Practice Management News

As practices begin to re-open and resume full activity across the United States, it is time to take a hard look at the financial impact of the COVID-19 shutdown and how practice owners can mitigate long-term effects.

Malcolm X said, “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. ... Progress is healing the wound that the blow made.” We are physicians, experts on attending to wounds. Yet we have not pulled the knife out the wound of racism. Many among us have not admitted the knife is there. Among those who see it there, many say, “It’s not my job.”

Peter N. Slack, president and CEO of the Wyanoke Group, parent company of Healio, released a statement today saying the company stands with those who work for racial equality.

Despite calls to action, one-third of medical schools still do not offer programs on LGBTQI+ health care, and most educators do not feel prepared to provide such education, according to researchers.

Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, yielded a false-negative rate as low as 20% and as high as 100% among patients who were tested for infection with SARS-CoV-2, according to a literature review and pooled analysis published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai created the first algorithm of its kind in the United States to use artificial intelligence, combined with CT imaging of lungs and clinical data, to detect COVID-19, according to a press release.

In my nearly 19 years of practice, I have learned many lessons about ocular disease and refractive care. However, the biggest lesson is that interpersonal skills have a direct correlation with your happiness in practice and in life.

Healio has launched a new, fully reengineered version of its website, delivering personalized news and education in an enhanced user experience to specialty health care professionals, the company announced.

In its recent guidance on serology and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2, the American Association for Clinical Chemistry said that only specific tests should be used and only in certain instances.

The United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Germany and Italy have proposed using “immunity passports” as a potential strategy for easing physical distancing measures, according to a paper published in The Lancet. However, a bioethics expert told Healio Primary Care that there are too many barriers for governments to implement them.