Tue.Dec 21, 2021

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More than 40 organizations, unions urge OSHA to extend protections for healthcare workers

Fierce Healthcare

More than 40 organizations, unions urge OSHA to extend protections for healthcare workers. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 12/21/2021 - 15:57.

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UPMC launches in-house travel staffing agency

Health Care Dive

The system said it can hire two of its own nurses or surgical technologists for the price of one contracted through an outside agency.

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2022 forecast: Investors will double down on these hot digital health markets

Fierce Healthcare

2022 forecast: Investors will double down on these hot digital health markets. hlandi. Tue, 12/21/2021 - 16:45.

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Insurers returned $2B to consumers for 2020 under ACA

Health Care Dive

The rebates, tied to lower medical loss ratios, were triggered as utilization rates dropped at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Digital health startups join HHS accelerator to tackle COVID health inequities

Fierce Healthcare

Digital health startups join HHS accelerator to tackle COVID health inequities. rtorrence. Tue, 12/21/2021 - 11:06.

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CMS: Medicaid, CHIP enrollment increases by 433K in June and 17% since start of pandemic

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: Medicaid, CHIP enrollment increases by 433K in June and 17% since start of pandemic. rking. Tue, 12/21/2021 - 12:36.

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Expanding healthcare services with digital agreement technology

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: DocuSign Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Expanding healthcare services with digital agreement technology Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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More than 800 hospitals urge HHS to appeal controversial ruling in 340B lawsuit

Fierce Healthcare

More than 800 hospitals urge HHS to appeal controversial ruling in 340B lawsuit. rking. Tue, 12/21/2021 - 14:13.

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Patients are the most important stakeholders in digital health

Healthcare It News

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From Payroll Pains to Growth Gains: Streamlining Payroll & HR for Success

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

In the world of small business management, the challenge of managing payroll & HR efficiently while scaling operations can be overwhelming. Yet, with the right strategies in place, these challenges can become opportunities for growth and innovation. In this session, Joe Sharpe, Senior Director of Managed Payroll Services at IRIS, will reveal practical methods and expert insights for outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes, resulting in substantial time and resource savings.

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Burnout, workload and fear of infection compel physicians and nurses to reduce hours or leave, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Burnout, workload and fear of infection compel physicians and nurses to reduce hours or leave, study finds. hlandi. Tue, 12/21/2021 - 09:56.

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Moderna vaccine weaker against omicron, but third shot boosts protection

Health Care Dive

As a result of new laboratory data, the biotech company is deemphasizing more complex "multivalent" booster shots in favor of further study of its existing formulation and an omicron-specific version.

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Mentorship plays a key role in advancing careers for physicians underrepresented in medicine: report

Fierce Healthcare

Mentorship plays a key role in advancing careers for physicians underrepresented in medicine: report. hlandi. Tue, 12/21/2021 - 10:51.

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RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021

The Rand Blog

The paradox of 2021 was that even as COVID-19 dragged on, bringing a certain limiting sameness to many daily lives, the events of the year felt unprecedented. Vaccine rollouts, an attack on the U.S. Capitol, massive ransomware attacks, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, record numbers of job openings and people quitting, and more. RAND researchers weighed in on all these topics and more.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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7 healthcare IT leaders to follow in 2022

Meditech

This season is always a time of reflection, of appreciating the people and things that have brought value to our lives and continue to inspire us. In this spirit, I’d like to recognize some of the leaders on social media I’ve learned from this year, who have introduced me to new ways of thinking about healthcare and the ways that technology can connect us to each other as we look forward to 2022.

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Can Dehydration Cause High Blood Pressure?

Healthcare Associates

Can Dehydration Cause High Blood Pressure? High blood pressure is a chronic condition where the force of your blood is higher than normal and pushes strongly against your blood vessel walls. When it’s not treated, high blood pressure can lead to other serious health problems including heart attack and stroke. Many different factors can cause high blood pressure.

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HCAN, Bickford Senior Living Break Down the Home Care Opportunity for Senior Living Operators

Home Health Care

For senior living operators looking to diversify their services offerings, home-based care has emerged as a lucrative opportunity. No organization understands this more than Bickford Senior Living, a senior living operator that teamed up with the HomeCare Advocacy Network (HCAN) to roll out a home-based care service line in June. HCAN is an Omaha, Nebraska-based company that offers a business format to senior living operators looking to add home care services to their business.

