Wed.May 04, 2022

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Telemedicine reached disadvantaged communities during pandemic, study finds

Health Care Dive

The results surprised Johns Hopkins University researchers, who said it contrasted with earlier findings showing an inverse link between socioeconomic status and use of telemedicine in the pandemic.

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The ways the Defense Health Agency works to get servicemembers care

Healthcare It News

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Banner Health invests in surgery center firm Atlas Healthcare Partners

Health Care Dive

The investment from Banner will help Atlas scale and "grow into a larger national partner for other health systems," the companies announced Tuesday.

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Home-Based Care Acquisitions, Partnerships Both on Table for CVS Health

Home Health Care

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has become one of the most interesting home-adjacent health care players since its investor day last December. It’s possible that the “adjacent” tag will soon be dropped, and the company will be squarely in the home-based care space. “We are diversifying our growth portfolio with new health services,” CVS Health President and CEO Karen Lynch said on the company’s first quarter earnings call Wednesday.

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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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Biogen CEO to step down as company pulls back from Alzheimer's drug

Health Care Dive

Michel Vounatsos, Biogen's CEO since 2017, will be replaced as the company "substantially" eliminates the commercial workforce around Aduhelm, which has generated paltry sales in the face of resistance from insurers and doctors.

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Misplaced Skepticism on Accountability for War Crimes Against Health Care in Ukraine

Bill Of Health

By Leonard Rubenstein. Russian attacks on hospitals, ambulances, and health workers in Ukraine — including more than 180 attacks confirmed b y the World Health Organization, and double that number reported by the Ministry of Health — have gained global attention. In one case, viral photos document the evacuation of pregnant women, including one on a stretcher who later died, from a maternity hospital in Mariupol destroyed by Russian shelling.

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Axuall’s CEO Talks Why Health Administrators Should Adopt Robotic Process Automation

HIT Consultant

Charlie Lougheed, CEO & Founder, Axuall. Axuall’s CEO & Founder, Charlie Lougheed shares why health administration teams should embrace the power of robotic process automation (RPA). Built with leading healthcare systems, Axuall is a workforce intelligence company powered by a national real-time practitioner data network. The technology enables healthcare systems, staffing firms, telehealth, and health plans to dramatically reduce onboarding and enrollment time while also providing uniqu

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NAM to Deliver National Plan to Strengthen Health Workforce Well-Being and Restore the Health of the Nation 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience is working urgently to develop a National Plan for health workforce well-being. The draft plan will be released in May 2022 for public input and builds on almost six years of collective work among 200 Clinician Well-Being Collaborative members and network organizations.

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How Home Care Organizations Are Leveraging ‘Test Kitchens’ at Company-Owned Locations

Home Health Care

In some ways, preparation and experimentation are two sides of the same coin in that the latter gives way to the former. Over the years, a number of home care franchise companies have added company-owned locations to their larger franchise networks. These locations function as “test kitchens” that allow providers to experiment with new programs for clients and caregivers, as well as new technologies and operational models.

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Does hospital crowding matter?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

As the rates of COVID-19 increased the burden on hospitals in the early months of the pandemic, hospitals were decry a lack of beds and pressure on staff. While COVID-19 is of course a very acute case of over-crowding, a more general question is how much does hospital crowding impact health outcomes. A paper by Hoe et al. (2022) aims to answer this question.

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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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Arcadia & Datavant Partner to Accelerate Whole-Person Care & Biopharma Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Arcadia and Datavant today announced a partnership to enable de-identified connectivity of Arcadia’s electronic health record data for life sciences research and commercial analytics. – This partnership will unlock fresh insights to accelerate whole-person care and biopharma research, extending Arcadia’s leadership in empowering a data-driven transformation of healthcare. – Datavant will allow clients to connect Arcadia data to other types of Real World

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The True Cost of Telehealth

Health Recovery

While many believe telemedicine startup costs to be high, telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) can in fact save your organization millions of dollars per year by reducing a patient’s number of hospital readmissions. It’s no wonder that up to 76 percent of US hospitals have started connecting doctors and patients remotely via telehealth, an uptake of 35 percent from a decade ago.

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3 Senior Living Providers Merge to Form Curana Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Three leading organizations that provide healthcare services to senior living communities – Elite Patient Care, Provider Health Services, and AllyAlign Health – have joined forces to form Curana Health. Curana Health’s mission is to improve the health, happiness, and dignity of senior living residents. The Curana Health ACO is a value-based care program for original Medicare beneficiaries. – The combined Curana Health organization spans 26 states and over 1000

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Sign up for MPA's Virtual HIPAA Training!

Healthcare Performance

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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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“Clickbusters” can bust more than clicks

Nordic

I was fascinated by a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) titled “Clinician collaboration to improve clinical decision support: the Clickbusters initiative.” The paper describes how a group of clinicians, informaticians, and researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) developed and executed a design to “improve safety and quality and reduce burnout through the optimization of clinical decision support (CDS) alerts.

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HIStalk Interviews Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project

HIStalk

Mariann Yeager is CEO of The Sequoia Project of Vienna,

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Digital Health in Japan and Korea – Where Is It Heading?

Health Advances

By Melisa Junata, Andrew Chen, and Gary Cheng. Takeaways. Japan and Korea hold significant market potential for digital health products post-COVID. Regulatory governance is maturing, while reimbursement remains a critical challenge. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are booming, with approvals mainly focused on medical imaging. The market outlook in Japan is more favorable than in Korea in the near term.

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Americans Deserve the Full Truth About Medicare-For-All and its Ramifications for their Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership Council

So much of the nation’s discussion about the Medicare-for-all concept takes place through a political prism. It’s important, though, to fully understand what such a drastic change to our healthcare system would mean for patients and the care on which they depend. We welcome Barclay Berdan, the chief executive officer of Texas Health Resources, a faith-based non-profit healthcare system, to share his expertise on the subject.

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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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The Chain of Infection and How to Use it to Prevent the Spread of Infection in LTC

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. NETEC has posted a great resource in the form of an infographic: The Chain of Infection and How to Use It to Prevent the Spread of Infection in LTC. The 9 slides following the above initial slide expand on the 6 opportunities to break the chain to prevent the spread of infection.