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The Three Most Vital Aspects to Hospital Security

PDC Healthcare

The key to creating a comprehensive hospital security program is to avoid the desire to find a “one size fits all” solution. With so many aspects to cover, you’re unlikely to find a “does it all” system that meets your needs. Your hospital security system should include a focus on these three functions: Ensuring only […].

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Healthcare Costs, Access to Data, and Partnering With Providers: Patients’ Top User Experience Factors

Health Populi

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S. Ipsos conducted the survey research among 1,028 U.S. adults between 23 September and 5 October 2020 — giving consumers many months of living in the context of the coronavirus.

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Fun experiments for fall during a pandemic

Osf Healthcare

Looking for more activities? > Find resources The temperatures are beginning to cool. Leaves are turning bright shades of red, orange and yellow. And front porches are filling up with pumpkins, mums and bundles of hay. It must be fall. Of course, this is no ordinary fall.

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The Increasing Need for Ambulatory Care During COVID-19

The Beryl Institute

Like many of you, I have witnessed the changing environment of healthcare during these challenging times. In recent days, with two teenagers who are back in school, I have started to catch up on scheduling their doctors’ visits, dentist checkups and orthodontist appointments that have been suspended these last few months. I realize that we are not unique in this, delaying in-person visits to lessen our exposure to COVID-19.

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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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3 Reasons Why Hospital Visitor Management is Essential for Today’s Facilities

PDC Healthcare

The basis of every visitor management system is the desire to keep a site and its personnel safe from harm. While it’s true that there are common threads between site safety at all kinds of workplaces, there are unique aspects of healthcare facilities that make the need for hospital Visitor Management more pressing. It’s important […].

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COVID-19 exposing cracks in our universal healthcare

Healthy Debate

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the myth of universal healthcare in Canada. Hundreds of thousands of migrants are excluded from the healthcare system.

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COVID-19 Lessons: A Path to a Better Health Care System

Accountable Care Doctors

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health care in America, and as of this writing, is still raging on. The 31 multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems that are part of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), their 85,000 physicians, and hundreds of thousands of staff are at the forefront of the battle for their patients’ lives.

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4 Tips to Improve a Hospital Visitor Program

PDC Healthcare

A hospital’s visitor management system is an essential piece of hospital security. While you don’t want to add unnecessary obstacles to a visitors’ path toward seeing their loved ones, it’s important for healthcare facilities to screen all guests, for both staff and patient safety. In short, your visitor management solution should maintain high security standards […].

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Taking action on physician wellbeing

Healthy Debate

Evidence suggests that burnout affects more than half of practising physicians, characterized by high emotional exhaustion.

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Get Ready is at the Annual Meeting!

Michele Late

We are only two days away from this year’s APHA Annual Meeting & Expo! The APHA 2020 Annual Meeting & Expo will occur virtually on Oct. 24-28. And Get Ready will be there! Although this year will be different, APHA has created an incredible virtual experience for you through all of the virtual booths, scientific sessions, poster sessions, networking and engagement opportunities and so much more.

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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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Women’s Health Policy Advice for the Next Occupant of the White House: Deal With Mental Health, the Pandemic, and Health Care Costs

Health Populi

2020 marked the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. In this auspicious year for women’s voting rights, as COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in February, women’s labor force participation rate was 58%. Ironic timing indeed: the coronavirus pandemic has been especially harmful to working women’s lives, the Brookings Institution asserted last week in their report in 19A: The Brookings Gender Equality Series.

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When It Comes to Hospital Visitor Management, Watch Lists Are Essential

PDC Healthcare

An important aspect of a hospital’s security is making sure unwanted visitors are kept out of the facility. Integrating watch lists into the a hospital’s security system is an effective way to quickly identify these potential intruders to flag them for your security team prior to entry. What is a watch list? Watch lists are […]. The post When It Comes to Hospital Visitor Management, Watch Lists Are Essential appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog.

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Pandemic Visitor Management Best Practices Aren’t Going Anywhere: 8 Features Your System Can’t Go Without

PDC Healthcare

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the move toward a more modern approach to visitor management. Changes to visitor policies during the pandemic could serve as a catalyst for installing new and improved policies and security measures permanently. Now could be the perfect time to initiate a shift in your facility’s culture when it comes to […].

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Ideal Option Clinic Installs React Mobile® Employee Safety Solution

PDC Healthcare

ABOUT Ideal Option With 65 clinics in 10 states, Ideal Option is one of the nation’s largest outpatient providers of medication-assisted treatment for addiction to opioids, alcohol, methamphetamines, and other substances. Founded in 2012 by two emergency medicine physicians, Ideal Option’s mission is to provide underserved populations with low-barrier access to evidence-based addiction treatment – […].

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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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The Hospital Dilemma: Balancing Security & A Welcoming Atmosphere

PDC Healthcare

A common dilemma hospital security personnel face is that they want to create a welcoming atmosphere for guests and visitors, but they also need to have robust security measures in place to keep their people safe. Security and welcoming guests don’t need to be mutually exclusive, so we’ve put together a few tips to help […]. The post The Hospital Dilemma: Balancing Security & A Welcoming Atmosphere appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog.

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Stress in America, Like COVID-19, Impacts All Americans

Health Populi

With thirteen days to go until the U.S. #2020Elections day, 3rd November, three in four Americans say the future of America is a significant source of stress, according to the latest Stress in America 2020 study from the American Psychological Association. Furthermore, seven in 10 U.S. adults believe that “now” is the lowest point in the nation’s history that they can remember. “We are facing a national mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social conse

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