March, 2022

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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

Healthcare It News

In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, keeping the best outcomes for patients at the center of all activity increasingly depends on the smart use of medical data. The exponential growth in health data from a variety of sources, such as electronic medical records and image databases, makes it difficult to integrate information for optimized decision-making that meets the highest possible standards of care.

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Third of nurses plan to quit their jobs by end of 2022, survey shows

Health Care Dive

Nurses cited burnout and high-stress work environments as the No. 1 reason for leaving their jobs, followed by pay and benefits, according to a survey from staffing firm Incredible Health.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. The study’s key finding was that for every additional 1% of people living in a county who have access to the Internet, between 2.4 and 6.0 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply

Bill Of Health

By Katherine Macfarlane. Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was common for workplaces to require masks, at least in shared spaces. Two years later, though the pandemic is still ongoing, mask requirements are now far less prevalent as a result of the politicization of masks, so-called mask fatigue, and new guidance from the U.S.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

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

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Celebrating women, breaking the bias

Meditech

March 8 is International Women’s Day , celebrating the accomplishments of women across the globe, in all areas of life. It’s a time to appreciate those women who have inspired us and paved the way for so many leaders today.

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Why the ROI of Telehealth Is Worth it, No Matter the Reimbursement

Home Health Care

The future of telehealth is confusing for home health care providers. And it’s left many scratching their heads, wondering how much they should invest into virtual care models. On one hand, telehealth usage skyrocketed over the last two years. And no matter how much that usage stabilizes post-pandemic, it will likely never return to where it was in 2019.

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5 can't-miss HIMSS22 panels

Health Care Dive

For those with boots on the ground in Orlando next week, here are panels you won't want to miss, touching on some of the hottest topics in healthcare today from health equity to cybersecurity.

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What The Finance Industry Can Teach Healthcare About Digital Transformation

HIT Consultant

Mike Serbinis, Co-Founder and CEO of League. The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar. Stop me if you have heard this before: incumbent players in a broad industry made very slow and fragmented technological advances for years with no real threat to their business.

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill Of Health

By Ne?e Devenot, Emma Tumilty, Meaghan Buisson, Sarah McNamee, David Nickles, and Lily Kay Ross. Amid accelerating interest in the use of psychedelics in medicine, a spate of recent exposés have detailed the proliferation of abuse in psychedelic therapy, underscoring the urgent need for ethical guidance in psychedelic-assisted therapies (P-AT), and particularly relating to touch and consent.

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Why the BBC World Service's New Ukrainian Shortwave Service Matters

The Rand Blog

Despite its age, shortwave remains an enduring tool in the global fight against disinformation. It can travel vast transcontinental and transoceanic distances, cannot be hacked, and is notoriously difficult to jam. Perhaps it's time for the United States to consider whether it should follow the BBC's lead in restarting shortwave services to Ukraine and southeastern Russia.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

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

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Microsoft and Nuance joining forces to support the resilience of healthcare

Cloud Blogs

This blog post is co-authored by Diana Nole, EVP and GM of Healthcare, Nuance There is nothing more personal or important than our health. These last two years have exacerbated an already fragile healthcare ecosystem, taxed our essential services, and put unimaginable strain on frontline workers. In response to these mounting pressures, the healthcare industry has embarked on a digital transformation that has laid the foundation for a new era of innovation and collaboration.

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Solving the 'empathy gap' with social media analytics

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic added unprecedented levels of stress to an already-strained provider community – leading to high rates of burnout and waves of resignation. At the same time, notes Fran Ayalasomayajula, president of the social impact organization REACH, it's important to acknowledge another pervasive problem in the healthcare industry: the so-called empathy gap.

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'On high alert': Hospitals wary of cyber threats from Russia-Ukraine conflict

Health Care Dive

Cybersecurity has always been chronically underfunded in hospitals, even before COVID-19 swallowed up more resources. Now, this major international threat is creating a "perfect storm," one cybersecurity expert said.

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UnitedHealth Group Agrees to Buy LHC Group for Over $5 Billion

Home Health Care

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has agreed to buy LHC Group (Nasdaq: LHCG). The deal is reportedly values LHC Group at “more than” $5.5 billion. The plan is to pair LHC Group – one of the largest home health providers in the U.S. – with Optum Health, which is already integrated into UnitedHealth’s network. “Since our founding in 1994, ‘It’s all about helping people’ has been the core of our mission, and as part of the Optum team and its value-based capabilities, we will be able to expand our pati

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Bill Of Health

By Brooke Ellison. There is a profound need to deconstruct and actively reconstruct the interpretation of disability as it is currently understood. The current framing of disability as inability — whether an inability to be employed or otherwise — has utterly failed not only people with disabilities, but also the communities in which they live. This perception of disability is a relic of attitudinal and policy structures put into place by people who do not live with disability themselves: people

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What the Media Might Have Missed About South Korea's Elections

The Rand Blog

The toxicity of the anti-feminist discourse in South Korea does not accurately reflect the gender-related tensions and problems that most Koreans currently face. The obstacles to improving gender equity are more mundane and more ubiquitous than the hyperbole of anti-feminism suggests.

