MedCity News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

A more measured approach to noncompete clauses can be fair to physicians and provider organizations, and also serve patients better. Here are four elements for a policy on noncompetes that will work for healthcare. The post Forging a Noncompete Policy That Works for Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

APRIL 2, 2024

Interest in using GLP-1 drugs to reduce obesity combined with a desire by physicians to become less dependent on insurance-based reimbursement after the recent Change Healthcare cyberattack is building. The post How to Help Physicians Generate More Revenue and Make Their Patients Healthier appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 4, 2022

FlipMD recently launched a recruiting platform designed to help healthcare providers, drugmakers and digital health companies find qualified physicians to fill a variety of roles — whether they’re clinical, nonclinical, full time or part time.

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MedCity News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Nearly half of physicians are equally excited and concerned about the use of AI in their field, according to a new AMA survey. Patient privacy and the impact to the patient-physician relationship were the most common reasons physicians cited for having reservations about AI.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Alpine Physician Partners — which operates primary care organizations in several states — is implementing Ambience Healthcare’s documentation and coding tool after a successful pilot. The post How A Physician Group Is Using AI to Save Clinicians 3+ Hours Per Day on Documentation appeared first on MedCity News. hours per day.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 17, 2025

A new report from Relatient highlights ways hospitals and physician practices can improve workflows and how to create frictionless patient interactions. The post A Checklist to Help Healthcare Practices Thrive appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Join us in this webinar presented by flipMD and learn how to remain at the forefront of healthcare and adapt to patients’ needs, business leader, and leverage physician insights.

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 6, 2025

The Power of Entrenched Brand Loyalty Biologic manufacturers have spent years, sometimes decades, building trust with physicians and patients. healthcare system wasn’t built for easy disruption. The question is: why? These brands are often seen as the gold standard.

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World of DTC Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2021

SUMMARY: One definitive trend to emerge from the pandemic is that more people are becoming healthcare consumers. They want healthcare to be easier to access and don’t want to wait for necessary medical tests. One urgent care center in Tampa even has its online healthcare records site. People want changes to healthcare.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 17, 2023

As retail disruptors like CVS, Walgreens and Amazon buy more and more primary care assets, the healthcare industry is seeing an increased demand for physicians and advanced practitioners. Physicians’ starting salaries have remained relatively flat, but their average signing bonus grew.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Here are six ways healthcare providers can lighten the physician’s burden. The pandemic placed an unfathomable burden on the country’s doctors. For years to come, we’ll be dissecting its implications.

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MedCity News

JULY 28, 2022

Telemedicine delivers the same level of care as in-person, satisfies patients and physicians and drives down healthcare costs, cardiologist Steve Ommen says.

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MedCity News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Looking back 20 years, when fewer than 18% of physician practices used electronic health records, few experts would have anticipated how information technology has changed healthcare. Thanks to IT, the volume and types of data generated and the speed at which they can be analyzed are vastly different than decades ago.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 27, 2023

Even with my “VIP” access to the healthcare system as a physician who practiced in my community, I’m still struggling to coordinate my care as a cancer patient. I believe patients need more from their payers, providers, and digital health collaborators when it comes to care coordination and navigation.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ambience Healthcare’s new product, AutoScribe, embeds into the electronic medical record and works in real-time. Immediately after the visit, the physician gets a draft of the medical notes from the meeting, and then they can edit the notes if needed.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By applying a gig economy model to healthcare innovation, flipMD from GoodRx is lowering the barrier for physicians and businesses to connect and collaborate through an easy-to-use online platform.

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MedCity News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The shifting of services to outpatient settings will likely cause hospitals to unwind their contractual relationships with cardiologists, sending the physicians back into private practice.

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MedCity News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Explainability empowers healthcare professionals to work in tandem with AI, ensuring that patients receive the most accurate and informed care. The post Unlocking AI Explainability for Trustworthy Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News. AI should augment, not replace, human provider expertise.

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MedCity News

MAY 9, 2023

US healthcare faces a gathering storm of difficulties, including inflation, labor shortages (particularly of nurses and physicians), and endemic Covid-19. Taking action in three areas could help the entire industry rise above the turbulence.

