Tue.Sep 07, 2021

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Pandemic keeps exacerbating burnout among nurses, including travelers

Health Care Dive

Animosity is also growing between core nursing staff and traveling nurses who are often contracted to do the same work for much higher pay, staffing firm Aya Healthcare said.

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Judge rules 'neigh' on using ivermectin for COVID-19, reversing earlier court decision

Fierce Healthcare

Judge rules 'neigh' on using ivermectin for COVID-19, reversing earlier court decision. dmuoio. Tue, 09/07/2021 - 12:37.

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Beaumont, Spectrum move ahead with merger

Health Care Dive

The two Michigan health systems have signed a formal integration agreement, marking the next step in the merger process that was first announced in June.

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Most doctors get limited education on eating disorders. This online training helps fill the gap

Fierce Healthcare

Most doctors get limited education on eating disorders. This online training helps fill the gap. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 09/07/2021 - 10:24.

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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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Hospital telehealth leveling off at one-fifth of medical appointments, research finds

Health Care Dive

And of the facilities reporting higher virtual volumes, many said they expected telehealth use to decline over the long term, according to the survey from KLAS Research and the Center for Connected Medicine.

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AMA releases more than 400 CPT code changes for 2022 to align with new tech services

Fierce Healthcare

AMA releases more than 400 CPT code changes for 2022 to align with new tech services. hlandi. Tue, 09/07/2021 - 11:49.

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Healthcare bankruptcies at all-time low, new report finds

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare bankruptcies at all-time low, new report finds. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 09/07/2021 - 10:32.

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ECRI CEO calls on FDA, industry to revisit COVID-19 medical device EUAs as shortages ebb

Health Care Dive

Marcus Schabacker spoke about patient safety, cyberattacks in healthcare and risks from the rise of at-home care.

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Cityblock Health raises another mega-round of cash, boosting valuation to $5.7B

Fierce Healthcare

Cityblock Health raises another mega-round of cash, boosting valuation to $5.7B. hlandi. Tue, 09/07/2021 - 15:25.

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The low-down on the latest NSA Member ID and Advanced EOB Requirements

Health Care Dive

What you need to know about new NSA requirements for Member ID cards & AEOBs to reach compliance.

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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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Azalea Health picks up dashboardMD to bolster its EHR platform's analytics offerings

Fierce Healthcare

Azalea Health picks up dashboardMD to bolster its EHR platform's analytics offerings. dmuoio. Tue, 09/07/2021 - 15:11.

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Sponsored: EMEA's digital health landscape: What's next in 2021?

Healthcare It News

EMEA's Digital Health Future The "Summer Conversations" series explores "What's next in 2021?" when it comes to key growth areas in digital health. HIMSS Corporate members share their thoughts on upcoming healthcare trends in the community across Europe and the Middle East. Learn about what the healthcare industry should focus on as we look cautiously to a world beyond COVID-19, and how organisations can contribute to advancing innovation and wider technology adoptio

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Clover Health to integrate Assistant tool into athenahealth electronic medical record

Fierce Healthcare

Clover Health to integrate Assistant tool into athenahealth electronic medical record. pminemyer. Tue, 09/07/2021 - 14:26.

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Dr. J. Allen Meadows: How digital inhalers have led to more informed treatment discussions in my practice

Health Care Dive

Dr. J. Allen Meadows worked with Teva Pharmaceuticals to share his experience with the Digihaler® family of inhalers and accompanying platforms.

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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 Home-Based Care Companies Are Carving Out a Space in Hospital-at-Home Programs

Home Health Care

When it comes to running a successful hospital-at-home model, many have stressed the importance of having a home care component to complement clinical service offerings and provide assistance with patients’ everyday activities. For some home care providers, this fact — and the launch of several new hospital-at-home programs since the start of the pandemic — has resulted in a rise in business partnerships.

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Mapping Environmental Racism: Q&A with Jaime Madrigano and Benjamin Preston

The Rand Blog

Environmental policy experts Jaime Madrigano and Benjamin Preston are leading an effort to highlight how discriminatory policies have shaped environmental health disparities. Their goal: create an interactive map of the United States to motivate environmental policy that advances antiracism.

