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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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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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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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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Healthcare Associates

JULY 6, 2021

Why Are My Eyes So Dry? Dry eye disease is a common condition that can cause eye pain and gradually progress to impaired vision when not treated. Taking steps to prevent and treat dry eyes can help you maintain healthy eyes and avoid permanently damaging your eyesight. Continue reading to learn more about the symptoms and causes of dry eye and relieving dry eyes should you develop this condition.

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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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Spok Inc

JULY 8, 2021

Check out these 10 interesting facts about nurses to learn more about nurses in many different areas of healthcare. The post 10 interesting facts about nurses appeared first on Spok Inc.

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Healthcare Leadership

JULY 8, 2021

On the next HCLDR Tweetchat on Tuesday July 13th at 8:30pm ET (for your local time click here ) we welcome special guest host David Campbell, PhD @david_ethics , Ethicist for Kingston Health Sciences Centre. He will be leading us in an exploration of how shared corporate leadership roles can pose ethical challenges in the form of potential conflicts of interest.

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Healthy Debate

JULY 7, 2021

The post North York Cares: Health team proving value of innovation appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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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

Twistle

JULY 9, 2021

Over the past year we’ve experienced the important role of telemedicine in monitoring and managing patient health and wellness. Adding remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology to a telehealth program increases access to care and enhances the quality of care delivery. As telehealth and remote patient engagement become the norm, it is critical that organizations embrace the power of RPM to drive better patient outcomes. .

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Lexis Nexis

JULY 8, 2021

Managing patient information across care settings and platforms for core business functions, interoperability, and patient safety requires coordination and collaboration. Especially with new interoperability mandates going into effect on July 1, there are a lot of questions about what this means. Mismatched and duplicate records aren’t just a nuisance, they can cause serious harm to patients.

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Etactics

JULY 8, 2021

There’s so much misinformation surrounding mental health. Because of this, many common myths develop among the general population. People make assumptions due to common stereotypes, experience with mental health, and interactions with someone with a condition. Yet doing this leads to misconceptions and more stigma. These mental health myths make it less likely for people to seek help.

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Sheppard Health Law

JULY 8, 2021

In July 2020, we discussed a ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals upholding the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) site-neutral payment rules. On Monday, June 28, 2021, the Supreme Court declined , without comment, to hear an appeal from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and other provider groups asking it to reverse this ruling. In the past, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) generally paid more for clinic visits conducted in hospital outpatient settings than

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Sequence Health

JULY 7, 2021

If you aren’t on the internet, do you really exist? This sounds like a silly question, but in 2021, it has a lot of merit. For most people, one of the first things they do when trying to find a store, service, or medical provide is complete a quick Google search. And of these people, few will both to go beyond the first page of results. If you lack an online presence, you won’t pop up in the results.

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Lexis Nexis

JULY 8, 2021

Managing patient information across care settings and platforms for core business functions, interoperability, and patient safety requires coordination and collaboration. Especially with new interoperability mandates going into effect on July 1, there are a lot of questions about what this means. Mismatched and duplicate records aren’t just a nuisance, they can cause serious harm to patients.

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Etactics

JULY 8, 2021

At the end of the day, patient volume is what makes or breaks your practice. It doesn’t matter how great of care you provide. If you can’t sustain a consistent amount of patients coming into your office, you’ll lose revenue and eventually have to close your doors. Patient traffic has a direct impact on your revenue, word of mouth marketing , and community respect for your business.

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Medcenter

JULY 8, 2021

Many of those with family members suffering with dementia live in quiet fear of one day developing the disease themselves. But Steele Taylor, MD, neurologist and co-director of the University of Vermont Medical Center’s Memory Program, tells his patients to stop worrying and instead take action; he urges them to focus less on immutable risk […].

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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.

Medical GPS

JULY 7, 2021

The Time is Ripe. Once upon a time, we had to intentionally “sign on” to the outside world from our homes. Remember the days of dial-up internet and phones that were connected to the wall? Now we have to take intentional measures and flex enormous amounts of self-control to silence the outside world from within our homes. The competition for our attention at every moment of the day is steep and any successful business is aware of this reality.

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Osf Healthcare

JULY 6, 2021

Performance Improvement, a department within OSF Innovation, is giving leaders the opportunity and confidence to identify improvement areas within the Ministry to continue exceeding expectations of those we serve.

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CHQ Healthcare

JULY 6, 2021

Now that virtual interviewing has become the norm in healthcare recruiting, it requires new skill development for healthcare recruiters. “We have become production managers, directors, script writers, etiquette coaches — all sorts of different things,” says Steve Jacobs, manager of physician recruitment at Einstein Health in Philadelphia. In a recent CHG webinar on recruiting in the new environment , three experienced recruiters shared their strategies for helping candidates’ virtual interviews

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Healthcare Leadership

JULY 5, 2021

We are nearing the 9 th anniversary of the HCLDR Community and I think it’s about time we had another discussion about the future of the community itself. Back in August 2012, HCLDR started as a 30min tweetchat. [Why 30min? Because we didn’t think we’d have enough to talk about for a full hour – boy were we wrong!] We focused on topics we thought were relevant to healthcare leaders which we defined as anyone who wanted to make an impact on healthcare vs people with “Director” or “VP” in th

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Health Recovery

JULY 7, 2021

Perhaps one of HRS’ closest-knit teams, the Product Support team works every day (even weekends!) to provide top-tier support to HRS clients across the country.

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Advanced Data Systems

JULY 9, 2021

MedicsRCM outsourced services and MedicsPremier as an in-house system present the following, and how they can help increase revenue and productivity.

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Life Qi

JULY 8, 2021

Coaching Quality Improvement Teams.

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Health Business Group

JULY 8, 2021

Lean TaaS CEO Mohan Giridharadas. Mohan Giridharadas earned an MBA from Stanford and was a senior director for years at McKinsey, but it took an insight from a casual conversation at a Silicon Valley cocktail party to give him the direction for Lean TaaS , where he’s founder and CEO. A decade and $200 M of investment later, the company is leading the way in operational optimization of healthcare assets.

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Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

The Beryl Institute

JULY 7, 2021

As a person who lives with chronic illness, I spend a lot of time thinking about how we define and improve patient experience. Improvement science tells us we cannot improve what we don’t define. By this standard, understanding how we define PX is as important as the tactics we use to improve it. The Beryl Institute’s definition of patient experience, “The sum of all interactions, influenced by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care,” is one of

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Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

JULY 7, 2021

On June 24, 2021, our latest cohort of the ACHE Leadership development program kicked off one of their first site visits as a team. The effort was led by Sandra Elsen, MBA, Sr. Health Systems Engineer, in the Management Engineering and Consulting Department as part of the SW WI Mayo Clinic Health System. The team took an exemplary and globally known system, and a highly motivated group of early careerists, and tackled some of the most pressing topics affecting all health systems nationally.

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Healthcare Council

JULY 5, 2021

Leadership Health Care (LHC), an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council, announces the appointment of its 2021–2022 board of directors, effective as of July 1, 2021. Andrea Cleeton, vice president, operations improvement, LifePoint Health, has been named board chair, and, Drake Jarman, regional vice president, CarePayment, will serve as board vice chair.

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Geek Doctor

JULY 6, 2021

A detailed picture of AI’s mistakes is the canvas upon which we create better digital solutions. John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. We all tend to ignore clichés because we’ve heard them so often, but some clichés are worth repeating.

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