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Worried About the Possible Envision Bankruptcy? You Should Be.

Regulators need to better protect patients, hospitals, and providers

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It Ain't Worth a Thing If You Don't Got That (Follow-up) Swing

We must do better at making sure patients connect with their care managers

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Are Physician-Owned Hospitals Good for Healthcare?

Report commissioned by two hospital groups suggests otherwise

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Lose Weight, Gain Huge Debt: 300 Bariatric Surgery Patients Sued by Provider

A closer look at the rising number of lawsuits in New York

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Capitalism Versus Compassion: Can Healthcare Do Both?

Our system must better balance profits with the needs of patients

Private Practice: The Good and the Bad

Learn what it takes to set up a practice in this premiere of our series with Payal Kohli, MD

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Suits vs Scrubs: The Evolving Healthcare Workplace

The patient pays the ultimate price

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ID Experts Urge Healthcare to Shed Universal Masking

"The context and conditions of the pandemic have changed dramatically and favorably," they said

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Getting the Data Correct, Every Time

A lab collection report showed us that fixing problems requires getting the right information

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Healthcare Culture Is Hell

Can it be fixed?

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How Much Do Doctors Bill Commercial Insurers?

See the average amount by specialty

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Resiliency Starts With High-Reliability Healthcare Systems

Individual team member resilience will follow

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Are We Losing the Personal Touch Because of the Way We Staff?

Changing who answers the phones or fills in for the doc may mean fewer personal connections

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Clinical Note Writing App Powered by GPT-4 Set to Debut This Year

Latest solution to help with physician burnout, says company executive

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Nobody Wants This Job. Should Physicians Stick Around?

I'm disturbed every time I'm asked if I'll stay

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GPT-4 Is Here. How Can Doctors Use Generative AI Now?

Chatbots can be helpful as "first-draft" office or research assistants

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Docs' Liking for Knee Injection Tied to Industry Payments

Threefold rate for giving hyaluronic acid shots among those paid more than $100

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Can the Surgicalist Model Solve OR Staffing Challenges?

New solutions are needed to address growing workforce shortages

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Why Is Healthcare Immune to Change?

Our quest for self-improvement is failing

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More Money, Better Standards Needed to Improve Health Cybersecurity, Senators Told

Small rural hospitals especially at risk, witness says

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Lessons From the Titanic: Is Medicine Headed for an Iceberg?

Or can we course-correct in time?

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AMA, Surgeon General Propose Ways to Prevent Doctor Burnout

Get enough sleep, stop prior authorization, and share your story with colleagues

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Ankle Docs See Falling Medicare Payments

Inflation-adjusted reimbursements for fusion, joint replacement slip

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Hospitals Drag Their Feet in Posting Prices for Joint Replacements

A year after CMS rule went into effect, two-thirds of hospitals had done nothing

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Why Every Doctor Needs a 'Badness' Plan

The invisible graveyard of every physician's career

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Biologics for Asthma: Who Gets Them and Who Uses Them?

Single-center study finds sluggish prescriptions, but patient-level barriers are also at work

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More Investment in Primary Care Needed, Report Finds

Workforce is shrinking as fewer adults report having a regular source of care

Can the Biases Built Into ChatGPT Be Fixed?

Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MPH, outlines solutions to make its use in medicine more equitable

ChatGPT Is More Like Penicillin Than Precision Medicine

It has useful healthcare applications but can't replace human sensibility

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Life in the Fast Lane -- And the Slow Lane

It'd be great to speed up the routine tasks and slow down our time with our patients

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Winning the Impossible: The Power of a Nurses' Strike

The victories in New York can inspire better staffing practices nationwide

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Is ChatGPT Becoming Synonymous With Plagiarism in Scientific Research?

Science will no longer publish research that uses ChatGPT or other AI-generated text programs

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ED Screening Program Picks Up Lots of Undiagnosed Diabetes Cases

EHR alerts at Chicago ED flagged about three in 10 at-risk patients for HbA1c testing

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Unique Patient Identifier Funding Once Again Barred by Congress

Biden administration working on better patient matching instead

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Smaller Blood Draws Reduce Transfusions in ICU, Trial Suggests

Randomized trial supports switch for adult ICU blood tests, despite a pandemic dent in the data

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Held Hostage: The Toxicity of Physician Noncompete Clauses

It's high time they're banned

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Death by 10,000 Clicks: The Electronic Health Record

Here are a few steps to relieve the burden

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'Just Say No' to the Medication Switches

It's time to stop letting insurers dictate what we can prescribe to our patients

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Healthcare Closely Watching FTC's Proposed Ban on Non-Competes

A newly proposed rule would impact healthcare staffing woes, physician employment contracts

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Yet Another Issue Is Disrupting the Healthcare Workplace

Responding to portal messages in "real time" is just the latest assault

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