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How AI Can Accurately Detect Diabetes Through Retinal Images

HIT Consultant

Recent advancements in AI have demonstrated that AI can accurately detect diabetes through the analysis of retinal images that retina experts would consider healthy. To better understand this achievement, it is worth taking a step back to understand the context and magnitude of the achievement. Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects the body’s ability to metabolize glucose, resulting in high levels of sugars in the bloodstream.

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6 Healthy Eating Tips for Older Adults

Healthcare Associates

6 Healthy Eating Tips for Seniors. Good nutrition can help you stay active as you grow older. A balanced diet can also reduce your risk for health problems, including heart disease and diabetes, which tend to be more common among older adults. Here are six healthy eating tips for seniors that can help you feel great and reduce your risk for disease. 1.

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St. Luke's University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care

Healthcare It News

St. Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St.

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Healthcare industry notches major June job gains

Health Care Dive

The sector added about 57,000 jobs in June, compared to about 15,000 in May, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ambulatory services and hospitals saw the largest gains.

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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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How to Market to Doctors, Physicians, and Other Health Care Professionals

Healthcare Success

Marketing to doctors, physicians, surgeons, and other health care professionals can be extremely challenging, complicated, and expensive. What’s more, most doctors work in a hospital or multilocation medical practice, making it even more challenging to identify key decision-makers. Not only are doctors and decision-makers difficult to reach—and even more difficult to persuade—you have to contend with a ton of competition.

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Teaching, coaching, and mentoring; the key to effective leadership

Pro CRNA

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. In his classic book, The 5 levels of leadership , author John Maxwell notes that in the lower levels, people follow leaders first because they must and later, if earned, because they want to. However, in the modern workplace, truly memorable leaders take the next step and achieve level 4 status by shifting their focus on developing the talents of members of the team.

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Healing within the healthcare community starts with empathy

Health Care Dive

The U.S. healthcare system can’t take much more employee turnover without compromising care. Overwhelmed and overworked, many healthcare workers don’t feel safe and supported, Qualtrics’ CMO argues.

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Marketing to Doctors and Physicians

Healthcare Success

How to create marketing and lead generation systems that get results. By Stewart Gandolf, MBA. (Editor’s Note: I wrote the first version of this blog post back in 2006 when we launched Healthcare Success. While I intentionally wrote it with a quick, playful tone, more than sixteen years later, it remains one of our most popular posts. I recently updated it here for your reading pleasure!).

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The Economic Returns of Foreign Language Learning

The Rand Blog

If just 10 percent more students in the United Kingdom mastered Arabic, Mandarin, French, or Spanish, the economic returns could be measured in billions of British pounds. Removing the language barrier reduces trade costs.

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Bridging the gap between paper workflows and automated information delivery

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Concord Technologies Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Bridging the gap between paper workflows and automated information delivery Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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CMS proposed payment rule includes major updates for ACOs

Health Care Dive

Changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program would give some accountable care organizations more time to ramp up to performance-based risk and updated quality reporting.

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State Medicaid Approaches to Doula Service Benefits

NASHP

State Medicaid Approaches to Doula Service Benefits Updated July 6, 2022 / by Anoosha Hasan. Maternal mortality rates continue to increase in the United States, with significant racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in birth outcomes. States are using a variety of approaches to provide doula services within their Medicaid programs to address inequities.

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Yoon Suk-yeol Is Biden's Perfect South Korea Partner

The Rand Blog

Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea's conservative new president, has shown that he is in lockstep with U.S. President Joe Biden on foreign policy. During Biden's Indo-Pacific trip last month, their conversations in the security domain suggest Yoon's overlapping tenure with Biden heralds a golden era in the U.S.-South Korea alliance.

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Behind the scenes of one of the largest remote patient monitoring implementations and evaluations in the U.S

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: CareSignal Primary topic: Population Health Topic: Innovation Pulse Patient Engagement Population Health Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Behind the scenes of one of the largest remote patient monitoring implementations and evaluations in the U.

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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!

