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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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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Cybersecurity in Healthcare: A Matter of Life and Death?
Perhaps more than any other sector, the healthcare industry faces great tension between security and easy access to data. Hospitals, doctors and other care providers need to have as much data and information readily available to use to treat patients and save lives; while at the same time keeping this sensitive information secure. This tension combined with the complexity of the healthcare sector, including its web of facilities, medical records, devices insurance companies, care providers,
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How to Achieve Health Equity in Decentralized Clinical Trials
Trial sponsors have made efforts to address underrepresentation and promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in clinical trials since the Federal and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2016 guidance, but a new report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) still shows a continuous presence of major gaps in patient diversity. It begs the question: how do we ultimately achieve full representation and ensure accountability to uphold the promises we have made for
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How Clinical Decision Support Can Help Alleviate Provider Burnout
As health systems look to heal from two years of pandemic-related struggles and skyrocketing costs, new data reveals an even more troubling issue – disturbing levels of burnout across the entire healthcare ecosystem.
New research from Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that 63% of physicians report at least one symptom of burnout, a drastic increase from 46% in 2011. For organizations already navigating supply chain issues, increased operating costs, and COVID-19 surges, health systems risk
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How EHR Interoperability Will Impact Health Care IT in 2023 and Beyond
The U.S. healthcare system has been in desperate need of modernization for decades. Thankfully, essential change is finally happening.
IT workers at healthcare organizations are now creating more efficient and effective electronic health records (EHRs), a process that requires integrating EHRs with new patient-access technologies. It also means that other healthcare workers – medical assistants, teletriage nurses, call center agents, etc. – need to change the way they work in
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