November, 2019

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. First, some overall context to the study. GlobalWebIndex “connects the dots” of consumers trends in 2020 including the topics shown in the first graphic including commerce and retail, gaming, travel, human touch, n

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Why am I so tired? Common conditions and associated symptoms

Isabel Healthcare Blog

As we head into the last month of the 2019, and for many of us the busiest month too, we can find ourselves getting more and more tired, as we try to balance work, the holidays, and visiting family and friends. What’s more, at this time of year, particularly in climates where the weather is getting colder, there are many more illnesses and colds going around, which can all contribute to us feeling a little less spring in our step.

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Make sure your Thanksgiving guests go home with happy memories, not stomach cramps

Michele Late

By USDA FoodSafety.gov The holidays are here, which means you’re probably getting ready to share meals and merriment with families and friends. This can be a fantastic and yummy time of the year. But if you don’t take care while preparing all that delicious holiday food, you can put people at risk for food poisoning. Anyone can get sick from food poisoning, but some folks are at higher risk.

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It Takes a Village to Ensure Experience Excellence

The Beryl Institute

The well-cited African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” reinforces that an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment. The villagers look out for children. As a parent, I can’t agree with that more, and when I look back at my own childhood, I am reminded of the many people who encouraged and protected me – from teachers, neighbors and extended family to the nice sales clerk who helped me find my

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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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Creating a work-life balance for our nurses

Osf Healthcare

Health care systems around the country face a common staffing problem. Sometimes nurses are scheduled for more patients than actually arrive at the hospital. Other times, there aren’t enough nurses to cover patient demand.

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LHC CHAIR SPOTLIGHT: Jessica Wells

Healthcare Council

What led you to join LHC? While I was with Saint Thomas Health, our CEO was a board member of the Nashville Healthcare Council. He encouraged me to join LHC and attend a few of the events. I found the educational offerings to be hugely beneficial and was able to meet new colleagues with whom. The post LHC CHAIR SPOTLIGHT: Jessica Wells appeared first on Nashville Health Care Council.

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Differential Diagnostic Challenges in Older Patients

Isabel Healthcare Blog

In the United Kingdom (UK), adults over 80 years are the fastest growing population. Around a quarter of the population in the UK are over 60 years old, and by 2030, this figure will rise to a third of the population. In the United States, in 2018 those age over 65 accounted for 52 million (16% of the total population) and projections currently estimate that by 2060 this will increase to 95 million (23% of the total population).

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Are you ready for a quake? Debunking the myths and sharing the facts

Michele Late

We know earthquakes can be scary. They’re unpredictable and can happen anywhere. But there’s good news: Preparing for earthquakes can help keep you safe. First, let’s debunk some common earthquake myths: MYTH: Earthquakes don’t happen where I live. FACT: Major earthquakes happen in all regions across the country. They can happen at any time and in any place, so it’s best to be as prepared as possible.

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HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKS AND TEACHER RETENTION: Save money. Improve health.

Healthcare Highways

Is your school district open to healthcare innovation? Your teachers are.

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A chance to turn my idea into a reality

Osf Healthcare

One Mission Partner describes her experience participating in a Trailblazer Challenge, an effort to empower staff to be innovators.

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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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Ontario Health Teams are good for your health.

Healthy Debate

The post Ontario Health Teams are good for your health. appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

It was the best of times, It was the worst of times, It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …. starts Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. . That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending.

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Could I have pulmonary hypertension (PH)?

Isabel Healthcare Blog

This month is Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month when charities launch campaigns to raise awareness about this progressive lung disease which is thought to affect around 1% of the global population (increasing to 10% for those aged over 65). As symptoms are non-specific, the disease is often misdiagnosed, which is why increasing awareness is so critical.

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Using Nurse Lines to Improve Healthcare Navigation

Health Dialog

How to Connect Patients to the Benefits and Services They Need Most. It’s a well-known fact that telephonic nurse lines are effective in delivering clinical information to patients and ensuring appropriate use of care. While the average ER visit costs roughly $1,389 1 per patient, health plans can often realize measurable cost-savings by simply giving their members free, 24/7 access to a reliable clinical resource.

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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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HEALTHCARE AND YOUR COMPANY: Everything You Need To Know To Take Back Control

Healthcare Highways

Healthcare benefit costs are devouring your budget, workforce productivity, and employee raises.

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More Evidence of Self-Rationing as Patients Morph into Healthcare Payors

Health Populi

Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. This role of patient-as-the-payor crosses consumers’ ages and demographics, and is heating up health care as the top political issue for the 2020 elections at both Federal and State levels.

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The Link Between Wellness & Wealth Is Powerful for Everyone – and Especially Women

Health Populi

In the U.S., the link between wellness and wealth, money and health, is strong and common across people, young and old. But the impacts of money on health, well-being, and life choices varies across the ages, based on a study from Lively , a company that builds platforms for health savings accounts. The first chart illustrates that health care costs challenge people in many ways: the most obvious health care cost problems prevent people from saving more for retirement or paying down debt.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. The story started with the scenario that, “Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed.” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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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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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

Health Populi

On the demand side of U.S. health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies. But as payors, health consumers face challenges in getting care, so great expectations are met with frustration and eroding trust with the system, acc

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. When Daddy drove us back out to our suburban home about 30 minutes from the fancy hotel, the car radio was tuned to WWJ Newsradio 950, all news all the time. As soon as Daddy switched on the radio, we were shocked by the news of a riot breaking out in the city, fires and looting and gunshots and chaos in the Motor City.

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The Link Between Wellness & Wealth Is Powerful for Everyone – and Especially Women

Health Populi

In the U.S., the link between wellness and wealth, money and health, is strong and common across people, young and old. But the impacts of money on health, well-being, and life choices varies across the ages, based on a study from Lively , a company that builds platforms for health savings accounts. The first chart illustrates that health care costs challenge people in many ways: the most obvious health care cost problems prevent people from saving more for retirement or paying down debt.

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Longevity Stalls Around the World And Wealth, More Concentrated

Health Populi

Two separate and new OECD reports, updating health and the global economic outlook, raise two issues that are inter-related: that gains in longevity are stalling, with chronic illnesses and mental ill health affecting more people; and, as wealth grows more concentrated among the wealthy, the economic outlook around most of the world is also slowing.

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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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Hospitals Suffer Decline in Consumer Satisfaction

Health Populi

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report. ACSI polls about 300,000 U.S. consumers each year to gauge satisfaction with over 400 companies in 46 industries.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

Today is 4th November 2019, exactly one year to the day that Americans can express their political will and cast their vote for President of the United States. Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform.