We all experience stress in our lifetimes, and most of us have survived something that could be considered traumatic. For this reason, millions of people stand to benefit from Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy just as millions more already have.
Even if stressful experiences in your past haven’t led to a clinical diagnosis, those experiences can still have an impact on you. They can prevent you from being your best self, living your most fulfilling life, or
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Why Today’s Patient Surveys Are Not Working for Healthcare
As more healthcare organizations prioritize and embrace a customer-centered care model, they’ve recognized the critical need to listen to — and really hear — their healthcare customers. Improving the quality of care requires accurate measurement and analysis of patient experiences. But while most organizations rely on Net Promoter Scores (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction Scores (CSAT), these patient surveys miss valuable customer information and insights.
Healthcare providers have turned
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Why PV Signal Teams Must Leverage RWD & Advanced Cognitive Computing
Signal detection — one of the most critical activities within pharmacovigilance (PV) — is the process of searching for and identifying safety signals from a variety of data sources. PV teams typically monitor safety signals for post-market products by reviewing scientific and medical literature, data obtained from clinical studies, and individual case safety reports (ICSRs).
ICSRs gather data supporting reporting adverse events (AEs), product problems, and customer complaints associated
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Data: Key to Unlocking Better Behavioral Health Outcomes
The growing demand for behavioral healthcare in America is putting a serious strain on both payers and providers with no signs of slowing down anytime soon. A report from Mental Health America found that one in five U.S. adults has a mental illness. Furthermore, concerns around the state of youth mental health, which exploded during the pandemic, continue to grow at an alarming rate. A recent Pew Research study found children’s mental health is the most concerning issue among parents
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FemTech: 5 Tips to Protect Reproductive Health Information
As we observe a year since the Dobbs decision, people seeking reproductive health care in the U.S. face new threats to their privacy and access to their personal health. One of the biggest concerns for reproductive health is data privacy: how data collected from patients could be used to penalize anyone considering or seeking an abortion, along with tracking health care providers who provide care.
With the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), a digital version of a
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How to Optimize and Enable Healthcare Marketing Resources With An Experienced Agency Partner
Many healthcare companies are currently challenged with staffing and budget reductions in response to overall economic turbulence. The healthcare industry experienced the second most layoffs last year, with marketing oftentimes being one of the first teams impacted. Additionally, many companies needed to significantly reduce their in-house marketing spend all while operating with a smaller headcount.
As the healthcare industry continues to innovate and grow despite a general downward economic
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Age Tech: Supporting Better Patient Outcomes in Senior Care
Your grandparent has arthritis in their knees, which can make it difficult for them to walk around their home. What if they had access to robot limbs to help them move around more independently without experiencing pain? Your parent has been diagnosed with a heart condition, and your entire family is constantly worried about their health. What if a device worn on their wrist could monitor their vitals all day, alerting you and their caregivers of anything concerning? Your grandparent has been
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Leveraging Personal Health Nurses to Connect the Dots Across the Care Continuum
Our nation is getting sicker. Research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that the number of people who spend $100,000 or more each year on healthcare increased by 50% between 2013 and 2021. The majority of conditions most represented in these costs included “nervous system disorders, heart disease, respiratory conditions, cancer, and musculoskeletal conditions.” Nearly half of all annual healthcare spending in the U.S. comes from just five percent of the population.
The Impact
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Now Is The Time to Maximize the Efficiency of a Digital Front Door
Patients aren’t just patients anymore, they are consumers, meaning they won’t hesitate to change providers and health plans if their expectations aren’t met. At the same time, providers and payers are facing a shortage of skilled technical workers, making it more difficult to resolve lingering issues around data silos, patient engagement and more. Add in an uncertain global economy driving intensified competition and it’s clear that it’s time to make the digital front door as effective as it
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How Health Systems Can Transform Fragmented Data Into a Unified Patient Experience
Imagine a giant clock where each single cog wheel contributes to displaying the time accurately. In this complex web of machinery, individual cogs can break, and the clock stops – rendering it useless. Healthcare organizations are at risk of facing a similar fate as they encounter fragmented IT infrastructures with disconnected data environments and silos. Failure to address this growing issue could have serious consequences, leading systems to falter sooner than anticipated.
In a recent
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