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Telehealth use rose overall in July, report finds

Health Care Dive

Telehealth use increased in the West, Midwest and South in July while it fell in the Northeast, according to Fair Health’s monthly telehealth data out Monday.

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How to Optimize Your Website for Google’s Helpful Content Update

Healthcare Success

Google Search is always updating its algorithm, especially when it comes to content. As an agency, we keep track of these updates and make sure our clients’ websites comply with the latest search engine standards. On August 25 of this year, the search giant rolled out yet another update, this time dubbed the “helpful content update.” The goal of this signal is to reward high-quality content while also penalizing websites with content created just for SEO.

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Done deal: UnitedHealth completes $13B Change Healthcare buy

Health Care Dive

It does not appear the DOJ will challenge the deal in appellate court, although not appealing would be viewed as a major setback for the agency, antitrust legal experts told Healthcare Dive.

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A Moment of Strategic Clarity

The Rand Blog

With the Russian mobilization and declared annexation, whatever prospects there were for a negotiated peace seem to have all but vanished. Any result short of Ukrainian victory will be, in the long run, a worse outcome for the rules-based international order.

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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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CommonSpirit Health says it experienced ‘IT security incident’ in multiple regions

Health Care Dive

Details are still emerging on the incident, which is impacting multiple divisions of the 140-hospital system and causing patient procedures to be rescheduled in some areas.

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The U.S. Has a Microchip Problem. Safeguarding Taiwan Is the Solution

The Rand Blog

Taiwan manufactures about 92 percent of the world's advanced microchips, which are used in almost all electronics, from cars to coffeemakers to combine harvesters. A Chinese attack on the island would imperil the world's supply of microchips. Here's how to offset that threat.

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Confidence in Science/Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership

Blog post by Joe Babaian. It’s the kind of mistrust of science because science is viewed as authority. And there’s a lot of anti-authority feeling. I think that’s the kind of thing that drives the anti-vaxxers , the people who don’t believe the science of vaccination and don’t want to get their children vaccinated. It’s all part of that trend, which is very disturbing.

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Optimizing your provider network

Health Care Dive

Organizations that strategically manage and engage their networks will see substantial results in the form of both revenue and growth.

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The Struggle to Survive in the Pandemic Prison

Bill Of Health

By Jamal Spencer and Monik C. Jiménez. Prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities have been core sites of the COVID-19 pandemic, from initial outbreaks in Chinese prisons to some of the largest outbreaks in the U.S. The uniquely dangerous physical conditions within carceral facilities (i.e., overcrowding, poor ventilation, and lack of sanitation); a high prevalence of chronic diseases among incarcerated people; and high levels of physical movement through facilities, resulted in environmental

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Hospitals struggle with evacuations, lack of water in Hurricane Ian’s wake

Health Care Dive

Thousands of nursing home and hospital patients have been moved to other facilities as recovery efforts continued Sunday.

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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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Can the Adoption of Healthcare Technology Keep Up With the Pace of Innovation?

HIT Consultant

Marc Helberg, Managing VP at Pariveda. The disruption of the healthcare industry is continuing at a frenetic pace. As reported in a World Economic Forum article, $44 billion was pumped into medical innovations in 2021. Experts expect this influx to continue, all with the hopes of bringing machine learning, artificial intelligence, telehealth, and other technological and digital advancements and processes to both medical professionals and the people they serve.

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Medicare Advantage premiums set to drop again next year

Health Care Dive

Enrollment in the popular plans is expected to continue to grow in 2023, CMS predicts.

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Simulation Training is Vital in Nursing Education and Addresses the Shortage of Nurses

HIT Consultant

James Archetto, VP at Gaumard Scientific. Ebbs and flows in the need for nurses and the number of students entering nursing programs are common, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused a more severe nursing shortage than has been previously experienced. At the height of the pandemic, nursing schools suspended in-person classes and were essentially closed. At the same time, many experienced nurses chose early retirement.

