Wed.Aug 24, 2022

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Medicare Advantage lobby rebuts senator’s inquiry into ‘potentially deceptive’ marketing tactics

Health Care Dive

The Better Medicare Alliance is arguing that marketing materials for MA plans are already subject to “careful regulation” and adhere to a 53-page set of federal guidelines.

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The More Chronic Conditions, the More Likely a Patient Will Have Medical Debt

Health Populi

There is a direct association between a person’s health status and patient outcomes and their financial health, quantified in original research published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers from the University of Michigan (my alma mater) Medical School and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation analyzed two years of commercial insurance claims data generated between January 2019 and January 2021, linking to commercial credit data from January 2021 for patients enrolled

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Providence to hold virtual mass hiring event for registered nurses

Health Care Dive

New hires stand to get sign-on bonuses of $5,000 to $10,000, according to a Linkedin post.

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5 Reasons why You’re Waking up with Body Aches

Healthcare Associates

5 Reasons why You’re Waking up with Body Aches. When you wake up, you may wonder, “Why does my body feel sore?” If your body often aches upon waking, there are a variety of possible causes, including your mattress, sleeping position, weight, sleep disorders, and underlying health conditions. Multiple reasons are most likely to blame. Luckily, you can alter some of your sleeping and lifestyle habits to help prevent waking up with body aches.

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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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Advocate posts H1 loss, sees Atrium merger closing this year

Health Care Dive

Like many of its peers, the Midwest hospital system faced labor cost pressures and depressed investment income in the first half of 2022.

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How optimizing your emergency department system improves the clinician and patient experience

Meditech

An EHR that brings all patient data to the forefront improves both the patient and the provider experience. At Lawrence General , we have worked hard to optimize MEDITECH Expanse for our emergency department, empowering staff with all the information they need to provide patients with prompt and targeted treatment. While emergency room processes may differ depending on the facility, there are several areas we’ve optimized that have increased staff efficiency and improved the user experience acro

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No Economic Reward For Drug Manufacturers That Conduct Confirmatory Trials for Oncology Drugs

Healthcare ECONOMIST

FDA has two competing priorities. On the one hand, they want to collect as much data as possible to insure drugs are safe and effective; on the other hand, patients want access to innovative medicines as quickly as possible. To try to balance these priorities, FDA often will approve treatments based on evidence from surrogate outcomes. In oncology, for instance, many treatments are approved based on surrogate endpoints (e.g., progression free survival, response rates) rather than the key endpoin

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The Legislative Battles Moving Health Home Is Fighting On Behalf Of Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

As an HHCN+ member, your ticket to FUTURE in New York City on September 15 is 25% off. Use the promo code ‘HHCN+’ at checkout. Buy tickets today! Whether it’s home health, personal or in-home primary care, many home-based care advocacy groups and trade associations have been able to establish their organizations as champions of a particular lane.

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How Service Line Alignment Can Improve Cost Savings for Health Systems

HIT Consultant

Healthcare leaders continue to face new and complex challenges in a constantly evolving landscape, including staffing and capacity constraints , product shortages , and rising costs. These shifting demands change the expectations put on hospitals when it comes to both patient care and financial performance. As we’ve observed, this uncertainty was further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic , which shined a light on many opportunities for improved financial and clinical operations across the healt

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Amazon Is Shutting Down The Virtual- And Home-Focused ‘Amazon Care’

Home Health Care

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is shutting down Amazon Care, the virtual and in-home care service that it first began rolling out to its own employees in 2019. Once considered the brand that would either help along or significantly disrupt the home-based care space, Amazon Care had initially planned to roll its services out to 20 additional cities by the end of this year.

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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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Cardiology: Have We Reached A Tipping Point in Structured Reporting Adoption?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new report from KLAS provides not only a much-needed update on the breadth of structured reporting adoption but also a first look at the depth of adoption since actual physician use is the only way to drive outcomes. – While the market hasn’t reached the structured reporting tipping point yet, physician adoption is driving progress and generating value.

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How One Home Care Provider Is Altering Its Client Payment Structure

Home Health Care

The home care provider Pop-in Care has introduced a new pricing structure that will give discounts to families for its in-home care services. The company already operates with a model based on short visits without minimum hourly or weekly time or visitation requirements. With that model in place, the new pricing structure will incentivize families and patients to pre-purchase the number of hours that can be used over the course of a month, starting from the date of purchase, according to the com

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Glytec and CPS Integrate to Provide Evidence-Based Glycemic Management

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Glytec recently announced that it has been selected by CPS Solutions, LLC (CPS) , a leading provider of enterprise pharmacy solutions to hospitals and health systems, to serve as an insulin management technology resource for CPS’ more than 2,200 pharmacy professionals across 800-plus healthcare facilities nationwide. – Through this collaboration, CPS client facilities may contract for Glytec’s eGlycemic Management System® (eGMS) and Glytec’s technical resource

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Can OpenNotes be too open?

Nordic

Anyone who has been reading my blog posts for even a short time knows I am a big proponent of the OpenNotes movement. The main concept behind OpenNotes is that the clinician-patient dyad can be improved by sharing the clinician’s documentation with their patients. Of course, all parts of the medical record (including progress notes) have always been available for patients to see.

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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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HealthTeam Advantage Integrates With Bamboo Health’s Pings Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Bamboo Health™ recently announced that HealthTeam Advantage (HTA), the business name of Care N’ Care Insurance Company of North Carolina, Inc., has integrated Bamboo Health’s Pings™ solution. – The Pings rollout delivers real-time admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) e-notifications for HTA’s 15,000 North Carolina PPO and HMO Medicare Advantage plan members.

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Morning Headlines 8/25/22

HIStalk

Amazon is shutting down its telehealth service, Amazon Care Amazon.

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Biotia Raises $8M to Fight Infectious Diseases Powered by AI & Genomics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Biotia, a company fighting infectious diseases powered by genomics and artificial intelligence (AI), has raised an oversubscribed $8 million Series A round led by OCA Ventures. – OCA, a veteran early-stage venture firm operating from Chicago and Palo Alto was joined by other key investors including Continuum Health Ventures , Phoenix Venture Partners , SeedtoB Capital , SK Square Americas, Digital-Dx Ventures , and others.

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Texas judge blocks HHS guidance on emergency abortion care

Health Care Dive

The ruling, which sets back the Biden administration’s efforts to protect abortion access nationwide, comes just days before Texas’ trigger ban will go into effect, toughening abortion penalties in the state.

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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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Moderna follows Pfizer in asking FDA to approve updated COVID shot

Health Care Dive

The companies are moving quickly to supply vaccines targeting currently circulating omicron variants in time for the Biden administration's planned fall vaccination campaign.

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