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Postpartum people could lose coverage amid Medicaid redeterminations

Health Care Dive

People in some states could lose postpartum coverage 60 days after giving birth, even though health risks from pregnancy can continue for months, according to a new report from KFF.

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Long COVID described as a 'syndrome of syndromes' in NIH funded research

Fierce Healthcare

Long COVID described as a 'syndrome of syndromes' in NIH funded research fdiamond Tue, 05/30/2023 - 12:16

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Physician compensation rose but was eclipsed by inflation, MGMA survey finds

Health Care Dive

Although hampered by a 7% increase in inflation, advanced practice providers saw the biggest change in median total pay compared to pre-pandemic levels.

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UnitedHealthcare, docs still at odds over prior authorization policy for colonoscopies

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare, docs still at odds over prior authorization policy for colonoscopies fdiamond Tue, 05/30/2023 - 17:17

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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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Persistent expenses drove Ascension to $1.8B operating loss

Health Care Dive

An improvement in volumes for the health system, especially outpatient surgeries and emergency room visits, didn’t outpace growing expenses, which increased by $804 million year over year in the nine month period.

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Denials of health insurance claims are rising—and getting weirder

Fierce Healthcare

Denials of health insurance claims are rising—and getting weirder pminemyer Tue, 05/30/2023 - 10:51

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Medicaid work requirements dropped in debt ceiling deal

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid work requirements dropped in debt ceiling deal pminemyer Tue, 05/30/2023 - 12:20

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Cleveland Clinic taps Epic MyChart to drive clinical research engagement

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Optum launching new programs that lean on independent pharmacies to close care gaps

Fierce Healthcare

Optum launching new programs that lean on independent pharmacies to close care gaps pminemyer Tue, 05/30/2023 - 16:03

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Home Care Providers Increasingly See Better Referral Relationships As Top Avenue For Growth

Home Health Care

When it comes to growth, home care and home health providers are focused on a number of key opportunities. For home care providers, care professional recruitment and retention programs ranked No. 1 on a list of top growth opportunities for 2023, according to 32.9% of respondents. This finding comes from research and education company Home Care Pulse’ (HCP) 2023 benchmarking report.

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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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LeanTaaS hospital operations solution iQueue Autopilot is only the most recent example of generative AI-infused SMS text messages

Fierce Healthcare

LeanTaaS hospital operations solution iQueue Autopilot is only the most recent example of generative AI-infused SMS text messages aburky Tue, 05/30/2023 - 12:50

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The End of One Health Crisis Must Not Lead to a New One

HIT Consultant

Paula LeClair, U.S. General Manager of Healthy.io Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) enacted in the United States came to an end this May. As much as we would like to go back to normal, it seems that simply turning the page on the PHE without carrying forward what we learned during Covid will leave millions of Americans scrambling for healthcare and disengaging from essential preventive health services.

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Advocate Health reports 0.1% operating margin, $579M net gain for its first post-merger quarter

Fierce Healthcare

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Rising to the Challenge: A Methodological Approach to Prioritizing Defense Investments

The Rand Blog

Meeting the Pentagon's goals to invest efficiently in military capabilities calls for a methodological process hinging on five key elements: aligning strategies with tasks, understanding what drives military innovation, embracing specificity in problem-solving, preparing for an unknown future, and assessing technology investments for prioritization.

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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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Ascension down nearly $1.9B in 9 months after fiscal Q3's elevated costs, one-time impairment losses

Fierce Healthcare

Ascension down nearly $1.

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Building a Better, Digitized Hospital Incident Command System

HIT Consultant

Matt Kernerman, Team Lead for AppArmor Plenty of crisis events and safety initiatives can and do, receive extensive attention and pre-planning from hospital officials, but the reality is that when an emergency incident unfolds, time is not always on the side of health facility leaders. Natural disasters, severe weather, mass casualty incidents, system malfunctions and pandemics can present with little to no warning and impact every area of a hospital or health center.

