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  • PSQH: The Podcast Episode 109 – The Overwhelming Flood of Patient Wearable Data

    On episode 109 of PSQH: The Podcast, Richard Cahill, Vice-President & Associate General Counsel, The Doctors Company, talks about the impact of data from patient wearables on physicians.

  • How to Employ Locum Tenens Clinicians to Fill Workforce Gaps

    There are about 50,000 locum tenens physicians working in the United States, says Joseph Sturdivant, MD, CMO of IMN Enterprises, a healthcare staffing company. With a clinician shortage nationwide, he notes, they’re a popular solution to fill workforce gaps.

  • Healthcare Takes a Breath After Crowdstrike Scare

    As of Monday morning, most of the affected systems are back up and running, and hospitals across the country are getting back to business as usual, with a few hiccups along the way. Experts say the global effect of the outage, which was still being felt in other industries, especially the airlines, could top $1 billion.

  • New Licensure Compact Could Boost SDOH, Behavioral Health Outreach

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is issuing four grants worth a collective $2.5 million through the License Portability Grant Program (LPGP) to create a multi-state social worker licensure compact. Through the compact, license social workers will be able to practice in member states without the need to apply for a license in each state.

  • The 600 Pathways Yale New Haven Health Takes to Improved Care Delivery

    Decreasing variation has been a central goal of quality improvement since W. Edwards Deming pioneered the concept in the Toyota Production System in the 1970s. In care delivery, research has shown the consequences of inappropriate variation include underusing needed services, overusing unwarranted services, higher costs, and worse clinical outcomes.

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