Health Care Dive
MARCH 7, 2022
Telehealth swelled from 4.4% of all medical claims in November to 4.9% in December, with the bump evident in every U.S. census region, according to new Fair Health data.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 7, 2022
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Health Care Dive
MARCH 7, 2022
Patients admitted to more expensive hospitals in competitive markets had a 35% lower chance of mortality, but higher costs weren't correlated with better outcomes in less competitive areas, NBER found.
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 7, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending February 20, 2022. [NOTE: On this landing page, you’ll also find resources and ways to explore and visualize the data and links to the left, as well as the buttons at the top of the page.]. Comparing the February 20 th data to the February 13 th data shows these differences: Resident vaccination rate down 0.1% from the previous week Residents with booster doses ( n
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Health Care Dive
MARCH 7, 2022
Whether it’s an ultra-low temperature vaccine or a specimen sample, packaging is protecting some of the most advanced and important products ever.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Healthgrades announced its Leading Hospitals in Early COVID Care list of the top 24 U.S. hospitals that provided exceptional care while treating the highest volumes of coronavirus patients during the first wave of the pandemic. Methodology Background. Using inpatient data from CMS for almost every hospital in the country, Healthgrades identified 24 U.S. hospitals that provided exceptional care while treating the highest volumes of coronavirus patients during the fir
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – GoodRx announced that it will acquire vitaCare Prescription Services, a tech-enabled pharmacy services platform that expands GoodRx’s offering to pharma manufacturers while improving patient access and adherence to affordable brand drugs. – Over 500 million brand prescriptions are written every year, yet only half are ever filled.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 7, 2022
A survey asked gun policy researchers, advocates, and congressional staffers who work on gun issues for their views on policies ranging from weapon bans to stand-your-ground laws. Regardless of where they stood, they were not so dissimilar in what they thought gun policies should be trying to accomplish.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2022
Roger Massengale, Chief Commercial Officer, Eitan Medical. January 2022 marked two years since the outbreak of COVID-19, with the healthcare system still working to adjust to a very challenging new reality. However, these challenges have served as a catalyst for important shifts within the healthcare industry, some of which are poised to be a significant part of the 2022 infusion landscape.
Home Health Care
MARCH 7, 2022
Another startup company focused on home-based care has scored tens of millions of dollars in initial funding. On Monday, San Francisco-based Homeward announced its launch with a $20 million investment from General Catalyst. Homeward will be led by key executives behind Livongo, the digital health platform that was acquired by Teladoc in a $18.5 billion deal in October of 2020.
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Twistle
MARCH 7, 2022
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Home Health Care
MARCH 7, 2022
Bayada Home Health Care has launched a new suite of digital services to augment its partnerships with hospitals and health systems. Among many other things, the company believes that the new digital services will be a differentiator for it in the marketplace and also enable it to not just collect data, but also do something discernible with it. “I think we see this as the development of a long-term set of sort of core capabilities that become interwoven with how we deliver services, how we build
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 7, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) discovered an error in measure calculations for the IRF Functional Outcome Measure: Change in Mobility Score for Medical Rehabilitation Patients (NQF #2634) and IRF Functional Outcome Measure: Discharge Mobility Score for Medical Rehabilitation Patients (NQF #2636) measures in the IRF provider preview reports previously issued on January 26, 2022, related to the March 2022
Nordic
MARCH 7, 2022
Every healthcare organization is on an interoperability journey. But some organizations are further ahead than others. Why? Misconceptions about interoperability can derail an organization's progress toward a connected healthcare ecosystem. Connecting the dots in your technology ecosystem begins with reframing these five misconceptions about interoperability that may be preventing your organization from moving ahead.
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HIStalk
MARCH 7, 2022
Homeward to Rearchitect Rural Healthcare for 60 Million Americans Former.
Home Health Care
MARCH 7, 2022
Months of speculation finally ended in January when Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) announced its home health and hospice segment would spin off as Enhabit Home Health & Hospice and become its own publicly traded company. Or so it seemed. At the end of February, Encompass Health opened the “sale or merger” door again , one almost everyone believed had been closed for good.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MARCH 7, 2022
According to a paper by Rodriguez et al. (2022) , the answer is ‘yes’ They use data from the 2017–18 National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems ( NSHOS ), to determine if a physician practice has a “robust set of care management capabilities.” The specific capabilities that were used to determine whether the health system was robust included: Ten practice capabilities were prioritized.
