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By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review Zocdoc founder and former CEO Cyrus Massoumi recently launched Dr. B, a platform that matches Americans seeking COVID-19 vaccines with leftover doses so they don’t go to waste, The New York Times reported March 9. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines must be administered within hours once they’re taken out…
By Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review About 71 percent of young nurses said they felt overwhelmed over the past year, according to survey results published March 10 — just ahead of the March 11 anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic’s start. The American Nurses Foundation, the charitable branch of the American Nurses Association, collected responses from…
By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Many are familiar with the scene from A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson’s old-school marine tells Tom Cruise’s younger antagonist, “You can’t handle the truth!” My favorite application of that same line comes from Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks’ 2000-Year-Old Man: “You have some kind of thing…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance News When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments, and since developing new drugs takes time, there was little of it to spare. In the short term, the most expedient option was to repurpose existing drugs. The subject drew the interest…
By Paul W. Glimcher, Ph.D. for Medical Economics Medical records, which most patients think are private and protected, are in reality lucrative commodities in a multibillion-dollar industry. As hospitals and health networks assemble these records, they routinely strip away names and other identifiers and sell millions of HIPAA-compliant files to massive aggregator corporations. Aggregators in…
By Kaite Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review Arlington, Va., is the most accommodating U.S. city for women working in tech, according to research released Feb. 18 from finance tech company SmartAsset. SmartAsset compared 63 U.S. cities for which full U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data was available on gender and salary in the tech workforce. It…
By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Nobody likes being proved wrong, but it’s not always a bad thing. It’s probably okay to be proven wrong when you think it’s a good idea to feed a shark by hand, or to drink a few beers and then tell your buddies you can…
By Matt O’ Connor for Health Imaging Diagnostic imaging utilization has increased dramatically over the past few decades, burdening radiologists with heavier workloads and higher burnout rates. This effect has trickled down to residents, as fatigue decreases the quality of their reporting throughout the workday and week. From 1999 to 2010, CT use increased by…
By HFN Staff for Healthcare Finance News All health systems and hospitals have struggled during the pandemic, in terms of both caring for patients who have COVID-19 and in staying above water financially. It’s closing in on a year since the pandemic ramped up in the United States. By mid-March 2020, all 50 states and…
By Eric Oliver for Becker’s Hospital Review WalletHub released its healthiest and unhealthiest cities in America list for 2021 on Feb. 8. The firm compares 180 of the most populated areas in the U.S. across 44 benchmarks to determine its list. The benchmarks fell into four categories: healthcare, food, fitness and green space. Here are the 10…