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‘It’s Impacting the Entire Industry’: The Threat Climate Change Poses to Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

Home-based care players tout their ability to proactively aid seniors’ health, as opposed to just reactively, and for good reason. Their ability to do just that makes them valuable to patients, payers and partners. To continue keeping seniors safe while they age in place, however, there’s another issue they’ll have to address proactively: increasingly prevalent and severe weather events.

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With the Evacuation Over, Afghanistan Is Left to Contend with a Worsening Refugee Crisis

The Rand Blog

The more than 100,000 civilians recently evacuated from Afghanistan are a small fraction of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods due to war. To avoid worsening the existing humanitarian crisis, the global community should take swift action, including close coordination with regional and national players.

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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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Physician suicide: Contributing factors and how to prevent it

CHQ Healthcare

Suicide is a preventable tragedy, and all too often it’s the outcome of the stigma, shame, and silence associated with mental illness. In medicine, that stigma and silence comes at a high cost: physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession , with a rate more than double that of the general population. According to the 2021 Medscape National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report , on average 13% of physicians have had thoughts of suicide.

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CMS Posts Latest County Positivity Rates

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the latest county positivity rates for August 18th through August 31, 2021. Remember that the “archived” rates are found on the individual sheets or pages at the bottom of the Excel spreadsheet. Be sure to check your county’s positivity rate as that becomes the basis for testing frequency of your staff.

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How Healthcare Can Weaponize Data to Fight Worldwide Disease

HIT Consultant

Adam Wilson, CEO of Trifacta. After more than a year since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, we now understand that part of the challenge in fighting it, and any infectious disease, is solving the underlying data problem. Without reliable data, leaders can’t plan, epidemiologists can’t model, and citizens don’t feel confident following expert recommendations.

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Humana Executive: Data, Analytics Key to a Home-Focused Health Care System

Home Health Care

Home health operators have been advocating for more care to be delivered in the home for years. Those calls have now come to fruition. In actuality, other health care stakeholders have sought to shift more care into the home as well, but operational hurdles and unavoidable gaps in care made that mission seemingly impossible. But now the home health industry is ready, Heather Cox, the chief digital health and analytics officer at Humana Inc.

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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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Stryker Acquires Med Device Company Gauss Surgical

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Stryker today announced the acquisition of Gauss Surgical , a Menlo Park, CA-based medical device company that has developed Triton™, an artificial intelligence-enabled platform for real-time monitoring of blood loss during surgery. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – Triton combines the power of A.I. with the simplicity of a mobile device to deliver accurate blood loss during surgery.

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How a modern EHR will help The Aga Khan University Hospitals improve care throughout the developing world

Meditech

Making quality healthcare accessible to everyone is a challenge and a priority in every country. It can be particularly difficult to meet the needs of underserved populations who live in remote areas.

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Criminal Justice in the Pandemic Era and Beyond

The Rand Blog

The pandemic forced the entire criminal justice system to adapt and innovate in ways it never had before. How can the lessons of COVID-19 improve the future of criminal justice?

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Statistics on health care labor

Healthcare ECONOMIST

On this Labor Day, below find some interesting statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) on health care wages and employment. From the first graph, one can see that health care practitioners (e.g., physicians, nurse) have much higher wages than average but health care support workers (e.g., ) have fairly low wages.

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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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Mapping out the future of neurosciences at OSF

Osf Healthcare

It’s well known among health care systems that the industry faces a clinician shortage in the future, particularly in specialties like neurology. That means organizations will have a tougher time keeping up with patient demand. And it means individuals could wait longer to get the care they need. Leaders at OSF HealthCare Illinois Neurological Institute are planning for that future now with the help of OSF Innovation.

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Keeping Patients at the Center of the Care Experience

Solution Reach

To say that healthcare is going through a rough patch right now might be the understatement of all understatements. After nearly 18 months of continuously battling COVID, healthcare organizations now face yet another surge of high coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. This heightened medical care marathon has understandably left providers and their staff exhausted and often frustrated.

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Diffusion and dissemination - Types of spread in quality improvement

Life Qi

Introduction. In this article we’re going to look at the types of ‘spread’ used in Quality Improvement (QI). In particular, we compare diffusion and dissemination. We’re going to examine how you go about disseminating and/or diffusing innovations in QI and look at how- even though the two approaches are on either ends of the spectrum - they do not have to be independent of each other.

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5 Ways to Improve the Patient Financial Experience

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.