Health Care Dive
AUGUST 31, 2022
Health First’s decision to terminate their agreement — Oscar’s first full-service tech deal — will cause the insurtech to lose out on up to $60 million in revenue this year.
Bill Of Health
AUGUST 31, 2022
By James Toomey. The story of Henrietta Lacks is surely among the most famous in the history of bioethics, and its facts are well-known. Ms. Lacks sought treatment for cervical cancer. After conducting a biopsy on her tumor, her doctors learned that her cancer cells reproduced uniquely effectively. Without her knowledge or consent, her doctors derived from the cells the HeLa cell line — the world’s first immortal human cell line, worth billions and a driver of the biotechnology revolution.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 31, 2022
The new shots, which are designed to better target circulating strains of omicron, could be available within days. Advisers to the CDC are set to meet later this week.
Healthy Debate
AUGUST 31, 2022
The post Lack of political will means Ontario LTC residents will continue to suffer appeared first on Healthy Debate.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 31, 2022
The vice president of corporate development explains the strategy behind the group's latest investments and how it will help the insurance unit compete in the long term.
Healthcare Associates
AUGUST 31, 2022
Why is My Blood Pressure High in the Morning? High blood pressure is a condition that causes the force of the blood in your body to press against the walls of your blood vessels at too high of a rate. When you get your blood pressure read, it can be deemed as high if the top number reads anything over 129 mm Hg (known as systolic or force of blood pumping out of the heart and into the arteries) and the lower number (known as diastolic or the rate of the heart rests in between beats) reads anythi
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 31, 2022
Pranay Kapadia, Co-Founder & CEO of Notable. d. About Pranay Kapadia, Co-Founder & CEO of Notable. Prior to Notable, Pranay Kapadia and his co-founding team worked to revolutionize how millions of people file for mortgages. As Vice President of Product Management at Blend, a technology company reconstructing the mortgage and lending industry, Pranay worked with customers like Wells Fargo, US Bank, and Fannie Mae to bring simplicity and transparency to consumer banking.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CDC issued this HAN Health Advisory the afternoon of Tuesday, August 30, 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to provide updates on recent variant influenza virus infections and summarize CDC’s recommendations for identification, treatment, and prevention of variant influenza virus infection for the summer and fall of 2022.
Life Qi
AUGUST 31, 2022
Over the course of this series of blogs, we’ve been looking at a wide range of improvement methods. You may have already decided which method you might be thinking of using in your organisation. Or, you may have identified something in your department that is either inefficient, or not quite right. If this is a simple issue, with an obvious solution that you can control, you might just go ahead and make a change, knowing that improvement will follow.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 31, 2022
Help at Home Help adds chief human resources officer. The Chicago-based personal home care company Help at Home has named Lisa George as its new chief human resources officer. George has previously served in human resources leadership roles at Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Campbell’s Soup (NYSE: CPB). Most recently, she was the chief human resources officer at Shearer’s Foods.
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The Rand Blog
AUGUST 31, 2022
Russia's war in Ukraine entered the summer of 2022 with no clear military victor in sight. Although it is important to exercise caution in drawing any major conclusions, some powerful signs about the future of warfare can be derived from this conflict.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 31, 2022
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. It’s no secret that the home health proposed payment rule for 2023 is viewed unfavorably by the majority of stakeholders. It has received pushback for a number of reasons – namely a rate cut – but many also believe that if the rule is finalized, it will threaten care for complex home health patients. What’s considered a complex patient can vary, but patients with some type of heart failure, chronic respiratory diseases and cancer are examples. .
Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 31, 2022
In recent years, policymakers and payers have been focused increasingly not only on how new health technologies improve overall health, but also whether they can reduce health disparities. Oftentimes, however, discussions around health disparities are conducted on a qualitative basis with litlted quantitative analysis of tradeoffs between equity and effectiveness.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 31, 2022
For digital health startups, there is always a period of time before investors get seriously interested where company leaders have to prove their worth. For Ben Foster and the rest of his team at Olio Health – a post-acute care platform – that time has come and gone. And Foster is happy to say hard work paid off. “There’s that element of scale before the investor community really starts to say, ‘This is a thing,’ there’s product market fit, there is outcome data that’s impactful,’” Foster
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Etactics
AUGUST 31, 2022
A recent study by KFF suggests that as of 2019, nearly 23 million Americans owe a significant amount of medical debt. That amounts to 1 in 10 adults! According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the United States as a country owes around $195 billion in medical debt. In the healthcare space, anything that relates to revenue falls under the industry process formerly known as “the revenue cycle”.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Today (August 31, 2022), CMS posted the updated Five Star State-Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table for August 2022. This document – Five Star Quality Rating System Technical Users’ Guide: State Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table – provides the data for the state-level cut points for the star ratings included in the health inspection domain.
