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Teladoc shares on upswing as it sets up for ‘achievable’ growth

Health Care Dive

The vendor lowered its fourth-quarter and full-year outlooks on Wednesday. But industry watchers cheered Teladoc for setting up obtainable Q4 growth coming out of pandemic highs.

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Health equity is making progress, but more action is needed

Healthcare It News

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After CommonSpirit ransomware attack: Why healthcare M&A is a ‘huge’ cybersecurity risk

Health Care Dive

The cybersecurity incident comes three years after the health system’s megamerger, which potentially made it vulnerable to an attack, security experts say.

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More than half of all states have expanded access to Medicaid, CHIP postpartum coverage

Healthcare It News

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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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Molina’s contract wins will have ‘profound impact’ on company, CEO says

Health Care Dive

The string of Medicaid contracts amount to $5.8 billion in additional annual premium revenue, according to CEO Joe Zubretsky.

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Sutter Health & Ada Integrate to Deliver AI Support for Mental Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sutter Health extends its partnership to global digital health company Ada – creators of the world’s most popular symptom assessment app to integrate digital triage into the mental health service, Scout by Sutter Health ™ to help deliver AI-powered mental health support to young people. – As many as half of all mental disorders begin by age 14.

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Tempus Launches Real-World Data-Driven Program to Accelerate Precision Oncology Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Precision Medicine company Tempus announced the launch of Tempus+ , a program connecting medical centers across the U.S. like Stanford Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, and UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, to advance cancer research and provide access to Tempus’ library of more than five million de-identified research records. – Tempus’ data library and data analytics platform, Lens , can now be used by researc

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Baxter warns hospitals to stop using connected incontinence pads over interference risk

Health Care Dive

The interference may affect insulin pumps, fetal monitors, telemetry devices, bladder scanners and infusion pumps.

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HealthJoy Raises $60M for Healthcare Navigation Platform to Reduce HR Burden

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – HealthJoy , a healthcare navigation platform that drives benefits satisfaction, improves care outcomes, improves employee satisfaction and reduces HR burden raises $60M in Series D funding led by Valspring Capital with participation from new investors Endeavour Vision and CIBC Innovation Banking. Existing investors US Venture Partners, GoHealth co-founders Brandon Cruz and Clint Jones, Health Velocity Capital, Nueterra Capital and Epic also participated in this roun

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Low admissions lead to $42M net loss for CHS, despite lower contract labor spend

Health Care Dive

Falling admissions, Hurricane Ian and an unfavorable payer mix contributed to the net loss, outpacing an effort by CHS to reduce contract labor expenses in the third quarter.

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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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DispatchHealth, Home Instead Form Partnership To Deliver In-Home Acute Care

Home Health Care

DispatchHealth and Home Instead have teamed up to offer clients of the latter access to in-home acute care. Originally launched as an in-home urgent care startup, Denver-based DispatchHealth delivers higher-acuity care – including offering hospital-level care – in the home. Meanwhile, Home Instead is a Omaha, Nebraska-based personal care franchise company that has 1,200 locations in over a dozen countries.

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Medidata Expands Sensor Cloud Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medidata , a Dassault Systèmes company, and Boehringer Ingelheim, today announced a five-year renewal of their collaboration in the wider area of electronic data capture. The agreement extends the use of Rave EDC for Boehringer Ingelheim’s clinical trials worldwide and includes myMedidata, Medidata’s suite of patient-facing technologies focused on enhancing patient centricity and diversity in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). – The agreement spotligh

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Long Term Care Update: CMS Revises Criteria for its Special Focus Facility Initiative

Sheppard Health Law

On October 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes to its Special Focus Facility (SFF) program, including new steps to address nursing home facilities that fail to graduate from the SFF program in a timely manner, or “yo-yo” back into non-compliance after graduating from the SFF program. These changes are consistent with the Federal government’s goal of improving safety and quality of care for the nation’s roughly 1.5 million nursing home residents.

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The Business Case For Expanding Into Behavioral Health Care

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Home health providers have delved into different service lines during COVID-19. Among those are high-acuity care, such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs, palliative care and respite care. But one set of services, in particular, is beginning to make more sense for home health providers to offer: behavioral health. .

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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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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

“The security of online data is the top consideration for consumers across many forms of online activities including email, search, social media, banking, shopping and dating”… and using health apps. A new poll from Morning Consult, explained on their website, explains that For Consumers, Data Privacy Has a Fluid Definition. Those privacy nuances and concerns vary by activity, shown in the first chart here from the study.

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Amedisys Strikes Contract With Aetna, CEO Says ‘Other Plans Should Take Note’

Home Health Care

Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) teased it, and now the company is unveiling it. The company, which has been working with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans on better contracts, has struck a deal with CVS Health’s (NYSE: CVS) Aetna. “We are in active discussion with other plans for similar contracts or other value based-models,” Amedisys CEO Chris Gerard said during Thursday’s earnings call.

