September, 2020

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DIY Health Care and Self-Care Accelerating in the Pandemic

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has spawned many side-effects re-shaping consumers’ everyday lives. Among them, more time at home, DIY life-flows, and financial well-being are driving growth of self-care health care. An article in the latest Drug Store News talks about consumers growing more health-conscious, adopting natural, homeopathic products. “It’s about more than washing your hands,” David Salazar explains. “Fending off illness has become a state of mind for many co

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Hong Kong Exchange: Nurturing China’s Biotech Valley

Health Advances

… And a Conversation with HKEX’s SVP & Head of China Issuer Services Silvia Chen. By Daniel Huang, Analyst ; Andrew Briggs, Engagement Manager ; Gary Cheng, Vice President. Executive Summary. Today, Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) is the second-largest market for biotech IPOs only after New York’s NASDAQ, and it has successfully established itself as a first choice IPO destination for China-based biotechs.

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Denying PPE and professional support for the disabled and marginalized is a deep injustice

Healthy Debate

I am a wheelchair-using mother who needs help accessing showers and with some transfers for day-to-day activities. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have paid for some personal protective equipment (PPE) on my own and for the folks that come to our house to support us.

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Can Wearable Technology Keep Healthcare Employees Safe?

PDC Healthcare

Over the past few years, the interest in wearable technology has surged exponentially. Seemingly everywhere you go, someone in close proximity to you will be wearing a piece of technology. These devices range from smart-watches to advanced heart rate monitors, sleep trackers, and so much more. Of course, this is only the tip of the […]. The post Can Wearable Technology Keep Healthcare Employees Safe?

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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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Help Get Your Patients Better Faster by Leveraging Digital Care Solutions

Medbridge Education

From hospitals to private practices, healthcare organizations have been rapidly adopting digital care solutions to continue providing patients with high-quality care during the COVID-19 crisis, but their value extends far beyond a COVID-19 response measure. In fact, a 2019 survey reported that 53 percent of patients preferred the convenience of digital care pre-COVID-191 , and […].

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Celebrate Get Ready Day!

Michele Late

It’s time to celebrate Get Ready Day! Is your family prepared for emergencies that might come your way? This is the perfect time to make a plan and take simple steps that can help keep you healthy and safe in the face of disasters. APHA’s Get Ready Day is held annually on the third Tuesday in September, National Preparedness Month. This year we’re celebrating Get Ready Day on Sept. 15!

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Biopharma R&D in the Post-COVID World

Health Advances

By Steven Chang, Ph.D., Senior Analyst ; Y inzi Liu, Ph.D., Engagement Manager ; Doug Mullen, Ph.D., Director ; and Wyatt Gotbetter, Partner. While U.S. states and countries are in the process of reopening their economies and managing resurgence of cases, the long-term challenge of COVID-19 on our healthcare system is just beginning. Recent studies now indicate that patients recovering from COVID-19 can suffer from long-term complications that could last far beyond the acute phase of the infe

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There is no ‘I’ in healthcare teams

Healthy Debate

Recently, I co-wrote an article entitled Practicing patient-centered medicine in a pandemic in which we discussed the paradigm shift family physicians are experiencing as a consequence of COVID-19: pivoting from considering unique patient factors to general community principles when making decisions for patients that weigh the global good.

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Addressing Workplace Violence in Emergency Departments: Contributing Factors and Solutions

PDC Healthcare

Emergency departments are one of the most, if not the most, dangerous departments in modern-day hospitals. Emergency department staff are tasked with caring for people in a variety of different situations, from drug overdoses to cases of extreme violence. With workplace violence rates rising in hospitals and emergency departments, hospitals are thinking proactively about how […].

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Registration is now open for Leaders in Healthcare!

Leaders in Healthcare

Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 12:45 Registration for this year’s Leaders in Healthcare conference on 8-11 November 2021 is now open. And we have special early bird prices available to all delegates! This in-person and online four day conference at the Barbican, London, aims to focus on the leadership challenges which all nations face in healthcare to improve the care we deliver for our patients.

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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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The Council and LHC Participate in Virtual Career Fair Hosted by Greater Nashville Technology Council

Healthcare Council

On August 26, the Greater Nashville Tech Council (NTC) along with Amazon, Nashville Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Health Care Council/ Leadership Health Care and Nashville Entrepreneur Center hosted a live virtual career fair. Participants had the opportunity to upload their resume and explore open positions in Nashville and Middle Tennessee using a virtual, interactive hiring.

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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the importance of connectivity, WiFi, broadband, as a social determinant of health and living. Connecting from our homes — now our health hubs, workplaces, schools, entertainment centers, and gyms — is necessary like air and water for survival across daily life flows. Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels.

