Tue.Oct 04, 2022

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Digital health cannot deliver on its promise without patient activation

Healthcare It News

When it comes to changing patients’ health behaviour, simply providing them with information is not enough. "There’s a big gap between knowledge and intention," said Dr Praveen Deorani, senior data scientist at the Singapore Ministry of Health in his session " Data-driven Approach for Patient Activation and Behaviour Change.

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How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations

Health Care Dive

Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.

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EHNAC and CARIN Alliance launch new accreditation program

Healthcare It News

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission and The CARIN Alliance have partnered to bring both the CARIN Code of Conduct and EHNAC’s criteria review process to health plans, health systems, EHR vendors and others for reporting to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on their data practices and privacy protections. WHY IT MATTERS.

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SCOTUS won’t hear challenge to health worker vaccine mandate

Health Care Dive

In January, the high court upheld the CMS rule mandating that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 at medical facilities that receive federal funding.

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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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The importance of data for clinical decision-making

Healthcare It News

"If we're genuine about changing patient experience we have to make sure we collect data and make the clinical decisions as close to the data collection as possible," said AJ Missaghi, CTO of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Dell Technologies. During his session, " Healthcare Industrial Revolution," sponsored by Dell Technologies, Missaghi argued it was important that healthcare leaders use insights from data to bring new levels of efficiency to patient care.

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How a former Walgreens exec is tackling health equity at Michigan’s largest health system

Health Care Dive

Carlos Cubia has been charged with tackling inequity both within Beaumont-Spectrum Health and the community it serves. Here’s what he’s doing first.

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Safety net hospital operator files for bankruptcy protection

Health Care Dive

Expenses for contract labor and medical supplies have skyrocketed at Pipeline, according to its bankruptcy filing.

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Nodal, a platform connecting intended parents with surrogates, raises $4.7M

Healthcare It News

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Trinity Health posts $1.4 billion net loss in 2022 as contract labor costs hit ‘unprecedented highs’

Health Care Dive

The Michigan-based system's contract labor costs ballooned 123% compared to the prior year as it struggled with labor shortages.

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Access and inclusion for underserved populations are imperatives for digital health

Healthcare It News

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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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1,091 MA Plans To Offer In-Home Support Services In 2023, A Significant Increase

Home Health Care

Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are now allowed to tout the benefits they will be offering their members in 2023. Home-based care providers should be “delighted” at what the preliminary data shows. That’s according to Tyler Cromer, a principal at the Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy organization ATI Advisory. Specifically, in-home support services (IHSS) will be available in 1,091 MA plans in 2023, which accounts for almost one in every five plans.

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Does Ibruprofen Help With a Sore Throat?

Healthcare Associates

Does Ibruprofen Help With a Sore Throat? A sore throat can be uncomfortable and distracting. Feeling a surge of pain every time you talk or swallow makes it hard to concentrate on other activities. Also, a sore throat may be a sign that you’re coming down with an illness or infection. Other symptoms may follow quickly on the heels of a sore throat. You may want to reach for over-the-counter medicine to reduce the discomfort in your throat.

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What Six Medicare Advantage Organizations Are Offering Seniors At Home In 2023

Home Health Care

With the annual enrollment period just around the corner, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are starting to tout what benefits they’re offering seniors for the upcoming year. MA is a form of Medicare that is administered by private insurers. Over recent years, plans have received more flexibility around what they can offer. That flexibility has allowed more plans to offer in-home care services as part of their benefits.

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Healthcare Leads in Data Innovation, Lags in Talent Retention

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Splunk Inc., the data platform leader for security and observability, in collaboration with the Enterprise Strategy Group , today released the Economic Impact of Data Innovation 2023, a global research report that quantifies the economic benefits of mature data practices. – The report reveals the most data-savvy companies are increasing profits by 9.5%, are 2.9 times more likely to beat the competition to market, and are twice as likely to exceed financial exp

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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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Potential Home Health Payment Cuts Threaten Fragile Patient-Clinician Ratio

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. If the home health payment rule for 2023 is finalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as proposed, it will likely affect quality of care. There are a few reasons why. . Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content. Individual Membership $400 per year. Purchase. Group 2–5 members $380 per year*.

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Accommodations Increase Clinical Trial Participation for Patients of Color, Survey Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In a recent patient-centric survey, SubjectWell found that accommodations for all patients, including free treatment and study compensation, increase interest in clinical trial participation – particularly for patients of color. – However, overall, using value-based messaging, adding education to the recruiting process and reducing friction to participation – are universally impactful , not just for diverse populations, and that certain barriers affected white

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A new era of health IT transformation revealed at MEDITECH LIVE

Meditech

Recently, we hosted customers at our Foxborough, MA office, for our new premier event, MEDITECH LIVE. At this event, we welcomed leaders and changemakers from across disciplines, ready to gather in person and exchange ideas about the newest developments in healthcare. We designed this event to work for a variety of roles, because we know that healthcare decisions are made by multidisciplinary care teams, passionate leaders, and those committed to the power and potential of digital innovation.

