Welcome to this week's edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what's next.Healthcare is under attack by ransomware -- 1 in 3 healthcare organizations hit by … [Read More...]
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Moving from sick care to prevention through personalised care
COVID-19 underscored the need for resilient and proactive health systems. To achieve this, countries must establish the policies and frameworks necessary for preventative care. During the "Moving from Sick Care to Prevention Through Personalised Care – What's Needed?" … [Read More...]
Abu Dhabi partners with Israel’s Clalit Health Services to increase cooperation in healthcare
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Health (DoH) has partnered with Israel’s Clalit Health Services, the largest of the country’s four state-mandated health service organisations, it has been announced. This comes as part of both parties’ strategies to increase cooperation and the … [Read More...]
News of Interest
Remote workers work longer, not more efficiently
THE RETURN to the office is well under way, just as summer in the northern hemisphere begins. Pretty soon, people will be able to resume the habit of staring wistfully out of the window, hoping it will still be sunny at the weekend. As many workers embrace a hybrid pattern, … [Read More...]
ECFC Requests Congressional Leadership Include Cadillac Tax Repeal in Year-End Legislation
[ad_1] ECFC Requests Congressional Leadership Include Cadillac Tax Repeal in Year-End Legislation Wednesday, December 4, 2019 (0 Comments) Posted by: Staff ECFC sent this … [Read More...]
How Much Should I Contribute To My HSA?
[ad_1] During enrollment season, people who own a Health Savings Account (HSA), or have recently opened one, wonder, “How much should I contribute to my HSA?” HSAs are a unique tax-advantaged tool for healthcare consumers to pay for qualified healthcare expenses. … [Read More...]
Latest News From Across The Industry
How APIs and design thinking are moving the needle on healthcare innovation
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of the digital economy has revolutionized the way that we engage with patients, empower providers and optimize workflow. Application programming interfaces and other technologies hold great possibility in addressing system problems of data access, insights delivery and … [Read More...]
HIMSS21 Changemaker Podcast: Isaiah Nathaniel of Delaware Valley Community Health
In this new episode of the HIMSS21 Changemaker Podcast series, a HIMSSCast production, Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard speaks with Isaiah Nathaniel, chief information officer at Delaware Valley Community Health, a private, non-profit health system, based in Philadelphia, that provides medical, dental and … [Read More...]
Video vs Virtual Care; Financial and Physical Wellness
Welcome to this week's edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what's next.How do video visits differ from virtual care and which works better? – Video visits versus virtual care (Physicians Practice)Improve your … [Read More...]
Getting a handle on the unique challenges of hospital data security
A hospital must manage a traditional IT environment like any other business, but faces additional difficulty with two additional environments: Clinical technologies involved in delivering care, and the modern electronic health records system. "Each presents its own unique security challenges for the modern healthcare … [Read More...]
Hartford HealthCare uses machine learning and predictive analytics to improve chemo care
Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute in Hartford, Connecticut, has 33,000 workers, $4.3 billion in operating revenue and a medical staff of 4,000 providers. It offers the full continuum of care with seven acute-care hospitals, the state's longest-running air-ambulance service, behavioral health and rehabilitation services, … [Read More...]
UK warns COVID monitor devices work less well for darker skin
SARS-CoV-2 (shown here in an electron microscopy image). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Britain's state-run healthcare service warned Saturday that devices used by people with COVID to monitor blood-oxygen levels at home may give inaccurate readings for people … [Read More...]