Mon.Sep 05, 2022

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Vaccinations, Art and Labor Day: Learning from Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford

Health Populi

For Labor Day 2022, I’m thinking about health, vaccines, work (especially returning-to-work), and art. Let’s start with the vaccine news. Called the “first updated COVID-19 booster,” on September 1st the CDC announced the availability and approval for health citizens to get new vaccines which have added Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the original vaccine formulation.

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Labor Day: Remote work and information workers

Healthcare ECONOMIST

On Labor Day, I review the findings from a study published last year from Yang et al. (2021) titled “ The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers “ The study examined data on more than 60,000 workers at Microsoft and found that: Our results show that firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed, with fewer bridges between disparate parts.

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Winning The Healthcare Life Cycle

Healthcare Leadership

Blog Post By Joe Babaian. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. ~ Seneca The Elder, 54 BC – 39 AD. Seneca’s quote proved to be so perfect that Semisonic used it to great effect in their popular Closing Time in 1998. This prompts the question I am asking this week: in healthcare technology, processes, and paradigms – when is “closing time” for some established parts of healthcare and time for a new beginning?

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Morning Headlines 9/6/22

HIStalk

CVS Health to Acquire Signify Health CVS Health will acquire.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

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Building a Progressive Assisted Reproductive Technology Law in South Africa

Bill Of Health

By Donrich Thaldar. In July 2022, a legal earthquake hit the South African fertility healthcare sector: The Pretoria High Court struck out the statutory ban on non-medical preimplantation sex selection. Preimplantation sex selection for non-medical reasons is controversial around the globe, and explicitly banned in several prominent countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom.