Mon.May 30, 2022

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The virtual ward is on its way: how remote monitoring is changing the face of clinical care

Healthcare It News

Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust (CUH) has implemented a fully integrated patient surveillance infrastructure based on Masimo’s Patient SafetyNet TM supplemental remote monitoring and clinician notification system and Halo ION™, which provides clinicians with a comprehensive, personalised and continuous patient score. Masimo’s Root® device allow them to create a centralised patient monitoring and connectivity hub, while a variety of sensor types monitor patie

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

Year 3 into the COVID-19 pandemic, health citizens are dealing with coronavirus variants in convergence with other challenges in daily life: price inflation, civil and social stress, anxiety and depression, global security concerns, and the safety of their families. Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America.

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Melbourne-based Northern Health taps The Clinician for patient registration platform

Healthcare It News

Northern Health, a health provider serving Melbourne's northern region, has engaged digital health firm The Clinician to develop its new patient registration and intake platform. The newly built digital platform replaces the provider's old intake technology as part of the state-wide expansion of its Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED).

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Health Systems Continue to Extract Value Out of Home-Based Care Partnerships

Home Health Care

Joint ventures and collaborations between home-based care providers, tech companies and health systems continue to have operational upside. Some of the biggest names in home-based care have already proven that to be the case with their joint venture strategies over the past several months and years. Moving forward, however, it could be even more so the case, experts said at the Health Care Council of Chicago conference this week.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

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Veterans health care news

Healthcare ECONOMIST

As I do every year on Memorial Day, I like to review recent news articles surrounding health care for veterans. Corruption : On the negative side, we have news of a former VA employee stealing HIV medication. A former pharmacy procurement technician was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for stealing prescription HIV medications from the pharmacy of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in East Orange, New Jersey… From October 2015 through November 2019, Hoffman was a procurement

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Amedisys Working on Reimbursement Pilots, ‘Hunting for a Nice Home Health Deal’

Home Health Care

Home health and personal care services provider Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) is experimenting with a new model that better fits the Medicare Advantage-heavy environment of today. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Amedisys has started to pilot a new model that takes into account the case rate on a per admission basis, which will hopefully drive down business per episode in order to take in more Medicare Advantage (MA) patients across its home health segment.

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A ‘Persistence of Patient Harm’: Hospital Failures Highlight Need for Home-Based Care Investments

Home Health Care

The traditional brick-and-mortar hospital system is broken, often leaving patients in a condition that’s worse than when they first arrived. That’s according to a May report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). The findings throw further support for facility-based care alternatives, including the types of hospital-at-home models that lean heavily on home health and home care agencies.

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Morning Headlines 5/31/22

HIStalk

VA Ordered to Report Performance of Troubled Health Records System.

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