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Pregnant women are 7 times more likely to die from COVID-19: study

Fierce Healthcare

Pregnant women are 7 times more likely to die from COVID-19: study. fdiamond. Mon, 01/16/2023 - 10:34.

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Study Reveals Current Landscape of FHIR Apps

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A study led by Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Titus K. Schleyer, DMD, PhD, is among the first to survey the current landscape of FHIR® apps, providing a snapshot of how the innovative standard is used to enable the flow of health information. – FHIR apps can pull in data from most electronic health record systems , facilitating secure movement of information when and where needed.

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The Importance of Standardized Colors for Special Risk Patient Alerts

PDC Healthcare

Healthcare workers care for a variety of patients with special risks and health statuses. Being able to easily differentiate and identify these risks can be the difference in ensuring a patient’s safety and makes fulfilling a patient’s needs easier for healthcare workers. Thousands of healthcare facilities across the country have adopted standardized, color-coded alert wristbands […].

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43% of Consumers Spend Up To A Month Correcting Billing Errors

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In the online survey administered to 800 U.S. consumers who had found at least one medical billing error in the last five years, 41% of the consumers are significantly frustrated trying to address billing errors. – Zelis , a company modernizing the business of healthcare, announced findings from a new study on consumer billing conducted in partnership with Hanover Research, an independent research firm.

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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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Wellness Rising — 2023 Healthcare Trends to Keep an Eye On

GoMoHealth

The healthcare industry is constantly changing. As new technologies emerge and digital health accelerates at a rapid pace, it is important to keep abreast of trends and invest in strategic areas that can bring significant value and innovation to your organization. . Advancements in AI, wearables and telehealth systems are taking the industry by storm, making it more important than ever to deliver a personalized, empowering and easy to navigate healthcare journey.

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Digital Maturity Is Six Steps Away. How Close Is Your Healthcare Organization?

HIT Consultant

Chris Byers, CEO of Formstack. The healthcare industry dragged sorely behind other industries in digital maturity just three years ago , according to McKinsey. Then, the pandemic shifted priorities and accelerated the progress of digital transformation by several years. No industry felt this shift as strongly as healthcare. With the rapid increase in telehealth appointments and remote care necessities, medical institutions faced the challenge of making several years’ worth of virtual enhancement

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A 9-1-1 on health care in Ontario’s correctional facilities

Healthy Debate

The post A 9-1-1 on health care in Ontario’s correctional facilities appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Draft Measure: COVID-19 Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who Are Up to Date

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Improving Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act) requires the Secretary to specify resource use measures and other measures, on which post-acute care (PAC) providers are required to submit necessary data specified by the Secretary. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Acumen, LLC to develop the COVID-19 Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who Are Up to Date measure

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HIStalk Interviews Michael O’Neil, CEO, Get Well

HIStalk

Michael O’Neil, JD, MBA is founder and CEO of Get.

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CDC & FDA Identify Preliminary COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signal for Persons Aged 65 Years and Older  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. January 13, 2023 safety update : Transparency and vaccine safety are top priorities for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). U.S. government agencies use multiple, complementary safety monitoring systems to help detect possible safety signals for vaccines and other medical countermeasures as early as possible and to facilitate further investigation, as appropriate.

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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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Readers Write: What Health IT Companies Can Expect in 2023

HIStalk

What Health IT Companies Can Expect in 2023By Jodi Amendola.

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: January 17, 2023

HKLaw

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 1/16/23

HIStalk

As a CMIO, one of my primary responsibilities is to.

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22 Executive Digital Health Predictions to Watch in 2023

HIT Consultant

Jon Bloom, MD, CEO and Co-founder of Podimetrics. From a digital health perspective, 2022 was a reset year for many and a serious reality check. We went from sky high growth to the sky is falling, and in 2023 I think this market correction movement will continue forward. To me, the biggest surprise of 2022 was that despite the market tanking, digital health companies continued to truck forward with huge deals.

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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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Morning Headlines 1/17/23

HIStalk

Viemed on the rise following $2M investment in ModoHealth In-home.

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Why EHR Data Is Key to Gathering More Accurate Medical Assessments

HIT Consultant

Jake Hochberg, Executive Director, Customer Insights at Arcadia. Patient data in electronic health records (EHRs) holds a wealth of insights that can enable health systems to better serve their patient populations. However, data from EHRs is challenging because this data is messy due to the lack of standardization in how clinical data is collected, and often times valuable information is buried in unstructured fields such as notes.

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Readers Write: Social Care Help Shouldn’t Come at Social Cost: Why Dignity and Ease Should Be at the Heart of Modernizing America’s Safety Net

HIStalk

Social Care Help Shouldn’t Come at Social Cost: Why Dignity.

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Brexit has worsened UK health

Health Care Leader News

With some distance now since the first peak of Covid-19 and two years after the UK left the EU single market, Nuffield Trust was keen to explore the impact of Brexit. Our report Health and Brexit: six years looks at how Brexit has influenced various aspects of health in the UK. And it found the clearest evidence yet that Brexit has exacerbated the challenges facing health and social care in the UK across several areas, such as NHS and social care staffing, the supply of medicines, and living sta

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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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The Top 5 Healthcare Contact Center Trends You Need to Watch in 2023

Sequence Health

The contact center industry is constantly changing, and 2023 is no exception. If you’re in the healthcare industry, staying up-to-date on the latest trends is essential so your contact center can keep pace. Read more: Healthcare Marketing Trends to Help your Business Flourish. With evolving CX demands, here are the top five contact center trends for healthcare in 2023 that you need to watch: 1.

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Brexit has worsened UK health

Health Care Leader News

With some distance now since the first peak of Covid-19 and two years after the UK left the EU single market, Nuffield Trust was keen to explore the impact of Brexit. Our report Health and Brexit: six years looks at how Brexit has influenced various aspects of health in the UK. And it found the clearest evidence yet that Brexit has exacerbated the challenges facing health and social care in the UK across several areas, such as NHS and social care staffing, the supply of medicines, and living sta

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Of All Forms of Inequality, Injustice in Health Care is the Most Shocking and Inhumane: Listening to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Health Populi

Today as we appreciate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I post a photo of him in my hometown of Detroit in 1963, giving a preliminary version of the “I Have a Dream” speech he would deliver two months later in Washington, DC. Wisdom from the speech: “But now more than ever before, America is forced to grapple with this problem, for the shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy.