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ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Increasingly a valuable option for rural hospitals, tele-ICU provides access to higher acuity care and support to emergency and hospital medicine clinicians who are called to the ICU.

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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service).

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Beware the bait-and-switch when it comes to HM program contracts

Sound Physicians

Consider me a resource — I’m here to answer your questions, hear your concerns, and provide perspective on the landscape of hospital medicine. Rightly concerned about cost, hospital leadership makes the decision to go with the program whose initial contract is the least expensive, all other things seemingly equal.

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Dedicated ICU management: Navigating the transition

Sound Physicians

For smaller or rural hospitals, this can mean supplementing patient care with tele-ICU clinicians, available 24/7, to keep our providers from stretching too thin. Sound also supports residency programs, which guarantee a consistent pool of new critical care clinicians who can provide support in the ICU.

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Behind the stethoscope: A conversation with Dr. Osman Saleem

Sound Physicians

I wanted to get back to where we were, to give back to the program that gave my career a place to start, and to provide stability to my fellow providers. When prospective providers visit Mercy Hospital of Buffalo team. They see our cohesiveness, they see the bonds, and they see the way our providers value each other.

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Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law Blog

Palmer — The 2008 Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act placed strict limits on online prescribing or the use of telemedicine encounters to prescribe controlled substances. The Act also established new definitions for “Internet,” “online pharmacy,” “practice of telemedicine,” among others. By Karla L. 21 U.S.C. §

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Drugs Vs. Digital Therapeutics – A Digital Symbiosis

The Medical Futurist

Eight key elements of DTx According to the McKinsey report, impactful digital therapeutics solutions typically contain most, if not all, of the following eight elements: Regular monitoring, measurement, and feedback through connected medical devices Keeping payers (patients) and providers in the loop Personalised coaching and support Gamified behavioral (..)