Fri.Aug 13, 2021

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Not all data is meaningful data

Healthcare It News

LAS VEGAS – Whether it's from telemedicine, wearables and or electronic health records, a growing amount of healthcare data is becoming available on both an individual and population-wide level. "But just because you have data," pointed out Michael Meucci, chief operating officer at Arcadia, "doesn't mean that it's meaningful.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

“We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S. health policy and regulatory leaders. The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment.

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The digital health tools one COVID-19 survivor relied on during his 100-day hospital stay

Healthcare It News

In late March of last year, Frank Cutitta was admitted to a Boston-area hospital with COVID-19. He wouldn't walk out again until the Fourth of July, 100 days later. "My name is Frank Cutitta, and I am very happy, literally, to be here," Cutitta told HIMSS21 attendees on Thursday. As the former HIMSS senior director of content analytics and the founder of HIMSS Media Lab, Cutitta, now the founder and CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab, treated much of his time in the hospital as a long

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Kids and Delta: Everything You Need to Know

Medcenter

Rebecca Bell, MD, is a pediatric intensivist at UVM Children’s Hospital caring for critically ill infants, children and adolescents in Vermont’s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). She is President of the Vermont Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP-VT). It’s August, which means that a summer of uncertainty has given way to a school year […].

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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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The Biden Administration Should Resolve Cannabis Regulation Chaos

Bill Of Health

By Troy Sims. The Biden Administration has the opportunity to be the first administration to rid our legal system of cannabis regulation chaos. State laws governing medical or recreational cannabis conflict with federal regulations, leaving cannabis consumers, businesses, and the lawyers representing them caught in the middle. Guidance documents from the Department of Justice (DOJ) are an often-overlooked source of complexity and confusion in the cannabis industry.

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Is Your Medical Practice Losing Revenue Due to Inefficient Revenue Cycle Management?

Advanced Data Systems

It’s no secret that the more you can standardize and automate processes, the more efficiently you can run an enterprise. There’s a timeline you can draw from the dawn of Henry Ford’s automotive assembly lines to the age of computerization and the ICD-10 codes we use today as standardized, universal descriptions for diagnosing and treating patients.

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Defunding Prisons, Preventing Cyberattacks, Promoting COVID-19 Vaccinations: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on defunding prisons, how to deter ransomware attacks, overcoming barriers to COVID-19 vaccination, and more.

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Friday Feature | Failure is Not an Option: How FHIR® Can Avoid Going Up in Flames

Bookzurman

BookZurman is proud to share a recent post featuring the insights from guest author, Ioana Singureanu , BZ's Chief Innovation Officer. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) have a lot of promise, however, to be successful with collective adoption, we must remember to apply useful lessons of 30 years of HL7-based interoperability. Ioana Singureanu.

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How to Use Predictive Analytics in Chronic Disease Prevention

Health IT Analytics

Using predictive analytics… read more

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Let’s Throw a Party!

Center for Health Progress

It’s been a Summer of Celebrations here at Center for Health Progress and after the kind of year that we’ve all had, we needed it! Growing up in a large, extended family, I learned the importance of celebrations – from birthdays and quinceaneras, graduations, anniversaries, and retirements, my family knows how to throw a party! One of the main reasons celebrating is so important is because it reflects an overall attitude of gratitude and enjoying what we have, instead of focusing on what we don’

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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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Measurement-based care IT helps Inova Kellar Center improve patient outcomes

Healthcare It News

Inova Kellar Center (IKC) is a nonprofit behavioral healthcare provider based in Virginia that provides programs and services for children, adolescents and their families. IKC Inova Health System has relied on evidence-based solutions and standardized approaches to treat patients, earning recognition for excellence in healthcare from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S.

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Let’s Talk about Erectile Dysfunction

Healthcare Associates

What is Erectile Dysfunction (ED)? Erectile dysfunction may not be as openly discussed as other health problems such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Until very recently, discussing sexual issues has been somewhat taboo in our society. However, with increased awareness and advocacy efforts, once-taboo topics such as erectile dysfunction have garnered more attention.

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