Healthcare It News
AUGUST 13, 2021
LAS VEGAS – Whether it's from telemedicine, wearables and or electronic health records, a growing amount of healthcare data is becoming available on both an individual and population-wide level. "But just because you have data," pointed out Michael Meucci, chief operating officer at Arcadia, "doesn't mean that it's meaningful.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 9, 2021
New survey finds COVID-19 is taking a significant toll on physicians. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 08/09/2021 - 15:51.
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Health Populi
AUGUST 12, 2021
As connected devices proliferate within health care enterprises and across the health care ecosystem, cybersecurity risks abound. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.
Pro CRNA
AUGUST 8, 2021
By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. It’s 11pm and you are finally ready to collapse into bed…just another day in your hectic life. You resisted the urge to smash the alarm clock at 5am, got out of bed and hit the floor at full speed. The clock is ticking. You have one hour to shower, dress, and get breakfast ready before getting the kids up at 6am. At 6:30 your phone rings, an early case was added to the schedule, and you live nearby so they assumed that you wouldn’t mind doing it.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 13, 2021
In late March of last year, Frank Cutitta was admitted to a Boston-area hospital with COVID-19. He wouldn't walk out again until the Fourth of July, 100 days later. "My name is Frank Cutitta, and I am very happy, literally, to be here," Cutitta told HIMSS21 attendees on Thursday. As the former HIMSS senior director of content analytics and the founder of HIMSS Media Lab, Cutitta, now the founder and CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab, treated much of his time in the hospital as a long
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
To rein in ransomware attacks, the United States needs to upend the risk-reward ratio for hackers and for the countries that harbor or support them. Such a strategy would make networks harder to breach, hit back harder against hackers, and claw back gains from those who succeed.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Medical GPS
AUGUST 11, 2021
Empathy and Compassion in Healthcare. Responding to the emotional needs of patients with empathy and compassion can be challenging, at best, and it takes much practice to get it right. The first step is to recognize that there is an emotional need, and then act accordingly based on each patient’s unique circumstance. For example, as part of consulting with a physician group, we talked about the need for support staff to role-play as part of the team’s training.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 12, 2021
Orbita, a vendor of secure voice and chatbot virtual-assistant solutions for healthcare, has launched an upgrade to its conversational AI platform for healthcare, along with deployments with four healthcare organizations using Orbita to power automated patient engagement and support. Orbita's new Solution Center is an integrated system for quickly deploying secure, scalable, omnichannel voice and chatbot virtual assistants for healthcare's digital front door.
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 12, 2021
A Kremlin that backs sound macroeconomic policy and a strong private sector could hearten investors. A Kremlin that pursues statist economics and security at all costs could discourage them. Which Kremlin should investors expect?
Health Populi
AUGUST 13, 2021
“We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S. health policy and regulatory leaders. The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment.
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Bill Of Health
AUGUST 13, 2021
By Troy Sims. The Biden Administration has the opportunity to be the first administration to rid our legal system of cannabis regulation chaos. State laws governing medical or recreational cannabis conflict with federal regulations, leaving cannabis consumers, businesses, and the lawyers representing them caught in the middle. Guidance documents from the Department of Justice (DOJ) are an often-overlooked source of complexity and confusion in the cannabis industry.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 12, 2021
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American College of Healthcare Sciences
AUGUST 12, 2021
By Kathy Sadowski, MS in Aromatherapy, RA, LMT. This article originally appeared in the NAHA Journal (Spring 2021) and it is republished here according to the NAHA Writer Guidelines 2021 copyright statement. Have you ever gone to the garden store to buy an herb like basil (Ocimum basilicum) , to be surprised at how many varieties of the same plant are offered?
Clearwave Inc
AUGUST 9, 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutes Manual verification of patients’ insurance eligibility is time-consuming, labor-intensive and prone to error. The time spent on checking websites to verify coverage could be better spent on person-to-person patient interaction and effective patient experiences. Shifting eligibility to a digital solution creates that time for more personal service and offers clear financial transparency for your patients.
