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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

Getting totally rid of the coronavirus isn’t likely, so we humans must accept the fact that SARS-CoV-2 will be endemic. The economic and healthcare system impacts of this were explored in the Post-Covid Healthcare Landscape , delivered by Fitch Solutions’ Jamie Davies and Beau Noafshar, leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Medical Devices groups.

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How to Run an Effective QI Project Team Meeting

Life Qi

In this article we’re going to be looking at the importance of quality improvement (QI) meetings and how they can be a vital tool in supporting your improvement efforts. It’s worth bearing in mind that – for the best results - a successful QI project team meeting might take a bit of time to prepare, so we’ll be drilling down into detail and looking at hints and tips on how to run great improvement meetings.

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Strengthening Team Culture With the 6H Model

Hospital Medicine

As a healthcare leader, the tasks before you are tremendous. Think of yourself as a captain sailing your ship through murky waters. Each day of the journey, you must motivate your crew by: Influencing as a coach. Continuously improving processes and physician performance. Supporting team members through external pressures and personal struggles. Maintaining strong [.].

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GP federations: The silent partner in the NHS’s response to Covid and a key building block for future primary care strategy

Health Care Leader News

It’s high time GP federations are acknowledged for what they bring to the primary care table, argue Fiona Adamson and Andy Hilton from the NHS Confederation’s Primary Care Federation Network. We are emerging from the biggest health crisis of our generation, but the real challenge facing primary care has barely begun. Rocketing demand for services, a weary workforce, confused national policy, and the true impact of the pandemic on the nation’s health and well-being are yet to be determined, leadi

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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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CDC Supports Microbiome Science to Advance Infection Prevention, Clinical Care, and Public Health

CDC

Controlling and containing emerging antibiotic-resistant threats and protecting people requires novel and innovative approaches. The human microbiome is a promising area of research for these efforts. Infectious disease experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID) featuring 16 review articles on innovative research of the human microbiome, which is th

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5 ways to increase clinician job satisfaction and improve retention

CHQ Healthcare

A recent CHG Healthcare survey of more than 1,200 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and registered nurses found that 80% of providers were experiencing burnout in their careers before the COVID-19 pandemic — and 64% of those experiencing burnout said the pandemic made it worse. While numbers like these can be disheartening, it’s important to look at how your organization help providers be happier at work.

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5.5 Million Years of Life Will Be Lost Due to COVID-19 in the U.S. in 2020

Health Populi

In 2020 in the U.S., 380,000 people are expected to die due to COVID-19. These people lost due to the coronavirus would, collectively, have lived another 5.5 million life-years would they not have succumbed to the virus. COVID-19 has cut lives short relative to their life expectancy, calculated in an analysis by the Pew Research Center based on CDC data from 2019 and 2020, coupled with additional statistics on life expectancy by age and gender.

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Friday Feature | Health IT Patterns Help Avoid Reinventing the Wheel

Bookzurman

BookZurman is proud to share a recent post featuring the insights from guest author, Ioana Singureanu , BZ's Chief Innovation Officer. Are You Missing Out By Reinventing Rote Healthcare Interoperability Patterns? Ioana Singureanu. You’re sitting in the dark and you’re hungry. Imagine that you live in an apartment building and you need a burnt lightbulb replaced.

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How one ER partnered with a mental-health organization to care for youth in distress

Healthy Debate

The post How one ER partnered with a mental-health organization to care for youth in distress appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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What is the 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule, and Why Is it Important?

Advanced Data Systems

Consider the mountain of information that medical practices, clinics, hospitals and other healthcare service providers collect, store and analyze. The power of all of this data being stored on providers’ servers is difficult to overstate.

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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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Color Me Healthy – Pantone’s Forecast on Post-Pandemic Well-Being and Design

Health Populi

Post-pandemic, the consumer’s priority purchases are grocery, nesting, and health, according to David Shah, a leading thinker about social and design trends. David presented the latest Pantone forecast on color and society in NewTopia – A Balance of Color Opposites – Color for a Post-COVID World this week. I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering

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Alumni Highlight: Massage Therapist to Aromatherapist

American College of Healthcare Sciences

Written by Gillian Turner, Social Media & PR Specialist. Kathy graduated from ACHS with a Master of Science in Aromatherapy. After working as a massage therapist for 15 years, she is now expanding her horizons with a new job as a Senior Inside Sales Representative at Aromaland. Massage Therapist to Aromatherapist. Having always felt a strong connection with nature and plants, Kathy became interested in aromatherapy while she was working as a massage therapist at Keystone Massage Therapy, whi

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AI tool ‘fundamentally changes the game’ for ICU care

Healthy Debate

The post AI tool ‘fundamentally changes the game’ for ICU care appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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HIMSS CMIO Roundtable preview: How COVID-19 changed telehealth

Meditech

Among the many societal changes wrought by COVID-19, the pandemic accelerated adoption of telehealth at a rate unthinkable just a year earlier.

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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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For a Mother and Her Sons, Family Medicine is ‘a personalized experience every step of the way’

Medcenter

Sometimes patients want the emotional support of a simple conversation. When Ashley Marlow was pregnant and post-partum, she wanted a partner in her health care experience. “I always felt like we had a plan,” she says, “and I had an advocate.”. The post For a Mother and Her Sons, Family Medicine is ‘a personalized experience every step of the way’ appeared first on UVM Medical Center Blog.

