Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In 2019, CMUH obtained Stage 7 accreditation for the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, which has been a major contributor to its present DHI ranking. It was also able to streamline its workflow and provide personalised healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

"There's a lot of legwork and community needs analysis required, as well as much community stakeholder planning to make these visions a reality," he wrote as a contributor to Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Unintentional injuries”—which include opioid overdoses and motor vehicle crashes—were the second-largest contributor to the drop in life expectancy, making up 15.9% Part of the reason for China pulling ahead was a bigger decrease in life expectancy in the US during COVID-19 (falling from 78.8 in 2019 to 77.1 At the same time, the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

By specifically targeting food insecurity as a significant contributor to nutrition-sensitive chronic conditions, substantial savings were observed among members with these conditions.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 9, 2024

Combating Burnout and Strengthening Connections By alleviating the time-consuming task of documentation, Greenway Clinical Assist™ directly addresses a major contributor to provider burnout. This time saved allows for stronger connections to be built between patients and their providers, fostering a more patient-centered care environment.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2024

Professional Stress: The Root of the Problem 83% of doctors cited professional stress as the primary contributor to their burnout and/or depression. The report, aptly titled “We Have Much Work to Do,” highlights the persistent challenges facing physicians.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

” In home care, the major contributors to rising costs were inflation and a shortage of workers. . “While this continues the upward trend we’ve seen over the past several surveys, we are actively digging deeper into the data to analyze trends and plan to share those findings in the coming months.”

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

The report indicates a projected 4.18% increase in the price of specialty medications, driven by the approval of 42 novel specialty drugs in 2023, with an anticipated record number of approvals in 2024.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Other contributors to the round include Memorial Care Innovation Fund (MCIF) and Frist Cressey Ventures , led by heart surgeon, incoming chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Board of Directors and former U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2023

For 40% of the participants, their daily responsibilities were identified as the biggest contributors to their work-related stress issues. However, it is encouraging to note that a significant majority (44%) of those surveyed rely on exercise as a coping mechanism to manage their stress levels.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

Radiology is an especially high contributor to the CO2 emissions responsible for climate change with its heavy energy, equipment, and supply usage.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

With this funding, PathologyWatch will continue to be a key contributor in both areas. . – AI in diagnostic services grew by 80% in 2020 , largely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which also brought to our attention the need for more equitable and accessible healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Most measured contributors to burnout have become less prevalent than they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Staffing shortages—a newly-measured contributor as of 2021—are more frequently reported by all types of clinicians, especially in the last year. There are a few exceptions.

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Bill Of Health

MAY 23, 2023

By Katherine Kraschel The loss in Dobbs and the bleak outlook for abortion rights within the federal courts may afford advocates a unique opportunity to fully adopt a reproductive justice framework and apply it to access to fertility care, as other contributors to this symposium have argued.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sheppard Mullin Healthcare Law Blog Contributors. Ethan Aronson Emma Arroyo Stephanie Awanyai Katherine Bai Xavier Baker. Elizabeth Balfour Vinay Bhupathy Ehiguina Borha Jarrod Brodsky Samuel Canales John Carroll Christine Clements Audrey Crowell Aytan Dahukey Kara Du David T. Fischer David Garcia Gabriela Garcia-Bou.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2023

That being said, bathing and dressing scores are still major contributors to PDGM, STAR ratings and other scoring systems in home health care. So those measures didn’t get put there — which means to select a cross-setting measure, again, an agency has to use ones that are in all four.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And, in fact, it’s banking on its home-based care investments as contributors. The fourth quarter loss reported by Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) on Thursday is not a good indication for fiscal year 2023 and beyond, according to the company’s chief financial officer.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

"We know how busy physicians are and recognize that administrative burden is a leading contributor to burnout," Dr. Nate Gross, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Doximity, told Healthcare IT News by email. The company says the online bot, in beta, could help doctors "cut the scut" that raises their burnout levels.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2022

The distortions driven by the existing fee-for-service insurance model are a major contributor to the unsustainable U.S. Hint Health will also use the investment to increase services that support innovative virtual-first care models and near-site / on-site clinics that directly contract with employers. Operating System for Direct Care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We understand that quality companies are built from quality contributors. “Our M&A strategy is very disciplined,” New Day CEO G. Scott Herman recently told Home Health Care News. “We We won’t stray from that discipline. We don’t mind companies that need help. But we’re not really interested in large-scale turnarounds.”

