Fri.Aug 26, 2022

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Congress finally eliminates Part D vaccine cost sharing: Medicare coverage is still broken

Health Care Dive

The Inflation Reduction Act leaves intact a peculiar split in Medicare vaccine coverage that discourages physicians from offering certain vaccines, argues former Moderna Vice President Richard Hughes.

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Home Health OASIS-E Guidance Training Program Reminder

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. As a reminder, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a virtual training program that provides instruction on the guidance for the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)-E. The event is being held on September 13th & 14 th , 2022. This training is part of a comprehensive strategy to ensure home health providers have access to the educational materials necessary to promote understanding

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Molina, Elevance, Centene win big with Medicaid contracts in California

Health Care Dive

The managed care organizations already held Medicaid contracts with the state, but the overhaul in counties served is causing one payer to consider appealing the proposed contracts.

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Recent Nursing Home COVID-19 Data: CMS, CDC & NHSN

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted the latest nursing home data for the week ending August 14, 2022. Comparing the August 14 th data to the August 7 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased by 0.1% Residents with booster doses unchanged from previous week Staff primary vaccination completion rate decreased by 0.1% from previous week Staff with booster doses unchanged from previous week An additional 13,470

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

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Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech over COVID-19 vaccine technology

Health Care Dive

The biotech claims its rivals’ vaccine Comirnaty, one of the world’s top-selling pharmaceutical products, infringes on two patents covering its messenger RNA technology.

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Japanese Startup Ubie Secures $26M for AI-Powered Symptom Checker

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ubie , a Japan-based digital health startup raises $26.2 M in Series C funding to bring unprecedented medical experience by strengthening partnerships with pharmaceutical companies in Japan and the US. – Led by a team of talented developers and medical doctors, Ubie uses a machine-learning algorithm and offers Ubie AI Symptom Checker, allowing patients to check on their symptoms and determine the next appropriate course of action for free.

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FundamentalVR Expands into Urology with Teleflex Partnership

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – FundamentalVR , a provider of virtual reality (VR) integration for medical simulation is expanding its offering into urology through a partnership with Teleflex Interventional Urology. – Bringing its immersive, haptic VR training solution to urologists, the partnership highlights how FundamentalVR’s advanced technology and high-fidelity graphics will accelerate the learning curve in the use of Teleflex’s UroLift ® 2 System, an innovative technology for treatme

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HHS tells governors it ‘won’t hesitate’ to tap DOJ for states violating EMTALA

Health Care Dive

The department urged state governors to request federal funding, including Medicaid funds, to expand abortion access, including for pregnant people traveling from states that restrict or prohibit abortion.

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CEO Bob Gold on the Future of Healthcare in the Home

GoMoHealth

GoMo Health’s CEO and Chief Behavioral Technologist was featured in the Invest 2022 North & Central Jersey report discussing the future of healthcare and the shift to at-home care models. “Our general outlook is that there is going to be an increasing shift to healthcare not delivered in a facility, but at home, and all healthcare institutions have to build an infrastructure to support the shift from facility-based care to home-based care.

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As Walmart Allies with LLENA (AI), Food-as-Medicine Blurs with Digital Health Tech and Equity

Health Populi

In a busy week of news in the health care and digital health world, it would be easy to miss a press release published on 23rd August on the food-as-medicine front. But don’t blink this snippet away. It is another strong signal about the growing blur between grocery stores, food, digital tech, and population health. The digital health platform LLENA (AI) announced its collaboration with Walmart to support people managing diabetes with personalized nutrition support from data tracking pulli

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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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Reduce Friction in Space by Amending the 1967 Outer Space Treaty

The Rand Blog

Space has the potential to be a domain in which current great-power competitions and frictions can be mediated. The international community might consider updating the existing space legal regime to ensure it meets current political, economic, social, and technical challenges.

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Association of health care utilization and costs with patient-reported outcomes in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the title of paper recently published in JMCP along with co-authors Alexis Ogdie, Mark Hwang, Phani Veeranki, Alexandria Portelli, Steven Sison, Sofia Pedro, Steven Hass, Peter Hur, Nina Kim, Esther Yi, and Kaleb Michaud. The paper abstract is below. BACKGROUND: Interventions for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) have improved patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical studies.

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A Response to ‘Another Legislative Attempt to Revive Gene Patenting’

Bill Of Health

By Emily Michiko Morris. Professor Jorge Contreras’ commentary on the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022 objects to Senator Thom Tillis’ recently introduced bill. Specifically, he argues that proposed inclusion of isolated and purified human genes and other naturally occurring substances as patent eligible subject matter is unnecessary and would both stymie research and obstruct access to medicine.

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Diversity in the Military, Telemedicine Abortion, China and Taiwan: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on the benefits of increasing and maintaining diversity in the armed forces, the challenges of telemedicine abortion, whether Indo-Pacific countries are backing China or Taiwan, and more.

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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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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill Of Health

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Aviva Wang , Liam Bendicksen , and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues relevant to current or potential future work in the Division.

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Keeping Your Kids Healthy When Returning to School in 2022

Voyage Healthcare

Back to school - here are some valuable tips to help keep your kids safe this school year.

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Five-Star Preview Reports Available on August 25, 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Five-Star Preview Reports will be available on August 25, 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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Digital Senior Care Navigator Fair Square Medicare Raises $15M 

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Digital senior care navigator Fair Square Medicare raises 15M in series A funding led by Define Ventures. The company, which is a YCombinator alum, has raised $19M to date. – With 10,000 people turning 65 every day, Fair Square Medicare helps seniors find the right Medicare coverage regardless of commission, and is building a full-service digital healthcare assistance platform for seniors.

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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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New Federal Reports on Long COVID Support

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. A pair of reports developed in response to President Joe Biden’s Memorandum on Addressing the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 (April 5. 2022 White House) are now available to help Americans affected by long COVID: · The National Research Action Plan on Long COVID (August 2022 – 85 pages) details advances in current research and charts a course for future study to better understand prevention and treatment of long COVID ba