In honor of PRIDE month, Dr. Rhae-Anne Booker, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) with the University of Michigan Health-West, shares five key DEI tips on why it’s important for health systems to have a plan for treating patients with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities:
Understand and respect patients' sexual identities, preferences and preferred pronouns
Respecting someone’s identity is one of the quickest and easiest ways to help patients feel
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CDC Launches Fentanyl Dashboard to Monitor Nonfatal Overdose Trends
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released its Fentanyl Study Dashboard, an innovative tool that utilizes data from the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), to track and monitor nonfatal overdose trends associated with fentanyl. The dashboard, “Fentalog Study: A Subset of Nonfatal Suspected Opioid-Involved Overdoses with Toxicology Testing” went live in May of 2023 aims to provide vital insights to healthcare
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Laudio Secures $13M for AI-Powered Healthcare Operations Platform
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Laudio, a Boston, MA-based AI-powered solution that’s solving for health systems CEOs top issues: labor productivity and burnout secures $13M in Series B funding led by Define Ventures. Laudio acts as a co-pilot to thousands of healthcare managers, amplifying their work and delivering measurable, large-scale improvements. The platform will streamline and standardize best practices for frontline leaders, making crucial data available in real-time and accessible
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Amazon HealthLake Adds 3 New FHIR API Capabilities to Offerings
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AWS announced the addition of three new capabilities to Amazon HealthLake’s managed FHIR API offerings. The launch of these three new capabilities benefits EHR system providers, ISVs, SIs, and IT teams working with healthcare organizations, by allowing them to simply leverage managed FHIR APIs to build interoperability applications or systems that conform to ONC and CMS patient access rules, reducing the burden of building and managing the underlying FHIR APIs
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Carta Healthcare Raises $25M for AI-Powered Clinical Data Abstraction
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Carta Healthcare®, a company whose mission is to improve patient care by harnessing the value of clinical data, announced today the final closing of its $25 million series B financing, thanks to additional investments from leading health systems Memorial Hermann Health System and UnityPoint Health.These additional investments follow the initial $20 million series B financing announced in November 2022, which included investors such
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Unleashing the Power of Protocols in Critical Care
Protocol Driven Care
Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. Standardization reduces waste, makes treatment predictable and controllable, and defines clear responsibilities for all team members. Standardization leads to more efficient, less costly care, and a more consistent patient experience — outcomes that become critical as the industry accelerates the
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CalAIM and How It Is Changing Medicaid’s Narrative
On December 29, 2021, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) received approval of the CalAIM Section 1115 demonstration waiver, CalAIM Section 1915(b) waiver, and Medi-Cal State Plan Amendments from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through December 31, 2026.
California’s fresh approach to healthcare has been in the works for a while. In 2016, the Golden State began its Whole-Person Care (WPC) pilots at the county level integrating physical
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Healthcare Is Changing, Right? Here’s 5 Reasons It’s Not.
We hear it every day, right? Articles and headlines touting “the healthcare industry is constantly evolving and changing” to be more consumer-focused and patient-centric. But is that really all that true? While ideas of innovation, news articles of the next big thing, and healthcare conferences are more exciting than actual healthcare improvements, tangible change feels…. questionable.
We can all hope for a better future, but the reality is that a number of issues continue to hold back
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Improving Physical Therapist and Patient Experiences with Technology Innovation
Today’s physical therapists are exhausted and drowning in debt from school loans. Looking at the physical therapy (PT) profession as a whole, there is an average turnover rate of 13.6%, a significant portion of the current healthcare industry’s staggering rate of 100.5% turnover, over the last 5 years, according to Daily Pay’s Healthcare Turnover Rates [2022 Edition]. What’s even more concerning is that 1 in 3 rehab professionals describe themselves as burnt-out.
What’s contributing to such
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Interoperability Institute Launches Virtual Innovation Center with AWS
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The Interoperability Institute (IOI), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on scaling interoperability for the health information technology (HIT) sector, today announced that it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch Interop.WORLD, a Virtual Innovation Center designed to accelerate critical advancements within the industry. IOI was created by the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) to tackle the challenges around healthcare
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