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Half of nurses consider leaving the profession, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Staffing shortages were the top reason nurses cited for planning to leave their jobs, followed by the need for better work-life balance, according to staffing agency ConnectRN.

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Medical groups close Q3 in tough financial position with expenses outpacing patient volumes

Fierce Healthcare

Medical groups close Q3 in tough financial position with expenses outpacing patient volumes. hlandi. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 10:38.

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5 takeaways from the FDA’s list of AI-enabled medical devices

Health Care Dive

As the number of devices increases, the agency is looking to adapt its regulatory framework to the new technology, including faster approval of algorithm updates.

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Supreme Court hears case on Medicaid patients' rights to sue, with advocates warning of far-reaching implications

Fierce Healthcare

Supreme Court hears case on Medicaid patients' rights to sue, with advocates warning of far-reaching implications. rking. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 16:45.

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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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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare It News

Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. WHY IT MATTERS. The health system is planning to launch its Hospital Care at Home initiative in February, and make it available to specific patients who meet certain clinical criteria determined by emergency department and hospital staff.

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Mass General Brigham turning away offensive, violent patients under new 'Patient Code of Conduct'

Fierce Healthcare

Mass General Brigham turning away offensive, violent patients under new 'Patient Code of Conduct'. dmuoio. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 14:27.

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Prices for the same scan at the same hospital can range from $134 to $4,065: study

Fierce Healthcare

Prices for the same scan at the same hospital can range from $134 to $4,065: study. fdiamond. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 10:57.

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Abortion access, Medicaid expansion, medical debt on state ballots

Health Care Dive

The battle over abortion rights continues to play out at the state level in wake of the Supreme Court's ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

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As complex COVID admissions slow, Tenet, HCA execs say high-acuity care investments will still pay off

Fierce Healthcare

As complex COVID admissions slow, Tenet, HCA execs say high-acuity care investments will still pay off. dmuoio. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 17:26.

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What is Metformin? Foods To Avoid While Taking During Diabetes

p3care

Metformin is a medication that is prescribed to patients by their doctors if they have type 2 diabetes. It should be taken with the proper diet plan. Below, you will get to know about this medication more deeply and also about some foods that you need to avoid while taking it. Metformin: What Is It? Metformin is made especially for patients with diabetes.

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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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'Podnosis': What charity care policies really mean, and Fierce Healthcare's Women of Influence honorees

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': What charity care policies really mean, and Fierce Healthcare's Women of Influence honorees. tcarey. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 14:57.

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Massage Therapist Insurance Billing Under CPT Code 97124

p3care

One of the essential parts of optimized practice management is accurate billing. In the medical industry, one of the coding and billing sides deals with the service of massage therapy. There is a huge range of CPT codes when it comes to insurance billing for massage therapists. Importance of CPT codes. The importance of using standard CPT codes cannot be underestimated.

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Cigna: Tracking 'vitality' is the key to measuring whole-person health

Fierce Healthcare

Cigna: Tracking 'vitality' is the key to measuring whole-person health. pminemyer. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 15:46.

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What Dangers Are Associated with Upper Cervical Chiropractic?

p3care

You need to understand that, to some extent, Upper Cervical Chiropractic is Dangerous. Most people get scared when the media highlights the severe injuries and dangerous things that appeared from cervical adjustments, which makes the chiropractic practice unsafe. Let’s read about it in detail. Cervical Chiropractic Care and its Fear. Physicians are worried about how their reputations, profits, and practices get affected by faulty medical billing services.

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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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Female-led VC RH Capital closes second fund with $38.5M, doubling down on women's health post-Dobbs

Fierce Healthcare

Female-led VC RH Capital closes second fund with $38.5M, doubling down on women's health post-Dobbs. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 17:17.

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What Does HIPAA Compliance and Implementation Cost?

p3care

What is HIPAA & What Does It Stands For? HIPAA is an abbreviation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This legislation was passed in 1996 in the United States and provides data privacy and security provisions for shielding medical information. There are two major purposes of HIPAA. The first is to provide continuous health insurance to workers, the ones who change jobs or lose it; and the second is to reduce the administrative burdens and costs of healthcare by standa

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Hims & Hers bucks health tech's downward trend, boosts 2022 revenue guidance

Fierce Healthcare

Hims & Hers bucks health tech's downward trend, boosts 2022 revenue guidance. hlandi. Tue, 11/08/2022 - 21:07.

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What Happened to the COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver?

