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How your healthcare organization can ensure accurate patient matching
Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare AdministrationCorrect patient matching on health records is an essential safety tool for any physician's office or hospital. Yet achieving it is a significant nationwide problem, according to eye-opening new research from eHealth Initiative Foundation and NextGate. Their recent study finds that 38% of surveyed providers report at least one adverse event due to patient record information errors in the past two years. You can do a lot right now to shore up your own patient matching system and cut down on confusion and possible life-threatening data mistakes. Therefore, it's crucial to put your attention and resources into five key areas, as follows.
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Infographic: How AI lets you take pictures like a pro
Mia Glatter Science & TechnologyToday, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone — not just artists — is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it. Find out how artificial intelligence makes it happen in this infographic.
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Decoding the American traveler
Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementThe 2020 Portrait of the American International Traveler Survey — a partnership this year between the United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) and integrated marketing agency MMGY Global — sees a healthy appetite for travel among Americans and notes the hunger is not showing signs of dissipating anytime soon. The Portrait of American International Travelers Survey profiled 2,026 affluent American travelers with an annual household income of over $100,000.
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New study reports on incubation period of COVID-19
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareA new study on COVID-19, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, estimates 5.1 days for incubation period and suggests that about 97.5% of people who develop symptoms of infection will do so within 11.5 days of exposure. The researchers estimated that for every 10,000 individuals quarantined for 14 days, only about 101 would develop symptoms after being released from quarantine. These estimates imply that, under conservative assumptions, in 101 out of every 10,000 cases, people will develop symptoms after 14 days of active monitoring or quarantine.
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How often and why college students are dropping out
Terri Williams EducationA college degree can lead to increased income and job opportunities. According to Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, someone with a bachelor’s degree earns 31% more than an individual with an associate degree — and 84% more than someone with a high school diploma. However, a study by Strada Education Network and Lumina Foundation reveals that over the past two decades, a staggering 31 million people have dropped out of college. What’s causing them to leave early?
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How to turn your suffering into an ally
Victoria Fann Mental HealthcareNo one likes to suffer. Whether it's physical or emotional pain, we'd much rather avoid it, and often go to great lengths to do just that. But what if instead of trying to escape the experience, we looked at suffering as an ally that has come into our lives bearing gifts? I know that might sound trite or insensitive. But bear with me. Having personally experienced my share of intense suffering, I wouldn't dream of sugar coating it. Rather, my intention is to show how navigating suffering can be the way a surfer rides a wave.
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Podcast: Creating cash-based business for a PT practice with injury-prevention…
Jarod Carter MarketingIn this episode, Jarod Carter discusses the marketing potential in offering promotions for injury-prevention screenings. You'll learn how to target your campaign toward highly motivated niches, how to craft and deliver effective marketing messages, and how to ensure that the screening visit is designed to create new physical therapy business for your cash-based practice.
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Boeing freezes hiring as stocks plunge
Michelle R. Matisons ManufacturingBoeing stocks have reportedly dropped to a 46-year low, as airline travel restrictions and new reports of company malfeasance further limit buyer confidence and challenge the company’s ability to withstand vulnerable market forces. Boeing shares dropped 18% on March 11 — the largest single-day percentage drop in decades. Canceled orders are much to blame here, as the company reported February’s overall net order number was down 28 planes.
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How (and why) businesses are ensuring employees become financially literate
Tory Barringer Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementA worrying trend has emerged in the past decade since the global financial crisis: Even with a world of information available at our fingertips, Americans' financial literacy is dismal and only getting worse. A recently concluded study by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation found that only about one-third of Americans surveyed were able to correctly answer a majority of questions when quizzed about interest rates, inflation, financial risk and mortgage rates, down from 42% in 2009.
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What small businesses need to know before filing tax returns
Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhat does the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, perhaps President Trump’s signature legislative achievement, mean for businesses? We turn to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC), located in Washington, D.C. "TCJA allowed businesses to deduct the full cost of qualified new investments in the year those investments are made (referred to as 100 percent bonus depreciation or 'full expensing') for five years," according to the TPC. But this is not a permanent change to the tax code.