Thu.Oct 21, 2021

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Microsoft integrates healthcare cloud service with Cerner EHR for smoother telehealth visits

Fierce Healthcare

Microsoft integrates healthcare cloud service with Cerner EHR for smoother telehealth visits. rtorrence. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 16:10.

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Oak Street Health buys specialty telemed provider for $130M

Health Care Dive

The deal comes as major U.S. clinical networks increasingly build out their suite of services to jockey for employer and payer clients in the increasingly competitive space.

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Report: Most Medicare beneficiaries receive telehealth services from providers they know

Fierce Healthcare

Report: Most Medicare beneficiaries receive telehealth services from providers they know. pminemyer. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 15:43.

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Tenet sees widespread volume recovery, again raises forecast

Health Care Dive

The for-profit hospital operator reported that visits to its emergency rooms were up a whopping 25% compared with the prior-year period, reaching 97% of pre-pandemic levels.

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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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Patient safety events jumped amid COVID-19 strain on hospitals, Press Ganey reports

Fierce Healthcare

Patient safety events jumped amid COVID-19 strain on hospitals, Press Ganey reports. dmuoio. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 16:01.

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CMMI wants every Medicare beneficiary in an accountable care plan by 2030

Health Care Dive

Officials acknowledged provider concerns that current models are too burdensome and benchmarks too complex, which the innovation center aims to rectify.

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FDA authorizes additional Moderna, J&J shots, broadening booster rollout

Health Care Dive

The agency also cleared booster shots of all three currently available vaccines to be used interchangeably, a so-called mix-and-match approach that recent study results showed could boost immune responses.

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Amazon expanding virtual care service to 5 additional cities this year

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon expanding virtual care service to 5 additional cities this year. hlandi. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 07:19.

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Sydney LHD extends use of Miya Precision remote patient monitoring platform

Healthcare It News

The Sydney Local Health District will continue using a remote patient monitoring platform by ASX-listed healthcare IT company Alcidion after extending their contract. In July last year, Alcidion signed an initial 12-month contract with the LHD to deploy its Miya Precision system to support the virtual care delivery of Sydney's RPA Virtual Hospital (rpavirtual) for COVID-19 patients in home isolation.

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U.S. healthcare could save $265B in administrative costs, McKinsey report finds

Fierce Healthcare

U.S. healthcare could save $265B in administrative costs, McKinsey report finds. rtorrence. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 10:51.

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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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Medtronic surgical robotics head talks Hugo, taking on Intuitive, COVID-19 challenges

Health Care Dive

Megan Rosengarten spoke to MedTech Dive about challenging Intuitive Surgical's 20-year lead in soft tissue robotics, growing global robotics usage and the stress of entering a new market amid COVID-19.

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Better Medicare Alliance: MA adds $32.5B in value to Medicare

Fierce Healthcare

Better Medicare Alliance: MA adds $32.5B in value to Medicare. rking. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 16:23.

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5 stories to celebrate National Healthcare Quality Week

Meditech

Recognize National Healthcare Quality Week 2021 by learning more about how technology is helping healthcare professionals to make a positive impact on their communities. Here are five blogs highlighting customers who are going the extra mile while getting the most from their EHR.

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Ascension, AdventHealth are breaking up Amita Health, their 19-hospital joint system

Fierce Healthcare

Ascension, AdventHealth are breaking up Amita Health, their 19-hospital joint system. dmuoio. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 17:40.

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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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How To Do a Self Breast Exam

Healthcare Associates

How To Do a Self Breast Exam. Breast cancer can be highly treatable and has a high survival rate when caught in its early stages. Knowing how to perform a breast cancer self-exam can help you identify lumps and determine whether you need to see a medical provider for treatment. Continue reading to learn how to give yourself a breast cancer exam and what to do next if you discover one or more lumps.

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Everly Health buys startup Natalist to expand its reach into women's health, retail products

Fierce Healthcare

Everly Health buys startup Natalist to expand its reach into women's health, retail products. hlandi. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 08:12.

