Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2022
Essen Health Care, a medical group in New York City, has a Center of Excellence for Pain with physical therapy, pain specialists, neurology and orthopedic specialists. It serves patients with acute and chronic issues in need of physical therapy. In addition, it serves many elderly house call patients, due to pandemic restrictions, who have functionally deteriorated due to a lack of physical activity.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 1, 2022
Advocates are hoping the mobile clinic model will accelerate access to abortions, especially for those in states where the procedure is outlawed.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2022
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has published a white paper on optimising the care pathway for better outcomes in hospitals. In the paper, we outline the current situation in digital health and map out a vision to free up time for patient care. The widespread implementation of EMRs has allowed collaboration between doctors, reduced medical errors, and created the data points required for analytics which will provide an in-road for artificial intelligence work in the future.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 1, 2022
As the Pennsylvania regional health system’s first chief wellness officer, Susan Parisi will oversee the system’s mental health, professional fulfillment and well-being strategies.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2022
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 1, 2022
The agency wants feedback from a variety of voices on how it can strengthen the popular but increasingly controversial program.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 1, 2022
The study, published in Health Affairs, said large chains in the consolidated dialysis sector have the market power to negotiate higher MA reimbursement.
Bill Of Health
AUGUST 1, 2022
By Samantha DeAndrade. Last week, in response to a petition written by myself and colleagues, the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ABOG), which is headquartered in Texas, reversed its decision to pursue in-person board certification exams. In light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health , my colleagues and I held grave concerns about traveling to Dallas, Texas for this credentialing exam.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 1, 2022
Nearly 30% of residents surveyed by Medscape said they feel fairly compensated for their work in 2022, compared with 62% in 2015.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 1, 2022
There are a number of potential avenues to take to address the staffing needs in home-based care over the next decade. But one that will absolutely have to be taken is the one that leads to more millennial and Generation Z workers entering the space. To do that, home-based care providers are doing a few things, including: establishing transparent lines of communication to these generations, offering competitive benefits and recruiting through non-traditional channels.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 1, 2022
It’s time to introduce equity to the LGBTQ+ healthcare experience.
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 1, 2022
Despite growth in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) roles worldwide, not much has changed with the power structure in DEI spaces, which still center on the C-suite and tend to be populated with groups that are less knowledgeable on research in DEI. Here are seven strategies for building a more-equitable DEI program.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 1, 2022
What You Should Know: – According to a new report from Allison + Partners , 57% of respondents said it will be possible to achieve “Health 4.0” in the next 3-5 years. – The report illustrates that the biggest hurdles include legislative and regulatory policy, lack of tech talent, and little understanding of health technologies and that the opportunities outweigh the challenges.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 1, 2022
Federal watchdogs reported the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not collected the near-$500 million in Medicare overpayments that were found in audits over a two-year period beginning in 2014. The Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG-HHS) recently reviewed 148 Medicare audits it conducted for 30 months between 2014 and 2016 and could only verify that CMS collected $120 million of the $498 million in overpayments.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 1, 2022
Christopher Ianelli, MD, Ph.D., Founder & CEO of iSpecimen. Many medical advancements – from life-saving vaccines and treatments to new diagnostic tests like liquid biopsies – are built on research that involves human biospecimens. Biofluids, tissue and cells are indispensable resources for the medical researcher, yet the process of sourcing these biospecimens can be woefully frustrating and inefficient.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 1, 2022
The home health industry at large is excited about the prospects of the Choose Home Care Act of 2021. For now, it’s been tabled in Washington, D.C., due to a variety of reasons , including it being an election year. It’s also – to some extent – been cast aside in home health providers’ minds, given all the mayhem going on related to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for 2023. .
Healthcare Leadership
AUGUST 1, 2022
The healthcare staffing crisis is wreaking havoc in nations around the world. More physicians, nurses, administrative staff, and other healthcare workers are leaving the industry. Stress, long hours, burnout, physical abuse, verbal abuse, and pay inequity are just some of the reasons behind the exodus. We must face reality: this is not a problem with a short-term fix.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 1, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The next CMS Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)/Long Term Care (LTC) Open Door Forum scheduled for: Date: Thursday, August 4, 2022. Start Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET). Please dial-in at least 15 minutes before call start time. Conference Leaders: Tammy Luo & Jill Darling. **This Agenda is Subject to Change**.
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The Rand Blog
AUGUST 1, 2022
The United States and its allies should certainly continue providing Ukraine with the matériel it needs, but they should also—in close consultation with Kyiv—begin opening channels of communication with Russia. An eventual cease-fire should be the goal, even as the path to it remains uncertain.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 1, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Late afternoon on Friday, July 29, 2022, CMS issued a final rule (CMS-1765-F) that provides updates to the SNF Quality Reporting Program (QRP) for FY 2023. The FR is 348 pages in length. It will be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. This rule includes the adoption of one new measure: the Influenza Vaccination Coverage among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) (NQF #0431) beginning with the FY 2024 SNF QRP.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 1, 2022
An article from the Health Affairs forefront article from Ho and Vertinsky (2022) argues ‘yes’, but the use of any such such information for cost-based pricing is short-sighted. The Ho and Vertinsky say drug cost disclosure would be useful because (i) currently there is little information on the cost of drug development, (ii) it is unclear whether treatments produce good value for money, (iii) drug prices have increased over time, (iv) having more information on cost can help promote
Lexis Nexis
AUGUST 1, 2022
You don’t have to look far to learn that healthcare data is valuable and being stolen on a regular basis 1. Health plans are very aware and working to protect member data and online experience, managing the evolving changes of healthcare data access and technology. The Value of Healthcare Data. Over time the value of healthcare data has increased over other types of identity data.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 1, 2022
What You Should Know: – In a national survey and in interviews, sexual and gender minority people reported experiencing discrimination in healthcare and concerns about support for their end-of-life decisions. – Advance care planning (ACP) can help support patients in making decisions and promoting better care at the end of life. But sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients are likely being left out of conversations around ACP, a new study suggests.
Health Policy News
AUGUST 1, 2022
In our summer edition this year, we provide updates on two topics that have been the subject of many articles on Health Policy News: Section 1332 State Innovation Waivers and.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 1, 2022
What You Should Know: – Healthcare payments company Zelis today announced an agreement to acquire Payer Compass , a healthcare provider of reimbursement and claims pricing , administration, and processing solutions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. – Through the acquisition, Zelis will integrate Payer Compass into its existing solution suite to further help clients and their members manage rising healthcare costs and establish more transparent and affordable
HIStalk
AUGUST 1, 2022
Carequality Interoperability Framework Expands To Allow Federal Participation Carequality expands.
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.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 1, 2022
What You Should Know: – U.S. hospitals, health systems, and physician practices continue to face historically high operating expenses that increased patient volumes and revenues could not counteract, leading to negative margins for the sixth straight month in 2022, according to data from Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report and Physician Flash Report. – The median Kaufman Hall year-to-date operating margin index for hospitals was -0.09% through June, for a sixth straight mon
HIStalk
AUGUST 1, 2022
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Healthcare Success
AUGUST 1, 2022
I have been fascinated with vanity phone numbers for a long time. Early in my career, I came up with 1-800-WORKOUT and 1-800-FITNESS at J. Walter Thompson for our client Health & Tennis Corporation (later Bally Total Fitness). At that time, they owned multiple brands in dozens of markets and required $500,000 a year to edit calls to action on TV spots, with multiple location numbers on each spot.
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