What You Should Know:
– Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today announced the repeal of federal policy that financially rewarded hospitals for reporting staff vaccination rates, a policy he described…
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Doctors at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and University College London have developed an app that helps clinicians to manage menopause patients’ symptoms.
MENO.pause uses national and international guidelines from the National…
It’s easy to think that each segment of the healthcare industry — health systems, clinicians, pharmacies, insurance plans and security companies, to name a few — is working toward its own specific goals.
But there’s…
Staff at two hospitals in the south west of England have resorted to using paper after a major IT incident just days before the planned resident doctors’ strikes.
Cheltenham and Gloucester NHS Foundation Trust reported…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that while he expects AI to eliminate entire job categories, he wouldn’t trust it for medical issues. He told banking conference attendees, “ChatGPT today … is a better diagnostician…
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Mr. H is running a poll that asks, “Is it ethical for doctors to prescribe the drugs of their pharma sponsors to people who seek specific treatments?” He also posed a couple of follow-up…
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Tanya Sanderson, Sr. Director of Revenue Integrity, Xsolis
With more and more organizations merging for scale and sustainability, revenue cycle teams are being centralized, taking these critical personnel further away from physicians at the bedside. Remote teams…
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Amanda Heidemann, MD, FAAFP, FAMIA Sr. Clinical Content Consultant, Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Health
he past decade has seen healthcare undergo a paradigm shift. Walking into a treatment room today, the dynamic with patients is…
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Credit: Campanella, et al., Nature Medicine
What You Should Know:
– A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and collaborators, suggests that artificial intelligence…
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The British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that allowing patients to book online GP appointments throughout the day could cause a spike in doctors’ workloads and create waiting lists.
Under changes to the GP contract…
