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Three Ways to Avoid Employee Burnout and Improve Culture in Healthcare

HealthStream

Understanding ways to counteract burnout and support healthcare employees feeling great stress has never been as important as it is now, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are three steps a healthcare organization can take to address damaging stress and potential burnout among staff.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Accelerated Our Demand for Wellness – Learning from Ogilvy

Health Populi

Every company is a tech company, strategy consultants asserted over the past decade. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that every company is a health and wellness company now, at least in the eyes of consumers around the world. In The Wellness Gap , the health and wellness team at Ogilvy explores the mindsets of consumers in 14 countries to learn peoples’ perspectives on wellness brands and how COVID-19 has impacted consumers’ priorities.

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Accelerate Your EA Journey With LeanIX Certifications

LeanIX

A great way to tell if a tool is worth the investment is to check and see if it provides a way, or even multiple ways, to learn how to use the platform. From Customer Success Managers to online or in-person training courses, modern businesses need to make sure their customer support techniques are successful in keeping their users happy and up to date on their products.

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Borderlands 3 is using its millions of gamers to help map the human gut microbiome

Mobi Health News

Gearbox Studios CEO Randy Pitchford and videogame science company MMOS cofounder Attila Szantner discuss the design and deployment decisions that drew 1.6 million players to their gene-sequencing puzzle game, and how "citizen science" games can help advance data-driven research.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Precision Medicine Finds A Home In Primary Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joel Diamond, MD, FAAFP, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice and a fellow in the American Academy […]. The article Precision Medicine Finds A Home In Primary Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How virtual care can be refined to reach those who need it most

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There's no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace" for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell. Though the coronavirus crisis has certainly sped up that process, he said, the foundation for such growth has been laid overtime by digital health leaders.

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Commissioner Hahn: FDA hiring more data experts to help healthcare 'unleash the power of data'

Mobi Health News

More expertise will be necessary if the regulator is to keep up with the constant evolution of real-world evidence, privacy and other data-driven challenges, Dr. Hahn said.

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Top Medical Apps for Seniors

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. One of the most significant challenges in the medical industry is the aging population. Taking care of seniors means using many different methods to ensure compliance. Seniors are often tricky to take care of, as […]. The article Top Medical Apps for Seniors appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

In 2020, most Black people, men and women alike, feel it is a bad time to be Black in America. More than twice as many Black men believe that in 2020 compared with 2006. More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

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Transform Clinical Communication With Role-based Messaging

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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Teladoc Health and Livongo's post-merger plan: one-stop healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Two months ago, digital health behemoths Livongo and Teladoc Health announced their $18.5 billion merger under the name Teladoc following huge leaps in earnings for both companies. The deal, which is expected to be finalized by the end of the fourth quarter in 2020, builds upon the shared company culture at both organizations, said Teladoc Health CEO Jason Gorevic.

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Daily foot temperature monitoring leads to fewer hospitalizations, amputations and more

Mobi Health News

The study used Podimetrics SmartMats to take the temperature of participants’ feet and scan for signs of inflammation.

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Five Things Hospitals Should Look For In IT Consulting Firm Partners

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kevin Torf, co-founder and managing partner, T2 Tech Group. IT outsourcing by hospitals has been booming the last couple of months, due in part to the pandemic. Effective outsourcing enables hospital IT staff to […]. The article Five Things Hospitals Should Look For In IT Consulting Firm Partners appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Social isolation of older adults – a problem and an opportunity

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Life has been worsening for older adults – in senior living and at home. Every day there is some new article about the impact of Covid-19 on older adults -- or another study turns up that you missed. Residents in senior living communities are having a tough time , cut off from activities and visits from family. Isolation has produced an increase in mental health issues, loneliness and depression – and that would be for those who have a good grasp of what is going on – for those in long-term ca

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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Google Cloud, Amwell foresee a 'new narrative' of virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 crisis has spotlighted the vital role telehealth can play in ensuring seamless access to care. But until recently, much attention has been paid to how telehealth could imitate in-person services. Now, said Amwell President and co-CEO Dr. Roy Schoenberg at a HLTH VRTL 2020 conversation, the industry has the opportunity to open up a "new narrative" of what virtual care can look like.

