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Home Data Abstraction / Registry Management / Consulting Direct Difference is the nation's leading health care management consulting firm. We're also the first company to specialize in the field of data abstraction and core measure for health care.... Read more www.directdifference.com

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Google Keep and Tasks training and help Keep and Tasks let you make to-do lists, transcribe voice memos, take photos as reminders, and more. Get Tasks: Android or iOS Both Tasks and Keep let you... Create quick lists Add structured information and subtasks Access your notes and lists... Read more support.google.com IHI: Learning Management System People are driven to work in health care for excellent reasons — but it can be easy to feel disconnected from those reasons over time. In this lesson, we’ll briefly introduce the IHI Open School and its history. You’ll meet some of the... Read more app.ihi.org The Real World Is Not an Exam My young friend had just finished the last months of his medical training. He had faced down many multiple-choice tests and triumphed over them all. Starting with the S.A.T.s and ending with a series of medical licensing exams, including all the... Read more well.blogs.nytimes.com Cervical Health Awareness Month Cervical Health Awareness Month is a chance to raise awareness about how women can protect themselves from HPV (human papillomavirus) and cervical cancer. HPV is a very common infection that spreads through sexual activity, and it causes almost... Read more healthfinder.gov

Despite progress, we're still waiting for a truly safer... Terror. No softer word captures what I felt that night 45 years ago when I almost killed a baby. The decades have fogged a few of the details, but not the emotions: guilt, humiliation, self-loathing, loneliness. They flood back easily,... Read more www.modernhealthcare.com What Health Care Can Learn from 18th Century Miners I was recently reminded of a story about a village called Leadhills in Scotland. In 1741, a group of Leadhills miners established the first privately funded library in the UK. Locals call it the world's first library for working people. The... Read more www.ihi.org Don't Set Your 2020 New Year's Resolutions Before... You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin It might be total cliché, but it's also undeniably true: time flies, and the years seem to slip through our fingers. Read more www.aconsciousrethink.com Guides for Switching from Microsoft Calendar Chrome Browser Cloud Search Contacts Docs Drive Forms Gmail Google+ Groups Hangouts Chat Hangouts Meet Keep and Tasks Mobile Sheets Sites Slides Voice Read more support.google.com

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