Health Care Dive
JANUARY 14, 2022
Nursing facilities are particularly worried about the strain a vaccination mandate could have on their shrinking workforce, and are urging CMS to consider a regular testing option for unvaccinated workers.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
MedPAC: Majority of Medicare beneficiaries to be on MA by 2023, but coding issues remain rampant. rking. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 16:37.
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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 14, 2022
About 60% of female physicians and 53% of male physicians said they would take a pay cut to have better work-life balance, Medscape's survey found.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
HHS renews COVID-19 public health emergency order for another 90 days. rking. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 11:27.
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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 14, 2022
The announcement by President Joe Biden now brings the administration's total purchase to 1 billion test kits. Abbott Laboratories, iHealth and Roche have so far been awarded contracts for a combined 380 million tests.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Hospitals forced to delay patient discharges as nursing homes and rehab centers face major staff shortages. dmuoio. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 16:07.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
DaVita acquires MedSleuth to streamline transplant process for kidney and liver candidates. rtorrence. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 15:36.
NASHP
JANUARY 14, 2022
Emerging Leaders of Color Fellowship Program January 14, 2022. “I really enjoyed all our mentorship meetings that we were able to have each month. I also really enjoyed getting to hear the perspective of other state leaders of color and understand what their journeys were like. That was something that really inspired me.” Abena, 2021 ELC Fellow. “The reason that I applied is really to be able to pay it forward.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Kaiser Permanente, Mass General back Providence spinoff DexCare's $50M series B round. rtorrence. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 11:34.
Health Populi
JANUARY 14, 2022
Members of his congregation kept going to the hospital with diet-related issues, Reverend Dr. Heber Brown, III , realized. “I got tired of praying and hoping they made it and walked out,” Reverend Brown realized. And then… “God gave us an idea and vision to be proactive on the issue of health in our congregation,” Rev. Brown explained to us yesterday on Day 2 of Real Chemistry’s Health Equity Summit.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Healthcare conferences to put on your calendar for 2022. hlandi. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 13:08.
Healthcare Associates
JANUARY 14, 2022
8 Home Remedies for Burning Feet. Burning feet can be difficult to live with, especially if the pain and burning sensation seem to never go away. However, knowing what causes burning feet and how to treat them at home can help you find lasting relief. Here are common causes of burning feet, along with eight home remedies for foot sole burning to help you feel more comfortable.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Industry Voices—Why the new hospital price transparency rules miss the mark. pminemyer. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 11:27.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 14, 2022
Two major home-based care companies announced key leadership hires this week that will set the stage for their near- and long-term initiatives. On Monday, Help at Home – one of the largest providers of personal care services in the country – announced that it hired Rich Tinsley as the company’s new chief development officer. It also hired Darren Lehrich as its new senior vice president of investor relations and finance.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Chutes & Ladders—Amedisys announces CEO hand-off; Mercy adds 5 to senior leadership team. dmuoio. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 10:02.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 14, 2022
Marcus Whitney, Jumpstart Health Investors Co-Founder & Partner. What You Should Know: – Jumpstart Health Investors , announced this week the launch of Jumpstart Nova, the first venture fund to invest in Black founded and led healthcare innovation companies. – The $55M fund will invest exclusively in Black founder-led healthcare companies across health IT , digital health , tech-enabled services, diagnostic devices, biotech, medical device manufacturing and consumer health and we
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Looking for healthcare events in 2024? We rounded up some of the top conferences, both virtual and live, that are on the calendar. | Here's our roundup of some of the top events in healthcare scheduled in 2024.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 14, 2022
What You Should Know: Verana Health , a digital health company that delivers quality drug lifecycle and medical practice insights from an exclusive real-world data network, today announced a $150 million Series E funding round led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) and Novo Growth , the growth-stage investment arm of Novo Holdings. – Existing Verana Health investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), Casdin Capital , and Brook Byers also joined the round, as well as
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Oscar Health reveals data breach caused by printing error. pminemyer. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 15:03.
Sheppard Health Law
JANUARY 14, 2022
On January 13, 2022, the United States Supreme Court granted emergency relief to the petitions of numerous states, businesses, and non-governmental organizations by staying the implementation and enforcement of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”). Under the original ETS, private employers with 100 or more employees were required to implement a mandatory vaccination or weekly testing/face covering policy, which consti
Home Health Care
JANUARY 14, 2022
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) is full-speed ahead on “Walgreens Health,” its recently unveiled health care strategy driven by investments in VillageMD, CareCentrix and Shields Health Solutions. And to accelerate its health care push even more and refocus on long-term growth priorities, the holdings firm for pharmacy store giant Walgreens has initiated a strategic review of its Boots business.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
JANUARY 14, 2022
There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. On the one hand, economies of scale could lead to more investment in information technology, or allow for further specialization of services. A recent paper by Wang et al. (2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system.
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JANUARY 14, 2022
Admin. January 14, 2022. 7 Ways to Enhance Your Medical Billing Productivity. Medical Billing is the most important part of a healthcare practice’s revenue cycle. In addition, your practice cannot thrive due to revenue losses. However, it can generate revenues if the billing is right. Thus, managing claim denials properly to keep a smooth cash flow is important.
Sheppard Health Law
JANUARY 14, 2022
On January 13, 2022, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Interim Final Rule (the “Rule”) in a 5-4 decision, staying the preliminary injunctions issued for 24 states by the District Courts for the Eastern District of Missouri and the Western District of Louisiana. Therefore, the CMS vaccine mandate is in full effect for all states except Texas, which was not part of the cases before the Court.
Twistle
JANUARY 14, 2022
Patient-reported outcome (PRO) surveys collect unfiltered feedback at regular intervals, which is used to inform program-level improvement initiatives. The data provides a retrospective analysis of organizational performance and is monitored over time to evaluate the impact of care delivery changes on patient populations. However, PRO programs that also use these data to adjust care in real-time improve patient outcomes exponentially. .
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.
Briggs Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. As promised, CMS has posted the updated Nursing Home Compare Technical Users’ Guide January 2022. It’s a 34-page guide with these revisions: Please download, review and reference this Guide – it’s important to be informed as the next steps unfold (reference my recent blog : The employee-level data will be posted in the PBJ section of data.cms.gov on January 26, 2022.
The Rand Blog
JANUARY 14, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on technologies that manipulate the climate, what NATO could do to address the Ukraine-Russia crisis, and cost savings from biosimilar drugs.
Briggs Healthcare
JANUARY 14, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Before I provide the latest CMS, CDC and NHSN data, there’s another report you need to review. The report itself says the data is alarming and the authors were definitely not kidding. It’s a sobering view of where nursing homes stand currently. The report is 9 slides in length and should be shared with your team and colleagues.
Triage Health Law
JANUARY 14, 2022
On January 8, 2022, Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition Vittorio Colao, in an article published in the Italian press, made a number of announcements about the timing of the Italian government’s intended investment in digital health. This investment forms part of the Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP).
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.
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