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Joining NATO Is Not Enough to Defend Ukraine: Allies Must Step Up

The Rand Blog

Any security pledges for Ukraine may be wanting unless backed up by an allied force presence. An armed peacekeeping force could lack sufficient firepower or robust rules of engagement. A stronger force would be more credible.

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President Joe Biden, the AI Wizard

Bill Of Health

By Bobby Stroup Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t magic , but there is value in telling a magical story to non-technical stakeholders to describe how we’ll govern this transformative technology. In fact, President Joe Biden himself could benefit by borrowing from an existing legend. Let’s pick a story that’s already popular and one where heroes successfully overcame a dangerous technology.

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4 Ways to Boost the Patient Experience Using Digital Check-ins

HIT Consultant

Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox Finding a frustrated patient sitting in a waiting room has become familiar. Three and a half years after the pandemic’s start, the medical field is still feeling the ripple effects. Burnout and staffing shortages plague offices nationwide, causing tasks to pile up and the lack of prioritization for patient care.

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Technology Is Playing a Growing Role in Wellness and Healthy Aging – AARP’s Latest Look Into the 50+ Tech Consumer

Health Populi

Most people over 70 years of age recognize technology’s role in supporting peoples’ health, we learn from a new report on 2024 Tech Trends and Adults 50+ from AARP. But adoption and ongoing use of digital innovations among older people will be tempered without attending to four key barriers that carry equal weight in the minds of 50+ consumers: design and user experience, awareness and interest, cost and acquisition, and trust and privacy concerns.

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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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Rethinking How We Treat Dually Diagnosed Patients

HIT Consultant

Bernard DiCasimirro, D.O., Chief Medical Officer at Lucet One of the most pressing and often overlooked challenges in healthcare today is how to reach and effectively treat dually diagnosed patients — commonly, individuals who grapple with both mental health problems and substance use issues. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, more than one in four adults living with a serious mental health issue also has a substance use issue.

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Top 5 MEDITECH blogs in 2023

Meditech

Year after year the health IT industry generates incredible innovations and 2023 was no different. MEDITECH is excited about our contributions and collaborations with customers and partners who are driving advancements in the healthcare space. Read more about popular topics like AI, transformative healthcare technology, the power of leadership, and more in 5 blogs that our readers loved in 2023.

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Resolutions and solutions: Health-care experts set goals for 2024

Healthy Debate

In a time of significant professional strain, we wanted to know what health-care experts had on their New Year’s resolution lists.

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Using Advanced Tech to Enhance Patient Retention of Information After Medical Visits

HIT Consultant

Gary Hamilton, CEO, InteliChart Seldom do people receive as much important information as quickly as they do during doctor’s visits and hospital stays. Stressful settings, unfamiliar terms, too-brief conversations, and the heightened emotions surrounding health issues combine to make it difficult for patients to comprehend and recall what they’re told.

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BEAM Collaboration Takes First Steps to Improve Birth Equity

NCQA

NCQA and our colleagues at Reproductive Health Impact (RH Impact) have finished the first part of our three-phase collaboration to help align all levels of the health care system toward birth equity. Findings and recommendations presented in a December 2023 webinar and accompanying reports show our organizations’ joint effort— the Birth Equity Accountability through Measurement (BEAM) initiative —is making progress to improve birth equity.

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RPM for FQHCs: Q&A with Evara Health

Health Recovery

We followed up with Marie Menendez, Telehealth Specialist, at Evara Health, after a recent webinar detailing Evara Health’s RPM journey to get the answers to some questions that attendees asked.

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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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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 12/28/23

HIStalk

As we expected, coming out of the Thanksgiving holiday and.

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AI Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Key Risks and Security Measures

HIT Consultant

Britton Burton Sr. Director of TPRM Strategy Morgan Hague, Manager of IT Risk Management at Meditology Services Leaps in healthcare technology continue to benefit humankind: from the advent of the X-ray in the 19 th century to dialysis, CT, MRI, and other machines in the 20 th century, to a new breadth of digital tools in this era. Perhaps the most auspicious of these is artificial intelligence (AI), with its wide-ranging applications for predictive analytics, drug development, personalized medi

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News 12/29/23

HIStalk

Top News Apple restarts sales of the advanced models of.

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Morning Headlines 12/29/23

HIStalk

Apple will sell latest Apple Watch models again after import.

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