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Why your company’s culture matters — especially in the throes of…
Dan Bruder Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWith the outbreak of COVID-19, organizational culture was tested with a rapid change from working together on-site to working at home. Companies with a strong, intentional culture were able to swiftly implement work-from-home practices since their culture was stronger than the process. On the other hand, organizations with a weak culture struggled with employee productivity and motivation when the surrounding environment changed. In truth, culture is the most important ingredient to success and your company cannot realize its potential without having an intentionally designed, foundational culture. Here are some tips for developing a culture that connects, motivates, challenges, and aligns organizations.
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Fitbit races to help COVID-19 patients by developing an emergency ventilator
Tammy Hinojos Medical & Allied HealthcareFitbit has secured an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA for a new device, the Fitbit Flow. It will be a low-cost emergency ventilator that can be used to help with patient needs surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Fitbit said that after seeing the tremendous need for ventilators across the nation and, indeed, around the world, it pivoted and applied its in-house brainpower in advanced sensor development and hardware design to create the Fitbit Flow.
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Infographic: Why masks are still necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19
Brian Wallace Medical & Allied HealthcareAs the coronavirus pandemic first spread around the world, the CDC originally recommended that healthy people should not wear masks. But on April 3, the CDC reversed its decision, recommending all Americans wear face coverings when in public to slow the spread. This infographic explores the science behind masks, why experts recommend wearing them in public, and how to clean them.
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Infographic: Boosting your immune system — Fact vs. fiction
Brian Wallace Medical & Allied HealthcareDuring the pandemic, attention has turned to how we can stay as healthy as possible, meaning the immune system is at the forefront of many people's minds. This infographic looks at what exactly the immune system is and breaks down some popular recommendations about how to boost it.
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Podcast: Using Facebook Live events to market to patients
Jarod Carter Sports & FitnessIn this episode, Jarod Carter explains how you can use Facebook Live events to market your cash-based physical therapy services. Promoting live events to your existing list of contacts is a great follow-up strategy for increasing reactivations and tune-up sessions and keeping your practice top of mind among discharged patients. You'll hear tips for deciding if there's sufficient interest, how to approach scheduling, and how to make sure everything goes smoothly.
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How a new study can help doctors identify COVID-19 infections faster
Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied HealthcareOutpatient presentations of COVID-19 remain a tricky management challenge for all healthcare professionals. When it comes to quickly triaging a patient, you need your evaluation to be as accurate as possible, especially when that patient's symptoms may or may not traditionally fit testing criteria — or if your organization has testing kit shortages. Good news: fresh research from Harvard Medical School may be able to help you determine which presenting patients need further COVID-19 workups and which patients may have another condition.
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Dental offices lead healthcare’s job surge in May’s surprising…
Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied HealthcareThe U.S. economy witnessed unexpected job growth in May as state and local economies began to reopen from the pandemic shutdown. In particular, medical practices and dental offices were key drivers of this finding that surprised economists. According to the May 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) economic report, healthcare — including dentists — added more than 310,000 jobs during the month. Dental offices experienced job rebounds at rates unlike any in the sector.
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Pediatric mental health ED visits spike during recent years
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareWhile the number of overall pediatric emergency departments visits has remained stable over the past decade, the number of children who have presented with mental health disorders has increased by 60% and cases of self-harm have skyrocketed by 329%. "We're seeing more and more children presenting with mental health disorders," said Dr. Rachel Stanley, chief of emergency medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Stanley authored a study published in the journal Pediatrics that sheds light on emergency department utilization for mental health symptoms among patients between the ages of 5 and 17.
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Social distancing: Is 6 feet enough?
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) define social distancing as avoiding crowded places and mass gatherings and staying at least six feet, which is about two meters, from others in order to minimize the risk of contagion. However, recently published studies support the hypothesis that virus transmission may occur more than two meters from an infected person.
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Study shows men receive preference for liver transplants
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareWomen in the U.S. are significantly more likely to die while waiting on a liver transplant. The results come from a large cohort study that looked at sex-based disparities among women and men who received liver donation from living and deceased donors. "Our findings suggest that the MELD [model for end-stage liver disease] score does not accurately estimate disease severity in women and that the lack of consideration of candidate anthropomorphic and liver measurements in the current allocation system may have a greater association with the sex disparity in liver allocation than geographic factors," the researchers wrote in their study in JAMA Surgery.
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