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How COVID-19 Testing Demand Threw off Thermo Fisher’s Acquisition of Qiagen

Health Advances

. By Aaron J. Dy, Ph.D., Senior Analyst and Donna Hochberg, Ph.D., Partner. On March 3 rd , Thermo Fisher Scientific (“Thermo Fisher”) announced plans to acquire Qiagen for $11.5B, and by mid-July, the offer grew to $12.5B as COVID-19 increased demand for testing supplies that both companies offer. Then the deal fell apart as only 47% of Qiagen shares were tendered by the Aug. 10 deadline, well short of the two-thirds threshold required to complete the deal.

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To revitalize primary care policy, focus on relationships

Healthy Debate

Growing up, I knew there was something special about the relationship I had with my family doctor, the only physician I knew for my first two decades of life.For those two decades, our family doctor formed my ideas of what it was like to be a health professional. I distinctly remember the kind face and unhurried tone, but also the multiple roles played – at once scientist, advisor and connector.

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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 True Power of Community – Celebrating our 10th Anniversary

The Beryl Institute

Grounded in a shared and lived experience, co-created by a global community of voices who lead, live and innovate experience every day; those ideas represent the seeds from where every positive healthcare experience should spring. Those ideas are the foundation on which this community was born. Ten years ago today, September 14, The Beryl Institute community opened its doors as a global community of practice and formal membership community.

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These Secret Safety Panels Will Pick the COVID Vaccine Winners

KHN

Most Americans have never heard of Dr. Richard Whitley, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Yet as the coronavirus pandemic drags on and the public eagerly awaits a vaccine, he may well be among the most powerful people in the country. Whitley leads a small, secret panel of experts tasked with reviewing crucial data on the safety and effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines that U.S. taxpayers have helped fund, including products from Moderna, AstraZe

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on Americans’ mental health, with anxiety and depression growing as a side-effect to worries about the virus itself, the long Great Lockdown in much of the country, and the economic

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

Health Populi

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. The latest report from Philips Future Health Index series attests to that, and to clinicians’ general recognition that telehealth has been crucial in the early phase of the crisis.

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Pharma’s Future Relevance Depends on Empathy, Messaging, Partnering, and Supporting Patients and Providers

Health Populi

COVID-19 is re-shaping all industries, especially health care. And the pharma industry is challenged along with other health care sectors. In fact, the coronavirus crisis impacts on pharma are especially accelerated based on how the pandemic has affected health care providers, as seen through research from Accenture published in Reinventing Relevance: New Models for Pharma Engagement with Healthcare Providers in a COVID-19 World.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” As OED evolves the definition of PPE, the wordsmiths could borrow from OSHA’s website , noting that PPE, “is equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards.

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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

Health Populi

Home is where the health is, we know in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. To be sure, many of us who have been preaching that our ZIP codes are more impactful to our health than our genetic codes have known the evidence backing the social and behavioral determinants of health for a long time. This week, Parks Associates convened the Connected Health Summit , focused on the theme of consumer engagement and innovation.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Health Populi

People in the U.S. are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ p

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

People in the U.S. are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. adults 18 and over to determine peoplesR

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50 Days Before the U.S. Elections, Voters Say Health Care Costs and Access Top Their Health Concerns — More than COVID-19

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed deep cracks and inequities in U.S. health care in terms of exposure to COVID-19 and subsequent outcomes, with access to medical care and mortality rates negatively impacting people of color to a greater extent than White Americans. The pandemic has also led to economic decline that, seven weeks before the 2020 elections in America, is top-of-mind for health citizens with the virus-crisis itself receding to second place, according to the Kaiser Family Foundat

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The Emergence of Health Citizens – Part of Liberating Health, on the Medecision Blog

Health Populi

I have always appreciated Medecision’s mission as expressed in the company’s tagline: “Liberating,” as in “liberate healthcare.” I began collaborating with Medecision as a client several years ago, a couple of years after I heard Todd Park, then Chief Technology Officer in the White House, joyfully assert the phrase, “Data Liberación!

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

In terms of income, U.S. households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week. However, the U.S. Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 million people in 2017.

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When Off-Label is Your Biggest Competition: Rituximab in Autoimmune Diseases

Health Advances

. By Mansi Shinde, Ph.D., Engagement Manager ; Balazs Felcsuti, Vice President ; Sheela Hegde, Partner and Managing Director. Key Takeaways. Originally developed as an oncology agent, rituximab is a blunt but effective tool to dampen the immune response and treat diverse autoimmune diseases. Rituximab is increasingly used off-label to treat various autoimmune diseases and has been incorporated into guidelines and medical coverage policies based on investigator-initiated trials.

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Popcorn and devilled eggs: Reflections as OMA, Ontario head to the bargaining table

Healthy Debate

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Palliative vs. supportive: The zombie argument that refuses to die

Healthy Debate

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