Seven members of Oregon's Congressional delegation are pressing Providence Health to reach an agreement with nearly 5,000 striking healthcare workers, marking escalating pressure on the hospital system as the work stoppage enters its third week.
According to a 2023 survey by the American Medical Association, 94% physicians indicated that prior authorization, the process by which physicians are required to receive health insurance companies’ approval before providing medical service, had delayed their patients’ care. Of the 1,000 physicians surveyed, 24% reported that prior authorization delays caused direct harm to patients.
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that’s just over a year old, has stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley after demonstrating breakthrough artificial-intelligence models that offer comparable performance to the world’s best chatbots at seemingly a fraction of the cost.
If you’re interested in entering the health care field, RN Marie Fenelon can point you in the right direction.
The Round Lake resident works as a hospice clinical manager at a facility in Addison that is part of the Alden network. She recently opened Fenelon College of Healthcare Careers at 800 W. Central Road, Suite 106N, Mount Prospect.
In March, the college will begin offering classes for budding certified nursing assistants and phlebotomists.
Fenelon explained that the program is not for aspiring registered nurses. It is for allied health care workers.
White male doctors are more likely to be promoted through the ranks of academic medicine than female physicians and those from racial or ethnic minority groups, according to research led by the University of Kansas Medical Center.