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Language Reveals Implicit Bias In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

This prompts an inquiry into the prevalence of stigmatizing language in home health care, an increasingly popular form of outpatient care. Furthermore, how does the use of such language impact patient care? Within a cohort of 45,384 patients, the researchers meticulously scrutinized over 260,000 patient notes.

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A Culture of Quality: An Interview with Laurie Havanec

HR Digest

Going forward, employees will be seeking more ways to balance their work and lives by managing where they work. Employers will need to provide employees with the tools they need to connect, collaborate and innovate no matter where they are working. We have a strong history of collaboration and innovation.

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Slack Is Needed If The Digital Transformation Of Healthcare Is To Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, a third of UK patients said that they now prefer m-health apps to in-person consultations due to the convenience they provide and the usability they offer. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in healthcare,” Teun Schutte, Managing Consultant, Mobiquity, says.

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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Six Disciplines

Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Mackert also serves as a judge for the American Health Care Association, and has written Baldrige case studies used to train examiners at the national and state levels.

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The Health Benefits From Tackling Climate Change Could Be Wasted Due To Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

. “The health burden is unevenly distributed across countries and disproportionately borne by the global south. To make credible projections of future global health, we created an integrated modeling framework that combines air quality simulations with macro-level sociodemographic drivers like global population and economic development.”

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7 Healthcare Industry Trends for Employers to Keep a Lookout For

Strategy Driven

million health care workers by the year 2025. With these persistent shortages in the health care sector, there’s a need for stakeholders to focus on innovative ways of bridging the gap in human capital. The health care sector is not an exemption. Out of Hospital Care.

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Should Virtual Therapists Come With A Health Warning?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, clinical trials are underway to test whether such a service could become part of official mental health care. The researchers assessed 61 of the leading mental health apps on the market in the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia, and a couple of core themes emerged in the marketing material for them.