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The Supreme Court Threatens to Undermine Vaccination Decisions Entrusted to the States

Bill Of Health

By Donna Gitter. In 2021, the Supreme Court articulated in Tandon v. Newsom a legal principle that threatens to upend over a century of legal precedent recognizing the authority of state governments to ensure public health by mandating vaccines. The ruling lays the groundwork for courts to force states to include religious exemptions to mandatory vaccines whenever they include secular exemptions, such as medical ones.

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States Advancing Equitable Maternal Health Policy Highlighted at #NASHPCONF22

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States Advancing Equitable Maternal Health Policy Highlighted at #NASHPCONF22 October 27, 2022 / by Allie Atkeson. In September, state officials gathered in Seattle for the National Academy for State Health Policy’s (NASHP) 35 th annual conference. With a focus on decreasing racial disparities in maternal mortality, states participating in a NASHP policy academy met to learn from leading states, share successes, and challenges.

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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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Thank AI for the New Enterprise IT Solution for Global Healthcare Operations

HIT Consultant

The needs of multinational healthcare operations have outpaced the capacities of homegrown IT systems. Flexible AI-powered SaaS IT service and asset management, on the other hand, excels on a global scale. . If you’re the CIO or CTO of a transnational healthcare or life sciences enterprise that employs around 10,000 workers around the world, you want to know if your IT system is in danger of crashing – even if the alarm sounds in the middle of the night.

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Identity Verification vs. Ease of Access: The Balancing Act That Impacts Health Equity

Lexis Nexis

The sudden surge into this new virtual world has brought its fair share of benefits. I enjoy the flexibility of working remotely, and you can’t beat the convenience of online grocery shopping. Thank you, curbside pickup! In healthcare, there are clear advantages to virtual interactions, whether it be providers reducing exposure or payers increasing engagement.

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On/Go Launches COVID Test to Treat w/ free Paxlovid Delivery

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – On/Go (by Intrivo ) – the health tech startup behind COVID test kits that have helped hundreds of millions of people – has launched a Test to Treat solution for at-home Paxlovid antiviral access, plus a virtual long COVID clinic. – While some studies have shown Paxlovid may reduce risk of hospitalization and death by 89% , only 11% of Americans who recently had COVID were given antiviral therapy, likely due to accessibility issues.

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5 reasons to upgrade your hospital pagers

Spok Inc

Pagers continue to be a trusted communication tool for keeping care teams connected in hospitals and health systems. Discover the five reasons to consider replacing your existing pagers with the latest paging technology. The post 5 reasons to upgrade your hospital pagers appeared first on Spok Inc.

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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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Color Acquires Mood Lifters, Launches Behavioral Health Product

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Color Health acquires Mood Lifters , a leading group-based mental health company and launches a new behavioral health product. The new solution will expand access to mental healthcare for organizations tackling public and population health. – Mood Lifters uses an evidence-based treatment paradigm developed by Dr. Patricia Deldin and Dr.

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CMS Updates the LTCSP Resources – Second Time This Week/Third Time This Month

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Late Wednesday afternoon, October 26, 2022, CMS posted yet another update to the LTCSP Resources. The above is a snippet from the Revision History for LTC Survey Process Documents and Files. The link in the 1 st paragraph of this blog will take you to the area where the Downloads are found.

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Memora Launches Research Program with Mayo Clinic for Postpartum Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Memora Health , an organization helping healthcare companies digitize and automate care programs has launched a research program with Mayo Clinic to extend care to postpartum patients. – This new program will infuse Memora’s digitized care programs across the health system, enabling Mayo’s postpartum care teams to proactively interact with new mothers from the comfort of their homes and respond to their needs with tailored guidance in real-time. .

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Revised Guidance for Staff Vaccination Requirements

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted QSO-23-02-ALL … Revised Guidance for Staff Vaccination Requirements the afternoon of Wednesday, October 26, 2022. This is a 163-page Memorandum. Be sure to watch for the red ink – there’s a lot of it. CMS is replacing QSO memoranda 22-07-ALL Revised, 22-09-ALL Revised, and 22-11-ALL Revised and is revising the interpretive guidance for all provider types found in Attachments A through N.

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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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8 Common Clearinghouse Rejection Codes: Debunked

Etactics

Medical billing is a headache. After all, you clicked to read this blog post because of those pesky rejection codes, right? So what is a rejection code? A claim rejection is not a denied claim. That’s one of the biggest misconceptions about clearinghouse rejections. It's just not true. A claim rejection happens because you submitted the claim to a payer or your clearinghouse.

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News 10/28/22

HIStalk

Top News In England, the British Medical Association’s general practice.

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National Stakeholder Call with the CMS Administrator (11/1/22)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Please join the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, and her leadership team, who will provide an update on CMS’ recent accomplishments and how our cross-cutting initiatives are advancing CMS’ Strategic Plan. CMS serves the public as a trusted partner and steward dedicated to advancing health equity, expanding coverage, and improving health outcomes as we engag

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 10/27/22

HIStalk

Hospitals and health systems are often sponsors and supporters of.

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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.