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Contributors
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Improving Maternal Health Outcomes Starts with Reducing Unnecessary C-Sections
Reducing C-sections that are not medically necessary will save lives and reduce complications such as excessive bleeding and infections. Only through comprehensive education and awareness can we give both mothers and obstetric care teams the tools they need to make the right decision about whether a C-section is medically indicated.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Save Someone’s Life in 5 Minutes or Let Them Die in 30?
In Pickens County, Alabama, cardiac arrests are now treated differently. Instead of immediately transporting patients, local EMS now work cardiac arrests in the field for 30 minutes; if there’s no change, they call it a “death in the field” because they know they cannot get the patient to a hospital in time for life-saving care. Why? Hospital closures now mean there’s no hospital nearby.
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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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Hospitals and Health Systems Realize Growth Advantage of a Specialty Pharmacy Partnership
Implementing a specialty pharmacy strategy and approach for growth not only creates a revenue stream for the system, but also establishes a high-touch patient engagement program that becomes a differentiator in the way service is delivered for their community.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence
What Every Health System CFO Needs to Know Before Using AI for Medical Coding
With few workers entering a field dominated by older Gen X-ers and Baby Boomers, there’s a growing gap in skilled medical coders — people who read notes from doctors and apply appropriate codes for billing and reimbursement purposes. So many are turning to AI.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How Telemedicine Can Combat Clinician Burnout, the Biggest Challenge Facing the Healthcare Industry
To fully reap the benefits of telemedicine, it is crucial to provide comprehensive education to both staff and patients. Clinicians, doctors, and other medical care providers should all be trained on telehealth software — its functionality, integration into their workflow, effective communication during consultations, and where to seek technical assistance.
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Gen Z Healthcare Workers Want More From Their Employers
Gen Z healthcare workers have different expectations and values than the workforce that preceded them. It’s important for organizations to understand these nuanced differences and anticipate how they’re going to adapt to meet these new standards.
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Provider Organizations Need Better Access to Data for Knowledge Projects. How Self-Service Data Access Helps.
For healthcare organizations experiencing difficulty launching and sustaining data-driven performance improvement projects, one potential solution to consider is more flexible organization design and increasing self-service data access.
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A New Approach to Value-Based Care: Diagnostically Connecting Data and Diagnoses
The traditional transactional approach to the coding of diagnoses to support billing in a fee-for-service environment is not adequate to meet the care requirements of VBC programs.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
4 Proven Strategies for a Successful EHR Implementation
Putting in the due diligence prior to implementing an EHR software establishes a clear game plan for everyone involved. It will empower your team to work towards a common goal and ultimately serves to improve the lives of physicians and patients.
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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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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
Why Working with Incumbents Offers a Path to Success for Healthtech Startups
To deliver real value in today’s highly fragmented market, healthtech startups stand to significantly benefit by working with incumbents. Rather than focusing solely on disruption, these startups working with established partners concentrate on proving demonstrable ROI, clinical value, dollars saved, better outcomes and improved healthcare economics.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Better Data Quality Means a Better Future for Public Health
Public health is heavily dependent on collecting and sharing accurate patient data. Standards for data collection and interoperability can move the needle toward better health data, but it is up to healthcare organizations to take ownership of their data quality by following best practices and adopting technologies that can detect and eliminate bad patient data before it is disseminated.
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Healthcare’s Urgency To Thrive Not Just Survive
Healthcare organizations that delay consolidating tech stacks and optimizing healthcare operations will continue to hemorrhage money, incur costly penalties and compliance violations, and lose staff due to operational and workforce inefficiencies.
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People Still Need People: Why Advocacy is a Critical Partner for Digital Health
Proof that human interaction and support works is in the numbers: nurses, benefits experts, and coaches have a definitive impact on employee health, happiness, and productivity.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
5 Strategies to Break the Stigma and Promote Well-Being
Let’s explore the top 5 steps to promote well-being and mental health while breaking the stigma from your society.
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Health Plans and Employers Are Suffering an Onslaught of Point Solutions. Here’s How Digital Health Companies Can Ease Their Pain.
For employers, it’s like having to buy a different cell phone for each contact. And for the consumer, navigating all the different digital platforms, the log-ins, the various apps – it’s a nightmare.
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What a ‘War’ on Cancer Means for the Quality of Treatment Breast Cancer Patients Receive
We need more research and consideration of other approaches to cancer treatment and development of new therapies that better account for the quality of life of cancer patients.
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The Missing Ingredients to Build Successful Enterprise AI Strategies in Healthcare
Losing sight of organizational goals and priorities and operating without a clear, supported plan can lead to a scatter-shot approach to AI investment that may duplicate investments, misallocate resources, and cause stakeholders to become cynical about AI’s value and potential.