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Are Boosters Prolonging the Pandemic?
Some people have raised the question of whether booster shots are unethical from a global perspective, and even counterproductive to ending the pandemic because highly mutated variants will continue to arise in unvaccinated patients. -
Winter of Our Discontent: Omicron Variant Pushes Healthcare to Brink
With omicron causing much higher breakthrough infection rates than previous COVID-19 variants, there is concern infected healthcare workers must isolate amid an ongoing nursing shortage. The previous recommendation for 10 days has been changed to seven, and shorter than that under certain conditions. -
Artificial Intelligence Documentation Assistant Shows Promise for Healthcare Charting
Advocates are seeking relief for physicians overburdened with too many administrative tasks.
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Screening Ineffective for Identifying HCWs with Respiratory Illness
Ubiquitous employee temperature screening and symptom questions upon entry during the pandemic have not yielded much success in identifying sick healthcare workers and reducing the long-standing problem of presenteeism. -
HIT Changes and Case Management
While health information technology is ever-changing, case managers should have an idea of how new (or improved) solutions might affect their practice. -
Universal Method Needed to Collect Social Determinants of Health Information
Healthcare professionals seek a standardized universal method for collecting and using social determinants of health data, according to new research. -
Childhood Trauma Is an Overlooked Social Determinants of Health Factor
Research demonstrates strong connections between exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), chronic stress, and poor health, including frailty in older adults. Health systems could make it a priority for providers and case managers to identify ACEs among adult populations and ask for better integrated services and models of care to serve this group. -
Study Author Explains How Care Coordination Failures Create Healthcare Waste
Hospital Case Management asked Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, president and chief executive officer of Healthcare Financial Management Association, about his findings that failures in care coordination lead to costly waste in the healthcare industry. -
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Among Staff and Patients
In other national crises when lives were at stake, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks and World War II, the nation pulled together and largely embraced restrictions and calls to action. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the death toll heading toward 1 million Americans, many are placing their individual beliefs or desires ahead of public health and the national welfare. Healthcare professionals are caught in the middle of the fight over vaccines and masking mandates. -
Chatbots and Technology Make Case Management Affordable, Efficient
Technology can help extend case management, improving efficiency and costs when managing large populations of at-risk patients. A chatbot tool can send patients daily text messages that provide information on self-care behaviors and ask them about their current health status.