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Nurses Continue to Reign #1 in Honesty and Ethics; Healthcare Pro’s 4 of Top 5 in Annual Gallup Poll

Health Populi

The topline of this year’s annual Gallup Poll into honesty and ethics of professions finds nurses sustaining their reign as the top trusted profession in America. Engineers rank second this year after nurses, edging ahead of doctors and pharmacists who typically have ranked 2nd and 3rd each year in the past decade.

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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

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that people — both patients and the health care workforce — feel less safe, discussed in Safety in Healthcare 2024 from Press Ganey. It anchors all experiences — for patients and the workforce,” the report summarizes. This gap in patient perceptions of safety in inpatient versus outpatient settings is 2.5

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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

This year’s study was designed to compare current clinicians’ perspectives with those garnered in the 2016 and 2019 studies. 93% of physicians see advantages in digital health tools for patient care, split by 44% seeing “definite advantages” and 49% seeing “some advantage.”

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Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Nearly 29 million Baby Boomers retired in 2020, three and a half million more than in 2019. Improve the Patient and Staff Relationship to Improve the Overall Experience Many healthcare systems are pursuing digital transformations, automation, and enhanced technology to provide new value to patients and reduce stressors on staff.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. This week, Health 2.0 This is my lens as I enter this year’s annual Health 2.0 The post Prelude to Health 2.0

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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

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The rest of the CES story for 2019 is positive, Shelly optimistically continued. True enough, in the latest Gallup Poll on honesty and ethics in professions in America, the leaders in trusted roles were nurses, pharmacists and doctors. ” Information asymmetry is one of the most primitive instincts we have, he noted.

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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

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trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. health care employment since 2001, today accounting for twice as many staff as physicians and nurses. This last graphic from the McKinsey report illustrates the pain points for patients engaging with payers’ call centers.