Tue.Oct 11, 2022

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Physicians are experiencing delayed COVID-19 burnout

Health Care Dive

Physician burnout has risen during the most recent phase of the pandemic, resulting in exacerbated retention challenges among healthcare workers, an MGMA survey and other recent reports have found.

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Send Mammogram leverages cloud for data security

Healthcare It News

The mobile and web application that digitally shares breast images sought a managed cloud services provider to operationalize compliance and ensure patients’ private health data remains safe and secure. WHY IT MATTERS. Without past, difficult-to-transfer breast imaging data, patients may experience additional radiation exposure and unnecessary tests — a void Send Mammogram was launched to fill.

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LCMC Health to acquire 3 HCA hospitals in partnership with Tulane University

Health Care Dive

Together, the two plan to expand academic medicine across Southeast Louisiana. The deal will leave HCA with one remaining hospital in the state.

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How doctors can speed their work with software

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Beleaguered Bright slashes footprint, fully exiting ACA markets and restricting MA to 2 states

Health Care Dive

Bright is doubling down on its decision earlier this year to contract its business, halting the sale of ACA plans to focus on care delivery business NeueHealth as well as MA in higher-performing markets.

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Could K-Pop Help Deter Kim Jong-un's Provocations?

The Rand Blog

The United States and Republic of Korea could be more specific and creative in seeking to deter Kim Jong-un. The global popularity of K-pop could be part of the strategy.

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Supporting Family Caregivers: A Roadmap for States

NASHP

Supporting Family Caregivers: A Roadmap for States. To inform the National Strategy, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) created the RAISE Act State Policy Roadmap for Family Caregivers. The roadmap helps states interested in expanding supports for family caregivers by offering the following policy strategies and promising practices.

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Walgreens snaps up rest of CareCentrix for $392M

Health Care Dive

The Illinois-based retailer has said the buy will expand its reach in the health sector, especially in the fast-growing areas of primary care, specialty pharmacy, post-acute and home care.

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Samsung Expands Its Health and Wellness Ecosystem with New Developer Tools

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Samsung Electronics unveiled a series of new tools ahead of the Samsung Developer Conference 2022 (SDC2022) that will aid developers and communities in shaping health, wellness and safety habits for consumers everywhere. – These developer tools include the Samsung Privileged Health SDK program for select partners, the Fall Detection API to support user safety, Samsung’s new end-to-end research solution for educational, clinical and healthcare programmers, as w

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Beaumont-Spectrum unveils new name: Corewell Health

Health Care Dive

Months after combining, the Michigan-based nonprofit system is ditching its placeholder name.

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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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New Meta Quest Pro Enables Scientists to Step Inside Molecules Using Nanome

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Meta released details of its Quest Pro headset today. In a departure from gaming-only content, the new headset comes with Nanome , a virtual and augmented reality app that allows users to step inside and interact with molecules – helping scientists make “eureka” discoveries, and revolutionize the way students learn biology and chemistry.

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Recruiter’s guide to choosing a staffing agency

CHQ Healthcare

For recruitment professionals who are new to hiring locum tenens providers, choosing and working with staffing agencies poses a steep learning curve. There are reputable agencies that will help you meet (and even exceed) your staffing goals. At the same time, you also need to be wary of less-than-stellar agencies that lack the ability or willingness to provide quality service.

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Brave Health Raises $40M for Medicaid Virtual Health Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Brave Health , a virtual mental health provider and engagement platform focused on serving Medicaid populations raises $40M in Series C funding round led by Town Hall Ventures , with existing investors Union Square Ventures, City Light Capital and others joining as well. The company has raised a total of $60M to date, and this most recent funding will support their continued expansion into value-based care arrangements and into new and existing markets. . – Br

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Long-Term Care Entrepreneur Tim Peck Launches New Venture Within Genworth

Home Health Care

Tim Peck – a serial entrepreneur in the senior services space – has a new venture. What’s specifically of note about this one: It’s being launched within the massive long-term care company Genworth (NYSE: GNW). Dubbed CareScout, the new startup is a wholly owned Genworth subsidiary that will operate within a “care solutions” segment. The company is set to provide clinical assessments and caregiver support services.

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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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Fitbit Enters Substance Abuse Recovery with Pretaa Partnership

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Fitbit announced that they are partnering with behavioral analytics company Pretaa to improve outcomes for the millions of Americans affected by substance abuse. Pretaa analyzes information from wearable devices worn by those recovering from substance abuse and (with patient consent) notifies their care providers, friends and family members when they might need additional support. – Research indicates that the onset of the pandemic was associated with an incre

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Amedisys, Contessa Team Up With University Of Arkansas To Offer In-Home Care Services

Home Health Care

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) and Contessa Health are teaming up with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to offer at-home care services to patients in Central Arkansas. The parties involved announced a joint venture this week that will allow Contessa and Amedisys to deliver care across the full continuum in the home in a new region.

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Why did a geneticist studying Neanderthal DNA win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Svante Pääbo. Unlike many former winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. Pääbo never actually invented any specific medicine or class of medicine. Rather the award was given “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution” The press release from the Nobel website provides some insight, but why does research on three types of hominids (modern Homo sapiens [i.e., us], Neanderthals, and Denisovans) deserve

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Fully Acquires CareCentrix, Fast-Tracking Itself Into The Home

Home Health Care

Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is accelerating its plans to invest in the post-acute care space and in the home. This week, it finalized its acquisition of the health-at-home solutions company CareCentrix. Walgreens initially announced a $330 million investment in CareCentrix in October of 2021. At the time of the deal, Walgreens gained a 55% stake in CareCentrix at an $800 million valuation, with an option to buy the remaining equity interests.

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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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COVID-19's Biggest Casualty May Be Governability

The Rand Blog

Pandemics fuel pre-existing prejudices, deepen social divisions, and increase political tensions. As the United States heads into the midterm elections, the parties should be prepared to face headwinds whichever side emerges with control of Congress. COVID-19's biggest political casualty might be governability.

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Real-World Data: Connecting datasets with unparalleled precision

Lexis Nexis

A Q/A with Josh Schoeller, CEO, Health Care business of LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. Real-world data (RWD) can provide a more holistic view of a patient’s health, but today’s RWD is incomplete, often restricted to only fraction of a patient’s story. Read how next-gen healthcare tokenization is changing this in this Q/A with Josh Schoeller. Please note, this article originally appeared on Healthcare IT Today.

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HHS Releases Family Caregiving National Strategy and Asks for Public Comment: Joint Council Meeting Summary

NASHP

HHS Releases Family Caregiving National Strategy and Asks for Public Comment: Joint Council Meeting Summary October 11, 2022 / by Salom Teshale and Kimberly Hodges. Supporting Family Caregivers: An Urgent Public Health Issue. On September 21, 2022, the RAISE Family Caregiving Advisory Council and the Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (SGRG) convened to release the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers (‘National Strategy’).

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The FemTech Revolution

Sheppard Health Law

This blog is the first in our Digital Health Trends series. Digital health’s explosion in the last few years has led to the proliferation of new technologies and novel solutions to long-standing health problems. FemTech, in particular, has become a major movement in women’s healthcare, and the market appears ready to support this rapid growth. A recent report projects FemTech to grow by approximately 17% over the next five years with a market value over $60 billion. [1] Despite FemTech’s initial

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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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Expectations vs Suggestions

Baird Group

Is your healthcare organization setting expectations for standards of care or giving suggestions? . Last week I was speaking to a large group of healthcare leaders about culture and the leader’s role in creating it. At one point, I stopped to ask this group if their organizations had standards for service excellence. Only a couple of people raised their hands, yet all of them had first indicated a strong desire to improve their culture.

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EHR consolidation: How to lead with empathy

Nordic

Your healthcare system acquired five new facilities and implemented a consolidated EHR system, but adoption rates fell far short of your target – what happened?

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News 10/12/22

HIStalk

Top News Medicaid virtual mental health provider Brave Health raises.

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Is HIPAA the key to customer service?

Healthcare Performance

It can be.

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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 10/12/22

HIStalk

Brave Health Secures $40M in Series C Funding to Expand.

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How telemedicine and digital therapeutics can improve orthopedic care and PT

Healthcare It News

Minority and lower-income populations are less likely to have orthopedic surgery – and more likely to experience poor outcomes when they do. Untreated musculoskeletal conditions can result in sedentary behavior that leads to or worsens co-morbidities, including diabetes, obesity, depression and opioid misuse. Access challenges are partly to blame.

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12 Tips for Marketing to Affluent Consumers in Healthcare

Healthcare Success

While many affluent consumers don’t think twice about paying cash (or credit) for luxury retail goods, there is a built-in bias that healthcare products and services should be covered by insurance. Of course, that’s often not the case. Despite this bias, patients are more than willing to pay out of pocket for the pricey healthcare products and services they value—but that is only a part of the equation.

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The Impossibility of Legal Accountability for COVID-19 Torts

Bill Of Health

By Chloe Reichel and Valerie Gutmann Koch. Since the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers, businesses, and other entities have anticipated litigation around tort claims associated with the novel coronavirus. Early in 2020, scholars here began to grapple with questions of tort liability relating to the pandemic response. However, nearly three years later, it appears that the warnings of a “ tidal wave ” of lawsuits were vastly overstated.

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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.