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Lady Technologies releases two-in-one fertility tracking and pelvic floor exercising device

Mobi Health News

Along with the product release, the company also announced it completed a seed funding round worth $1.5 million.

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Changes to HIPAA, New Data Interoperability Rules, and the Impact of COVID-19 on ROI

Healthcare IT Today

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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Patient-Centric Approach To Improved Operational Efficiencies for Better Revenue Cycle Management

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Teri Schmidt, vice president of business development, SYNERGEN Health LLC. While some physicians are beginning to see patient visits return to pre-COVID-19 volume, many independent practices are still struggling. In fact, nearly nine in […]. The article Patient-Centric Approach To Improved Operational Efficiencies for Better Revenue Cycle Management appeared first on electronichealthrepor

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Global women-only telemedicine initiative launched by the UAE

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A telemedicine initiative aimed at providing free diagnosis, treatment, and preventive services for women around the world has been unveiled by a United Arab Emirates humanitarian organisation. Spearheaded by the Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Volunteering Programme, the scheme will see the launch of several women-only telemedicine clinics around the world, offering specialist care and medical consultations remotely for those in need.

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Israel’s Nym Health announces $16.5M Series A funding towards product development

Mobi Health News

The technology enables “fully automated, efficient, and transparent revenue cycle management” for healthcare providers.

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Did COVID-19 Create a False Telehealth Market?

Healthcare IT Today

This many months into COVID-19 and I think we all have to look at what all the changes are going to mean for healthcare. I know that so many telehealth advocates are saying the genie is out of the bottle and related phrases, but I think there’s still a lot more to be said about […].

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Rite Aid unveils new strategy, revamped stores to remain competitive with CVS, Walgreens

FierceHealthIT

Rite Aid unveils new strategy, revamped stores to remain competitive with CVS, Walgreens. hlandi. Wed, 10/14/2020 - 17:07.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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How providers can use video chat to show empathy to patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How providers can use video chat to show empathy to patients Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Zocdoc swings back at ousted CEO's fraud allegations

Mobi Health News

The online appointment booking service called for a dismissal and re-filing of the former CEO's lawsuit, and outlined a financial rebound since his dismissal in a new blog post.

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Providence Combines 9 Health IT Companies to Form Tegria

Healthcare IT Today

Tegria, a new company designed to provide next generation technologies and services to the health care sector, launched today with support from Providence, one of the nation’s largest health systems. Tegria combines select Providence investments and acquisitions into a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to accelerate technological, clinical and operational advances in health care.

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Florida Blue first health plan to sign on for integrated Teladoc-Livongo platform

FierceHealthIT

Florida Blue first health plan to sign on for integrated Teladoc-Livongo platform. hlandi. Mon, 10/12/2020 - 17:29.

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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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ATA partners with ORCHA to develop approved app library

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association announced a new partnership with the Daresbury, United Kingdom-based Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps this week that's aimed at giving patients access to safe, effective health apps. Using ORCHA's automated review process, healthcare organizations can assess apps against more than 300 measures of usability, security and quality.

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Oliver Wyman exec says men and women view leadership differently, propelling the gender gap in healthcare

Mobi Health News

Oliver Wyman's chair of diversity and inclusion talks about why gender parity is still struggling despite companies' best intentions.

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Taylor Swift EHR Logos Part 1 – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

There’s a lot of reasons why on today’s #HITsm chat I mentioned Brendan Keeler (@healthbjk) from Redox as someone who doesn’t have enough followers on Twitter. He’s got a ton of knowledge and an interesting background and experience which makes his shares on Twitter really interesting. While Brendan is a great follow for his knowledge […].

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