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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. As a result, the opportunities that exist for health IT companies are massive. Crunchbase estimates that healthcare technology companies have raised a record-breaking $36.6 billion globally from 2020 through October 2021.

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Anthem-backed Hydrogen Health rolls out virtual primary care services for insurers, employers

Fierce Healthcare

Anthem-backed Hydrogen Health rolls out virtual primary care services for insurers, employers. hlandi. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 09:01.

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Study finds surgery volumes bounced back after 2020 COVID-19 shutdown

Health Care Dive

Confounding factors such as healthcare staffing shortages caused the delta variant headwind to drag on. And now, rapidly increasing inpatient volumes are leading U.S. hospitals to once again delay surgical procedures.

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AHA, AMA sue Biden admin to challenge surprise billing arbitration process

Fierce Healthcare

AHA, AMA sue Biden admin to challenge surprise billing arbitration process. pminemyer. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 12:17.

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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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Hospital, doctor lobbies sue HHS over implementation of surprise billing ban

Health Care Dive

Congress intended for an arbiter to be able to consider a constellation of factors when payment disputes arise, but the final rule severely limits what an arbiter can consider, the lawsuit claims.

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CVS Health projects at least $304B in revenue for 2022

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Health projects at least $304B in revenue for 2022. pminemyer. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 15:57.

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CMS: Nearly 4.6M have signed up for coverage on the ACA exchanges during open enrollment

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: Nearly 4.6M have signed up for coverage on the ACA exchanges during open enrollment. pminemyer. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 11:59.

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CVS Health Looking to ‘Expand Home Health Services’

Home Health Care

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) said on Thursday that it plans to take another step into the home health care space. The company laid out its strategy for the coming years at its 2021 investor day. Its at-home care strategy is no longer on the outskirts of its overall goals, leadership explained. “Now is the time to undertake our next major evolution and capitalize on our role as the leading health solutions company in America,” CVS Health President and CEO Karen S.

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Chutes & Ladders—NIH taps Tabak as acting director; Former Unilever CIO joins Mass General Brigham

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—NIH taps Tabak as acting director; Former Unilever CIO joins Mass General Brigham. hlandi. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 16:30.

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American Attitudes About Vaccine Globalism

The Rand Blog

Overall, American support for sharing vaccines with other countries was high even before the Omicron variant. This may reflect recognition of the need to proactively address the pandemic beyond U.S. borders to truly be on the path to recovery.

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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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Can Sleep Apnea be Cured?

Healthcare Associates

Can Sleep Apnea Be Cured? Sleep apnea is a common sleep disorder that causes loud snoring, bad headaches, and insomnia. Serious complications of sleep apnea include type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Many people with this sleep disorder are curious about whether it can be cured so they can find relief from their symptoms. “Being an individual with sleep apnea myself, I have realized the dangers that come with this condition,” says Dr.

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M&A: Quartet Health Acquires InnovaTel Telepsychiatry

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Quartet acquires InnovaTel Telepsychiatry, a provider of virtual mental healthcare services with a differentiated expertise in treating complex conditions. – The partnership lays the foundation for a comprehensive, nationwide solution to help all people — including those with complex needs — and focuses on speed to high-quality mental health care.

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GoMo Health Acquires Trajectory, a Specialist Health and Wellness Agency

GoMoHealth

NEWS RELEASE. November 15, 2021. Contact: Shelley R. Schoenfeld, Chief Marketing Officer. Ph: 732-484-9144. Email: sschoenfeld@gomohealth.com. GoMo Health Acquires Trajectory, a Specialist Health and Wellness Agency. Uniting Teams and Expertise to Provide Award-Winning Engagement, Branding, Marketing and Creative Services. Asbury Park, NJ, December 14, 2021: GoMo Health, a leading health and wellness patient and consumer engagement company based in Asbury Park, New Jersey and Trajectory, a hybri

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AT&T, Samsung and Qure4u Partner to Deliver Remote Patient Monitoring

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: AT&T, Samsung and Qure4u team up to deliver remote patient monitoring with FirstNet® for high-risk patients. Qure4u , a provider of digital health solutions, today announced a strategic collaboration with with AT&T and Samsung to provide remote patient monitoring (RPM) for patients with high blood pressure. As part of this collaboration, Qure4u chose FirstNet ®, Built with AT&T, to provide reliable and highly secure connectivity to support RPM kits and help expa

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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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‘This Is Not a Sustainable System’: Providers Struggle with High Contract-Labor Costs

Home Health Care

Home-based care providers are short on workers. It’s the largest, most universal issue facing the home care and home health industries right now. And the problem is being worsened by bottom-line headwinds that come with hiring contract workers meant to fill the void. Almost every publicly traded home health company mentioned the drag that contract labor was bringing to their financials on their third quarter earnings calls.

