Sat.Aug 06, 2022 - Fri.Aug 12, 2022

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Major Update to the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) is pleased to announce the publication of a major update to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines. Key changes in this version of the Guidelines include: The Panel added a new section entitled Special Considerations in People Who Are Immunocompromised.

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Need For Speed In Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership

Blog post by Joe Babaian. “How did it get so late so soon?”. ? Dr. Seuss. Who doesn’t want it now? We live in the now; technology gives us the feeling, and often the reality, that everything is a click away – even health and wellness. The current state of “now” medicine is changing almost daily with telemedicine roaring to the forefront, urgent-care clinics and ERs promising to treat you immediately and get you on the road again, cancer centers creating satellite facilities down the street, Ly

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Overcoming frozen thinking in healthcare

Nordic

Frozen thinking occurs when Princess Elsa of Arendelle uses her magical powers to control and create ice and snow, sometimes to the detriment of her younger sister, Anna. No, wait. That’s wrong. Actually, frozen thinking happens when one is locked into a set of assumptions that may have been true at one time but may no longer hold. Some examples of frozen thinking in healthcare are the concepts that patients must come to the office to see the physician, that the patients have to wait near the fr

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Oscar Health pauses full-service tech deals amid implementation woes

Health Care Dive

The decision to halt new technology agreements doesn’t change Oscar’s financial expectations for 2022, as the insurtech plans to reallocate resources to focus on achieving profitability in its insurance operations next year.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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UCHealth leaps into AR for patient engagement and experience

Healthcare It News

Patient distraction therapy, long-used by UCHealth with virtual reality and other techniques, and joy are framing the Aurora, Colorado-based health system's first in-app augmented reality experience. Beginning this fall, a patient or visitor will be able to click a button in their UCHealth mobile app and be directed to open their device's camera on a trigger point that will make a dog virtually come alive through AR in the waiting room.

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Climate Change Is Not Good for Health and Living Things

Health Populi

There is an image from my childhood, drawn by Lorraine Schneider, which reads “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” As I read through a paper published this week on climate change’s contribution to the burden of chronic disease, I couldn’t help but conjure up Lorraine’s observation from my little girl memory bank.

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Telehealth visits rose in May, mirroring COVID-19 diagnoses

Health Care Dive

Patients made greater use of virtual care visits for a second straight month during an upturn in coronavirus cases.

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Multi-channel clinical trial recruitment technology checklist

Healthcare It News

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Another State Invests Millions Into Aging-In-Place Program CAPABLE

Home Health Care

This month, the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (Colorado VNA) received a $2.3 million grant from the state to expand its CAPABLE program and to provide care for more Medicaid members. CAPABLE is an interdisciplinary program from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing that combines nursing care, occupational therapy and handyman services. It stands for “Community Aging in Place — Advancing Better Living for Elders” and aims to prove that with modest investments and short-term interventions, agi

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The Case for Cautious Optimism in Ukraine

The Rand Blog

While the outcome of the war in Ukraine is by no means clear, the balance of materiel, manpower, and willpower all seem to make the case for cautious optimism. Although Ukraine is unlikely to throw Russia back to its borders any time soon, the war will likely trend in Ukraine's favor in the coming months. But only if the West does not blink first.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Intermountain’s Harrison plans to step down as CEO

Health Care Dive

After six years at the helm, Harrison plans to leave his post as president and CEO of Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare this fall.

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Hazelden Betty Ford's Oracle Cerner EHR enables digital therapeutic info

Healthcare It News

WHY IT MATTERS. The EHR integration with the digital prescribing platform enables clinicians to send personalized therapeutic content to their patients throughout recovery. Within their workflows, clinicians can respond to and anticipate patient needs. They can access a central content repository and send patients reading materials, exercise plans, workshops and more.

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Is Ice Cream Good for a Sore Throat?

Healthcare Associates

Is Ice Cream Good for a Sore Throat? A variety of factors can cause sore throats. Maybe you just had throat surgery, or have a cold or flu, or perhaps it’s just peak allergy season causing your throat to become irritated. Eating ice cream might cheer you up regardless of the cause of your sore throat. But is ice cream good for sore throats? The answer is maybe, depending on the cause of your sore throat.

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LTC Jobs Report – July 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. AHCA/NCAL has released this sobering Long-Term Care Jobs Report – July 2022 : “After two years of monthly job losses, nursing homes have begun to see modest job gains in recent months. If nursing homes continue to gain jobs at the current, modest pace (on average 4,600 jobs per month), a potential recovery to pre-pandemic staffing levels would not take place until 2026.”.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Profits climb for major insurers as hospital volumes drop in Q2

Health Care Dive

All but two of the seven largest insurers saw profits climb in the second quarter as hospital operators continued to struggle with weak volumes and higher labor costs amid record-high inflation.

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MarinHealth to roll out UCSF-tailored version of Epic EHR

Healthcare It News

MarinHealth this week said it will implement a new electronic health record system – a version of Epic developed at University of California San Francisco called APeX. WHY IT MATTERS. APeX stands for Advancing Patient-Centered Excellence – it's an Epic EHR system that was customized at UCSF as an integrated platform to help offer access to patient records across the care continuum, from MarinHealth Medical Network clinics to MarinHealth Medical Center.

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The SCAN Group Expands In Southwest, Open To Expanding Further Across Country

Home Health Care

The SCAN Group is continuing its reach into the American Southwest, with plans of expanding into Texas and further in Nevada. The Long Beach, California-based SCAN Health Plan – a part of the overarching SCAN Group and a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan – will start offering services in Texas starting in 2023. SCAN also plans to expand further into Nevada, broadening the company’s reach to nearly seven million potential customers across 20 markets in five states.

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Finnish and Swedish NATO Membership: Toward a Larger, Stronger, Smarter Alliance

The Rand Blog

Finland and Sweden are poised to become full NATO members in the near future. The Nordic pair's entry into NATO means that alliance leaders and planners confront new challenges, and just as many opportunities.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Physician practices seek more time to comply with No Surprises rules

Health Care Dive

The Medical Group Management Association asked the HHS and the CMS to delay enforcement of parts of the statute until six months after any final rule is published.

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6 actions payers can take to prepare for the No Surprises Act

Healthcare It News

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Joseph Juran: Founder of many of the key quality management programs

Life Qi

In this article, we are going to look at Joseph Juran’s career in quality management, and look at the ground breaking work he pioneered in quality control. His theories and techniques have filtered down to Quality Improvement (QI) work today. Primarily his Juran Trilogy and the important quality work he did in both the USA and Japan.

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A New Era? NATO's Prioritisation of Human Security in an Insecure World

The Rand Blog

Human security and NATO's role and responsibility to protect civilians during conflict saw new prioritization in the alliance's 2022 Strategic Concept. While much progress has been made, more could be done to ensure the alliance can deliver on these commitments.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Hospitals still fall short on price transparency, consumer group says

Health Care Dive

Hospitals pushed back on the Patient Rights Advocate report, which found that just 16% of hospitals were fully compliant with the price transparency law.

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The importance of redesigning health services

Healthcare It News

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Signify To Layoff Nearly 500 Employees In Shift Away From Episodes Of Care Business

Home Health Care

Just days after news surfaced that CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) was interested in purchasing Signify Health Inc. (NYSE: SGFY), separate reports came out saying the Dallas-based company planned to lay off nearly 500 people. Specifically, Signify will lay off a total of 489 people. The layoffs will affect people in states including Texas, South Dakota, New York and Connecticut.

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Avenda Health Receives FDA Exemption for AI-Enabled Prostate Cancer Therapy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Avenda Health , an AI healthcare company creating the future of prostate cancer care, has received FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for its FocalPoint ablation system. The IDE will allow the technology, powered by iQuest, to be used in a randomized control trial to show superiority over the standard of care for the treatment of prostate cancer. . – FocalPoint is Avenda Health’s focal laser ablation system designed to treat localized prostate cancer i

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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Healthcare executive compensation grows in 2022

Health Care Dive

Median base salaries for executives at healthcare companies increased by 4.5% in the past year, according to consulting firm SullivanCotter.

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Patient-centered care gets a boost from digital efficiency

Healthcare It News

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How One Home Care Provider Earned 30% Rate Increases From MA Plans

Home Health Care

More than ever, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are stepping up and responding to the demand for more access to care in the home setting. This, in turn, has created an avenue for home-based care providers to lean into new opportunities. Over the past couple of years, the amount of MA plans offering care services in the home has increased significantly.

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Ellipsis Health & Ceras Health Integrate to Bring Human Voice as a Biomarker for Mental Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ellipsis Health and Ceras Health today announced a partnership that will integrate Ellipsis Health’s breakthrough technology that uses the human voice as a biomarker for mental health and wellbeing into Ceras’ clinical monitoring platform. – This integration will combine Ellipsis Health’s AI and deep learning technology with Ceras Health’s clinical monitoring and health data analytics platform, enabling real-time severity scores for anx

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.