Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For Labor Day 2022, I’m thinking about health, vaccines, work (especially returning-to-work), and art. Let’s start with the vaccine news. Called the “first updated COVID-19 booster,” on September 1st the CDC announced the availability and approval for health citizens to get new vaccines which have added Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the original vaccine formulation.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This week kicks off Vascular Nurses Week , the annual September celebration of the vascular nursing specialty and the work of nurses in this area. Vascular nurses work with patients who have different kinds of conditions or illnesses that impact the circulatory system. Because the vascular system is responsible for transporting blood and lymph fluids throughout the body, there’s a lot of ground for vascular nurses to cover.

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MedicalGPS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Endeavor for Excellence: Step 4 – Establish Performance Baselines If you have been following along for the redeployment of MedicalGPS’ service improvement program, this week we move into Step #4 — establishing baseline performance measures. If you have not been following along but have been looking for a proven, field-tested service improvement process to enhance customer service levels at your practice, feel free to click the links below to get started.

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Doximity

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It's difficult to cut through the noise of social media and stand out. However, these physicians from across the nation and across health systems are not only doing that, but also evangelizing the growth and adoption of Telehealth. These future-oriented thinkers are helping shape the future of virtual care and our Telehealth platform, Doximity Dialer.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Consumers consider health and well-being as an “essential” household spending category based on new research from Accenture. Accenture polled over 11,000 consumers in 17 countries, considering how people are faring amid “widespread uncertainty and personal financial strains,” in the firm’s words. While two in three consumers feel financially stressed, 4 in 5 intend to grow or hold their personal spending on health and fitness steady in the next year.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you’re looking for a meaningful nursing career specialty and love kids, the work that pediatric hematology/oncology nurses do is life changing for nurses and patients alike. September 8 honors nurses in this specialty with Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology Nurses Day. This special day was first celebrated in 2010 when the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON) initiated it and it falls during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With today’s announcement that Walmart will partner with UnitedHealthcare in a ten-year collaboration to bring affordable health care to Mainstream Americans, we have yet another huge ripple in the evolving retail health ecosystem. The other Big Healthcare news item this week was CVS Health’s planned acquisition of Signify Health , after much speculation that Amazon and other Big and smaller bidders (including UnitedHealth Group) were keen on acquiring the home/care company over the

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Americans’ positive views of 25 industries in the U.S. have declined in the past year. In their latest look into consumers’ views on business in America, Gallup found that peoples’ ratings on business fell to their lowest ratings overall since 2008. Peoples’ highest ratings of industry in American occurred in 2017 when nearly 50% of people gave business a very or somewhat positive grade.

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