Home Health Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. It’s no secret that the home health proposed payment rule for 2023 is viewed unfavorably by the majority of stakeholders. It has received pushback for a number of reasons – namely a rate cut – but many also believe that if the rule is finalized, it will threaten care for complex home health patients. What’s considered a complex patient can vary, but patients with some type of heart failure, chronic respiratory diseases and cancer are examples. .

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Pro CRNA

AUGUST 28, 2022

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. Rising stars in the workplace and in the profession…we all know who they are and the contributions that they make to group. It would be a cliché to say that those entering a profession are the future of the organization, and we all know that it is true. To ensure that nurse anesthesiologists continue to be valued members of the healthcare community, a combination of solid workers and rising stars are essential.

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Life Qi

AUGUST 31, 2022

Over the course of this series of blogs, we’ve been looking at a wide range of improvement methods. You may have already decided which method you might be thinking of using in your organisation. Or, you may have identified something in your department that is either inefficient, or not quite right. If this is a simple issue, with an obvious solution that you can control, you might just go ahead and make a change, knowing that improvement will follow.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

New findings from JAMA Psychiatry suggest virtual visits were effective in managing certain conditions, like substance use disorders, among Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The year 2020 was one of the most challenging years for the healthcare industry. Many healthcare providers had to rethink the way they serve their patients, access systems securely and innovate care services and delivery. During the "The key to effectively harnessing digitisation in healthcare" webinar on 23 June last year, Raj Kurup, Digital Strategy Lead for Healthcare at Equinix Asia Pacific and Chad Rajapakse, Client Account Lead in Health and Public Sector for Accenture Australia,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2022

The concept that all companies are “health care companies” takes on greater import in the wake of the pandemic. The 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH) found that two in three large employers see their health and well-being strategy as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 29, 2022

The investigation comes as a strike by therapists over staffing issues at Kaiser facilities in Northern California enters its third week.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Vibrent Health CEO Praduman "PJ" Jain, who also serves as principal investigator of the NIH All of Us Research Program's Participant Technology Systems Center, joined Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard to talk about the All of Us program, why his company is working with NIH on the initiative, how to ensuring clinical trials represent a broader cross-section of society, and what recent FDA guidance on clinical trial diversity might accomplish.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

By James Toomey. Many people, including, it seems, most advocates for law reform, assume that older adults are uniquely vulnerable to scams, and indeed that senior scams are a unique social problem demanding a unique legal solution. But in “The Age of Fraud” (forthcoming in the Harvard Journal on Legislation , winter 2023), about which I’ve blogged here before , I reported the results of an empirical study suggesting that, in fact, younger adults were as much as three times more like

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 28, 2022

Seniors aged 60 and older who partake in long hours of sedentary behaviors have a higher risk of developing dementia. That’s according to a new study from University of Southern California and University of Arizona researchers. About 6.5 million people in the U.S., age 65 and older, are living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2022. This is a number that is estimated to reach 12.7 million by 2050, according to statistics from the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 30, 2022

Outpatient volumes and surgery times are down, while costly inpatient stays are getting longer, suggesting that patients are sicker, Kaufman Hall said.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Galileo is a recently launched telehealth service that delivers 24/7 primary and multi-specialty care in both English and Spanish. It aims to set itself apart with its fully bilingual service offerings. Dr. Jason Chirichigno is Galileo's clinical systems leader. His goal is to help remove language as a barrier for access to healthcare for the 53 million U.S.

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The Rand Blog

AUGUST 30, 2022

A new step-by-step guide can help communities prevent shootings and other mass attacks before they happen, and to save lives when they do. It's written for police, paramedics, local government officials, church leaders, concert promoters, grocery store owners, and school superintendents.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2022

Social determinants of health became a buzz term at some point over the last five years. They were what every health care provider – and home-based care provider, in particular – wanted to fix in seniors. But during the pandemic, some of those factors worsened seniors. That’s according to a new study from administered by Toluna and sponsored by Alignment Healthcare, the latter of which is a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 29, 2022

An appeals court ruled it lacked the authority to force OSHA to make certain rules, leaving discretion up to the workplace safety agency, according to court documents.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every year, over 100,000 newborns die and 60,000 suffer lifelong disability because of newborn jaundice. In Asia, it is one of the top ten leading causes of disability in newborns. Jaundice is also a leading cause of hospital readmission after birth in high-income economies. When detected early, treatment of jaundice is easily treated with phototherapy.

