MedCity Influencers
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Orphan Drug Development Is Next for Tech to Tackle
Drug developers need policies and technological infrastructure to execute on their goal of being patient-focused. At a minimum, this means a compliant way to engage patients and truly hear their voices; at its most effective, patient engagement also meets patients where they are – whenever and wherever that may be.
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3 Ways to Use an Engineering Mindset to Optimize Patient Access Workflows
In a day of vast innovation, expansion, and acquisitions, an engineering mindset can bring a unique and effective approach to thinking across the system, evaluating the current and future state, standardizing on best practices, and considering upstream and downstream workflows.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Delivering Precision Care to Manage Neurodegenerative Diseases
Precision medicine for neurodegenerative conditions has the potential to radically change the way patients are treated and managed over time. As an industry, we must continue to expand our thinking and push the boundaries of science, technology, and data analytics to capture precision medicine opportunities in broader areas of unmet medical needs.
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Integrating Workers’ Comp and Medical Benefits Makes So Much Sense
The current dual-system model is inefficient, wasteful, and inconvenient. There is a clear need to integrate workers’ comp and medical benefits programs to cut down on costs and alleviate the hassle of dealing with separate care silos. It’s possible, and its time has come.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
How Hospitals Can Meet New Requirements for Workplace Violence Prevention
When violence in general—including gun violence—goes unchecked in any hospital setting, the physical and psychological impact can be severe, lasting and even devastating. Beyond injuries and tragic loss of life, the fallout from unchecked violence creates worker anxiety, loss of productivity and workdays, and significant legal and reputational losses.
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5 Foundational Capabilities Needed for Implementing a Value-Based Care Program
Apprehension among practices and providers is understandable, given the complexity and variance of VBC contracts. However, instead of feeling overwhelmed and burdened by VBC, practices can slowly embrace these concepts by leveraging the many tools they already have in place or that exist in the healthcare ecosystem.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Taming the Healthcare Data Beast: Conquering Complexity for Better Care
By following these foundational data best practices, healthcare organizations will harness the power of their data to provide superior patient care while safeguarding patient privacy and compliance.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Data Access and Equity: How Secure Engagement Data Sharing Makes for Healthier Patients
The fusion of clinical and engagement data can revolutionize the way we understand and treat patients. By optimizing data collection and synthesis, securely sharing data, and ensuring equitable access, we can make significant strides towards delivering more personalized, effective, and patient-centered care.
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Developing Nursing Clinical Judgment Competency Through Virtual Reality
When real-life failure is not an option, practicing curated, trial-and-error simulations in VR can reduce patient risk in high-acuity scenarios. With nursing faculty also in short supply and a wave rapidly approaching retirement age, virtual reality simulations can help bridge the gap between learners needing supervised clinical experiences, and time-pressed preceptors, who have their own patients to care for in addition to guiding novices in clinical settings.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech, Payers
Streamlining Healthcare Insurers’ Processes: Unlocking Efficiency and Collaboration for Enhanced Outcomes
While the recent rollbacks of authorization requirements by insurers are a positive step forward, there is still work to be done in streamlining processes and reducing administrative burdens in the healthcare industry.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Drug Development for Rare Diseases
Despite these wins for many patients, the new law is already impacting the discovery and development of new drugs for people living with orphan diseases. Not only are drugs that could treat more than one disease being disincentivized, small molecule medicines, which play an important role in treating neurological disorders, cancers, and other diseases, may also be disadvantaged by the law.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
5 Ways NLP AI Technology is Driving Value for Providers Today
Don’t bet so big on AI solutions with “someday potential” that you ignore tools that can solve challenges and generate ROI now. Here are five critical AI investments that provide “right now” value for health systems, clinicians and patients.
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Technology is Great. But Does it Really Change Health Outcomes for the Better?
We must advocate for the positive impact that technology can have on healthcare outcomes, while also building solutions to create a more equitable health system. This includes traditional, less tech-reliant methods for those unable to embrace technology.
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Team-Based Primary Care Offers a Solution for an Underachieving Healthcare System
Team-based primary care is needed now more than ever as our “on-demand” and mobile lives, complicated by a primary care shortage crisis, have led to a more transactional and fragmented healthcare experience.
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W-2 Employed Nurses Can Have Choice and Flexibility, Too
As the debate over worker misclassification rages, it’s important that healthcare professionals know the facts. Staffing agencies that designate their nurses as independent contractors avoid the costs of employment-related benefits like insurance, workers’ compensation, and overtime pay. These agencies also lack necessary clinical and professional oversight over their contractors, which increases the risk of substandard care.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
