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A Profile of People in Medicare Advantage Plans – HealthMine’s Survey of “Digital Immigrants”

Health Populi

There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019. Better understanding this group of people will be critical to helping manage a fast-growing health care bill, and growing burden of chronic disease, for America.

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Comment on My next chapter by Health IT Appointments and Hires - HITECH Answers: HIPAA, MIPS, EHR, Cybersecurity News

Health Blawg

[…] David Harlow’s Next Chapter Attorney David Harlow and host of Harlow on Healthcare is joining Insulet Corporation effective August 19. He will be in the newly-created position of healthcare compliance counsel, with a broad range of responsibilities in the healthcare, data and compliance domains. Read about his next chapter. […].

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Nursing dashboard helps nurses deliver greater care

Osf Healthcare

With 124 locations including 14 hospitals throughout Illinois and Michigan, it’s been difficult to monitor and track important metrics for nursing departments across OSF HealthCare. But it’s also necessary to continually improve the services the organization provides.

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My Rearview Mirror: Reflections from a Former Patient Advocate

The Beryl Institute

I became a patient advocate for a major medical center after my second double lung transplant (first for cystic fibrosis and second due to chronic rejection) and quickly learned that I was quite naïve about the job I had just accepted. In the three years I worked with CMS Guidelines to resolve complaints and grievances, I went home many nights crying, gritted my teeth all night long and woke up every Monday with a “new plan” to make this job into what I had hoped it would be.

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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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Privacy and the New Health Ciitizen

Health Populi

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was legislated in 1996, isn’t sufficiently robust to deal with the nature of this health information 23 years after that law was first implemented.

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PrEP could potentially eradicate HIV. But in Ontario, only about a 10th of the people it could help are taking it.

Healthy Debate

The post PrEP could potentially eradicate HIV. But in Ontario, only about a 10th of the people it could help are taking it. appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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