Health Care Dive

JANUARY 24, 2022

An overload of bureaucratic tasks, such as charting and paperwork, was doctors' No. 1 reason for burnout, affecting 60% of those polled by Medscape.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. For physicians and researchers this means predicting more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease will work in particular groups of people.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 24, 2022

Resuming the process of determining whether people are still eligible for Medicaid may sound easy, but stakeholders caution it's much more nuanced than flipping a switch, and poor planning risks massive enrollment losses.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2022

From full-page newspaper ads to press events, hospitals say their pandemic pleas are reaching the public. dmuoio. Mon, 01/24/2022 - 15:20.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sponsor: ServiceNow Primary topic: Artificial Intelligence Topic: Analytics Artificial Intelligence Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: ServiceNow.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2022

Novant Health teams up with Aidoc to expedite imaging in its emergency departments. rtorrence. Mon, 01/24/2022 - 10:53.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

WTW survey: Employers see workers' mental well-being as a top priority this year. pminemyer. Mon, 01/24/2022 - 16:14.

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NASHP

JANUARY 24, 2022

The new national crisis line for behavioral health – 988 – will go online this summer, and state crisis systems will need to be ready. Current crisis call centers will need to handle an increase in the volume of calls, and the mobile crisis systems to which they refer will need to provide remote and in-person crisis services to people with a range of behavioral health needs across the state.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2022

Senators want Medicare to reimburse at-home COVID-19 tests just like commercial insurers. rking. Mon, 01/24/2022 - 16:20.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

If American deterrence fails, it may not be because adversaries doubt U.S. military capabilities so much as they doubt American willpower. Shifting those perceptions will require not just defense authorizations, but also repairing the social fabric here at home.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2022

ThirdEye brings mixed reality tech to first responders with Crozer Health partnership. rtorrence. Mon, 01/24/2022 - 18:27.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Managing a rivalry with a regionally ambitious, globally engaged peer competitor of China's economic heft and technological sophistication will be one of the most profound strategic tests the United States has ever faced. A major lesson from its last global rivalry is that mistaken impressions about the nature of the rival and the character of the rivalry can create momentum for dangerous policies.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2022

Providers hope Congress agrees to sequester relief in must-pass spending package. rking. Mon, 01/24/2022 - 14:24.

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Clearwave Inc

JANUARY 24, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Using the right patient engagement platform means enabling your workers to multitask while reducing their overall workload. You can trim unnecessary labor to maximize profits while creating a more structured environment that improves worker and patient satisfaction. Keeping these priorities can also decrease turnover and increase patient return rates.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2022

Cigna expands RecoveryOne partnership to Medicare Advantage members. pminemyer. Mon, 01/24/2022 - 12:56.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

Prakriteswar Santikary, Ph.D., VP of Engineering and Technology at ConcertAI. Researchers might be skeptical and, with people’s lives at stake, that’s understandable. Here’s how to take advantage of the advances while ensuring safeguards are in place. As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning drive innovation and disruption in clinical trials and precision medicine, questions around the responsible use of AI have moved to the forefront of debates among healthcare stakeholders – patien

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NASHP

JANUARY 24, 2022

I am excited to welcome applications for the second year of NASHP’s Emerging Leaders of Color (ELC) Fellowship Program. NASHP is committed to addressing equity in our work across states and the ELC Fellowship is central to this commitment. We are looking for those who are inspired to learn more about state health policy and to work with us to ensure that our state governments can better reflect the communities that they serve.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – TytoCare , a global all-in-one modular device and examination platform for AI-powered , on-demand, remote medical exams, announced today its partnership with Al-Futtaim Electronic-Techserve , a group company of Al-Futtaim. The partnership with TytoCare will enable Al-Futtaim to broaden its reach across the healthcare spectrum, covering all touchpoints, from specialists to local clinics. – Al-Futtaim Group is a large conglomerate based in Dubai, United Arab Emi

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

For home health providers, the transition to the no-pay Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP) was a period of adjustment. Now, the Notice of Admission (NOA) has replaced the RAP, and providers are grappling with a number of issues that have cropped up amid the launch of the new process. Last year, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) kicked off no-pay RAPs as part of its plan to eliminate home health pre-payments and as a prelude to the NOA requirement that began on Jan. 1

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – Biotricity, Inc. (NASDAQ:BTCY), a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company, today announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Biotres Cardiac Monitoring Device, a three-lead device for ECG and arrhythmia monitoring that is intended for lower-risk patients. – Most remote cardiac monitors are passive — they don’t record ECG and other cardiac data in real-time — and lack cross-compatibi

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

The senior care technology platform A Place for Mom (APFM) has raised $175 million in growth equity funding. The funding round was led by the New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with existing investors General Atlantic and Silver Lake participating as well. Broadly, A Place for Mom connects senior care providers – including home-based care agencies – with families in need.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – RecoveryOne , a digital health innovator dedicated to improving health outcomes for recovery from musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries of all types and reducing costs, announced an expansion of its partnership with Cigna to offer its virtual physical therapy and broad MSK solution for Medicare Advantage (MA) customers as an in-network benefit. – This new benefit builds on the partnership between Cigna and RecoveryOne announced last year where RecoveryOne became avai

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

A Japanese politician who played an important part in the history of U.S.-Japan relations died recently, and chances are you've never heard of him. Kaifu Toshiki was Japan's prime minister from 1989 to 1991, a critical time in U.S.-Japan relations as the world was transitioning from the Cold War to the fog that lay beyond.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – LifeWorks , a provider of comprehensive mental health, digital and in-person total wellbeing solutions, today announced the acquisition of Breaking Free , a provider of evidence-based behavioral health SaaS solutions for substance use intervention. – The addition of Breaking Free’s solution in substance use intervention to the LifeWorks platform will result in further enhancing the mental health service clients can seamlessly access through the LifeWorks wellb

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 24, 2022

Most people know what accuracy means. Find out how many guesses you made and how many of those guesses you got correct. In the case of a diagnostic test, this is simply the number of correct answers (true positives plus true negatives) divided by the total number of answers (true positives + false positives + true negatives + false negatives). For brevity, lets denote the 4 quantities in the denominator TP, FP, TN and FN.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. It is expected that one in three patient visits will be virtual, CIGNA quotes from an Accenture forecast.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The next CMS Special Open Door Forum will be a deep dive for providers on the balance billing provisions of the No Surprises Act. Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Time: 1:00PM – 2:00PM Eastern Time (ET). Please dial-in at least 15 minutes before call start time. Conference Leaders: Eugene Freund, MD, MSPH and Elyse Mowle, PhD.

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Medi Leadership

JANUARY 24, 2022

You’re working hard to grow as a leader and are making meaningful progress. Well done! Looking ahead, how do you sustain your progress until those changes become new, unconscious habits? It’s helpful to think of growth as a cycle with four distinct phases: Unconscious “incompetence”. You have blind spots, unaware of aspects of your leadership profile where there’s opportunity for growth.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. [The following information was released via email just a few minutes ago on Monday, January 24, 2022.]. In November 2021, the NHSN COVID-19 Vaccination Team held webinars that reviewed frequently asked questions (FAQs) and data entry for the COVID-19 Vaccination Modules. Based on feedback received during these webinars, from the NHSN helpdesk, and from other stakeholders, we have clarified our guidance regarding how to report

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

On Dec. 10, connectRN announced it had raised $76 million to scale its technology-enabled staffing platform for nurses. The Series F round was led by Suvretta Capital Management and Avidity Partners, with participation from several other groups. While its involvement didn’t garner immediate attention, one of the home health industry’s biggest names was also among connectRN’s backers: Amedisys Inc.

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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.