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CommonSpirit’s ‘IT security incident’ was likely cyberattack, security experts say

Health Care Dive

Moving systems offline and interrupting access to electronic health records is viewed as a defensive move, experts told Healthcare Dive.

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An Overview of Connecticut’s Effort to Diversify Insurance Brokers

NASHP

An Overview of Connecticut’s Effort to Diversify Insurance Brokers October 7, 2022 / by Gia Gould. This year , Access Health CT , Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace, launched the Broker Academy, an innovative new program that creates a pathway for members of historically underserved and underinsured communities to become licensed health insurance brokers.

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A critical first: Making behavioral health services more accessible

Health Care Dive

Intermountain executive Mikelle Moore talks about the importance of community mental health awareness and how to leverage accessibility.

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Current COVID-19 Nursing Home Data: CMS-CDC-NHSN

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending September 25, 2022. Comparing the September 25 th data to the September 18 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate was unchanged from previous week. Residents with booster doses decreased 1.1% from previous 2 weeks.

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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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Healthcare jobs recovered from early pandemic losses

Health Care Dive

Ambulatory healthcare services and hospitals each added 28,000 jobs in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Riding the Waves: Prepare Now for the Coming Changes to the MDS 3.0

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare . Yesterday’s (October 6, 2022) webinar (same title as this blog) is now available for on-demand viewing. Listen at a time and place that’s convenient for you, your team, your colleagues. It’s information for anyone/everyone that works with the MDS 3.0. Click on the Register button on the above website and complete registration.

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How Desert Oasis Healthcare Is Leveraging Google’s Tech To Improve Care Delivery

Home Health Care

Desert Oasis Healthcare will be piloting Google Health’s (Nasdaq: GOOGL) clinical software Care Studio. The Palm Springs, California-based Desert Oasis Healthcare is an integrated care delivery model comprising a medical group and an Independent Practitioner Association. The organization serves roughly 30,000 seniors, often in their homes. “In California, we’re delegated to take full risk for our members, which means we do everything from primary care and preventative care, all the way through h

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Care New England appoints new CEO

Health Care Dive

Michael Wagner is replacing James Fanale as CEO of Rhode Island’s second-largest health system later this year.

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‘Come Home To Roost’: Lawsuit Filed Against HHS Over Home Health Care Shortcomings

Home Health Care

A class action lawsuit against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is accusing the federal agency of failing to properly administer the Medicare home health benefit. Although the lawsuit may come as a surprise to some, it doesn’t for Bill Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Biggest mistakes when creating a PDSA cycle

Life Qi

In this blog we’re going to be taking a look at how to avoid mistakes when creating a Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycle and what you should do – and what you shouldn’t do - when setting one up. While we’ll be focussing on the what you should avoid when creating PDSA, we’re also going to be suggesting ways that you can counter these mistakes, how to avoid them and what you should do instead, when you are planning on spreading improvement across your organisation.

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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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MIT System “Sees” The Inner Structure of Body During Physical Rehab

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital have created an unsupervised physical rehabilitation system called MuscleRehab. – Motion tracking captures motion activity, while Electrical Impedance Tomography measures “what the muscles are up to”, whereas a virtual reality headset and tracking suit lets one watch themselves perform alongside a physical therapist.

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A Year After Offloading Home Health Assets, Brookdale Senior Living Exploring Sale

Home Health Care

Last year, Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) offloaded the majority of its struggling home health assets to HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA). Now it’s reportedly exploring a sale of the entire company. At the beginning of the month, its shares were at a 52-week low. They shot up Friday when the reports of a possible sale surfaced. A sale is not yet a certainty, according to Seeking Alpha.

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Health Care Costs Are a Driver of Health Across All of America – Especially for Women

Health Populi

Three in four people in America grade health care costs a #fail, at grade “D” or lower. This is true across all income categories, from those earning under $24,000 a year to the well-off raking in $180K or more, we learn in Gallup’s poll conducted with West Health, finding that Majorities of people rank cost and equity of U.S. healthcare negatively.

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Four States Selected for NASHP’s Public Health Modernization Learning Collaborative

NASHP

While COVID-19 has revealed longstanding gaps and challenges across public health systems, the pandemic has also catalyzed new collaborations and broke down traditional silos between public health and the broader healthcare system. As state leaders look to incorporate lessons learned from the pandemic and modernize public health systems, states are increasingly developing approaches to collaborate across sectors, meaningfully engage communities, and align efforts across health system partners.

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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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KLAS: State of Digital Pathology Among Early Adopters in 2022

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In anticipation, many technology vendors are vying for a foothold in the US, leading to a highly varied landscape. In partnership with the Digital Pathology Association (DPA), KLAS surveyed 55 provider organizations (including hospitals, health systems, academic health centers, and reference labs) to assess the state of digital pathology among pioneers in the US and determine which vendors are gaining traction. – 33 of the interviewed organizations are live wi

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Best practices for planning for locums

CHQ Healthcare

Planning for locum tenens coverage may sound like a contradiction in terms, considering many locums providers are called in due to unplanned absences or last-minute staffing shortages. How do you plan for something you cannot predict? Indeed, planning for locums is not easy, but there are ways to improve the process while avoiding unnecessary stress.

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Digital Fax Solutions Alleviate Administrative Burden and Reduce Costs

HIT Consultant

Ben Manning, Director of Product Management at etherFAX. At the LeadingAge Illinois 2022 Annual Meeting, Elizabeth McLaren, VP of Reimbursement and Community-Based Services, along with Steven Wermuth, MPA at Strategic Health Care, presented their analysis on the top billing mistakes. What did they find? Within long-term care providers, 8-10% of Medicare Advantage claims were denied.

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

Bill Of Health

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Liam Bendicksen , Alexander Egilman , 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. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of August.

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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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Microchips, Ukraine, Outer Space: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on how safeguarding Taiwan is the answer to America's microchip problem, a moment of clarity in Ukraine, new rules in space, and more.

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Knowtion Health Acquires Rev Cycle A/R Platform Amplus

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Knowtion Health , formerly RSource Healthcare announced today it has acquired Amplus Group , a healthcare revenue cycle A/R resolution and technology service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. – For the past five years Amplus has utilized the latest in machine learning and automation to support accounts receivable (A/R) for health system revenue cycles. – The acquisition will accelerate Knowtion’s plan to expand low balance recovery t