Addressing America’s mental health crisis – especially in rural areas – starts by making care more accessible – MedCity News

Addressing America’s mental health crisis – especially in rural areas – starts by making care more accessible – MedCity News

After more than two years of lockdowns and social restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent escalation of gun violence, there’s a significant spotlight on mental health in the United States. The state of mental health has been labeled a crisis by the mainstream media and top political figures, and the data backs up this assessment. According to […]

I Live for Paris Couture Week—Here’s How I’m Recreating The Best Looks For Less

I Live for Paris Couture Week—Here’s How I’m Recreating The Best Looks For Less

Photo: Imaxtree Tailoring and, by extension, suiting have always been a consequential part of haute couture—after all, stitching can single-handily change how a garment fits our form. So it is no surprise that we’d find suiting in couture collections, including Viktor & Rolf’s FW/22 collection. But in proper form to these couturiers’s provocative perspective to design, these weren’t your typical […]

Securing the Internet of Medical Things

Securing the Internet of Medical Things

What’s the Best Network Architecture for IoMT? To secure Internet of Medical Things devices, the basic requirement is isolation: separating each device as much as possible from others. Ideally, each device would be on a separate microsegment with some type of firewall controlling all access in and out. For larger hospitals, or smaller IT teams, this can be unrealistically complicated. […]

Sutter inks 10-year contract with R1 RCM

Sutter inks 10-year contract with R1 RCM

Dive Brief: Sutter Health has entered into a 10-year agreement with R1 RCM to exclusively manage the health system’s revenue cycle management services, the companies announced last week. Sutter could save about $400 million over the next 10 years as the partnership aims to address labor costs and rising inflation, they said. About 1,150 Sutter RCM employees will be offered […]

Nation’s largest nurses union calls on Biden administration to tighten COVID-19 restrictions

Nation’s largest nurses union calls on Biden administration to tighten COVID-19 restrictions

The country’s largest union of registered nurses called on the Biden administration to take action against rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations amid the surge of immune-evasive Omicron subvariant BA.5 in a letter on Wednesday, the day before President Biden tested positive for the coronavirus.  In their letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Nurses United (NNU) […]

THCB Gang Episode 98, Thursday July 21, 1pm PT 4pm ET

THCB Gang Episode 98, Thursday July 21, 1pm PT 4pm ET

THCB Gang Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday July 21 will futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); and fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey) You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels.