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Teladoc hit with class-action suit alleging it misled investors

Health Care Dive

The complaint accuses the company, along with CEO Jason Gorevic and CFO Mala Murphy, of downplaying competition in the telehealth sector that stifled growth in mental health and chronic care businesses.

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For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Healthcare It News

El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is located near Silicon Valley, home to self-driving cars and robots that deliver food. So there is an expectation for tech-enabled healthcare. THE PROBLEM. Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system.

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Reconciling fatigue to transform the future of medical education

Health Care Dive

Telemedicine. Virtual learning experiences. Remediation gaps. Born out of the pandemic, these innovations present opportunities for a medical education community currently faced with obstacles.

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Olympus puts telecollaboration and advanced content management on the digital health stage at HIMSS22 Europe

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the scale of the opportunity to leverage innovative digital tools that can optimise patient care with the help of enhanced connectivity and the improved sharing of information and expertise between stakeholders. Systems that enable collaboration also support hospitals as they manage the challenge of health care professionals’ burnout – a situation that has been worsened by the pandemic.

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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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Leapfrog raises concerns about CMS proposal to suppress patient safety data

Health Care Dive

The CMS is the only source for this data, and without it the public will not have information on preventable complications such as bed sores, inpatient falls that result in a broken hip, or sepsis, Leapfrog executives said.

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COVID-19 changed consumers' interaction with healthcare

Healthcare It News

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Why Health IT Leaders Focus on Medical Credentialing Services?

p3care

Medical credentialing services are crucial because it works in several ways. First, it tends to secure the patient’s outcome by offering an opportunity to go with the best standard healthcare facilities near them. Moreover, this service adds value to physicians’ worth and reputation and helps them get more referrals from authentic sources, maybe from insurance networks.

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Healthcare payrolls recovering, still lag pre-pandemic levels

Health Care Dive

Hospitals led growth in healthcare jobs in May as the industry slowly rebuilds its pandemic-shaken workforce.

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Modi's Multipolar Moment Has Arrived

The Rand Blog

Russia's war in Ukraine has benefited India as great powers are competing more vigorously for New Delhi's affection, particularly the United States and China. India has also prevented its Russia policy from spoiling partnerships with key European and Indo-Pacific partners. These trends, if sustained, will contribute to India's rise to great-power status and in turn, shift the global system toward even greater multipolarity.

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Overdiagnosis: Good intentions gone bad

Healthy Debate

The post Overdiagnosis: Good intentions gone bad appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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Why Health Plans Must Have Next-Gen CAPS Technology for Digital Transformation

HIT Consultant

Sagnik Bhattacharya Chief Operating & Product Officer HealthEdge. Core Administrative Processing Systems (CAPS) operate as the brains behind a health plan’s business. These systems are critical to the smooth functioning of a health plan. Today, many payers run on decades-old CAPS systems built on legacy technologies. This can be a serious drawback.

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Get the Facts – Available Outpatient COVID-19 Treatments (Infographic)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Treatments are now available for non-hospitalized adults and some children with COVID-19. Get and share the facts on available outpatient COVID-19 treatments with the Real-Time Learning Network’s new infographic. More information is available here. Bookmark this reference for future use!

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Rocket VR Health Launches VR Mindfulness Program for Cancer Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rocket VR Health , a digital therapeutics company developing immersive therapy programs launches a new study in partnership with Dr. Linda Carlson, Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine. – The first-of-its-kind study will assess the feasibility of a virtual reality guided mindfulness (VRGM) intervention program in adult cancer patients with chronic cancer-related pain (CRP).

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How the Amedisys-Contessa Roadmap Has Changed Since the Acquisition Last Year

Home Health Care

When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) purchased Contessa Health , it touted the acquistion as a future-facing move that would allow the company to care for patients across the continuum. . The company’s leaders knew it would be a near-term drag, and some analysts and home health insiders scratched their heads. Still, Amedisys reiterated the opportunity it saw in purchasing a provider of high-acuity care services in the home.

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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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Insilico Medicine Raises $60M, Launches AI-powered Drug Discovery Robotics Laboratory

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Insilico Medicine , an NYC-based clinical-stage end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)- driven drug discovery company raises $60 million in Series D financing from a syndicate of global investors with expertise in investing in the biopharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. – Insilico is also launching a new state-of-the-art robotics lab and fully robotic biological data factory.

