2019

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. First, some overall context to the study. GlobalWebIndex “connects the dots” of consumers trends in 2020 including the topics shown in the first graphic including commerce and retail, gaming, travel, human touch, n

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Comment on How would you like to change HIPAA? by Doug Aldeen

Health Blawg

HI David: HIPAA exempts an authorization to discuss “payment, treatment and operations.” Revisiting this issue with hospitals and other providers is paramount. Doug Aldeen.

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The Growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare

Health Recovery

Artificial Intelligence (AI), has been playing a robust and growing role in the world the past few decades. What most do not realize is artificial intelligence presents itself in many forms that impact daily life. Logging into your social media, e-mail, car ride services, and online shopping platforms all involve artificial intelligence algorithms to improve user experience.

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One approach to addressing social determinants of health: The Medibus, a medical practice on wheels

CiscoHealth

As part of our National Health IT Week blog series, we are going to take a look at the social determinants of health. This means the conditions under which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, to improve our overall health ecosystem and support healthy communities. Physician shortages. One key factor impacting people around the world is physician shortages.

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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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A Person-Centered Approach to Meaning Making: Rituals and Celebrations in Health Care Settings

CAPS

We write objectives to support seeking Continuing Education Certification for our Consumers Advancing Patient Safety Webinars. They do not, however, capture the depth and breadth of the topic. Such was the case for December’s webinar, A Person-Centered Approach to Meaning Making: Rituals and Celebrations in Health Care Settings with subject matter experts, Rachel Weissman, MA, patient advisor and CAPS Patient and Family Engagement specialist with a patient perspective and Claudia Ricks Hubbard,

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From "How are WE doing?" to "How are YOU doing?": A New Perspective for Experience Measurement

The Beryl Institute

In our first December blog in 2010 as we launched The Beryl Institute as a global community, I shared a quote from Maya Angelou. It read: "There is no greater burden than carrying an untold story.". That idea has been essential to our journey at the Institute and a seed of the evolution of the experience movement itself. Every patient, family member or caregiver we serve in healthcare, every individual who wakes up each day to work in healthcare and every person who is impacted in the communitie

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A chance to turn my idea into reality, part deux

Osf Healthcare

Okay, where were we? Ah, yes! I confirmed with myself and the world that there might be something to the crazy ideas I come up with.

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Why am I so tired? Common conditions and associated symptoms

Isabel Healthcare Blog

As we head into the last month of the 2019, and for many of us the busiest month too, we can find ourselves getting more and more tired, as we try to balance work, the holidays, and visiting family and friends. What’s more, at this time of year, particularly in climates where the weather is getting colder, there are many more illnesses and colds going around, which can all contribute to us feeling a little less spring in our step.

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HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKS AND TEACHER RETENTION: Save money. Improve health.

Healthcare Highways

Is your school district open to healthcare innovation? Your teachers are.

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Why are medical records so difficult for patients and families to access?

Healthy Debate

The post Why are medical records so difficult for patients and families to access? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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How Consumers Look At Social Determinants of Health for Cancer, Diabetes and Mental Health

Health Populi

Enlightened health/care industry and public policy stakeholders have begun to embrace and address social determinants of health. These are the inputs that bolster health beyond health care services: they include economic stability like job security and income level (and equity), education, and access to healthy food, food security, safe neighborhoods, social support, clean environments (water and air), and in my own update on SDoH factors, access to broadband connectivity.

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Comment on My next chapter by Health IT Appointments and Hires - HITECH Answers: HIPAA, MIPS, EHR, Cybersecurity News

Health Blawg

[…] David Harlow’s Next Chapter Attorney David Harlow and host of Harlow on Healthcare is joining Insulet Corporation effective August 19. He will be in the newly-created position of healthcare compliance counsel, with a broad range of responsibilities in the healthcare, data and compliance domains. Read about his next chapter. […].

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Beterra’s SafeCulture Platform expands to its 8th Country – India!

Beterra

Beterra is excited to announce a new partnership with the Indian Patient Safety Organization (IPSO) based in Bangalore, India. IPSO has a strong reputation for bringing patient safety best practices, education, and awareness to the Indian healthcare system. The purpose of this partnership is to explore perceptions of patient safety culture across 10 organizations using Beterra’s SafeCulture platform, a comprehensive solution for measuring and improving patient safety culture by engaging le

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LHC Presents 2019 Awards to Nashville’s Promising Health Care Leaders of Tomorrow

Healthcare Council

Leadership Health Care (LHC), an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council to nurture the talent of Nashville’s emerging health care leaders, has announced its 2019 award winners in the categories of Health Care Emerging Leader of the Year, Ambassador of the Year and Supporting Organization of the Year. The awards were announced at LHC’s. The post LHC Presents 2019 Awards to Nashville’s Promising Health Care Leaders of Tomorrow appeared first on Nashville Health Care Council.

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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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HEALTHCARE EQUITY AND YOU

CAPS

Consumers Advancing Patient Safety Presents: HEALTHCARE EQUITY AND YOU. What can YOU do to achieve equitable outcomes? HealthCare Equity and YOU – A CAPS Perspectives Series Webinar. The first Webinar in the CAPS Perspectives Series featured Erica Gollett-Steed, MBA and Ronald Wyatt, MD sharing their insights into how you as a patient or clinician can achieve health equity.

