Health Recovery
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to confront a new reality when it comes to healthcare. The unprecedented impact of the pandemic has led governments and healthcare providers globally to re-evaluate their preparedness plans. One of the areas that has seen the most change is telehealth. Until recently, telehealth was seen as a niche field with huge potential that remains unexplored.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Two-thirds of physicians working in emergency departments reported being assaulted in the past year alone, according to a survey.
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
By James Toomey. Many people, including, it seems, most advocates for law reform, assume that older adults are uniquely vulnerable to scams, and indeed that senior scams are a unique social problem demanding a unique legal solution. But in “The Age of Fraud” (forthcoming in the Harvard Journal on Legislation , winter 2023), about which I’ve blogged here before , I reported the results of an empirical study suggesting that, in fact, younger adults were as much as three times more like
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. CHC/SEK provides medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction treatment, case management services and pharmacies to all, regardless of ability to pay, and serves about 65,000 patients for more than 220,000 visits per year, making the organization the largest FQHC in Kansas and one of the largest of all rural FQHCs in the United States.
Healthcare Success
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Help Providers Win New Patients from Large Local Businesses with These Tactics. Large or dominant employers in your local communities are excellent targets of opportunity for new patients and cases. Most healthcare providers have local businesses that are (or could be) a source of new business. Whether it’s a company that's conveniently located across the street, or a dominant employer in the community, your providers want their business—here’s how you can help them win it.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. The AMA first conducted research with physicians and their views on digital health in July 2016.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Delayed procedures and tests were the most commonly reported consequences of healthcare cyberattacks, according to a study from the Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint, a cybersecurity compliance company.
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
By Matt Dowell. Recently, I remotely attended a mask-optional, in-person meeting where campus leaders proudly proclaimed that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is my college’s “top priority.” As a disabled faculty member who writes about disability access in higher education, I found myself considering how to make sense of such a statement — how seriously to take such statements, how much to care that such statements are being made.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The American Medical Association's digital health research released today shows increased rates of digital health adoption among physicians over the last six years and provides insights into their expectations. "The AMA survey illustrates the importance physicians place on validated digital health tools that improve health while streamlining the technological and administrative burdens faced each day in medicine," said AMA President Dr.
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha
Healthcare Success
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Welcome to step four of our “Marketing to Doctors” blog series. This comprehensive playbook is designed to help people in virtually every sector (e.g., healthcare businesses, device and supply companies, SaaS, etc.) market their products and services directly to doctors, physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals. If you haven’t read steps 1-3, I highly recommend doing so.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Excess moisture, faulty structuring and bad wiring. Those are some of the common issues that arise in the seniors’ homes. But the home is where seniors want to remain as they age. That’s why the University of Pittsburgh is trying to push the needle forward with its healthy home lab. The project brings together researchers from multiple disciplines with the goal of improving the viability of the home environment in order to support aging in place.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
For Labor Day 2022, I’m thinking about health, vaccines, work (especially returning-to-work), and art. Let’s start with the vaccine news. Called the “first updated COVID-19 booster,” on September 1st the CDC announced the availability and approval for health citizens to get new vaccines which have added Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the original vaccine formulation.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Twins Cities Hospitals Group, which runs four of the affected hospitals, stands to incur more than $20 million a day in extra costs during the three-day strike, according to a statement.
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Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
By Doron Dorfman and Scott Landes. One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. As disability scholars who use data and empirical tools in our work, we want to remind decision makers that advancing just law and policy depends on the systematic collection of accurate data.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. For the University of Maryland Medical Center health system based in Baltimore, telemedicine services encompass a vast array of tools that help the organization engage patients, monitor symptoms and provide direct care beyond the confines of a physical location.
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Vladimir Putin appeared to double-down on his country's war effort in Ukraine September 21st, calling up hundreds of thousands of new troops, threatening Ukraine and the West, vowing to use “all the means at our disposal,” and pointing out that he is not bluffing. Here's what a few RAND experts had to say.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
Home health stakeholders – and many others – recently had the opportunity to weigh in on the way Medicare Advantage (MA) is currently administered by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and Moving Health Home are among the two groups that answered CMS’ request for information.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
If health is nurtured and made where we live, work, play pray, learn, and shop, the healthcare should be everywhere. That’s the promise, increasingly a reality, of telehealth. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The initiative prioritizes integrating behavioral health services into primary and other specialty care areas as well as community-based settings like schools.
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Not knowing how to unfold or even sit in a wheelchair the right way can cause a catastrophic injury to patients, visitors, volunteers, and staff of a healthcare facility. Wheelchairs are one of the most common assistive devices used in healthcare facilities, from admission to discharge. They are often found at the entrance of a facility for use by both patients and visitors with mobility issues.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. Sparrow's initial goal was to launch on-demand, virtual urgent care to increase access and provide another front door into the health system.
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The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
Twitter has a deep bench of engineers working for the company. They have access to trillions of data points on their over 300 million monthly active users. Why has a company this size struggled to clean up its platform?
NASHP
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
Vaccinating Children and Youth against COVID-19: Washington, DC’s Approach September 2, 2022 / by Michelle Fiscus. It is estimated that immunizations prevent approximately 6 million deaths each year from vaccine-preventable diseases such as polio, measles, and pertussis. While routine childhood immunization requirements for schools and childcare centers have long existed in every state, COVID-19 vaccine requirements are very rare.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Only 4% of health care payments in the U.S. are pure fee-for-service (FFS) these days. “The end of pure FFS is near,” according to The State and Science of Value-Based Care , a report-out of survey research from Innovaccer and Morning Consult. Innovaccer, a health cloud/data analytics company, worked with Morning Consult to do deep-dive interviews with 75 senior health care executives; research was conducted in November and December 2021, so these perspectives represent those of heal
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The HHS Office of Inspector General found that by loosening emergency use authorization requirements to bring COVID-19 tests to market faster, the agency allowed inaccurate tests to be distributed.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Back in 1960, life expectancy in the US was 69.7 years as compared to 43.7 years. At the turn of the century, this gap had closed to 76.8 to 71.4 years. As of 2021, however, US life expectancy was 76.1 whereas life expectancy in China was 77.1, a full year ahead of the U.S. Part of the reason for China pulling ahead was a bigger decrease in life expectancy in the US during COVID-19 (falling from 78.8 in 2019 to 77.1 in 2021) whereas life expectancy actually increased in China (76.9 to 77.1).
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
While most healthcare leaders in the Asia Pacific recognise the value of health data more than their global peers, they are still facing significant challenges in using data effectively, according to Royal Philips' Future Health Index 2022 report. FINDINGS. The report, now in its seventh edition, gathered responses from 2,900 healthcare senior executives across 15 countries with 900 from the APAC region.
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
As tensions with Russia rise to levels not seen since the Cold War, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) may need to detect and counter increasing numbers of aerial intrusions. One way to strengthen NORAD's capabilities: Invite Greenland and Denmark to join the command.
NASHP
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
HHS Releases First of Its Kind National Strategy on Family Caregiving The far-reaching report details 350 recommendations across 15 federal agencies and includes actions for state and local governments, employers, and community organizations. Washington, DC — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a broad national strategy that provides the roadmap needed for federal, state, and local governments, as well as businesses and communities, to better support family caregi
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