Contributors
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Developing Nursing Clinical Judgment Competency Through Virtual Reality
When real-life failure is not an option, practicing curated, trial-and-error simulations in VR can reduce patient risk in high-acuity scenarios. With nursing faculty also in short supply and a wave rapidly approaching retirement age, virtual reality simulations can help bridge the gap between learners needing supervised clinical experiences, and time-pressed preceptors, who have their own patients to care for in addition to guiding novices in clinical settings.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Drug Development for Rare Diseases
Despite these wins for many patients, the new law is already impacting the discovery and development of new drugs for people living with orphan diseases. Not only are drugs that could treat more than one disease being disincentivized, small molecule medicines, which play an important role in treating neurological disorders, cancers, and other diseases, may also be disadvantaged by the law.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
5 Ways NLP AI Technology is Driving Value for Providers Today
Don’t bet so big on AI solutions with “someday potential” that you ignore tools that can solve challenges and generate ROI now. Here are five critical AI investments that provide “right now” value for health systems, clinicians and patients.
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Technology is Great. But Does it Really Change Health Outcomes for the Better?
We must advocate for the positive impact that technology can have on healthcare outcomes, while also building solutions to create a more equitable health system. This includes traditional, less tech-reliant methods for those unable to embrace technology.
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Team-Based Primary Care Offers a Solution for an Underachieving Healthcare System
Team-based primary care is needed now more than ever as our “on-demand” and mobile lives, complicated by a primary care shortage crisis, have led to a more transactional and fragmented healthcare experience.
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W-2 Employed Nurses Can Have Choice and Flexibility, Too
As the debate over worker misclassification rages, it’s important that healthcare professionals know the facts. Staffing agencies that designate their nurses as independent contractors avoid the costs of employment-related benefits like insurance, workers’ compensation, and overtime pay. These agencies also lack necessary clinical and professional oversight over their contractors, which increases the risk of substandard care.
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The Journey to Personalized Healthcare
The Walt Disney Company excels in designing exceptional service because they are hyper-focused on listening, tracking, designing, and measuring the experiences of guests visiting their properties. We can apply this approach in pharma by enhancing our patient journey maps and go beyond focusing on the key clinical engagement touch points (e.g., doctor visits, prescription pickups) and enriching our insights with the micro-moments surrounding these obvious events.
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Are New Primary Care Sites an Opportunity for Nurses?
As nursing remains the most trusted profession and NPs have long been accepted as primary care providers, nurses and NPs are uniquely qualified to guide patients through care interactions and bring the consistency associated with primary care to new places.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Navigating the Journey from CMO and Physician to Patient
Even with my “VIP” access to the healthcare system as a physician who practiced in my community, I’m still struggling to coordinate my care as a cancer patient. I believe patients need more from their payers, providers, and digital health collaborators when it comes to care coordination and navigation.
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Skin Microbiome and Allergies: Understanding the Role of Microbes in Allergic Skin Conditions
Future research should focus on identifying the interactions between the immune system, microbes, and allergic responses; and exploring potential therapeutic strategies targeting the skin microbiome for allergy management.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
5 Ways Patient Access Software Solutions Can Transform Mental Health Care
By leveraging sophisticated patient intake forms, robust patient-provider matching algorithms, self-scheduling features, calendar management tools, and telehealth capabilities, healthcare providers can bridge the gap between consumer expectations and the current state of healthcare access.
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The Importance of Continuous Iteration in Health Equity Plans for REACH ACOs
Next year REACH ACOs will have to show success in developing and maintaining comprehensive health equity plans, and by kicking the can down the road they risk not knowing enough about their patient population in terms of what works better and what doesn’t. ACOs can pay in the effort of continuous iteration now or they can pay in poor health outcomes for their patients and the resulting increased costs. The choice is theirs, but one they each have to make.
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The Kids Are Not Alright: Why Pediatricians Need to Take Action to Prevent Medicaid Unwinding
Pediatricians and anyone who works with children should proactively reach out to their patients with resources and information about how to maintain coverage. Ask them to make sure their contact information is updated in state databases. Tell them to expect and respond to any communication from the state about their enrollment status.
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Innovations in Dementia Care: Exploring the Role of Medical Devices and Medications
Dementia patients require a balanced blend of supportive devices, effective medications such as cholinesterase inhibitors and holistic understanding to truly enjoy the best possible quality of life.
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Colon Cancer Screening: Health Empowerment for the Whole Family
While we’re catching a high-risk population through preventive screenings, we are also identifying an entirely separate high-risk population: children of the patients that were just screened and found to have high risk polyps such as greater than 1 cm or with certain advanced characteristics.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence
Prediction is Power: The Truth About What is AI, Really
Do some people simply think the A in AI stands for Automation? Most likely the confusion is due to a lack of understanding of what AI truly is, combined with a strong desire to use the term for marketing purposes.