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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated

CMS.gov

Leadership. I’ve heard the derisive comments from those in the health policy stratosphere that prefer centralized government command and control of health care in America. Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 03/14/2019 - 17:33. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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#TweetRegret?

Docnotes

A provocative tweet can have broad impact, can demonstrate thought leadership, and can generate conversations that make the world a better place. Of course he doesn’t want people to be unhealthy so that they go to the hospital. people have even lost their jobs due to things they have posted online.

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Top Six Healthcare Executive Challenges in 2019

Henry Kotula

A recent Black Book survey found 47% of all health systems who replaced their EHRs are in the red over their replacements. Hospitals and physician may not be entirely happy with their EHR choices, but the best course may be to stick with their system. A whopping 95% said they regret the decision to change systems.

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Melinda Gates: This is not a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Henry Kotula

” I’m seeing lots of good things come forward, but it’s a process that needs to run its full course, because you don’t want to put something in someone’s body that is harmful. Shontell: Right. So no, we’re still a long way from herd immunity. Sure, we could get herd immunity and we will get so much death.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare. This paper, dated August 2020, pointed out that this data could help prioritize efforts at COVID-19 testing and contact tracing—today, of course, we would add vaccinations.