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Trinity Health sees improving margins but still operating at a loss despite gains in Q3

Fierce Healthcare

Trinity Health sees improving margins but still operating at a loss despite gains in Q3 agliadkovskaya Tue, 05/30/2023 - 16:54

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It’s Time We Put The Person Back Into Personalized Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Raymond Lee, Chief Product Officer, Vida Health One of the great wonders of life is that every person’s genome is completely unique. Dr. Suess put it best when he wrote: “Today, you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” As nice as it sounds, this truism presents some serious challenges for healthcare leaders.

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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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'Podnosis': 'Game-changing' generative AI and gender-affirming healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': 'Game-changing' generative AI and gender-affirming healthcare tcarey Tue, 05/30/2023 - 11:53

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Podimetrics CMO Talks Supporting Patients Living with SDoH Challenges

HIT Consultant

Dr. Gary Rothenberg, Chief Medical Officer of Podimetrics In an interview with HIT Consultant, Dr. Gary Rothenberg, Chief Medical Officer of Podimetrics talks about how healthcare technology can help support a focus on social determinants of health (SDoH) to enhance the relationship between the patient and physician/care team. How can health technology play a role in helping to address social determinants of health (SDOH) when it comes to diabetes care?

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California hospitals seek a broad bailout, but they don’t all need it

Fierce Healthcare

California hospitals seek a broad bailout, but they don’t all need it dmuoio Tue, 05/30/2023 - 10:49

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3 Ways Government Can Catalyze Biomedical Innovation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Deloitte has published some new research about how government can advance biomedical innovation and improve public health. The report shares insights from various government leaders and biomedical industry experts on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, what’s driving innovation, the challenges and opportunities in partnerships, and the government’s role in sustaining the biomedical industry.

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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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Industry Voices—We can’t fight obesity with a ballpark estimate

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—We can’t fight obesity with a ballpark estimate hlandi Tue, 05/30/2023 - 11:05

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LHC Group, VNS Health, Curana Execs On How To Take ‘Baby Steps’ Into Value-Based Care

Home Health Care

Post-acute care has steadily been shifting toward value-based care and away from fee-for-service payment models. But despite the fact this trend is years in the making, many home health providers are still asking themselves, “How do we get started?” Executives from four different post-acute and value-based care-focused organizations explored that question on Tuesday during a webinar conversation hosted by the health care technology company Netsmart.

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Quantifying the Long-Run Economic and Health Impact of Reduced Intellectual Property Protections for New Drugs

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the title of a new working paper written by myself, any my FTI Consulting colleagues Sabiha Quddus and Suhail Thahir. The abstract is below. Some policymakers have called for weakening of intellectual property protections for vaccines and other pharmaceutical products, with the aim to reduce the price and improve access to existing medical technologies, particularly in Eastern Europe and developing countries.

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How Enhabit, Amedisys Are Working Through Staffing Woes Caused By More Part-Time Workers

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership A local restaurant may need three cooks, two cashiers and a manager to get by on a daily basis. It’s a simple equation to figure out. For home health providers, however, the amount of workers they need to provide care every day isn’t as simple. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Get Membership Already a member?

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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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‘Bogus contract’ creating gulf between doctors, patients

Healthy Debate

The post ‘Bogus contract’ creating gulf between doctors, patients appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Why The Evolution of Tech Will be Based on APIs

HIT Consultant

Eric Ly, CEO of KarmaCheck Layoffs continue to ripple across the economy. Starting with big tech firms and the digital businesses that overhired during the early days of the pandemic, pink slips have now spread to the industrial, manufacturing and professional services industries. While there are numerous theories on the underlying causes and exacerbators of the surge in job loss, at its core lies a question of efficiency.

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Who Should We Honor on Memorial Day?

The Rand Blog

The cost of war is not borne solely by soldiers on the field of battle, and for too many, the field of battle is unavoidable. Widening notions of whom we honor, and how, are signs of progress—but they are just a start.

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Latest Nursing Home COVID-19 Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending May 14, 2023. Comparing the May 14, 2023 data to the May 7, 2023 data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate increased 0.1% this past week; Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.1% again this past week; Staff primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.1% this past week; Staff up to date decreased 0.1% this past week; An a

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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.