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3 Practical Strategies for Reducing Patient Dropouts and No-Shows in Outpatient Rehab

Medbridge Education

Patient retention is one of the biggest challenges for outpatient therapy practices. In fact, 7 out of 10 patients drop out, and the industry no-show rate is 14.1 percent.1 Yet improving patient retention rates can significantly impact revenue. According to a study by Harvard Business School, increasing customer or patient retention by just 5 percent […].

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Chutes & Ladders—CVS Health adds new chief health equity officer; former CMMI director joins CareBridge Health

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—CVS Health adds new chief health equity officer; former CMMI director joins CareBridge Health. dmuoio. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 13:34.

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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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Zerigo Health Raises $43M, Appoints Glen Tullman as Executive Chairman

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Zerigo Health , a San Diego, CA-based connected light therapy solution for treating chronic skin conditions at home or on the go, today announced a $43M Series B funding round led by 7wireVentures , joined by General Catalyst , Dragoneer , Cigna Ventures , Leverage Health Solutions , and Leaps by Bayer. – In addition, Glen Tullman, Managing Partner of 7wireVentures, former Founder and CEO of Livongo, and Chief Executive Officer of Transcarent , will joi

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Oak Street Health expands virtual specialty care with $130M deal for RubiconMD

Fierce Healthcare

Oak Street Health expands virtual specialty care with $130M deal for RubiconMD. hlandi. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 17:40.

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FDA Selects Aetion Evidence Platform to Assess In-Patient COVID-19 Treatments

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Aetion , a NYC-based leading real-world evidence (RWE) company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has contracted with them to use their Aetion Evidence Platform® to rapidly assess in-patient COVID-19 treatments and advance regulatory science to help determine when, where and how to use RWD. – This project is designed to demonstrate how using a platform-based approach furthers regulatory learnings on the use of RWE to inform decision-ma

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CMS, CMMI officials seek more data from Medicare Advantage plans on impact of health equity

Fierce Healthcare

CMS, CMMI officials seek more data from Medicare Advantage plans on impact of health equity. rking. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 14:00.

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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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Hospital of the future: Better than a retrofit

Healthcare It News

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Evolving Healthcare Means Returning to Its Roots

Fierce Healthcare

Evolving Healthcare Means Returning to Its Roots. admin. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 11:49.

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America’s Best Nursing Homes 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “Selecting the right nursing home for a family member has always been difficult and never more so than during the age of COVID-19. To try to make it easier, Newsweek has once again partnered with respected global data research firm Statista to create an annual ranking of America’s Best Nursing Homes.

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How One Health Plan Relaunched Medicare Advantage with a Rousing Success

Fierce Healthcare

How One Health Plan Relaunched Medicare Advantage with a Rousing Success. admin. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 15:58.

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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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Accepted: Admissions to Medical School Statistics

Etactics

As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. It’s easy to look behind and see where you went wrong. It’s much harder to look ahead and know what you need to do to accomplish your goals. If you’re reading this blog post, you could be a high school student thinking about what you need to accomplish with a pre-med degree and eventually go to medical school.

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Stryker’s Goal is Zero Smoke

Fierce Healthcare

Stryker’s Goal is Zero Smoke. admin. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 09:32.

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GeniusRx Digital Pharmacy Launches Asynchronous Telehealth Offering

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GeniusRx ™, a Boca Raton, FL-based next-generation digital pharmacy focused on improving patient outcomes by disrupting the way prescription drugs are bought, sold, and delivered, announced the launch of GeniusClinic ™ and GeniusIQ™. – GeniusClinic™ provides members with access to providers in a transparent and affordable manner, leveraging the GeniusIQ™ machine learning platform, for new and refill prescriptions medications, for non-acute and lifestyle condit

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Engaging Different Types of Practitioners in the Complex Social Policy Area of Adverse Childhood Experiences

The Rand Blog

Understanding how stakeholders make sense of and prioritise available evidence can help improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. A modified Delphi approach could engage with stakeholders with different, overlapping expertise and help open a way to this understanding.

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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.