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• 4 Unique Challenges In Healthcare Recruiting

  2/12/2019

  Recruiting in our current atmosphere of low unemployment is a challenge to begin with. However, recruiting in the healthcare industry which currently boasts a 2.6 percent unemployment rate can be deemed almost impossible by some. In this piece, I set out to tackle the challenges of recruiting in healthcare during a period of record-breaking low unemployment and a new strategy to help meet those challenges.

• Building And Managing A Rock-Solid Security Plan

  8/31/2015

  Not only are security threats increasing in sophistication and frequency, they now have a whole host of targets: everything from traditional desktop PCs to smartphones and tablets to Web apps.

• 3 Ways Digital Innovation Is Reinventing Care Delivery

  9/21/2018

  Record investments in digital health startups are just one sign of the hunger for digital innovation in the healthcare industry, with $3.4 billion in digital health deals recorded in the first half of 2018 alone. Non-traditional investors are also taking bold action, including the recently announced $375 million invested by Google in Oscar Health. The momentum of such advancements is reinventing care delivery, with high-touch, high-tech patient touchpoints that deliver better value and outcomes.

• Continuum-Wide Data Visibility Helps Reduce Costly Readmissions

  11/30/2015

  Reducing hospital readmissions continues to challenge hospitals nationwide. This year, 2,592 hospitals — more than half of hospitals nationwide — were penalized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) a total of $420 million for readmitting too many patients with certain conditions in fewer than 30 days. With continuum-wide data visibility and tools to help them easily identify high-risk patients in greatest need of a clinical intervention, care managers can help prevent readmissions to improve their organization’s financial performance, but more importantly, their patients’ outcomes. By Kent Locklear, chief medical officer, Lightbeam Health Solutions

• Tackling The Mental Health Epidemic With Telehealth

  11/21/2018

  One in five Americans suffers from mental illness, yet only 44 percent receive treatment. Why? People with behavioral health problems face a growing number of obstacles that prevent them from receiving the care they need – from provider shortages to finances the mere unwillingness to seek treatment due to stigma. With telehealth, primary care physicians – nearly half of which treat mental health conditions – now have another viable option: online cognitive behavioral therapy, or iCBT. In fact, 75 percent of healthcare executives believe telemedicine has the potential to transform the standard of care for behavioral health and psychiatry.

• Why Healthcare Facilities Should Consider Managed IT Services

  10/13/2020

  Every day, organizations across the world continue to achieve technological advancements and breakthroughs. Although these developments are not specific to any one industry, we tend to see this occur most often in healthcare.