July, 2021

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Write powerful professional email

Pro CRNA

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. follow@procrnatom on Twitter. Effective communication in the workplace is an essential foundation for high-performance teams. Being on the same page eliminates confusion, creates accountability, and promotes collaboration. Team meetings, workshops and retreats are ideal for ensuring that the message is delivered and understood, however, in a hectic workplace it is difficult to schedule group meetings without disrupting the workflow.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care. The COVID-19 era has shined a bright light on what some of us have been saying since the advent of the Internet’s emergence in health care: that digital literacies and connectivity are “super social determinants of health” because they underpin other social determinants of health, discussed in Digital inclusio

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Federal Speech Rulings May Embolden Health Care Workers to Call Out Safety Issues

KHN

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems. Hours after her letter was published in September 2017, officials at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, Maine, fired her , citing a policy that no employee may give information to the news media without the direct involvement of the media office.

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Ring of Safety: Top 9 Fire Pit Safety Tips

Medcenter

Who doesn’t love a freshly cooked s’more with a perfectly toasted marshmallow? Unfortunately, fire is inherently dangerous, and every year terrible accidents happen. Here, Abby Beerman, an injury prevention coordinator at University of Vermont Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, provides a list of safety tips to help you create only happy memories.

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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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How the Coronavirus Changed the Childcare Debate

The Rand Blog

Policymakers have long had evidence that childcare enables mothers to work. What the COVID-19 pandemic taught everyone is how the lack of childcare can be a disastrous constraint.

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The Future Belongs to Digital Pathology

Geek Doctor

Advances in artificial intelligence are slowly transforming the specialty, much the way radiology is being transformed by similar advances in digital technology. John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. Any patient who faces a potential cancer diagnosis knows how important an accurate, timely pathology report is.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. IQVIA has been closely following the growth, investment in, and clinical evidence for digital health since 2013, when I reviewed their first paper on “mHealth” her

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4 Ways to Keep Patients Engaged While Reducing No-Shows

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 2 minutes Whether it’s new patients or someone coming to your practice for many years, patient engagement is key to reducing no-shows. But many medical practices struggle to provide their patients with the experience they want and deserve. Here are 4 ways to keep your patients engaged while helping reduce no-shows: 1. Appointment Reminders.

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PIRP vs. GIRP vs. BIRP Notes

Icanotes

As a behavioral health clinician, you’re always writing notes during and following sessions. Whether a patient is dealing with depression, anxiety, a substance use disorder or is undiagnosed, accurate and detailed notes are necessary for their treatment. Progress notes facilitate the treatment process and allow for effective communication. Notes propel a patient’s trajectory through treatment and help to ensure the best outcomes.

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California Passes “Workaround” To Federal Limit on State Tax Deduction For Certain Owners of Pass-Through Entities

Sheppard Health Law

On July 16, 2021, Governor Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 150 into law, allowing certain owners of passthrough entities to find a way around the current $10,000 federal cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions for individuals. The new law, applicable to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2021 and ending before January 1, 2026, allows for many partnerships, limited liability companies taxed as partnerships, and S-Corporations to pay an entity level tax based on electing indiv

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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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Shift Happens

Geek Doctor

Dataset shift can thwart the best intentions of algorithm developers and tech-savvy clinicians, but there are solutions. John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. Generalizability has always been a concern in health care, whether we’re discussing the application of clinical trials or machine-learning based algorithms.

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What to Know About Osteoporosis

Healthcare Associates

What To Know About Osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a common type of bone disease that increases the risk of fractures. This bone condition can affect anyone, though men and women aged 50 years and older tend to be at the highest risk. Knowing what causes osteoporosis can empower you to keep your bones healthy and avoid developing this potentially debilitating condition.

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What Poor Birth and Maternity Outcomes in the U.S. Say About American Healthcare & “Infrastructure”

Health Populi

Cain Brothers is a 100+ year old financial services firm with a strong health care experience, now part of KeyBanc. A recent “House Calls” memo and podcast from two company analysts detailed the state of Medicaid, Motherhood and America’s Future: Giving Birth to Better Maternity Outcomes. Christian Pesci and David Johnson’s in-depth discussion detailed their bottom-line that, “maternity care in the U.S. is in crisis but poised for rapid evolution…(recognizing)

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The No Surprises Act is no Surprise

Advanced Data Systems

John Doe is an inpatient at a hospital. He and his family might have a handle on services and treatments that were actually seen performed, or at least known about such as surgeries.

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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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Building Community Power for Health Equity and Justice

Center for Health Progress

One of the most powerful reflections I’ve read about the COVID-19 pandemic came right at the beginning of it by one of my favorite writers, Arundhati Roy. She urged us use the pandemic as an opportunity to break from our flawed and broken society and use it as “a portal, a gateway between one world and the next…[that] we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world.

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Historic Lynchings and Voter Registration, China in Space, Firefighters' Mental Health: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on the link between historic lynchings and voter registration, Afghanistan in the era of fentanyl, supporting firefighters’ mental health, and more.

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Trust the CLEAR Coaching Process

Life Qi

Great coaching conversations take place in a container. The container is created jointly by the coach and the person doing the thinking, known as the ‘thinker’. Building the container is the contracting part of the conversation where you decide what subject to discuss, the time you have together, the outcome desired from the session, how you will know that you have achieved the outcome, the roles each will play and where to start.

