Fri.Aug 06, 2021

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CeBIL Annual Symposium 2021 – Orphan Drug Innovation: Needs and Priorities

Bill Of Health

What are the most pressing priorities for developing new drugs for rare diseases (i.e., orphan drugs), and how can social science research, particularly legal research, help meet these needs? Presenters will engage with these questions on Friday, September 17 at the 2021 CeBIL Symposium. Rare diseases affect approximately 25-30 million people in Europe, including millions of children.

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Rebuild Public Health for the Next Pandemic?

The Rand Blog

COVID-19 exposed how underprepared the United States was for a pandemic and raised questions about preparedness for the next one. With political will to spend money on public health, how can America take a holistic view of all the options? And how should investments be prioritized?

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Recent State Actions that Support and Expand Palliative Care

NASHP

Recent State Actions that Support and Expand Palliative Care Updated August 6, 2021. Palliative care is team-based care that provides relief from the stress and symptoms of a serious illness. This NASHP interactive map, supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation, highlights recent state actions that support and expand their palliative care initiatives.

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Media Literacy, Internet of Bodies, Arctic Governance: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on teaching media literacy in schools, a “connected future” via the Internet of Bodies, gaps in Arctic governance, and more.

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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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Evidence Generation Strategy under Germany’s Digital Healthcare: Is More Better?

Health Advances

By Ivan Hristov, Analyst; Holger Müller, Vice President. Key Takeaways. Digital Therapeutics (DTx) – software-based products with a medical effect hold significant promise in advancing healthcare outcomes. In 2019, Germany introduced the Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), opening a regulated route to widespread reimbursement of digital therapies, a first in Europe.

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What Makes VIE Healthcare® Different: Vendor Strategies

Vie Healthcare

At VIE Healthcare®, we like to approach things a little differently. One key area is looking at vendor strategies. In most cases, we already know what their strategy is. I recently got an email from a company that sells to vendors. That letter advises vendors to create a plan to increase their margins to accommodate rising costs. Any vendor increase is going to hurt hospital margins which are already under pressure.

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Why We Decided To Re-do Our Website

Vie Healthcare

At VIE Healthcare®, we recently decided to re-do our website. Why re-do our website? We’re committed to helping hospitals and health systems improve their operating margins with our proven financial strategies. We also have lots of great content on our website, which we’ve put time and resources into to support that commitment. To deliver that content to healthcare leaders, we rely on organic traffic.

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Twistle by Health Catalyst Showcases Innovative Ways to Eliminate Disparities in Care at HIMSS21

Twistle

Conference activities include product demonstrations, Pinksocks giveaway, and a Theater Presentation. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 6, 2021 / PRNewswire / — Twistle by Health Catalyst, Inc. (Nasdaq: HCAT) (“Twistle”), a secure communication platform that engages patients in their care, will host a variety of activities at the HIMSS21 Global Conference, including product demonstrations, a Pinksocks giveaway, and a Theater Presentation with Tom Burton, Director of Operatio

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July Roundup 2021

Life Qi

Coaching Methodologies.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

Simply put, is the equation, “Spend more, get less” a sustainable business model? Of course not. But that’s the simple math on U.S. health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries.

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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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Biosimilar use in France

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Like generic drugs for small molecules, biosimilars offer the hope for reducing drug prices after biologic therapies lose their patent protections. But how big an impact do biosimilars have and how comfortable are physicians with using these substitute products? A paper by Robinson and Jarrion (2021) use data from France as a case study to answer this question.