A universal medical coder, applied consistently across care settings, offers a practical solution to the enduring challenge of data integrity. The post The Case for a Universal Medical Coder in Achieving True Interoperability appeared first on MedCity News.
The integration of the latest technologies improves diagnostic quality and accelerates treatment solutions, decreasing the time patients spend in discomfort or pain due to dental issues. The post More than a Third of the US has Dental Anxiety. Here’s How New Technology is Improving Patient Trust appeared first on MedCity News.
On this blog we most often talk about health care issues related to chronic and acute conditions, health behaviors and public health. However, there is another dimension that is vital to health: avoiding natural disasters. Unfortunately, natural disasters appear to having an increasing impact in the US across the past decades. Between 1980-2024, 16,941 people…
Quinn Cochran-Zipp went to the emergency room three times with severe abdominal pain before doctors figured out she had early-stage cancer in the germ cells of her right ovary. After emergency surgery four years ago, the Greeley, Colorado, lab technician is cancer-free. The two hospitals that treated Cochran-Zipp at the time determined that she qualified…
By DANIEL STONE As a doctor, I consider Secretary Xavier Becerra and his Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to be allies of practitioners like me. The behemoth federal agency administers Medicare and Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration, and an army of public health workers. The Surgeon General, symbolic leader of the nation’s…
Healthcare organizations must orient their models around outcomes rather than technology and capabilities alone — and that can be done through novel accountable partnerships built on a care enablement platform. The post Bringing Joy Back to Healthcare: The Power of Accountable Partnerships appeared first on MedCity News.
A large study from Massachusetts has found that babies whose mothers had covid-19 while pregnant were slightly more likely to have a range of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3. Most of these children had speech or motor delays, and the link was strongest in boys and when the mother was infected late in pregnancy. The…
Rural People’s Voice organized a press conference last month to alert the public
A new issue brief based on focus groups conducted by KFF among NHPI adults living in Hawaii and the continental U.S. highlights barriers NHPI people face when accessing health care, including geographic isolation, limited system capacity, and language access. In their own words, participants describe both positive and negative experiences in health care settings and…
CRESTWOOD, Mo. — The prospect of sweeping federal cuts to Medicaid is alarming to some Missourians who remember the last time the public medical insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities was pressed for cash in the state. In 2005, Missouri adopted some of the strictest eligibility standards in the nation, reduced benefits,…