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CISA warns about cyber flaw in Philips MRI monitoring software

Health Care Dive

Philips' e-Alert has a vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized user to remotely shut down the system, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in an advisory.

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Predictive analytics, machine learning, and computer vision are transforming virtual care in patient rooms and critical care environments

Healthcare It News

As part of our HIMSS22 conversations surrounding the Smart Hospital, we will be guiding our audience through a tour of the transformations we’re seeing in these settings. On this podcast, Chris Gough, General Manager Health & Life Sciences at Intel, will be discussing how virtual care is transforming patient rooms and critical care environments.

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The Ukraine War's Three Clocks

The Rand Blog

As the war in Ukraine creeps into its second month, perhaps the most common question is: How will it end? Ultimately, the answer comes down to three internal clocks—Ukraine's, which is counting down in years, Russia's, in months, and the United States and NATO's, which is stalled at the moment but could restart quite quickly.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

People spend one-half of their lives in “less-than-good health,” we learn early in the paper, Adding years to life and life to years from the McKinsey Health Institute. In this data-rich essay, the McKinsey team at MHI sets out an agenda that could help us add 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life equal to an average of six years per person (depending on your country and population demographics).

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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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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN Nursing Home COVID-19 Data Posted

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending March 20, 2022. Comparing the March 20 th data to the March 13 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate increased 0.1% from the previous week Residents with booster doses ( new the week of 2/6 ) increased by 0.7% this past week Staff vaccination rate increased 0.4% this week Staff with booster doses ( new the week of 2/6 ) increased by 1.2% this past week

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Digital Health Disconnect Creates Unnecessary Roadblock to Patient Engagement

HIT Consultant

Aaron Kaufman, EVP at Carenet Health. By all accounts, the last two years have accelerated consumer adoption of digital tools for managing nearly every aspect of our lives. Ordering takeout? Odds are good you used a digital payment method, alongside the 93% of consumers who say they’ve used tools like Venmo and Zelle over the last year. Visiting your primary care physician?

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MLB Taps Cue Health to Expand League-Wide COVID-19 Testing Program for 2022 Season

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cue Health Inc. (“Cue”), a healthcare technology company, and Major League Baseball (MLB) today announced a national partnership that expands Cue’s support of the league-wide COVID-19 testing program. – Serving As MLB’s trusted at-home testing solution, Cue will provide Major League Clubs as well as the MLB league office with its integrated care platform, featuring both the portable and reusable Cue Health Monitoring System (Reader) and the most accurate* COVI

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The US is in the World Cup’s “Group of Death”…maybe

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Background on World Cup Qualifying. The World Cup will take place in November-December 2022 in Qatar. Today, the 8 groups of 4 teams were selected for the World Cup. A common tradition when evaluating the groups is to see from which of these groups is it most difficult to teams to advance to the elimination phase. To advance to the elimination phase, you need to be in the top 2 finishers in your group.

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Jeenie Raises $9.3M for On-Demand, Medical Interpreter Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Jeenie , an industry-transforming virtual interpreting platform that connects clinicians and patients to live interpreters on-demand raises $9.3M in Series A funding led by Transformation Capital. – Jeenie is a virtual interpreting platform that connects users to a video or audio call with live, qualified interpreters in 300+ languages for on-demand language assistance, 24/7.

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Helping Ukrainian Refugees, Truth Decay, Algorithmic Inequity: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on how to help Ukrainian refugees, the link between cognitive processes and Truth Decay, tracking wastewater to understand the spread of COVID-19, and more.

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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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Dental AI Startup VideaHealth Nabs $20M to Expand AI-Based Diagnostics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – VideaHealth , a dental diagnostic AI solution raises $20M in Series A funding led by Spark Capital including existing investors Zetta Venture Partners. Pillar VC also contributed to the round, bringing the company to $26.4M to date. – The company will use the financing to expand its groundbreaking AI-based diagnostics capabilities to over 6000 dental practices by the end of 2023.

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Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2023 and Updates to the IRF Quality Reporting Program

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. It’s that time of year again – payment updates and proposed rules. On March 31, 2022, CMS issued the FY2023 PPS proposed rule for IRF and updates to the IRF QRP. This link is to the 123-page unpublished PDF version that will be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.

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Labcorp & Medidata to Co-Develop Digital Biomarkers & Expand Decentralized Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: -? Medidata , a Dassault?Systèmes?company, today?announced?that Labcorp , a leading global life sciences company, has selected Medidata’s technology platform to extend their 14-year partnership, the foundation of their initiative to co-develop digital biomarkers and expand the use and functionality of decentralized clinical trials.

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Improving Job Quality and Scheduling Predictability Can Advance Public Health and Reduce Racial Inequities

Bill Of Health

By DeAnna Baumle. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief deeply rooted structural inequities in the United States. As U.S. government officials and media celebrate recent economic gains , women — especially women of color — are not recouping their economic losses. Further, the pandemic continues to kill nearly a thousand Americans daily and disproportionally affect Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities.

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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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March Roundup 2022

Life Qi

A QI system to help improve healthcare in Integrated Care Systems.

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Offices Are Reopening. We asked N.J. Executives Whether they are Asking Employees to Return to the Workplace In-Person.

GoMoHealth

The post Offices Are Reopening. We asked N.J. Executives Whether they are Asking Employees to Return to the Workplace In-Person. appeared first on GoMo Health.

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Providing Clean Air in Indoor Spaces: Moving Beyond Accommodations Towards Barrier Removal

Bill Of Health

By Jennifer Bard. One of the most persistently frustrating aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as currently applied to schools and workplaces, is its emphasis on the eligibility of qualifying individuals for accommodation, rather than on population-based removal of barriers to participation. This individualized approach has always been an uncomfortable fit, given the reality of changes in physical function throughout the lifespan, and is a particularly unsatisfying model for th

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athenahealth Improves Care for Transgender & Non-Binary Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – athenahealth launches new capabilities in athenaOne, the company’s cloud-based suite of electronic health records (EHR), healthcare billing, and patient engagement solutions, to help eliminate barriers that transgender and non-binary patients face when receiving healthcare. – The new functionality enables more accurate and comprehensive recording and display of patient information – including the name used, pronouns, and gender identity, in addition to legal n

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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!