Sequence Health
MARCH 7, 2022
In the medical business world, there are a lot of acronyms that can be confusing for people who are not in the know. CRM and ERP are two of them. Many people do not know the difference between these two acronyms, or what they even stand for. In this blog post, we will break it down for you and explain everything you need to know about CRM vs. ERP. Breaking it Down: CRM.
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Foresite Capital is announcing their latest, oversubscribed $173M fund, which will be used to support Foresite Labs’ incubated life science companies. – Foresite Labs was created in October 2019 to found, build, and scale life sciences companies at the intersection of healthcare and data science. One of Foresite Capital’s core beliefs is that by combining machine learning, big data, and genomics, life sciences companies can accelerate commercialization from de
Home Health Care
MARCH 7, 2022
This article is brought to you by Trella Health. The article is based on an interview that took place during a virtual panel discussion with Jonas Fortenberry, Revenue Enablement Manager for Trella Health. The panel took place virtually on February 1, 2022. This is an excerpt from the session, which has been edited for length and clarity. Home Health Care News: The session today is Growth Strategies for Today’s Home Health Landscape.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2022
What You Should Know: MediQuant ®, a provider of enterprise active archiving and conversion solutions, has been selected by the US Defense Health Agency (DHA) to help consolidate all clinical data across the Military Health System as it transitions to a new enterprise electronic health records (EHR) platform by 2024. – The contract to deploy MediQuant’s DataArk solution for the DHA “Genesis” rollout was secured by ECS, a leading provider of science, engineering, and advanced technology sol
Baird Group
MARCH 7, 2022
Hope Really Isn’t a Strategy. by Angela Fieler. Many years ago, my husband introduced me to the comedy of Brian Regan. If you’ve never heard of him, you can find many of his routines on YouTube. He has several routines about healthcare. In one, he talks about going to a doctor’s appointment and being worried about his cholesterol. He says, “I knew it was going to be high because last year it was high, and I hadn’t done anything differently.
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Cedar launches Cedar Pre to deliver seamless and comprehensive healthcare experiences to consumers preparing for care. – By leveraging Cedar’s expanded patient engagement suite, providers can empower patients with unprecedented access and affordability from pre-registration and intake through final payment. Cedar , a New York City-based healthcare financial technology platform built for today’s consumers, today announced the launch of Cedar Pre , an enterprise
Health Recovery
MARCH 7, 2022
Healthcare costs have been rising over the decades, and if left unchecked, this trend could result in an unsustainable health care system, unable to deliver adequate and equitable access to care for all. As it is, The Commonwealth Fund reports that the United States has the highest annual per capita health expenditure compared to the rest of the world.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Health Gorilla raises $50 million in Series C funding to securely enable the exchange of actionable and aggregated clinical data. – The new investment will accelerate Health Gorilla’s mission to connect everyone, everywhere, with actionable health data. Health Gorilla , a Sunnyvale, CA-based health interoperability platform, today announced it has raised $50M in Series C funding led by SignalFire with participation from Epsilon Health Investors , IA Capi
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 7, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The CDC has updated its Summary Document for Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Authorized or Approved in the United States. This is a 4-page document.
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.
Healthcare Leadership
MARCH 7, 2022
The COVID pandemic is waning and public health authorities are removing restrictions. It is clear that we are moving towards an endemic approach to COVID-19. Mask mandates are ending along with capacity limits. Proof of vaccination is no longer required to gain entry in many places. It is a welcome return to “normal”…and yet I feel unready. I’ve read the science.
HIStalk
MARCH 7, 2022
Anjum Ahmed, MBBS, MBA, MIS is chief medical officer, clinical.
Vie Healthcare
MARCH 7, 2022
In Episode 36 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa is joined by Jeanne Hurlbert of Hurlbert Consulting. Together they explore employee wellbeing in the wake of Covid 19, and strategies to enhance and improve the mental health of your employees. As Jeanne comments: ‘’…. in healthcare right now, the most obvious stressor that needs to be addressed is simply the availability of staff, and counseling to help them deal with the inescapable effects of what they’re doing right now.’’.
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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