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Ksana Health Joins Novo Nordisk’s Global Prevention Accelerator

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ksana Health , a digital behavioral health company that uses technology to provide continuous objective measurement, personalized insights and interventions to improve mental health care, announced its selection by Novo Nordisk’s Global Prevention Accelerator. Organizations were selected based on a set of criteria including the ability to make a global impact and provide scalable digital solutions that can be adapted for local populations. – Ksana Health will

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3 in 4 Insured Americans Worried About Medical Bills — Especially Women

Health Populi

In the U.S., being covered by health insurance is one of the social determinants of health. Without a health plan, an uninsured person in America is far more likely to file for bankruptcy due to medical costs, and lack access to needed health care (and especially primary care). But even with health insurance coverage, most health-insured people are concerned about medical costs in America, found in a MITRE-Harris Poll on U.S. consumers’ health insurance perspectives published today. “

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SCAN Health Plan Teams Up with MedArrive to Help Homebound Seniors

Home Health Care

SCAN Health Plan and MedArrive are teaming up to provide COVID-19 booster and flu shots to homebound seniors throughout California’s Los Angeles and Orange counties. The partnership comes as concerns around the Omicron variant grow. Led by former Uber Health CEO Dan Trigub, MedArrive uses telehealth technology, emergency medical services (EMS) professionals and other resources to deliver a range of home-based care offerings.

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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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Teamwork makes the dream work

Healthcare ECONOMIST

There is much policy discussion about the need for increased care coordination. AHRQ defines care coordination as “deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient’s care to achieve safer and more effective care.” OECD defines care coordination as “…policies that help create patient-centred care that is more coherent both within and across care settings and over time.” But does bette

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Evaluating Chronic Disease Progression With Artificial Intelligence

Health IT Analytics

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HCA Healthcare to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse in New Hampshire

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – HCA Healthcare , one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has begun implementing MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform across three hospitals in New Hampshire as a part of its digital transformation initiatives. HCA will go-live by the end of 2022. – The three locations — Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, Parkland Medical Center in Derry, and Portsmouth Regional Hospital in Portsmouth — will leverage Expanse to help hospital teams deliver ex

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Cultivating Company Culture Through Gingerbread

Eclinical Works

December is a time when many people come together to celebrate aspects of their culture and bring about a collective feeling of togetherness. December at eClinicalWorks ® is no exception – where eCW employees from every department and office across the United States come together to build their own gingerbread houses.

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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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Prior Authorizations: 3 Ways to Reduce Administrative Burden & Burnout

HIT Consultant

Russ Graney, CEO and founder of Aidin. Medicare’s annual enrollment period has started, and you know what that means: a slew of commercials suddenly appearing on television for Medicare Advantage plans. The advertising appears to be working. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage has more than doubled over the past decade to more than 26 million people this year.

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CMMC-AB November 30 Town Hall: Key Takeaways and Unanswered Questions

Etactics

Table of Contents Town Hall Overview Credits for Exam Vouchers C3PAO Assessment Vouchers Renewals On Proposed Changes in CMMC 2.0 Level 1 - Self-Attestation Level 2 - Bifurcation Level 3 - Government Certifications Training and Certification Updates Training Documentation Exams & Objectives Blueprint Beta Training The Defense Industrial Base Perspective General Feelings on CMMC 2.0 Concerns of CMMC 2.0 Benefits of CMMC 2.0 Question and Answer Session Answering Unanswered Questions.

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4 Key Barriers to Prevent Surprise Medical Bills

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: A new AKASA survey highlight the challenges hospitals and health systems face when trying to prevent surprise medical bills. AKASA™ , the developer of AI for healthcare operations, today released findings from a new survey highlighting the challenges hospitals and health systems face when trying to prevent surprise medical bills.

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HIPAA Criminal Penalties: Possible Violations with Real Examples

Etactics

A HIPAA violation is a failure to comply with any aspect of HIPAA laws and regulations detailed in 45 CFR Parts 160, 162, and 164. It occurs when a covered entity or business associate violates one or more aspects of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, Security Rule, or Breach Notification Rule. The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for the text of all published HIPAA regulations.

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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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How accountability helped PIH Good Samaritan Hospital reach a 4,500% ROI increase

nThrive

Those who joined us for the 2021 nThrive User Forums were treated to many conversations between nThrive’s product experts and the healthcare clients they work with on a regular basis. These discussions highlighted the strength of nThrive’s solutions and the commitment our team has in ensuring our clients are able to accurately and efficiently utilize our SaaS healthcare revenue cycle technology products.

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60+ Employee Burnout Statistics that Every Manager Should Know

Etactics

The feeling of burnout has to do with being mentally exhausted or stressed. People may use this when discussing any area of their life, but the World Health Organization (WHO) describes it only as relating to the workplace. In its 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), the WHO redefined burnout. It includes it as an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical condition, so it isn’t applicable to describe other areas of life.

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The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting a New EHR Platform

Icanotes

Electronic health records (EHR) make patient information available in real-time to authorized users. They help streamline your workflow as a provider and give patients access to their medical records. Since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandate went into effect, your practice has likely adopted an EHR platform. But after months or years of using it, you might find it doesn't fully meet your needs.

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Interview with Yuva Biosciences co-founders Keshav Singh and Greg Schmergel

Health Business Group

Greg Schmergel and Keshav Singh don’t claim to have found the Fountain of Youth. But by founding Yuva Biosciences they do intend to extend the “health span” –in other words, the length of time that people are leading healthy, energetic lives. Their approach is to target aging and aging-related diseases through innovative mitochondrial science.

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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.