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The Monop-sony-and–oly of Healthcare: A Call to Government Action
Start READING: The Monop-sony-and–oly of Healthcare: A Call to Government ActionAccording to an annual report by the AMA, competition within the health insurance market is decreasing. This week we explore what that means, how it impacts care delivery, and what actions are necessary to correct it.
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CyberSecurity Awareness Month: A Call to Focus on its Impact on Patient Care
Start READING: CyberSecurity Awareness Month: A Call to Focus on its Impact on Patient CareThis week, Tina Simpson is joined by freshman, an information security professional with 25 years’ leadership in cybersecurity, with a particular focus on medtech. In this article, Tina and freshman evaluate a critical cybersecurity capacity and infrastructure gap across health providers in the United States and call for stakeholders to re-evaluate their assessment of the…
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How Your Small Business Can Interact with the Community Navigator Program: Lessons from Healthcare
Start READING: How Your Small Business Can Interact with the Community Navigator Program: Lessons from HealthcareThe new federally-funded Community Navigator Program (CNP) is a two-year pilot designed to support “underserved small businesses” addressing challenges and hardships resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply lessons learned from deploying “Hub and Spoke” operations and Community Health Workers in the healthcare field to help you get a leg up on the CNP model.
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NC Medicaid Tailored Plans: We Gotta Get this Right
Start READING: NC Medicaid Tailored Plans: We Gotta Get this RightNorth Carolina is poised to implement Tailored Plans, a new managed care program, that will serve as an integrated health plan for individuals with significant behavioral health needs and intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DDs) next July. Reflecting on lessons learned from other states, DHHS has the opportunity to take action NOW to ensure provider, plan, and system…
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Did We Waste This Disaster?
Start READING: Did We Waste This Disaster?JC Lyle, Executive Director of WARM NC, considers whether Hurricane Florence was a missed opportunity for enacting changes to improve affordable housing.
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Moving from Health Literacy to Health Communication
Start READING: Moving from Health Literacy to Health CommunicationIn honor of International Literacy Day (September 8), we take the opportunity to reflect on how literacy intersects with health outcomes and introduce the importance of health literacy.
