Tue.May 17, 2022

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What can Europe to do bridge the digital health divide?

Healthcare It News

Policy-makers in the EU are promoting an array of digital health programs, such as the European Health Data Space unveiled earlier this month. But lack of awareness and knowledge could stymy their impact. Kristine Sørensen, a digital health literacy expert based in Denmark says digital health literacy varies across countries, regions — even within families.

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Oscar faces shareholder lawsuit alleging it misled investors

Health Care Dive

The insurer is accused of failing to disclose the potential negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business before its March 2021 IPO.

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How advanced analytics can help solve SDOH problems

Healthcare It News

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on longstanding issues with healthcare inequities due to underlying social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, a lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to care. However, many in health IT contend that healthcare provider organizations can use advanced analytics to surface key insights about their patient populations and take action to ensure all patients have equal access to high-quality care.

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Humana expanding primary care clinics through second joint venture with PE firm

Health Care Dive

The payer plans to open about 100 new value-based primary care clinics for Medicare patients between 2023 and 2025 through the latest deal.

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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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Home-Based Care Providers See Staffing Tailwinds from Inflation, Travel Nursing Decrease

Home Health Care

The staffing situation has been dire in home-based care for a long time, but there could finally be tailwinds slowly gaining momentum at providers’ backs. There is an increasing amount of evidence suggesting that the home health and home care labor markets could get a boost from two somewhat unexpected types of workers: sidelined ones returning to their respective fields and travel or contract nurses finally looking to find a home.

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HCA taps new president to oversee Kansas City area

Health Care Dive

Keith Zimmerman will replace longtime HCA Healthcare leader Mel Lagarde, who is retiring.

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Patient Flow Challenges Contributing to Provider Burnout

HIT Consultant

Ben Sawyer, VP of Market Development at ABOUT Healthcare, Inc. There has been frequent reporting about the problem of provider workforce shortages within hospitals and health systems and the related burnout experienced when working in high-stress situations during the Covid-19 pandemic. There are pre-existing and contributing patient flow challenges that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, which can lead to burnout, and therefore are worth discussing.

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DEAC Awards 2022: Our Famous Alumni is Farante Ager!

American College of Healthcare Sciences

Farante Ager is a graduate of our Graduate Certificate in Complementary Alternative Medicine, Graduate Certificate in Wellness Consulting, Graduate Certificate in Holistic Nutrition, and Master of Science in Health and Wellness. She initially became interested in integrative health when exploring organic and fresh foods. Where Farante lives, organic and fresh food options are limited, and she wanted to learn more to incorporate with her family and future career goals. .

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Character Biosciences Raises $18M to Expand Precision Medicine Platform for Diseases of Aging

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Character Biosciences (“Character”) , a precision medicine platform for diseases of aging raises $18M in a new funding round led by Innovation Endeavors , alongside leading life sciences investors Section 32 and Catalio Capital Management. Formerly known as Clover Therapeutics, the company’s data-driven approach integrates genomics, deep phenotyping and machine learning for target and biomarker discovery. – The company will use the funding to advance the front

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Cygnet Health Care's priority to drive improvement forward

Life Qi

Cygnet Health Care is one of the largest independent providers of mental health services in the UK. They operate a national network of 150 health and social care services.

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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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Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated consumers, globally, to take on more DIY roles as well as self-care for health and well-being. In addition, anxiety and stress are mainstream across demographics and have impacted the way people select and consume food, based on findings in the 2022 Food and Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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NOW AVAILABLE: Updated Draft OASIS-E Instrument and Changes

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The updated draft OASIS-E All Items Instrument is now available in the Downloads section of the OASIS Data Sets webpage. A log of changes since posting in February is also available. OASIS-E will be effective January 01, 2023. Please note the instrument is not yet final. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval is required and expected later this year.

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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

Health Populi

While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. Thanks to the team at Rock Health, we know more about these gaps explained in their report, Startup innovation for underserved groups: 2021 digital health consumer adoption insights, published this week.

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Five-Star Preview Reports Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on May 16, 2022. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the ‘Folders’ button, then select ‘My Inbox’ or the Inbox beginning with ‘LTC’ and the state abbreviation followed by a facility ID.

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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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Exploring Approaches to Serving Children and Youth in Foster Care Under Medicaid

NASHP

Exploring Approaches to Serving Children and Youth in Foster Care Under Medicaid May 2022. State Medicaid programs vary in their respective approaches to serving children and youth in foster care (CYFC), with states increasingly implementing more specialized health care delivery systems and enhanced services. The two maps and accompanying chart highlight key characteristics of states’ Medicaid programs for serving CYFC.

