Healthcare Strategies

Exploring Patient Privacy Risks Of Third-Party Tracking Tech

A recent study published in Health Affairs found third-party tracking technology present on nearly all US nonfederal acute care hospital websites. Two of the study’s authors, Ari B. Friedman, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Matthew McCoy, assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania discussed their findings on Healthcare Strategies.

Identifying Drivers, Challenges Behind Remote Patient Monitoring Uptake

Healthcare stakeholders have been leaning on remote patient monitoring tools to provide chronic disease management support, care management, and adverse event reduction. The coronavirus pandemic honed remote patient monitoring skills and forced higher uptake, but stakeholders continue to face challenges around accessibility and reimbursement. Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s Anuja Vaidya, senior editor of mHealthIntelligence and special events lead, Hayden Schmidt, associate researcher, and Kyle Murphy, vice president of Editorial, chat about a recent Insights report detailing the opportunities and barriers for remote patient monitoring and what the future holds for these tools.

Improving Medical Research by Tackling Top Three Challenges

Funding, workforce diversity, and health equity challenges impede medical research advancement. Mary Woolley, president of Research!America, expounds upon the impact of these challenges and how the healthcare industry can rectify issues in these areas.

Workforce Management: How Nurse Practitioners Can Bolster the Primary Care Workforce, Care Access

Healthcare is at a primary care crossroads, soon to find itself with 100 million people lacking access. That problem is driven in part by a primary care workforce stretched too thin. Nurse practitioners, the majority of whom are trained in primary care, could help fill in that gap, according to April Kapu, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. States will need to reconsider their scope of practice laws in order to let NPs realize their full practice authority and fill in primary care access gaps.

Workforce Management: The Importance of Workforce Diversity in Healthcare

Diversity is critically important for the healthcare workforce because it helps ensure that the workforce reflects the communities they serve, which leads to better outcomes for patients and families. In this episode, Nancy Maldonado, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, California, shares how a diverse healthcare workforce brings a range of perspectives and experiences that allow for better communication and understanding between providers and patients of different backgrounds. 

Workforce Management: Maintaining an Adequate Healthcare Workforce Amid Shortages, Burnout

The healthcare industry is in crisis mode as staff shortages and burnout reach record highs. Healthcare organizations are striving to maintain an adequate workforce to preserve patient access to care, but leaders must change their recruitment and retention strategies to achieve that goal. Northern Light Health’s SVP and chief people officer Paul Bolin, MBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, shares how the rural health system in Maine has not only minimized turnover over the last three years but created a diverse team of staff members who stay at the organization.

Workforce Management: Cultivating Medical Workforce Diversity Through Medical School Recruitment

Cultivating medical workforce diversity—a key component of health equity—will require upstream efforts at the medical college level. Ideally, medical schools would have a diverse student population that would then create for a diverse hospital or health system applicant pool. Robert Cain, DO, and Helene Cameron, PhD, outline how the American Academy of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) is working to create medical workforce diversity at the medical school level.

Using FHIR to Support Advanced Directive Interoperability for Patient-Centered Care

Clinician access to advanced care planning documents is key for meeting patients' end-of-life care wishes. However, industry silos can limit interoperability of these documents, leaving providers without crucial information to guide treatment decisions. Maria D. Moen, senior vice president of innovation and external affairs at ADVault, joins the podcast to discuss how the Post-Acute Care Interoperability Project (PACIO) is working to streamline PAC data exchange through FHIR implementation guides.

Workforce Management: Expanding, Supporting the Home Healthcare Nursing Workforce

The role of the home healthcare nursing workforce expanded during the coronavirus pandemic and became a pivotal part of the healthcare delivery system. Kathy Driscoll, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Humana Inc., offers her recommendations on supporting the home healthcare nursing workforce—both current nursing staff and future home healthcare nurses.

Mental Health: How School-Based Telehealth Can Support Pediatric Mental Healthcare

The COVID-19 pandemic worsened a growing mental health crisis among American youth. Atrium Health’s Donnie Mitchem, director of outpatient therapy, and Christine Zazzaro, vice president, facility executive, joined the podcast to discuss how the health system is combating this issue through school-based telehealth programs, which can significantly expand access to behavioral healthcare for children.