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Racist Events Can Have Spillover Effects, Triggering Mental, Physical Health Responses Beyond Immediate Victim

by Kevin Dedner, MPH, Founder & CEO, Hurdle Health 06/01/2022 Leave a Comment

Racist Events Can Have Spillover Effects, Triggering Mental, Physical Health Responses Beyond Immediate Victim

This article is excerpted from the Hurdle Health Research Report “Voices of a Collective Experience: Vicarious Racism and its Effects on Black Mental Health.” In the Brooklyn mural, an American flag undulates behind him. The one in Gaza City, Palestine crowns him with two hands—one Black, one White—making the shape of  a heart. In Naples, Italy, he weeps blood, reminiscent of religious artwork of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Another, in Los Angeles, drapes red tape with the words “I
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Outdated Pain Models & The Rise of New Science on Chronic Pain

by Yoni Ashar, PhD, Clinical Advisor at Lin Health 06/01/2022 Leave a Comment

Outdated Pain Models & The Rise of New Science on Chronic Pain

More than 50 million adults in the United States – more than 20% – suffer from chronic pain, and more than 19.6 million adults have pain that interferes with their lives more days than not. The estimated cost of chronic pain is $635 billion – more than heart disease and cancer combined – due to the number of days missed from work, treatment costs, and other factors. Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability, but the current pain treatment system isn’t working. This is because it hasn’t
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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?

by Karen Conway, VP of Healthcare Value, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) 05/31/2022 Leave a Comment

Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?

All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program. Meanwhile, Forrester predicts the number of hospitals delivering acute care at home will triple in 2022. The reasons why are compelling: a study
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Taking the Pulse on eCME – What’s Next for Continued Medical Education

by Matt Titus, VP & Chief Commercial Officer at epocrates 05/27/2022 Leave a Comment

Taking the Pulse on eCME – What’s Next for Continued Medical Education

Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed the massive digital disruption in healthcare that was spurred by the pandemic. The most frequent example tends to be in the rapid adoption of technology like telemedicine, but this disruption has touched even the most seemingly small pieces of the healthcare ecosystem and will have long lasting consequences.  Just consider the conferences that once used to draw large crowds of physicians seeking to attain their continuing medical education (CME)
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No Mask, No COVID-19 Pandemic, Right?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 05/27/2022 Leave a Comment

No Mask, No COVID-19 Pandemic, Right?

The end of the public transportation mask mandate, officially undone by federal Judge Kathryn Mizelle on April 18, may be recognized as the day the COVID-19 pandemic ended in America. Except it hasn’t ended in any real sense. The virus continues to produce new variants of greater or lesser transmissibility and lethality; for now, comparatively small numbers of people continue to die of the virus daily and weekly; and the CDC continues to recommend that the elderly and immunocompromised take
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Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Will Transform Outcomes

by Tom James, Healthcare Cloud Services and Solutions Leader at 2nd Watch 05/26/2022 Leave a Comment

Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Will Transform Outcomes

You don’t need another story urging you to “get to the cloud.” That’s old news for healthcare executives, who’ve long understood the necessity of rebooting the way their organizations operate in the digital era. In a recent McKinsey study, 19 of the 22 healthcare leaders the company interviewed described digital healthcare solutions as “highly relevant” or “relevant” to their businesses.  They get it. In fact, digital healthcare has already become the minimum table stakes: 93% of
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Buried Under Dirt or Under Debt: Can Patients Survive the Struggle of Getting Care?

by Srulik Dvorsky, TailorMed CEO and Founder 05/25/2022 Leave a Comment

BURIED UNDER DIRT OR UNDER DEBT: Can Patients Survive the Struggle of Getting Care?

New patients at a cancer center in Michigan receive a 79-page handbook when their treatments commence. The handbook includes needed advice on what to eat and the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. One double-sided page features information about how to navigate the financial aspects of cancer treatment, including who to contact for help with medical bills.  For Leslie Vreeland-Corpe of Michigan, one double-sided page couldn’t contain all the information she needed. After being diagnosed
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Interoperability: A Powerful Solution to Staffing Challenges Continues to be Overlooked

by Therasa Bell. Co-founder, President, and CTO at Kno2 & Cynthia Morton, EVP for the National Association for the Support of Long-Term Care (NASL) 05/24/2022 Leave a Comment

Interoperability Staffing Challenges Continues to be Overlooked

In our ever-changing world, clinicians nowadays must find more efficient ways to operate with fewer resources. Increased patient loads, reimbursement changes, rule and regulation adjustments and thin margins, all while being short-staffed can be compared to a smoldering bonfire that reignites every time the wind blows. As if that weren't enough, post-acute providers will begin to feel even more heat if they don’t embrace interoperability. Our global demographics simply will not be able to
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How Patient Movement Benefits from Standardized Acuity Scoring

by Dr. Martin Sellberg, Co-Founder of Motient 05/24/2022 Leave a Comment

How Patient Movement Benefits from Standardized Acuity Scoring

Nurses and providers typically assess patient acuity and volume at the beginning of their shift, whether formally or informally. Managers use patient acuity to balance nursing assignments, and nursing staff uses it to determine which patient care action should be prioritized next. Taking a standardized approach to acuity assessments not only provides more objectivity, but also gives hospitals the data they need to make a variety of tactical and strategic decisions, from daily unit staffing to
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Reproducibility, Trust, and the Digital Laboratory

by Kevin Vigilante, Chief Medical Officer and George Plopper, Sr. Lead Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton 05/23/2022 Leave a Comment

Reproducibility, Trust, and the Digital Laboratory

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing recognition that results published in scientific journals often cannot be reproduced by other scientists. This has been called the “reproducibility crisis” and has been described in a number of studies. A 2016 Nature article reported that more than 70% of surveyed researchers tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. A 2021 study reported that fewer than half
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