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

Aside from the leading contributors, both new and existing financial investors for the round include TPG Capital, Frist Cressey Ventures, Heritage Group, Pura Vida Investments and Norwest Venture Partners, among others. Monogram’s investor base now serves over 30% of Medicare Advantage members nationwide and supports nearly 40% of the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This year’s annual Medscape look into burnout and depression found across-the-profession, from the ER to the surgical suite and therapy chaise, that most doctors (and nurses) were facing burnout for several reasons; key contributors to burnout are shown in this last bar chart from the Medscape study report.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

And yet a majority of them are feeling so overburdened by the amount of information that's coming at them through all of these different sources that it raises their stress levels and it's a significant contributor to burnout."

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

We are grateful to all contributors and look forward to sharing their valuable insights through this symposium. The drawbacks associated with relying on systems of decentralized governance and federalism to address health and public health crises. Over the coming weeks, we will publish the responses we received.

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NCQA

AUGUST 16, 2023

Michael Klotz , health care IT consultant and key contributor to NCQA’s Digital Quality Transition Playbook, has deep expertise in interoperability and digital quality measures. Randall (Reid) Kiser , MS, Director of the Division of Quality Measurement for CMS, is an expert on quality reporting programs and strategy.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2023

George, a Bachelor of Science in Economics graduate from the University of Oregon, has been featured in prestigious publications like Inc and Forbes 30 Under 30 for Consumer Technology and is a regular contributor to Entrepreneur.

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Medi Leadership

APRIL 16, 2021

For me, the greatest contributor to burnout was fatigue. This takes me to my next point: The next clear contributor to burnout is loss of a personal sense of purpose. During residency, I thought about quitting pretty much all the time. I burned out again through my professional life. That was in the 90s, so put it into perspective.)

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

AI Advantage One of the top contributors to wasted healthcare dollars is due to the claims process, reported at more than $250 billion per year. Additionally, 35 percent of hospitals and health systems report $50 million or more in foregone revenue as a result of denied claims once appeals have been exhausted.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

This industry-wide headwind has been the primary contributor to Amedisys’ uneven earnings performance last year, particularly during the summer months. These shortfalls precipitated Kusserow’s return as the company’s chief executive following the departure of former CEO Chris Gerard early in Q4. .

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Food is Medicine focuses on the medical aspects of nutrition, which could divert attention from systemic contributors to disease, such as commercial interests of food producers.

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Leaders in Healthcare

APRIL 23, 2021

We look forward to welcoming all delegates, speakers and contributors to this year's conference. By joining us in-person and online, our platform will provide lots of ways you can still meet up with colleagues and build your network.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We believe this deal signals an intent to reintroduce accretive M&A as a meaningful earnings contributor. “We like the deal because it signals that Amedisys is back in the acquisition game, which should provide it a growth boost beginning in 2023,” the Jefferies analysts wrote. “We

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 7, 2022

Over the next few weeks, we will publish contributions on these topics and more from our esteemed contributors, who bring diverse personal and professional perspectives to bear on this area of inquiry. You can browse all of the contributions here ; new posts will be added regularly.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Collectively with these contributors, we aim to define the contours of the health justice movement and debates within it, and to explore how scholars, activists, communities, and public health officials can work together to engage critical perspectives in health law and policy. Subordination is the Root Cause of Health Injustice.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The largest contributors to faster Medicaid spending growth in 2020 were hospitals, and other health, residential and personal care services, which was due mainly to an acceleration in spending on [HCBS] waivers,” Martin continued. Medicaid spending increased 9.2% in 2020, a rate that was roughly triple the growth of 3% in 2019.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Fortunately, the contributors to this symposium reveal uncertainty’s relevance to abortion access, the legality of gender-affirming care, intersex rights, and child custody disputes.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Despite the magnitude of suffering left in the wake of the pandemic, as of August 2022, less than 700 tort actions had been filed alleging deaths and injuries, and such actions allegedly peaked in early 2021.

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