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Examining Disparities and Opportunities in Older Adults’ Engagement with Patient Portals

The Horizons Tracker

Interestingly, even among older adults who have embraced online portals, the poll indicates a continued preference for traditional phone calls when it comes to certain tasks, such as scheduling appointments or seeking medical advice. It also makes the disparities we found in our poll even more troubling,” the researchers explain.

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How Reliable Are Voice Assistants When Giving Health Information?

The Horizons Tracker

Voice assistants, such as Alexa and Siri, have increasingly been expanding their capabilities in recent years, with many being so bold as to offer users health advice. Research from Stanford explores just how reliable they are. For many years, people have been turning to “Dr.

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Why You Need Spring Break (and Other Breaks) Now More Than Ever

Next Level Blog

As I write this, most of us in the United States are marking one month of stay at home and work from home orders to mitigate the public health impacts of the coronavirus. That’s good advice for all of us. In following my own advice, I took an extended nature walk today and found the guy in the accompanying photo along the way.

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Healing Our Workplaces through Cultures of Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

We are grateful that we had the opportunity to provide advice and feedback to the team from the Surgeon General’s office that prepared a report on improving mental health and wellbeing in the workplace that was issued in October 2022.

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Helping People Change

Leading Blog

While the coach manages the process, “the fundamental reason for the process is to help the other person—not the coach to share his advice or experience.” When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold, but one doesn't go into the mine looking for dirt—one goes in looking for the gold. It means listening more.

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Featured Instigator: Eileen McDargh

Lead Change Blog

Focusing on resiliency, Eileen has found great synergy with health care audiences and long term care, educators (as an award-winning educator, she went from teaching kids to grown-ups—who are still like kids), and women’s leadership groups. ” The best advice Eileen has ever been given was: Life is precious.

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Four Industries That Use the Situational Leadership® Methodology

The Center For Leadership Studies

Successful and effective commanding officers are cautious to give orders without studying facts and data, seeking advice from their peers and tenured members of their command. Situational Leadership In Nursing and Healthcare It is not uncommon to hear roles in the health-care industry referred to as “callings,” and with good reason!