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10 UI/UX Principles to Enhance Your Healthcare Website Experience

Healthcare Success

Is your website easy to use? Is it intuitive? Is it pleasant to interact with while also effectively delivering the information your consumers need? A successful website employs key UI/UX principles beyond beautiful pages. UI/UX ensures your website is Accessible, Intuitive Consumer-focused, and Trustworthy In this post, I’ll cover 10 UI/UX design basics that can positively impact your healthcare business.

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Health equity can be improved with CDS

Healthcare It News

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WHO Launches Global Infectious Disease Surveillance Network

Health IT Analytics

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Retail Clinics’ Growing Role in Health Care and Prescription Drug Sales

Health Populi

“It seemed like an odd pairing: shampoo and a throat swab,” observes a new report on the growth of retail health from Definitive Healthcare. But retail clinics are no longer, as the paper explains, “an experiment of a few grocery stores… they’re becoming a major force in the U.S. healthcare system,” asserts the thesis of Retailers in healthcare: A catalyst for provider evolution.

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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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3 Ways to Resolve Recent Payment Collection Issues in Medical Billing

p3care

Despite all the issues practice may face, one of the most common is capturing payments from payers. Not all medical payers are slow. They usually have strict policies that the respective medical billing services in USA have to obey. Well, the findings from one survey by the U.S. Bank tell us about the pity of unexpected medical bills. Nobody certainly has an extra budget for paying such bills.

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Amazon’s PillPack reports data breach affecting more than 19,000

Health Care Dive

The online pharmacy said the attack exposed customers’ email addresses, prescription information and contact details for their prescribing provider. Around 3,600 affected accounts included prescription information.

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Startup Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health to build out telehealth services

Fierce Healthcare

Startup Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health to build out telehealth services hlandi Wed, 05/24/2023 - 06:15

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Emerging Respite Care Strategies in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waivers for Older Adults, Adults with Physical Disabilities, and their Family Caregivers

NASHP

Introduction Abundant research — and often our own lived experience — points to the physical, mental, and emotional toll of caregiving. With caregivers increasingly asked to perform more intense and complex care , respite care is integral to giving caregivers a much-needed break. Respite care is a service typically delivered in the home or a facility-based setting that provides short-term relief for caregivers.

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CVS could lose up to $1B next year from MA star ratings drop

Health Care Dive

Just 21% of CVS’ MA members are currently in plans with a star rating of at least four, down from 87% at the end of 2021, the payer disclosed.

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Roundup: Monash IVF begins digital transformation and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Monash IVF taps Personify Care for digital transformation ASX-listed fertility services provider Monash IVF Group has started embarking on its digital transformation by implementing a digital front door. It recently partnered with Personify Care to set up digital patient pathways which optimise the collection and sharing of critical information with patients throughout their treatment.

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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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Minnesota lawmakers cut nurse staffing ratios from union-backed bill due to Mayo Clinic, industry pushback

Fierce Healthcare

Minnesota lawmakers cut nurse staffing ratios from union-backed bill due to Mayo Clinic, industry pushback dmuoio Tue, 05/23/2023 - 15:14

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The Growing Pet Economy – What It Means for Human Health, Well-Being, and Healthcare Costs

Health Populi

Our pets can be personal and family drivers of health and health care cost savings, according to a new study from according to a new report from researchers at George Mason University published in their paper, Health Care Cost Savings of Pet Ownership. Reviewing this new paper inspired me to explore the current state of the pet/health market and implications for their human families, my weaving of various stories explored in this Health Populi blog post.

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Digital health funding holds steady in Q1 after year of decline

Health Care Dive

The digital health sector defied trends seen in the larger venture capital environment, where funding continues to fall. But digital health investment is still at its lowest level seen in years.

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Patients need more info, tools and support

Healthcare It News

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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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Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins and 20 others pledge to join TEFCA, prioritize interoperability

Fierce Healthcare

Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins and 20 others pledge to join TEFCA, prioritize interoperability aburky Mon, 05/22/2023 - 17:13

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Home Health Hiring Market ‘Continues To Be Incredibly Competitive,’ But Savvy Operators Are Finding Ways To Set Themselves Apart

Home Health Care

Staffing shortages are the No. 1 industry headwind that home-based care providers are facing. At the same time, ubiquity of this issue has created an environment where the most innovative providers have been able to rise to occasion, cultivating staffing strategies that have allowed them to lessen the impact of the persistent pain point. “There’s no silver bullet to staffing,” Jeff Knapp, chief people officer at Bayada Home Health Care, said Wednesday during a panel discussion at Home Heal

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Modernized, AI-enabled VoC to meet today’s CX

Health Care Dive

Today’s optimized and AI-enabled VoC survey will meet the mark for improved member experience in two key areas across both commercial and Medicare member bases.

