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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare. What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools.

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Health Care Providers Face Growing Ransomware Risks, and Potential Sanctions for Paying Ransom

Health Care Law Blog

As if COVID-19 wasn’t enough of a challenge for many struggling hospitals and health care systems, there is another growing threat they must guard against: cyberattacks. On October 28, 2020, the FBI, Department of Health and Human Services, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a report warning of "an increased and imminent cybercrime threat" to U.S. hospitals and health care providers.

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The New Existence: A Framework for Action for the Future of Healthcare

The Beryl Institute

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence. is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung. In moments like we find ourselves today, in the midst of a health crisis that is shifting the ground on which we live and work, one that further reveals the fissures in our humanness in how we care for and treat one another, we realize there is an opportunity, and more so a need, to kindle that very light of meaning.

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CAPP Cites Six Key Findings from COVID-19 That Will Improve America’s Health Care System

Accountable Care Doctors

Physician Leaders Identify Major Shifts in How Health Care Is and Will Be Delivered. Learnings from COVID-19 must drive major changes in health care delivery, according to interviews conducted with physician leaders of the nation’s leading multi-specialty medical groups and health systems that participate in the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP).

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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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Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated health care providers’ and plans’ investment in digital technologies while reducing capital spending on new physical assets, we learn in Building resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. What must be built (or truly re-built), health care leaders believe, is first and foremost trust, followed by financial viability to ensure long-term resilience and sustainability — for the workforce,

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Shut out of clinical trials, community hospitals miss out on ‘cutting-edge therapy’

Healthy Debate

A network of community doctors is urgently trying to bring “cutting-edge therapy” from clinical trials to Ontario’s large community hospitals.

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Will We See A Field of Dreams for the COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S.?

Health Populi

“If you build it, he will come,” the voice of James Earl Jones echoes in our minds when we recall the plotline of the film, Field of Dreams. A quick summary if you don’t know the movie: the “it” was a baseball field to be built in a rural cornfield. The “he” was a baseball player, ultimately joined by a dream-team of ball players who would convene on that dreamy field to play an amazing game.

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