Wed.Aug 11, 2021

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Three Best Practices for Showing Empathy and Compassion in Healthcare

Medical GPS

Empathy and Compassion in Healthcare. Responding to the emotional needs of patients with empathy and compassion can be challenging, at best, and it takes much practice to get it right. The first step is to recognize that there is an emotional need, and then act accordingly based on each patient’s unique circumstance. For example, as part of consulting with a physician group, we talked about the need for support staff to role-play as part of the team’s training.

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Breaking Down the Hospital at Home Model: Becker’s Shift to Digital Podcast

Health Recovery

During Becker's Shift to Digital Podcast , Health Recovery Solutions’ VP of Client Growth, Doug Lang, discussed an increasingly popular topic: the Hospital at Home model. Across the country healthcare providers have been implementing the Hospital at Home model at an increased rate.

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'When' not 'if': Resilience is an essential component of healthcare cybersecurity

Nordic

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are under attack. Any organization that handles protected health information is an irresistible target for cyberattackers, regardless of where it sits in the health ecosystem. One survey found 70% of healthcare organizations had experienced a “significant [cyber]security incident” within the past 12 months.

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Artificial Intelligence Predicts Metastatic Risk in Skin Cancers

Health IT Analytics

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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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Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a reappraisal of value-based care, a shift to remote and virtual care, and acceleration of healthcare stakeholders’ investments in Artificial Intelligence-based solutions, Philips discovered in the 2021 Future Health Index , the company’s latest survey conducted among 2,800 health care leaders working in 14 countries.

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How Have Communities Been Faring During COVID-19? And How Will Lessons Learned Inform Future Response and Planning?

The Rand Blog

As the United States emerges from the devastation of the pandemic, it may be time to examine the choices communities made during the last year to see how these approaches shape continued COVID-19 response and recovery and help build resilience for future pandemic response.

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State Data Approaches to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

NASHP

Thursday September 16, 10-11am ET. REGISTER NOW. Between 2010 and 2017,?the rate of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)?diagnoses across states increased by 82%,?indicating an increased need for?policies that support substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and?early intervention?for pregnant and parenting individuals.?Rates of NAS are also? disproportionately ?

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COVID-19 Continues to Bring New and Unique Challenges for Healthcare Providers

Twistle

Delta Variant Fueling New Surge. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to healthcare providers across the US. From the outset in March of 2020 up to today, hospitals and health systems have had to navigate unpredictable and ever changing circumstances. This has included delivering care via telehealth and remote monitoring, screening and monitoring staff and patients for potential exposure, delivering high volumes of COVID-19 test results in a timely manner, and coordinating

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* Guest Blog: My Quarter Problem by Adam Turteltaub

Healthcare Performance

This week's blog was written by guest blogger Adam Turteltaub, CCEP CHC, Chief Engagement & Strategy Officer for the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. This blog was orginally published on The Compliance and Ethics Blog. Not reading the Compliance and Ethics Blog? Check it out. There’s a quarter sitting on my desk. It’s been there for over a year at this point.

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Reforming How Medicare Pays for Digital Health

Bill Of Health

By Robert Horne and Lucia Savage. The Fourth Industrial Revolution , also known as the digital revolution, leverages technology to blur the lines between products and services. In the health insurance sector, this revolution offers policymakers unique opportunities to improve coverage and payment efficiencies while providing meaningful benefits to beneficiaries.

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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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Healthcare is Leaving Its Frontline Exposed While Battling the Mandatory Vaccinations for Employees Fight

Readiness Rounds

The Delta variant and stagnant COVID vaccination rates are chipping away at ground gained in the war against COVID. Infection and hospitalization rates for the unvaccinated are increasing at alarming rates not seen since last winter. In early June, Andy Slavitt, a Biden administration former adviser on COVID-19, suggested that 98% to 99% of the Americans dying of the coronavirus are unvaccinated.

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COVID-19 is Still a Crisis for All

Bill Of Health

By Chloe Reichel. Recently, a narrative that COVID-19 is now a “ pandemic of the unvaccinated ” has emerged. Setting aside the callousness of the claim, the biggest problem with this narrative is that it’s wrong. COVID-19 continues to threaten the health and well-being of all, regardless of vaccination status. As we now know, vaccinated individuals can be infected with and transmit the delta variant.

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Why We Don’t Need and Shouldn’t Want a Public Option

Healthcare Leadership Council

Earlier this year, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced their intent to introduce legislation creating a government-run public health insurance option to compete with private insurers and asked interested organizations to offer perspectives on the issue.