Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 20, 2022
About 45% of providers increased their software investments over the past year, while only 10% decelerated spending, according to a new report from KLAS and Bain.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Latrobe Regional Hospital upgrades medical training with VR. Latrobe Regional Hospital, a specialist referral and trauma centre in Gippsland, has tied up with Vantari VR to incorporate a virtual reality platform in its medical training. "This partnership means we will be able to rapidly increase skill level, knowledge and familiarity with clinical procedures, and improve standards of care for patients," said Kylie Larkin, medical education officer at LRH.
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Calm's bread and butter is meditation and sleep improvement, but its new business relies on condition-specific programs meant to bridge the gap between mental and physical healthcare.
Cloud Blogs
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Clinician burnout is one of the most significant and urgent challenges facing the healthcare industry today. According to an American Medical Association survey of nearly 21,000 healthcare professionals, almost half reported at least one symptom of burnoutand 43 percent said they suffer from work overload. 1 Physician burnout costs the United States an estimated USD 4.6 billion a year in billings due to reduced hours, doctor turnover, and the expenses associated with hiring replacement clinician
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The most frequently reported incidents involved a patient or family member making inappropriate comments regarding race or ethnicity, and patients who claim others are racist or engaging in racist behavior, according to the report.
Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The October update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts. The file is located in the Downloads section. The direct link is found here. The document was posted on October 19, 2022 with October 25, 2022 identification.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
NASHP
OCTOBER 20, 2022
National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): Proceedings from the National Forum on Care Coordination for CYSHCN October 21, 2022 / by Olivia Randi. [avia_codeblock_placeholder uid="0"]. Children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) often have unmet health care needs and face challenges in accessing high-quality care, as services for this population are frequently fragmented, uncoordinated, and inadequate.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 20, 2022
As costs of caring for chronic disease rise and hospital staffing remains challenging, remotely monitored home care is emerging as a cost-saving frontier.
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The initial explosion that damaged the Kerch Strait Bridge may have come from an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV). If it was indeed caused by a USV, it could be a portent of future warfare. Military and homeland security authorities may need to anticipate the potential use of USVs by adversaries or terrorists.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 20, 2022
What You Should Know: – CitiusTech, a leading provider of technology and consulting services to healthcare and life sciences companies, today announced a strategic growth investment from Bain Capital Private Equity (“Bain Capital”). – Bain Capital joins Baring Private Equity Asia (“BPEA”), which acquired a majority stake in CitiusTech in 2019, as a significant shareholder to accelerate the Company’s growth.
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Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This MLN Matters is found here with the corresponding Transmittal: R11641GI. The rates are provided in both documents. An excerpt from Background: Patients using covered Part A and Part B services may be subject to deductible and coinsurance requirements. Medicare subtracts an inpatient hospital deductible amount from the amount payable to the hospital for inpatient hospital services it provides in a spell of illness.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 20, 2022
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. The personal home care industry in the U.S. has generated both respect and notoriety over the last few years. With that, owners and operators are voicing a larger range of differing opinions than ever about what’s next for the industry. This creates an intriguing issue in home care, where some of the industry’s largest providers are franchises.
GoMoHealth
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Partnering with Managed Care Organizations and Provider Networks to reduce costs and better manage utilization of health services. By Nakecia Taffa, Quality Improvement and Health Equity Director for GoMo Health. Throughout my career I’ve had both the opportunity and pleasure of working for several health plans managing multiple provider networks and Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 20, 2022
GE Healthcare, the $17.7 billion health care arm of General Electric (NYSE: GE), is further investing in the home-based care space through a remote patient monitoring (RPM) partnership with AMC Health. This week, the two companies announced a joint venture that will allow GE Healthcare clinicians to offer RPM as a virtual solution to care outside of a traditional hospital environment in the home.
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Americans’ trust in technology as “plummeted” in the past decade, according to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer’s focused look on trust and technology. How might this play into U.S. health citizens’ trust in digital health technology? To answer that, let’s start with the macro-view on trust in tech. Richard Edelman convened a virtual meeting launch for the Trust Barometer’s tech perspectives yesterday, looking broadly at the global study findings.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking more information about CVS Health’s (NYSE: CVS) pending $8 billion deal to purchase Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY). The request from the Justice Department will draw out the amount of time CVS and Signify will have to wait before proceeding with the deal by 30 days. The government could set aside this requirement, though.
