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STAT+: Hospitals try a new pitch to investors: other ways of making money

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SAN FRANCISCO — If you learned anything about nonprofit hospitals on the first day of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, it’s that they’ve all but abandoned the prospect of making significant profit on patient care. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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The state of Medicare Advantage, in one chart

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  Hospitals want you to look here, not over there Hospital leaders took pains to draw investors’ attention to their sizable cash and investment reserves at JPM. Notably absent from many presentations, though, was mention of their losses on patient care, my colleague Tara Bannow reports from the conference.

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Celebrating National Pharmacist Day

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

January 12th is National Pharmacist Day, when we recognize the contribution that pharmacists have made–and continue to make–to patient care and our healthcare systems. Each year, patients fill hundreds of millions of prescriptions, keeping pharmacists busier than ever. Licensing boards for these specialties vary.

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STAT+: UnitedHealth discontinues a controversial brand amid scrutiny of algorithmic care denials

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The move also encapsulates how UnitedHealth is pushing to control every piece of patient care outside of the hospital and distancing itself from the aspects that have generated controversy.

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How Pharmacists Can Use Artificial Intelligence To Advance Their Practice: Insights From ChatGPT

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Streamlined Prescription Filling : AI systems can automate prescription filling processes by extracting relevant information from electronic prescriptions, verifying insurance coverage, and generating labels. This reduces manual errors, saves time, and allows pharmacists to focus on patient care.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

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In addition, the guideline has been misapplied to cancer and palliative care patients, and there have been rapid opioid tapers without patient collaboration, rigid application of opioid dosage thresholds, application of opioid use for pain to opioid use disorder treatment, insurer and pharmacy duration limits, patient dismissals and abandonment.

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Advice For New Pharmacists: Lessons Form The Front Lines

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Relevant to this introduction, having worked at a Boston hospital for several years, for me DD and the pharmacy life just go hand-in-hand like chimichurri sauce and flank steak. Recommendation 1: Use your skills to improve patient care Pharmacists who apply their skills make patient’s lives better.