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2022 State of the State Addresses Reflect Realities of Health, Economic Recovery

NASHP

Governors use their annual state-of-the-state addresses to showcase successes and accomplishments over the past year and to define their policy priorities for the year ahead. This year 36 states will hold gubernatorial elections, so many governors use their state-of-the-state addresses to build their case for reelection and visions for the future. By late February, 41 governors had delivered speeches outlining plans to address a wide variety of health and economic related issues in the coming ye

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Revolutionary, chaotic or stagnating? The future of digital tech in health and care in the UK

Healthcare It News

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Despite significant investment and well over a decade of different transformation plans and initiatives, there’s still much to do before we can say the health and care system has truly gone through a digital revolution.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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.

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Threats, obscenities, homicide: Healthcare workers stressed by pandemic face elevated violence

Health Care Dive

Millions of healthcare workers across the country are becoming inured to workplace violence, which can range from verbal abuse and threats to physical attacks and even homicide.

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Home-Based Care Providers at Risk of Closing Amid Legislative Medicaid Changes

Home Health Care

Dozens of provider organizations in Michigan have gone out of business — and more are at risk of the same fate — due to the state legislature’s decision to cut the rates of home care and residential caregivers by 45%. As a result, thousands of people in Michigan will now likely be forced into nursing homes following an April 1 deadline. Those individuals had previously received care under a unique policy that allowed auto-crash survivors with long-term needs to have their home-based

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Microsoft and Nuance: Unlocking the contact center of the future

Cloud Blogs

This post is co-authored by Robert Weideman, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Division, Nuance The disruption of the pandemic has shifted customer service expectations, and for many brands, it has cemented superior customer experiences as one of the most important priorities for their organization. Today's consumers have more choices than ever before and can switch brands with ease.

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Complex—but Promising—Prospects as Finland and Sweden Mull NATO Membership

The Rand Blog

After decades of military neutrality between NATO and Russia, recent events saw a potential sea-change in how Finland and Sweden consider their role with the NATO alliance. NATO leadership could start planning now so that if Sweden and Finland make the jump to joining the alliance, they can be welcomed in quickly.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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States Focus on Behavioral Health as They Consider the Future of Telehealth

NASHP

In November 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a series of new policies aimed at enabling access to behavioral health services via telehealth. The announcement comes as utilization of behavioral health services via telehealth has been on the rise , which is attributable to a couple of factors: New flexibilities to use telehealth for both providers and patients to support access to health care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic; and.

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The future of telemedicine: purpose-built, integrated platforms

Healthcare It News

Propelled into mainstream use by the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is becoming standard practice for many healthcare providers. According to David Ernst, MD, president of telemedicine innovator EPOWERdoc, these solutions will transform access to care and continue to drive more cost-effective delivery models, particularly at the EMS and emergency medicine level.

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Telehealth use increased amid omicron as 2021 drew to a close

Health Care Dive

Telehealth swelled from 4.4% of all medical claims in November to 4.9% in December, with the bump evident in every U.S. census region, according to new Fair Health data.

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Home-Based Care Providers Sue CMS, HHS Over COVID-19 Relief Funds

Home Health Care

A group of New York home-based care providers are taking aim at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a lawsuit filed Friday. Broadly, the case alleges unfair distribution of funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. The plaintiffs in the case are Safe Haven Home Care Inc., Angel Care Inc., Silver Lining Homecare Agency, Evergreen Homecare Service of NY Inc., Elim Home

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare: Reshaping the future of healthcare

Cloud Blogs

There’s not a single part of healthcare that hasn’t been impacted by COVID-19. The past two years have transformed healthcare and trends have emerged, including the growing need to create more personalized experiences for patients, the opportunity to implement virtual health solutions to unlock new avenues of care for providers, and the challenge of reducing administrative burden so we can help lower clinician burnout.

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Is Putin Irrational? What Nuclear Strategic Theory Says About Deterrence of Potentially Irrational Opponents

The Rand Blog

Increasingly isolated and desperate, Putin might try to suddenly escalate the Ukraine conflict rather than back down in the face of international opposition. The United States and its allies must account for the possibility that even in the face of credible deterrent threats Putin might double down and lash out.

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Webinar: An Overview of the Hospital Cost Tool

NASHP

Webinar: An Overview of the Hospital Cost Tool. Monday, April 25, 2022, 3–4 p.m. ET. Register Now. To better understand hospital costs, the National Academy for State Policy (NASHP) in collaboration with Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy and Mathematica Policy Research, with support from Arnold Ventures, has launched the interactive Hospital Cost Tool.

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Effective digital transformation needs careful strategizing

Healthcare It News

Health systems have "been investing in a lot of digital health solutions over the last few years," Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting, said with a bit of understatement. But it's not always readily apparent whether those investments are the right ones, or were done at the right time, or were implemented optimally to work in tandem with other digital technologies.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!