Fitch Ratings: Workforce pressures easing for hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing homes
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 11, 2023
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Tenet Healthcare banks $123M profit in Q2 thanks to 'robust' ASC, inpatient volumes
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 31, 2023
Tenet Healthcare beat the street in the second quarter, reporting Monday $123 million in net income thanks to higher volumes and revenues across its ambulatory care segment. | The for-profit system beat the street with net operating revenues up 9.5% year over year, prompting an increase to 2023 guidance.
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Consolidated hospitals leading to larger premiums and out-of-pocket spending, report finds
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 24, 2023
As hospitals acquire ambulatory care centers, consumers are more likely to be forced to pay outpatient facility fees for routine care traditionally covered by physician offices at lower costs.
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The Increasing Need for Ambulatory Care During COVID-19
The Beryl Institute
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Now more than ever, there is a recognition that COVID-19 is changing how healthcare is being delivered, especially in the ambulatory care environment, which includes settings such as physician offices and clinics, surgery centers, hospital outpatient departments, pharmacies, labs, testing centers and dialysis centers.
Navigating the 2024 ICD-10-CM Code Changes: What Ambulatory Care Services Need to Know
Advanced Data Systems
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The healthcare sector is dynamic, with regulations and best practices continuously evolving. One critical area subject to change is the coding system, with the ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification) updates for 2024 set to take effect on October 1, 2023.
Augmedix Launches Gen AI Mobile App for Automated Medical Notes
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Clinician-Controlled Mobile App for Acute & Ambulatory Settings The new solution offers a variety of features to support busy healthcare clinicians throughout their clinic day, including summaries of key medical events, reminders of unfinished notes, and flexibility for post-visit dictation and text editing.
List of Confused Drug Names
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 10, 2023
® Acute Care, the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! ® Community/Ambulatory Care, and the FDA and ISMP Lists of Look-Alike Drug Names with Recommended Tall Man Letters. [1] ® Acute Care, the ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®
Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
An ICU tower right next door which will take care of the sickest of the sick that can't possibly have home health care … But other than that? All the ambulatory care stuff, and all the simple stuff? It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes. It all gets moved into the home."
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MedPAC Releases 2022 Data Book on Health Care Spending and the Medicare ProgramÂ
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 21, 2022
Section 1: National health care and Medicare spending Section 2: Medicare beneficiary demographics Section 3: Medicare beneficiary and other payer financial liability Section 4: Dual-eligible beneficiaries Section 5: Alternative payment models Section 6: Acute inpatient services Section 7: Ambulatory care Section 8: Post-acute care Section 9: Medicare (..)
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Zane Burke, former Livongo CEO, takes the reins at Quantum Health
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The ambulatory care vendor was still embroiled in the back-and-forth as of this week. Meanwhile, NextGen Healthcare faced a potential board shakeup : Founder and Director Sheldon Razin announced his nomination of four new candidates to the company's board in August in response to the company's own selection.
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More than half of patients would visit retail pharmacy first for medical issues
Healthcare It News
MAY 18, 2023
Driven by a desire for more convenient and affordable care, many patients focusing less on provider qualifications when seeking ambulatory care, according to a new Wolters Kluwer survey, which shows 58% of them opting first for retail options as pharmacists shifting to address consumer needs.
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Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits
Briggs Healthcare
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
The toolkit includes information for the acute care setting on building and maintaining an antibiotic stewardship program, improving the safety culture around antibiotic prescribing, and diagnosing and treating common infectious disease syndromes. Access the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care.
Transcarent Acquires 98point6 AI-Powered Virtual Care Platform and Care Business
HIT Consultant
MARCH 6, 2023
. – The newly emerged 98point6 Technologies plans to remain solely focused on licensing its software to third-party health care providers such as MultiCare Health System, the first to license the 98point6 Technology Platform within its hybrid ambulatory care platform, Indigo Health.
Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 13, 2022
"The holistic care model integrates RPM and timely pharmacologic treatment designed and led by ambulatory care clinical pharmacists, and offers comprehensive education and customized care plans delivered by registered dietitians in collaboration with referring providers." Interdisciplinary.
Konica Minolta’s Microsoft Azure-Hosted Platform Automates Exchange of Healthcare Data
HIT Consultant
JUNE 21, 2023
What You Should Know: Konica Minolta launches Konica Minolta Connected Care , a cloud-based workflow automation platform designed to streamline manual processes such as patient intake, care transitions and referral management across acute, post-acute and ambulatory care settings.