Healthcare Performance
AUGUST 31, 2022
Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA webinars: All webinars start at 11:00 a.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. Compliance Training for SNFs. September 21, 2022. 90 minutes. 1.8 CCB CEUs. If the OIG walked into your organization and asked the nearest employee about their compliance program, would they reply with an immediate and clear answer?
Health Recovery
AUGUST 31, 2022
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can cause mild to severe illness in people of all ages. According to the? CDC , 1.5 million people in the United States were diagnosed with pneumonia and required emergency department care in 2018.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 31, 2022
What You Should Know: – In a first-of-its-kind randomized clinical trial led by researchers at the Smidt Heart Institute and the Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, artificial intelligence (AI) proved more successful in assessing and diagnosing cardiac function when compared to echocardiogram assessments made by sonographers. – The results, announced during a late-breaking presentation at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022 , have immediate t
Health Recovery
AUGUST 31, 2022
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is gaining substantial traction ? with healthcare providers nationwide, and for good reason. RPM lets healthcare professionals manage a wide range of patient conditions with enhanced clinical efficiency while providing patients better care at lower costs.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 31, 2022
What You Should Know: – Power , a patient-friendly platform designed to improve access to clinical trial studies emerges from stealth with $7M in seed funding. – The round was led by Footwork and CRV , with additional investments from ARTIS Ventures , South Park Commons , and AirAngels to help Power bring the process of discovering and accessing clinical trials into the future.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 31, 2022
The commercial market for COVID-19 vaccinations could be similar to that for seasonal flu shots and other vaccines, the department said.
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.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 31, 2022
What You Should Know: – MedMinder , a provider of connected pharmacy care for polypharmacy and senior patients, announced it has closed an additional $35 M in funding through a credit facility with SWK Holdings Corporation and additional investment from existing equity partner, Accelmed Partners. – The additional funding will allow MedMinder to further its mission of enabling patients to age at home by increasing its capacity to meet growing demand, offering its holistic pharmacy ser
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Two updated documents Getting Started with HQRP CASPER QM Reports and Getting Started with Review and Correct Reports are now available on the HQRP Requirements and Best Practices webpage. These updates add new screenshots with detailed explanations of the most current reports available to providers and will help in understanding and using the reports.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 31, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Syapse , a leading real-world evidence company dedicated to extinguishing the fear and burden of serious diseases, announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership with Genesis Research. – This partnership will focus on conducting real-world evidence-based research that supports the development and launch of new and innovative treatments. – As part of the partnership, Genesis Research will leverage Syapse’s leading real-world evidence
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Nurse aide candidates: Time is running out! Schedule your test now to work after Oct. 6. Start testing! Candidates get three tries to pass the test. Only three weeks are left to take and pass the Nurse Aide Knowledge and Skills Test to ensure you can continue working in the fall.
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 31, 2022
What You Should Know: – Medtronic announces partnership with BioIntelliSense for exclusive U.S. distribution of multi-parameter wearable for continuous remote patient monitoring from in-hospital to home. – The partnership enables Medtronic to offer access to BioIntellSense’s BioButton® multi-parameter wearable device, which provides scalable personalized patient care, greater workflow automation and proactive clinical interventions for hospitals facing increasing costs and growing wo
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 31, 2022
Walgreens announced it planned to acquire CareCentrix in October as the retailer looks to bolster its Walgreens Health business segment.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 31, 2022
What You Should Know: – AWS names the ten digital health startups selected for its AWS Healthcare Accelerator cohort, focused on health equity. – With the aim of reducing health disparities, these startups are increasing access to health services, addressing social determinants of health, and leveraging data to promote equitable and inclusive systems of care. 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator Program Details.
HIStalk
AUGUST 31, 2022
InterWell Health, Cricket Health, and Fresenius Health Partners Complete Three-Way.
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.
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