minds of policymakers and legislators as well as prescribers, pharma companies, and payers — employers, government plans, health insurers and, of course, patients who co-pay or c0-share the costs of medicines. In 2024, the average patient share amounts are shown in Figure 9.6

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2024

Epic, of course, has always been private. Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course. So are eClinicalWorks and Meditech. Those are three huge electronic health records companies. Is there something about health IT that lends itself to companies being private? What is the market looking at now?

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 13, 2024

The gap between insurance plans and Medicare's payments to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services widened over the course of just a couple of years, a new study from RAND Corporation | A new report from RAND Corporation highlighted just how much more employers and private insurers are paying hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services. (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

"This requirement does not account for unique needs of specialized providers such as psychiatrists and pain management specialists, both of whom routinely prescribe Schedule II substances within the course of their practice.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

” This market is an experience mashing up the market goods, a DJ, music and dancing, food demonstrations, and of course, fellowship/. The mini-market is set up in the fellowship hall or multipurpose room, featuring produce and gifts and “goodies from Black farmers and business owners.” The Arc Initiative.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Anesthesia Partners and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, its private equity backer, have "cost Texans tens of millions of dollars more each year" by suppressing competition over the course of a decade, the regulator alleges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2022

Less than a month later, of course, on July 21, 2022, the company announced its definitive merger agreement with Amazon , which agreed to acquire One Medical for $18 per share in a $3.9 Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $38.5 million, or 15% of net revenue. One medical also noted that it had $347.6 billion all-cash transaction.

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