Wed.Jan 26, 2022

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Senate health leaders preview bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's public health response

Fierce Healthcare

Senate health leaders preview bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's public health response. dmuoio. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 12:17.

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Anthem doubles profit to $1.1B, issues conservative 2022 guidance

Health Care Dive

Membership targets for the coming year, for one, "look a shade light," one analyst noted, though Anthem said it expects COVID-19 to cause less of a headwind in 2022 than in years prior.

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Number of ACOs increases modestly to 483 for 2022, which advocates say should be wake-up call

Fierce Healthcare

Number of ACOs increases modestly to 483 for 2022, which advocates say should be wake-up call. rking. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 13:36.

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HHS to distribute $2B in COVID-19 relief funds to providers this week to ease staffing, financial challenges

Health Care Dive

The agency is sending payments to more than 7,600 healthcare providers nationwide this week to help them as staffing shortages and heightened labor expenses pose new financial challenges.

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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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Uber taps first chief medical officer for growing healthcare arm

Fierce Healthcare

Uber taps first chief medical officer for growing healthcare arm. rtorrence. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 16:24.

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Mass General dinged for spending growth by state regulator

Health Care Dive

A key driver behind spending at the health system is prices, not increased utilization, according to the Health Policy Commission, which is charged with policing healthcare cost growth in the state.

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Uber Health appoints first chief medical officer

Health Care Dive

Michael Cantor is a geriatrician with more than two decades of experience in the healthcare industry.

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Biden admin redirected nearly $7B of provider relief to COVID vaccine, therapeutics purchases: report

Fierce Healthcare

Biden admin redirected nearly $7B of provider relief to COVID vaccine, therapeutics purchases: report. dmuoio. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 16:22.

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Uber Health taps Dr. Michael Cantor as first chief medical officer

Healthcare It News

Uber Health on Tuesday announced the hire of its first chief medical officer. WHY IT MATTERS. Dr. Michael Cantor, a board-certified geriatrician, has more than 20 years of leadership experience, having served as CMO at companies such as Intuition Robotics, Bright Health and CareCentrix. At Uber Health, he'll be in charge of building innovative tools for patients, clinicians and care coordinators.

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NextGen Healthcare eyes opportunities to build up RCM business amid tight healthcare labor market

Fierce Healthcare

NextGen Healthcare eyes opportunities to build up RCM business amid tight healthcare labor market. hlandi. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 12:04.

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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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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill Of Health

By Sarah Wang. Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. As a first step to protecting incarcerated individuals’ right to health, Congress should repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP). The MIEP, established in 1965, prohibits Medicaid from covering incarcerated individuals, despite any prior eligibility.

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Maven Clinic adds new positions to focus on evidence-based care redesign

Fierce Healthcare

Maven Clinic adds new positions to focus on evidence-based care redesign. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 09:59.

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What are the Warning Signs of Sleep Apnea?

Healthcare Associates

What Are the Warning Signs of Sleep Apnea? Sleep apnea is a highly common sleep disorder that causes you to stop breathing several times throughout the night. Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common type of sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a chronic medical condition. However, it can be effectively treated and improved by working with a sleep specialist and making healthy changes to your lifestyle.

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Anthem reports $1.1B in profit for Q4, doubling its haul year over year

Fierce Healthcare

Anthem reports $1.1B in profit for Q4, doubling its haul year over year. pminemyer. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 07:52.

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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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Nurse Burnout Even Bigger Challenge Than Physician Burnout

HIT Consultant

Dr. John Ciccone, Chief Medical Officer, DSS, Inc. The pandemic has pushed nurses to the brink. A recent survey by the American Nurses Association reports 51 percent of nurses feel overwhelmed, 76 percent report exhaustion and burnout, and nurse-to-patient workloads have tripled. ( Jan. 2021 ). Hospitals function on the back of nurses, and the current burnout levels cannot be sustained.

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Golden parachute payouts worth $20M for Cerner's Feinberg, former CEO with proposed sale to Oracle

Fierce Healthcare

Golden parachute payouts worth $20M for Cerner's Feinberg, former CEO with proposed sale to Oracle. hlandi. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 13:37.

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Honeywell Makes Strategic Investment in RapidSOS’s ER Data Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Honeywell announced it has made a strategic investment in RapidSOS , an NYC-based emergency response data platform, to further modernize and digitize the public safety communications process. – In addition to the strategic investment, Honeywell Connected Life Safety System (CLSS) will integrate with the RapidSOS emergency response data platform to provide faster, more accurate communications with 911 agencies.

