Sat.Jul 03, 2021 - Fri.Jul 09, 2021

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care. The COVID-19 era has shined a bright light on what some of us have been saying since the advent of the Internet’s emergence in health care: that digital literacies and connectivity are “super social determinants of health” because they underpin other social determinants of health, discussed in Digital inclusio

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Federal Speech Rulings May Embolden Health Care Workers to Call Out Safety Issues

KHN

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems. Hours after her letter was published in September 2017, officials at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, Maine, fired her , citing a policy that no employee may give information to the news media without the direct involvement of the media office.

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Why are my eyes so dry?

Healthcare Associates

Why Are My Eyes So Dry? Dry eye disease is a common condition that can cause eye pain and gradually progress to impaired vision when not treated. Taking steps to prevent and treat dry eyes can help you maintain healthy eyes and avoid permanently damaging your eyesight. Continue reading to learn more about the symptoms and causes of dry eye and relieving dry eyes should you develop this condition.

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Student Highlight: H2a Botanicals

American College of Healthcare Sciences

By Gillian Turner, Social Media & PR Specialist. Sierra Goldstein is a student in the Bachelor of Science in Integrative Health Sciences Program. At age 14 she began to formulate her own products and is the founder of H2a Botanicals, a luxury skincare and wellness brand that she and her mother run. Getting Inspired. Growing up, Sierra was surrounded by plants in her mom’s garden. “ If I got a bee sting, she would chew on plantain and put it on the bee sting and things like that.

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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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How Value-Based Care Has Created Opportunities to Improve Patient Care

GoMoHealth

In a landscape in which consumers are routinely left with questions and feeling underserved, it’s considerably important that healthcare providers offer a heightened level of service and support in what are, very often, “life-or-death” matters. Recent data from Gallup indicates that nearly half of all Americans surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their level of healthcare, and this sense of dissatisfaction is made stronger with every substandard, anemic, or fleeting interaction with their

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10 interesting facts about nurses

Spok Inc

Check out these 10 interesting facts about nurses to learn more about nurses in many different areas of healthcare. The post 10 interesting facts about nurses appeared first on Spok Inc.

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The Many Factors That Make a Child’s Well-Being Build Our Adult Health – the Aspirational OECD Framework

Health Populi

The ultimate health and wellbeing of an adult depends on the factors that shape us when we are children. A new, deep report from the OECD, Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies , spells out the many domains of experience that, together, bolster our whole health as we grow from child to adult. The first chart presents the OECD’s framework for measuring child well-being, calling out the nature of being “aspirational.” This re-look at children’s health da

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Trust in Healthcare and the Dilemma of Shared Leadership Roles

Healthcare Leadership

On the next HCLDR Tweetchat on Tuesday July 13th at 8:30pm ET (for your local time click here ) we welcome special guest host David Campbell, PhD @david_ethics , Ethicist for Kingston Health Sciences Centre. He will be leading us in an exploration of how shared corporate leadership roles can pose ethical challenges in the form of potential conflicts of interest.

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North York Cares: Health team proving value of innovation

Healthy Debate

The post North York Cares: Health team proving value of innovation appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Federal Speech Rulings May Embolden Health Care Workers to Call Out Safety Issues

KHN

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems. Hours after her letter was published in September 2017, officials at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, Maine, fired her , citing a policy that no employee may give information to the news media without the direct involvement of the media office.

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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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The 5 Key Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring

Twistle

Over the past year we’ve experienced the important role of telemedicine in monitoring and managing patient health and wellness. Adding remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology to a telehealth program increases access to care and enhances the quality of care delivery. As telehealth and remote patient engagement become the norm, it is critical that organizations embrace the power of RPM to drive better patient outcomes. .

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Patient Matching Isn’t Just a “Nice to Have”

Lexis Nexis

Managing patient information across care settings and platforms for core business functions, interoperability, and patient safety requires coordination and collaboration. Especially with new interoperability mandates going into effect on July 1, there are a lot of questions about what this means. Mismatched and duplicate records aren’t just a nuisance, they can cause serious harm to patients.

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15 Common Mental Health Myths: Busted

Etactics

There’s so much misinformation surrounding mental health. Because of this, many common myths develop among the general population. People make assumptions due to common stereotypes, experience with mental health, and interactions with someone with a condition. Yet doing this leads to misconceptions and more stigma. These mental health myths make it less likely for people to seek help.

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Site-Neutral Payments Stand: SCOTUS Declines to Hear AHA Appeal, Preserving Lower Payments to Off-Campus Provider-Based Departments

Sheppard Health Law

In July 2020, we discussed a ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals upholding the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) site-neutral payment rules. On Monday, June 28, 2021, the Supreme Court declined , without comment, to hear an appeal from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and other provider groups asking it to reverse this ruling. In the past, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) generally paid more for clinic visits conducted in hospital outpatient settings than

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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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3 Pros of Having Hospital and Healthcare Websites

Sequence Health

If you aren’t on the internet, do you really exist? This sounds like a silly question, but in 2021, it has a lot of merit. For most people, one of the first things they do when trying to find a store, service, or medical provide is complete a quick Google search. And of these people, few will both to go beyond the first page of results. If you lack an online presence, you won’t pop up in the results.

