Thu.Dec 15, 2022

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Telehealth visits across most specialties don’t require in-person follow-up, study finds

Health Care Dive

For specialties that required follow-ups like obstetrics, the additional visits were likely due to patients needing additional, not duplicative, care, Epic researchers said.

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For 2023, patient experience, 'smarter' analytics and data-driven medicine

Healthcare It News

Matthew Gitelis, CEO of PatientIQ, a health IT company deriving insights from patient-reported outcomes data, has some thoughts about healthcare information technology in 2023. For one, that patient experience will be king in the year ahead. Between CMS doubling the weight of patient-experience CAHPS metrics and its recent unveiling of new performance metrics pertaining to patient-reported outcomes , it's clear that patients will be a top priority in 2023, Gitelis said.

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Scan Group, CareOregon to merge, forming $6.8B health plan

Health Care Dive

Together the two will serve nearly 800,000 Medicaid and Medicare members across five states, giving them greater scale to take on competitors.

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At least 24 hospitals, providers have been targeted online and offline over gender-affirming care, report says

Fierce Healthcare

At least 24 hospitals, providers have been targeted online and offline over gender-affirming care, report says. dmuoio. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 11:36.

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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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Paras Healthcare pursues digital transformation with MyHealthcare

Healthcare It News

Paras Healthcare, a chain of multispecialty hospitals in India, is embarking on a digital transformation with the aid of its partner MyHealthcare. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. The 700-bed hospital group will be deploying the MyHealthcare Enterprise Application ecosystem, which is built on a scalable, microservices cloud-based platform. It will enable Paras to launch a suite of patient engagement apps, including the Paras Patient Mobile App, Patient Portal, and a WhatsApp channel, which all connect to an

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Genetic testing lab owner convicted in $463M Medicare fraud case

Fierce Healthcare

Genetic testing lab owner convicted in $463M Medicare fraud case. fdiamond. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 14:14.

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Amid growing pressure, efforts to address long COVID ramp up

Fierce Healthcare

Amid growing pressure, efforts to address long COVID ramp up. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 11:38.

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For ALS patients, doctors, a new medicine reignites concerns about healthcare access

Health Care Dive

The drug Relyvrio is in high demand in ALS clinics across the U.S. Though some patients are already getting it, insurance coverage and out-of-pocket costs remain a source of anxiety.

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New Jersey's Cooper University Health Care, Cape Regional Health System unveil $2.2B merger

Fierce Healthcare

New Jersey's Cooper University Health Care, Cape Regional Health System unveil $2.2B merger. dmuoio. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 14:56.

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MedArrive, Superior HealthPlan Team Up To Offer Home-Based Care To Complex Populations

Home Health Care

One of the largest Medicaid health plans in the country is teaming up with one of the most successful home-based care startups to serve around 40,000 members in Texas. On Thursday, the Texas-based Superior HealthPlan announced a home health partnership with MedArrive. “Essentially, what we’re going to be doing is focusing on how we provide better care into the home to reduce unnecessary ER utilization and unnecessary visits to the ER by this population,” Dan Trigub, co-founder and CEO of M

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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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Accelerating Trial Recruitment by Identifying HCPs with a Diverse and Addressable Patient Population

Fierce Healthcare

Accelerating Trial Recruitment by Identifying HCPs with a Diverse and Addressable Patient Population. jpiatt. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 14:34.

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To Truly Address Behavioral Health Worker Shortages, We Need Telemedicine

HIT Consultant

Kristi Sidel, Director of Behavioral Health, Avel eCare. In late September, the Senate Finance Committee released a bipartisan discussion draft bill that aims to address the nation’s crippling behavioral healthcare crisis by providing funding for 4,000 Medicare Graduate Medical Education psychiatry residencies over the next decade. Four thousand more psychiatrists are certainly a step in the right direction, but there is still much work to be done in light of projections that we will be short be

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BCBS of Massachusetts announces first-in-state value-based contracts with incentives tied to equity

Fierce Healthcare

BCBS of Massachusetts announces first-in-state value-based contracts with incentives tied to equity. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 14:21.

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California's Ambitious Decarbonization Plan Hasn't Been Future-Proofed

The Rand Blog

California is set to approve an ambitious blueprint to make the state carbon neutral by 2045. But there's been no integrated stress test of the whole plan. The state needs and deserves a future-proofed, stress-tested plan that all Californians can trust to achieve its climate goals.

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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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Many consumers don't trust health plans to offer accurate provider information: Ribbon Health

Fierce Healthcare

Many consumers don't trust health plans to offer accurate provider information: Ribbon Health. pminemyer. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 12:23.

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3 Elements Required for Data Ecosystems to Drive Innovation

HIT Consultant

Brett M. Furst, President, HHS Tech Group. For years, the healthcare industry has been inundated with stories about the importance of sharing data among payers, providers, and other key stakeholders – and for a good reason; widespread interoperability of healthcare data has the potential to transform much of the industry for the better. What’s often not mentioned is how expensive, time-intensive, and potentially legally hazardous data-sharing is.

