Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.” The first chart shows the one-year trend on trust across industries through U.S. consumers’ eyes. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points.

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Pro CRNA

APRIL 18, 2021

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. Healthcare delivery is stressful for both leaders and workers regardless of the title behind the person’s name or their position on the chain of command. Ever-increasing expectations from patients and their families combined with demands put forth by physician colleagues creates a high-pressure environment for leaders and workers alike.

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Hospital Medicine

APRIL 28, 2021

This article is part of a series in The Hospital Leader written by members of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas in Austin, exploring lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and outlining an approach for creating COVID-19 Centers of Excellence. “¡Por favor sálvenlo!” “Please, save him.” The [.].

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Center for Health Progress

APRIL 1, 2021

I live in southern Colorado, a full two hours south of Denver, if traffic is light. As housing prices have climbed and folks are squeezed out of the housing market in the Denver metro area, I’ve noticed more folks moving south to enjoy our milder winters (less snow!), our beautiful Chicanx/Latinx/Mexican culture (green chile!), and substantially more affordable housing.

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Icanotes

APRIL 20, 2021

A mental health treatment plan is like a roadmap — it identifies the intended destination and establishes the best route to get there. When working with patients entering into addiction treatment, creating a mental health treatment plan is essential to the overall success of therapy. Besides giving you a plan for moving forward, it also lays out what's expected of a patient during their treatment.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 26, 2021

While many organizations define population health slightly differently, its core aim is to provide an opportunity for leaders in healthcare, agencies, education, and business to work together in order to improve the health outcomes in the communities they serve, all while making an impact to reduce the total cost of care. Technology and data can help bring significant health concerns into focus and address ways that resources can be allocated to overcome the problems that drive poor health condi

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Pro CRNA

APRIL 4, 2021

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. The healthcare workplace is fast-paced and often a hectic arena that challenges the skills of leaders and managers at all levels. Frontline leaders who work at the grassroots level where provider priorities collide with the patient’s needs and expectation are especially challenged daily to keep the train on the tracks.

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Hospital Medicine

APRIL 15, 2021

I noticed it on my first few days as a medical student on the wards. I presented a patient next to the taller, male medical student, and the patient looked to him rather than to me. On top of the usual nerves of a new rotation and presenting in front of a clinical team, I [.]. The post #JHMChat: A Candid Conversation About Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

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Patient Safety Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

In a continuum of care, the concept of an integrated care system, there are many risks for patient safety.

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Healthy Debate

APRIL 26, 2021

The post Health-care workers’ safety: it’s time to prioritize us, too appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

APRIL 30, 2021

In a nation where Black women are disproportionately impacted by maternal mortality; Merck for Mothers has committed to understanding women’s experiences in order to improve the quality of maternity care. In its Evidence for Impact 2020 Research Compendium , it was found that: 1) racism and discrimination influence perceptions of respect and overall quality of care; 2) fragmented health care systems make it difficult to build patient-provider trust; and 3) patient-centered approaches need to be

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree.

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Health Care Success

APRIL 19, 2021

It was stunning to witness the explosion and adoption of telehealth in the healthcare industry. Just over a year ago, before the COVID impact, the tele-techno adoption rate was zero to glacial at best. But suddenly, the healthcare industry was transformed from top to bottom. Of necessity, healthcare systems, hospitals and medical practices responded with a dramatic change.

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Hospital Medicine

APRIL 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed health care as we know it. It has sowed fear and doubt among the public and created endless questions without answers. Our hospitalized patients may wonder why they can’t have their families beside them and worry about contracting the virus in the hospital. Strict visitation policies only add to their [.]. The post Addressing Our Patients’ Most Difficult COVID-19 Concerns appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medici

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Patient Safety Blog

APRIL 13, 2021

A healthcare incident is an unintended or unexpected event that harmed a patient or caregiver—or has the potential to harm them. Incidents or errors occur for various reasons or root causes, such as system design flaws, lack of administrative oversight, poor training, digression from protocols, miscommunication, and more. Some incidents are preventable, which means there is a multitude of examples of incidents in healthcare that, when properly evaluated, can ultimately contribute to better quali

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Healthy Debate

APRIL 23, 2021

The post A call to action: An approach to patient transfers for rural and remote communities in Canada appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Icanotes

APRIL 13, 2021

As a mental and behavioral healthcare provider, you want to give your patients the best care and treatment possible. You also want to ensure your practice is paid for the services it provides as quickly and efficiently as possible. Mistakes and errors on the claims you submit to insurance companies can delay payment or cause the company to reject your claim.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

Health care has increased its role in popular culture over the years. In movies in particular, we’ve seen health care costs and hassles play featured in plotlines in As Good as it Gets [theme: health insurance coverage], M*A*S*H [war and its medical impacts are hell], and Philadelphia [HIV/AIDS in the era of The Band Played On], among dozens of others.

