Pro CRNA

JULY 24, 2021

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. follow@procrnatom on Twitter. Effective communication in the workplace is an essential foundation for high-performance teams. Being on the same page eliminates confusion, creates accountability, and promotes collaboration. Team meetings, workshops and retreats are ideal for ensuring that the message is delivered and understood, however, in a hectic workplace it is difficult to schedule group meetings without disrupting the workflow.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care. The COVID-19 era has shined a bright light on what some of us have been saying since the advent of the Internet’s emergence in health care: that digital literacies and connectivity are “super social determinants of health” because they underpin other social determinants of health, discussed in Digital inclusio

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KHN

JULY 9, 2021

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems. Hours after her letter was published in September 2017, officials at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, Maine, fired her , citing a policy that no employee may give information to the news media without the direct involvement of the media office.

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Medcenter

JULY 2, 2021

Who doesn’t love a freshly cooked s’more with a perfectly toasted marshmallow? Unfortunately, fire is inherently dangerous, and every year terrible accidents happen. Here, Abby Beerman, an injury prevention coordinator at University of Vermont Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, provides a list of safety tips to help you create only happy memories.

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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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The Rand Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Policymakers have long had evidence that childcare enables mothers to work. What the COVID-19 pandemic taught everyone is how the lack of childcare can be a disastrous constraint.

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Life Qi

JULY 30, 2021

Great coaching conversations take place in a container. The container is created jointly by the coach and the person doing the thinking, known as the ‘thinker’. Building the container is the contracting part of the conversation where you decide what subject to discuss, the time you have together, the outcome desired from the session, how you will know that you have achieved the outcome, the roles each will play and where to start.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. IQVIA has been closely following the growth, investment in, and clinical evidence for digital health since 2013, when I reviewed their first paper on “mHealth” her

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Healthcare Associates

JULY 29, 2021

How to Treat an Overactive Bladder. An overactive bladder can be challenging to live with if it disrupts your daily activities and sleep and compromises your well-being. Fortunately, there are many different treatment options for an overactive bladder that can reduce your symptoms and help you find relief. Continue reading to learn more about the causes of an overactive bladder and how to stop it from affecting your quality of life.

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Clearwave Inc

JULY 26, 2021

Reading Time: 2 minutes Whether it’s new patients or someone coming to your practice for many years, patient engagement is key to reducing no-shows. But many medical practices struggle to provide their patients with the experience they want and deserve. Here are 4 ways to keep your patients engaged while helping reduce no-shows: 1. Appointment Reminders.

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Meditech

JULY 20, 2021

One of the most exciting initiatives that Google has recently undertaken is expanding our support of healthcare providers and their patients. For healthcare organizations, Google’s focus is on providing them with innovative and scalable technology solutions to generate novel insights , improve care delivery, and enable greater efficiencies in the healthcare system.

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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

Icanotes

JULY 30, 2021

As a behavioral health clinician, you’re always writing notes during and following sessions. Whether a patient is dealing with depression, anxiety, a substance use disorder or is undiagnosed, accurate and detailed notes are necessary for their treatment. Progress notes facilitate the treatment process and allow for effective communication. Notes propel a patient’s trajectory through treatment and help to ensure the best outcomes.

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Geek Doctor

JULY 28, 2021

Dataset shift can thwart the best intentions of algorithm developers and tech-savvy clinicians, but there are solutions. John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. Generalizability has always been a concern in health care, whether we’re discussing the application of clinical trials or machine-learning based algorithms.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2021

When we say the word “pharmacy,” we might picture the Main Street brick-and-mortar chain drugstore that dispenses medicines from behind the counter in the far back of the building, and sweet and salty snacks at the front by the cashier. In fact, “pharmacy” is the jumping off point for the expanding and increasingly beloved retail health ecosystem, J.D.

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Healthcare Associates

JULY 23, 2021

What To Know About Osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a common type of bone disease that increases the risk of fractures. This bone condition can affect anyone, though men and women aged 50 years and older tend to be at the highest risk. Knowing what causes osteoporosis can empower you to keep your bones healthy and avoid developing this potentially debilitating condition.

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Center for Health Progress

JULY 1, 2021

One of the most powerful reflections I’ve read about the COVID-19 pandemic came right at the beginning of it by one of my favorite writers, Arundhati Roy. She urged us use the pandemic as an opportunity to break from our flawed and broken society and use it as “a portal, a gateway between one world and the next…[that] we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world.

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Meditech

JULY 8, 2021

After our recent Expanse implementation at Southern Ohio Medical Center , we immediately saw improved communication and clinical decision making across the organization — particularly in maternity services, where our nurses had previously been working in a siloed system.

