Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

A pair of new reports released this week allege that HCA Healthcare policies are encouraging staff to transition more patients to palliative and end-of-life care, thereby increasing churn and boost | Two reports, one based on dozens of employee interviews and the other on policies and discharge statistics, paint a picture of internal policies encouraging transfers to boost quality metrics and free up hospital beds.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 21, 2023

An analysis by KFF found state spending on Medicaid fell during the COVID-19 pandemic even as enrollment soared. But spending will likely increase as the federal government begins to pare back its increased contribution.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

Even in the face of substantial headwinds, dealmaking in the healthcare industry hasn't fallen off, according to a new analysis from PwC. | Even in the face of substantial headwinds, dealmaking in the healthcare industry hasn't fallen off, according to a new analysis from PwC.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 21, 2023

The department sent a cybersecurity notification to the sector about TimisoaraHackerTeam after an attack on a U.S. cancer center that “significantly reduced” its capability to treat patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

The southeastern region of the U.S. | The southeastern region of the U.S. scored worst across the board in the Commonwealth Fund’s annual scorecard on states' healthcare system performance.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 21, 2023

The healthcare workers union said the findings raise questions about potential corporate interference to decrease the number of patients who die in HCA hospitals, and urged both HCA and regulators to investigate.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 21, 2023

At least six companies have emerged to help unstick what developers say is a “bottleneck” in advancing complex genetic treatments.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

UPMC has signed a non-binding letter of intent to affiliate Washington Health System, a two-hospital nonprofit community health system based in Pennsylvania, according to a release shared Tuesday.< | Two-hospital Washington Health System said it chose UPMC over competitor Allegheny Health Network due to the organizations' long history of clinical collaborations.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2023

Discussion of an app for children with ADHD that improves attention and cognition, from Scott Kollins, chief medical officer at Akili Interactive.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has dethroned Boston Children’s Hospital in the latest release of U.S. | A change in the annual list's methodology that deemphasized expert opinion helped Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center top the nine-year champion Boston Children's Hospital.

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JUNE 21, 2023

With the evolving healthcare landscape, chiropractic care has gained recognition as a valuable treatment option. Medicare beneficiaries have also recognized its benefits. These services are valued for their non-invasive approach to treating musculoskeletal conditions. Chiropractic practices depend on chiropractic billing services for the insurance claim processing.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

The health tech industry may be in the middle of a market downturn but Aledade has picked up more than $380 million in venture capital dollars in the past 12 months. | The health tech industry may be in the middle of a market downturn but Aledade has picked up more than $380 million in venture capital dollars in the past 12 months.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 21, 2023

By Timothy Bonis Premiering tonight on PBS , the film Below the Belt sheds light on endometriosis by documenting four women’s experiences with the disease. Endometriosis is a silent crisis. One in ten women have it, yet, on average, people with the condition see seven doctors before they get diagnosed. Many experience severe pain, and the disease costs the American economy $80 billion annually in lost productivity, but the standard treatments are outdated and ineffectual.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

Up until recently, patients could search for providers on Zocdoc, check to see if that provider takes their insurance and then book an appointment. | Providers’ schedules are now seamlessly connected with the Zocdoc platform to decrease tedious work for office staff and allow for real-time additions of appointments on the online marketplace to help optimize scheduling.

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JUNE 21, 2023

What You Should Know: Nuance Communications announced that Cleveland-based University Hospitals has chosen Nuance Patient Engagement Solutions to improve patient experiences by providing streamlined, secure, around-the-clock support to patients. The future of healthcare depends on the unified communication between patients and providers. Nuance’s platform integrates directly into University Hospital’s existing infrastructure and extends the capabilities of the EHR to accelerate the moder

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

One of the methods used to gauge hospital performance needs to stop giving equal weight to the four metrics it uses and, in addition, start including patient feedback in its calculations, according | Including patient feedback could improve the system which CMS uses to measure hospital performance, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 21, 2023

Bruce Orcutt, SVP at ABBYY There was an overwhelmingly consistent message from healthcare providers at the recent innovation conference PegaWorld iNspire – the need for better handling of information to reduce paperwork. While this may come as no surprise, it was interesting to hear about some of the different challenges organizations are facing and the technologies being considered to solve them.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has signed a five-year agreement with Upstream aimed at improving access to contraceptive care. | The Department of Health and Human Services has signed a five-year agreement with Upstream aimed at improving access to contraceptive care.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JUNE 21, 2023

As reported based on a N.Y. Times/KFF survey : A majority of Americans with health insurance said they had encountered obstacles to coverage, including denied medical care, higher bills and a dearth of doctors in their plans… About 40 percent of those surveyed said they had delayed or gone without care in the last year because of the expense. People in fair or poor health were more than twice as likely to report problems with paying medical bills than those in better health, and Black adul

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Home Health Care

JUNE 21, 2023

In-home care and health assessments give payers and providers the ability to better manage vulnerable populations while addressing social determinants of health (SDoH). That’s partly why UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) subsidiary Optum has invested so mightily in its home- and community-based care efforts, including its HouseCalls program , according to Optum Health Chief Nursing Officer Kristy Duffey.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 21, 2023

What You Should Know: The American Medical Association (AMA) announced today nine organizations selected as recipients of the 2023 Electronic Health Record Use Research Grant Program. This year’s grant recipients will divide $589k to fund research examining patterns of EHR use to inform solutions that prevent clinician burnout and turnover, enhance high-quality patient care, and improve workflows, teamwork, and resource allocation at the practice level.

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Health IT Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

Researchers are calling for objective evaluations of deep learning-based tools to clean up medical images to ensure that these actually improve performance on clinical tasks.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 21, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Prior to 2020, older adults had already started to rethink how and where they wanted to age, with a growing preference to age in place. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated that trend. To connect with potential residents sooner and diversify their business lines, many senior living operators launched home health or home care service lines , hoping to capitalize off that trend.

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Healthy Debate

JUNE 21, 2023

The post Ontario’s rural towns in danger of losing access to health care as family doctors near retirement appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 21, 2023

In a best-case scenario, conveners have the ability to form beneficial partnerships with home health providers. But most industry leaders still believe there is a long road to get there. “Today, the landscape is crappy,” Bruce Greenstein, chief strategy and innovation officer at LHC Group, said on a panel during the Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference in Chicago earlier this month.

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Nordic

JUNE 21, 2023

This edition of The Remedy reviews a brief history of the hospital IT department, digital health’s current state as partners in care, and what the future could hold for health IT.

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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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Sequence Health

JUNE 21, 2023

When it comes to your healthcare call center , continuity is of the utmost importance. However, several call centers do not have the right business continuity plan in place for their operations. So in this article, let’s talk about a call center BCDR plan and why it’s so important. That way you can prepare your practice in the best way possible now and going forward.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Hostilities in Ukraine are ongoing, but it is not too early to consider post-war reconstruction. Indeed, the United States and Europe have already begun planning what will probably be the most ambitious post-war rebuilding effort in modern history.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its June 2023 Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System. Each June, as part of its mandate from the Congress, MedPAC reports on issues affecting the Medicare program as well as broader changes in health care delivery and the market for health care services.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 21, 2023

What You Should Know: DexCare, Inc. , a Seattle-based patient demand and care access platform raises $75M in Series C funding led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from existing partners Transformation Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and others. The funding will advance DexCare’s platform, which extends limited health-system capacity to serve patients faster and to precisely manage the supply and demand of digital-care access.

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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.