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Halting sports shows human lives valued over making money

Damon Sayles Sports & Fitness

The coronavirus (COVID-19) has hit the world with a left hook that packs 100 times the power of the greatest heavyweight boxing champion. On the evening of March 11, the NBA suspended its season. The next day, the NCAA Tournament crushed the dreams of college basketball fans by canceling March Madness, one of the biggest events in American sports not named the Super Bowl. From there, hockey fans saw the NHL season suspended, baseball fans saw the spring training schedule canceled and Opening Day pushed back indefinitely, and soccer fans saw leagues from various nations go on hiatus.

How your healthcare organization can ensure accurate patient matching

Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare Administration

Correct 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.

New study reports on incubation period of COVID-19

Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

A 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.

Podcast: Creating cash-based business for a PT practice with injury-prevention…

Jarod Carter Marketing

In 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.

Telehealth used in an attempt to curb coronavirus

Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

As the pandemic that is the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) grows, telehealth technology is finding its footing as people become more concerned about their level of exposure to the virus and as health systems expect to be overwhelmed with treating those affected. President Donald Trump recently signed an $8.3 billion package that, in part, allows Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to waive Medicare telehealth payment restrictions during the coronavirus emergency.

How US schools are reckoning with the coronavirus

Bambi Majumdar Education

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has reported that 290 million students worldwide are out of school due to the coronavirus. The outbreak that emerged in China about two months ago has now claimed over 3,000 lives and infected more than 100,000 people globally. In the U.S., there are now over 500 cases confirmed, and the death toll has risen to 22. As the United States deals with the coronavirus, the big question is: How are schools planning to respond?

US employers add 273,000 jobs; unemployment drops to 3.5%

Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

In February, total U.S. nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 273,000 after January's growth of 225,000, while the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5% from 3.6% the previous month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The jobless rate has been 3.5% or 3.6% since September. In February, nearly all major groups of workers had scant change in the rate of employment versus January's figures. Meanwhile, wage growth remained rather tepid.

How technology can help to contain COVID-19 — and how it can’t

Tammy Hinojos Medical & Allied Healthcare

As the world navigates the coronavirus outbreak, a few key technologically advanced tools are front and center in the fight to contain COVID-19. Digital tools like telehealth, consumer-facing AI-based chatbots and remote patient monitoring could play a key role in assisting with containing the virus and helping people who think they might have been exposed. Some experts warn that these tools are not a total solution, but they could be helpful as one part of a large, comprehensive and integrated plan.

Podcast: Escaping reimbursement nightmares by transitioning out of network

Jarod Carter Healthcare Administration

In 2005, Cody Barnett left his job to open a physical therapy practice because he wanted to be able to provide the kind of care that exceeds patient expectations. For the same reason, he had the intention of structuring the practice as cash-based from the start. However, with limited access to good resources on how to make that succeed, he felt he needed to bolster his cash-pay practice by participating with the two biggest insurance carriers in his market. But after years of fighting with insurance companies, he began "plotting his escape."

Healthcare thought leaders: Who they are, and why we need them

Keith Carlson Medical & Allied Healthcare

The notion of the thought leader is not necessarily new, but the term does continue to receive a great deal of attention in these early decades of the 21st century. A thought leader is sometimes self-identified or possibly recognized by their industry as an individual with their finger on the pulse of change. In that regard, why are thought leaders important to recognize in healthcare, nursing, medicine, and related fields?

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