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Sheppard Health Law

JULY 20, 2021

On July 16, 2021, Governor Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 150 into law, allowing certain owners of passthrough entities to find a way around the current $10,000 federal cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions for individuals. The new law, applicable to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2021 and ending before January 1, 2026, allows for many partnerships, limited liability companies taxed as partnerships, and S-Corporations to pay an entity level tax based on electing indiv

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Life Qi

JULY 20, 2021

Every QI coach has a toolbox. It has taken many hours training in how to use the QI tools to develop this toolbox. Your job is to help those who don’t have the same expertise, tools, and techniques to improve patient care. In a coaching session the temptation is to quickly reach into the toolbox and offer a solution. But before we deploy our toolbox, we can learn from the world of coaching how to set up a ‘conversation container’ that will maximise the opportunity for a productive outcome from t

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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

JULY 20, 2021

The level of medical debt in America exceeded debt of other types in 2020. Furthermore, the flow of medical debt was greater among health citizens living in states that did not expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act, compared with patients who reside in Medicaid expansion states, according to an original research essay, Medical Debt in the US, 2009-2020 published in JAMA on 20 July 2021.

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The Rand Blog

JULY 30, 2021

This weekly recap focuses on the link between historic lynchings and voter registration, Afghanistan in the era of fentanyl, supporting firefighters’ mental health, and more.

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Advanced Data Systems

JULY 30, 2021

John Doe is an inpatient at a hospital. He and his family might have a handle on services and treatments that were actually seen performed, or at least known about such as surgeries.

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GoMoHealth

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve talked a lot about the critical importance of treating the whole patient, particularly in the area of maternal-child health. One of the primary pillars of holistic maternal child health treatment is ensuring proper and robust behavioral health resources to address the breadth of issues that mothers face both during and after pregnancy. Data from the World Health Organization indicates that, worldwide, about 10 percent of pregnant women and around 13 percent of mothers who have just given b

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Meditech

JULY 1, 2021

MEDITECH’s Nurse Forum always leaves me feeling refreshed and inspired about our shared partnerships with our nursing community. But our events for 2020 and 2021 were especially memorable, as they framed this undeniably difficult, traumatic, and pivotal time for everyone.

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American College of Healthcare Sciences

JULY 1, 2021

Have you ever wanted to live more sustainably but found that the habits you tried to build just wouldn’t stick? According to the organizers of the Plastic-Free Ecochallenge that ACHS participates in each year, many people care about environmental issues but their actions don’t align with their values. So, the organizers’ goal is to “help people who already care about the environment to figure out ways to take meaningful action in their lives, businesses, communities, and the world at large.

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Healthcare Associates

JULY 13, 2021

What is Bipolar Disorder? You may be asking yourself, what is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is considered a mood disorder and is a diagnosable (and treatable) mental health condition. Bipolar disorder or manic-depressive disorder, includes three different types: bipolar I, bipolar II, and cyclothymic disorder. Alvin Odegai, PMHNP , a psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner with Healthcare Associates of Texas adds, “This is a disorder that is chronic, debilitating, and relapsing wit

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The Rand Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Given the growing pressures on health care systems globally and the need for innovative approaches to financing health care, the time may be ripe to develop a robust evidence base and share learning on fintech-enabled approaches that could support universal health coverage agendas and healthier and more stable societies.

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Health Recovery

JULY 23, 2021

In the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule CMS proposed five new CPT codes for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM). These 5 new codes broaden the use cases for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) beyond the existing RPM codes. The RTM codes include monitoring for non-physiologic patient data such as musculoskeletal system status, respiratory system status, therapy (medication) adherence, therapy (medication) response, pain, and other conditions.

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GoMoHealth

JULY 7, 2021

In a landscape in which consumers are routinely left with questions and feeling underserved, it’s considerably important that healthcare providers offer a heightened level of service and support in what are, very often, “life-or-death” matters. Recent data from Gallup indicates that nearly half of all Americans surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their level of healthcare, and this sense of dissatisfaction is made stronger with every substandard, anemic, or fleeting interaction with their

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Medcenter

JULY 30, 2021

For well over a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our ability to handle our stress and anxiety. We have all carried the mental load of pandemic life and loss and are now struggling to process and heal. In this Q+A, Aron Steward, MD, Chief of Psychology at the UVM Health Network – Champlain Valley Physician’s […]. The post Stress Tested: How to Cope After a Very Long Year appeared first on UVM Medical Center Blog.

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American College of Healthcare Sciences

JULY 9, 2021

By Gillian Turner, Social Media & PR Specialist. Sierra Goldstein is a student in the Bachelor of Science in Integrative Health Sciences Program. At age 14 she began to formulate her own products and is the founder of H2a Botanicals, a luxury skincare and wellness brand that she and her mother run. Getting Inspired. Growing up, Sierra was surrounded by plants in her mom’s garden. “ If I got a bee sting, she would chew on plantain and put it on the bee sting and things like that.

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