Topic: Health & Wellness
Practicing for her people
Robeson County, North Carolina, ranks dead last among the Tar Heel State’s 100 counties for health outcomes and health factors like smoking and obesity. Diabetes, cancer, poverty and a lack of local medical specialists make it hard for the rural county’s...
Exploring the intersection of entrepreneurship and mental health challenges at South by Southwest
Creative. Driven. Caffeine-fueled. Those are just some of the adjectives that describe entrepreneurs. But there are others that few people talk about, including depressed, anxious and...
4 revenue sources to explore for your primary care practice
Ancillary services have long been a popular way to increase revenue for physician practices. In fact, 82% of practices offer at least one ancillary service.1 Such services account for 11% of revenue for both internal and family medicine practices, according...
Flu fighters: How flu vaccines and workplace hygiene can benefit you and your workers
Are you a comfort giver or a flu giver? That’s the question the UK’s South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust recently posed in a series of advertisements targeting its employees. In one advert, an elderly woman reaches out to a nurse, who...
Medication management: tips for older adults
If your medicine cabinet is overflowing, you’re not alone. Nearly a quarter of older adults are on five or more prescription medications, while half take at least two nonprescription drugs or supplements. To keep up with everything you’re on —...
How subscription medicine can benefit your patients–and grow your business
One day last fall, a patient texted Vance Lassey, M.D., while he was at church to say she thought she had a urinary tract infection (UTI). After discussing her symptoms and confirming her suspected diagnosis, Lassey, a Holton, KS, physician and president of...
Antibiotic resistance: Toward better stewardship of a precious medical resource
Antibiotic resistance has emerged as one of the world’s deadliest health crises. The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is threatening the effectiveness of last-resort treatments for life-threatening infections. Every year, 700,000 deaths (and...