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## [Flu Shots Are a Top Healthcare Priority This Year](https://blog.ubicare.com/flu-shots-are-a-top-healthcare-priority-this-year)

 Posted by [Debra Zalvan](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/debra-zalvan) on Nov 5, 2020 7:15:00 AM

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## How Do You Make Sure Your Patients Get the Message?

According to the [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/index.html), “reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses, like flu, this fall and winter is more important than ever.” Keeping people healthy during flu season and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic will be particularly important – and challenging. So how do hospitals, health systems and medical practices attract patients’ attention, counter misinformation and successfully urge patients to get the flu vaccine? How do you ensure that patients receive critical messages that can impact care, outcomes and cost?

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## [Digital Communication with Patients Improves Care Outcomes and Decreases Costs, particularly in COVID-19 fallout](https://blog.ubicare.com/digital-communication-with-patients-improves-care-outcomes-and-decreases-costs-particularly-in-covid-19-fallout)

 Posted by [John Pietro](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/john-pietro) on Aug 21, 2020 6:01:54 AM

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With [losses of more than $202.6 billion during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2020/05/aha-covid19-financial-impact-0520-FINAL.pdf), U.S. healthcare is suffering and there’s no end in sight. Healthcare organizations and providers have quickly turned to telehealth to maintain care, [increasing its use by 50% in primary care alone](https://aspe.hhs.gov/pdf-report/medicare-beneficiary-use-telehealth).

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## [Targeting Health Literacy & Digital Patient Engagement to Improve Outcomes](https://blog.ubicare.com/targeting-health-literacy-and-digital-patient-engagement)

 Posted by [Debra Zalvan](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/debra-zalvan) on Jan 17, 2020 8:09:49 AM

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**Patient Education & Innovative Communication Strategies Drive Success**

At UbiCare, we often refer to [research](https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/understanding-the-social-determinants-of-health/) showing that medical care has only a 10% – 20%  influence on health outcomes, while patient behaviors and self-care have a 40% – 50% influence. With healthcare providers increasingly pressured to shorten hospital stays and reduce office-visit time, how do you increase the influence a hospital, health system or medical practice has on improving health outcomes *outside* the hospital or medical office?

Melanie Iannace, Muskuloskeletal Service Coordinator at AtlantiCare joined me recently to tell a  success story in which AtlantiCare and UbiCare collaborated to target health literacy and patient engagement.

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## [Why MIMI Is a Game-Changer for Maternal & Infant Mortality](https://blog.ubicare.com/why-mimi-is-a-game-changer-for-maternal-and-infant-mortality)

 Posted by [Debra Zalvan](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/debra-zalvan) on Dec 5, 2019 7:30:00 AM

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When we [introduced MIMI](https://blog.ubicare.com/re-thinking-the-challenge-of-maternal-and-infant-mortality), UbiCare’s national public health initiative to help reduce preventable maternal and infant mortality, we noted that U.S. infant mortality rates are decreasing, though at a slower rate than in comparable countries. Unlike infant mortality, however, maternal mortality in the U.S. has steadily ***increased*** over the last 25 years.

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