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Centene taps new president, COO amid slew of leadership changes

Fierce Healthcare

Centene taps new president, COO amid slew of leadership changes. pminemyer. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 11:33.

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Anumana & Pfizer Partner on Amyloidosis AI-ECG Algorithm Development

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Anumana , an AI-driven health technology company and portfolio company of nference , today announced a multi-year agreement with Pfizer for Anumana to develop an investigational artificial intelligence electrocardiogram algorithm (AI-ECG) designed to enable the early identification of patients who may be at risk of cardiac amyloidosis. – Anumana will conduct a clinical validation trial and pursue De Novo classification for the algorithm as a Software-as-a-Medi

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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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Benefits of a Driver Diagram

Life Qi

In this blog we’re going to be drilling down more deeply into the benefits of using driver diagrams. We'll also see how this can help your quality improvement (QI) team. In the last article, we looked at how and when to use a driver diagram in your quality improvement project. Described as illustrating a ‘theory of change’ , driver diagrams can be used to plan improvement project activities’.

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2022’s Most Interesting Home-Based Care Transactions

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. The flurry of 2021’s home-based care deals was a tough act for 2022 to follow. Especially in the third and fourth quarters of last year, a record-breaking number of transactions went down. A variety of factors contributed to that volume, including changing conditions that – at least for a short period of time – allowed deals delayed by COVID-19 to move forward later in the year. . .

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The Trouble with Russian Blacklisting

The Rand Blog

Analysis, informed by interactions with Russians, offers Western leaders a window into Russia. Blacklists hinder this process. With the stakes so high, much depends on experts' success in getting their analysis right.

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HearUSA to Carry Sony’s Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – HearUSA , America’s largest hearing care retailer, will announce the availability of OTC hearing aids from Sony in all HearUSA centers and online. – Beginning early next year, the Sony CRE-C10 and Sony CRE-E1 will be available for purchase at over 350 HearUSA centers nationwide and on the HearUSA website. HearUSA is partnering with Sony to better serve the 65% of the people in the United States with hearing loss who do not wear hearing aids.The goal is to impr

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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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I-80 Trailblazer Challenge: Discharge checklist

Osf Healthcare

Building a culture of innovation in health care is tough, especially when you have nearly 23,000 Mission Partners across multiple cities and states. But OSF Innovation is making it happen by developing hospital-based Innovation Hubs where anyone across the Ministry can learn to engage in improvement, creative thinking and executing solutions.

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11 Key Questions for a Great New Year, Personally and Professionally

Medi Leadership

Happy New Year ! The end of the year and beginning of a new one provides a natural place for us to pause, reflect and move forward with intention for ourselves, our families, our teams. As you begin a new chapter in 2023, it’s my hope that this focused set of questions will serve as a valuable framework for reflecting on your past year, both personally and professionally as a leader, and as a helpful planning tool for you to set more meaningful goals and thrive in your new year.

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Violet Partners with Ontrak Health to Improve Inclusive Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Violet , a health equity platform, announced that it has partnered with Ontrak Health , an AI and technology-enabled behavioral health company, to offer better-personalized support and treatment through identity-centered care. – Through the partnership, Ontrak Health will implement Violet’s continuing education for care coaches learning how to better support every health plan member served by their program.

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11 Key Questions for a Great New Year, Personally and Professionally

Medi Leadership

Happy New Year ! The end of the year and beginning of a new one provides a natural place for us to pause, reflect and move forward with intention for ourselves, our families, our teams. As you begin a new chapter in 2023, it’s my hope that this focused set of questions will serve as a valuable framework for reflecting on your past year, both personally and professionally as a leader, and as a helpful planning tool for you to set more meaningful goals and thrive in your new year.

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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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CMS Includes MAOs in Data Exchange and Prior Authorization Requirements

Sheppard Health Law

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule , “Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes” (the “Proposed Rule”), that is intended to improve patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorization for medical items and services. The Proposed Rule would withdraw CMS’s December 18, 2020 Interoperability and Prior Authorization proposed rule , build on the policies finalized in the agen

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Dedalus Expands Work with AWS as Strategic Cloud Provider

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Dedalus expands work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support global digital transformation in healthcare through hosting Dedalus’s health-related solutions on AWS. – Together, utilizing the cloud, Dedalus and AWS will offer customers around the world cost-optimization and agility via smart provisioning and need-based elasticity, built-in disaster recovery, as well as improved clinical system performance, reliability, availability, and security and comp

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Researchers Use ML to Predict Diet, Chronic Disease Risk

Health IT Analytics

Led by a Michigan Medicine… read more

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KLAS: Clinical Decision Support Point-of-Care Reference 2022

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CDS reference tools enable clinical users to follow standard treatment recommendations and more quickly and confidently make clinical decisions. However, tools that lack strong content, searchability, and EMR integration are not efficient for point-of-care workflows and can frustrate users, especially those already experiencing burnout. – To understand the customer experience and how each solution is being adopted, a new report by KLAS draws on feedback from 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.