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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week : annually NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness , devotes the first week of October to advocate for people facing managing a mental illness every day and to raise public consciousness on the pervasiveness of mental illness in America. Mental Illness Awareness Week: Oct. 2-8, 2022. This year, NAMI’s key themes address the over-arching message of “What I wish I had known,” each day looking into: Monday Oct. 3: Stigma.

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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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How to Tackle Inflation by Boosting Your Practice’s Revenue

Solution Reach

If you’ve done a double-take recently when eyeballing your grocery bill, gassing up your car, or pretty much buying anything, you’re far from being alone. Record inflation is a nasty bite out of everyone’s wallets and may have you creatively thinking of ways to curtail your expenses. Consumer prices increased an astounding 9.1 percent year-over-year in June 2022—and it looks like it may be a while before they come back down to planet Earth.

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Why DispatchHealth Doesn’t Anticipate A Slowdown In Hospital At Home

Home Health Care

As regulatory uncertainty lingers around hospital at home , DispatchHealth leaders believe there is still plenty of momentum behind the model. “I don’t know if I fully agree that things are on pause with hospital-at-home,” Kevin Riddleberger, co-founder and chief strategy officer for DispatchHealth, told Home Health Care News. “People are continuing to lean in on this.

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Succession Planning 2.0: Building, Strengthening and Engaging Your Leadership Bench

Medi Leadership

A client of ours, a Chief Nursing Officer who has been in healthcare for 30 years, recently said, “I was planning on retiring in three years, but given the state of healthcare and the savings plan we have in place, I have moved up the timeline to next month.” As we dug deeper, we realized that there was not a clear succession plan in place. “None of my direct reports are ready, and there is no one in the system that can take on this big of a role either,” she explained. “We will need

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3 Helpful Examples of HIPAA Consent Forms

Etactics

Between 2009 and 2021, there have been 4,419 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records. These breaches resulted in the loss, exposure, and theft of 314,063,186 healthcare records. Each year officials take steps to prevent breaches like these from happening. Especially since 2015, which was the worst year in history for healthcare data breaches.

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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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Branding Dreams

Bill Of Health

By Dustin Marlan. Advertisers are trying to market to us while we dream. This is not the science fiction of the film Inception or the series Black Mirror , but instead a troubling — and potentially illegal — new reality. To begin, consider three recent examples of dream advertising: Molson Coors ran an experiment in connection with its 2021 Super Bowl advertising campaign.

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Updated Provider Demographic Data Process

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS will be transitioning to a new data source for a provider’s demographic data for all five Post-Acute Care (PAC) provider types (Skilled Nursing Facilities / Nursing Facilities (SNF/NFs), Home Health Agencies (HHAs), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs), Long-Term Care Hospitals (LTCHs) and Hospices).

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3 Tips for Securing Private Healthcare Data

HIT Consultant

Jim Cropper, Director of Sales, Brother International Corporation. Technology is a dominant force in healthcare. During the pandemic, healthcare systems relied on technology to swiftly move to virtual care, remote work, and more collaborative communication and data management systems – and that will accelerate. As organizations speed up their digital transformation initiatives and increase their reliance on digital applications, growing concerns about data privacy arise.

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Riding the Waves: Prepare Now for the Coming CMS Changes to MDS 3.0 (Rescheduled)        

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. After we scheduled this webinar, CMS announced an Open Door Forum for the same day/time. We didn’t want to conflict with any important updates from CMS, so we’re adjusting our webinar’s start time. The new time for our MDS 3.0 webinar is 10:00 – 11:30am CT, Thursday, October 6, 2022.

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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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September Roundup 2022

Life Qi

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Resident and Facility Factors Associated with High Risk of Discharge from Nursing Facilities 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. People can be discharged from nursing homes for many reasons. Discharges may be a positive outcome that reflects an individual’s choice. In other cases, discharges may be at the direction of the facility and against the will of the resident. There are strict rules about when involuntary facility-initiated discharges (FIDs) are allowed.

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News 10/5/22

HIStalk

Top News UnitedHealth finalizes its $7.8 billion acquisition of Change.

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Minnesota Providers: Home Care Matters WebEx Series

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Save the Dates! Date: Friday, October 7, 2022 Time: 12:00 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. Topics: Minnesota Home Care: Year in Review. You are invited to join the Home Care Matters WebEx Series on Fridays this fall hosted by the MDH Health Regulation Division. We encourage basic and comprehensive home care providers and stakeholders attend to learn about home care regulation in Minnesota since assisted living licensure implementation.

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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.