Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2023

Patients expect a convenient, Amazon-like, digital experience when engaging with healthcare. But in an era of continued staffing challenges, staying connected to the patient outside of the four walls of a healthcare facility can be difficult; enter the chatbot. Chatbots proactively engage with patients to offload routine clinical and administrative tasks that are traditionally handled by physicians, nurses, clinicians, and care team members.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Chatbots outperformed doctors in answering patient questions with accuracy and empathy: JAMA study aburky Mon, 05/01/2023 - 13:58

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Health Care Dive

MAY 1, 2023

About half of nurses polled by AMN Healthcare said they were likely to encourage others to take up the profession in 2023, down from 64% in 2021.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Doctors, influencers call on their peers to use social media to 'pre-bunk' dangerous misinformation aburky Mon, 05/01/2023 - 18:49

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Health Care Dive

MAY 1, 2023

The tech giant is exiting the wearables sector as it eliminates 27,000 jobs this year. Amazon’s Halo devices will stop working on Aug. 1.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2023

In-person visits are still perceived more positively than virtual visits when it comes to telehealth quality, outcomes, convenience and utility, according to a soon-to-be-released healthcare survey of more than 6,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Australia and Germany. The survey was conducted by research and consulting giant EY – and it has plenty more to say about the state of healthcare and health IT today.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 1, 2023

In today’s job market, health and retirement benefits are vital tools for competing for employees. The latest tool? Fertility benefits.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Nearly a third of nurses looking for the exit, survey shows.

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p3care

MAY 1, 2023

Fraudulent medical billing services are a sort of white-collar crime. Any act of intentional deviation/misrepresentation of data is medical fraud. Sometimes, such occasions occur because the healthcare billing services are not competent to handle them. While others do so to earn some financial advantages. In any way, this is not acceptable at all. Therefore, practices that do not pay attention to this issue deal with the strict actions of the government.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

CommonSpirit Health finalizes acquisition of 5 Utah hospitals, 35 medical clinics hlandi Mon, 05/01/2023 - 18:41

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Health Care Dive

MAY 1, 2023

Learn the considerations product leaders must evaluate as they develop solutions to ease clinician burnout and deliver fast ROI.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Michigan Blues plan takes Vermont Blues under its wing in affiliation deal fdiamond Mon, 05/01/2023 - 17:29

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CHQ Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month , and each year CHG looks for opportunities to celebrate the heritage of our Asian and Pacific American employees. Last year, CHG’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and community impact teams hosted two service-learning opportunities to help educate and inspire employees about Asian/Pacific American history in the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Mental health is a major concern for employers.

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NASHP

MAY 1, 2023

Home visiting plays an important role in assuring women, children, and their families have access to quality health care. States use public and private funds to support home visiting programs, including state general revenue, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and federal funding, such as the Maternal and Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Hospitals' 340B participation tied to reduced biosimilar uptake, study finds dmuoio Mon, 05/01/2023 - 19:26

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

What You Should Know: Flatiron Health announced a new partnership today with Sanofi in their pursuit to redesign the clinical trial experience for sponsors, sites, and patients in the therapeutic area of oncology. The multi-study partnership between Sanofi and Flatiron will focus on improving clinical trial data acquisition, delivery, and quality through site-facing technology that digitally transfers data captured in the electronic health record (EHR) directly into the electronic data captu

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Survey: Why value-based contracting for specialty drugs remains rare pminemyer Mon, 05/01/2023 - 16:44

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

Russ Johannesson, CEO at Glooko Though we seldom see their use in our modern world and, even then, only in fiction, there was a time when it was common for people to actually use things like crystal balls and divining rods to try to uncover unknown yet valuable information. As unbelievable as it may seem, soothsayers peered into crystal balls aiming to help seekers look into the future for guidance, while prospectors would rely earnestly on divining rods as they attempted to locate underground r

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PDC Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Patient tracking during large-scale events is a challenge. Patients may be passed between first responders, ground transport, air transport, and then transferred from one facility to another. For routine calls with individual patients, it’s feasible to track who transported the patient and where they ended up. But in mass-casualty incidents and large-scale hazards, chaotic scenes […] The post PDC Partners with Pulsara to Streamline Communication Between EMS, Hospital Personnel, and Emergen

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

What You Should Know: ODAIA , developers of MAPTUAL, an AI-powered commercial insights SaaS platform for pharmaceutical companies, announced it raised an oversubscribed $25 Million Series B financing round, led by Threshold Ventures and co-led by Monograph Capital. Wittington Ventures also joined, with participation from existing investors Flint Capital , BDC Capital , StandUp Ventures and Graphite Ventures.

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Home Health Care

MAY 1, 2023

Tomorrow Health – one of the more prominent home-based care startups – has launched a new product that aims to cut through the complexity of offering care in the home. With home- and community-based services (HCBS) booming across the country, the company wants to make the delivery of those services more seamless while reducing costs, improving care and increasing access.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MAY 1, 2023

An interesting article by Mor (2023) examines the history of the requirement for a 3-day hospital stay for Medicare to cover a skilled nursing facility (SNF) transfer. The 3-day requirement: …was introduced very early in the history of the Medicare SNF benefit at a time when most nursing homes (NHs) offered primarily custodial care and extended hospital stays were common. 2 To ensure an adequate medical evaluation, hospitalization was deemed critical, so direct admissions to SNF for medica

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Home Health Care

MAY 1, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the middle of April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced ownership data for all Medicare-certified home health and hospice agencies would be made publicly available. Department officials described the move as an attempt to promote competition in the industry and protect consumers.

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NASHP

MAY 1, 2023

Home visiting programs play a critical role in improving the health and well-being of women, children, and their families by delivering voluntary health, educational, and social services.[1] States support home visiting services through a complex arrangement of public and private funding, with additional federal funds recently authorized by the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act.

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Home Health Care

MAY 1, 2023

After just over a year in the business, most home-based care companies would still be trying to find their footing. PurposeCare, on the other hand, is operating on solid ground – with a very clear mission on what it’s working toward as a company. The provider is making moves to build an integrated care model that will demonstrate the ability to care for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles, while also embracing value-based care.

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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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Healthy Debate

MAY 1, 2023

The post Surviving sepsis: A life and career changing experience appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

What You Should Know: VMG Health , a full-service healthcare strategy and transaction advisory firm acquires BSM Consulting (“BSM”), a specialist healthcare consulting firm with offices in Reno, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona. VMG Health is owned by VMG employees and Northlane Capital Partners (“ NCP”). NCP invested in VMG Health in March 2020. Founded in 1978 by Bruce Maller, BSM Consulting provides practice management consulting and compliance expertise to clients in ophthalmology and medical aes

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Clearwave Inc

MAY 1, 2023

Reading Time: 6 minutes By Chloe from Clearwave | May 1, 2023 Medical billing can be a complicated process, and when it comes to obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN) billing, the process is increasingly extended and challenging. One of the common issues that OBGYN medical billing professionals face is the misuse or omission of modifiers, most often due to the global period of care.

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HIStalk

MAY 1, 2023

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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.