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Extending Care Series: 3 Key Considerations for Telehealth Adoption

CiscoHealth

Over the past decade, telehealth has transformed from a fledgling tool into a comprehensive solution that enables healthcare systems to connect to their patients without limitations of geography or time. The majority of healthcare organizations have launched or are actively exploring how telehealth technology can solve ubiquitous pain points including physician shortages, unequitable access to […].

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Patient Safety: The Tale of the Lost COW

Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

Hospital corridors, by design, are wide. They have to accommodate people, wheelchairs, gurneys, computers, meal carts, and all sorts of other things. They just have to be wide. The risk of being wide, however, is that there is enough room to add more equipment, such as computers on wheels (COWs). Inevitably, these COWs wander from floor to floor and multiply, creating risks for patient safety.

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The Re-Emergence of Shared Decision Making in Value-Based Care

Health Dialog

For many years shared decision making (SDM) has been recognized as a powerful method of improving care quality and reducing costs. Through the delivery of SDM, Health Dialog has seen a reduction in utilization and cost and improvements in the quality of care in both payer and provider models. Many academic and field-based studies have demonstrated the benefits and this research has lead forward thinking practitioners to add SDM into their workflows.

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Extending Care Series: 3 Key Considerations for Telehealth Adoption

CiscoHealth

Over the past decade, telehealth has transformed from a fledgling tool into a comprehensive solution that enables healthcare systems to connect to their patients without limitations of geography or time. The majority of healthcare organizations have launched or are actively exploring how telehealth technology can solve ubiquitous pain points including physician shortages, unequitable access to care, payment reform, chronic disease management and increasing consumer demand for convenient, cost ef

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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.