Mon.Feb 06, 2023

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Private equity notched second-highest year of healthcare dealmaking in 2022, Pitchbook finds

Health Care Dive

Deal activity is expected to slow in the first half of 2023 amid staffing-related margin pressures, liquidity constraints and a difficult PE fundraising market, according to the market data firm.

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Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

Healthcare It News

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. THE PROBLEM Ultimately, the health system was looking for ways to improve patient engagement first and foremost and then wanted to see how it could use automated tools to improve outcomes.

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CVS closing in on deal to buy Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint: WSJ report

Fierce Healthcare

CVS closing in on deal to buy Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint: WSJ report hlandi Mon, 02/06/2023 - 22:19

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Major hospitals still noncompliant with price transparency rules

Health Care Dive

No hospitals in HCA Healthcare, Tenet, Providence and UPMC systems were fully compliant with federal price transparency rules, according to a new analysis.

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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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Experts sound alarm on 'preventable public health crisis' as virtual prescribing for opioid use disorder now in limbo

Fierce Healthcare

Experts sound alarm on 'preventable public health crisis' as virtual prescribing for opioid use disorder now in limbo aburky Mon, 02/06/2023 - 18:17

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An inflection point for healthcare

Health Care Dive

We are at a pivotal moment in the advancement of healthcare. If we act now, we can improve care.

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CVS taps new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer

Health Care Dive

Shari Slate will lead the company’s strategy concerning its diversity and community initiatives.

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Wyden pledges to defend drug price negotiation powers in light of pharma pushback

Fierce Healthcare

Wyden pledges to defend drug price negotiation powers in light of pharma pushback rking Mon, 02/06/2023 - 15:46

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What do consumers want from telehealth?

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Report: Only quarter of hospitals analyzed complied with key price transparency rule

Fierce Healthcare

Report: Only quarter of hospitals analyzed complied with key price transparency rule rking Mon, 02/06/2023 - 11:09

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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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ShiftMed Raises $200M to Expand Nurse Staffing Marketplace

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today ShiftMed , one of the largest W-2 healthcare workforce management platforms, announced $200M in funding led by Panoramic Ventures with participation from Blue Heron Capital and Audacious Capital. – ShiftMed plans to use the latest round of funding to help solve healthcare workforce issues across a variety of care settings, with an emphasis on expanding into health systems.

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A new COVID-19 subvariant is a growing concern for experts. Here's why

Fierce Healthcare

A new COVID-19 subvariant is a growing concern for experts.

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Simple HealthKit Raises $8M to Transform Health Diagnostics and Follow-Up Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Simple HealthKit raises $8M in Series A funding led by Initialized Capital to address health inequity with the first human-centric, end-to-end healthcare platform that builds and delivers diagnostics, treatment and follow-up care for all – The Series A round also included participation from seed investors Kleiner Perkins , Kapor Capital and Quest Venture Partners , bringing Simple HealthKit’s total funding to date to $12M.

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FTC reportedly hiring outside economists to probe Amazon's One Medical deal

Fierce Healthcare

FTC reportedly hiring outside economists to probe Amazon's One Medical deal hlandi Mon, 02/06/2023 - 12:15

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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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Social value – lofty ambition or lifeline for healthcare?

Health Care Leader News

Delivering social value could easily fall prey to the more immediate challenges of day-to-day care when it is just one of many items on the ‘to-do’ list for Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). But embedding social value in system-wide planning is not optional. Net zero carbon targets are already baked into NHS plans, with procurement contracts assigning at least a 10% weighting to social value and all NHS suppliers needing to demonstrate carbon reduction plans by April 2024.

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Race plays a role in where patients are delivered by ambulance: study

Fierce Healthcare

Race plays a role in where patients are delivered by ambulance: study fdiamond Mon, 02/06/2023 - 17:02

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Japan's Long-Awaited Return to Geopolitics

The Rand Blog

In very short order, Japan moved to change decades of strategic thinking and embark on a new approach to security. The stark reality of geopolitics and the realization that what was once hypothetical is now possible were likely enough to convince Japan that the time for a new approach to its security is now.

