Tue.Jun 20, 2023

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Oracle reportedly lays off hundreds of Cerner employees amid VA contract troubles

Health Care Dive

The layoffs, reported by Insider, come after the VA renegotiated its contract with Cerner in May over patient safety issues and follow massive job cuts from other tech giants this year.

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How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

Healthcare It News

Rural communities across the U.S. are facing an increasing healthcare crisis due to shortages in healthcare providers and facilities, especially as the nursing shortage continues throughout the country. One way people in these rural areas still can receive access to high-quality healthcare in a convenient and cost-effective way is through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring options.

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Oregon nurses' 5-day strike forces Providence to limit nonemergency services

Fierce Healthcare

About 1,800 of Providence’s Oregon nurses and clinicians are on strike this week amid contract negotiations, prompting the health system to cut back some services at its facilities to preserve capa | Contract disagreements led 1,800 union nurses to the picket lines this week. To cope, Providence has hired replacement staff and is limiting several services and transfers at three locations: Providence Portland Medical Center, Providence Seaside Hospital and Providence Home Health and Hospice.

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Insured adults give their health plans positive ratings, but most report problems

Health Care Dive

A survey by KFF found 81% gave their health plans an overall rating of “excellent” or “good.” But more than half also reported insurance problems like denied claims or network issues in the past year.

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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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NYU Langone sues competitor Northwell over 'confusingly similar' purple ads

Fierce Healthcare

NYU Langone Health System is suing to block competitor Northwell Health from running ads the former said are mimicking its long-established color palettes and encroaching on its reputation. | NYU Langone Health System alleges that Northwell Health began to intentionally run similar ads in 2019 to cash in on the former's "outstanding reputation.

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Cano CEO steps down after push from former board members

Health Care Dive

The leadership change comes after three former board members, who jointly own the largest stake in the company, accused the Florida-based chain of poor corporate governance and urged Cano to oust CEO Marlow Hernandez.

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How well do you know your patient?

Pro CRNA

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA You know the type of surgery that your patient will receive, you have reviewed the lab work and history/physical and you have a sense about their basic health. It’s time to meet the patient, assess the airway, explain what you will be doing and then get the case going. You feel as if you know your patient, but do you know who they are as an individual?

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Equip taps healthcare exec Nikia Bergan as new president to scale up virtual eating disorder treatment services

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare startup Equip has tapped former Get Well executive Nikia Bergan as its first-ever president to shepherd the company through its next growth phase. | Healthcare startup Equip has tapped former Get Well executive Nikia Bergan as its first-ever president to shepherd the company through its next growth phase.

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How to differentiate your products with integrated patient matching solutions

Health Care Dive

Health technology product owners need EMPI solutions to address the quality and accessibility of patient data.

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Industry Voices—The 4 'Es' of values-based healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

“Don’t pay for that,” my wife exhorts me as I consider ordering a bottle of premium wine during dinner. “You can buy that same wine for 10 times less at Costco. It’s not worth it.” I reconsider. | Transformation requires that we ask three fundamental questions: “What is value?” “What do we value?” and “How do we move toward values-based care?

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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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Designing for Health: Interview with Denise Worrell [Podcast]

Nordic

Companies like Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, and Culver’s consistently rank highest on guest satisfaction not simply because of the quality of their product, but because of the overall experience they provide. If health systems work with only the “product” in mind (i.e., the care they provide), important as it may be, they may unintentionally create a cold, sterile environment in which a patient receives sufficient medical attention, but is left anxious and confused throughout the process.

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Healthcare Leaders Unclear on True Causes of Worker Burnout

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: There is a noteworthy disconnect between healthcare leaders and workers in identifying the primary cause of burnout, according to a new comprehensive survey by Holon Solutions. The latest report offers a compelling look staff burnout and dives into the pressing issues faced by healthcare leaders and workers. The report reveals that while healthcare leaders presume that insufficient time with patients is the primary stressor, workers pinpoint admin work as their principal ca

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SCAN Group CEO Sees Patient Engagement As Major Opportunity For Home-Based Care Providers

Home Health Care

One of the biggest opportunities that home-based care providers have today is to dive deeper into patient engagement, according to SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain. Jain, during a panel at the Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference in Chicago last week, said that while patient engagement and education is an issue with health care in America at large, it’s a challenging roadblock to get through in at-home care.