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VA watchdog: New EHR scheduling system needs work
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center in Columbus, Ohio. "Before implementing the new scheduling system at the Columbus and Spokane facilities, Cerner trained schedulers and care providers to use the system," read the report. WHY IT MATTERS.
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How Healthcare Experience Ranks Versus Other Industries (Not So Great)
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
health care industries fell to their lowest consumer satisfaction scores in two decades, we learn in the latest evaluation by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index report. As important as health became to humans at the base of our Hierachies of Needs , in the U.S.,
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MedPAC July 2022 Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 25, 2023
There’s something for everyone: National health care and Medicare spending Medicare beneficiary demographics Medicare beneficiary and other payer financial liability Dual-eligible beneficiaries Alternative payment models Acute inpatient services General short-term hospitals Inpatient psychiatric facilities Ambulatory care Physicians and other health (..)
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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework
Health Populi
AUGUST 3, 2023
.” The H-a-H Framework is illustrated here, with the patient’s home environment is positioned at the center of the circle which identifies various care services including: Ambulatory care, covering primary care, chronic care, specialty care, mental and behavioral health, oncology-at-home, dialysis, infusion On-demand and urgent care, which (..)
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Medsphere Acquires Ambulatory IT Support Provider Systeem Medical
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Systeem provides core information technology services with a primary focus on ambulatory healthcare providers. – The addition of ambulatory IT support services provider further expands Medsphere’s affordable, adaptable comprehensive healthcare technology platform.
6 Healthcare Trends Impacting Medical Practices in 2023
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
These self-service platforms will provide an integrated patient experience, with ambulatory care providers, in-patient hospital services, and other medical providers all able to connect on a single patient portal.
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Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital Acquires athenahealth for $17B
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
athenahealth partners with more than 140,000 ambulatory care providers, throughout all 50 states and across more than 120 specialties, to accelerate the pace of healthcare innovation and support the delivery of leading clinical and financial outcomes. athenahealth Market Footprint.
Diffusion of pharmaceuticals and the patient’s influence
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MARCH 17, 2023
The findings therefore suggest that patient pathways play a significant role in the diffusion of a new drug in ambulatory care. The effect is stronger when physicians do not strictly follow medical guidelines. An important finding. You can read the full paper here.
epocrates Launches Bugs + Drugs Tool to Promote Optimal Antibiotic Prescribing
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The data are sourced from de-identified microbiology data from athenaClinicals, athenahealth’s cloud-based electronic health record, used predominantly by ambulatory care organizations. Bugs + Drugs’ methods and apparatus for tracking antimicrobial susceptibility based on geography is a patented process.
OSHA COVID-19 Healthcare Rulemaking
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 23, 2022
Other changes may result after due consideration of all comments and hearing testimony. Alignment with CDC Recommendations for Healthcare Infection Control Practices Additional Flexibility for Employers Removal of Scope Exemptions (e.g.,
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Retiring and Replacing HEDIS Measures, 2024-2026
NCQA
JULY 17, 2023
Retired for Measurement Year 2024 Narrowly scoped measures or no longer demonstrate opportunities for improvement: Ambulatory Care and Inpatient Utilization—General Hospital/Acute Care. Using feedback from public comment and our advisory panels, we have identified seven measures for retirement or replacement.
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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
For Black patients, lower utilization of ambulatory care and higher use of inpatient, emergency department, and nursing suggest greater spender downstream that might be prevented by more spending upstream on primary care, prevention, and early detection of disease.
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Home Health Job Growth Improving, But Outpaced By Other Health Care Settings
Home Health Care
AUGUST 19, 2022
Even nursing and residential care facilities reported greater employment gains, according to Altarum. Health care employment grew by a robust 69,600 jobs in July 2022,” the brief continues. Multiple home health providers have described the labor improvements they’ve seen of late.
Updated: Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) Tool for General Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Across Settings
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 17, 2023
Demographics forms for individual healthcare settings available for download to send to facility prior to ICAR assessment: Demographics – Acute Care [PDF – 6 pages] Demographics – Long-Term Care [PDF – 6 pages] Demographics – Outpatient/Ambulatory Care [PDF – 5 pages] Click on each Module below to open the tool in a fillable PDF document.
