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Facts to Convince You to Outsource Medical Billing Services

p3care

Running a medical practice requires serious efforts and administration that does not come in handy. Physicians already have a lot on their plate. They have to consider patient safety, procedure documentation, HIPAA compliance, and on top of that, they have to stay up-to-date with industry knowledge, so it is not possible for them to manage everything all at once.

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Emotionally Intelligent Teambuilding

Pro CRNA

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. follow@procrnatom on Twitter. A review of the literature from the business community reveals that having and using emotional intelligence is one of the most important skills of a successful leader, both at work and in the individual’s personal life. Simply stated, emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize and control emotions in ourselves and in others.

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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy

Health Populi

One in two people in the U.S. with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Gallup and West Health presented their study in a webinar earlier this week; in today’s post, I feature a few key data points that particularly resonate as I celebrate/appreciate yesterday’s U.S.

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The Surgical Safety Huddle: A Novel Quality Improvement Patient Safety Initiative

Patient Safety

Background: Acutely deteriorating patients are entitled to the best possible care, which includes early recognition and timely appropriate intervention to reduce adverse events, unnecessary admissions to intensive care, and/or cardiac arrest. Aim: To reduce the number of poor outcomes for surgical patients with a National Early Warning Score (NEWS) score ?

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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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Why is My Hair Falling Out?

Healthcare Associates

Why is My Hair Falling Out? Hair loss may be caused by genetics or by medical conditions, including diabetes and lupus. Certain medications and treatments may also contribute to hair loss, such as antidepressants and radiation therapy. Knowing why your hair may be falling out can help you determine whether you should seek treatment or make lifestyle changes as needed to stop or slow hair loss.

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What to expect at MEDITECH’s 2021 Nurse Forum

Meditech

It’s hard to believe that we are just one day away from MEDITECH’s 2021 Nurse Forum. I’m looking forward to coming together virtually with hundreds of members of our customer community who have registered to attend.

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Safety Culture: Identifying a Healthcare Organization’s Approach to Safety Event Review and Response Through the Analysis of Event Recommendations

Patient Safety

A nonpunitive approach to safety event reporting and analysis is an important dimension of healthcare organization safety culture. A system-based safety event review process, one focused on understanding and improving the conditions in which individuals do their work, generally leads to more effective and sustainable safety solutions. On the contrary, the more typical person-based approach, that blames individuals for errors, often results in unsustainable and ineffective safety solutions, but t

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The Stress of the Caregiver: The Most Over-Utilized, Unpaid Stakeholder in U.S. Healthcare

Health Populi

We’ve long know that “the patient” has been an under-utilized resource in the U.S. healthcare system since Dr. Charles Safran testified with that statement to Congress way back in 2004 …an era where bipartisanship for health IT was a real thing. Today, with the insights of Alexandra Drane (Founder of ARCHANGELS ) and Dr. Nirav Shah (of Stanford University), we know that caregivers are among the most over-utilized resources in the U.S. healthcare system — overused, o

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How technology supports safety rounds

Patient Safety Blog

Healthcare teams perform safety rounds to identify and address problem areas before they pose even bigger risks. Safety round checklists within a comprehensive, digital safety solution are a critical part of these rounds because they help staff stay focused on what matters most. Today’s technology streamlines efforts to manage risks and improve quality, while making healthcare teams as efficient as possible.

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‘You need not be alone anymore’: The doctor redefining palliative care

Healthy Debate

The post ‘You need not be alone anymore’: The doctor redefining palliative care appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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Challenges and Potential Solutions for Patient Safety in an Infectious-Agent-Isolation Environment: A Study of 484 COVID-19-Related Event Reports Across 94 Hospitals

Patient Safety

Previous research has shown that patients in infectious-agent isolation are at greater risk for certain types of safety-related events. We conducted a study to explore the relationship between the various types of events that occur in an isolation environment and the associated factors, which may have implications for the likelihood of the event and severity of patient harm.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

Wherever you live in the world touched by the coronavirus pandemic, you felt (and were) stress-tested. Both you were, and your home was as well. In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. This analysis was done, as it is every year, by the Deloitte Center for Technology, Media & Telecommunications.

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The Innovation-Competition-Affordability Connection and its Importance to Patients

Healthcare Leadership Council

One of the biggest headlines in healthcare this month occurred when the Food and Drug Administration gave approval to a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease developed by Biogen. This is a development that brought hope to the millions of individuals and their loved ones who have or will have a terrible and complex disease that is taking an increasing toll on our society.

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How software helps with quality and safety accreditation in healthcare

Patient Safety Blog

Healthcare organizations strive to provide safe and high-quality patient care at all times. However, claiming to be a safe care environment is one thing. Proving it is another. That’s where hospital accreditation comes in. To receive accreditation in healthcare, hospitals must undergo a comprehensive review by an independent accreditation organization.