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It Takes a Village to Ensure Experience Excellence

The Beryl Institute

The well-cited African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” reinforces that an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment. The villagers look out for children. As a parent, I can’t agree with that more, and when I look back at my own childhood, I am reminded of the many people who encouraged and protected me – from teachers, neighbors and extended family to the nice sales clerk who helped me find my

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Make sure your Thanksgiving guests go home with happy memories, not stomach cramps

Michele Late

By USDA FoodSafety.gov The holidays are here, which means you’re probably getting ready to share meals and merriment with families and friends. This can be a fantastic and yummy time of the year. But if you don’t take care while preparing all that delicious holiday food, you can put people at risk for food poisoning. Anyone can get sick from food poisoning, but some folks are at higher risk.

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A chance to turn my idea into a reality

Osf Healthcare

One Mission Partner describes her experience participating in a Trailblazer Challenge, an effort to empower staff to be innovators.

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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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Differential Diagnostic Challenges in Older Patients

Isabel Healthcare Blog

In the United Kingdom (UK), adults over 80 years are the fastest growing population. Around a quarter of the population in the UK are over 60 years old, and by 2030, this figure will rise to a third of the population. In the United States, in 2018 those age over 65 accounted for 52 million (16% of the total population) and projections currently estimate that by 2060 this will increase to 95 million (23% of the total population).

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Using Nurse Lines to Improve Healthcare Navigation

Health Dialog

How to Connect Patients to the Benefits and Services They Need Most. It’s a well-known fact that telephonic nurse lines are effective in delivering clinical information to patients and ensuring appropriate use of care. While the average ER visit costs roughly $1,389 1 per patient, health plans can often realize measurable cost-savings by simply giving their members free, 24/7 access to a reliable clinical resource.

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PrEP could potentially eradicate HIV. But in Ontario, only about a 10th of the people it could help are taking it.

Healthy Debate

The post PrEP could potentially eradicate HIV. But in Ontario, only about a 10th of the people it could help are taking it. appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Art As Medicine – WHO Weaves the Evidence for Arts’ Role in Improving Health

Health Populi

“What’s the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being?” asks a report from the World Health Organization ‘s Europe region team (WHO-Europe). There’s a lot of proof supporting arts-as-medicine, WHO details in this paper, which synthesizes research published in over 3,000 studies. The first chart illustrates the logic model that bridges arts to health in three segments: “Components” of arts programs, including but not limited to c

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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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Comment on My next chapter by Steve Daviss

Health Blawg

Good luck, David. I hope to hear more about this new chapter. Hoping you address some mental health and addiction stuff.

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Beterra’s SafeCulture Platform expands to its 8th Country – India!

Beterra

Beterra is excited to announce a new partnership with the Indian Patient Safety Organization (IPSO) based in Bangalore, India. IPSO has a strong reputation for bringing patient safety best practices, education, and awareness to the Indian healthcare system. The purpose of this partnership is to explore perceptions of patient safety culture across 10 organizations using Beterra’s SafeCulture platform, a comprehensive solution for measuring and improving patient safety culture by engaging le

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LHC CHAIR SPOTLIGHT: Jessica Wells

Healthcare Council

What led you to join LHC? While I was with Saint Thomas Health, our CEO was a board member of the Nashville Healthcare Council. He encouraged me to join LHC and attend a few of the events. I found the educational offerings to be hugely beneficial and was able to meet new colleagues with whom. The post LHC CHAIR SPOTLIGHT: Jessica Wells appeared first on Nashville Health Care Council.

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Message From Lisa

CAPS

Last June the CAPS Board honored me by asking me to be the Executive Director of your CAPS organization. I’ve been working with CAPS in Patient and Family Engagement consulting and developing Education events for six years. My advocacy was a response to my now adult child’s lifelong chronic complex medical needs. Professionally, my background is in broadcasting and marketing.

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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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An Orientation to Experience

The Beryl Institute

Some people will look at this picture and see a duck. Some will see a rabbit. The trick is that both are correct. The difference is how you are oriented to the picture. This is exactly the same in healthcare; we must always ask ourselves “How am I oriented?” (The duck-rabbit drawing was first used by American psychologist Joseph Jastrow in 1899). At every moment of every healthcare interaction, there are two orientations at work: one of operationalizing experience and one of the personal experie

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Get ready: It’s time to set your clocks and check your stocks

Michele Late

Daylight saving time ends this Sunday, Nov. 3. It’s the perfect reminder to check that your emergency stockpile is up to date. Get Ready’s Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks campaign helps you to be prepared for a disaster before it happens. If you haven’t created a stockpile yet, don’t worry. Now is the perfect time. Get Ready has fact sheets that include everything that you may need.

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Creating a work-life balance for our nurses

Osf Healthcare

Health care systems around the country face a common staffing problem. Sometimes nurses are scheduled for more patients than actually arrive at the hospital. Other times, there aren’t enough nurses to cover patient demand.

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Could I have pulmonary hypertension (PH)?

Isabel Healthcare Blog

This month is Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month when charities launch campaigns to raise awareness about this progressive lung disease which is thought to affect around 1% of the global population (increasing to 10% for those aged over 65). As symptoms are non-specific, the disease is often misdiagnosed, which is why increasing awareness is so critical.

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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!