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Interview with Glympse Bio CEO Caroline Loew

Health Business Group

Glympse Bio CEO Caroline Loew. Glympse Bio CEO Caroline Loew grew up in England with the expectation that she could do anything. After all, her grandmother managed a hotel when she was in her 20s and her parents always supported her ambitions. And while for most students, organic chemistry is a weed out class for pre-med Caroline actually fell in love with the subject and pursued her PhD.

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Creating a Culture of Safety Starts at Your Entrance

Readiness Rounds

Now more than ever, healthcare facilities are implementing or upgrading their entrance management systems to safeguard people and enhance aspects of the check-in process. In fact, staff, patients, visitors and vendors expect there to be precautionary health and safety protocols in place at entrances. These protocols are the cornerstone of creating a culture of safety.

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How Electronic Health Records Help to Engage Patients and Reduce Errors

Medical GPS

Bridging the Gap: The first time I met with my son’s neurodevelopmental disabilities physician, I thought she was a bit rude. She would ask a question regarding my son and then incessantly type away at her computer as I answered, rarely making eye contact and only coming up for air to ask another question. After about a half-hour of this, she broke stride, turned to look at my husband and me square in the eyes, and politely asked, “Has anyone ever talked to you about Cerebral Palsy?

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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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Would you recommend a career in healthcare?

Healthcare Leadership

There is a game we used to love playing when I was a kid – Game of Life. In it, you would randomly spin for a career that would dictate the amount of money you would collect as salary throughout the game. The career that everyone wanted to get was “Doctor” because it had the highest salary. That was my first exposure to how much doctors could potentially make.

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OR Business Manager Webinar

Twistle

PAST EVENT. Patient Engagement: A Powerful ROI Strategy in ERAS and PSH Programs. Join us July 28, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST/9:00 AM PDT for a webinar to explore how patient engagement reduces same-day cancellations, length of stay, postoperative complications and readmissions, and referrals to skilled nursing facilities. The presentation will also include clinicians from leading healthcare organizations who will present case studies illustrating the patient engagement ROI associated with Enhanced Re

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Modern Healthcare Delivery – The Difference Between Digital Therapeutics and Telehealth

GoMoHealth

In this COVID-19 environment, we are experiencing the growing power of digital tools helping us to better track and manage our health and appreciate more fulfilling daily experiences. This is certainly true in our personal lives, as we have turned to and become reliant on FaceTime, Zoom and other e-connections to stay connected to family and friends, and even more so when it comes to healthcare management, with the COVID-19 pandemic forever impacting the way healthcare is delivered.

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GP federations: The silent partner in the NHS’s response to Covid and a key building block for future primary care strategy

Health Care Leader News

It’s high time GP federations are acknowledged for what they bring to the primary care table, argue Fiona Adamson and Andy Hilton from the NHS Confederation’s Primary Care Federation Network. We are emerging from the biggest health crisis of our generation, but the real challenge facing primary care has barely begun. Rocketing demand for services, a weary workforce, confused national policy, and the true impact of the pandemic on the nation’s health and well-being are yet to be determined, leadi

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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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The New Administration: A Healthcare Perspective

nThrive

Date: June 15, 2021. Webinar Replay. Arielle Trzcinski, Industry Expert and Principle Analyst with Forrester Research. Forrester Research forecasts the future of healthcare under the new administration. • Value-based care is necessary. • Telehealth isn’t slowing down • Price transparency should be optimized. • Consumerism will continue to rise. • Health equity and holistic health will be emphasized.

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House Bill 241 Establishes Parental Rights for Minors' Education, Healthcare, Criminal Justice

HKLaw

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Inventing a stent to treat a serious heart condition

Osf Healthcare

Individuals diagnosed with an aortic dissection face a difficult open-heart surgery. An OSF physician in Rockford has invented a stent to prevent that.

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Connect 21: In person or virtual – we’re here for you

Spok Inc

Registration is now open for Connect 21, the Spok annual healthcare conference. Find all the details here! The post Connect 21: In person or virtual – we’re here for you appeared first on Spok Inc.

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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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Latest Coffee with the College Podcast Featuring Seth Teigen, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo

Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

How do you respond when a senior executive in your organization asks you, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Do you risk sounding too ambitious and reply with “I want YOUR job”? Do you sidestep and risk a label of “lacks direction” by saying you’re taking it one step at a time? Today, we explore how the answer to this question was critical to the career of Seth Teigen, Chief Executive Officer at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California.

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CX Healthcare Practice Focuses on Post-COVID Telehealth

CiscoHealth

Now is a pivotal time for all businesses, but especially so for healthcare organizations. The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation like never before. From telehealth to new non-traditional delivery models, it’s clear the future of healthcare is digital. Consumers now expect a more personalized and digital care experience because of the pandemic, and will demand better reliability, ease of use, and the utmost privacy.

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Explore the potential of AI and NLP to transform healthcare

Cloud Blogs

From the simple intimacy of a bedside conversation between a provider and a patient to the vast complexities of the global healthcare industry, data streams. A provider's transcribed notes, statistics from clinical trials, genomics data sets, and imaging reports that shines light on the invisible, all of it, and more, flood the system with information.