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Workplace Violence: CMS Warns of Violations of Hospital Conditions of Participation

Healthcare Law Today

Workplace violence has become one of the key management challenges and sources of enterprise risk for hospitals over the past several years. CMS has identified three (3) specific CoP tags for surveyors to cite, including: 42 C.F.R. On the labor front, hospitals did not need any reminders of the growing workplace violence risk.

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FDA Approval Means Smoother Road to Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare Employers

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In COVID-19 , Hospitals , Mandatory vaccination policies , Workplace health Amidst the new surge of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. Healthcare employers should understand how to implement an effective vaccine mandate to protect the health and safety of their employees and patients.

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Boston Medical Center boosts care for epileptic kids with telehealth-analytics platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Those language barriers can discourage patients from making appointments and addressing their health concerns, as well as those of their children. First, they needed to make care more accessible for patients, so they needed a service that implemented telehealth into the home, school or workplace, they determined. THE PROBLEM.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

Health Populi

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Reading from Hippocrates’ Corpus about food and clean air’s role in health sounds contemporary today. Among Scott’s many insightful comments, one really resonated with me and my health-economics mindset: on the growing presence of value-based insurance design in the U.S.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. " Dr. Bradley Crotty, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network. " Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, CareMount Medical.

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One physician's perspective on why patients prefer telehealth visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. A brief background about myself and my practice: I am an occupational medicine physician working under a not-for-profit health care system. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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