New survey finds COVID-19 is taking a significant toll on physicians
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 9, 2021
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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021
Health Populi
AUGUST 9, 2021
The rise of digital health investment and growing role of technology in health care services only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. But with digital health adoption gains has come some ambivalence and mixed signals, Accenture has discovered in its 2021 Health and life Sciences Experiences Survey released this week during the HIMS
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How the United States Can Deter Ransomware Attacks
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
To rein in ransomware attacks, the United States needs to upend the risk-reward ratio for hackers and for the countries that harbor or support them. Such a strategy would make networks harder to breach, hit back harder against hackers, and claw back gains from those who succeed.
The new healthcare ecosystem: Preparing for decentralized care
Nordic
AUGUST 9, 2021
"Health systems do an amazing job of returning you to health. However, healthcare is shifting focus to a more personalized, preventive, and holistic view of health. No one else is as well-positioned to deliver on the promise of better lifelong health than health systems, but doing so will require them to invest in those kinds of capabilities." – Jim Costanzo, CEO.
How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp
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Invest in Vision Eligibility Verification and Increase Staff Productivity
Clearwave Inc
AUGUST 9, 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutes Manual verification of patients’ insurance eligibility is time-consuming, labor-intensive and prone to error. The time spent on checking websites to verify coverage could be better spent on person-to-person patient interaction and effective patient experiences. Shifting eligibility to a digital solution creates that time for more personal service and offers clear financial transparency for your patients.
Defund Prisons, Not Police
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
The United States spends billions on prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities. New lows in incarceration rates present a chance to shift resources away from costly correctional facilities and toward education, job training, transportation, and other community services.
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Reframing Retirement
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
Retirement is a fluid concept. Many retirees would consider returning to the workforce if conditions were right and they could set their own pace. A reframing of the aging and retirement process would allow us to see the issue in a new way.
Cost of drug utilization management is over $90 billion per year
Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 9, 2021
Many of us who are patients have the unpleasant experience of navigating the complex world of drug utilization management. This includes determining what formulary tier a drug will be on, if there are any prior authorization requirements and what our copay will be. The burden also falls on physicians in that they need to justify why specific drugs are needed for a given patient to secure coverage.
Applying Machiavellian Discourses to the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
After 20 years of war without victory in both Afghanistan and Iraq, it is time to derive key lessons from both conflicts to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Niccolò Machiavelli, whose insights on statecraft have endured for five centuries, is a valuable guide in analyzing those lessons.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 9, 2021
How consultants help hospitals with bundled payments. 76% of small businesses worried Delta variant will impede economic recovery. Scott Alexander on the FDA. Being a nurse is hard. NHS waiting times may not return to normal until 2025.
5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist
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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
Empathy’s Value & Risk
Healthcare Leadership
AUGUST 9, 2021
Photo by Perry Grone on Unsplash. Blog by Joe Babaian. “ It doesn’t take an instant more, or cost a penny more, to be empathetic than it does to be indifferent.” – Brian Lee. Let’s talk and think about #empathy and its value – both in terms of its subjective value and its return on (emotional) investment. The quote I selected for the lede of the blog makes the argument that to employ empathy costs nothing more and the alternative is indifference.
The Legality of Pandemic Detection and Prevention Technology
Bill Of Health
AUGUST 9, 2021
*This article is adapted from a longer paper published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. To access the original paper, please click here. By April Xiaoyi Xu . A test-and-isolate system for detecting and monitoring new pathogens could avert future pandemics, but may face legal challenges in implementation. The test-and-isolate model is described in a 2020 Scientific American article by biochemist David Ecker.
Predictive Analytics, Blood Samples Determine COVID-19 Severity
Health IT Analytics
AUGUST 9, 2021
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State Maternal Mortality Review Committees Address Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health to Improve Maternal Health
NASHP
AUGUST 9, 2021
State Maternal Mortality Review Committees Address Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health to Improve Maternal Health by Taylor Platt and Carrie Hanlon. The United States is facing a maternal mortality crisis. Maternal mortality rates have not been improving [1] and the United States currently has the highest rate among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations. [2] In 2019, the overall maternal mortality rate in the United States was 20.1 per 100,000 live births, wi
Decentralized care: The changing healthcare ecosystem
Nordic
AUGUST 9, 2021
The hospital facility is no longer the center of the healthcare universe. This trend was already in motion, and the COVID - 19 pandemic accelerated it.
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