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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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Where There’s Smoke: Validating a Nonproprietary Single-Item Burnout-Impacting-Safety Scale

Patient Safety

This study aimed to assess the utility of a single survey item to predict the impact of burnout on safety and quality of healthcare providers as perceived by their colleagues. The primary objective is to determine if the item predicts the frequency of patient safety event reports within certain clinical departments. The secondary objective will be to determine if there is an acceptable cutoff score for the item which predicts low versus high numbers of safety events reported by healthcare provid

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Aging Populations of Consumers and Physicians Underpin the Future Doctor Shortage

Health Populi

The U.S. will be short as many as 124,000 physicians in 2034, according to The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand Projections From 2019 to 2034 from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Published 11th June 2021, the report was prepared by IHS Markit Ltd. and updates AAMC’s six previous annual reports on physician workforce projections.

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Interview with CytImmune CEO Saba Malak

Health Business Group

CytImmune CEO Saba Malak. I first encountered Saba Malak when I was a summer consultant at Boston Consulting Group and he was a new MBA. We stayed in touch and when I became chairman of Advanced Practice Strategies a few years later, Saba joined the board as lead investor. Since then, Saba has invested in various healthcare and biotech companies in the public and private markets.

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Primary care is an essential part of a usable healthcare system

Nordic

Last month, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published Implementing High Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care. This is an update of their 1996 report Primary Care: America’s Health in a New Era. (Both of these can be downloaded with a free account from the National Academies Press.) In this new book, the researchers acknowledge that we’re nowhere near where we hoped to be back in the late 1990s with respect to primary care.

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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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Blood Transfusion Errors Within a Health System: A Review of Root Cause Analyses

Patient Safety

Introduction Blood transfusions are lifesaving treatments which require critical attention to processes and details. If processes are not followed, grievous errors can lead to sentinel events. A review of investigations completed due to reported events will show the error trends associated with systems used throughout the blood transfusion process. Methods This study employed root cause analyses (RCAs) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to review the events leading to blood transfus

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The Art of Showing Up – 3 Leadership Perks of Rounding

Baird Group

Actor Woody Allen said, “Just showing up is half the battle.” I know he wasn’t talking about rounding when he gave that famous line, but it sure fits. Why? Because if you just get out there, you’ve made all the other benefits possible. Leaders I coach frequently give me a litany of excuses for why they do not make rounds routinely. Time, of course, is at the top of the list.

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The Right to Complain

Healthcare Leadership

I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day about the “right” to complain. Here was the scenario: They bought something online and it took 3 weeks longer than expected to arrive. The product was fine, no issues there, but they had to wait a total of 5 weeks for it arrive. My friend didn’t want to complain to the retailer because “With everything else going on in the world, I don’t think I have the right to complain about the delivery of this non-essential item.”.

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3 Top Benefits of Defining ROI for Patient Engagement

Twistle

Return on investment (ROI) is not a simple calculation when evaluating technology. It’s a multi-faceted model that takes factors and metrics that are meaningful to your organization and aligns them with the anticipated value that a particular solution is expected to deliver. Many organizations stumble when investing in new technology because they have not defined what ROI means to them.

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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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2020 Healthcare-Associated Infections in the Long-Term Care Setting: An Analysis of Reports from Pennsylvania

Patient Safety

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) is the largest repository of patient safety data in the United States. In addition to over 3.9 million acute care records, PA-PSRS has collected more than 357,000 long-term care (LTC) healthcare-associated infection reports since 2009. A total of 26,331 infections were reported in 2020, representing a 7.0% decrease from the prior year.

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Virtual Care Today and Tomorrow Presented at WHCC

Accountable Care Doctors

Henry Ford Health System, CAPP Groups Lead with Creating the Digital Care Delivery System. It took a few years and a pandemic for the concept of “telehealth” to evolve into comprehensive digital pathways for the delivery of patient care. From initial contact to triage, consults with physicians and specialists, and even diagnosis and monitoring with digital devices, integrated health care delivery systems now offer these end-to-end journeys.

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6 ways improving communication boosts ED throughput

Spok Inc

As emergency departments provide treatment for millions of patients each year, they continue to struggle with efficiency and throughput that frustrates both patients and staff. Learn how enhancing staff communication in these six areas can improve care delivery. The post 6 ways improving communication boosts ED throughput appeared first on Spok Inc.

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When AI Meets SDOH

Geek Doctor

Artificial intelligence can help identify and address the social determinants of health. John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. Machine learning is getting better at predicting things. There are now algorithms that improve the detection of diabetic retinopathy, predict the onset of sepsis, and help determine a critically ill patient’s risk of dying.

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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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2020 Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting: An Analysis of Serious Events and Incidents from the Nation’s Largest Event Reporting Database

Patient Safety

Pennsylvania is the only state that requires acute healthcare facilities to report all events of harm or potential for harm. With over 3.9 million acute care event reports, the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) is the largest repository of patient safety data in the United States and one of the largest in the world. Of the 278,548 patient safety event reports submitted by Pennsylvania’s acute care facilities in 2020, 97.2% were from hospitals and 2.7% were from ambulatory su

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Quality, Service and Affordability Are Key Goals of Employer/Provider Collaboration

Accountable Care Doctors

Self-Insured Employers and Physician-Led Medical Groups Share Insights at WHCC. Employers and health care providers are talking – finally. By communicating directly in a series of dialogues, these two groups are discovering common goals and new potential solutions to improve health care quality, the consumer experience, and affordability of services.

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Overwhelmed at the Office: Here’s What to Do About It

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Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Challenge in U.S. Supreme Court

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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.