How Companies Can Improve Their Learning and Development Strategy and Why it is Essential in the Life Sciences Space
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Behavioral Healthcare in the Classroom – Understanding How Autism Care Operates Between Systems
Autism and intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) care provides a unique opportunity for our healthcare system and our education system to function together.
At ViVE 2024, Panelists Share Prior Authorization Progress and Frustration in Payer Insights Program
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
Blue Shield of California Plan Helps Members Earn GED Diploma
Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan is working with the GED Testing Service to help members earn a General Educational Development (GED) diploma for no cost. Members can register online and gain access to GED study materials in both English and Spanish.
When it comes to healthcare cybersecurity, the best defense is also the most simple
The rise in cybercrime is a significant concern among healthcare stakeholders. But defending against these types of attacks is not as complicated as it is often made out to be and can be narrowed to two key steps: deploying multi-factor authentication and staff training.
American Medical Association reveals online education platform for physicians
Called the AMA Ed Hub, it includes educational information on topics like hypertension, oncology, professional well-being, patient care, ethics, health disparities and lifestyle behaviors.
A clinical trial consortium takes root in Philadelphia
Members of the Partners in Innovation, Education, and Research consortium include Atlantic Health System, Drexel University, Einstein Healthcare Network, Geisinger including AtlantiCare, Main Line Health, and Thomas Jefferson University.
The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
Advisory Board sells healthcare business to Optum as part of $2.58 billion deal
As part of a deal valued at $2.58 billion, The Advisory Board Company is selling its healthcare business to Optum and its education business to Vista Equity Partners.
ONC awards $38.5M for HIE, population health, health IT workforce
Even as the chorus grows to delay or even scrap Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program amid accusations of "information blocking," HHS still backs interoperability efforts.
Medical Education’s Earthquake Kit
Stakeholders in the American healthcare system are aware the trajectory of its future is unclear. The only guarantee, as evidenced by the efforts involved in the assembly of the Affordable Care Act, is change. Physicians have bore testimony. Politicians have spoken. Business and legal experts have analyzed. However, little has been heard from those whom […]
How hospitals, Big Pharma are gamifying staff training with a mobile quiz platform
Patients aren’t the only ones who are poised to benefit from gamification in healthcare. In between rounds at hospitals like Mayo Clinic and Baylor College of Medicine, clinicians are answering quiz questions and participating in challenges on their cell phones and tablets. Their hospitals are working with a Harvard spinoff called Qstream to encourage continuous […]
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
VoTech to get a makeover with HIT vocational school in New York
With the current demand for well-trained health IT professionals expected to rise even more, New York’s Department of Education is hoping to produce students that will be well prepared. Next year it’s launching a health IT school that combines four years of high school with a two-year technical school. It’s part of a wider initiative […]
The doctor’s orders go digital and interactive
Isn’t it about time that doctors stopping handing patients packets of instructions before and after a procedure? Wouldn’t more rich and diverse content delivered right when it’s needed be a more effective way to teach and engage patients? Health IT company Wellbe took inspiration from the ubiquitous GPS in designing a tool that would help […]
Medical porn and digital consults: Meet the new breed of medical residents
“It looks like you’ve done very well, Mr. Smith…” “Thank you, doctor.” He left the patient’s room and ambled back to the nurses station, legs tired and ankles somewhat swollen. It had been a long case and now he just had to type his note, send an email message, and review his schedule for the […]
One way the Cleveland Clinic is bringing kids into the wellness equation? Art
If good health during childhood sets the stage for adulthood, the Cleveland Clinic has some ideas for getting children interested. CEO Toby Cosgrove is keen on wellness initiatives, as demonstrated by the Clinic’s wellness program for employees and non-smoking hiring policy. The health system also reaches its hands into the community with several educational programs […]
A Caribbean remedy for financially sick N.Y. hospitals & the primary care shortage
By Oleg Pavlov, Ph.D. and Vladimir Gotlieb, M.D., M.B.A. Facing offshore competition, local medical schools have been lobbying the state Board of Regents, which supervises all educational activities in New York, for tighter limits on the use of state teaching hospitals for clerkships by offshore medical students. Evidence shows that foreign-trained doctors are competent and […]