Health Care Dive
AUGUST 18, 2022
Fewer than one in five primary care physicians electronically exchanged patient health information with public health agencies in 2019, according to a new report from the Office of the National Coordinator.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 18, 2022
Duke University and the University of Connecticut are two of 13 recipients receiving funding through the third round of Fairness in AI program funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and Amazon. WHY IT MATTERS. The accepted proposals set goals to improve access to underserved patients and to improve patient care in high-stakes hospital settings.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 18, 2022
The shakeup includes the creation of new offices, staffing moves and steps to expedite data releases, CDC director Rochelle Walensky informed staff on Wednesday.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 18, 2022
What You Should Know: – Digital health solutions company imaware today announced its collaboration with Favor (formerly The Pill Club), the leading integrated digital healthcare platform, to offer at-home sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing for it’s more than 220K patients across the country. – This custom, one-of-a-kind test kit goes beyond existing at-home STI tests on the market to provide women and people who menstruate with a more comprehensive and accurate picture of
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 18, 2022
The predicted rise, while a jump from the year prior, is still far below the 9.1% Consumer Price Index, a figure reflecting inflation.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 18, 2022
The at-home medical supplies provider CCS is expanding its business to better care for patients with chronic needs in the home. Specifically, it is looking to transform the way diabetes patients are cared for in the home. To do so, CCS is expanding its patient education, monitoring and coaching services to “unify the patient experience.”. The Dallas-based CCS serves over 200,000 people across the country who are living with diabetes or other chronic conditions.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Life Qi
AUGUST 18, 2022
In this blog, we are going to look at the Virginia Mason Production System (VMPS) and its influence on Quality Improvement (QI) across the globe.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 18, 2022
One of the most fascinating questions surrounding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health proposed payment rule is what effect it will have on M&A. . I’ve heard that it will stymie acquisitions. I’ve heard it will drive them. Both make sense, too. Some companies may not be allocating more resources and money to the home health side of the house – assuming they have more than one service line – while other, larger companies may take advantage of the margin squeeze
CDC
AUGUST 18, 2022
Three to four billion years ago, microbes (germs) were the first life on earth. They have thrived for millions of years longer than humans have existed. Much like humans, microbes have complex social and physical communities and are always evolving. These microbial communities are home to helpful germs and pathogens (harmful germs). Better understanding the ecology of microbes—relationships within and across these communities—is just the beginning of public health’s scientific journey.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 18, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the Specifications for the Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program Total Nursing Hours per Resident Day Measure. This is a 9-page document. Please be sure to download this document and share/review with your team, including the MDS Coordinator and PBJ reporting personnel.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 18, 2022
What You Should Know: – In 2017, the University of Connecticut created a new unit called UConn Analytics and Information Management Solutions—UConn AIMS for short—to do the work of planning its health information network. – Today, UConn AIMS is out of business, 20 people are out of jobs and the system developed for Connie at the cost of about $20 million has been discarded and dismantled.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 18, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is granting exceptions 1 under certain Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs to providers located in areas affected by the Kentucky severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides to assist these providers while they direct their resources toward caring for their patients and repairing structural damages to facilities.
HIStalk
AUGUST 18, 2022
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Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 18, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. IQVIA is conducting a survey for the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to assess skilled nursing facility (SNF) capabilities related to interoperability, electronically exchanging information across organizations and systems. This may improve care transitions between acute-care and post-acute care facilities.
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HIStalk
AUGUST 18, 2022
Upfront acquires PatientBond; expands capabilities for market-leading personalized patient access.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 18, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. If you listened to the August 4, 2022 CMS SNF/LTC Open Door Forum, you heard the announcement from Ellen Berry of CMS that SNFs/LTCs will transition to the iQIES system in early 2023. 3 PAC providers have already made this transition to submit OASIS (HH), IRF PAI (IRF) and LTCH assessments and receive CASPER reports.
Etactics
AUGUST 18, 2022
Unfortunately, there are many cases of hostile work environments across the United States. At least 35% of people experience workplace harassment. These situations are often deemed “hostile” when a pervasive amount of harassment is present. A situation can turn into unlawful harassment when the conduct becomes pervasive enough to be intimidating or abusive.
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HIStalk
AUGUST 18, 2022
Top News KeyCare, which offers an virtual-first care platform that.
Bill Of Health
AUGUST 18, 2022
By Jennifer S. Bard. As weekly deaths from COVID in the U.S. soar into thousands , monkeypox continues to spread, and New York reports the country’s first case of paralytic polio since 1979, it is fair to question the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s effectiveness and ability to achieve its mission to “to protect America from health, safety and security threats” and its pledge to “base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data that is derived openl
Home Health Care
AUGUST 18, 2022
It has been well documented how home health providers and advocacy organizations feel about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health proposed payment rule for CY 2023. What has not been, up to this point, is how Medicare beneficiaries feel about it. That changed Wednesday, as a poll conducted by Morning Consult – on behalf of the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (PQHH) – was released.
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