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New ONC rule aims to raise trust in clinical decision support algorithms

Health Care Dive

The rule proposed Tuesday would give providers more information in their electronic health record system to assess clinical decision support algorithms and their results.

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A majority of payers used outcomes-based contracting last year: survey

Fierce Healthcare

A majority of payers used outcomes-based contracting last year: survey pminemyer Wed, 04/12/2023 - 13:04

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HHS proposes rule shoring up HIPAA to protect reproductive health data, including around abortions

Health Care Dive

Privacy lawyers said the regulation, if finalized, would insulate physicians from the chilling effect of abortion bans, freeing them to have honest conversations with patients about their healthcare options — even in states where abortion is illegal.

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3 Digital Health Strategies to Improve Health Plan Member Experience

Fierce Healthcare

3 Digital Health Strategies to Improve Health Plan Member Experience mteefey Wed, 04/12/2023 - 14:16

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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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Care access, affordability impeding long COVID patients, study finds

Health Care Dive

Respondents had difficulty finding clinicians and health insurance and struggled to keep up with family medical bills in the previous year.

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Microsoft expands cloud capabilities for payers, rolls out new AI services

Fierce Healthcare

Microsoft expands cloud capabilities for payers, rolls out new AI services hlandi Wed, 04/12/2023 - 11:42

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CDC seeks new weapons against antimicrobial resistance

Fierce Healthcare

CDC seeks new weapons against antimicrobial resistance fdiamond Wed, 04/12/2023 - 16:29

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How health equity and innovation are connected

Healthcare It News

Dr. Bobby Mukkamala will offer more detail during the HIMSS23 session "Advancing Social Justice and Equity in Health Technology." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, at 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S105A.

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Pre-merger Advocate Aurora Health logs $751M net loss across 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Pre-merger Advocate Aurora Health logs $751M net loss across 2022 dmuoio Wed, 04/12/2023 - 12:38

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Financial Literacy Month: Give Your Employees Relief from Medical Bills

Healthcare Council

Financial Literacy Month: Give Your Employees Relief from Medical Bills By Andrew Harris, Head of Growth at Paytient April is Financial Literacy Month and this year the “celebration” comes as consumers face higher interest rates, inflationary prices, and increased levels of household debt. Less generous health plans for employees also mean this Financial Literacy Month.

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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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UPMC aims to fund facility expansion plan with highest-to-date $1.6B bond issue

Fierce Healthcare

UPMC aims to fund facility expansion plan with highest-to-date $1.

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1upHealth Raises $40M for FHR Data Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: 1upHealth , a modern data platform that’s cloud-based, API-enabled, and FHIR-native today announced the close of a $40M Series C investment led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from existing investors F-Prime Capital , Jackson Square Ventures , and Eniac Ventures. Founded in 2017, 1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the

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This startup aims to modernize egg freezing with a long-overdue tech upgrade

Fierce Healthcare

This startup aims to modernize egg freezing with a long-overdue tech upgrade aburky Wed, 04/12/2023 - 14:50

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4medica’s EMPI Platform Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: 4medica®, a healthcare data quality and matching technology company, today announced that the 4medica Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Built on Google Cloud’s Healthcare API , 4medica’s EMPI offers healthcare organizations access to a highly scalable data management services such as referential matching and identity enrichment.

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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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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare: Empowering healthcare to deliver meaningful outcomes

Cloud Blogs

Healthcare organizations continue to face complex challenges of evolving patient expectations, talent shortages, workforce burnout, and financial operational insecurity. But you’re not facing these challenges alone. Innovators across industry, partners, and technology are joining forces and collaborating to find answers. We’re eager to join you at HIMSS23 and demonstrate how technology can play a role to solve these challenges and help your organization gain value faster with more co

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What Role Can Consumer Health Technology Play in Diagnoses?

HIT Consultant

David Smith, President at ilumivu There’s an ongoing debate regarding the role that consumer health technology , like wearable health devices (i.e., smartwatches), can play in diagnostics, now and in the future. Because this is a relatively new technology, the scope of its potential impact is, at present, only scraping the surface. Even so, smartwatches and their connected health apps are reshaping the healthcare industry.

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Medicaid Prescription Drug Rebate program: A review

Healthcare ECONOMIST

A helpful reminder of what rebates are for drugs covered under State Medicaid Agencies. ICER reports in their California, based on a helpful summary from the Kaiser Family Foundation : For brand name drugs, the [Medicaid] rebate is 23.1% of Average Manufacturer Price (AMP) or the difference between AMP and “best price,” whichever is greater. Certain pediatric and clotting drugs have a lower rebate amount of 17.1%.

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Ocutrx Acquires Spectrum AMT to Advance Capabilities for Medical Devices

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Ocutrx Technologies , a global technology company developing medical devices with augmented reality (AR), extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI), acquires Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. , a Colorado-based electronics manufacturing and assembly company. With this acquisition, the consolidated Oxutrx_Spectrum company now has seven (7) process lines, including ISO Optics Lab capabilities, serving medical, commercial and government entities.

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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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5 Home Health Leaders Weigh In On The Growth Mistakes They See Providers Making

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The pursuit of growth is a never-ending journey for home health providers, and there are plenty of ways to err on that pursuit. Many leaders, through observation and first-hand experience, are able to recognize what should be avoided for companies that are aiming to accelerate. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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Risk Adjustment 2023: Which Vendors Drive Value in a Shifting Market?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Strategies employed by payers, provider-sponsored health plans, and provider organizations are starting to become more proactive, and the need for solutions with prospective, predictive capabilities is rising. Additionally, amid rising healthcare costs and economic uncertainty, organizations are looking for solutions that deliver more for less.

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Inside Advocate Health Enterprises’ Home-Based Care Investment Plans

Home Health Care

About 15 years ago, Scott Powder — the president of Advocate Health Enterprises — was excited about a new idea. It was 2008 and the project was dubbed “Clinically Home”. The mission was to scale a hospital-at-home program pioneered by Johns Hopkins University. Advocate Aurora Health, Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) and Raphael Rakowski – now the co-founder and CEO of Medically Home – were leading the charge.

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Accenture Invests in Digital Twin Solution Virtonomy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Accenture Ventures announced it has made a strategic investment in Virtonomy , a provider of data-driven simulations that use existing patient data and digital twin technology to bring life-saving medical devices to market more quickly. – Virtonomy’s digital twin simulation solution enables medical device manufacturers to build model patient virtual environments for device testing at a reduced cost and with less regulatory complexity.

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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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Vistria Group-Backed Care Management Company Sets Out To Be ‘Anti-Convener’

Home Health Care

The Phoenix-based Professional Health Care Network (PHCN), a home health care management services company, is rebranding. PHCN will now be called “tango.” The rebranding has been in the works for a year, ever since the Chicago-based private equity firm Vistria Group acquired a majority stake in the company. “We are emphasizing our role in enabling our partners to provide high quality, cost-effective care for patients through innovative, value-based models,” tango CEO Brian Lobley told Home Healt

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M&A: Vytalize Health Acquires IPA New York

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Today, Vytalize Health announced it has acquired Independent Physician Association (“IPA”) of New York, one of the nation’s largest IPAs with more than 3,000 providers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The deal scales Vytalize’s successful value-based care model to new payer arrangements and specialty care across the healthcare spectrum.

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Rethinking policy in a digital age: The role of blockchain technology in Canada

Healthy Debate

The post Rethinking policy in a digital age: The role of blockchain technology in Canada appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Building a Professional Early Childhood Workforce Requires a 'Compensation-First' Approach

The Rand Blog

The benefits and costs of large-scale professionalization efforts in early childhood education (ECE) are not yet clear. And we know little about the implications of such policies for a workforce that already faces a great deal of instability. However, research on ECE professionalization offers some lessons.

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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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Doctor, do you mind the interruption?

Nordic

Many physicians equate clinical decision support (CDS) with pop-up alerts. They seem like one and the same to doctors who have been dealing with them for years, or at least since electronic health records (EHRs) came on the scene. Pop-up alerts take over the screen, forcing the user to stop whatever they were doing and deal with the new task; we professionals who like to use big words (guilty as charged!

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Blockchain and the future of medicine

Healthy Debate

The post Blockchain and the future of medicine appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Sixth Circuit Limits Anti-Kickback Claims Brought Under False Claims Act

Triage Health Law

Recently, the Sixth Circuit issued an important decision limiting the scope of claims alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute that are brought under the False Claims Act. In Shannon Martin, M.D., et al. v. Hathaway, et al. , No. 22-1463 (March 28, 2023), the court clarified the meaning of remuneration under the Anti-Kickback Statute. Squire Patton Boggs attorneys Colin Jennings, Vipal Patel, Marisa Darden and Shams Hirji discuss the case in detail on our Global Investigations & Comp

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Machine-Learning Algorithm Enhances Stroke Diagnosis

Health IT Analytics

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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.