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COVID-19: How Can Payers Prepare for Mandates and Support Pandemic Relief Efforts

by Elizabeth Bierbower, Former President of Humana's Group & Specialty Division 11/25/2020 Leave a Comment

Compliance and COVID: How Can Payers Prepare for Mandates and Support Pandemic Relief Efforts

Healthcare can achieve optimum efficiency when patients are at the center of care. When patients have the necessary information to navigate their care journey, they will choose the path to high-quality care at the lowest costs. Cost-sharing and insurance premiums are rising consistently since the last decade for employer plans, which covers nearly half of the country’s population. Plan members are shouldering a part of the healthcare cost burden, so they want to keep it as low as possible. At
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3 Key Solutions to Fighting Stress In the Medical Field

by HITC Staff 11/25/2020 Leave a Comment

As you read this, doctors are on the frontlines fighting a global pandemic. Lives depend on their skills and expertise, but what often gets overlooked is the fact that doctors are still prone to stress. Sure enough, according to a report by Medscape, more than 42% of physicians across various specialties say they are burned out.  Burnout is still a common occurrence among physicians and it's a matter that practitioners and healthcare institutions should take seriously. After all, doctors are
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How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors

by Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Director, HealthEC 11/24/2020 Leave a Comment

How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors

Senior isolation is a health risk that affects at least a quarter of seniors over 65. It has become recognized over the past decade as a risk factor for poor aging outcomes including cognitive decline, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, impaired immune function, and even death. Physical limitations, lack of transportation, and inadequate health literacy, among other social determinants of health (SDOH), further impair access to medical and mental
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Hospital Sustainability Demands that Revenue Integrity Move Front and Center

by Vasilios Nassiopoulos, VP of Platform Strategy and Innovation, Hayes 11/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Hospital Sustainability Demands that Revenue Integrity Move Front and Center

Razor-thin operational margins coupled with substantial and ongoing losses related to COVID-19 are culminating in a perfect storm of bottom-line issues for U.S. hospitals and health systems. A study commissioned by the American Hospital Association (AHA) found that the median hospital margin overall was just 3.5% pre-pandemic, and projected margins will stay in the red for at least half of the nation’s hospitals for the remainder of 2020.  The reality is that an increase in
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COVID-19 and Racial Disparities: Transforming the Health of Businesses

by Margarita Alegría, PhD, Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital 11/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Pandemics and Protests: Transforming the Health of American Businesses

American businesses and their leadership are at a crossroads. COVID-19 has forced us all to re-evaluate how we work and live, while the current protest movements have placed a spotlight on the systemic injustices non-white workers face both in and out of the office. Given that communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, companies serious about doing right by their employees need to act decisively and clearly or risk becoming complicit in the racial and social
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7 Best Practices for Third-Party Risk Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry

by Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO of SecurityScorecard 11/19/2020 Leave a Comment

7 Best Practices for Third-Party Risk Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The globalization of the pharmaceutical industry has forced pharma companies to outsource, increasing their reliance on third-party vendors and suppliers. As this supply chain grows in complexity, companies find themselves grappling with a growing amount of cyber risk.  A data breach in the pharmaceutical industry can cost companies upwards of $5 million and costs can rise significantly if a third-party vendor or supplier is the cause of a data breach. For this reason, organizations must
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While We Wait for 5G, Is Wi-Fi or Cellular Better for RPM Solutions?

by Mark Denissen, President and CEO, Anelto 11/18/2020 Leave a Comment

While We Wait for 5G, Is Wi-Fi or Cellular Better for RPM Solutions?

Many in the healthcare industry are keeping an eye on the rollout of 5G wireless, which promises to connect people and things at higher speed and lower latency. In the healthcare realm, this means high-resolution images such as CT scans and X-rays can be taken and transmitted instantaneously to doctors. But it also means good things for lower-bandwidth applications, such as the volumes of rich data found in home healthcare applications.  One of the beneficiaries of 5G will be remote
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How COVID-19 Has Revealed Healthcare’s Blockchain Use Cases

by Brett Furst, President at HHS Technology Group 11/17/2020 Leave a Comment

How COVID-19 Has Revealed Healthcare’s Blockchain Use Cases

Blockchain technology has somewhat infamously been described as “a solution in search of a problem,” but as the healthcare industry responds to the demands of the pandemic, several valuable use cases have surfaced that could benefit from employing the emerging technology.   Due in large part due to its ability to promote trust, transparency, and privacy, blockchain has emerged as today’s best technology-based option for accomplishing the important objective of delivering real-time
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8 Ways Advanced Analytics Can Help You Decide If Telehealth Should Be Temporary or Permanent

by Prasad Dindigal, Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences, EXL. 11/13/2020 Leave a Comment

8 Ways Analytics Can Help You Decide If Telehealth Should Be Temporary or Permanent

Over the past few months, primarily as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has gone from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” for healthcare providers. The surge of COVID-19 patients in the spring, coupled with “stay-at-home” orders in many states, meant that many patients in need of care for chronic conditions and other non-emergent health issues were unable to visit their providers face-to-face.  Telehealth became the emergency solution, aided by relaxation of government regulations
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Is Remote-Learning A Public Health Dilemma?

by Jim Davis, Director, Good Athlete Project 11/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Is Remote-Learning A Public Health Dilemma?

In 2014, pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom set out to better understand the student experience by sitting in on middle school classes. She sat. She sat some more. She then noticed that a day’s worth of sitting was affecting her ability to focus. She asked “how on Earth do these children tolerate sitting this long?” before spotting all the fidgety, distracted bodies – “well, the short answer is they don’t.” This phenomenon is rooted in the commonly ignored factor that students
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