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What is a Healthcare Writing Style Guide (& Why You Need One)

Healthcare Success

You might remember writing style guides from college. Chicago Manual of Style, Associated Press, Modern Language Association? Instead of using a generic style guide for content, today’s leading healthcare brands are creating their own, also known as content style guides. A content style guide is a companion to your brand style guide and helps writers and marketers write on-brand copy for your business.

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How health equity and innovation are connected

Healthcare It News

Dr. Bobby Mukkamala will offer more detail during the HIMSS23 session "Advancing Social Justice and Equity in Health Technology." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, at 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S105A.

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Notable Leverages GPT to Automate Patient Front Office Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Notable , an intelligent automation company for healthcare, launches Patient AI, a solution leveraging large language models (LLMs) and GPT (the technology powering ChatGPT) to bring personalization at scale to healthcare. Using GPT to scan existing clinical documentation, this tech can detect missed diagnoses, identify lapsed insurance cards, incorrect addresses, eligible clinical trials, or costly care gaps in real-time across an entire patient population.

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How to Keep Your Data Warehouse Systems in Sync with Replication Sets

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Data warehouses are being used by many businesses in an enterprise setting. How do you keep your systems in sync? Infor has listened to you and has produced Replication Sets within their software! Replication Sets produce one full file of a business class for an initial upload into your database(s). The Replication Set will then produce change or delta files to keep your other system database(s) updated.

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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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Bringing The Customer Voice to Life in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Leslie Pagel, Chief Evangelist at Authenticx Voice is a powerful tool. The average person speaks about 7,000 words daily (although anyone who’s spent time around young children knows that estimate is probably low). Yet amid healthcare organizations building a more customer-centric approach to customer experience (CX), many have not included a key piece of the CX puzzle: analyzing the voice of the customer.

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’Fair share’ deficits at nonprofit hospitals reached $14.2B in 2020

Health Care Dive

The amount nonprofit hospitals receive in tax breaks over what they spend on charity care in several states could cover all medical debt for residents, according to the Lown Institute.

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Salesforce announces real-time data and AI integrations

Healthcare It News

Salesforce announced updates for healthcare providers in Customer 360 for Health that automate manual processes like prior authorizations, intake and patient scheduling. The company has also unified home health workflows. WHY IT MATTERS Salesforce says with the array of new features announced Thursday, the company is focusing on powering patient-centric experiences and addressing healthcare's need to improve operational efficiencies, according to the announcement.

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How to Improve your Score as a Small Practice in MIPS 2023?

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The US healthcare system is now accepting new challenges to make itself even better. Therefore, CMS has planned to upgrade the provider’s performance with its MIPS 2023 framework. It is gradually making the Medicare Quality Payment Program a little more complex. Overall, it has higher goals for improved quality care and patient outcomes. Alongside this, cutting the extra cost of healthcare at the same time as inducing value for money is another motive.

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Physician gender pay gap narrowing, but women still earn 19% less than men

Health Care Dive

Across the board, physician salaries rose by about 4% last year compared to 2021, according to Medscape. The rise in wages was partly attributed to a shortage of doctors and clinician burnout.

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About 800,000 nurses planning to leave the profession by 2027, data show

Fierce Healthcare

About 800,000 nurses planning to leave the profession by 2027, data show dmuoio Fri, 04/14/2023 - 14:25

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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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Boosting behavioral health access with targeted triage and telehealth

Healthcare It News

Benjamin Gonzales will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Expanding Behavioral Healthcare Access Through Targeted Patient Triage and Telehealth." It is scheduled for Thursday, April 20 at 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 5, room S505.

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As China Ascends, Concerns Grow It Might Be Tempted into a 'Splendid Little War'

The Rand Blog

When a nation newly ascends or returns to the status of a leading international power, it often feels the need to publicly demonstrate its rise through a brief, victorious war. Today, China's increasing strength may tempt it to pursue such a conflict, and not necessarily with Taiwan, if it anticipates that victory will be swift, decisive, and demonstrative.

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Cano’s former board members allege conflicts of interest, insider loans

Health Care Dive

A new open letter from investors Barry Sternlicht, Elliot Cooperstone and Lewis Gold calls on Cano to oust its CEO and sell non-core businesses to focus on profitability.