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'Truth Decay' in Europe Is Real, but Its Advance Can Be Slowed

The Rand Blog

Though present in Europe, the evidence suggests that trends of Truth Decay are not as widespread or as pronounced as they are in the United States. There is still time for policymakers to intervene and limit their growth.

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Aveanna Not Putting ‘Cart Before the Horse’ When Raising Wages

Home Health Care

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) has maintained a disciplined approach to raising wages since it went public. Its gross margins are driven by the difference between the hourly rate it’s paid and the wage it pays its caregivers, like many other home-based care providers. And a company policy has ensured it has kept its eyes on gross margins as pay rates skyrocketed over the course of the pandemic.

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CASPER Reporting User’s Guide for MDS Providers Updated   

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has updated Section 13 – SNF Quality Reporting Program in the CASPER Reporting User’s Guide for MDS Providers. In that Section, you’ll find: Scroll down the page beneath the hyperlink found in the 1 st sentence of this Blog to find: Each of the Sections are downloaded individually.

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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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Home Health Provider Fuels Expansion Push with EMR Switch

Home Health Care

Optimal Home Care and Hospice is having to make drastic technology changes due to its ambitious growth plans. And its experience serves as a guide for industry peers with similar expansion goals. Currently, Optimal serves about 350 patients and has annual admissions of around 2,500 in the Detroit metro area. With plans to grow its patient census even further over the next several years, the Michigan-based home health company is hoping its transition to a new emergency medical record platform wil

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5 Child Care Invoice Templates That Increase Your Revenue

Etactics

Nearly half of all parents plan on enrolling their kids into some type of child care, camp, or program during the summer. In general, US families spend $8,355 on average on child care every year per kid. If you’re an owner or manager of an organization that provides child care, those two statistics are good news. They both point to the fact that the services you offer are in demand.

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Compliance Lessons from the Phillies: Own Your Mistakes and We’ve Got Your Back

Healthcare Performance

Alec Bohm, a third overall pick in the 2018 draft, is playing his third season with the Phillies. On April 11, against the Mets, Bohm was playing third base and committed three throwing errors early in the game. In the second inning, the Philadelphia fans mockingly cheered Bohm after a clean fielding play for an out. While walking back to third base, the TV broadcast captures Bohm telling shortstop Didi Gregorius, “I *ing hate this place.”.

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Morning Headlines 5/18/22

HIStalk

ThoroughCare Announces $3 Million Capital Raise to Advance Care Coordination.

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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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FDA Issued Enforcement Discretion Measures for Infant Formula

Triage Health Law

In recognition of the infant formula crisis facing the United States supply chain, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued guidance on May 16, 2022 providing for enforcement discretion with respect to certain requirements for infant formulas that may not comply with certain statutory and regulatory requirements. The guidance remains in effect until November 14, 2022.

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News 5/18/22

HIStalk

Top News A Venezuelan cardiologist and self-taught programmer is charged.

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How State Medicaid Programs Serve Children and Youth in Foster Care

NASHP

How State Medicaid Programs Serve Children and Youth in Foster Care May 17, 2022 / Veronnica Thompson. Children and youth in foster care (CYFC) often benefit from targeted services and supports. Yet, many receive fragmented or limited access to care, contributing to higher rates of unmet health needs. [1] , [2]. In the past decade, historic numbers of children entered foster care due in large part to the opioid epidemic. [3] , [4] While these numbers have recently declined, states are still serv

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5 Proven Areas For Cost Savings | Ep. 44

Vie Healthcare

There are significant cost savings hiding in hospital med surge reports. VIE regularly sees a 4-6% error rate in the contract reports. In Episode 44 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by producer Adan Kovinich from The Lisa Larter Group. In today’s episode, Lisa presents five proven areas for cost savings. As Lisa observes ‘’I can almost guarantee that if you look at these five areas of spend in your organization in the second quarter 2022 you can pull out multi-million doll

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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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Misleading, Coercive Language in Bills Barring Trans Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care

Bill Of Health

By Arisa R. Marshall. On Friday, a federal judge temporarily enjoined part of a new Alabama law that would make it a felony for physicians to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. The law had been in effect for less than a week. This is only the most recent development relating to a raft of anti-trans legislation sweeping the country. More than twenty bills that would impose life-changing healthcare restrictions on transgender children have been introduced in statehouses nationwide over

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2023 Payment Rule’s Nondiscrimination Provisions and Anticipation of New Section 1557 Rules

Sheppard Health Law

On January 5, 2022, we discussed the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023 proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On April 28, 2022, CMS issued the NBPP 2023 Final Rule. CMS published a Fact Sheet and other resources on April 28, 2022. The rule will take effect on January 1, 2023, but the optional early bird application deadline is May 18, 2022 and the final deadline for issuers to submit changes to their QHP Application is August 17, 2022.