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Author name: Brooke Barry

Stop Sabotaging Productivity, or How to Eliminate IT-Related Bottlenecks

A recent report found that workload was listed as the number one challenge of IT workers. Talent shortages in the U.S. have tripled in the past 10 years, and demand for information technology workers is expected to grow faster than average, compared to other occupations. As you shop for new solutions, you want to ask: How easy is it to modify? The new solution should be fast and easy to use and require little technological know-how on the part of employees.  

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How Payers are Supporting Health Equity and the Role of Technology

According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, addressing health equity “…requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.” Underscoring the need to encourage payers to rethink their reimbursement strategies, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently prioritized health equity in their Star ratings. Now, it’s more than half.  Additionally, 30% of those surveyed said that payers should reconsider how benefits are designed to support reimbursement and access to care. While telehealth rapidly accelerated during COVID-19, the increased use (and reimbursement) of this method of care during the pandemic served to overcome some health equity challenges.

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Taste-Focused Labels Lead to Increased Veggie Selection and Consumption

Matthew Good MS, RD, LD  Reading Time: 2 minutes While admittedly a complex and multifactorial system, any manager or director would agree that the success of a child nutrition program can be significantly impacted by increasing a student’s food component selection and decreasing their plate waste. Increased selection of food components within an offer-versus-serve program

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