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How data and AI can advance health equity

Health Care Dive

Michael Sanky, global industry lead of healthcare and life sciences at Databricks, outlines how technology and healthcare leaders can harness artificial intelligence to equitably help patients.

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Unmasking Public Health

Bill Of Health

By Jane Moriarty One of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s stated “essential public health services” is to “create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health.” Yet, as the U.S. slogs through its third COVID winter, one thing is clear: personal responsibility and autonomy are at the heart of public health messaging.

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Conversion Rate Optimization Best Practices (Plus, 6 Mistakes to Avoid)

Healthcare Success

The conversion is the ultimate goal for any website or landing page. It’s when a user makes a purchase, calls your organization, or makes an appointment. And if you’re like most of our clients, you want to increase your conversion rates. One of the niche marketing disciplines that helps you do just that is called conversion rate optimization. In this article, I explain conversion rate optimization, why it’s an important part of marketing, and some of our favorite best practices to consider.

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CMS, insurers clash over whether Medicare Advantage is going to be cut in proposed rule

Fierce Healthcare

CMS, insurers clash over whether Medicare Advantage is going to be cut in proposed rule rking Mon, 02/13/2023 - 14:25

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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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Lawmakers stress urgency of healthcare worker shortage

Health Care Dive

Addressing the education pipeline is one thing that legislators can focus on to improve nurse and physician shortages, medical school and health system leaders said during a Senate committee hearing.

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare It News

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. It's important to understand that home health technologies are leveraged in home health settings by clinicians for home health patients, and at-home or home-based health technologies are diagnostic and/or screening tools that can be used in non-clinica

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Doximity rolls out beta version of ChatGPT tool for docs aiming to streamline administrative paperwork

Fierce Healthcare

Doximity rolls out beta version of ChatGPT tool for docs aiming to streamline administrative paperwork hlandi Sat, 02/11/2023 - 05:02

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Louisiana systems hit with lawsuits for allegedly sharing patient data with Facebook

Health Care Dive

At issue is the hospitals’ use of the “Meta Pixel” website code, which potentially analyzed, gathered and shared the protected medical data of hundreds of thousands of patients, in violation of HIPAA, according to the suit.

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An inside look at AdventHealth's powerful telemedicine program

Healthcare It News

Most healthcare consumers have experienced certain pain points in receiving care for family and friends. THE PROBLEM Patient access is a top priority for AdventHealth, a health system based in Altamonte Springs, Florida. For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs. "Looking for ways to solve for bringing the right care to the right patient at the right place and time is imperative to stay ahead of the ever-changi

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Reclaiming Salus Populi

Bill Of Health

By Wendy E. Parmet and Elaine Marshall I. Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. In the past three years, courts, led by the Supreme Court, have endangered reproductive health and handcuffed governments’ capacity to meet a wide array of public health challenges.

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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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Senators question why PBMs 'even exist' in heated hearing amid push for reform

Fierce Healthcare

Senators question why PBMs 'even exist' in heated hearing amid push for reform rking Thu, 02/16/2023 - 14:49

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CHS posts 2022 profit dip on heels of cyber breach

Health Care Dive

The earnings come two days after CHS announced that it experienced a security breach that potentially exposed the health information of 1 million patients.

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Using device data to improve patient experience 

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Personal Crusades for Public Health

Bill Of Health

By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. has collapsed. In its place, we are left with an insufficient, impoverished alternative: personal crusades. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19.

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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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American Telemedicine Association announced 12 telehealth innovators challenge finalists

Fierce Healthcare

American Telemedicine Association announced 12 telehealth innovators challenge finalists aburky Fri, 02/17/2023 - 11:45

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SUNY Upstate, Crouse Health System call off merger

Health Care Dive

The Federal Trade Commission, which opposed the tie-up, cheered the news on Thursday. Previously, the agency had warned state lawmakers about the dangers of shielding hospital mergers from antitrust enforcement.

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Helping women navigate menopause with femtech

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Support to Ukraine Continues to Be for America First

The Rand Blog

Why should the United States spend tens of billions of dollars on a war half a world away? Because it's in America's economic and strategic interests.

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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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AARP leans into at-home care with Luna, providing its 38M members with in-person MSK care

Fierce Healthcare

AARP leans into at-home care with Luna, providing its 38M members with in-person MSK care aburky Wed, 02/15/2023 - 17:23

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HHS pauses surprise billing arbitration after Texas court decision

Health Care Dive

The process by which health insurers and medical providers hash out payments for surprise bills is still in flux due to a series of lawsuits threatening the dispute resolution process.

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Hospice care, not hospital beds: Investing in palliative care will help solve the health-care crisis

Healthy Debate

The post Hospice care, not hospital beds: Investing in palliative care will help solve the health-care crisis appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Earthquake in Turkey, Syria: Insights from RAND Researchers

The Rand Blog

More than 36,000 people have been confirmed dead in one the strongest earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria in the past century. As search-and-rescue missions continue and recovery begins, a handful of RAND researchers shared some of their initial thoughts.

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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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Senate panel launches effort to shore up health workforce and ease crippling shortages

Fierce Healthcare

Senate panel launches effort to shore up health workforce and ease crippling shortages rking Thu, 02/16/2023 - 16:52

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LHC to delist from Nasdaq, suggesting UnitedHealth could complete acquisition next week

Health Care Dive

LHC’s delisting, a sign that the deal’s close could be imminent, doesn’t come as a surprise, as the Nasdaq notified the home health provider it wasn’t in compliance with the stock market’s listing standards in January.

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Fascinating laser research projects you wish you thought of (Part 1 of 9): Cisco Optics Podcast Ep 35

CiscoHealth

Episode 35 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 35 Fascinating laser research projects you wish you thought of, with Juliet Gopinath.

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From Gatherer of Lands to Gravedigger: A Political Assessment of Putin's War on Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Putin's war in Ukraine is already redefining the entire international order. If the United States acts now, it may be able to influence the shape of the post-war geopolitical terrain.

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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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Analysis: Medicare Advantage plans more likely to deny inpatient claims

Fierce Healthcare

Analysis: Medicare Advantage plans more likely to deny inpatient claims pminemyer Thu, 02/16/2023 - 14:16

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Workforce challenges top concern for hospital CEOs for second year in a row, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Before staffing woes took the top spot last year, financial challenges had previously ranked as the top concern for 16 consecutive years in a survey from the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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Increased Funding From VA For Home-Based Care Stripped From Dole Act

Home Health Care

This month, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee removed a provision in the Elizabeth Dole Home Care Act that would have increased funding for home- and community-based services. The decision was a disappointing one for home-based care advocates. It came in the final moments before the piece of legislation was finalized. “We started out this new session identifying it as one of our priorities,” Vicki Hoak, CEO of Home Care Association of America (HCAOA), told Home Health Care News.

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Russia's Appetite May Extend Beyond Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Unless Russian forces are defeated in Ukraine or withdrawn by new Kremlin rulers, Moscow might assault other post-Soviet neighbors. The West may face limits on the extent to which it could help them thwart such attacks.

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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.