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CVS Health names new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Health names new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer pminemyer Mon, 02/06/2023 - 13:46

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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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Post-Acute Care Staffing Platform ShiftMed Secures $200 Million In Funding

Home Health Care

ShiftMed – a mobile platform that acts as a conduit between health care providers and workers – announced Monday that it has raised $200 million in funding. The significant funding amount comes less than two years after it raised $45 million in 2021. “There is an ongoing demand for workforce solutions, especially in health care,” ShiftMed CEO Todd Walrath, told Home Health Care News in an email.

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Our health-care system is a major contributor to climate change. That must stop

Healthy Debate

The post Our health-care system is a major contributor to climate change. That must stop appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Waud Capital Backs Post-Acute Care Veteran With $100M For New Home-Based Care Venture

Home Health Care

Waud Capital Partners has partnered with former Cornerstone Healthcare Group CEO Steve Jakubcanin. The aim of the partnership is to grow a business in the broader home care and post-acute services market. Waud Capital plans to inject more than $100 million of equity capital to support the venture. “Waud Capital’s executive partnership approach, dedicated ecosystem resources and deep investing experience across relevant areas, make the firm an attractive partner,” Jakubcanin said in a press relea

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION AUTHORIZES USE OF AUTOMATED AND PRERECORDED VOICE TECHNOLOGY OUTREACH FOR CERTAIN HEALTH POLICY RENEWALS

Triage Health Law

In April of 2022, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) asked the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to clarify that automated calls and texts, or prerecorded telephone calls made to encourage individuals to renew enrollment in their state Medicaid program (“Medicaid”) Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”), Basic Health Program (“BHP”) or Health Insurance Marketplace (“Marketplace”) are permissible under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”).

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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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Lower reimbursement for drugs with accelerated approval?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is what various government bodies are considering. First lets turn to Medicaid via a report by Tyrus Jackson in JD Supra , The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) voted on January 27 to recommend that Congress grant states the ability to limit Medicaid coverage for drugs and biologicals approved under the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway.

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Top 2 Trends for OBGYN Practices to Prepare for in 2023 

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 4 minutes Now is a great time to evaluate your practices strengths and weaknesses to determine areas of possible growth or improvement as we enter into a new year. Private equity investment, shifts in patient volume and more are current trends that are leading OBGYN practices to act and adjust course for 2023. Review the top two trends OGBYN’s are focused on and how they’re preparing to ensure revenue results in 2023. 1.

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Electronic Transactions Can Benefit Partnership Among Physicians, Insurers and TPAs

HIT Consultant

Rob Stuart, Founder & President of Claim.MD The patient is at the center of the healthcare experience, and rightfully so. However, a strong case can be made to place the physician at the center. After all, it’s the physician who diagnoses and treats the patient. Insurance companies and third-party administrators (TPAs) also have critical roles to play in the care experience, bringing together networks of physicians, specialists, surgery centers, hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and more t

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Telehealth Website Update on Medicaid.Gov   

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Today (Friday, February 3, 2023), the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) launched a new virtual home for telehealth content on Medicaid.gov. The redesigned pages make it easier for users to find information about how telehealth can be utilized under Medicaid. Visitors will find resources for states and territories as they consider telehealth for the delivery of Medicaid-covered services.

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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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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 2/6/23

HIStalk

As a CMIO, there’s a lot of pressure on.

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CMS Posts Full Revised Appendix PP

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the entire Appendix PP with revision date of February 3, 2023. It can be found here. It now has 863 pages; the October 21, 2022 version had 856 pages. Last Friday, February 3 rd , CMS posted this version which was incomplete, at the very least. I do think it’s helpful to reference the chart of revisions found on the first 2 pages of Transmittal 211.

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Readers Write: I Know You’re Not Thinking About Blocking Patient Data

HIStalk

I Know You’re Not Thinking About Blocking Patient Data By.

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MN Health System Joins Research Network to Advance Precision Medicine

Health IT Analytics

Allina Health, a… read more

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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.