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Back Pain Between Shoulder Blades

Healthcare Associates

Back Pain Between Shoulder Blades Back pain is one of the most common types of recurring or chronic pain. Over 44% of adults over the age of 45 report back pain each year. Back pain can interrupt daily activities, interfere with work and make it difficult to sleep comfortably. For many people, back pain occurs in the upper back between the shoulder blades.

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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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Walgreens asks federal court to toss 'staggering' $642M arbitration award to Humana

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens asks federal court to toss 'staggering' $642M arbitration award to Humana hlandi Tue, 05/23/2023 - 16:17

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After 3-Year Dip, Home Care Turnover Soars To 77%

Home Health Care

The industry’s turnover rate was one of the biggest topics of conversation in home care in 2019. And that was for good reason. The median rate had skyrocketed all the way to 81.6%, according to data collected by the research and education company HCP. But since that point, it had significantly improved. From 2019 to 2021, the median turnover rate floated marginally from 64.3% to 65.2%.

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AHIP chief executive to step down in October

Health Care Dive

Matt Eyles will depart after serving nearly five years as CEO of AHIP. The organization is launching a nationwide search for his replacement.

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H1 Partners with Michael J. Fox Foundation on Parkinson’s Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: H1, the connecting force for global healthcare provider, clinical, science, and research information, today announced the world’s largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s research, The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), has selected its Trial Landscape solution to improve and transform its education and research initiatives.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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CVS braces for $1B hit following Medicare Advantage star ratings drop

Fierce Healthcare

CVS braces for $1B hit following Medicare Advantage star ratings drop pminemyer Fri, 05/26/2023 - 12:45

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ComForCare Partners With Connected Home Living To Roll Out RPM Service Nationally

Home Health Care

ComForCare has established a partnership with Connected Home Living to launch Connected Care, its remote patient monitoring (RPM) program for seniors. “This is a transformative step for our business as we think about delivering comprehensive and compassionate care to our clients,” Best Life Brands CEO J.J. Sorrenti told Home Health Care News. “This technology is proactive care.

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Pharma-backed report targets federal clinics for benefiting financially from 340B drug discounts

Health Care Dive

Those grantees on average are reimbursed almost four times more for 340B prescription drugs than what they pay, and make billions in 340B drug margin, according to the report, which was funded by Gilead Sciences.

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Why AI-Driven Cancer Screening Will Soon Become Standard of Care

HIT Consultant

Bob Jacobus, co-founder and CEO AI Metrics Healthcare delivery is undergoing a dramatic transformation as AI technologies begin to take hold in the care setting. The technology is revolutionizing radiology, particularly in ED triage, early disease detection, and now in cancer imaging and reporting. These fields are particularly suited to improvements using AI, given their antiquated workflows and resistance to change over the decades.

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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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LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr helps fight a COVID-related decrease in STI testing

Fierce Healthcare

LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr helps fight a COVID-related decrease in STI testing aburky Wed, 05/24/2023 - 20:08

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Military Assistance to Ukraine Is a Rare Success

The Rand Blog

Recently, the United States reversed its longstanding opposition to sending Ukraine F-16 advanced aircraft to aid its fight against Russia. The policy reversal is a smart call. Once the aircraft are delivered and training is complete the jets will help Ukraine defend its territory more efficiently, and might even help end the war.

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US projected to hit record-low uninsurance rate this year, before rates tick upward

Health Care Dive

As federal aid expires, lower-income Americans — who saw the largest recent gains in uninsurance trends — will likely be affected the most, according to experts.

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Nurse Engagement and Satisfaction Start with their Schedules

HIT Consultant

Lindsey Klein, Chief Strategy Officer at QGenda How do we attract good nurses? More importantly: How do we keep them? Those questions have reverberated throughout hospitals and health systems nationwide lately—but they’re not new. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, industry analysts warned of significant nurse shortages. The pandemic only added more stress and exhaustion to the nursing experience, prompting the largest exodus of nurses from the profession in 40 years.

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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.