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MedCity News

JULY 4, 2022

Job turnover is on the rise among physicians because their desire for flexibility and work-life balance is emboldening them to leave jobs where they feel overworked or underappreciated, according to a new report.

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MedCity News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Elation Health released results of a survey it conducted to learn more about how primary care physicians feel about AI scribes.

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MedCity News

MARCH 7, 2025

The post Making Automation a Mainstream Function in Healthcare Practices appeared first on MedCity News. [Sponsored] In a webinar sponsored byJotform, scheduled for Thursday, March 13 at 1 pm ET, panelists will discuss how health tech companies approach data automation and how practices implement it.

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MedCity News

APRIL 17, 2025

The post The Rise of Plant-Based Self-Medication and What Healthcare Must Do Next appeared first on MedCity News. On one hand, it signals a growing desire for agency in personal health. On the other, it raises alarms about safety, oversight, and the risk of delayed care.

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 15, 2025

Senator Bernie Sanders, among other critics, has repeatedly asserted that DTC ads inflate healthcare costs by driving unnecessary prescriptions. Healthcare professionals understand their role clearly: it is not simply to fulfill patient requests, but to exercise medical judgment and adhere to ethical standards in prescribing.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Physicians often diagnose patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) too late in the process, when dialysis is the only option left. This isn’t negligence on the part of physicians — it’s simply a consequence of a fee-for-service (FFS) healthcare model that works against patients’ financial well-being and deemphasizes preventative care.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Why haven’t more employers addressed the rising costs of employee healthcare with value-based care? This has to be upsetting to employers experiencing riding employee healthcare costs. The answer may be in offering a value-based healthcare model. Prescription drugs costs are just a small part of healthcare costs (11%).

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

With modern point-of-care ultrasound workflows, healthcare providers can easily share patient information and provide optimal care. By making documentation and images easily transferrable immediately after the imaging is performed, clinician workflow can be simplified.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Virtual specialty care networks may provide the sort of longitudinal healthcare relationship we haven’t seen since the era of house calls and doctors’ bags—benefiting patients and physicians alike.

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Referral MD

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Prior authorization is a pivotal component of healthcare, bridging the relationship between patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies. While a physician may determine a treatment plan, they must get the insurers green light to ensure coverage. Photo by terovesalainen on Adobe Stock What Is Prior Authorization?

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 9, 2025

However, as the healthcare landscape continues to evolve—and trust in institutions declines—it’s time for the industry to confront a hard truth: DTC TV ads are no longer as effective as they once were. They may be increasingly out of step with how patients make healthcare decisions today.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Called Microsoft Fabric, which was rolled out broadly in May, the announcement on October 10 marks the availability of Fabric’s capabilities specifically for the healthcare vertical – to clinicians, administrators but perhaps, most importantly, to patients. October 8 was when I saw it in action.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Healthcare organizations should work proactively with experts in the relevant domains to recognize and mitigate potential cybersecurity risks. The post Recognizing and Mitigating Cybersecurity Risks: Strategies for Healthcare Organizations appeared first on MedCity News. Here’s what to do to mitigate risk.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 18, 2022

There are high levels of substance use and dangerous mental health stigma among healthcare workers, according to a report released by addiction treatment organization APN. Its CEO said the most effective way to decrease stigma about seeking mental health treatment is to look at healthcare as inclusive of mental health.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 5, 2022

American healthcare is the most expensive globally, but it’s not close to being the best. Our healthcare system has become like a mass-market retailer, in the door to treat the problem and out the door with an Rx or other treatment recommendation. So how can our broken healthcare system address this issue?

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

While AI continues to advance, the healthcare industry requires a level of accuracy, understanding, and confidentiality that only well-trained human transcriptionists can consistently provide. The post The Human Touch: Why Human Transcriptionists Still Outperform AI in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

MARCH 9, 2025

Healthcare organizations are starting to implement AI agents autonomous, task-specific systems designed to perform functions with little or no human intervention. The post Inside Healthcares Hottest New AI Category: Agentic AI appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The post Dear Mr. Buffett: Healthcare Isn’t Hopeless appeared first on MedCity News. Truth is, there are hugely positive tailwinds at our back. But the way we’ve been thinking about the problem is holding us back from solving it. Here’s why.

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