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Majority of nursing homes missing broad safety, quality inspections due to the pandemic

Fierce Healthcare

Majority of nursing homes missing broad safety, quality inspections due to the pandemic. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 14:02.

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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

In the U.S., patients have assumed the role of health care payors with growing co-payments, coinsurance amounts, and deductibles pushing peoples’ out-of-pocket costs up. This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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Why Clearwave Scheduling is a Necessary Tool for Medical Practices

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 2 minutes When looking at patient scheduling tools, ease-of-use is, of course, a top priority, as a digital solution should have immediate benefits for both your patients and your staff. But did you know that a medical scheduling solution that automates patient appointments can also positively impact staff productivity and cash flow? Clearwave Scheduling gives your practice the edge it needs over the competition and streamlines workflows with immediate, tangible results.

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When a Free Trial Is Anything But

The Rand Blog

Several strategies could help protect consumers from subscription traps. Strategies could include providing better information showing that a free trial is followed by a subscription, reminding consumers that they have a subscription, and allowing consumers to easily cancel.

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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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Are Healthcare Standards Meeting Your Business Needs? HL7 Wants to Know.

Bookzurman

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up and difficult to see where the work that we, and our peers, do is being applied to help caregivers and patients. That's why we've hand-selected these recent articles featuring the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues that our team finds to be worth a quick read.

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How Insurance Marketplace Regulators Can Help Consumers Enroll in Better Coverage

The Rand Blog

The Affordable Care Act simplified shopping for health care by creating the individual health insurance marketplaces where plans are categorized into labeled tiers. Consumers rely on these labels when comparing plans. But the labels don't tell consumers everything they need to know.

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Recruiting strategies: 3 questions you should ask in every screening interview

CHQ Healthcare

Time is money , especially when you’re hiring physicians. So it’s important to identify which candidates are likely to be a good fit as early as possible in the hiring process. Asking the right questions in a screening interview can set you and the physician up for success from the outset. Here are the three insightful questions you should ask in every screening interview to get to know a candidate quickly. 1.

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Mental Health: Tips and Resources to Improve Your Mental Wellbeing

Healthcare Highways

Surveys show a major increase in the number of U.S. adults who report symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression during the pandemic, compared with surveys before the pandemic. 1 Mental illness is more common than one would think; it’s the most common health condition in the United States with 1 in 5 Americans experiencing a mental illness each year. 2.

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California Issues New Health Facility Breach Reporting Requirements

Sheppard Health Law

On July 1, 2021, the California Department of Public Health (“ CDPH ”) issued new regulations [1] (the “ Regulations ”) effective immediately that more narrowly limit the circumstances under which instances of unauthorized access to medical information have to be reported to CDPH. The new regulations also give CDPH more discretion to adjust penalties for violations.

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Allergies: What Are They and How Can You Manage Them in The Workplace?

Healthcare Highways

Do you experience allergies? If you're like more than 50 million Americans, the answer is yes. But what is an allergy? And why do some of us suffer from allergies when others don't? And, importantly, how can you improve the condition of your or your employees' allergies in the workplace?

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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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Healthcare Economist on vacation

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Healthcare Economist will be out on vacation this week. Posting will resume August 9.

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Child and Adolescent Immunizations

Healthcare Highways

One of the most important covered benefits available to your children are immunizations.

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The new administration and navigating patient convenience in healthcare

nThrive

The course of healthcare in our country permanently changed in 2020. Besides the unprecedented virus that crippled healthcare organizations throughout the world, the election of Joe Biden as the 46 th president guaranteed that healthcare policy change was on the horizon. This new administration’s focus has been directly influenced by the innovations utilized in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, especially a renewed focus on patient access and overall patient convenience.