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July 29, 2020 / By Desmond Bibby
Where does productivity come from? Broken down, its output divided by time. In other words, how much was produced over a certain amount of time. What is being produced is […]
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July 27, 2020 / By Private: Katie Christensen
Diabetes is an epidemic and it’s getting worse. “The prevalence of diabetes (type 2 diabetes and type 1 diabetes) will increase by 54% to more than 54.9 million Americans between […]
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July 24, 2020 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD
Health care payment in the U.S. is the outgrowth of decades of policy decisions that were not all thought out in advance and thus have become a mess. We pay […]
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July 22, 2020 / By Precious Porter, RN, BSN
It has been 20 weeks since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. People have been getting a bit stir-crazy with the social […]
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July 20, 2020 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD
Telemedicine has exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic with expanded access guidelines from the CDC and others.[1] How much of this is a good thing? Should we continue the new rules […]
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July 17, 2020 / By Jean Jones, CPC
There are cartoons circulating online that show parents begging their children not to get hurt out of fear of going to the hospital. I thought they were funny and never […]
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July 13, 2020 / By Colleen Ejak, RHIA
Telemedicine is not new – it’s been around for about 40 years, according to the American Telemedicine Association, founded in 1993. Telemedicine, in a nutshell, is the use of technology […]
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July 10, 2020 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD
Not just during the current COVID-19 pandemic, but for a long time, doctors and nurses have expressed concerns and frustration with the administrative work of clinical documentation. An article from […]
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July 1, 2020 / By Melissa Clarke, MD
Today’s blog is co-authored by Angela Diop, ND, CHCIO, and Andrew Robie, MD, of Unity Health Care in Washington DC. Dr. Robie is Chief Medical Information Officer and a family […]
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June 29, 2020 / By Steve Delaronde
The intersection of a novel virus, health disparities across our communities and rising health care prices presents a formidable challenge to the U.S. health care system. COVID-19 is new, but […]
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June 19, 2020 / By Amanda Steffon
It has been over 100 years since the 1918 flu pandemic spread across the globe. Although we cannot make a direct comparison between then and now, there are contributing factors […]
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June 17, 2020 / By Audrey Howard, RHIA, Bobbie Starkey
Now that we have seen many cases of COVID-19 being treated and recovered patients moving on with their “new normal” lives (at least in some states), we should take a […]
