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3 questions for Dr. Alan Kadish, Touro University President

Health Care Dive

Between new locations, expanding programs and an ever-growing list of community service initiatives, Touro University is becoming one of the nation's leaders in medical and health science education in myriad ways.

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Telehealth can play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions

Healthcare It News

Telehealth's potential to bridge the services gap for people without ready transportation access has been well-documented. Less explored, however, is virtual care's possible role in reducing carbon emissions, specifically by allowing patients to connect with providers without relying on a car. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center built a dashboard to estimate the environmental impact of the medical facility's telehealth offerings.

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ACA-related coverage enrollment tops record at nearly 36M

Health Care Dive

The expansion of health coverage to more Americans reflects pandemic-related policy efforts, but some of those flexibilities are set to expire this year.

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Walmart launches telehealth program aimed at diabetes

Healthcare It News

Walmart Health's telehealth company MeMD launched a virtual care diabetes program this past week aimed at helping individuals improve management of the disease. The initiative, known as the Walmart Health Virtual Care Diabetes Program, was developed for employers and payers as a standalone offering or as part of a comprehensive telehealth program.

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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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Air ambulance provider latest to sue over surprise billing ban

Health Care Dive

The central issue of the new lawsuit is the guidance the federal government has provided to third-party arbiters.

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How to Write an Effective Press Release (Plus Tips for Maximizing Exposure)

Healthcare Success

As more businesses favor social media channels for timely business communications, you may think press releases have become outdated or old-fashioned. You might even ask yourself, “Do we even need press releases anymore?” . The answer is an unequivocal “Yes.” Consumers and journalists still view press releases as one of the most trustworthy sources of brand-related information.

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How to Write an Effective Press Release (Plus Tips for Maximizing Exposure)

Healthcare Success

As more businesses favor social media channels for timely business communications, you may think press releases have become outdated or old-fashioned. You might even ask yourself, "Do we even need press releases anymore?" . The answer is an unequivocal "Yes.". Consumers and journalists still view press releases as one of the most trustworthy sources of brand-related information.

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MIPS 2022 Measures for the Certified Nurse Midwife Category

p3care

MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) was launched by the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for the Medicare Part B healthcare providers. It was put in place so they could get compensated based on their value-based MIPS performance. Categories. There are four categories in this category of QPP reporting , which are: Quality. Improvements Activities.

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Withings rolls out new remote patient monitoring program

Healthcare It News

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May is National Stroke Awareness Month

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The CDC reports that after decades of decline, progress has slowed in preventing stroke deaths. Every 40 seconds someone has a stroke in the US. Almost 800,000 people have a stroke each year, more than 140,000 die and many survivors face disability. This is disturbing because about 80% of strokes are preventable.

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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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TEFCA can help patients to access medical records

Healthcare It News

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How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

HIT Consultant

Although it is well established that diversity improves outcomes and drives excellence, implementing diversity lags behind in many industries, including life sciences and healthcare. Diversity is lacking across the entire field, from academic research to clinical work, composition of the workforce, and medical practice. This leads to worse health outcomes and fewer professional opportunities for underserved demographics, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with disabilities.

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What Programs Can Help Parents in Prison and Their Children?

The Rand Blog

Around 2.3 million people live in U.S. jails and prisons, and most of them are parents. What are prisons doing to help them be better parents when they get out? It's more than just a policy question—it's a social justice question.

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Withings Health Solutions Launches Enhanced Remote Patient Monitoring Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Withings Health Solutions unveils its RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) Solution, designed to place the patient experience back at the heart of telehealth. Benefitting both the patient and the provider, Withings RPM solution tackles the challenges that are causing friction for care teams and patients when it comes to long-term medical requirements. – Led by Antoine Robilard, Withings Health Solutions is delivering a dual approach for patients and providers, by

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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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Best Life Brands CEO on the Staffing Crisis in Home Care

Home Health Care

The most challenging issue in home-based care continues to be staffing, a fact that every provider that makes up the space is aware of. Home care’s turnover rate is about 65%. Additionally, as the population of seniors continues to grow and more people wish to age at home, the size of the caregiver pool is just not adequate. As the leader of a holding company that has over 500 home care franchise locations across the U.S. and Canada, Best Life Brands CEO J.J.

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UCSF Health & Tia Partner to Open Flagship Women’s Clinic in SF

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UCSF Health , and women’s healthcare provider Tia announced a partnership to transform women’s healthcare in the Bay Area — while also demonstrating a model for how a traditional health system and an upstart can work together to improve health outcomes and experiences for 51% of the population. – The flagship Tia Clinic will provide Bay Area women with a first-of-its-kind medical home designed to make every woman feel seen, heard and cared fo

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Follow the Leader

Healthcare Leadership

Blog Post By Joe Babaian. Leadership isn’t just about being popular and it’s certainly not about being draconian, Steve Jobs’ legacy notwithstanding. Leadership is all about identifying the range of skills and passions in your organization and leveraging for the mutual good. Balance is another sign of great leadership since we know we need more than just the A players to make a team.

