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What is Bipolar Disorder?

Healthcare Associates

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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HRS and Eko Announce Partnership

Health Recovery

Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) and Eko Announce Partnership to Integrate Eko DUO ECG + Digital Stethoscope into HRS Telehealth Solution.

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Getting Your Child Back-to-School Ready

Voyage Healthcare

Summer is officially here and it feels like a gift. It is a wonderful time to enjoy the outdoors and spend time with your family taking in the fresh air and the long days. Although everyone deserves a break after the challenges of this past year, it may be an opportune time to mark one last thing off your to-do list before you officially check out for a well-deserved summer break!

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Healthy Living Trends Inspired by COVID-19: Retailers, Food, and Consumers’ Growing Self-Care Muscles

Health Populi

“Self-care” took on new meaning and personal work-flows for people living in and through the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Acosta, the retail market research pro’s, updated our understanding consumers evolving as COVID-19 Has Elevated the Health and Wellness Trends of the Recent Years , results of a survey conducted among in May 2021.

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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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The learning health system: An R and D department for local solutions

Healthy Debate

The post The learning health system: An R and D department for local solutions appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Are You Generating Value to Your Bottom Line?

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 3 minutes Calculating your ROI begins by pinpointing the goals of your practice. With the help of Clearwave’s ROI calculator, you can visualize what your bottom line looks like and any bottlenecks that may be standing in your way. You’ll also be able to efficiently work out any revenue your practice is currently losing that you can avoid.

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10 Tips For Lowering Your Carbon Footprint

American College of Healthcare Sciences

First, what is a carbon footprint and why does it matter? Your carbon footprint is the sum of all greenhouse gases, specifically carbon, that is emitted as a result of your activities and actions. A ccording to the EPA , burning coal, natural gas, and oil for electricity and heat is the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions.” The transportation sector is another large contributor to carbon emissions with both driving and flying.

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‘You can’t manage what you don’t measure’: Hospitals slow to recognize increasing number of dementia patients

Healthy Debate

The post ‘You can’t manage what you don’t measure’: Hospitals slow to recognize increasing number of dementia patients appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Common pains hindering your success as a healthcare executive

Medi Leadership

It’s lonely at the top. Though you’re rich in experience, you’re likely navigating uncharted waters as a healthcare leader. What’s more, other leaders in the organization are looking to you for answers to fast-evolving challenges that stand in the way of personal and organizational goals. In our work with your peers, we’ve noted four common pains hinder the progress of leaders like you: New executive leaders : Whether new to the role, organization, or the circumstances they’re facing, new leader

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16 Telltale Signs That Your Healthcare Website is Outdated

Etactics

5% of Google’s search queries are healthcare-related. That might not seem like a lot but that amounts to over 1 billion searches per day. What’s more important to you is the specific topics, questions, and queries these users look for. Maybe you just started a blog that provides accurate medical information to common questions as a way to increase your patient volume.

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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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Create a Well Founded Service Recovery Culture – 3 Essentials for Success

Baird Group

Create a Well Founded Service Recovery Culture – 3 Essentials for Success. Written By: Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA. It takes more than smile lessons and a pocket full of gift cards to create a well-founded service recovery culture. There are three fundamental elements necessary to promote a well-founded service recovery culture including: 1. Adopting a proactive position. 2.

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Interview with RxRevu Founder Carm Huntress

Health Business Group

RxRevu founder Carm Huntress. RxRevu founder Carm Huntress has been an entrepreneur since high school, when he founded a tech company with some buddies. After graduating from college and leading various technology organizations, he made the jump to healthcare. RxRevu spent some time searching for product/market fit before finding its sweet spot in the physician workflow, helping doctors make the best prescribing choices for patients at the point of care.

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Report: Physicians, Patients Say They Lost Trust in Healthcare Systems & Administrators

Medi Leadership

Confidence in the U.S. healthcare system and administrators took a hit during the pandemic, reports NORC, a nonpartisan research group at the University of Chicago. In a survey commissioned by the ABIM Foundation, NORC polled 600 physicians and 2,069 consumers on their sentiments regarding one another, and their perceptions of healthcare organizations.

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Celebrity Mental Health: Their Stories of Advocacy

Etactics

Out of everyone who needs mental health services, around 60% don’t receive care. This is often due to the stigma around those who have mental health illnesses. Many people recognize stigma as an issue and a barrier to people receiving help. It’s led to more social campaigns to address the problem. Others are speaking out to spread mental health awareness.

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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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Video: Go “beyond” secure texting in healthcare

Spok Inc

See Spok Go® secure messaging in action in this dynamic video. Learn how the intuitive user interface helps care teams communicate effectively and efficiently. The post Video: Go “beyond” secure texting in healthcare appeared first on Spok Inc.

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Best Practices for Healthcare Advertising on Instagram

Sequence Health

One of our top 10 healthcare marketing tips in 2020 was to embrace social media. This hasn’t changed in 2021. And one of the best ways to get into social is through healthcare Instagram advertising. Why Instagram? For many healthcare companies, bridging the gap between themselves and prospective patients is difficult. We are in an age where people are quite skeptical of medical providers or jaded based on poor experiences.

