Practice Management News

As we navigate through this difficult time in the U.S. economy, a few bright spots emerge. One of those is the fact that interest rates, controlled by the Federal Reserve, are at all-time lows.

Phase 3 clinical trial results indicate that Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine was 92% effective against COVID-19, according to a press release from the Russian Direct Investment Fund, or RDIF.

MemorialCare health system recently shifted its attention to renewal after its initial safety-focused response to COVID-19, one of its vice presidents said at Octane’s virtual MedTech Innovation Forum.

Weekly aggregate medical spending by most commercial insurance customers and Medicare Advantage recipients in the United States dropped by nearly half as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, data show.

Almost 1 in 5 physicians have experienced suicidal ideation in their lifetimes, a systematic review and meta-analysis in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior showed.

Healio announced that David Ruppel has been appointed to the position of senior vice president of analytics, where he will focus on developing and expanding Healio analytics and audience insights.

Telehealth is not new in dermatology, but with COVID-19 leading to an unprecedented shutdown of most of the country earlier this year, it has been thrust to the forefront of practices, leading to a large learning curve for both providers and patients.

The e-commerce website Groupon saved money for patients who bought medical imaging services, but sellers did not always “accurately or adequately” provide information about the risks of imaging, researchers reported.

Black individuals organizing medical crowdfunding campaigns in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada raised 11.5% less than non-Black individuals, and women raised 5.9% less than men, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

A “revolution” in legal access to cannabis over the past 20 years has raised concerns about its overuse, researchers wrote in a review published in Annals of Internal Medicine.