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 31, 2022

By James Toomey. The story of Henrietta Lacks is surely among the most famous in the history of bioethics, and its facts are well-known. Ms. Lacks sought treatment for cervical cancer. After conducting a biopsy on her tumor, her doctors learned that her cancer cells reproduced uniquely effectively. Without her knowledge or consent, her doctors derived from the cells the HeLa cell line — the world’s first immortal human cell line, worth billions and a driver of the biotechnology revolution.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2022

Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) has received a $2.3 million grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to bring the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement to home-based care. Broadly, the age-friendly framework is a patient-centered care focus. It concentrates on the “4Ms” – what matters, medication, mentation and mobility. The first “M” pertains to what matters to the patient in their lives, with the latter three being more self explanatory.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 31, 2022

Health First’s decision to terminate their agreement — Oscar’s first full-service tech deal — will cause the insurtech to lose out on up to $60 million in revenue this year.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 28, 2022

Before becoming executive director for Mayo Clinic Asia-Pacific, Royston Lek had been involved in work around direct patient care. He was a former COO of an integrated healthcare services company in China and the managing director in Singapore for a similar company that operates across Asia. In holding these executive roles in healthcare services companies, Lek learned about the immense challenges of healthcare providers in delivering care to patients.

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Healthy Debate

AUGUST 31, 2022

The post Lack of political will means Ontario LTC residents will continue to suffer appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2022

A number of home-based care providers – and businesses in the aging services sector at large – are among some of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. In fact, these companies recently grabbed a spot on Inc. 5000’s annual ranking. Companies such as connectRN, Entrusted Pediatric Home Care, BarbaraKares In-Home Care Services, Connect Pediatrics and Electronic Caregiver made an appearance in the top half of the list.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 30, 2022

The HHS so far has made over 1 million vials available to jurisdictions, “which is nearly enough to reach the entire population that's most at risk,” Secretary Xavier Becerra said during a call with reporters Tuesday.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

HIMS22 APAC The first HIMSS in-person conference taking place in the Asia-Pacific region since the pandemic will see healthcare changemakers gathering in beautiful Bali from 26 to 29 September 2022. Our reporters will be present to cover discussions on care, data and connectivity, as well as how Indonesia can learn from the lessons of other nations to advance its digital transformation in healthcare.

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The Rand Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The growing trend toward sleep vacations reflects the increasing awareness that Americans live in a sleep-starved society. Whether embarking on a sleep vacation or creating one in your own home, making intentional steps to prioritize sleep is one of the best investments you can make in your own health and well-being.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 28, 2022

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group is attached to one of the top health systems and educational institutions in the country. It’s often a place where health care breakthroughs take place and new home-based care ideas are formed. And yet it still deals with pain points that are all too familiar to most home-based care agencies across the country: staffing woes, rate cuts and inflation.

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Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 30, 2022

Respirators were one of the first medical devices identified as being in critical shortage during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the agency said.

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Life Qi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In this blog we are going to look at the difference between audit and research in Quality Improvement (QI) and how these methodologies can work together in the quality space. We’re going to see which areas of research and audit can support your QI projects and exactly how they work. Let’s start by taking a look at Quality Improvement or QI. There are many definitions of QI.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new report from KLAS focuses on healthcare-specific deployments of Microsoft Cloud Technologies, especially Microsoft Azure, which is receiving strong market interest. – This study is meant to help organizations considering Microsoft Cloud technologies understand their current use, the overall customer experience, and the impact of the solutions.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2022

The in-home companionship company Papa went from a scrappy startup to a nationally recognized brand partnering with some of the largest payers in the country in a very short period of time. But no startup’s journey is completely smooth, as just about any entrepreneur will tell you. And in July, the company was forced to lay off 15% of its workforce.

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Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.