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Four Cost Saving Opportunities in Outsourced Physician Services

Vie Healthcare

Outsourced physician agreements include areas such as outsourced emergency services, outsourced anesthesia, and radiology services. These critical agreements support healthcare organizations in vital areas. Stark I and Stark II mean outsourced physician services agreements require another level of scrutiny and demand market competitive reviews. Cost savings opportunities in these agreements are available in four areas: 1.

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10 Easy Ways to Dramatically Reduce Patient No-Shows

Etactics

If scheduling appointments is what keeps a practice pumping, patient no-shows are the plaque that clogs the system. You could give the best care in the world but it doesn’t mean anything if you can’t get people in your doors. There are many reasons why people don’t show up to appointments. So reducing no-shows is a balancing act. To do it right, you’ll have to continuously test different ways to see what resonates best with your patients.

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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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CMS Proposes to Revise, Again, the Stark Law’s Definition of “Indirect Compensation Arrangement”: What Was Old is New Again

Sheppard Health Law

On July 13, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a Proposed Rule that proposes to amend certain regulations implementing the Physician Self-Referral Law, otherwise known as the “Stark Law”. The Proposed Rule proposes to revise once again the definition of “indirect compensation arrangement” (ICA), effectively to revert the meaning of the definition back – for the vast majority of indirect financial relationships between DHS entities and referring physicians – to

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Optimizing the patient discharge process

Osf Healthcare

After an inpatient hospital stay, many individuals are eager to get home as soon as possible, but the process for discharge is no easy feat. Performance Improvement, with OSF Innovation, partnered with OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center to create collaboration within the care team and optimize the process.

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Service Recovery Training vs Empowerment – Why you need both

Baird Group

Written By: Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA. Service missteps are inevitable, but disgruntled patients are not. No matter how hard you try, no matter how many processes you put into place, there will be times when you disappoint your customers, but you don’t need to leave them in that state. Therefore, service recovery training is an essential element of a well-rounded patient experience strategy and necessary to empower your team.

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4 Efficient Examples of No-Show Letters for Patients

Etactics

A patient no-show rate of just 12% costs healthcare organizations almost $90,000 per year. Think about how substantial that is, 12% is an overwhelming minority of people not showing up to their scheduled appointments. Yet the costs associated with them adds up to more than the annual salaries of some of the staff. Sure, there are things healthcare organizations can implement that will reduce their rate of patient no-shows , it won’t ever reach 0%.

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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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What’s worse: a bad policy, or no policy?

Healthcare Performance

The CEO of a group of pain clinics was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a $150 million health care fraud scheme. He was also ordered to pay $51 million in restitution.

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The “State” of Telehealth: Delaware Expands Access to Telehealth

Sheppard Health Law

On June 23, 2021, Delaware Governor John Carney signed House Bill 160, the Telehealth Access Preservation and Modernization Act of 2021 (the “ Bill ” or “ HB160 ”) which continues and enhances Delaware residents’ access to telehealth services and, through the adoption of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (the “ Compact ”), ensures that telehealth services can be provided through qualified medical practitioners in a streamlined and efficient pathway to licensure that, according to the Bill

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The Only Scheduling of its Kind – Now with Eligibility Verification

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you know much of your budget and how many human hours you could be saving on every patient case, every day? Patient scheduling with integrated, real-time eligibility verification is changing healthcare operations. Efficient Visits and Happy Patients. If your patients are using Clearwave to check in for their visit via the kiosk or tablet in your office or their own mobile phone, you know that traditional patient intake can be dropped from 20-30 minutes to under three

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FDA Revokes EUAs for Certain Non-NIOSH Respirators – A Sign of More to Come?

Triage Health Law

More than a year after issuing Emergency Use Authorizations (“EUAs”) for filtering facepiece respirators (“FFRs”), surgical masks, and related personal protective equipment (“PPE”), the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) is walking back these measures. On June 30, 2021 the FDA announced the revocation of the EUAs for all imported, disposable FFRs not approved by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (“NIOSH”) and related decontamination and bioburden reduction systems.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

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.

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New Coffee with the College Podcast: Public Policy Issues Facing Health Care

Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

On this episode of Coffee with the College, our host Janet Schulz discusses some public policy issues facing health care with Marshfield Clinic Health System’s Ryan Natzke, Chief External Affairs Officer and Brad Wolters, Director of Federal Government Relations. Ryan and Brad give insight into how industry knowledge, building coalitions and a good story go a long way in creating legislative change.

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Identifying the Best De-Identification Protocols

Geek Doctor

Keeping patient data private remains one of the biggest challenges in healthcare. A recently developed algorithm from nference is helping address the problem. John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. In the United States, healthcare organizations that manage or store personal health information (PHI) are required by law to keep that data secure and private.

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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion on Manufacturer-Provided Travel Assistance

HKLaw

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What Poor Birth and Maternity Outcomes in the U.S. Say About American Healthcare & “Infrastructure”

Health Populi

Cain Brothers is a 100+ year old financial services firm with a strong health care experience, now part of KeyBanc. A recent “House Calls” memo and podcast from two company analysts detailed the state of Medicaid, Motherhood and America’s Future: Giving Birth to Better Maternity Outcomes. Christian Pesci and David Johnson’s in-depth discussion detailed their bottom-line that, “maternity care in the U.S. is in crisis but poised for rapid evolution…(recognizing)

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.