Fri.Jul 04, 2025

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Why health care leaders fail at execution—and how to fix it

KevinMD

Health care leaders don’t have a vision problem. We have an execution problem. Over the last two decades, I’ve seen countless strategic plans crafted with care, insight, and bold ambition. Mission statements get refreshed. Core values are realigned. Retreats are held. Vision decks are created and shared from the C-suite to the frontlines.

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Leveraging Microbiome Health in Autoimmune Disease Treatment: Family Medicine Austin’s Cutting-Edge Strategies

Family Medicine Austin

The intricate world within our bodies is more connected than we might think. One of the most fascinating and impactful connections is between our gut microbiome and autoimmune diseases. At Family Medicine Austin, we’re embracing innovative strategies that leverage microbiome health to treat autoimmune conditions, offering hope and improved quality of life to our patients. […] The post Leveraging Microbiome Health in Autoimmune Disease Treatment: Family Medicine Austin’s Cutting

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How digital tools are reshaping the doctor-patient relationship

KevinMD

In this era of digital revolution in health care, the traditional physician-patient relationship is undergoing a significant transformation. Digital tools, including telemedicine, electronic health records (EHRs), artificial intelligence-based diagnostics, and various fitness applications, are reshaping how patients and clinicians interact and manage health together.

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Negative Expectations

A Country Doctor Writes

Andrea Smythe needed something for her depression, but she was leery of medications. Her counselor had recommended trying an antidepressant, and I agreed. Andrea told me nobody in her family ever took an antidepressant, and none of her friends ever did. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Why evidence-based management may be an effective strategy for stronger health care leadership and equity

KevinMD

In the current complex health care landscape, health care leaders are frequently challenged to make management decisions that are effective but also equitable. Numerous leadership transitions are occurring in Canada’s health care systems because of leadership failures. In British Columbia, multiple health care leaders were replaced in the first half of 2025.

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Hospitalist pay overview: Compensation continues to rise, but not for everyone

Today's Hospitalist

WHEN IT COMES TO HOSPITALIST PAY , the news is (relatively) good. Mean compensation for all hospitalists in 2024 was $348,231. That’s a jump of about $18,000, or 2.6%, over that mean figure in our 2023 survey. As with all physician pay surveys, that average amount represents the tip of the iceberg. There are big swings in hospitalist compensation depending on how you slice and dice the data.

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Medicaid's many different names may cause confusion about who's losing coverage

NPR Health

Medicaid programs go by so many different names across the country that advocates and experts warn people may not know they're losing their coverage until it's too late.

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Happy 4th of July🇺🇸

Family Physicians of Cedar Rapids

As we celebrate Independence Day, we want to take a moment to wish all of our patients, families, and community members a safe and joyful holiday. This 4th of July, whether you’re gathering with loved ones, enjoying fireworks, or simply relaxing at home, remember to take care of your health and well-being: Stay Hydrated- July heat can sneak up on you quickly.

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To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works

Physician's Weekly

Four years before Kimberly Gallagher enrolled in Medicaid herself, the public health insurance program’s rules prompted her to make an excruciating choice — to give up guardianship of her son so she could work as his caregiver. Now, another proposed twist in the rules could mean that, even though Missouri pays her to do that work, she might still have to prove to the state that she’s not unemployed.

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Think the Medicaid cuts don't affect you? Think again.

NPR Health

Republicans have passed President Trump's One Big, Beautiful bill, but is it built on bad faith stereotypes? The legislation guts funding for Medicaid, and for a long time Republicans have been attacking the program as sort of welfare for moochers. Who exactly are these moochers? And could it be you? Brittany is joined by Joan Alker , Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, and Jamila Michener , professor and author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid,

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GOP Governors Mum as Congress Moves To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States

Physician's Weekly

The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors. Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation, red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their statesR

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States Brace for Reversal of Obamacare Coverage Gains Under Trump’s Budget Bill

Physician's Weekly

Shorter enrollment periods. More paperwork. Higher premiums. The sweeping tax and spending bill pushed by President Donald Trump includes provisions that would not only reshape people’s experience with the Affordable Care Act but, according to some policy analysts, also sharply undermine the gains in health insurance coverage associated with it.

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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Trump’s Bill Reaches the Finish Line

Physician's Weekly

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition.