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Federal judge invalidates FDA approval of abortion pill

Health Care Dive

The decision imperils access to the drug more than two decades after its U.S. approval, and could carry consequences for the FDA’s authority over prescription medicines.

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Advocate Aurora Health pilots KelaHealth's predictive software to assess surgical risk, improve outcomes

Fierce Healthcare

Advocate Aurora Health pilots KelaHealth's predictive software to assess surgical risk, improve outcomes agliadkovskaya Mon, 04/10/2023 - 12:59

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Scope of CommonSpirit data breach larger than initially disclosed

Health Care Dive

More than 100 current and former CommonSpirit facilities in 13 states might have been affected by the ransomware attack on the health system last year.

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GI-focused digital health startup Ayble Health launches DTC app, nutrition program

Fierce Healthcare

GI-focused digital health startup Ayble Health launches DTC app, nutrition program agliadkovskaya Mon, 04/10/2023 - 15:57

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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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Healthcare added 34K jobs in March as temp nursing demand wanes

Health Care Dive

Hospitals may be catching a break from labor woes, with new data showing employment growth and declining demand for contract labor.

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AristaMD launches enhanced platform for PCPs to expand access to specialty care referrals, eConsults

Fierce Healthcare

AristaMD launches enhanced platform for PCPs to expand access to specialty care referrals, eConsults agliadkovskaya Mon, 04/10/2023 - 12:08

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Lown Institute: Even after community investment, nonprofit hospitals' tax savings enough to rescue 'every rural hospital at risk of closure'

Fierce Healthcare

Lown Institute: Even after community investment, nonprofit hospitals' tax savings enough to rescue 'every rural hospital at risk of closure' dmuoio Mon, 04/10/2023 - 14:27

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Biotech fears ‘dangerous’ precedent as judge challenges FDA authority

Health Care Dive

Industry leaders warned that “any medicine is at risk” if a federal judge’s decision to overturn the approval of abortion drug mifepristone is upheld.

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CMS proposes nearly 3% bump to inpatient pay in fiscal 2024 and install equity requirements

Fierce Healthcare

CMS proposes nearly 3% bump to inpatient pay in fiscal 2024 and install equity requirements rking Mon, 04/10/2023 - 17:20

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'Facilitated telemedicine': Mary's Center innovates in the home

Healthcare It News

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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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Younger Medicare beneficiaries more likely to report issues with access, cost: study

Fierce Healthcare

Younger Medicare beneficiaries more likely to report issues with access, cost: study pminemyer Mon, 04/10/2023 - 16:13

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Pear Therapeutics files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Health Care Dive

The maker of subscription apps for insomnia and substance abuse, which is still seeking a sale, also laid off the majority of its workforce.

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UnitedHealth quietly scoops up New York physician group Crystal Run

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth quietly scoops up New York physician group Crystal Run pminemyer Mon, 04/10/2023 - 14:05

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Why Blockading Rather Than Retaking Crimea Might Be Kyiv's Best Option

The Rand Blog

Ukraine may lack the military capability to retake Crimea from Russia. But Kyiv might still achieve some of its key objectives by blockading the peninsula. New technology may ease this task.

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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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Walgreens, Cariloop bring MS care coaches into select neurology-specialty pharmacies

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens, Cariloop bring MS care coaches into select neurology-specialty pharmacies aburky Mon, 04/10/2023 - 17:53

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Advancing Women's Health Requires Better Evidence

The Rand Blog

For decades, advances in health and health care have had a bias toward the male body. By shifting the focus of research to women's bodies and building out this base of evidence on women's health, scientists and doctors can improve health outcomes and overall quality of life for women, all while also saving money.

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Protect your team through violence prevention training

Fierce Healthcare

Protect your team through violence prevention training jpiatt Mon, 04/10/2023 - 13:28

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Europe: Ukraine's Essential Ally

The Rand Blog

While the United States is Ukraine's primary military backer, Europe is sharing the war's overall burden, sanctioning Russia, arming Ukraine, and helping prepare it to join the European Union, as well as absorbing huge economic costs. Europe's partnership with the United States on Ukraine may be Western diplomacy's finest hour since the Berlin Wall fell.

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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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Optimizing Patient Experience: How Virtual Offerings are Changing The Healthcare Climate As We Know It

HIT Consultant

Keith Algozzine, Founder and CEO of UCM Digital Health Providing patients with a positive health outcome is always the priority for their healthcare provider. The journey to accomplishing this goal can often be an uphill challenge with many variables at play. Providers are tasked with not only delivering a positive health outcome but also with the patient experience and level of satisfaction as they make their way through their healthcare journey.

