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NYT investigation finds Providence pressured poor patients to pay

Health Care Dive

“The result, in the case of Providence, is that thousands of poor patients were saddled with debts that they never should have owed,” The New York Times found.

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Retail Health: Fad, Failure, or Future?

Healthcare Leadership

Over the past two years, retail health has been a hot topic of conversation. Some see retail health as a threat, some see it as the natural evolution of healthcare, and some see it as an innovative disruptor. We may not know who is right for a decade or more, but there is no doubt that retail health is having an immediate impact. But is that impact good?

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CommonSpirit posts $1.3B full-year operating loss

Health Care Dive

It’s the latest system to report that pressures from inflation and expenses are outpacing revenue growth.

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Digiceuticals: Driving Growth Through Digital Health Services

HIT Consultant

Subhro Mallik, SVP & Head of Life Sciences at Infosys. There was tremendous interest in telemedicine before 2020. However, the COVID-19 pandemic made it a reality triggering unprecedented disruption across the industry. For instance, digital-first healthcare aggregators had been testing programs for telemedicine but, since 2020, the demand for telehealth services has exploded across the globe.

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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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Moody’s downgrades Envision, citing high bankruptcy risk

Health Care Dive

The private equity-owned physician staffing firm faces a deteriorating operating performance that could deplete its cash by the end of 2023, the rating agency warned.

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Sequential PDSA cycles vs. Simultaneous PDSA cycles

Life Qi

We’ve taken a look at ‘Plan-Do-Study-Act’ (PDSA) cycles in some of our previous blogs. You can use this four-step model for improvement as a framework for changes across a wide range of industries.

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The need for family medicine

Healthy Debate

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 9/26/22

HIStalk

It seems like lately I have been seeing more of.

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We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health

Bill Of Health

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism. Management consulting firm McKinsey, for example, writes that COVID has taught us that “infectious diseases are a whole-of-society issue.

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HIStalk Interviews Julie Bonello, Advisor and Former CIO

HIStalk

Julie Bonello, RN, MS is a career CIO who is.

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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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Biden-?Harris Admin Awards $1.5B to Address Overdose Epidemic

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), awarded nearly $1.5 billion to support states, tribal lands, and territories’ efforts to address the opioid crisis and support individuals in recovery. – The grants are part of SAMHSA’s State Opioid Response and Tribal Opioid Response grant programs.

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Morning Headlines 9/26/22

HIStalk

The Watch Is Ticking: A Five-Year Plan to Harness Wearable.

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