Tue.Jul 05, 2022

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St. Luke's University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care

Healthcare It News

St. Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St.

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Healing within the healthcare community starts with empathy

Health Care Dive

The U.S. healthcare system can’t take much more employee turnover without compromising care. Overwhelmed and overworked, many healthcare workers don’t feel safe and supported, Qualtrics’ CMO argues.

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Behind the scenes of one of the largest remote patient monitoring implementations and evaluations in the U.S

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: CareSignal Primary topic: Population Health Topic: Innovation Pulse Patient Engagement Population Health Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Behind the scenes of one of the largest remote patient monitoring implementations and evaluations in the U.

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To aid rural hospitals, CMS proposes rule for new provider type

Health Care Dive

The rural emergency hospital designation is expected to help prevent facility closures and maintain access to crucial healthcare services.

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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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How to Market to Doctors, Physicians, and Other Health Care Professionals

Healthcare Success

Marketing to doctors, physicians, surgeons, and other health care professionals can be extremely challenging, complicated, and expensive. What’s more, most doctors work in a hospital or multilocation medical practice, making it even more challenging to identify key decision-makers. Not only are doctors and decision-makers difficult to reach—and even more difficult to persuade—you have to contend with a ton of competition.

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Social needs program for Medicaid beneficiaries can be effective but costly, research finds

Health Care Dive

The youngest patients enrolled in the program saw the greatest reduction in healthcare use while less of an impact was seen among older patients. Also, 60% of patients enrolled in the program did not engage.

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Personalizing health education and outreach by using data

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Yoon Suk-yeol Is Biden's Perfect South Korea Partner

The Rand Blog

Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea's conservative new president, has shown that he is in lockstep with U.S. President Joe Biden on foreign policy. During Biden's Indo-Pacific trip last month, their conversations in the security domain suggest Yoon's overlapping tenure with Biden heralds a golden era in the U.S.-South Korea alliance.

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Why Hospitals with Nearby Home Health Agencies Have Higher Readmission Rates

Home Health Care

A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions. One of the reasons readmission rates were higher in those areas may be due to frequent staffing changes and other interruptions in care, according to the study’s lead author.

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How AI Can Accurately Detect Diabetes Through Retinal Images

HIT Consultant

Recent advancements in AI have demonstrated that AI can accurately detect diabetes through the analysis of retinal images that retina experts would consider healthy. To better understand this achievement, it is worth taking a step back to understand the context and magnitude of the achievement. Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects the body’s ability to metabolize glucose, resulting in high levels of sugars in the bloodstream.

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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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HHCN Staffing Summit: A Discussion with CareAcademy

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by CareAcademy. This article is based on the HHCN Staffing Summit Q&A with Jessica Jones, Care Experience Outcomes Manager at CareAcademy. The Q&A took place virtually on May 25, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Home Health Care News: This session is titled Education Pathways for Caregivers: An Untapped Opportunity For Employers with CareAcademy.

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FDA guidance on patient-focused drug development

Healthcare ECONOMIST

FDA wants drugs to be more targeted to factors that impact patient’s lives in ways that they care about. To achieve this goal, last month FDA released a third guidance document on patient focused drug development generally applicable to a variety of clinical outcome assessments (COAs), including patient-reported outcome (PRO), observer-reported outcome (ObsRO), clinician-reported outcome (ClinRO), and performance-based outcome (PerfO) measures.

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Home Health Staff Poaching ‘Unavoidable,’ But Providers Are Still Fighting Back

Home Health Care

With the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel finally visible, home-based care agencies will now have to worry about checking their peripherals once they reach the other side. Government watchdog agencies are expected to come hard for providers in 2022 and beyond. The Biden administration released a 68-page report Monday pertaining to the “state of labor market competition,” for instance.

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News 7/6/22

HIStalk

Top News Francisco Partners completes its acquisition of the data.

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Movers & Shakers: Signify Hires Former OptumInsight CPO; Always Best Care Creates New Exec Position

Home Health Care

Signify Health hires former Optum executive. Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) has named Paymon Farazi – the former chief product officer at UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) OptumInsight – as its own chief product officer. Farazi has over 15 years of experience in similar roles at OptumInsight, Cargill and Dell. In his role at Signify Health, he will be responsible for “product strategy, development and marking across the company’s business segments,” according to a press release.

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Path to Predictive Patient Data: Silencing The Noise of Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Shane Cooke, CEO and President of Etiometry. As the healthcare industry is experiencing major changes in the wake of the pandemic, how do we cut through the noise of beeping monitors and the constant influx of data each patient produces in a given moment to ensure optimal care, especially for critically ill patients? Instead of adding a new beep or silencing the existing ones, why not build a path through the noise with data?

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Recap of AHLA’s Annual Meeting

Sheppard Health Law

The AHLA’s Annual Meeting held June 27-29 in Chicago reunited healthcare attorneys across the country. The diverse group of attendees were eager not only to reconnect in-person, but also to process the changes that the now-easing pandemic has brought to all corners of the healthcare industry. The conference presenters grappled in real-time with the transitory nature of the healthcare landscape today, including the significant role that technology has played in driving shifts in care delivery.

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Morning Headlines 7/6/22

HIStalk

One Medical Considers Options After Getting Takeover Interest Concierge primary.

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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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Human Trafficking Training for Hotels: What, How, Why

Etactics

After assessing a decade worth of statistics, the Polaris Project found that 75% of human trafficking survivors reported coming into contact with hotels at some point during their trafficking situation. Despite crossing paths with hotel staff, nearly all victims indicated that they never received any assistance. This has led to a series of state laws requiring hotels to either display awareness posters or provide training to their staff on how to identify signs of human trafficking.

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CMS ADOPTS MAJOR CHANGES TO LTC FACILITY SURVEYOR GUIDANCE

Sheppard Health Law

On June 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it issued significant changes to surveyor guidance for Long Term Care (LTC) facility health, quality and safety standards. [1] . Some of the changes reflect clarifications to requirements that become effective during Phase 2 of the revised Requirements for Participation for LTC facilities which CMS adopted in 2016. [2] Other changes provide initial guidance to implement Phase 3 of the requirements, which became ef

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Democratic senators want stricter HIPAA rules to protect abortion patients

Health Care Dive

Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Michael Bennet are calling on the HHS to use its existing scope of regulatory power to beef up HIPAA’s privacy measures to better protect patients seeking reproductive healthcare.