Health Care Dive
MARCH 8, 2022
A new survey of doctor practices from the Medical Group Management Association found 98% of respondents wrestled with an increased or steady level of prior authorization requirements over the past year.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 8, 2022
A leading healthcare provider in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has teamed up with Siemens Healthineers to accelerate its technological and digital transformation. Aster DM Healthcare Group – which operates 27 hospitals, 118 medical clinics, 66 labs and patient experience centres, and 323 pharmacies in the Gulf region, plus India – has signed a seven-year partnership with the German company to upgrade its systems, develop further digital offerings, and support in training and cap
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Health Care Dive
MARCH 8, 2022
Despite controversy over nonprofits' tax exemptions, the study argues it's important to consider what services hospitals offer when evaluating their social value.
Bill Of Health
MARCH 8, 2022
By Katherine Macfarlane. Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was common for workplaces to require masks, at least in shared spaces. Two years later, though the pandemic is still ongoing, mask requirements are now far less prevalent as a result of the politicization of masks, so-called mask fatigue, and new guidance from the U.S.
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Health Care Dive
MARCH 8, 2022
While companies offered their support for Ukraine and those impacted by the crisis, Siemens Healthineers offered the strongest statement, calling Russia's invasion a "clear violation of international law.
Meditech
MARCH 8, 2022
March 8 is International Women’s Day , celebrating the accomplishments of women across the globe, in all areas of life. It’s a time to appreciate those women who have inspired us and paved the way for so many leaders today.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 8, 2022
Heather Korbulic, Senior Policy and Strategy Lead, GetInsured. The COVID-19 pandemic led to sweeping healthcare policy changes that enable vulnerable Americans to receive affordable health coverage and access essential safety net benefits. The steep incline in unemployment and fears that millions of people would lose their health coverage drove the declaration of the national public health emergency (PHE) on January 31, 2020.
Nordic
MARCH 8, 2022
As some nations declare an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and begin to retreat from their emergency policies and restrictions, it’s a reminder of the dramatic impact healthcare systems have weathered over the past two years. Yet in reality, the pandemic is not over for the healthcare sector, which must now figure out the best way forward.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 8, 2022
Michael Linnert, Founder and CEO of Actium Health. We talk about patient engagement a lot in healthcare today. But the reality is, we often don’t just want a patient to engage with a piece of content or information; we want them to take action. The traditional CRM and marketing automation are great tools for the former – keeping patients and their healthcare providers connected.
Home Health Care
MARCH 8, 2022
A large post-acute care company with a deep presence in America’s rural areas, Intrepid USA Healthcare Services has been in the market for a new private equity partner. Intrepid is a Texas-based provider of home health, hospice and personal care services. The company has more than 60 locations spanning 17 states. CEO John Kunysz likes to say the company has a tremendous footprint in “the hills, hollers, bayous, backwoods, barrier islands, deserts and prairies of the United States.”.
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 8, 2022
What You Should Know: – BrightInsight, provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions, announced a partnership with global biopharma, UC to build digital care solutions for rare diseases. – BrightInsight will build and bring to market a digital disease management solution to support patients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a rare autoimmune disease that disrupts how nerves communicate with muscles, affecting more than 700,000 people
Home Health Care
MARCH 8, 2022
Understanding and navigating the next steps for growth as a small business owner is always a daunting proposition. That’s especially true in the highly fragmented home care industry. Home Care Ops founder Clint Nobles and Elder Independence owner Kim Clatworthy addressed that topic last month at the 2022 Home Care Growth Summit, hosted by research and education firm Home Care Pulse.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 8, 2022
What You Should Know: – Aetion , real-world evidence (RWE) tech and analytics provider, and Cognito Therapeutics, a pioneer in neuromodulation therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, are partnering to develop an AI-driven predictive model to help payers and providers identify patients with rapidly progressing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s who may benefit from earlier treatment. .
