MedCity Influencers
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MedCity Influencers, Community
It’s time to address suicide risk among older adults, terminally ill
Older adults — especially those with a psychiatric comorbidity or uncontrolled pain — have a higher suicide rate compared with younger adults with the highest rate among males ages 65 and older.
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MedCity Influencers, Payers, Physicians
Reducing low-value care starts by understanding its drivers
There is no single driver of low-value care — providers, systems, and patients all play a role. But with the right tools, stakeholders can work together to re-align incentives and transform our healthcare delivery system into one that prioritizes value, eliminates waste and leads to better overall patient outcomes.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Developing value-based virtual partnerships: What health plans should know
Given the growing interest specialty providers are showing in virtual visits, health plans should ensure that their telehealth offerings include consumer access to a wide breadth of specialists.
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How Covid-19 has changed the role of hospitals
Looking at how hospitals changed during Covid-19 is a starting point for a lot of larger questions in the healthcare industry.
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Medical Devices, MedCity Influencers
Integrating more medical devices will help patients and providers
Providers must recognize that each data point from a medical device has intrinsic value if harnessed properly. The tools exist now to extract more value from medical device data for providers and patients.
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America’s provider shortage: Can digital health resuscitate our broken care delivery system?
Ultimately, digital health solutions will be critical to empowering informed connected healthcare consumers to proactively self-manage their care and be part of the solution for combatting the growing providers supply shortage.
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The Post-pandemic future of clinical trials: How recruiting, participating and monitoring are changing
Unleashed from restrictive norms for recruiting and interacting with patients, researchers are finding ways to bring more people into trials by simply making enrollment and participation accessible beyond restraints like geography and availability during “business hours.”
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MedCity Influencers, Telemedicine, Patient Engagement
How entrepreneurs can meet the moment in digital healthcare innovation
As the popularity of digital healthcare only continues to grow, the innovative entrepreneurs who balance all factors of the ‘consumer’ patient experience will find the highest adoption.
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Overcoming the buyer’s market: A guide to hiring a digital health CEO
As a result of digital health adoption soaring during the pandemic, health tech companies looking to hire a new CEO face more competition, but here are some tips to successfully hire the right leader who can navigate the inflection points of growth and steer digital health companies to success.
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10 issues every healthcare leader should be thinking about
Healthcare organizations demonstrated tremendous vision, innovation and flexibility as they navigated unprecedented challenges brought on by the pandemic. However, the challenges and changes to the healthcare industry will continue long after Covid-19 disappears.
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25 years of HIPAA: How the groundbreaking statute has kept pace with technology
For HIPAA to remain relevant for the next 25 years, policymakers and healthcare providers will need to remain agile and alert; this groundbreaking legislation will only be effective for as long as it keeps pace with the newest technologies and security challenges.
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7 ways eConsent can help health researchers achieve better participant engagement
Tools like eConsent provides organizations with an efficient and streamlined way to garner consent from study participants. Removing this barrier can help improve engagement and deeper the pool of potential participants.
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It’s time to relieve electronic prior authorization bottlenecks
It’s time to embrace electronic prior authorization that, according to a 2021 AHIP study, has been found to reduce the mean time from PA request to decision by 69%. In addition, 71% of providers using ePA reported “faster time to patient care.”
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Collaborative care with a virtual lens: enabling patients and providers to overcome the mental health crisis
By establishing a virtual relationship with consulting telepsychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and licensed clinical social workers, PCPs and their behavioral care managers have access anytime to the appropriate support for patients’ mental health needs.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
The do’s and don’ts of digital transformation for healthcare CIOs
Done right, digital transformation in healthcare drives productivity, satisfaction, quality of care, and reimbursement—but it can be easy to get wrong.
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Digital medicine: Solving the mental health crisis
Through digital therapeutics, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to reinvent how we develop and deliver medicine.