Health Dialog
OCTOBER 20, 2022
This is the next installment of our blog series,“The Top Five Reasons People Call the Nurse Advice Line.” Read our introductory blog post , the article on the fifth most common reason why people call in, fevers and chills , the fourth reason people call our Nurse Advice Line, urinary problems , or the third reason for calling, respiratory problems.
Cloud Blogs
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Clinician burnout is one of the most significant and urgent challenges facing the healthcare industry today. According to an American Medical Association survey of nearly 21,000 healthcare professionals, almost half reported at least one symptom of burnoutand 43 percent said they suffer from work overload. 1 Physician burnout costs the United States an estimated USD 4.6 billion a year in billings due to reduced hours, doctor turnover, and the expenses associated with hiring replacement clinician
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 20, 2022
What You Should Know: – Headway , a tech-enabled company that has built the easiest way for people to get quality in-network mental health care, announced it is available in California. – Headway patients can attend a virtual or in-person appointment in as little as 48 hours, and on average patients attend their first appointment less than 6 days after online booking; this is compared to the national average of two to three weeks, if not months.
PDC Healthcare
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Spread the word and not the flu! PDC’s Flu Shot Stickers can help your facility meet compliance while encouraging staff and patients to get vaccinated annually. Flu season can be a hectic time for healthcare facilities, and a full staff is vital to maintaining an efficient workflow. According to the Centers for Disease Control and […]. The post 5 Ways Flu Shot Stickers Can Help You Prepare for This Flu Season appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog.
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Squeezed by sanctions and pressed to replace equipment destroyed in Ukraine, Russia's aerospace sector isn't likely to have combat aircraft to sell, even if it wants to. If purchasing countries start to change their minds and invest in drones and other less-expensive precision guided munitions, the market for Russian combat aircraft might start to rapidly decline.
Etactics
OCTOBER 20, 2022
According to constitutional law , the legal definition of a hostile work environment is… Any situation where an employer imposes or allows the imposition of an environment of steady and pernicious hostility to an employee. This hostility occurs concerning protected categories so that a reasonable person would be unable to continue working under those conditions.
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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.
NASHP
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Chart: Comparison of Medicaid-Covered Structured Family Caregiving in Three States August 2022 / by Neva Kaye. Family caregivers play an important role in states’ efforts to help Medicaid beneficiaries safely remain in their communities. And, as of August 2022, at least seven states ( Connecticut , Georgia , Indiana , Louisiana , Missouri , North Carolina , and South Dakota ) covered structured family caregiving (SFC) services provided to older adults and/or people with physical disabilities und
HIStalk
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Top News Advocate Aurora Health joins other large health systems.
Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Today (October 19, 2022), CDC’s Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo allowing Novavax monovalent COVID-19 boosters for adults. This action gives people ages 18 years and older the option to receive a Novavax monovalent booster instead of an updated (bivalent) Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna booster if they have completed primary series vaccination but have not previously received a COVID-19 booster—a
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.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 20, 2022
As people age, the subject of caring for loved ones enters the conversation. Most find this discussion escalating once events already are in motion. Ashish V. Shah experienced this firsthand with his aging father. And after his dad's death, he learned how pockets of information among care teams were not shared in a meaningful way that might have delayed the fateful event.
HIStalk
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Health system data breach due to Meta Pixel hits 3.
Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 20, 2022
By Christopher Robertson. Do airlines have legal obligations to manage the risk of in-flight infections? In the pre-COVID era, I answered this question affirmatively. In a 2016 paper, I reviewed the scientific literature showing that airline travel is a key vector for spreading infectious disease, both because airports and airplanes tend to mix people in such close quarters that they are likely to infect each other, and because it efficiently distributes infected people around the world to then
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Christian Boucher, Director, Healthcare Solutions, Citrix. Whether it’s expanding service-line offerings or embracing remote work models, there have been significant changes in the way healthcare is delivered to patients and supported by providers. The culture of healthcare has long been, “If the physicians and clinicians need to be onsite, then everyone does.
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.
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