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Professional Development: The Overlooked Solution to Nurse Burnout & Turnover

HIT Consultant

Despite having relatively good health overall, American seniors account for one in four doctors’ visits , and many are currently living with chronic health conditions (31% with at least one; 18% with six or more).

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The Imperative to Stay the Course on Value-Based Transformation

HIT Consultant

Rationing or pricing people out of the market in ways that degrade employee health and productivity only shifts costs to other economic and social accounts. The alternative is to rethink how we organize and operate to make better use of our limited healthcare resources. These are the underpinnings of value-based care.

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[ANSWERED] Why Was HIPAA Created?

Etactics

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the federal law that helps protect your health information. The main goal for the HIPAA Privacy Rule (December 20, 2000) is to protect health information without infringing upon providing quality healthcare. To improve healthcare quality in the United States.

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Newsletter, November 2023

Patient Safety Movement

The American Lung Association urges adults to ask their doctor if they are up to date on their CDC-recommended adult vaccinations and take a personal risk assessment at Lung.org/pneumococcal. And it was there that I better understood a root cause for the harm we see in healthcare. We can do this.

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Newsletter, March 2024

Patient Safety Movement

Patient Safety Awareness Week March 10–16, 2024 The Patient Safety Movement Foundation has innovatively outlined actionable evidence-based practices to address high-priority preventable harms, fostering a collaborative learning ecosystem and promoting shared accountability.

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Did President Biden backtrack on his pledge for increased public access to Medicare data?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Some Medicare plans’ lack of transparency “deprives researchers and doctors of critical data to evaluate problems and trends in patient care,” said Xavier Becerra, the secretary of health and human services, in a statement.

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Newsletter, September 2023

Patient Safety Movement

On September 11, the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) had its virtual meeting where it reviewed quality and safety of healthcare. C Advance Interoperability of Healthcare Data and Assure Free Access to the Tracking of Harms and Use of Evidence-Based Solutions.