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Future-Proof Your Workforce: Post-Acute Care Reskilling and Upskilling

Relias

The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness. Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future.

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

Health Populi

45% of folks would do blood glucose tests at home, 39% a cholesterol test, and 35% screen for diabetes. Increasingly, patients are adopting self-care behaviors, especially enabled through the digital devices people use as consumers — and especially mobile phones and smartwatches, favored over dedicated fitness wearables.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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8 Reasons Why You Should Become a Nurse Practitioner

Minority Nurse

Each day, NPs provide comprehensive care to their patients by completing thorough assessments, ordering appropriate diagnostic tests, interpreting the results, and formulating treatment plans based on the findings. Greater Responsibility Nurse practitioners have greater responsibility in their daily practice.

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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait for the test results. We can ask ourselves how patients are greeted in our facility, whether it’s an outpatient provider office or an acute care hospital ER. One aspect of being a healthcare consumer that can be most maddening is the hours of time spent waiting for things to happen. We wait to see the provider.

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Adding a Sustainability Lens to Health Innovation Pilots

The Healthcare Blog

As proposed, acute care organizations selected to participate will have the option to opt into emissions reporting, opening the door to receive feedback and technical assistance.

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Prediction explainer: what should clinicians consider when considering a new clinical prediction model?

Sensible Medicine

The Vox headline was “Mind-reading technology has arrived”, although the study had just seven participants and the error rate in the three test participants was 0.92 Clinician preferences for clinical prediction model design in acute care settings: A case study of early warning score implementation.