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New Generative AI App Measures Vital Signs Through A Selfie

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai — who previously founded and built visionary doctor house call company Heal — today introduced Together by Renee , the first app to use generative AI to complete and manage cumbersome healthcare tasks for aging adults, those with chronic diseases and their overwhelmed caregivers. Together requires no typing or data entry and uses just the smartphone camera and AI to “magically” remove the myriad obstacles — such as medication refills, scheduling

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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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Christopher Rinn To Succeed Steve Landers As President, CEO Of Visiting Nurse Association Health Group

Home Health Care

Visiting Nurse Association Health Group (VNAHG) has found its next leader. Christopher Rinn will take over as president and CEO in early August, succeeding Dr. Steve Landers. Landers – who has been with VNAHG since 2012 – announced that he would be leaving the company in May. He is taking the helm at Hebrew SeniorLife, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated senior living provider that is also a research and educational organization.

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Dementia Risk Prediction Models May Have Limited Clinical Utility

Health IT Analytics

Four common prediction scores for estimating ten-year dementia risk demonstrated limited clinical value in helping better target prevention strategies.

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5 Strategies for Providers to Overcome ePHI Security Challenges

HIT Consultant

Ben Herzberg, Chief Scientist of Satori The latest report from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) reveals a concerning trend: HIPAA violations and data breaches are drastically increasing. According to the report, HIPAA violations surged by 39% between 2017 and 2021 and the number of large healthcare data breaches (those affecting 500 or more records) rose by 58%.

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News 6/21/23

HIStalk

Top News Healthcare shift-bidding platform vendor CareRev will reportedly lay.

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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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Johns Hopkins Grants Aim to Support AI Solutions for Older Patients

Health IT Analytics

A second-round funding series from Johns Hopkins University provided five applicants financial support in developing and using AI to treat older patients.

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How Should the U.S. Government Buy AI Tools?

The Rand Blog

The need for AI-readiness in federal procurement will continue to grow with the capabilities of AI tools. There are concrete steps the government could take to ensure all development and implementation of AI-related laws, regulations, and executive branch policies include appropriate considerations.

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Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act Amended – Health Records Maintained by Qualifying Health Care Providers Must Be Stored in the U.S., U.S. Territories, and Canada Only

Triage Health Law

On May 8, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed CS/CS/SB 264 , amending a suite of Florida statutes to impose heightened requirements on business activities involving foreign interests. As related to the health care industry, CS/CS/SB 264 amended the Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act (“Act”) to, among other things, require “health care providers” that utilize “certified health record technology” to manage health records in an electronic interoperable and digital format to e

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Adjusting for biases in electronic health record (EHR) data

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Let’s say you are interested in measuring the relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and depression. In many cases, one would use electronic health records data and conduct a logistic regression with depression as the dependent variable and T2DM (potentially along with demographics and other comorbidities) as the independent variables.

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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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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill Of Health

By  Ameet Sarpatwari , Liam Bendicksen , and  Aaron S. Kesselheim Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues relevant to current or potential future work in the Division.

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The Importance Of EMR In Medical Billing

Sequence Health

Electronic medical records (EMRs) have all the information needed on a patient that’s created at your healthcare facility. This might include medical histories, immunizations, allergies, diagnoses, and more. It helps the patient receive better care at the end of the day. The doctor can easily pull up notes and important information about the patient as well as communicate this with insurance companies to be properly compensated for the services rendered.

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90+ Terrifyingly True Cybercrime Statistics

Etactics

Damages from global cybercrime will reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. It will be difficult to not get caught up in the landslide. To protect your company, you need to get the right information and act quickly. Cybercrime statistics show that a minimum of 422 million individuals became impacted by cybercrime in 2022. The FBI recorded 800,944 complaints regarding cyber-attacks.

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GDIT Awarded $39M New Mexico Medicaid Enterprise Benefit Management Services Contract

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) , a business unit of General Dynamics , announced today that it was awarded a $39M Medicaid Enterprise Benefit Management Services contract by the state of New Mexico to support its Human Services Department (HSD). The new contract has a four-year base period with four option years.

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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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Morning Headlines 6/21/23

HIStalk

Vanderbilt turns over transgender patient records to state in attorney.

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Pathology: Mindpeak, Proscia Partner To Improve Cancer Diagnosis

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Mindpeak, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) for pathology, and Proscia® , a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, have announced a partnership to broaden access to improved diagnosis for cancer patients. Through the collaboration, the companies lay the foundation for delivering tightly integrated AI-powered workflows that enable pathologists to provide more efficient, informed, and reproducible clinical decisions.

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WelbeHealth’s Michael Le On The Future Of Innovative At-Home Care Models

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. As the co-founder and former chief medical officer of Landmark Health, he was integral in helping build a company that would eventually catch the eye of UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the

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Key Leadership Competencies: Strategic Ability

Medi Leadership

One yardstick of effective leadership is the ability to see beyond current or imminent circumstances to create conditions for sustained success and long-term revenue. In healthcare, that’s increasingly hard to do, given the massive pressure, ambiguity, and speed of change in our industry. And yet, that big-picture thinking is critical to your impact as a leader — not to mention your reputation and career trajectory.

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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.