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The Health Industry’s Progress Toward Equity and Eliminating Disparities: A Look at Healthcare Providers

Healthcare Leadership Council

Our members are each committed to ensuring that the healthcare system works for all citizens and they are devoting energies and resources to initiatives aimed at making this happen. These collaborations include partnerships with federally-qualified health centers, houses of worship, and local nonprofit organizations.

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Health Populi

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. A big piece of addressing the cybersecurity healthcare challenge is educating people who work in healthcare settings, and that has been under-funded.

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Hospital at Home: Aligning Provider Needs with Patient Wishes

HIT Consultant

Recovering patients usually demonstrate poor levels of adherence, as many people – already weakened by the operation and the medication – forget to enter their health data or struggle to read basic equipment, like a thermometer, correctly.

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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

Healthcare It News

In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, keeping the best outcomes for patients at the center of all activity increasingly depends on the smart use of medical data. Furthermore, ensuring that therapeutic decisions comply with clinical guidelines is front-of-mind for all healthcare providers.

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Newsletter, April 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Medical technology companies are developing new devices to assist us. The Joint Commission reported a 19% increase year-over-year in serious patient safety events among healthcare facilities in 2022, with falls, the most common such event, rising nearly 27%, according to Fierce Healthcare.

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Disruption Is Healthcare’s New Normal

Health Populi

. “Finally,” after 20 years… which is why I continue to keep Amara’s Law front-of mind when it comes to healthcare’s ability to change. Making those connections via telehealth and virtual health technology, from a pure technical standpoint, is do-able today.

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The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture

Health Populi

In the past few months, she’s traveled to Australia and Ireland, for example, to spread her knowledge about digital health and technology to healthcare providers, investors, and innovators. We’ll also see more and more connected health data in the IoT ecosystem for different applications.