American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 12, 2022

Cases of COVID-19 are still occurring across the United States due to more contagious Omnicron variants. Doctors and scientists worry about the effectiveness of current vaccines in protecting older populations against Omnicron infections. Therefore, experts are highly recommending booster vaccines. Current COVID-19 boosters are safe and effective. They help to reduce the severity of several Omicron variants, including the new BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants.

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Clinical Correlations

AUGUST 10, 2022

By Akshay N. Pulavarty MPH Peer Reviewed A quick look into the medicine cabinet of anyone sixty or older will likely reveal a statin. Primary prevention with high-intensity statins has substantially reduced the risk of atherosclerotic.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

AUGUST 10, 2022

These phishing emails are targeting healthcare providers. The email has a subject of “(Victim Organization) (Date) Business Review” and utilizes a Secure Message theme. Inside of the email is a malicious link that takes the recipient to an Evernote site that looks like it belongs to the Victim Organization. On that site is an HTML download that is Trojan malware that steals usernames and passwords and other sensitive credentials and information.

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EB Medicine

AUGUST 6, 2022

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD interviews Adam Sigal, MD and Stephanie Costa, MD - the authors of the August 2022 EMP article on Managing Acute Cardiac Valvular Emergencies in the Emergency Department. Listen to the discussion to hear more about the emergency medicine approach to valvular emergencies. Managing Acute Cardiac Valvular Emergencies in the Emergency Department EMplify - August 2022 Episode Outline: Why Valvular disease?

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 8, 2022

Recently, monkeypox has been announced as an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization. However, many are unfamiliar with what the virus is and why this outbreak is so concerning. Scientists have been apprehensive about a monkeypox outbreak for over a decade, and this concern is becoming relevant as more and more cases are reported worldwide.

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EMergucate

AUGUST 10, 2022

You are reviewing a 16 year old girl who has taken an estimated 66-222mg/Kg overdose of her grandmothers SR Theophylline … Continue reading →

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

AUGUST 7, 2022

Date: August 7th, 2022 Host Skeptic: Dr. Dennis Ren is a pediatric emergency medicine attending at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. You might remember him from the SGEM episodes on febrile infants, aseptic meningitis, and community acquired pneumonia. This is an SGEM Xtra episode. Season 10 is coming to an end. We want to thank all our listeners […] The post SGEM Xtra: The SGEM Goes to Eleven – for Kids first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Throughout the COVID-19 public health emergency that began in January of 2020, the Office for Civil Rights has issued several notifications of enforcement discretion for certain aspects of the HIPAA rules. This means that, for the topics covered, the OCR will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the HIPAA rules as long as the covered entity or business associate has made a good faith effort to comply.

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EMergucate

AUGUST 9, 2022

The following ankle x-rays are from a 12 year old with ankle pain & swelling following fall off a horse.

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EMergucate

AUGUST 8, 2022

18-year-old girl presented after a large quantity of weight losing pills. Her blood gases showed the following: PH = 7.

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EMergucate

AUGUST 9, 2022

You are reviewing a 16 year old girl who has taken a 120mg/Kg overdose of her grandmothers theophylline tablets.

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EMergucate

AUGUST 7, 2022

This patient’s blood test showed high K level with low Mg and Ca levels.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

AUGUST 12, 2022

Of all the known cyberattacks that cause a data breach, phishing is the most expensive to remedy. A successful phishing attack most commonly reveals usernames and passwords, which paves the way to the data breach resulting in an average cost of $4.9m for victim organizations worldwide. The costs remain the highest in the healthcare industry for the 12th year in a row.

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