Bill Of Health

By Sarah Gabriele. In June 2022, after almost two years of debate over a potential COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, the World Trade Organization adopted the Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement (“WTO Decision”), which provided for a partial waiver of intellectual property rights. More specifically, the WTO Decision waived patent rights on vaccines and allowed for the use of protected clinical trial data for regulatory approval of vaccines.

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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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HCA to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse EHR Across Enterprise

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – HCA Healthcare , one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse. This landmark agreement identifies MEDITECH Expanse as HCA Healthcare’s primary go forward EHR platform and a key part of the company’s digital transformation. – Expanse is expected to support HCA Healthcare’s efforts to provide clinicians with advanced decision support to enhance safety and quality.

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Conducting a Successful Intake With Your Clients

Icanotes

One of the most important interactions you have with clients is during your intake session. During this appointment, you build initial rapport, hear the client's reasons for seeking therapy and form a basic foundation for a treatment plan. The intake interview gives both clients and behavioral health technicians a chance to envision how future sessions will proceed.

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PointClickCare & Pfizer Launches Real World Data Collaboration

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PointClickCare announced a collaboration with Pfizer Inc. to provide real-world insights for vulnerable populations at high risk of age-related disorders (including Cachexia) – further enhancing PCC’s mission to protect and support the senior population. – With coverage approaching 70% of the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) market, PointClickCare is uniquely positioned to provide life sciences companies, like Pfizer, with outcomes-based evidence thro

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Rise Of The Chief People Officer: Why Home-Based Care Providers Are More Frequently Investing In The Role

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. While the chief people officer (CPO) is a role that has always been common in the tech and startup worlds, in recent years it has begun to make an appearance on the leadership teams of home-based care providers. Broadly, the CPO occupies what was once a human resources (HR) role and widens the scope of position significantly.

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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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3 Questions Healthcare IT Leaders Should Ask Before Implementing AI in Their Operations

HIT Consultant

Varun Ganapathi, Ph.D., CTO and co-founder at AKASA. Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are no longer nice-to-have technologies for healthcare providers. They are mission-critical tools for addressing significant challenges many health systems and hospitals face today — from volatile patient volumes to ballooning labor costs and staffing shortages to low operating margins.

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UnitedHealth Group’s Acquisition Of LHC Group Could Reportedly Close Next Month

Home Health Care

UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) deal for LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) is reportedly inching closer towards closing. Specifically, a report from Dealreporter – citing sources familiar with the matter – suggests it is on track to close next month. The $5.4 billion deal was initially announced in late March. In June, both parties received a request from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for more information regarding the acquisition.

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A Call to Embrace Civic Engagement (Including Voting Access) as a Driver of Health

Health Populi

“Two intersecting and interdependent systems comprise democracy in the United States,” Eileen Salinsky, Program Advisor with Grantmakers in Health, wrote in a compelling essay in April 2022. Those systems are, Eileen described, “A political system of representative government, which includes the legislative, executive, and judicial branches at the federal, state, and local levels; and, A collective system of self-governance, which includes how individuals interact with each oth

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Pennant Group Ready To Make Operational Adjustments To Offset CMS’ Behavioral Adjustments

Home Health Care

Leaders with the Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) are expecting a net negative impact of 1% in its Medicare home health revenue for 2023 following the announcement of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final payment rule. Despite the expected drop, Pennant COO John J. Gochnour feels confident that the company will pull the right levers in order to continue its growth, even in a challenging reimbursement environment.

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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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Healthcare leadership must innovate to address persistent workforce challenges

Meditech

All of us working in healthcare have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic as a disruptive and transformative force. Initially, of course, it created significant short-term capacity issues. But it also spurred the Great Resignation, exacerbating a healthcare worker shortage that already was felt far and wide. Add to that the realities of inflation and imbalances in care equity (among many other issues), and it is clear that this is a critical juncture for healthcare.

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Increased Respiratory Virus Activity, Especially Among Children, Early in the 2022-2023 Fall and Winter

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory – November 4, 2022 about early, elevated respiratory disease incidence caused by multiple viruses occurring especially among children and placing strain on healthcare systems.

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Green Jobs and Skills Development for Disadvantaged Groups

The Rand Blog

Many countries have plans to increase green job opportunities. To make sure that everyone can benefit from this promised green transition, it is important to understand how people with low qualifications, and other marginalised groups, might be able to access green jobs.

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CDC Releases UPDATED Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Thursday, November 3, 2022, the CDC posted this Press Release to announce the updated CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain : Pain affects the lives of millions of Americans every day and improving pain care and the lives of patients with pain is a public health imperative.

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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.