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The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
The United States spends billions on prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities. New lows in incarceration rates present a chance to shift resources away from costly correctional facilities and toward education, job training, transportation, and other community services.
Nordic
AUGUST 9, 2021
"Health systems do an amazing job of returning you to health. However, healthcare is shifting focus to a more personalized, preventive, and holistic view of health. No one else is as well-positioned to deliver on the promise of better lifelong health than health systems, but doing so will require them to invest in those kinds of capabilities." – Jim Costanzo, CEO.
Health Recovery
AUGUST 11, 2021
During Becker's Shift to Digital Podcast , Health Recovery Solutions’ VP of Client Growth, Doug Lang, discussed an increasingly popular topic: the Hospital at Home model. Across the country healthcare providers have been implementing the Hospital at Home model at an increased rate.
Bookzurman
AUGUST 9, 2021
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.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
Retirement is a fluid concept. Many retirees would consider returning to the workforce if conditions were right and they could set their own pace. A reframing of the aging and retirement process would allow us to see the issue in a new way.
Medcenter
AUGUST 13, 2021
Rebecca Bell, MD, is a pediatric intensivist at UVM Children’s Hospital caring for critically ill infants, children and adolescents in Vermont’s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). She is President of the Vermont Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP-VT). It’s August, which means that a summer of uncertainty has given way to a school year […].
Life Qi
AUGUST 10, 2021
The NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub’s document 'The spread and sustainability of Quality Improvement in Healthcare,' states that ‘Across the UK, a third of healthcare improvement projects never spread beyond their particular unit, a further third are embedded within their own unit and spread across an organisation, and a final third are spread across their own and other similar organisations.
Nordic
AUGUST 11, 2021
Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are under attack. Any organization that handles protected health information is an irresistible target for cyberattackers, regardless of where it sits in the health ecosystem. One survey found 70% of healthcare organizations had experienced a “significant [cyber]security incident” within the past 12 months.
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The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
After 20 years of war without victory in both Afghanistan and Iraq, it is time to derive key lessons from both conflicts to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Niccolò Machiavelli, whose insights on statecraft have endured for five centuries, is a valuable guide in analyzing those lessons.
Bookzurman
AUGUST 13, 2021
BookZurman is proud to share a recent post featuring the insights from guest author, Ioana Singureanu , BZ's Chief Innovation Officer. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) have a lot of promise, however, to be successful with collective adoption, we must remember to apply useful lessons of 30 years of HL7-based interoperability. Ioana Singureanu.
Advanced Data Systems
AUGUST 13, 2021
It’s no secret that the more you can standardize and automate processes, the more efficiently you can run an enterprise. There’s a timeline you can draw from the dawn of Henry Ford’s automotive assembly lines to the age of computerization and the ICD-10 codes we use today as standardized, universal descriptions for diagnosing and treating patients.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 12, 2021
Traditional cost-effectiveness measures measures treatment value based on how it affects your health. Health is often decomposed into longevity (i.e., survival) and quality of life while alive. However, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen argued that improvements in one’s life should be based on capabilities (a.k.a. opportunities, freedoms, advantages) to perform desired tasks rather than more abstract notions of utility.
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.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 13, 2021
National home health spending ballooned past $110 billion in late 2020, and with nearly 90% of Americans aged 50 and older wanting to age in place , the importance that home health providers hold within the health care continuum continues to rise. For home health agencies, this steady growth of in-home care demands steady investment into staffing, with a focus on outcomes.
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 13, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on defunding prisons, how to deter ransomware attacks, overcoming barriers to COVID-19 vaccination, and more.
Health IT Analytics
AUGUST 11, 2021
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 9, 2021
Many of us who are patients have the unpleasant experience of navigating the complex world of drug utilization management. This includes determining what formulary tier a drug will be on, if there are any prior authorization requirements and what our copay will be. The burden also falls on physicians in that they need to justify why specific drugs are needed for a given patient to secure coverage.
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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