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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

Health Populi

IKEA has clearly learned a lot with this program, in collaboration with WestEast Design Group (a Social Impact Studio), working with the Ingka Group , IKEA’s retail business partner. What health citizen doesn’t want to feel a sense of joy, hope, peace, connection, safety, and empowerment?

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Almost One-Third of Rural Hospitals Benefiting from Microsoft’s Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program

The HIPAA Journal

Between 2010 and 2017, rural hospitals were closing at a rate of around 1 per month, and there were 136 rural hospital closures in 2020 and 20221 alone. Rural hospitals often have low operating margins, high fixed costs relative to their urban counterparts, and have lower reimbursement rates from insurers.

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Why Social Workers Are Key to Solving the US Youth Mental Health Crisis?

We Care Online

For healthcare professionals, understanding this crisis isnt just about empathy, its about collaboration. Education Week reveals that mental health challenges among young people were already rising before 2020, but the pandemic dramatically worsened the situation.

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A Journey of Perseverance and Purpose in Healthcare and Human Services

Minority Nurse

A Long Road Back to Education Reflecting on her decision to return, Ortega shares, “In September 2020, after spending six months working from home due to COVID, I found myself reflecting during a conversation with a friend.

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How Tariffs Could Wreak Havoc on Health Care Costs and Supply Chains in the U.S.

Health Populi

The role model here is the collaborative venture of CivicaRx , bringing together many hospital systems and some government stakeholder observers. had to deal with the exogenous shock not of tariffs, but of supply chain shocks in the COVID-19 pandemic hitting PPE — a new acronym many of us learned in early 2020.

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9 Transformative Technology Advancements in Pharmacy

Arkenea

trillion dollars in 2020. This comprises not just the pharmacy’s machines and computers, but also the people who work there Data is continuously collected from portable devices that provide measurements to help determine how the human workforce collaborates with its technological equivalents to better meet the requirements of patients.

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Lung cancer screenings can uncover treatable emphysema in patients

Medical Economics

In 2020, there were approximately 8.5 ACS supports a team-based approach to assess eligibility and risk, including educating patient-facing staff to collaborate on the referral process. What primary care physicians can do The next challenge is increasing lung cancer screening participation.