Fri.Mar 04, 2022

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Healthcare job gains in February far exceed recent months

Health Care Dive

Healthcare added 64,000 jobs last month, though employment in the sector is still down by about 306,000 jobs, or 1.9%, since February 2020.

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Care coordination: What's needed to succeed with accountable care and home health?

Healthcare It News

Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in home healthcare. The pandemic underscored the need for providers to lean into value-based care – physicians are paid according to the quality of care they deliver, as indicated by patient outcomes.

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Microsoft and Nuance joining forces to support the resilience of healthcare

Cloud Blogs

This blog post is co-authored by Diana Nole, EVP and GM of Healthcare, Nuance There is nothing more personal or important than our health. These last two years have exacerbated an already fragile healthcare ecosystem, taxed our essential services, and put unimaginable strain on frontline workers. In response to these mounting pressures, the healthcare industry has embarked on a digital transformation that has laid the foundation for a new era of innovation and collaboration.

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Civica targets insulin in effort to produce cheaper drugs

Health Care Dive

The nonprofit group announced ambitious plans to begin offering insulin at prices no higher than $30 per vial by early 2024.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

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Microsoft and Nuance: Unlocking the contact center of the future

Cloud Blogs

This post is co-authored by Robert Weideman, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Division, Nuance The disruption of the pandemic has shifted customer service expectations, and for many brands, it has cemented superior customer experiences as one of the most important priorities for their organization. Today's consumers have more choices than ever before and can switch brands with ease.

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2022 State of the State Addresses Reflect Realities of Health, Economic Recovery

NASHP

Governors use their annual state-of-the-state addresses to showcase successes and accomplishments over the past year and to define their policy priorities for the year ahead. This year 36 states will hold gubernatorial elections, so many governors use their state-of-the-state addresses to build their case for reelection and visions for the future. By late February, 41 governors had delivered speeches outlining plans to address a wide variety of health and economic related issues in the coming ye

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Flume Health Secures $30M for Health Plan Administration Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Flume Health , an NYC-based Health-Plan-as-a-Service platform announced today a $30M round of Series A funding led by Optum Ventures with participation from Cigna Ventures is participating, bringing its total raise to date at $40M. – Flume gives all U.S. health insurers the option to build personalized healthcare plans–what Stripe or Plaid did for digital banking is what Flume is doing for digital health.

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Building Better Government Acquisition Programs: Q&A with William Shelton

The Rand Blog

In the U.S. Air Force, William Shelton managed hundreds of millions of dollars in acquisition programs. He retired as a colonel then joined RAND as an engineer. One of his recent projects provided the U.S. Space Force with a new approach to acquisition, designed around its unique mission.

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Amazon Launches New Symptom Checker for Alexa Devices

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – This week, Amazon announced the launch of its new Symptom Checker for Alexa devices and provide a list of possible medical conditions for common ailments like fever, rash, stomachache, runny nose, and headaches to help you make better-informed decisions about your health. – This symptom checker experience was inspired by the COVID-19 self-checker feature that Alexa teams was launched in March 2020.

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A Renewed Nuclear Deal With Iran: Turning Back the Clock?

The Rand Blog

Diplomats from Europe, the United States, Russia, China, and Iran are in Vienna trying to revive the Iran nuclear agreement of 2015. But even if negotiations succeed, the post-deal environment could be much more unstable than it was seven years ago.

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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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Microsoft and Nuance joining forces to support the resilience of healthcare

Cloud Blogs

This blog post is co-authored by Diana Nole, EVP and GM of Healthcare, Nuance There is nothing more personal or important than our health. These last two years have exacerbated an already fragile healthcare ecosystem, taxed our essential services, and put unimaginable strain on frontline workers. In response to these mounting pressures, the healthcare industry has embarked on a digital transformation that has laid the foundation for a new era of innovation and collaboration.

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The West's Response to Russia, the State of the Union, Outer Space: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on how to prevent Russia's war on Ukraine from becoming a war with NATO, insights from RAND on the State of the Union, the future of outer space, and more.

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Unite Us Launches Social Care Payments Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Unite Us , the enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power integrated health and social care, today announced the launch of its Social Care Payments solution. – Social Care Payments is a first-of-its-kind solution designed to bridge the gap between healthcare funders and community-based organizations (CBOs), enabling social care funding at scale.

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Friday Links

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Medical marijuana in Mississippi. Diagnosis and behavioral change. Senators call on CMS to fully cover amyloid-targeted Alzheimer’s drugs. $5.8m penalty for PBM in Massachusetts. Value through the lens of Patients’ Well-Being.

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February Roundup 2022

Life Qi

Integrated Care Systems in England.

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How Health Systems Can Use AI to Optimize Resources and Maximize Patient Satisfaction

HIT Consultant

Chad Waldman, VP of Engineering at DexCare. Over the past several years, nearly all of the leading health systems in the United States have adopted some form of AI , such as machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP), to assist in managing healthcare operations. The unprecedented growth and development of AI has been instrumental in transforming health system administration, healthcare data analytics and patient diagnosis and treatment.

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Tennessee on My Mind: Reflections on the Reinstated Abortion ‘Reason Bans’

Bill Of Health

By Cathy Zhang. In February, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-sentence order allowing Tennessee’s “reason ban” abortion restrictions to go into effect. The restrictions make it a felony for a provider (or any other person) to perform an abortion if the provider “knows” the patient is seeking an abortion on account of the fetus’s sex, race, or probable diagnosis of Down syndrome.