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Data centricity: How data can help improve the patient experience

Osf Healthcare

As OSF HealthCare works to improve the health of the communities it serves, it’s imperative our organization use every resource available to get a complete picture of our patients. Only a small percent of an individual’s data that impacts their health outcomes comes from our own electronic medical record.

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The Saudi trainees’ resilience and professionalism make it even harder to see them go

Healthy Debate

Despite the incredible anxiety the Saudi residents must be feeling, many have continued working 26-hour overnight shifts to help ease the transition.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters. Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity.

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More U.S. Companies Offering Health Insurance After 8 Years of Decline

Health Populi

After eight years of decline, more U.S. employers offered health insurance to workers in 2017, EBRI reports in its latest Issue Brief. In 2017, 46.9% of U.S. companies offered health insurance to their employees, up by 1.6 percentage points from a low of 45.3% in 2016. For perspective, ten years earlier in 2008, 56.4% of employers offered health insurance, shown in the first bar chart (Figure 1 from the EBRI report).

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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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Pre-Existing Conditions: A Bipartisan, National Health Priority

Health Populi

Pre-existing conditions impact Americans north, south, east and west, the Kaiser Family Foundation maps. But those maladies aren’t evenly distributed across the U.S.: the highest incidences of people with pre-existing conditions are generally dotted in the eastern half of the U.S., in diverse metropolitan areas. A striking aspect of this map is that one metro that has a higher rate of people with pre-existing conditions can co-exist in a state with another town whose population is much healthier