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Top Women in Healthcare Staffing 2022
CHQ Healthcare
MAY 10, 2023
Barb Martin Executive Director of Ambulatory Care Selection & Onboarding Mercy Health, MO Barb is a strong leader full of heart. She cares deeply for the people she works with and the organization she serves. Barb has worked for Mercy Health for more than eight years as recruiter, manager, and now Executive Director.
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HEDIS MY 2024: What’s New, What’s Changed, What’s Retired
NCQA
AUGUST 1, 2023
The measure is not widely used and addresses only one aspect of COPD care (confirming a new diagnosis). Ambulatory Care and Inpatient Utilization—General Hospital/Acute Care. Non-Recommended Cervical Cancer Screening in Adolescent Females.
Top Improvement Strategies for SDOH Programs: Part Two
Lexis Nexis
DECEMBER 22, 2021
ambulatory care-sensitive condition emergency room visits, readmissions, cost of care) Evaluate the impact of an intervention on a health outcome of interest: Readmission Rates Total Cost of Care Admissions ER visits Hospital acquired conditions Preventable Hospitalizations: Ambulatory Care?Sensitive?Emergency
If It’s May, It Must Be National Nurses Month, Week and Day!!
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 5, 2023
Nurses are essential to every health care setting—in hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care centers, and patients’ homes.” Nurses play a vital role in educating people in how to avoid illness and promote good health. I have always been proud of being a nurse. I celebrate my 50 th year in nursing this month.
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Philips Appoints New CEO Amid Respiratory Device Recall
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 16, 2022
Roy Jakobs has been successful in turning around businesses in customer-focused growth organizations and has effectively strengthened the company’s Connected Care portfolio through successful acquisitions across hospital and ambulatory care settings.
Cooper University, Nuance Expand Dragon Ambient eXperience Deployment to 475 Physicians
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 30, 2021
This ambient clinical intelligence solution will expand upon Cooper’s ability to enhance patient experiences, expand access to care, and advance care quality through a renewed focus on physician-patient conversation and clinical documentation improvement.
HEDIS® Public Comment is Open
NCQA
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
NCQA seeks comment on the following proposed retirements: HEDIS Measurement Year 2024 Ambulatory Care. Inpatient Utilization—General Hospital/Acute Care. We see a way for a new and better measure can address an existing quality concept. Antidepressant Medication Management.
Site-Shifting: the Consumer-Driven Pressure on Traditional Healthcare Utilization
Health Populi
DECEMBER 12, 2022
consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. While overall U.S.
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Pharmacies Garner Retail Health Love in the Pandemic – Update from J.D. Power
Health Populi
JULY 29, 2021
Power believes that pharmacies are “setting the stage for the transformation of ambulatory care delivery,” in their words. This is the 13th year of the study, which surveyed responses from 12,646 consumers who had filled a prescription in the 3 months prior to September 2020 through May 2021. This year, J.D. Power found.
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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2023
Another key shift that serves as a medical cost trend deflator is the shift in site of care, to homes, community-based care locales, and outpatient healthcare settings such as ambulatory surgery centers. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,
What $31,065 Can Buy You: a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid, a Year at Gnomon School, or Healthcare for a Family of 4 in America
Health Populi
MAY 31, 2023
It is interesting to see that the annual health care cost for an individual’s inpatient hospital care remained relatively flat between 2021 and 2023, but shows an increase on the outpatient hospital side. Physician costs, too, demonstrate cost growth, representing 30% of costs for the average individual in 2023.
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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Walmart, clearly, is growing its primary care and mental health service supply side, planning to replicate health centers across markets where it makes sense to do so… like in under-served areas where more people live without health insurance. Indeed, outpatient and ambulatory care is the New Black for hospitals and health care.
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How Emergency Departments Can Drive Better Outpatient Care for Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 29, 2023
Overcrowding in today’s EDs is not uncommon – a situation further compounded by the growing number of patients who visit the ED for non-urgent or non-emergency conditions that could be better treated in ambulatory care settings.
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“Your care, your way:” Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023
Health Populi
APRIL 18, 2023
Most commonly provided today are diagnostic imaging centers, ambulatory care centers, community healthcare workers, labs, and walk-in centers.
Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer
Health Populi
APRIL 25, 2023
OECD finally recognizes that all stakeholders in the health/care ecosystem have roles to play in being more efficient, effective, and engaging in getting more value out of health care spending.
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