HEALTH CARE

California Health Care Affordability Board discuss methodology for statewide spending target – State of Reform

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California Health Care Affordability Board discuss methodology for statewide spending target - State of Reform

California’s Health Care Affordability Board (HCAB) met last month to discuss an overview of draft decisions for a baseline spending report, and introduced methodology considerations for the statewide spending target. The board’s purpose is to reduce the rate of cost growth across California’s healthcare sector.  The Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) will measure healthcare … Read more

ECU Health hosts U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means members

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Brian Floyd, Rep. Greg Murphy, Chairman Jason Smith and Rep. Claudia Tenney tour ECU Health Medical Center.

Greenville, N.C. – Members of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means visited Beaufort and Pitt counties Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, to engage with the community, tour ECU Health Beaufort Hospital and ECU Health Medical Center, hear from community care leaders and discuss the challenges facing rural health care in America. The committee visit … Read more

New partnership helps promote diversity in health care – The Den

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Diverse group of young adults posing with Dr. Ryan Mire on steps of ACP headquarters

2023 Interns with Dr. Ryan Mire at ACP Headquarters MACON — Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is partnering with The Dr. Earl Stewart Jr., Family Foundation and the American College of Physicians (ACP) to secure a slot for a Mercer student in the Summer 2024 cohort of The Ryan Mire, M.D., … Read more

Consumers are ready for personalized health care. Data can make it happen.

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Consumers are ready for personalized health care. Data can make it happen.

Data can make personalized health care happen: ©Lalaka – stock.adobe.com The consumer experience of the digital world is steeped in personalization. Smart televisions know what we want to watch. Web browsers predict our shopping needs. Music streaming services play the greatest hits from our favorite genre. Leveraging data around our preferences and habits, the consumer … Read more

How the right communication strategy can reduce the impact of a patient’s health crisis

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How the right communication strategy can reduce the impact of a patient’s health crisis

As health care providers know, the provider-patient interaction sometimes can be very challenging. Getting individuals to alter their behaviors or attitudes is never easy, especially when it involves asking people to change something that has been habitual for years. This task becomes even more difficult when it’s due to a health crisis. When dealing with … Read more

Leveraging BIM to Enhance Infection Control in Health Care Facility Development

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Leveraging BIM to Enhance Infection Control in Health Care Facility Development

Innovative BIM visualization highlighting the utilities of a building’s systems Generative AI (Adobe Stock 600888213 by abdulmoizjaangda) How BIM Can Help Predict and Prevent the Spread of Disease in Health care Facilities Building information modeling (BIM), a process of creating and managing digital representations of the physical and operative features of places, is one of the … Read more

New York City to boost clubhouse services as better mental health treatment

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PHOTO: FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams tours a Fountain House mental health clubhouse. Monday, July 18, 2022.

Clubhouses have been a mental health service that a New York City official said was right “under our noses” for over 75 years. The model invites people with depression and other mental health conditions into a temporary home where they are surrounded by peers and counselors and given resources for their conditions as well as … Read more

Medicare Advantage keeps growing. Tiny, rural hospitals say that’s a huge problem

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Medicare Advantage keeps growing. Tiny, rural hospitals say that's a huge problem

Since 2010, 150 rural hospitals have closed in the United States. Hospital leaders say that Medicare Advantage pays slowly and sometimes not at all and that this could push more hospitals to the brink. Mint Images/Getty Images/Mint Images RF hide caption toggle caption Mint Images/Getty Images/Mint Images RF Since 2010, 150 rural hospitals have closed … Read more

Tajikistan is reforming Primary Health Care to reach Universal Health Coverage

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Family nurse in a PHC facility in Bokthar, Tajikistan.

Tajikistan is transforming its health system to accelerate progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). For the last two decades, the country has been undertaking significant reforms to shift towards a Primary Health Care (PHC) approach with a strong family medicine focus conducive to strengthening the health system to attain its objectives of ‘health for all’.  … Read more