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New Home-Based Care Provider Banks on Old-School Tactics for Growth

Home Health Care

The leaders of Brooklyn-based Galaxy Home Care are hoping their extensive experience in home-based care – including on the front lines – will allow them to thrive while at the helm. They’re also hoping more old-school approaches – like word-of-mouth advertising and hiring offices – will guide their growth in the new world of home-based care. Galaxy’s CEO Yelena Sokolsky — a registered nurse with over 18 years of experience in home care — first realized the importance of home care when she had to

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How Can Commercial Buildings Become Needed Housing?

The Rand Blog

Adaptive reuse has tremendous promise for making a dent in Southern California's housing shortage, but realizing its full potential will require thoughtful and timely policymaking.

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Home Health Consolidators Juggle Build-Versus-Buy Strategies in Increasingly Competitive Market

Home Health Care

After multiple years of record-breaking M&A activity, home health consolidators are now starting to show an increased interest in organic growth. While the approach to growing a home health business through building existing infrastructure may take longer, the environment in 2022 is more friendly to organic growth than it was during the COVID-19 pandemic. .

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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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OASIS-E Q&As Update

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted the updated OASIS-E Q & A’s on May 20, 2022. Here are the direct links to these 4 documents: Category 1: Applicability (4 pages) Category 2: Comprehensive Assessment (33 pages) Category 3: Follow-up Assessments (7 pages) Category 4: OASIS Data Set – Forms and Items (124 pages).

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Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Health Populi

Each year, the first Sunday in June marks National Cancer Survivors Day. This year’s NCSD occurred two days ago on Sunday, 5 th June. When you’re a cancer survivor, or happen to love one, every day is time to be grateful and celebrate that survival of someone who has come through a cancer journey. We all know (or are) people who have survived cancer.

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LumaPay Launches for Patients to Pay Med Bills in An SMS Text

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Luma Health today announced the launch of LumaPay , a new service for healthcare systems that provides patients a better and more transparent financial journey. – LumaPay™ lets patients pay bills from anywhere via text as the inaugural module of LumaFinancial, which provides better, simpler, and more transparent financial journeys.

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Embracing Interoperability in Healthcare?

Lexis Nexis

Unlocking patient data is instrumental to your success, whether you are a healthcare provider, health IT vendor, or payer. During a recent webinar with Healthcare IT Today, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions and Clarify Health , moderator John Lynn, founder of Healthcarecene.com , led an engaging discussion about interoperability in healthcare. Jonathan Shannon, senior director, interoperability solutions at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, provided a solid foundation on interoperability and why it matters.

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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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M&A: Bain Capital Acquires Majority Stake in LeanTaaS

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Private equity firm Bain Capital has acquired a majority stake in the company in LeanTaaS , a leading provider of cloud software solutions for optimizing hospital operations and capacity management that will enable LeanTaaS to accelerate its rapid growth trajectory. – LeanTaaS’ cloud-based iQueue solutions help hospitals transform their approach to care delivery and improve capital and scarce resource decision-making by optimizing the utilization of critical a

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4 Strategies to Launch Hospital Cost Savings?

Vie Healthcare

Four proven strategies to launch cost savings for your hospital. These strategies cover 4 major areas for cost savings. Each is unique and doesn’t get looked at often or skimmed through. While some are not looked at all. But, if you launch even one of these hospital cost saving initiatives, you’ll quickly open the door to saving your organization, not just thousands or hundreds of thousands, but potentially millions of dollars. .

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Aledade Raises $123M to Expand Value-Based Primary Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Aledade , a Bethesda, MD-based provider of value-based primary care raises $123M in Series E funding to support investments in value-based care for more seniors covered by Medicare Advantage (MA) and innovation that improves patient care and increases medical cost savings, including expanded offerings through its new health services subsidiary, Aledade Care Solutions (ACS).

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 6/6/22

HIStalk

It’s been a long week, and I’ve spent a good.

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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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Competition in Healthcare is Increasing—Rapidly and Dramatically

Healthcare Success

If you’re in business, you have competitors. . Whether you represent a hospital, health system, or multilocation practice, competing healthcare businesses are developing innovative business models—right now—and they’re targeting your market. What’s more, your highest revenue service lines are likely already facing stiff competition from all angles. .

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Morning Headlines 6/7/22

HIStalk

Aledade Raises $123 Million Series E to Accelerate Growth in.

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Immediately Stop Use of Mobility Transfer Systems Adult Portable Bed Rails Due to Entrapment and Asphyxia Hazard  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On June 2, 2022, the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) issued a warning to “consumers to immediately stop using 285,000 Mobility Transfer Systems adult portable bed rails. These products can create an entrapment hazard and pose a risk of serious injury or death to users. CPSC’s warning applies to 10 models of bed rails.

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