For the first time, a pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson, has been ordered to pay a substantial sum for their role in the opioid crisis in Oklahoma. While the opioid epidemic is no doubt a nationwide crisis, Oklahoma has been particularly devastated by the highly addictive pain killer. There have reportedly been over 6,000 deaths […]
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Recently Frost & Sullivan released a new report: U.S. Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) Market, Forecast to 2024. Clinical Support Systems, sometimes integrated into a practice’s EHR and other times an additional tool a provider uses, is going to become critical to evaluating patients and generating a plan of care. What is a Clinical Decision
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Findings from 2016 data recently released by the American Medical Association show that 4 in 10 patients with private in-network insurance at hospitals faced surprise medical bills after their visit. How do surprise medical bills occur? Most often it is from visiting a hospital or ER the patient’s private insurance is in network with, however
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After two rounds of Democratic debates, a huge spotlight has been placed on Healthcare. While people on both sides of the aisle agree an overhaul to the system is a necessity, the agreement ends there. We have heard several proposals, and one in particular could lead to devastating consequences to America’s Rural Healthcare System. Anyone
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