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Fitch Ratings says Medicaid disenrollment will pinch revenue for not-for-profit hospitals

Fierce Healthcare

Fitch Ratings says Medicaid disenrollment will pinch revenue for not-for-profit hospitals fdiamond Fri, 04/14/2023 - 14:26

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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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Regional Victoria expands access to virtual care with Microsoft HoloLens rollout

Healthcare It News

The state government of Victoria has announced the rollout of Microsoft HoloLens across the East Gippsland region to expand access to virtual care. Backed by an A$80,000 (over $50,000) investment, the region-wide rollout comes following a successful trial at Bairnsdale Regional Health Service – believed to be the world's first application of the technology in a virtual medical setting.

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Why Blockading Rather Than Retaking Crimea Might Be Kyiv's Best Option

The Rand Blog

Ukraine may lack the military capability to retake Crimea from Russia. But Kyiv might still achieve some of its key objectives by blockading the peninsula. New technology may ease this task.

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Moody’s report highlights need for healthcare investment in cybersecurity

Health Care Dive

The ratings agency said healthcare’s vulnerable state makes it “target rich,” which could bring service disruptions and personal data disclosures.

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Advocate Aurora Health pilots KelaHealth's predictive software to assess surgical risk, improve outcomes

Fierce Healthcare

Advocate Aurora Health pilots KelaHealth's predictive software to assess surgical risk, improve outcomes agliadkovskaya Mon, 04/10/2023 - 12:59

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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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Decentralized trials at Mayo bring clinical ROI

Healthcare It News

Dr. Tufia Haddad, Becky Kottschade and Rebecca Heft will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Decentralized Clinical Trials Implementation Approach." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. CT at the South Building, Level 5, room S501.

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Advancing Women's Health Requires Better Evidence

The Rand Blog

For decades, advances in health and health care have had a bias toward the male body. By shifting the focus of research to women's bodies and building out this base of evidence on women's health, scientists and doctors can improve health outcomes and overall quality of life for women, all while also saving money.

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UnitedHealth notches record revenue in first quarter

Health Care Dive

UnitedHealth’s growth, which resulted in a profit of $5.8 billion in the quarter, was “stronger than normal,” one analyst said.

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Express Scripts rolls out new copay caps, PBM model with focus on transparency

Fierce Healthcare

Express Scripts rolls out new copay caps, PBM model with focus on transparency pminemyer Thu, 04/13/2023 - 15:33

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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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Equiva Health, Gilda's Club, healthcare providers leverage affordable broadband funding

Healthcare It News

Gilda’s Club Twin Cities, part of the national non-profit Cancer Support Community network, and Equiva Health, a digital patient engagement company, are partnering to provide stand-alone devices configured for at-home use as part of an oncology-specific initiative to address health disparities through discounted broadband funded by a $14.2 billion Federal Communications Commission's internet access program.

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Europe: Ukraine's Essential Ally

The Rand Blog

While the United States is Ukraine's primary military backer, Europe is sharing the war's overall burden, sanctioning Russia, arming Ukraine, and helping prepare it to join the European Union, as well as absorbing huge economic costs. Europe's partnership with the United States on Ukraine may be Western diplomacy's finest hour since the Berlin Wall fell.

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New ONC rule aims to raise trust in clinical decision support algorithms

Health Care Dive

The rule proposed Tuesday would give providers more information in their electronic health record system to assess clinical decision support algorithms and their results.

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A majority of payers used outcomes-based contracting last year: survey

Fierce Healthcare

A majority of payers used outcomes-based contracting last year: survey pminemyer Wed, 04/12/2023 - 13:04

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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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Emergency medicine physicians get key help from telehealth

Healthcare It News

Michael Gonzalez will offer more detail at the HIMSS23 session "Emergency Medicine Physician EMS Telehealth: Leveraging Partners in Virtual Care." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S104.

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Does High Blood Pressure Make You Tired?

Healthcare Associates

Does High Blood Pressure Make You Tired? Feeling unusually tired is occasionally expected, especially after an intense workout or a busy day at work. However, extreme tiredness and fatigue that frequently occur over a long period could indicate that you have high blood pressure. High blood pressure doesn’t always cause symptoms, though it does cause fatigue in some people with this condition.

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CMS proposes 2.8% hospital payment bump for 2024; lobbies decry rise as ‘woefully inadequate’

Health Care Dive

Hospital lobbies slammed the proposed rule as insufficient to help hospitals address inflation and rising labor costs, though research signals hospitals are more financially stable than such groups suggest.

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3 Digital Health Strategies to Improve Health Plan Member Experience

Fierce Healthcare

3 Digital Health Strategies to Improve Health Plan Member Experience mteefey Wed, 04/12/2023 - 14:16

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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.