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Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 8, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. WASHINGTON – For two years, millions of the nation’s healthcare workers have been battling the coronavirus. Many have endangered themselves as they care for those who contract COVID-19 while working in high-risk settings that expose themselves and their families. As the nation moves to the next phase of the pandemic, the U.S.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MARCH 8, 2022
That is the question asked by Horwitz and Nichols (2022) in their paper out this week in Health Affairs. I summarize their paper below. Data. The authors use data from 2014-2019 American Hospital Association (AHA) annual member surveys among all acute care hospitals (both general medical and surgical) located within urban metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the US.
Osf Healthcare
MARCH 8, 2022
During the construction of our cancer center, OSF HealthCare opened a temporary location and performance improvement, within OSF Innovation, took the opportunity to put together a multidisciplinary team to discover improvements and streamline processes.
Advanced Data Systems
MARCH 8, 2022
Medical Billing: Claim Submission and Follow Up. " Medical billing is the process of submitting and following up on claims with health insurance companies in order to receive payment for services rendered," as stated on HBMA. Without submitting clean claims on a timely basis, it doesn't matter how many patients you see or how many services you render.
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Medbridge Education
MARCH 8, 2022
The recently launched 2022 Medicare Fee Schedule includes five new CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM). But what is RTM and how can it benefit your practice? In this article, we answer common questions about RTM, how to use the new codes, and strategies for incorporating RTM into clinical practice. What is Remote Therapeutic […].
Home Health Care
MARCH 8, 2022
Right at Home announced Tuesday that Brian Petranick resigned from his long-held position as president and CEO. At this point, it’s unclear if succession plans had already been in the works at Right at Home, a subsidiary of RiseMark and one of the largest home care franchise companies in the industry. The company hasn’t made an official announcement about who will assume the role of president and CEO, but Chief Operating Officer Margaret Haynes will take over Petranick’s day-to-day duties, accor
HIT Consultant
MARCH 8, 2022
What You Should Know: GHX today announced its annual list of the Best 50 supply chains , which recognizes the highest performing healthcare provider organizations in North America. These honorees set the standard for supply chain excellence by improving operational performance while driving down costs through supply chain automation. Healthcare Providers Modernizing Supply Chain Operations.
Etactics
MARCH 8, 2022
After you’ve seen a patient for an appointment, you’d like to think that they’ll tell everyone they know about how great your services are. However, that’s not realistic. According to the White House Office of Consumer Affairs … Happy customers talk to 4-6 people about their good experience Unhappy customers will tell 9-15 people about their bad experience That last statistic can be demotivating.
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 8, 2022
What You Should Know: – Clinicians now access Wolters Kluwer’s real-time sepsis monitoring alerts within Cerner HER at Tift Regional Medical Center. – POC Advisor’s highly accurate alerts and guidance are automatically delivered to the point of care to improve sepsis patient outcomes. Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced that Tift Regional Medical Center , the flagship hospital of Southwell, a Georgia not-for-profit health system, has integrated POC Advisor , its sophisticated seps
Healthcare Performance
MARCH 8, 2022
HIPAA has been around for years -. but that does not mean complying with HIPAA is easy. The rules are long, and require a lot of policies. The Security Rule requires a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis - a task that is interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and detailed. Plus, HIPAA guidance and risks are continually changing - and so should your HIPAA training.
Health Recovery
MARCH 8, 2022
The transition from a fee-for-service model to value-based care has spurred healthcare leaders to reevaluate and realign their current payment models to meet organizational goals. In this blog, we’ll explore how capitated payments and reimbursement works as part of a larger strategy to provide quality care and reduce healthcare expenses.
HIStalk
MARCH 8, 2022
Epic Launches Garden Plot: A Shared Environment Where Independent Medical.
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.
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 8, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This is the title of a KHN News article published on March 3, 2022. “President Joe Biden’s top Medicare official suggested Wednesday that forthcoming rules to bolster nursing home staffing won’t be issued under a mechanism, known as interim final rules, that would allow regulations to take effect more or less immediately.
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed long-systemic health disparities in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. Income inequality, sickly environments in homes and communities (think unclean air and water), lack of public transportation and nutritious food deserts combine to limit peoples’ health and well-being., Beyond the traditional social determinants of health, such as these, we’ve called out another health risk that became crucial for life in the coronavirus pandemic era: digital
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