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Patient Matching Isn’t Just a “Nice to.

Lexis Nexis

Managing patient information across care settings and platforms for core business functions, interoperability, and patient safety requires coordination and collaboration. Especially with new interoperability mandates going into effect on July 1, there are a lot of questions about what this means. Mismatched and duplicate records aren’t just a nuisance, they can cause serious harm to patients.

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10 Superior Strategies to Increase Your Patient Volume

Etactics

At the end of the day, patient volume is what makes or breaks your practice. It doesn’t matter how great of care you provide. If you can’t sustain a consistent amount of patients coming into your office, you’ll lose revenue and eventually have to close your doors. Patient traffic has a direct impact on your revenue, word of mouth marketing , and community respect for your business.

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Simple Steps to Prevent Dementia

Medcenter

Many of those with family members suffering with dementia live in quiet fear of one day developing the disease themselves. But Steele Taylor, MD, neurologist and co-director of the University of Vermont Medical Center’s Memory Program, tells his patients to stop worrying and instead take action; he urges them to focus less on immutable risk […].

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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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Optimizing Patient Feedback: Improving Patient Loyalty and Service Recovery

Medical GPS

The Time is Ripe. Once upon a time, we had to intentionally “sign on” to the outside world from our homes. Remember the days of dial-up internet and phones that were connected to the wall? Now we have to take intentional measures and flex enormous amounts of self-control to silence the outside world from within our homes. The competition for our attention at every moment of the day is steep and any successful business is aware of this reality.

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Driving continuous improvement throughout the Ministry

Osf Healthcare

Performance Improvement, a department within OSF Innovation, is giving leaders the opportunity and confidence to identify improvement areas within the Ministry to continue exceeding expectations of those we serve.

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Virtual interviewing: 3 easy ways to prep candidates for success

CHQ Healthcare

Now that virtual interviewing has become the norm in healthcare recruiting, it requires new skill development for healthcare recruiters. “We have become production managers, directors, script writers, etiquette coaches — all sorts of different things,” says Steve Jacobs, manager of physician recruitment at Einstein Health in Philadelphia. In a recent CHG webinar on recruiting in the new environment , three experienced recruiters shared their strategies for helping candidates’ virtual interviews

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The Future of HCLDR

Healthcare Leadership

We are nearing the 9 th anniversary of the HCLDR Community and I think it’s about time we had another discussion about the future of the community itself. Back in August 2012, HCLDR started as a 30min tweetchat. [Why 30min? Because we didn’t think we’d have enough to talk about for a full hour – boy were we wrong!] We focused on topics we thought were relevant to healthcare leaders which we defined as anyone who wanted to make an impact on healthcare vs people with “Director” or “VP” in th

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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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An Introduction to HRS Product Support

Health Recovery

Perhaps one of HRS’ closest-knit teams, the Product Support team works every day (even weekends!) to provide top-tier support to HRS clients across the country.

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What Type of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Service or In-House Software your Laboratory Needs for Financials and Management?

Advanced Data Systems

MedicsRCM outsourced services and MedicsPremier as an in-house system present the following, and how they can help increase revenue and productivity.

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Interview with Lean TaaS CEO Mohan Giridharadas

Health Business Group

Lean TaaS CEO Mohan Giridharadas. Mohan Giridharadas earned an MBA from Stanford and was a senior director for years at McKinsey, but it took an insight from a casual conversation at a Silicon Valley cocktail party to give him the direction for Lean TaaS , where he’s founder and CEO. A decade and $200 M of investment later, the company is leading the way in operational optimization of healthcare assets.

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Three Dimensions of Patient Experience

The Beryl Institute

As a person who lives with chronic illness, I spend a lot of time thinking about how we define and improve patient experience. Improvement science tells us we cannot improve what we don’t define. By this standard, understanding how we define PX is as important as the tactics we use to improve it. The Beryl Institute’s definition of patient experience, “The sum of all interactions, influenced by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care,” is one of

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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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ACHE Leadership Development Program – Mayo Clinic Health System Site Visit Spotlight

Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

On June 24, 2021, our latest cohort of the ACHE Leadership development program kicked off one of their first site visits as a team. The effort was led by Sandra Elsen, MBA, Sr. Health Systems Engineer, in the Management Engineering and Consulting Department as part of the SW WI Mayo Clinic Health System. The team took an exemplary and globally known system, and a highly motivated group of early careerists, and tackled some of the most pressing topics affecting all health systems nationally.

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Leadership Health Care Initiative Announces 2021-2022 Board of Directors

Healthcare Council

Leadership Health Care (LHC), an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council, announces the appointment of its 2021–2022 board of directors, effective as of July 1, 2021. Andrea Cleeton, vice president, operations improvement, LifePoint Health, has been named board chair, and, Drake Jarman, regional vice president, CarePayment, will serve as board vice chair.

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Learning from AI’s Failures

Geek Doctor

A detailed picture of AI’s mistakes is the canvas upon which we create better digital solutions. John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. We all tend to ignore clichés because we’ve heard them so often, but some clichés are worth repeating.

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June Roundup 2021

Life Qi

Coaching Quality Improvement Teams.

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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.