Who is the latest addition to Amazon’s healthcare venture? What Nobel Prize-winning pharmaceutical will hit the market and what’s the price tag? Why has NYU decided to pay for med school students’ tuition? All this and more in The Rundown, your weekly digest of healthcare’s most important issues!
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Now that 40% of consumers use social media to find their doctor, you need to stand out from the crowd and establish yourself as a thought leader. That may sound daunting, but by following these simple tips, your patients and your practice will benefit immensely.
Health centers are on the frontier of population health strategies and addressing the social determinants of health. What benefits are patients and providers seeing from these initiatives? And what can independent providers learn from health centers’ model?
Maryland is a trailblazer when it comes to healthcare. Since the 1970s, Maryland has eschewed the other 49 states’ approach by adopting an all-payer system for hospital services. This unorthodox move effectively eliminated cost-shifting between hospitals. Then, in 2014, the state pivoted once again to a model that emphasized quality-care delivery, population health strategies, and …
Want to read the first two parts in Jessica Folmar’s “Peak Practice Performance” series? Click here! Have you noticed a lull in your appointments? Does it seem that as the temperature rises higher and higher, the number of patients you see sinks lower and lower? A study published by ZocDoc indicates that summer is the …
Busy provider looking for healthcare news? Check out The Rundown. Inequality in Female Salaries and Leadership Within Healthcare A new survey from Rock Health suggests women represent just 22 percent of Fortune 500 healthcare executives, a third of all executives at hospitals, and only 10–12 percent of CEOs and venture-capital partners at funded digital-health …
At the 6th Mid-Atlantic Annual Celebration, Privia doctors and independent physicians from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., corralled for an enlightening discussion about this fast-paced, ever-changing field. Held at the Canopy Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland, the event welcomed local doctors for a meet-and-greet over craft cocktails and dinner with three speakers who provided a full …
Busy provider looking for healthcare news? Check out The Rundown. Dairy Fats May Have Health Benefits Dairy products high in saturated fat like cheese, butter, and whole milk have long been disgraced by the health community for their cardiovascular disease-causing properties, but a new study by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition may leave dairy …
Take two tablets by mouth twice daily. Sounds simple enough, right? Of course it means to orally ingest with water two capsules, one around noon and one in the evening. In a study of patients with low health literacy, 71 percent responded that they understood. However, only 35 percent were able to demonstrate the directions …
Busy provider looking for healthcare news? Check out The Rundown. Later Meals and Higher Cancer Rates Researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health studied the effects of “mistimed sleeping and eating patterns,” concluding that participants who ate an early dinner had a 20 percent lower risk for breast and prostate cancers. The study analyzed …