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Imagene Raises $21.5M to Expand Image-Based Biomarker Detection for Precision Medicine

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Imagene AI , an emerging leader in the field of AI-based precision medicine for cancer, today announced it raised $21.5 million, comprising $3M in seed funding led by Blumberg Capital and an $18.5M Series A round led by renowned technology-driven cancer medicine investors Larry Ellison, Dr. David Agus, and AI imaging space pioneer Eyal Gura. – The use of AI-based molecular testing in cancer diagnostics is revolutionizing patient care by offering a new level of

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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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Financial hardship to afford prescription drugs over time: Evidence from 1998-2021

Healthcare ECONOMIST

In the past, seniors in Medicare had to pay for all their prescription drugs out-of-pocket. For elderly individuals with multiple medical conditions, this lack of coverage was highly burdensome. To address this issue, in 2006, Medicare Part D began which provided some coverage for prescription drugs. To keep the cost of Part D down, however, it contained a coverage gap (colloquially known as the “donut hole”) in which after patients met some deductible and had some coverage, they wou

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Hello Heart Raises $70M to Expand Heart Health Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hello Heart , the only digital therapeutics company focused exclusively on heart disease, announced a $70M Series D funding round led by Stripes to support its rapid growth in the employer market. – The funding round will specifically support the increase in employer market demand for Hello Heart’s technology as a focus on heart health sharpens.

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Fentanyl Makes an Already Dangerous Drug Market Deadlier Than Ever

The Rand Blog

Failure to recognize and respond to how rapidly illegal drug markets have changed with the arrival of illegally manufactured synthetic opioids will continue to put many Americans at risk of exposure to fentanyl, endangering the lives of hundreds of thousands more for years to come.

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Rochester Regional Health Taps TytoCare for On-Demand Virtual Visits

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rochester Regional Health, an integrated health system serving western New York, the Finger Lakes, and beyond, announced it has selected TytoCare , an all-in-one modular device and examination solution for AI-powered , remote medical exams. On-demand virtual visits via TytoCare are available starting today for Rochester Regional patients. – The integration of the TytoCare solution into Rochester Regional’s current telehealth appointments enhances the health sy

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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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SNF Provider Preview Reports Now Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. These reports contain provider performance scores for quality measures, which will be published on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC) during the July 2022 release. The data contained within the Preview Reports are based on quality assessment data submitted by SNFs from Quarter 4, 2020 through Quarter 3, 2021.

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A Guide to How to Verify Insurance Eligibility & Benefits

Sequence Health

If you are like most people, you probably don’t enjoy dealing with insurance companies. In fact, you may go out of your way to avoid them! This is especially true when it comes to verifying insurance eligibility and benefits. It can be a confusing process, and often times it feels like you are getting the runaround from customer service representatives.

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Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Makers in MDD

Health Advances

By Michael Davitian; Shreya Saraf; Vivek Mittal, PhD. Introduction. Treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) is an attractive market opportunity that is ripe for disruption. The growing MDD patient population has significant need for better therapeutic options, particularly the ~3MM Americans with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). The development pipeline offers hope, with multiple promising novel mechanisms, particularly glutamatergic and GABAergic mechanisms.

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How to Engage Physicians for Cost Savings Success

Vie Healthcare

Physician preference items or physician driven spend is a significant driver for hospitals. Hospitals should aim to work together with their physicians, not just work with them when the need arises. Three obstacles are observed when hospitals begin the initiative of engaging their physicians for cost savings. Hospitals should have a playbook they use to have positive engagements with physicians when reviewing cost analytics.

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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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HIStalk Interviews Carina Edwards, CEO, Quil Health

HIStalk

Carina Edwards, MBA is CEO of Quil Health of Philadelphia,

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ROI Influencers: Technology 2022 — Bob Gold

GoMoHealth

The post ROI Influencers: Technology 2022 — Bob Gold appeared first on GoMo Health.

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Morning Headlines 5/3/22

HIStalk

Virtual care enabler Capable raises $6 million Capable Health, developer.

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Home Care Industry Sees Client Growth Rate Spike, Caregiver Growth Rate Drop

Home Health Care

The home care industry is changing. Its role in the overall health care system is growing, but the question is whether home care providers are doing enough to keep up with that growth. This is reflected in the contrast of client and caregiver growth. Its reflected in the urgency to get into value-based models, despite the meager amount of agencies tracking data. .

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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.