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Enhabit CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer Is The Leader She Never Set Out To Become

Home Health Care

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer is a lifelong leader who never set out to be one. When she gives her best advice to younger people, she draws directly from the path that brought her to the helm of one of the largest home health companies in the country. “My best advice would be to focus on doing a really good job in your current job,” Jacobsmeyer told Home Health Care News.

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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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How much do orphan drugs cost?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The answer is provided in a recent white paper by Pearson, Schapiro and Pearson (2022). They use IQVIA data through 2020 across 389 drugs treating 1.8 million individuals. The study finds that while 5% of drugs with an orphan indication cost more than $500,000 per year, these drugs make up only 0.08% of all patients treated by drugs with an orphan indication.

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Designing virtual and physical clinical spaces to build trust

Healthy Debate

The post Designing virtual and physical clinical spaces to build trust appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Connected Wellness Growing As Consumers Face Tighter Home Economics

Health Populi

“Consumers are using the Internet to take their health into their own hands,” at least for 1 in 2 U.S. consumers engaging in some sort of preventive health care activity online in mid-2022. The new report on Connected Wellness from PYMNTS and Care Credit profiles American health consumers’ use of digital tools for health care promotion and disease prevention.

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Succession Planning 2.0: Building, Strengthening and Engaging Your Leadership Bench

Medi Leadership

By Cheryl Foss and Kathy Gibala. A client of ours, a Chief Nursing Officer who has been in healthcare for 30 years, recently said, “I was planning on retiring in three years, but given the state of healthcare and the savings plan we have in place, I have moved up the timeline to next month.” As we dug deeper, we realized that there was not a clear succession plan in place.

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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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Critical Steps for Successful Provider Credentialing

Sequence Health

If you’re a healthcare provider, then you know the importance of credentialing. This process is essential for ensuring you can provide quality patient care. Proper credentialing will also give you access to more insurance plans and networks, leading to more patients. Healthcare credentialing software helps with this process by automating and simplifying provider data collection.

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Future Leader: Jenna Urban, VP of Business Transformation, Help at Home

Home Health Care

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Jenna Urban, VP of business transformation at the Chicago-based Help at Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Ascension Forms Long-Term Lab Relationship with LabCorp

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Labcorp has today announced a long-term laboratory relationship with non-profit and Catholic health system Ascension. – As a part of the companies’ strategic collaboration, Labcorp purchased select assets of Ascension’s outreach laboratory business and will manage the health system’s hospital-based laboratories in Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. – The new relationship expands access for co

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VGM & Associates (VGM) and Its Members Increase Market Share and Improve Sales Targeting

Lexis Nexis

VGM & Associates (VGM) , the nation’s largest and most comprehensive member service organization (MSO) for post-acute healthcare including durable medical equipment (DME) and home medical equipment (HME) was seeking a solution provider to continue to meet what its membership needed. These needs included finding and evaluating potential new markets by product volume, gaining market intelligence on high-volume physicians by product, quantifying market potential with national, state-or county-b

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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U.S. Healthcare Industry Remains Antitrust Enforcement Priority

Sheppard Health Law

Representing a sizable portion of the American economy, few industries in the United States have received more attention from the press, legislators, and antitrust agencies than the healthcare industry—particularly in recent years. Recent developments at the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) reaffirm that healthcare remains a top antitrust enforcement priorities in the United States.

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From patient to innovation engineer

Osf Healthcare

By the time Mark Hanley was 14, he had undergone two surgeries to fix multiple heart defects. A year shy of high school, he learned he would need one more.

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Monday Morning Update 10/3/22

HIStalk

Top News Federal prosecutors indict US Army Major Jamie Lee.

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How VA CIO Kurt Delbene is leading the agency's digital transformation

Healthcare It News

Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer Kurt Delbene says his goal is to make the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the model of what it means to be a modern IT shop in the federal government. Joined by Charles Worthington, CTO of the VA, Luwanda Jones, deputy chief information officer in the office of strategic sourcing and Carrie Lee, acting executive director of product engineering, Delbene laid out his vision orientation – the processes working to make

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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Morning Headlines 10/3/22

HIStalk

Major in the United States Army and a Maryland Doctor.

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