Tue.May 31, 2022

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Gender pay gap for registered nurses widened during pandemic

Health Care Dive

The findings come as hospitals face major hurdles recruiting and retaining enough staff two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and as healthcare workers and unions push for higher wages.

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14 Ways to Reduce Long Patient Wait Times

Healthcare Success

The pandemic fast-tracked the growing notion of healthcare consumerism , spurring several changes in the healthcare industry. These changes include modernizing business processes and focusing on improvements that positively impact patient wait times and appointment times. . It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care.

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Medicare premiums will remain unchanged after Aduhelm price cut spurs review

Health Care Dive

The HHS Secretary had hoped premiums could be cut for seniors sooner rather than later but there are "legal and operational hurdles" to changing premiums midyear, according to a statement released Friday.

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CIO Spotlight: Interview with Josh Wilda, University of Michigan Health-West

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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5 ways to future-proof your telehealth program

Health Care Dive

Leaders have an opportunity to reimagine their telehealth infrastructure with these five best practices.

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How EMS Workers Can Supplement the Home-Based Care Workforce

Home Health Care

When Medically Home announced that it had received another round of funding money in January , the $110 million in the form of a strategic investment was led by a diverse group of companies. Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic were again partakers after they had already made significant investments into Medically Home in the past. But the newcomers in the strategic investment piqued interest.

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Former Home Health Leaders Turning Their Attention to Non-Medical Home Care

Home Health Care

In order for AccordCare to reach its goals of becoming a nationally recognized provider, the Marietta, Georgia-based company is dedicated to offering a diversified set of services to its clients. Brandon Ballew, the CEO of AccordCare, is a former Kindred at Home executive. But as the home health industry changed, he saw increased opportunity on the non-medical home care side.

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Change shares peek at 2023 as UnitedHealth merger trial looms

Health Care Dive

The data analytics company highlighted its momentum heading into the next fiscal year, outlining what 2023 could look like for the company as a standalone business if its controversial $13 billion merger with UnitedHealth falls through.

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Akili + Roblox Form First of Its Kind Digital Treatment Partnership

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Akili’s EndeavorRx , the first and only FDA-cleared video game ADHD treatment for kids, is uniting with Roblox’s global virtual universes forming a first-of-its-kind partnership. . – Initially, the partnership will establish an exclusive Roblox reward exchange for patients that complete their medically prescribed EndeavorRx treatment.

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Digital Health in the Metaverse: Three Legal Considerations

Sheppard Health Law

The metaverse has been described as the “next frontier” and the “new era” of healthcare. Although still a loosely defined and relatively broad term, the “metaverse” generally refers to a shared virtual environment accessed by individuals via the Internet. Individuals generally enter the metaverse through the following four technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and extended reality. .

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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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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?

HIT Consultant

Karen Conway, VP of Healthcare Value, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX). All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program.

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Disrupt Podcast #56: Brandon Ballew, CEO of AccordCare

Home Health Care

The 56th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with Brandon Ballew, the CEO of AccordCare, to chat about how the rapidly growing home care provider plans to plant its flags in the near-term future. . Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn about: – How Ballew’s home health care background has served him well in the home care space – The company’s growth plans, and how it plans to fill out the East Coast befor

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Survey: Patient Trust Not a Barrier to AI Medical Imaging Adoption

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: According to data from Intelerad , patient trust is not a barrier to AI adoption by medical imaging professionals in the U.S. 64% of respondents either trust or are neutral about a diagnosis solely from AI. The Intelerad study of over 1,000 healthcare consumers across the U.S. uncovers the impact of healthcare’s digital transformation on the healthcare consumer in a post-pandemic world.

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Home-Based Care Providers Are Raising Expectations for Their Technology Partners

Home Health Care

Home-based care providers looking to grow, or even just to survive, are increasingly turning to technology to do so. A major part of that is EHRs. And currently, providers are generally unsatisfied with their EHR vendor relationships, according to a new survey conducted by MatrixCare and Home Health Care News. . Providers, more than anything, want more customer support, ongoing education and training from their EHR vendors.

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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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St. Peter’s Health to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Optimized Care Management

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: St. Peter’s Health , a regional nonprofit healthcare system in Helena, Montana, is moving to the Innovaccer? Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform to support its mission of providing exceptional and compassionate care that treats the whole person and improves the health, wellness, and quality of life for the communities it serves.

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What’s cloud got to do with it?

Nordic

With the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, the race to modernize the healthcare ecosystem began, and with it came the rapid adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and increasing digital capabilities. Over the past thirteen years, as technologies have grown and evolved, the variety, velocity, and volume of data have grown exponentially. By 2025, it’s estimated that 45 zettabytes of health data will have been created.

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Lightbeam Health Acquires Jvion AI and SDOH Solutions – M&A

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc. , a provider of population health management solutions and services has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operating assets related to Jvion, Inc., including Jvion’s market-leading AI-enabled prescriptive analytics and social determinants of health (SDoH) solutions. -The strategic partnership combines Lightbeam’s health analytics and outcomes for payers and providers with the Jvion’s predictive technology.

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80+ Sickening Cyberbullying Statistics

Etactics

The Cyberbullying Research Center defines cyberbullying as when someone repeatedly and intentionally harasses, makes fun of, or mistreats another person online, while using a mobile device, or while using an electronic device. In a nutshell, cyberbullying is bullying that takes place online. It doesn’t matter how, where, or through which device. Spreading rumors, sharing explicit photos without consent, and mean comments are all forms of cyberbullying.

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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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News 6/1/22

HIStalk

Top News Population health management vendor Lightbeam Health Solutions will.

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How to Group Message Patients Like a Pro and Stay TCPA Compliant

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Morning Headlines 6/1/22

HIStalk

Lightbeam Acquires Jvion AI and SDOH Solutions Population health management.

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ProMedica Health doubles inpatient virtual service lines, expediting specialty care

Healthcare It News

ProMedica Health System, based in Toledo, Ohio, is a not-for-profit health system that serves communities in 28 states. The organization offers acute and ambulatory care, an insurance company with a dental plan, and post-acute and academic business lines. The organization has more than 43,000 employees, 12 hospitals, 2,500 physicians and advanced practice providers with privileges, 1,000 healthcare providers employed by ProMedica Physicians, a health plan, and 335 assisted living facilities, ski

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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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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

In the wake of the pandemic and growing consumer preferences, the hospital-to-home movement is gaining traction among health systems. Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross. On the promising front, recent studies reviewed through a meta-analysis published in JAMA found that hospital-to-home programs can be clinically and cost-effective for inpatients discharged from hospita

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International Reference Pricing for Cell and Gene Therapies

Healthcare ECONOMIST

In recent years, the US government has had a number of proposals which aim to lower drug prices by linking US drug prices to the prices in other developed countries. This process is known as international reference pricing (IRP). A paper by Sullivan et al. (2022) explains: Federal legislative proposals to address global pricing differences and affordability, including US Senate Bill S.25432; US House of Representatives Bill HR 33; and, more recently, the Prescription Drug Price Relief Act of 202