Life Qi
AUGUST 10, 2021
The NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub’s document 'The spread and sustainability of Quality Improvement in Healthcare,' states that ‘Across the UK, a third of healthcare improvement projects never spread beyond their particular unit, a further third are embedded within their own unit and spread across an organisation, and a final third are spread across their own and other similar organisations.
Health Populi
AUGUST 10, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic digitally transformed most people living in the U.S., re-shaping consumers to work from home when possible, go to school there, and buy all manners of goods and services via ecommerce. In March 2021, Zoom conducted research into the question, “how virtual do we want our future to be?” posing that to thousands of citizens living in 10 countries including the U.S.
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Etactics
AUGUST 10, 2021
People use social media so often today, and there is no sign that it will slow down. Although it’s a fun activity, it increases the risk of data breaches. In the first half of 2018, more than 56% of the 4.5 billion compromised data records were from social media incidents. Some of these were HIPAA violations from employees posting a patient’s protected health information (PHI) the social web.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 10, 2021
Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Prograf (tacrolimus) in combination with other immunosuppressant drugs for the new indication of preventing organ rejection for patients who have received a lung transplant. While the FDA approving a new indication isn’t typically news, this is a noteworthy event because (i) it marks the first approval of an immunosuppressant drug to prevent lung transplant rejection and (ii) the approval was based on a real-world data (RWD) study.
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Bill Of Health
AUGUST 10, 2021
By Leigh Goodmark. Intimate partner violence has been called “a pandemic within the pandemic.”. A study of fourteen American cities found that the number of domestic violence calls to law enforcement rose 9.7% in March and April 2020, compared to the previous year. A hospital-based study spanning the same time period found significant increases in the number of people treated for injuries related to intimate partner violence.
Etactics
AUGUST 10, 2021
Doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) might be one of the most lucrative opportunities in the United States. What I just wrote may sound like it’s a bold statement. Yet, Lockheed Martin made $50.7 billion in revenue from DoD contracts in 2017 alone. The defense contractor also landed a 60-year deal for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet, valued at an estimated $1 trillion back in 2019.
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Healthcare Performance
AUGUST 10, 2021
HIPAA is a lot! MPA's e-course makes it easier to keep up with privacy, security, breach notification, and social media. Sign up for MPA's Virtual HIPAA Training Course. Approved for 5 hours of NAB CEUs.
Health IT Analytics
AUGUST 10, 2021
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NASHP
AUGUST 10, 2021
States have an increasing interest in extending Medicaid coverage from 60 days to 12 months postpartum, driven by states’ priorities for ensuring continuity of coverage and addressing the maternal mortality crisis. To extend this coverage, states can request approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under Medicaid Section 1115 demonstrations.
CHQ Healthcare
AUGUST 10, 2021
The premise of the behavioral interview is that past behavior is predictive of future behavior. This type of assessment originated with Tom Janz, PhD, an industrial psychologist, in the 1980s. It made its way into the medical field in 2003 to 2004 via the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as shown in this article in The Journal of Education in Perioperative Medcicine.
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Meditech
AUGUST 10, 2021
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