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CMS finds 'troubling' implicit bias in 3 payment models

Health Care Dive

CMMI has taken initial actions to address existing bias, and has started developing a guide to screen and mitigate bias in existing and future models, according to a new article in Health Affairs.

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CareConnectMD Closes $25M Funding Round While ‘Shifting into the Home Setting’ 

Home Health Care

CareConnectMD Inc. — a Costa Mesa, California-based and physician-led medical group — has raised a $25 million financing round led by the Minneapolis-based TT Capital Partners. The funds will go towards expanding CareConnectMD’s footprint in California, Ohio and Texas, as well as other markets. The $25 million has also been earmarked for investment into the company’s technology platform as well.

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New Legislation May Not Be Enough to Counter Chinese Interference in British Universities

The Rand Blog

There is alarming evidence of growing Chinese espionage and influence in UK universities that could threaten UK national security and academic freedoms. Three complementary initiatives could increase university researchers' awareness of the potential risks of collaborating with certain Chinese partners.

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The continued & evolving role of digital fax in health data exchange

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Concord Technologies Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: The continued & evolving role of digital fax in health data exchange Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Marketplace insurers denied 18% of in-network claims in 2020, data shows

Health Care Dive

Of 230.9 million in-network claims reported, 42.3 million claims were denied, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of CMS data.

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Most Recent Nursing Home COVID-19 Data: CMS, CDC and NHSN  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending June 26, 2022. Comparing the June 26 th data to the previous June 19 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.1% (same as the previous 2 weeks) Residents with booster doses increased 0.4% Staff primary vaccination completion rate remained the same (same as previous week) Staff with booster doses increased 0.3% An add

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Rebuilding Ukraine for a Changing Climate

The Rand Blog

When the war in Ukraine ends, the country will in all likelihood undergo a massive reconstruction. Ukraine could rebuild in a way that would both lower its carbon footprint and construct infrastructure resilient to the effects of climate change.

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Personalizing health education and outreach by using data

Healthcare It News

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Feds brokered record $5B in healthcare fraud cases last year

Health Care Dive

Cases ranged from improper psychiatric treatment to providing false Medicare claims and illegal kickback schemes.

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What Major Primary Care Deals Mean for In-Home Care Operators

Home Health Care

There are multiple big-time, primary care deals on the horizon. . And the names tied to those deals are behemoths in size and influence. They are also tied heavily to the home-based care space. This week, stocks were jumpy for Cano Health Inc. (NYSE: CANO) and 1Life Healthcare Inc. (Nasdaq: ONEM), the parent company of One Medical. Reportedly , Cano Health could be the next acquisition target for Humana Inc.

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Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Fiscal Year 2021 Report

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) Program is celebrating its 25th year of operation and continued success in identifying and prosecuting the most egregious instances of health care fraud, preventing future fraud and abuse, and protecting program beneficiaries.

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What's next for patient-centered care?

Healthcare It News

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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Major payment vendor data breach, North Korean threat raise ransomware concerns for hospitals

Health Care Dive

A recently disclosed ransomware attack could have exposed patient data from more than 650 healthcare providers.

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Why Hospitals with Nearby Home Health Agencies Have Higher Readmission Rates

Home Health Care

A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions. One of the reasons readmission rates were higher in those areas may be due to frequent staffing changes and other interruptions in care, according to the study’s lead author.

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Obstacles to Lasting Peace Between Ukraine and Russia

The Rand Blog

The current situation in Ukraine suggests that neither side will be able to achieve a decisive military victory that settles the disputes that led to the war. Ukraine and Russia theoretically could reach an agreement to stop the fighting, but the politics between the two sides and centuries of confrontational history do not suggest a lasting peace.

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COTA Appoints Noel Alaka as VP of Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

Noel Alaka, VP of Life Sciences at COTA. What You Should Know: Today, oncology real-world data analytics company COTA announced the appointment of Noel Alaka as Vice President of Life Sciences. As VP of Life Sciences, Alaka will be responsible for helping grow and build partnerships with leading life sciences companies that are looking to adopt real-world data and real-world evidence to help accelerate innovation in treatments for patients facing cancer.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.