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(BPT) – Career opportunities in the health care industry are expected to continue growing more quickly than in virtually any other industry, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook. Not only is the health care industry expected to add more than 2 million new jobs by 2024, many existing roles will continue to evolve, creating additional opportunities for professionals currently working in what is a very broad field.

Health care law is one area seeing significant growth, thanks in part to the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It’s one of the fastest-growing disciplines for graduate and post-graduate degrees, according to Lawyer & Statesman. The changes spurred by the ACA are also inspiring many professionals to learn more about the law to enhance their career opportunities and boost their skill sets.

“Health care professionals routinely find their day-to-day tasks affected by legal issues like regulatory compliance, risk management, malpractice, ethics, and patient privacy,” says Scott Johnson, professor of law at Concord Law School, part of Kaplan University. “Recent laws and regulations governing these issues and the delivery of health services generally make knowledge of health care law a real career asset these days. A background in law can help a wide range of professionals, from administrators to clinicians to technology entrepreneurs be more effective in their current roles and better positioned to seize emerging opportunities.”

Legal expertise can benefit health care professionals and their patients across many aspects of the industry, but it is particularly helpful in three key areas, Johnson notes:

* Regulatory compliance — Compliance professionals help providers prevent, detect, and correct any actions, policies, or procedures that are counter to the many regulations governing the health care industry. They also help promote ethical conduct. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 propelled growth in this area and regulatory compliance has been one of the fastest-growing professions over the past 15 years. Health care professionals in a wide range of positions including those who work with electronic health records, Medicare or Medicaid requirements, or the various requirements from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could benefit from knowledge of legal issues related to regulatory compliance.

* Ethics — A subspecialty of regulatory compliance, knowing legal issues related to ethics is particularly important for professionals working in facilities where research also takes place. Bioethical principles and standards cover areas such as human subject research, genetic privacy, patient rights, rehabilitation ethics and more.

* Risk management — This discipline focuses on reducing errors to protect patients as well as health care employers. This includes provider and institutional liability, notification and apology programs, risk assessments, patient safety, and adverse event reporting.

The growth of health care law has encouraged schools to create specialized degree programs for professionals seeking added legal expertise, but not planning to become practicing attorneys. For example, Kaplan’s Concord Law School offers a health care law track within its Executive Juris Doctorate (EJD) program.  Since most industry professionals are working full-time, and often outside of the typical 9-5 work day, going back to school can be challenging.  However, as the first fully online law school since 1998, Concord provides a unique solution.

“One of the great benefits of the online EJD Health Law program is that it is offered through our law school,” Johnson says. “EJD students take the same classes that our law students take and they learn from the same law professors. Attending our law school provides EJD students with a thorough understanding of the law. They enjoy the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to analyze the law and explain its impact. Plus, they get to do all of it in a flexible, online program. EJD students can apply these skills by helping health care providers and professionals comply with the myriad of state and federal laws that govern health care.”

To learn more about Concord Law School and the health care law track, visit www.concordlawschool.edu.

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(BPT) – Approximately 20 percent of Americans live with hearing loss, according to the Hearing Loss Association of America. If you’re among them, you may think all you need to do in order to hear better is to turn up the volume. But many factors make up hearing, including sound quality, clarity, the ability to identify where sounds are coming from and how your brain processes these sounds. To get the best hearing experience, you need to address all of them.

A recent survey conducted online by Harris Poll illustrates the challenges people with hearing loss experience listening to conversations and processing information. The poll of more than 2,000 adults found 67 percent struggle to hear in noisy places like a restaurant, and 73 percent have trouble hearing sounds coming from different directions. Eighty-five percent have to listen harder to understand what’s being said around them, and more than half actually have to strain to understand, follow and participate in conversations.

Hearing aids can help many of the 48 million Americans who experience hearing loss, but it’s important your hearing aids address more than just volume. Depending on the type of hearing loss, you may have trouble hearing clearly in a crowded room, identifying the direction a sound is coming from, or hearing high-pitched sounds like a doorbell or the voice of a grandchild. The ability to hear low-volume sounds is only one component of good hearing; quality, clarity and directionality are also important. Your hearing aid needs to address all of those factors, and not just increase the volume of noises around you.

Attorney Chris Mammel of Florida found distinguishing sounds coming from different directions to be one of the most significant challenges of his hearing loss.

“Courtrooms are naturally noisy places,” Mammel says. “If I was sitting in the audience, waiting for my turn before a judge, I couldn’t differentiate conversations or where sounds were coming from. It made it difficult to determine what kind of mood a judge was in before I had to stand in front of her.”

Like many people with hearing loss, Mammel found the effort of listening to be tiring. While your ears handle the mechanics of hearing, it’s your brain’s job to interpret the sound messages the ears send it. People with hearing loss often have to put more effort into listening and interpreting what they hear.

If your hearing aid fails to address sound clarity and quality, your brain will have to work harder to interpret the information coming from the device. That extra work can actually lead you to feel fatigued, and even forget what you heard. In fact, 43 percent of respondents in the survey said they have trouble remembering what was said.

For Mammel, the solution was a new advance in hearing aid technology. The Oticon Opn hearing aid with BrainHearing technology allows users to hear well from all directions. BrainHearing technology makes listening easier on the brain. Super-fast processors within the device filter out distracting noises, allowing you to more easily follow conversations, even in loud environments like a busy restaurant. You enjoy a more balanced, natural sound experience.

In a comparison study against currently available premium hearing aids, Opn demonstrated a 30 percent improvement in speech understanding and a 20 percent reduction in listening effort, as well as up to a 20 percent better recall of conversations.

The device improved Mammel’s ability to discern directionality and follow conversations in the courtroom and the board room, shifting focus easily to the speakers he wanted to hear.

“Before, I would have to pick someone right next to me in the room and that would basically be the only person I could speak with,” he says. “Now I can participate around the table in conversation. I can look down the line three or four people and still follow or actually participate in a conversation with them. It’s really been a remarkable change.”

Many people also want aids that can interact with other important devices in their lives, such as mobile phones or home sound systems. Opn connects directly to mobile phones and other external devices with the tap of your fingers, allowing you to stream audio signals directly to the hearing aids. Wireless communications technology allows two hearing aids to communicate with each other for improved spatial and directional awareness.

As you grow older, your likelihood of experiencing hearing loss increases, and nearly half of all people older than 75 will have trouble hearing, the Hearing Loss Association reports. In fact, hearing loss is the third most-common physical condition, after arthritis and heart disease, and it can affect every aspect of your life, including your physical and mental health, relationships and self-esteem. To learn more about hearing loss, visit www.betterhearing.org or www.hearingloss.org. For more information about Opn, visit www.oticon.com.