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Tailoring telehealth for your business: Evaluating customer needs
Karen R. Thomas Healthcare AdministrationRecent pressures for healthcare providers to both reduce hospital readmission rates and find convenient, affordable care solutions for patients, clients and employees are causing many businesses to turn to telehealth. Telehealth has swiftly grown in popularity as a way to more efficiently manage care and improve wellness.
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Driving the bus of your nursing career
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareIn our nursing careers, we can often feel buffeted by winds over which we feel little control. We can feel like we "should" do this or that, make choices that others feels are best for us, or take paths that feel prescribed for us, not chosen by us. This career paradigm can indeed feel uncomfortable.
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What CMS envisions for physician quality reporting programs
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationWhether we like it or not, data-driven and value-based decision making is here to stay, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been one of the drivers of this change in healthcare. The new CMS Physician Quality Reporting Programs Strategic Vision will help them to evolve, making better use of data collected and adding value for their stakeholders.
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Future implications of the increase in middle-aged hip replacements
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareMore than 300,000 total hip replacements are performed in the U.S. each year, and that number is expected to increase to 500,000 by the year 2030. The number of THRs nearly doubled among middle-aged patients from 2002-2011, primarily because of the increasing middle-aged U.S. population. This continued growth in hip replacement surgeries in patients age 45 to 64, an increase in revision surgeries for this population as they age, and a nearly 30 percent decline in the number of surgeons who perform THRs could all have significant implications for future healthcare costs.
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How to avoid health system staff turnover and employee poaching
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationStaffing shortages and turnover problems have become two of healthcare's biggest problems. Not only is finding quality talent a problem, keeping it is, causing concerns for hiring managers and recruiters in the current healthcare economy. Experts offer a few tips for retaining staff.
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What is the origin of Nurses Week?
Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied HealthcareEach year, Nurses Week begins on May 6 and runs through May 12, Florence Nightingale's birthday. This is a week where the worker bees of the healthcare world get some time in the spotlight. Many nurses look forward to the week of gifts, praises and a reminder of the greatness of nursing. But how did all this celebrating actually originate?
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Mental Health Awareness Month aims to knock down stigma
Jessica Taylor Mental HealthcareWords of hopelessness are spoken day in and day out from individuals with mental illnesses, but they're often pushed to the side. Because of the stigma around mental health, it’s harder for people who may need help to seek out the resources that are available to them. Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, there's no time like the present to discuss what can be done.
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Life after cardiac arrest
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareNearly 383,000 out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur annually. Of those who survive a cardiac arrest, mild-to-moderate cognitive impairment is common; half of all those who survive experience problems with cognitive functions such as memory and attention. However, in a recent study, a control group comprising heart attack patients had largely the same level of problems, which suggests that it is not only the cardiac arrest and the consequent lack of oxygen to the brain that is the cause of the patients' difficulties.
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High hopes, unfulfilled promise: Healthcare groups look beyond portals
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationThe healthcare delivery system currently being transformed is moving us much closer toward longitudinal health and a virtual care team approach. This involves continuous and ubiquitous interaction between the care team and patients — whether they are at home, mobile or in a care facility. The process also requires integration of these interactions into the clinical record, along with remote monitor data and information on social support networks.
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CommonWell continues to expand with strong signs of interoperability
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe big movement that is the CommonWell Health Alliance continues to make waves as it attempts to reach further into the healthcare stratosphere. CommonWell recently announced that its five founding member organizations — athenahealth, Cerner, CPSI, Greenway Health and McKesson — will actively deploy CommonWell's services to healthcare provider sites nationwide throughout 2015.
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