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ACHE

APRIL 26, 2021

By Stephan Davis, DNP, FACHE. “Healthcare leadership is more than a profession, it’s a calling.” It’s a simple but profound statement that kicked off the 2021 ACHE Congress on Healthcare Leadership. As a healthcare leader and educator of color, I feel called in this moment to respond to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Minority Health’s request that individuals and communities share the reasons why they are #VaccineReady, the theme for this year’s National Minority H

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Hospital Medicine

APRIL 7, 2021

This article is part of a series in The Hospital Leader written by members of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas in Austin, exploring lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and outlining an approach for creating COVID-19 Centers of Excellence. During the early months of the COVID-19 [.]. The post Navigating Challenges in COVID-19 Care: Early Strategies for Adapting to a Moving Target appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog

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Medi Leadership

APRIL 25, 2021

How do you address sensitive or controversial issues effectively within your team? Often, healthcare leaders mistakenly feel they must choose between (a) addressing the issue and damaging relationships or (b) ignoring the issue for the sake of the relationship. High-performing leaders manage to do both, addressing delicate topics in a way that strengthens relationships, team performance and engagement.

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Healthy Debate

APRIL 28, 2021

The post Tackling racism in health care appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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 Policy News

APRIL 30, 2021

This month’s edition of Health Policy News features a recent PCG white paper on Syndromic Surveillance—a tool that has been central to helping state and local health departments track the.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. PwC’s Health Research Institute has combed through their consumer survey data and developed insights on health consumers, shared in a summary titled Consumer health behavior and the COVID-19 pandemic: What we’ve learned. Most U.S. consumers would be likely to have a clinician visit their homes for several kinds of medical care, including: “DIY care,” as PwC exe

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Lexis Nexis

APRIL 27, 2021

The shift to real-world evidence and real-world data has driven a significant transformation in healthcare. While EMR, medical, and pharmacy claims data have traditionally been the main source of information for life science companies, that data doesn’t give a complete picture of the patient. Studies show that medical determinants are only accountable for 20% of healthcare outcomes, whereas social determinants of health (SDOH) account for as much as 50% [i].

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Health Care Success

APRIL 26, 2021

Hospital and health system CEOs must lead their teams to successfully deal with innumerable daily challenges. And we understand that there’s more than marketing on your mind. CEOs are responsible for delivering excellent healthcare to communities, patient experience, patient safety, physician relations, reimbursements, donors, employee relations, treating COVID-19 patients, vaccine distribution, capital investments, maintaining and growing the public’s trust, community relations, and

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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.

Medi Leadership

APRIL 23, 2021

In our coaching work, we often encounter groups made up of highly talented, deeply dedicated members who are struggling to come together as a high-performing team due to interpersonal dynamics. Of course, we always need to explore the context in which the situation has arisen to address it effectively. We often find the key to enhanced communications, trust and overall team effectiveness lies in the mastery of a set of basic principles and tools.

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Michele Late

APRIL 23, 2021

Avalon Aragon is a public health student at the George Washington University who is interning with APHA’s Get Ready campaign. Earlier this year, she was diagnosed with COVID-19. She is sharing her experience with COVID-19 — how she felt, what she did and what she’s learned. How did I get COVID-19? To be honest, I’m not sure. I had a normal weekend and did the same things I usually carefully do with my social bubble.

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Leaders in Healthcare

APRIL 23, 2021

Friday, April 23, 2021 - 14:00 The teams at FMLM and the BMJ are creating an in-person and online conference for Leaders in Healthcare 2021, taking place from 8 - 11 November. This structure will allow for two days of intensive, high quality leadership development to occur in-person, at the Barbican in central London, including the opportunity to meet and connect face to face again with colleagues, speakers and event supporters.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2021

As the COVID-19 expanded peoples’ consciousness about infectious disease and opportunities to keep a tricky virus at bay, consumers grew new muscles about public and individual wellness…now, “more invested in achieving it,” according to In Health We Trust , a survey report from Healthline Media. To gauge Americans changing perspectives on personal health, HealthLine conducted surveys among 1,533 U.S. consumers age 18 and over in February 2020 (just about the time the coro

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