Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With disinformation and confusion about COVID-19 on the rise, effective patient engagement is taking on an even greater role. Studies have shown that engaged patients show improved health outcomes and that effective tools can enhance service delivery. But it's not always simply a question of communicating more. Communicating with impact is the real key – and innovators and vendors are exploring the best ways to do so.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The high court blocked a challenge to New Mexico's statewide vaccine mandate for healthcare workers Tuesday. The CMS vaccine mandate remains in place, though injunctions in some states still stand.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 22, 2021

13.6M have signed up for coverage on ACA exchanges during open enrollment so far: CMS. pminemyer. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 11:41.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Soon, the payer will begin searching for Michael Neidorff's successor, kicking off an executive search for the first time since he was installed in 1996.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Duke University accused of 'conspiring' to take over independent physician practice. dmuoio. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 12:19.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Paxlovid is the first oral treatment for COVID-19, a potentially valuable new tool as the fast-spreading omicron variant fuels a sharp surge in cases across the U.S.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The use of "low-quality data" is reasonable at the start of a crisis but FDA should consider raising the standard of evidence after multiple products come to market, according to the authors of the study.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Editor's corner: Fierce Health IT's 10 most read stories of 2021 tracked Google, Amazon and the investment boom. hlandi. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 13:56.

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The Rand Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As another extraordinary year draws to a close, we continue to believe that objective, nonpartisan research and analysis has a key role to play in navigating what continues to be a difficult time. Here are the 10 research projects that resonated most with rand.org readers in 2021.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 22, 2021

California will soon require healthcare workers to receive a COVID-19 booster, Newsom announces. dmuoio. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 10:44.

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Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This post was originally published on the Verfassungsblog as part of our joint symposium on international pandemic lawmaking. By Paul Ogendi. Tackling the question of how to address the needs for sharing scientific research, pooling technology, and know-how in diagnostics, therapeutics, and potential vaccines in future epidemics is fundamental to any pandemic treaty discussion.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Editor's corner: Fierce Healthcare's 10 most read stories tracked COVID, vax mandates and megadeals. hlandi. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 11:54.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic continued to dominate headlines in 2021, despite the collective desire for it to be gone by this past summer. But it didn’t stop massive dealmaking, which made M&A just as big of a story in home-based care as the virus. Thus, those two topics took up a lot of the Home Health Care News’ Top 10 stories of the year. There were plenty of other fascinating stories that may have slipped through the cracks, however.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Editor's corner: Fierce Health Payer's top 10 stories of 2021. pminemyer. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 13:40.

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The Rand Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

From the Air Force to Africa to RAND, Jacqueline Burns resolved to help people whose lives have been torn apart by conflict or disaster. As a senior policy analyst she wants to be a part of finding better solutions to the complex questions of peace and security.

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Health IT Analytics

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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Osf Healthcare

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As the evolution of health care creates even more opportunities for solution development, how do we cultivate, validate and launch new ideas at a faster pace, delivering more value to the Ministry? We believe the answer lies in a new type of partnership.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Coleman Stavish, CTO, Proscia. The global pandemic has cast a spotlight on the impact of digital transformation in healthcare. From ensuring access to care with telemedicine to accelerating vaccine development, technology has rapidly unlocked new sources of value for patients, providers, and researchers alike. While much of this has played out before our very eyes, other advancements have been less visible but equally as significant.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 22, 2021

On December 17, 2021, in a “Friday Night Surprise” the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the Stay on the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). This seminal ETS applies to employers with 100 or more employees and requires that employees be either (1) vaccinated; or (2) weekly tested and fully masked if unvaccinated.

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Lexis Nexis

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Significant evaluation metrics that should be part of the strategy. This is the second installment of a two-part series based on key insights from a recent eHealth Initiative (eHI) panel webinar, “ Using Evaluation Data to Drive Social Determinants of Health Program Improvement Strategies”. You can read Part One of our blog series here. The Biggest Challenges When Designing SDOH Programs.

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Health Policy News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In our last edition of the 2021 calendar year, the Health Policy News team looks back at major health policy-related topics from the last year, as well as discusses the.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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HIStalk

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Technical failure — Update December 22, 2021 08:30pm CET CompuGroup.

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Health Policy News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As we come to the end of the year, our December edition is—as usual—a reflection on the past year in health policy, as well as a glimpse into what we.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Home-based care providers have had to deal with an uncertain legal and regulatory environment for almost two years at this point. It’s created bottom-line challenges as well as workplace ones. Cheryl Stanton, the chief legal and government affairs officer at BrightStar Care, experienced this first hand when the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccine mandate was announced.

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Sequence Health

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Nursing shortages—driven by inflation, pandemic-related stress, and a shortfall in new nurses—are the primary impediment to achieving pre-COVID margins. According to a new report from Moody’s , nursing labor pressures are “driving up costs for hospitals and hospital systems and forcing some to limit how often they perform more lucrative elective procedures, resulting in lost revenue.

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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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