Business of Medicine News

• New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know A proposed federal rule would require hospitals and physicians’ groups to beef up health cybersecurity measures to protect patient privacy and prevent ransomware attacks. Some changes could be expensive, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• AI and the Art of Nursing As artificial intelligence makes its way to nursing, nurses navigate between cutting-edge technology and the human touch.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Leaving ED Without Being Seen Entails Increasing Risks Researchers call for long-term, consistent funding for primary, emergency, hospital, and long-term care.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Incentives Do Not Boost Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance A cohort study analyzed data from 15,273 men with prostate cancer to determine active surveillance rates at difference points in time.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Inventory System Supplier Settles Anti-Kickback Claim A specialty pharmacy company agreed to a $1.67 million settlement that it gave inventory management systems to retina specialty practices for free in exchange for drug orders.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Scientific Publications Face Credibility Crisis Are scientific publications losing credibility? AI and low-quality submissions undermine research integrity.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Eli Lilly's Obesity Drug Gets Medicare Coverage for Sleep Apnea Eli Lilly's obesity drug Zepbound can now be covered by government-backed Medicare insurance plans for use in sleep apnea, broadening access to the blockbuster weight-loss...
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2025
• World Animal Health Body Urges Tighter Bird Flu Controls After US Death More should be done to control the spread of bird flu among animals to avoid more cases in humans, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday,...
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2025
• Family Physicians See Culture Improve, Challenge RVU System Family physicians saw improvements in workplace culture but questioned the effectiveness of RVU metrics to measure productivity.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Politics in the Exam Room As political decisions increasingly affect healthcare, doctors weigh in on the changes and challenges they’ll likely see with the new administration.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round? Have sobering studies on alcohol caused physicians to drink less themselves or changed the way doctors counsel patients on booze? The answer is complicated.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Drug Shortages: Does Canada Manage Them Better? Oncology drugs tend to “percolate to the top” of shortage lists that prioritize drugs of concern, said expert.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• As Biden Nears Exit, US Bans Medical Debt From Credit Reports President Joe Biden's outgoing administration announced on Tuesday a ban on medical debt in American consumers' credit reports, making good on a campaign year pledge less...
  Reuters Health Information, January 07, 2025
• Student-Run Clinics Seen Expanding With Promise and Pitfalls Medical students appear to be participating and managing more free clinics. A recent JAMA Internal Medicine article explored the benefits and potential risks of these programs.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Cost Barriers Influence Adherence to Asthma Care According to a recent study, financial constraint was a major contributor to nonadherence to medications in adults with asthma in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Med Students: Ready for Residency, but Not Career New survey results showed that some med students feel confident heading into the next phase of learning but not so much in their eventual jobs.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Docs Worry Not Enough Known About GLP-1s and Teens Eighty percent of doctors in a Medscape survey answered no when asked, “Is enough known about obesity meds’ risk to adolescents?”
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025
• Workplace Culture Trumps Pay for Most Internists: Survey A survey of internists found workplace culture is prioritized over pay, with physicians emphasizing supportive environments and flexibility in managing job responsibilities.
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025
• Combined Psoriasis/PsA Clinics: Potential and Pitfalls Experts propose potential workarounds for obstacles to wider use of combined clinics and personalized medicine for dermatology and rheumatology patients.
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025
• Drugmakers to Raise US Prices on Over 250 Medicines Starting Jan. 1 Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, Bristol Myers Squibb's cancer cell therapies and...
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2024