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How Google and MEDITECH are charting a new course in digital healthcare

Meditech

One of the most exciting initiatives that Google has recently undertaken is expanding our support of healthcare providers and their patients. For healthcare organizations, Google’s focus is on providing them with innovative and scalable technology solutions to generate novel insights , improve care delivery, and enable greater efficiencies in the healthcare system.

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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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Pharmacies Garner Retail Health Love in the Pandemic – Update from J.D. Power

Health Populi

When we say the word “pharmacy,” we might picture the Main Street brick-and-mortar chain drugstore that dispenses medicines from behind the counter in the far back of the building, and sweet and salty snacks at the front by the cashier. In fact, “pharmacy” is the jumping off point for the expanding and increasingly beloved retail health ecosystem, J.D.

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How To Go Plastic-Free This July

American College of Healthcare Sciences

Have you ever wanted to live more sustainably but found that the habits you tried to build just wouldn’t stick? According to the organizers of the Plastic-Free Ecochallenge that ACHS participates in each year, many people care about environmental issues but their actions don’t align with their values. So, the organizers’ goal is to “help people who already care about the environment to figure out ways to take meaningful action in their lives, businesses, communities, and the world at large.

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Why are my eyes so dry?

Healthcare Associates

Why Are My Eyes So Dry? Dry eye disease is a common condition that can cause eye pain and gradually progress to impaired vision when not treated. Taking steps to prevent and treat dry eyes can help you maintain healthy eyes and avoid permanently damaging your eyesight. Continue reading to learn more about the symptoms and causes of dry eye and relieving dry eyes should you develop this condition.

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Fintech's Role in Reducing Disparities and Financial Barriers to Health Care Access

The Rand Blog

Given the growing pressures on health care systems globally and the need for innovative approaches to financing health care, the time may be ripe to develop a robust evidence base and share learning on fintech-enabled approaches that could support universal health coverage agendas and healthier and more stable societies.

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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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Stress Tested: How to Cope After a Very Long Year

Medcenter

For well over a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our ability to handle our stress and anxiety. We have all carried the mental load of pandemic life and loss and are now struggling to process and heal. In this Q+A, Aron Steward, MD, Chief of Psychology at the UVM Health Network – Champlain Valley Physician’s […]. The post Stress Tested: How to Cope After a Very Long Year appeared first on UVM Medical Center Blog.

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The QI Coaching Container

Life Qi

Every QI coach has a toolbox. It has taken many hours training in how to use the QI tools to develop this toolbox. Your job is to help those who don’t have the same expertise, tools, and techniques to improve patient care. In a coaching session the temptation is to quickly reach into the toolbox and offer a solution. But before we deploy our toolbox, we can learn from the world of coaching how to set up a ‘conversation container’ that will maximise the opportunity for a productive outcome from t

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Medical Debt in the U.S. Greater in States That Did Not Expand Medicaid

Health Populi

The level of medical debt in America exceeded debt of other types in 2020. Furthermore, the flow of medical debt was greater among health citizens living in states that did not expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act, compared with patients who reside in Medicaid expansion states, according to an original research essay, Medical Debt in the US, 2009-2020 published in JAMA on 20 July 2021.

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Student Highlight: H2a Botanicals

American College of Healthcare Sciences

By Gillian Turner, Social Media & PR Specialist. Sierra Goldstein is a student in the Bachelor of Science in Integrative Health Sciences Program. At age 14 she began to formulate her own products and is the founder of H2a Botanicals, a luxury skincare and wellness brand that she and her mother run. Getting Inspired. Growing up, Sierra was surrounded by plants in her mom’s garden. “ If I got a bee sting, she would chew on plantain and put it on the bee sting and things like that.

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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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Getting Your Child Back-to-School Ready

Voyage Healthcare

Summer is officially here and it feels like a gift. It is a wonderful time to enjoy the outdoors and spend time with your family taking in the fresh air and the long days. Although everyone deserves a break after the challenges of this past year, it may be an opportune time to mark one last thing off your to-do list before you officially check out for a well-deserved summer break!

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Equitable Data Analysis: Lessons from a COVID-19 Research Collaborative

The Rand Blog

The health inequities exposed by COVID-19 underscored the importance of collecting race-stratified data to inform local policymakers. For the public health researchers trying to provide that, the pandemic also revealed some major pitfalls, especially about relying on open-source data.

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How Citizens Memorial stayed connected with patients during the pandemic [Podcast]

Meditech

How did one small rural hospital maintain the personal contact that’s so important to providers and patients in the midst of a global pandemic — and how is healthcare technology transforming how they deliver care ? These are some of the questions I explore with Citizens Memorial Hospital's CIO Sherry Montileone and CMIO Dr. Lou Harris in our most recent MEDITECH podcast.

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How is the ONC Certification Program Affecting Interoperability? Find out.

Bookzurman

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up and difficult to see where the work that we, and our peers, do is being applied to help caregivers and patients. That's why we've hand-selected these recent articles featuring the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues that our team finds to be worth a quick read.

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