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FCC Awards Additional $42.7M in Round 2 of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Federal Communications Commission today approved an additional 68 applications for funding commitments totaling $42,702,383 for Round 2 of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. – This is the FCC’s fifth funding announcement of approved Round 2 applications, bringing the total to over $208M awarded to health care providers in each state, territory, and the District of Columbia.

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.

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How to Use Remote Patient Monitoring to Manage Vulnerable Medicaid Populations

Home Health Care

Medicaid patients of all ages in remote regions — both urban and rural — present a unique challenge to home-based care providers. This is particularly true for those elderly patients with high-risk chronic conditions or behavioral health needs. According to Medicare Advantage (MA) figures, the challenge of caring for elderly patients with special needs is immense.

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Northwell Launches Virtual Clinical Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease in Black Community

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the science arm of Northwell Health, recently received a $150k grant from TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, to launch a new research program and the first clinical trial to reduce cardiovascular disease in the Black community and determine the best behavioral interventions to lower Cardiovascular disease (CVD).

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5 Benefits of Online Intake Forms

Solution Reach

Don't you think it's about time to kick the clipboard to the curb? The digital age has changed everything about the way we approach life—and the check-in process is no exception. Practices are now sending customized, digital check-in forms to their patients. Patients can then view and complete the check-in process on their mobile device or personal computer.

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Unique Factors to Consider When Selecting Enterprise Data Platforms for Virtual Healthcare Apps

HIT Consultant

Jiang Li, Founder and CEO of Vivalink. Developing virtual healthcare solutions is a daunting task. As a healthcare technology solution provider targeting the remote care market, you’re required to have both the clinical and the technological expertise needed to design, build and integrate a complete solution that can address the challenges with virtual patient care and monitoring.

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Creating a Company Culture of Care: Integrating Mental Health, Wellbeing, and DEI in Benefits

Speaker: Sean Raible

Picture a workplace where physiological safety is not just an aim but a reality, driven by thoughtful employee benefits that prioritize mental health, wellbeing, and DEI. 🤔 ✨ Achieving this vision requires more than just occasional training sessions and employee assistance programs. Moving beyond the basics, this vision calls for a holistic approach that integrates these elements into your company culture as well as your HR and benefits strategy.

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DispatchHealth Partners with Senior Living Operator Five Star

Home Health Care

DispatchHealth – a company that delivers high-acuity care and other services in the home setting – is teaming up with Five Star Senior Living (NYSE: FVE). The goal of the partnership: to bring acute care to Five Star communities and its residents. “We believe that adding DispatchHealth’s unique care model to expand Five Star’s existing clinical services offering will bring peace of mind to families, knowing that their loved ones may be able to avoid unnecessary and expensive trips to the emergen

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Machine Learning Identifies Genetic Mutations for Spinal Disorder 

Health IT Analytics

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Opting for Practice Management Software – Avoid these Mistakes

Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

Admin. December 21, 2021. Opting for Practice Management Software – Avoid these Mistakes. Finding the P ractice Management Software that suits your healthcare business is not an easy task. It requires attention and practices need to check various aspects of their business. In addition, it is important to take care of the requirements in detail before finalizing the software for your practice.

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Uh oh! The Effects of Not Having a Claim Scrubbed Prior to Submission

Etactics

Ask any medical biller what their arch-enemy is and they’ll identify one of the two main types of codes that they work with. Of course, what I’m referring to are ICD codes and CPT codes…but if you’re working within the industry, you already knew that. Although both types of those codes are an essential part of the medical billing process, they lead to a lot of headaches for billers and the organizations they represent.

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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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AccessOne Acquires CueSquared to Address Patient Financial Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AccessOne acquires one-touch mobile payment platform CueSquared. The acquisition adds mobile billing and payment product to existing patient financing offerings, extending AccessOne solution portfolio to address the overall patient financial experience. AccessOne , a leading provider of inclusive Care Now, Pay Later patient financing solutions that help all consumers manage their healthcare costs, today announced that it has acquired CueSquared , a one-touch mobile

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News 12/22/21

HIStalk

Top News Several investment firms and bond raters downgraded Oracle’s.

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The Top 10 Home Health Care News Stories of 2021

Home Health Care

The public health emergency continued to have an impact on home-based care providers in 2021. It didn’t define the year, however. As the top Home Health Care News stories of 2021 suggest, this year was about so much more than the COVID-19 crisis. Even more than the pandemic, the past 12 months have been about industry-shaping deals that will continue to shape the in-home care narrative for years to come.

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