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Digital engagement must put patients at the center of care

Healthcare It News

By Luciano Brustia, Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific for InterSystems. Digital engagement is part of life in almost every industry. Consumers expect to interact with their suppliers digitally, and healthcare is now catching up. But healthcare is different. The “customer” data we collect is far more complex and difficult to interpret.

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Details emerge on CommonSpirit’s ‘IT security incident’ as more regions report disruptions

Health Care Dive

Some CommonSpirit hospitals across the country have been cut off from their electronic health records, forcing them to revert to paper charts. Ambulances were diverted from facilities in Iowa for a short period on Monday.

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Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Healthcare It News

The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19,

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Cigna expands MA presence by 22% for 2023

Health Care Dive

Despite previously lagging in the market, Cigna is now among the fastest-expanding MA providers, analysts said.

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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 changing nature of global healthcare consumerism amid COVID-19

Healthcare It News

Global experts shared their perspectives on the shift of healthcare consumer demands and expectations worldwide. The keynote session, "Care isn't What it Used to Be: The Need to Elevate Consumer Experience ," at HIMSS22 APAC was joined by Dr Vas Metupalle, CMO at Meta Health, Dr Manish Kohli, Beyond Horizon Health CEO and senior advisor of Albright Stonebridge Group; Benedict Tan, SingHealth's Group Chief Digital Strategy Officer and Chief Data Officer; and Kevin Percival, Chie

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Medtech companies shift strategy as more orthopedic procedures move to ambulatory surgical centers

Health Care Dive

Stryker, J&J and other device companies are building out teams focused on ASCs.

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How technology enables public health equity

Cloud Blogs

COVID-19 brought a variety of challenges to the US population. One of the most significant was reaching underprivileged, underserved, and undocumented communities for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations. The California Health Medical Reserve Corps (CHMRC) is an authorized medical reserve corps that works to close gaps in care delivery between healthcare, public health, response organizations, payers, and community-based health organizations.

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Dexcom G7 Blood Glucose Monitoring Launches in 5 Global Markets

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Dexcom announced launch of Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Hong Kong, with launches in New Zealand and South Africa in the coming weeks – initiating the global rollout of the world’s most powerful CGM system. – Dexcom G7 offers a powerful yet simple way to help users gain greater control of their diabetes, so they can manage the disease more confidently each day.

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Building Our Base of Leaders

Center for Health Progress

Over the past 8 weeks, Center for Health Progress staff have been engaging in an intensive, focused period to build our base of leaders in Fort Morgan, Pueblo, and Metro Denver. We’ve been knocking on doors, setting up one-to-one conversations, and have met with more than 500 people. Each day, we hear stories of our health care system exploiting patients and workers to make record profits.

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SEQSTER and PatientsLikeMe Launch National Rare Disease Study

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PatientsLikeMe and SEQSTER announced a collaboration to launch one of the first rare-disease studies focused on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD) – a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people. – AATD is a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people. It is characterized by low levels of the alpha-1 antitrypsin protein, leading AATD patients to be very susceptible to lung and/or liver disease.

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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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Lecture on Health Care Economics at USC

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Thank you to Dr. Daniel Tomaszewski and the University of Southern California’s Health Care Decision Analysis (HCDA) program for brining me in as a guest speaker this weekend. I truly enjoyed my time with the students. As they posted on LinkedIn: Thanks to guest speaker Jason Shafrin of FTI Consulting , for joining us in the Health Economics and Methodology (HCDA 520) course.

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The True Value of Human-Centered Research Within Medical Technology

HIT Consultant

Hollie Johnston, Principal and Human Sciences Capability Lead at PDD. With recent statistics suggesting that 70% of all projects fail, it’s vital that we do all we can to set ourselves up for success when we set out on a new design or development of a product. Every day, we are surrounded by products and services that don’t work as we expect them to.

