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The Pandemic’s Death Rate in the U.S.: High Per Capita Income, High Mortality

Health Populi

The United States has among the highest per capita incomes in the world. The U.S. also has sustained among the highest death rates per 100,000 people due to COVID-19, based on epidemiological data from the World Health Organization’s March 28, 2021 , update. Higher incomes won’t prevent a person from death-by-coronavirus, but risks for the social determinants of health — exacerbated by income inequality — will and do.

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#JHMChat: A Candid Conversation About Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment

Hospital Medicine

I noticed it on my first few days as a medical student on the wards. I presented a patient next to the taller, male medical student, and the patient looked to him rather than to me. On top of the usual nerves of a new rotation and presenting in front of a clinical team, I [.]. The post #JHMChat: A Candid Conversation About Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

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The impact of Continuum of Care on patient safety

Patient Safety Blog

In a continuum of care, the concept of an integrated care system, there are many risks for patient safety.

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How to Choose a Clearinghouse

Icanotes

As a mental and behavioral healthcare provider, you want to give your patients the best care and treatment possible. You also want to ensure your practice is paid for the services it provides as quickly and efficiently as possible. Mistakes and errors on the claims you submit to insurance companies can delay payment or cause the company to reject your claim.

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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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The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. PwC’s Health Research Institute has combed through their consumer survey data and developed insights on health consumers, shared in a summary titled Consumer health behavior and the COVID-19 pandemic: What we’ve learned. Most U.S. consumers would be likely to have a clinician visit their homes for several kinds of medical care, including: “DIY care,” as PwC exe

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Battling Burnout: One Physician’s Story

Medi Leadership

“I am going to make a confession. I too, along with thousands of doctors, once suffered from burnout.”. Dr. Sanziana Roman , Professor of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco, posted those words in her Twitter feed earlier this spring, on National Doctors Day. In a thread that garnered thousands of “likes” and hundreds of “retweets,” Roman shared her experience with burnout — its roots, ramifications, and how she’s managed to overcome it.

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Achieving a Harmonious Balance Between Teleheath and In-Person Care

Medical GPS

Don’t Throw the Baby Out. Are you even blogging if you don’t use the phrase “new normal” somewhere within your writings these days? Whether you’ve grown tired of reading the phrase or not, the 2020 adage does sum up today’s Thinking Thursday TIPs topic perfectly. As the numbers in vaccinations increase and the number of COVID-19 cases decrease, it’s tempting to return to business as usual and “throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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A Year Into COVID19, Mental Health Impacts Heavier on Moms Than Dads in America

Health Populi

In the summer of 2020, four months into the pandemic, one-half of people living in the U.S. felt worry or stress related to the coronavirus that had a negative impact on their mental health. Over a year into the COVID-19 in America, nearly one-half of people still have negative mental health impacts due to the coronavirus, based on research from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) published in their April 2021 update on the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Painful, Stressful, Beautiful: A Refection on One Year of COVID-19

The Beryl Institute

One year ago, it felt like we were waiting for a tsunami to hit the shore. It had already hit China, Italy, New York and Seattle. My little corner of the world, North Carolina, had not yet felt it’s wrath, but we knew it would reach us soon. The air was still, and everyone was tense, scared, waiting. Since then, the tsunami of COVID-19 has taken the lives of over two million people worldwide and the storm is not over yet.

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HIStalk Interviews LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Lexis Nexis

I wanted to share a recent interview from our CEO that I think does an excellent job of describing the challenges our industry faces and how LexisNexis Risk Solutions can help address them. Josh Schoeller, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care, recently shared industry insights in a candid interview with HIStalk, a healthcare technology industry blog.

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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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Patient Navigator: Hospital program aims to boost vaccination rate among health-care workers

Healthy Debate

The post Patient Navigator: Hospital program aims to boost vaccination rate among health-care workers appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities. The Mayo Clinic published an informative piece on Feet and the COVID-19 Pandemic , and the Cleveland Clinic posted advice on exercising during the pandemic earlier this month with the strong recommendation of walking.