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By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. People are always looking for an edge; a way to position themselves a half step ahead of the crowd.
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CVS Health unveils new virtual primary care platform
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 27, 2022
CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. WHY IT MATTERS. The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers.
5 ways to future-proof your telehealth program
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MAY 31, 2022
Leaders have an opportunity to reimagine their telehealth infrastructure with these five best practices
Flipping the Script: Adoption and Reproductive Justice
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MAY 13, 2022
By Kimberly McKee. Adoption is a reproductive justice issue. Pretending otherwise ignores how adoption is used as a red herring in anti-abortion arguments. A recent invocation of this faulty logic occurred in Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s questions during the November 2021 oral arguments in Dobbs v.
Monday Morning Update 5/16/22
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MAY 15, 2022
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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP
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MAY 9, 2022
“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. Adults 50-Plus from AARP. Two years after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, one-half of U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth.
Show your face; Empathy and Trust in the mask-wearing workplace
Pro CRNA
MAY 15, 2022
By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. This article is not intended to make a political statement, pass judgement on the CDC, or coerce healthcare providers to do anything that would compromise their safety or that of their patients.
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By April Dinwoodie. I took a long, slow, deep breath when I heard Amy Coney Barrett, the adoptive mother of Black children, describe adoption as a “frictionless alternative to abortion.”
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Hospital labor expenses up 37% from pre-pandemic levels in March
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Misleading, Coercive Language in Bills Barring Trans Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care
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By Arisa R. Marshall. On Friday, a federal judge temporarily enjoined part of a new Alabama law that would make it a felony for physicians to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. The law had been in effect for less than a week.
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People Thinking More About the Value of Health Care, Beyond Cost
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The rate of people in the U.S. skipping needed health care due to cost tripled in 2021. This prompted West Health (the Gary and Mary West nonprofit organizations’ group) and Gallup to collaborate on research to quantified Americans’ views on and challenges with personal medical costs.
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