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Top Home Health Predictions for 2022

Home Health Care

The ongoing public health emergency is sure to bring more staffing turmoil this year, along with additional regulatory and policy updates. The year ahead is also likely to bring more leadership turnover at the very top of home health organizations. Beyond the pandemic, private equity dollars will keep flowing into home-based care, leading to an uptick in home health M&A activity.

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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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6 Healthcare Cybersecurity, Ransomware Predictions to Watch in 2022

HIT Consultant

We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022. Milan Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Biofourmis. Cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems will continue their rapid pace in 2022, but as more providers launch hospitals at home and remote patient management programs and the technology has to traverse enterprise firewall boundaries, it provides attackers an extensive new surface area to attack.

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InnovAge Appoints New CEO; Axxess Beefs Up Executive Leadership Team

Home Health Care

InnovAge names new president and CEO. Longtime InnovAge (Nasdaq: INNV) CEO Maureen Hewitt has stepped down from the role. Patrick Blair, formerly of Bayada Home Health Care, has been named president and CEO by InnovAge’s board of directors. The appointment comes after reports that Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the U.S.

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Philips Launches First At-Home, 12-Lead ECG Integrated Solution for Decentralized Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Philips introduced the industry’s first full-service, at-home, 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) solution for use in decentralized clinical trials. – The solution is the most advanced patient-centric ECG offering within the company’s cardiac monitoring portfolio, pairing data readings comparable to clinical, site-based ECGs with Philips leading cloud-based data collection and analysis services.

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When Things Are Brutal: Three Essential Elements of Leadership

Medi Leadership

For many healthcare leaders, things have been nothing short of brutal. How does a leader stay in a good place and help others do the same when things are so difficult? At MEDI we have noticed three essential elements. Abide by the Stockdale Paradox. Confront the brutal facts of your present reality while never losing faith in the end of the story. “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal

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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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The Next Evolution of Telehealth and What It Will Take to Get There

HIT Consultant

John Baker, Client Success/Implementation Engineer at AMD Global Telemedicine. Telehealth has been majorly beneficial to millions of patients and providers throughout the pandemic. To continue being efficient and delivering results, however, virtual care must evolve quickly. Healthcare organizations will need to implement telehealth for use cases beyond the reactive video-only model they’ve grown used to during COVID.

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Offering Personalized, At-Home Benefits in MA Remains ‘Key Part’ of Anthem’s Strategy

Home Health Care

Anthem Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) believes that its dedication to supplement benefits – including at-home care offerings – is strengthening its value proposition among other health plans. “In Medicare Advantage (MA), our continuing work to strengthen Anthem’s value proposition helped drive another strong annual election period,” Gail Boudreaux, the president and CEO of Anthem, said on the company’s fourth quarter earnings call Wednesday.

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Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing Datasets Posted

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. As promised in QSO-22-08-NH (top of page 4), CMS posted Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing Datasets today, January 26, 2022. “The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing datasets provide information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis.

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Maximize Your Revenue with Medical Billing Audit Services

Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

Admin. January 26, 2022. Maximize Your Revenue with Medical Billing Audit Services. To avoid any unfavorable financial situation, medical practices need to have an efficient revenue cycle. In addition, healthcare practices, regardless of their size, should go for Medical Billing Audit Services to know where they lack and how they can improve. Also, appropriate billing is the primary focus of a healthcare practice.

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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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CMS Updates LTC Survey Resources

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted updates to the LTC Survey Process on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, specifically Survey Resources: Revision History for LTC Survey Process Documents and Files Updated 01/25/2022 Survey Resources – Updated 01/25/2022 Survey Resources – January 2022 (01/25/22). The last 2 resources are.zip files.

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emids Acquires Cloud Development Resources to Create Low-Code Development Practice

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – emids , today announced the acquisition of Cloud Development Resources (CDR), a leading provider of low-code, enterprise-grade business solutions and services on the OutSystems platform for some of the country’s leading and largest healthcare and life sciences companies. – OutSystems is the pioneer in low-code development, and this partnership with emids creates the healthcare industry’s first dedicated low-code development practice.

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The Hidden Costs of COVID-19

Health Policy News

As we enter 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic is surging through the United States yet again, this time fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Although the symptoms of this variant.

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Recruitment Costs, Long Hiring Timelines Negatively Impact Healthcare Finance Teams

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AKAS , a developer of AI for healthcare operations, today released findings from a new survey highlighting the challenges hospitals and health systems are facing within the revenue cycle as the Great Resignation drives higher staff turnover, and skilled workers leave healthcare for higher-paying jobs in other industries like retail or logistics. – Commissioned by AKASA, the survey fielded responses from 514 chief financial officers and revenue cycle leaders at

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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.