Thu.Jun 09, 2022

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How U.S. healthcare leaders are shifting course to navigate a changed world

Healthcare It News

As the healthcare industry emerges from the pandemic, its leaders are embarking on a major reboot of their priorities in order to improve the delivery of patient care. That is one of the big findings of the Future Health Index 2022 report, entitled "Healthcare hits reset: Priorities shift as healthcare leaders navigate a changed world." This seventh annual edition of the report from global technology vendor Philips analyzes feedback from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 15 countr

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CMS issues first price transparency fines to 2 Georgia hospitals

Health Care Dive

Regulators have been criticized for moving slowly to enforce the rules, which came into effect January last year amid fierce opposition from hospital groups.

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Roundup: The Royal Marsden NHS FT expands Hyland Healthcare suite, Clinical trial uses digital education platform to understand fatal genetic diseases in children, and more briefs

Healthcare It News

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust expands Hyland Healthcare suite. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has selected Hyland ’s PACSgear image capture solution to integrate with its existing OnBase content services platform and new Epic electronic patient record (EPR) system. The new digital health record (DHR) falls under the hospital’s digital transformation programme and began in August last year, with Epic going live across the trust from March 2023.

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Hospital lobby urges CMS to delay enforcement of price estimate requirement

Health Care Dive

The contested provision in the No Surprises Act requires certain providers to assemble a comprehensive cost estimate for patients, including costs from other providers that could step in to provide care.

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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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Why Value-Based Care Begins with Quality Education

Home Health Care

Caregiver training is a valuable tool for employee retention and satisfaction. But it is also a critical factor in improving care delivery. This can lead to other positive outcomes such as increased client satisfaction and a strong reputation. Organizations that understand the connection between training and quality care will not only serve their staff, but will also see improvement in the quality of the care their patients and clients receive.

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2 million patients' data exposed in cyberattack on New England health services provider

Health Care Dive

The attack, disclosed by Shields Health Care Group earlier this week, is the largest so far this year, according to HHS’ data breach portal.

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Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential

HIT Consultant

Shawna Koch Mishael, Head of Healthcare and Biomedical, RN, MBA, SenecaGlobal. This year’s HIMSS Conference offered some exciting insights and a renewed focus on data-sharing and interoperability. While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today.

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Home Care Training Tech: Scale Recruitment and Retention to Increase the Bottom Line

Home Health Care

Recruiting and retention are among the most challenging aspects of home-based care operations, particularly in the wake of COVID-19. According to industry research, employee churn increased significantly as a result of the pandemic and continues to present serious operational challenges. As a result, providers are working hard to get their teams back to pre-pandemic strength, and they are turning to technology for recruiting, retention and training solutions that align with their goals.

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United Health Foundation puts $100M toward a more diverse healthcare workforce

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The Case For and Against Home Care Provider-Medicare Advantage Relationships

Home Health Care

Shifting health care payer trends have home-based care providers stuck between two battling business decisions: “adapt or die,” or sustainability. Those two decisions may look like one in the same to outsiders, but for home care operators grappling with whether to engage with Medicare Advantage (MA), they sometimes posit providers on different sides of the aisle.

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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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Qatar: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

The Rand Blog

Qatar adopted a spectrum of policies and health measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 and encouraged its innovation ecosystem to play a role in fighting the pandemic. The health sector has gained experience during the pandemic that might inform response to future spikes in demand for health system resources.

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Addus Hoping Improved Recruitment Numbers Will Translate to Organic Growth

Home Health Care

By leveraging improved recruitment numbers and the surplus of resources from state governments, leaders with Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) are hoping the tail end of 2022 could be a big one in terms of M&A and organic growth. Addus’ EVP and CFO Brian Poff sounded optimistic about the company’s growth plans – as well as fulfilling more demand – at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference Wednesday.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

Can you see the problem? Lost Generation of Innovative Apps ? Health/education industry loses jobs vs. pre-pandemic levels. History of mall walking. Creation of the Americas Health Corps .

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 6/9/22

HIStalk

Since there have been so many dramatic changes to many.

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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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It's time for primary care to take advantage of advanced technology

Healthcare It News

Primary care in the U.S. is at a unique inflection point. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care. On the other hand, the threats to primary care have never been greater.

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News 6/10/22

HIStalk

Top News CMS issues the first civil money penalties against.

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Humana Adds to Value-Based Home Care Strategy, Outlines onehome Expansion

Home Health Care

When industry insiders think about Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) and its home health plans, they immediately go to Kindred at Home, the large provider that’s rebranding to “CenterWell Home Health.”. Yet onehome, a home-focused post-acute care organization that operates under a full-risk model, is just as important to the Louisville, Kentucky-based health insurer’s in-home care strategy.

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Morning Headlines 6/10/22

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Oracle’s Ellison Pitches US Health Database With Power of Cerner.

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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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athenahealth Integrates with Withings to Deliver Seamless RPM for Physicians & Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Withings Health Solutions partners with athenahealth through the company’s Marketplace program to simplify the remote patient monitoring experience for both physicians and patients. – As part of the athenahealth Marketplace, Withings RPM will now be available to athenahealth’s growing network of healthcare providers delivering a patient-focused remote patient monitoring experience.

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Human Trafficking in Ohio: Everything You Need to Know

Etactics

Human trafficking in Ohio is not a pleasant topic, to say the least. But in order to stop it from happening, we need to discuss it. That way, the general public becomes aware of the indicators of trafficking so that they can help stop it. Since 2007, citizens of Ohio reported 2,813 cases of human trafficking to the National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH).

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H1 Adds $20M to Series C to Power Democratization of Global Healthcare Data

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – H1 , the connecting force for global healthcare professional, clinical, science, and research information, announced their Series C extension led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Menlo Ventures, Transformation Capital and Novartis Pharma AG, bringing the total Series C raise to over $120M. – The news comes at a time when public markets are down and many other companies are doing down rounds.

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A Brief History of Abortion Jurisprudence in the United States

Bill Of Health

By James R. Jolin. POLITICO’s leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization suggests that U.S. abortion rights are on the verge of a fundamental shift. If the official decision, expected this month, hews closely to the draft, the constitutional right to abortion affirmed in Roe v.

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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.