Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Walmart announced this week that it would begin using Epic's electronic health record in its health centers, starting in Florida in early 2022. Eventually, all of Walmart's health and wellness lines of business will be supported by the Epic platform as it's rolled out. "The Epic system complements our omnichannel health care offerings – letting customers and healthcare professionals access care and health records to lead to more personalized care," said Dr.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Amazon taps VR, voice assistant startups and 8 others for inaugural digital health accelerator. hlandi. Tue, 09/28/2021 - 14:54.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

On Monday, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of a new initiative to help organizations worldwide build IT-powered social and healthcare programs to help patients in underserved communities. WHY IT MATTERS. AWS is pledging $40 million over three years for the effort, which will offer company credits and technical expertise to help organizations around the world build and maintain programs aimed at underserved communities: increasing access to healthcare providers, tackling social determina

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

NAACOS: CMS must provide upfront funds, raise benchmarks to help ACOs close health equity gaps. rking. Tue, 09/28/2021 - 12:05.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

GPW Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Northern Virginia, faced many issues that are common in a community health center setting. Some of these issues include high no-show rates, low ratings and low patient engagement. THE PROBLEM. Low volume of confirmed appointments led to high no-show rates. A part of this issue was having to rely on phone calls and a voicemail system that patients did not listen to.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Industry groups opposed the rules laying out masking, social distancing, testing and exposure notification requirements for hospitals and nursing homes. Implementation was required in July.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Lower volumes are a welcome sign for health systems that have been overwhelmed by patient volumes and forced to delay nonemergency procedures. The downward trend signals a return to normal for operators.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

N.Y. governor expands healthcare worker eligibility as hospitals suspend, fire unvaccinated staff. dmuoio. Tue, 09/28/2021 - 12:04.

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Cloud Blogs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In a post-pandemic world, where quarantining and social distancing may no longer be the norm, the emerging hybrid model of patient care will empower access to care for all and the changes will likely accelerate into the years ahead. Healthcare systems using an omnichannel approach are adjusting the way they triage, evaluate, and care for patients using methods that do not rely on in-person services.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

HHS awards nearly $1B to 1,300 health centers to support renovation, health equity. dmuoio. Tue, 09/28/2021 - 14:11.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Bent Philipson, Founder of Philosophy Care. We hear a lot about 5G technology, but for many of us, it’s link to our lives goes as far as our smartphones and mobile service providers. But to think that 5G technology is only valuable for making our data speeds faster is like saying that electricity is great because it allows us to read books before bed.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

AMA: 73% of health insurance markets are highly concentrated. pminemyer. Tue, 09/28/2021 - 11:19.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

What You Should Know: – Unity Health , the leading healthcare provider in an eight-county area, is pleased to announce they have chosen to implement MEDITECH Expanse across their entire organization. – In addition, Unity Health will implement MEDITECH Expanse Oncology to expand and optimize their cancer treatment offerings with evidence-based plans that support multidisciplinary ordering.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Over the last few years, Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), Disney (NYSE: DIS), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and a seemingly endless list of other platforms have battled it out for access to viewers’ wallets in what can only be described as “the streaming wars.”. While senior care providers aren’t directly butting heads with the likes of those businesses, some are starting to invest in streaming capabilities of their own.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

By Cathy Zhang. The United States Supreme Court’s refusal to block Texas’s SB 8 abortion restriction earlier this month foreshadowed an uncertain future for abortion jurisprudence and put reproductive rights at the center of national discourse. But abortion is not the only right at stake: the novel enforcement mechanism behind SB 8 may soon appear in a wide range of legislation, making it more difficult to challenge unconstitutional laws.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The home-based care sector is no stranger to labor shortages and high turnover. This is due in part to the challenges of today’s job market, but partially self-imposed: Employers need to improve their hiring practices. As the home care industry grows, building a strong, stable staff will be paramount to providing quality care. Today’s senior has a 70% chance of needing long-term services and support, with 76% of adults 50 and older preferring to receive those services at home, according to AARP.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Jeremy Delinsky, Chief Operating Officer of Devoted Health. When America’s seniors went to their first doctor’s appointment, they couldn’t have imagined that their health history would be stored anywhere but in a manila folder. Now, nine out of every 10 physicians use electronic health records (EHRs) , and patient’s health data lives on cloud servers.

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Health IT Analytics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Effective September 20, 2021, CMS exercised enforcement discretion for Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) consolidated billing provisions related to flu and pneumococcal vaccines. This allows Medicare-enrolled immunizers, including pharmacies, to bill directly and get direct reimbursement from the Medicare program (including vaccine administration and product), whether these vaccines are administered at the same time (co-adminis

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Health IT Analytics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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Health Recovery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth encompasses a broad range of technologies and services—included under the umbrella of telehealth is telemedicine, remote monitoring, provider training, non-prescription delivery, health education, provider-provider communication and more.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This question seems simple, but answering the key factors that impact your happiness is complex. Is happiness based on your personal situation (e.g., family, job, income, health) measured in an absolute sense or relative to others? If measured in a relative sense, what reference point is used? One approach to measuring your life satisfaction is to use Multiple Discrepancies Theory (MDT), an approach developed in Michalos 1985.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

What You Should Know: – Panalgo , a leading healthcare analytics company, has been acquired by MMIT and Evaluate , which joined forces last month to become a $1.6 billion global pharma commercial intelligence provider. Panalgo provides software that streamlines healthcare data analytics by removing complex programming from the equation. Panalgo’s Instant Health Data (IHD) software empowers teams to generate and share trustworthy results faster, enabling more impactful decisions. R

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GoMoHealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In this conversation, hosted by Dr. Sharon Bergquist, Bob Gold discusses simple strategies for getting the most out of your doctor’s appointment, what to bring, how to prepare, engage, and follow up. Bob also discusses the importance of perspective – building confidence and self-efficacy, realistic goal-setting with a proposed healthcare plan, improving outlook, and its impact on compliance and success.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

What You Should Know: – NovaSignal Corp., a Los Angeles-based medical technology and data company specializing in the assessment and management of brain health, announced today it has closed $37M in a Series C1 round of funding led by Alpha Edison and Reimagined Ventures. – By applying robotics and artificial intelligence to cerebral ultrasound, NovaSignal uniquely captures blood flow data in real time.

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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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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

State Medicaid Financing of Home Visiting Services in Seven States Eddy Fernandez. Background Home visiting is an important and long-standing strategy for improving the health and well-being of women, children, and their families. Home visiting programs deliver and help connect individuals to critical social, health, and educational services. They can include screenings for physical, social-emotional, and developmental issues, case management services, and family support and counseling.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

What You Should Know: – The University of Arizona has been awarded a five-year $60 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create and lead a Precision Aging Network that could transform the way we think about the aging brain. – The network will bring together researchers from across the country to better understand how and why people experience brain aging differently, with the ultimate goal of developing more effective treatments and interventions targeted to the ind

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Hospitals are turning their focus to purchased services spend. One reason is that it makes up 45-55 percent of a hospital’s non-labor costs. Most spend on purchased services is driven by departments, for instance, revenue cycle, IT, and laboratory services. At VIE Healthcare®, we regularly see that only 15-20 percent of purchased services spend is overseen or managed by the supply chain.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The September update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts. To ensure accurate formatting, use a current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF.

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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.