Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 8, 2021
For years, FDA has talked about the need for an electronically readable inventory of third-party components in devices, as a way to address the problem of widespread cyber vulnerabilities.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 14, 2021
A study published this week from the patient experience vendor WELL Health found that the vast majority of frontline clinical support staff are reporting moderate to extreme burnout. Nearly two-thirds say they've considered switching jobs or quitting due to stress. "While much has been reported on doctor and nurse burnout, less attention has been paid to the frontline clinical support staff who have been working tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure high-quality patient
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Women's digital health rakes in $1.3B in 2021 buoyed by investor interest in more integrated care. hlandi. Mon, 10/04/2021 - 12:56.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 22, 2021
In the U.S., “Health care is complicated because complexity is profitable.” So explain Bob Kocher, MD, and Anuraag Chigurupati, in a viewpoint on Economic Incentives for Administrative Simplification, published this week in JAMA. Dr. Kocher, a physician who is a venture capitalist, and Chigurupati, head of member experience at Devoted Health, explain the misaligned incentives that impede progress in reducing administrative spending.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
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The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The United States is deeply divided, its political system polarized. Getting counterterrorism wrong could make the situation worse. The challenge is to isolate and contain violent extremists without turning them into political martyrs or half the country into enemies of the state.
Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 29, 2021
By Tlaleng Mofokeng, Daniel Wainstock, and Renzo Guinto. In recent years, there have been growing calls to “ decolonize ” the field of global health. Global health traces its roots back to colonial medicine when old empires sought to address tropical diseases which, if not controlled, could be brought by colonizers back home. Today, many countries in the Global South may have already been liberated from their colonizers, but the colonial behavior of global health continues to manifest in policie
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Blue Shield of California and Google Cloud announced this week that they are collaborating to launch a new approach to paying providers, aimed at processing members' claims in real time. The companies say they will use automated processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning software on a cloud platform to digitize healthcare claims and improve the accuracy and timeliness of billing information.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 6, 2021
UCHealth stands firm on denying organ transplants to patients, donors who are unvaccinated for COVID-19. dmuoio. Wed, 10/06/2021 - 14:51.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, will give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry. This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives.
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Americans are quitting their jobs in record numbers, creating significant shortages of workers for businesses. To understand and address this issue, policymakers might need to pay attention to noneconomic factors in addition to economic ones.
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
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 24, 2021
Due to the nature of the job, home-based care workers face the risk of experiencing workplace violence. It’s paramount for providers to enact measures that will protect these workers and avoid liability for negligence, legal experts caution. Workplace violence is defined as an act or threat of violence. This ranges from verbal abuse to physical assaults directed toward a person at work or on duty.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Despite broad bipartisan support for telehealth in Washington, the return of restrictions — even nominal ones — threaten the viability of virtual services offered by cash-strapped primary care offices, a new survey finds.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 29, 2021
The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world has placed children and young people centre stage of the report, as this demographic is seen as the most likely to have the highest exposure to digital technologies. There is an urgent need to orient digital health priorities towards the establishment of strong health and wellbeing foundations from an early age.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Telehealth use is surging but patient satisfaction with the service has declined, new study finds. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 10/04/2021 - 12:54.
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CDC
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Preventable harm in the healthcare system is an urgent public health challenge, internationally and in the United States. Globally, more people die now from medical errors or other breakdowns in the quality and safety of healthcare services than from lack of access to them. (1) Researchers estimate that medication errors, preventable infections, venous thromboembolism, falls, and other preventable harms in hospitals take the lives of 400,000 or more Americans annually. (2)(3) That’s where we co
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Today's children are growing up amid extraordinary challenges that could shape their health, development, and well-being for years to come. Investing in a new approach to measure their potential to flourish could promote national well-being in the long term.
Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 8, 2021
By Solange Gould. At its core, public health is the radical concept that everyone has a fundamental right to the conditions required for health and well-being. To realize this vision of health justice, we must forge a strategy that moves beyond the pre-pandemic status quo and the broken systems that got us there. . It’s time to re-envision and invest in a new public health infrastructure, one that is equipped and authorized to respond to the concurrent global crises we are facing: COVID-19; str
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Seven months after announcing plans to merge, virtual care company Doctor on Demand and clinical navigator Grand Rounds are launching a new brand for their combined company.
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.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 15, 2021
A research letter published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that physicians saw a "small but sustained" increase in patient message volume during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing more than 10 million messages to 419 unique clinicians from 38 specialties across 141 practice sites, researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic found that ambulatory physicians spent more time in their i
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Providers are putting more focus than ever on health equity. Here's how payers can support them. pminemyer. Mon, 10/11/2021 - 16:20.
Healthcare Leadership
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Blog by Joe Babaian. What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. ~ Cool Hand Luke. The current trial surrounding Theranos gives us pause to consider, how much “fake it until you make it” is ok? Looking also at you, OZY Media – perhaps they should have taken Ozymandias by Shelley a little more literally? When I came across a quote from Reed Hastings of Netflix, it got me considering, it’s a great time to think about leadership in action and what we tolerate in the
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Extremism is a symptom of broader social and political headwinds within civilian society. By using existing support programs, military leaders may be able to effectively confront these headwinds early and channel them in productive ways that ultimately preserve the effectiveness and readiness of the U.S. military.
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Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 27, 2021
By Martín Hevia and Ximena Benavides. Acknowledging what went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial to any pandemic lawmaking efforts. Chief among these concerns should be the centrality of human rights to global health security. Health systems that lack universality and inclusivity will always fall short on disease surveillance, detection, and response during health emergencies, at the risk of not reaching all populations.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 15, 2021
The agency is mulling the types of information medtechs might include in labeling for such devices to support transparency. A Philips rep cautioned about the pitfalls of "information overload.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 12, 2021
At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM. Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Microsoft integrates healthcare cloud service with Cerner EHR for smoother telehealth visits. rtorrence. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 16:10.
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Home Health Care
OCTOBER 6, 2021
SCAN Health Plan is launching a new care delivery model that it hopes will set a new standard within the Medicare Advantage (MA) space. A subsidiary of SCAN Group, the Long Beach, California-based SCAN Health Plan announced its new model of care on Wednesday. Moving forward, the model will be made available to all SCAN members enrolled in its “Embrace” Institutional Special Needs Plan (I-SNP).
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Ten months into the Biden administration, it is abundantly clear that the United States will continue to strengthen ties with Taiwan and defend the island if ever attacked by China. Through both word and deed, the United States has continued to demonstrate that Taipei should have no worries about Washington's commitment to the island.
Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 18, 2021
By Sridhar Venkatapuram . As we amplify, further develop, and advise in the realizing of health justice, there would be much benefit in clarifying the basic units of moral concern. This call for more specificity relates to both who is the primary unit of moral concern (individuals, communities, nation-states, etc.) as well as what it is that we care about in relation to them (i.e., liberties, resources including health care, basic needs, respect, opportunities, capabilities, relationships, etc.)
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2021
With the launch, the concierge medical provider enters a crowded market, as a number of programs are already looking to lower costs and improve outcomes for the high-need chronic disease population.
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