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Next-Level Tips for Improving Care Team Communication with Patients

Medical GPS

A quick survey of your healthcare peers (or even a Google search) will tell you one thing almost certain about the importance of care team communication with patients: most healthcare quality experts agree that improving communication between patients and healthcare staff is the number one factor in improving patient experience. Medical staff communication is essential for providing quality care, reducing errors, increasing patient satisfaction, improving service recovery, and establishing stron

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The Home Health Proposed Payment Rule’s Biggest Threat: Worsening Access To Care

Home Health Care

This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… The post The Home Health Proposed Payment Rule’s Biggest Threat: Worsening Access To Care appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Leaving Eye Strain & Office Strain Behind

Advanced Data Systems

How Innovations in Cohesive Practice Management Software Are A Game Changer for Any Ophthalmic Practice.

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Home Helpers CEO Emma Dickison On Importance Of Expedited Home Care Data

Home Health Care

Like many home care agencies, Home Helpers saw substantial growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the company is focused on sustaining that growth, specifically through honing in on the retention of its caregivers. “That’s been a big focus for us, especially looking at the first 90 days,” Home Helpers President and CEO Emma Dickison told Home Health Care News.

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Health impact of banning on late-night alcohol sales

Healthcare ECONOMIST

It is well known that excessive use of alcohol causes significant health impacts. CDC notes that. Excessive alcohol use led to more than 140,000 deaths and 3.6 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2015 – 2019, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 26 years. At the same time, complete alcohol bans have been costly and largely ineffective.

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Join the conversation and help shape the future of family medicine

Healthy Debate

The post Join the conversation and help shape the future of family medicine appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Building Our Base of Leaders

Center for Health Progress

Over the past 8 weeks, Center for Health Progress staff have been engaging in an intensive, focused period to build our base of leaders in Fort Morgan, Pueblo, and Metro Denver. We’ve been knocking on doors, setting up one-to-one conversations, and have met with more than 500 people. Each day, we hear stories of our health care system exploiting patients and workers to make record profits.

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How technology enables public health equity

Cloud Blogs

COVID-19 brought a variety of challenges to the US population. One of the most significant was reaching underprivileged, underserved, and undocumented communities for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations. The California Health Medical Reserve Corps (CHMRC) is an authorized medical reserve corps that works to close gaps in care delivery between healthcare, public health, response organizations, payers, and community-based health organizations.

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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA Webinars!

Healthcare Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA webinars: All webinars start at 11:00 a.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. Top Privacy and Security Risks that Can Lead to HIPAA Violations. October 19, 2022. 60 minutes. 1.2 CCB CEUs. HIPAA breaches can occur everywhere. They come from conversations, from TikTok, from hackers, and from tricky phishing emails.

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Abortion Bans Threatening Pregnant Patients’ Lives Are Unconstitutional

Bill Of Health

By James G. Hodge, Jr., Jennifer Piatt, Erica N. White, Summer Ghaith, Madisyn Puchebner, and C. McKenna Sauer. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which overturned the constitutional right to abortion, laws went into effect in multiple states that restrict when abortions may be provided, including during potentially life-threatening emergencies.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Healthy Debate

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Readers Write: Taking Clinical Natural Language Processing Mainstream for Effective Care Management

HIStalk

Taking Clinical Natural Language Processing Mainstream for Effective Care ManagementBy.

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Patient specimens thrown out with the trash - Are you the last to know?

Healthcare Performance

Is your HIPAA training program identifying new risks?

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Readers Write: Diagnostically Connected Data – The Key to EHR Clinical Usability

HIStalk

Diagnostically Connected Data: The Key to EHR Clinical UsabilityBy Dave.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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De-implementation: “Just say no” isn’t enough

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Morning Headlines 10/6/22

HIStalk

PatientPoint Acquires Rendia to Accelerate Expansion into Ophthalmology Specialty Patient.

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Why Data is at the Heart of Value-Based Care Success

HIT Consultant

Steven Rube, M.D., Chief Clinical Officer, Intelligent Medical Objects. The saying “you cannot manage what you cannot measure” applies to all aspects of healthcare delivery, but it is especially true in value-based care. After all, payers, providers, and the patients they care for need to know what high-value care looks like at an individual level – and how it can be applied at the population level. delivery and technology infrastructure.

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Morning Headlines 10/5/22

HIStalk

Paper charts, canceled appointments at VMFH clinics, hospitals as network.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.