Practice Management News

Most medical practices subject to data security regulations of the HIPAA Security Rule have adopted administrative, physical and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information in accordance with the HIPAA Security Rule.

A recent study of trends in HPV vaccine hesitancy found that the number of parents citing safety concerns as a reason not to vaccinate their children has increased.

Physicians listen to the patient in front of us. We care for one patient at a time. There is inherent individualization in the patient interaction. Each story is unique. Each treatment plan is tailored.

An intervention requiring that infectious diseases approve testing for Clostridioides difficile infection increased the appropriateness of testing for hospital-onset C. difficile and lowered the positive testing rate by more than 50%.

Since 2010, nearly $1 trillion has flooded the U.S. health care system, across multiple specialties, from private equity firms through thousands of deals to acquire hospitals and practices.

A pentavalent vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis was shown to be safe and effective in a phase 3 trial conducted among children and young adults in Africa’s meningitis belt, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers created a symptom-based scoring system that may help diagnose long COVID more easily. The scoring system is based on 12 common symptoms identified in a study that included almost 10,000 participants.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance forecasted that the global supply of oral cholera vaccine is likely to remain limited through 2025 if current outbreak trends continue.

Treating patients with necrotizing soft tissue infections with either clindamycin plus vancomycin or linezolid resulted in similar clinical outcomes, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

New HIV infections in the United States declined by around 12% from 2017 to 2021, led by large decreases among young people, according to CDC data published Tuesday.