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What Addus Wants To See Out Of Its Acquisition Targets

Home Health Care

In M&A – where discipline is king – communication between potential buyers and home-based care sellers is as critical as it’s ever been. “The more conversations that buyers and sellers are having pre-LOI, the better for everybody,” Cliff Blessing, EVP and chief development officer at Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS), said during Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event.

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Thinking Beyond CRM to Reach Healthcare Consumers

HIT Consultant

Abhi Sharma, Chief Product Officer for Loyal A new type of purpose-built technology is necessary to manage patient relationships. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are commonplace in nearly every industry, though their use in healthcare is complicated. Healthcare is incredibly complex and unique in many ways, and many generic CRM or CRM-like solutions address only one or two elements of the patient journey, such as appointment scheduling and reminders, without factoring in personal

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How A Home Health Provider Slashed Its Readmission Rate By Nearly Half

Home Health Care

At-Home Health Care — Sparta Community Hospital’s home health segment — has made successful care transitions a priority in an effort to lower rehospitalizations and ER visits. Sparta Community Hospital is located in Southern Illinois and is a 25-bed full-service acute care medical facility. At-Home Health Care is a Medicare certified home health agency that serves five counties surrounding Sparta.

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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 ROI on Feeling Cared-For At Work – Employer Trust, Love, and Building the Joyconomy

Health Populi

“Can employers afford not to care?” MetLife’s 21st annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study asks and answers that question, with a resounding and evidence-based “NO.” I’m in Salt Lake City today discussing the drivers of health, “yesterday, today, and tomorrow” at the Virgin Pulse Thrive Summit , celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the company.

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Why The Growing Home Care Company AccordCare Is Payer Agnostic

Home Health Care

Most home care companies are generally committed to a single payer source more than they are the other ones, whether it’s private pay or Medicaid. But many companies have begun engaging with Medicare Advantage (MA), too, and most all companies have at least thought about diversifying their revenue, at least by a little. Still, there’s generally a company thesis that starts with one payer source.

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Barriers in Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership

Blog post by Joe Babaian A barrier. A path. Who among us doesn’t immediately recognize access denied, forbidden, or discouraged? Who doesn’t feel relief when a path forward appears or is built? This is but one metaphor for an external barrier to healthcare that many face. Some definitions for this chat. External barriers can be environmental like steps blocking a wheelchair or other assistance device, financial, emotional, educational, physical, gender, digital, and more.

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Strategies to Support State-Local Collaboration on Opioid Settlement Spending 

NASHP

All 50 states are set to receive significant amounts of funding intended to abate the opioid epidemic through settlements with opioid manufacturers, distributors, and other companies contributing to the epidemic. As states and localities begin making initial spending decisions, using new and existing forums for collaboration will become increasingly important for ensuring that all those involved are maximizing the impact of these funds and making lasting investments in community prevention, trea

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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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Legislating Black History

Bill Of Health

By Sterling Johnson Three years after the George Floyd riots and our own national reckoning, contestation of the terms of Black history has reached a fever pitch among legislators and school districts. We have seen attacks on the teaching of critical race theory, but also more integration of Black history into the national story — with Florida’s legislative history serving as a primary landscape for this cultural battle.

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5 Essential Features for Cardiology EHR Software

Advanced Data Systems

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, Cardiology remains a challenging field that demands precise analysis and synthesis of data from various sources, including lab tests, cardiac imaging, electrical activity monitoring, and physical examinations. With the advent of electronic health records (EHR) technology , cardiologists faced initial frustrations due to the inability of early systems to effectively capture the intricate data required for heart-related patient care.

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Our Consultant John Willems | TPSC

Patient Safety Blog

Meet Consultant John Willems As we enjoy sharing a behind-the-scenes look at The Patient Safety Company, we conducted an interview with one of our consultants, John Willems. Curious about his career at TPSC? Read on quickly!

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Turn your internship into a thriving career at CHG Healthcare

CHQ Healthcare

Are you looking for an internship opportunity to jump start your career? Look no further than CHG Healthcare. At CHG, interns get hands-on experience working with industry experts in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. From day one, you’ll be given meaningful projects that allow you to make a real impact and have access to mentorship and professional development opportunities, including multiple networking opportunities.

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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.