Tue.May 23, 2023

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Pharma-backed report targets federal clinics for benefiting financially from 340B drug discounts

Health Care Dive

Those grantees on average are reimbursed almost four times more for 340B prescription drugs than what they pay, and make billions in 340B drug margin, according to the report, which was funded by Gilead Sciences.

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Minnesota lawmakers cut nurse staffing ratios from union-backed bill due to Mayo Clinic, industry pushback

Fierce Healthcare

Minnesota lawmakers cut nurse staffing ratios from union-backed bill due to Mayo Clinic, industry pushback dmuoio Tue, 05/23/2023 - 15:14

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Intermountain posts $549M profit after revenue grew in Q1

Health Care Dive

The health system’s expenses, though, climbed 44% to $3.7 billion, with a large portion coming from employee compensation and benefits.

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Walgreens asks federal court to toss 'staggering' $642M arbitration award to Humana

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens asks federal court to toss 'staggering' $642M arbitration award to Humana hlandi Tue, 05/23/2023 - 16:17

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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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Providence narrowed losses as patient volumes increased

Health Care Dive

The Renton, Washington-based health system said inflation, labor shortages, delayed reimbursement from payers and supply chain problems are still affecting its bottom line, but its financial outlook is improving.

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CMS proposed rule aims to shed light on prescription drug costs for Medicaid

Fierce Healthcare

CMS proposed rule aims to shed light on prescription drug costs for Medicaid hlandi Tue, 05/23/2023 - 23:18

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Massachusetts Blues’ contract with Tufts Medicine rewards providers for meeting equity benchmarks

Fierce Healthcare

Massachusetts Blues’ contract with Tufts Medicine rewards providers for meeting equity benchmarks fdiamond Tue, 05/23/2023 - 16:27

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Denials Management Named Most Time-Consuming Task in RCM

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: A new HFMA survey commissioned by AKASA highlights the revenue cycle tasks requiring the most subject matter expertise, according to responses from over 550 CFOs and revenue cycle leaders at hospitals and health systems across the U.S. Denials management not only requires the most subject matter expertise, but it’s also the most time-consuming task within revenue cycle management (RCM) — followed by prior authorization and insurance follow-up.

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'Podnosis': The food is medicine movement and the top-paid healthcare and payer execs

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': The food is medicine movement and the top-paid healthcare and payer execs tcarey Tue, 05/23/2023 - 13:26

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Why Adopting Value-Based Care Models for Autism Care Is Imperative

HIT Consultant

Daniel Etra, CEO and Co-founder, RethinkFirst We all know the stark reality: rates of mental illness, substance use , and developmental disorders continue to rise in the U.S. and estimates show that 1 in 44 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Add to that the ongoing efforts to reduce stigma and it’s no surprise that the increased demand is overwhelming existing resources.

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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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Cleveland Clinic notches 0.9% operating margin, $336M gain in Q1 2023

Fierce Healthcare

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Key Leadership Competencies: Growth Orientation (Part 2)

Medi Leadership

Baseball is often called a game of failure. Even the world’s best hitters only get a hit about three out of 10 times, striking out, flying out or getting walked the rest of the time. While failure is a common occurrence in baseball, it’s also an important part of the game. The same applies to leadership: Failure is an inevitable part of your experience as a leader.

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Industry Voices—Want young people to trust healthcare? Invest in primary care now

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Want young people to trust healthcare?

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News 5/24/23

HIStalk

Top News Clinical terminology management and data quality vendor Intelligent.

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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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Providence trims Q1 losses to $117M as volumes rise, but discharge logjams remain

Fierce Healthcare

Providence trims Q1 losses to $117M as volumes rise, but discharge logjams remain dmuoio Tue, 05/23/2023 - 12:15

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AONL 2023: Drawing inspiration to fuel the future of nursing

Meditech

The themes of this year’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) conference were not new–equity, workforce challenges, and evidence-based practice–but there was a palpable sense that now was the time to listen. Following several years of a pandemic, growing violence, and worsening mental health, there is an urgent need for the values championed by nurses.

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Zocdoc adds urgent care centers to its platform, citing growing demand

Fierce Healthcare

Zocdoc adds urgent care centers to its platform, citing growing demand agliadkovskaya Tue, 05/23/2023 - 11:40

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‘A huge benefit’: Advances in blood products may save lives in rural communities

Healthy Debate

The post ‘A huge benefit’: Advances in blood products may save lives in rural communities appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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Humana’s Partnership With AdaptHealth Is Another Step Toward Value-Based Home Care

Home Health Care

In early May, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) entered into an agreement with AdaptHealth Corp. (Nasdaq: AHCO), a home medical equipment (HME) provider. AdaptHealth will become the “capitated provider of durable HME and supplies” for at least one million Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) members in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The partnership is a part of Humana’s overarching home- and value-based long-term care strategy.

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Why Suffer in Silence? Leveraging Technology to Support Maternal Mental Health

GoMoHealth

Article was published in the eMHIC Knowledge Bank on May 3, 2023 “It’s the happiest time in your life!” “Enjoy every moment!” “It goes by so fast!” These are common heartfelt words shared with new moms. But what happens when it’s not the happiest time, when it’s impossible to enjoy just about any moment, and when time not only doesn’t fly by but seems to stand still?

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Adding Resources to Improve Antibiotics Stewardship

NCQA

The new Additional Resources tab on our antibiotics stewardship webpage enhances the many free resources we offer that help health care professionals improve how they prescribe and manage antibiotics. The new page: Provides quick access to resources from thought leaders. Highlights new and emerging research from NCQA, the Pew Charitable Trusts and others.

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center Taps Philips to Reduce Carbon Footprint

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Philips announced a collaboration to reduce the health system’s carbon footprint with a project focused on measuring and addressing energy consumption in the radiology department. Radiology is an especially high contributor to the CO2 emissions responsible for climate change with its heavy energy, equipment, and supply usage.

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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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7 Crucial Incident Response Stages: The Path to Effective Resolution

Etactics

Responding to a cybersecurity incident is a process. It’s not an isolated event. For an incident response (IR) plan to be successful, your organization should take a coordinated and organized approach to any cybersecurity occurrence. But what is an incident response plan ? An incident response plan, as it pertains to the world of cybersecurity, is an organized approach to preparing, detecting, controlling, and recovering from a data breach.

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Designing for Health: Interview with Dr. John Whalen [Podcast]

Nordic

When it comes to human-centered design, we aren’t left guessing what might or might not work for the end user. The field of cognitive psychology offers rich insights into the way people think, feel, interact with, and make decisions within the environments in which they move. This research, combined with real-world observations, gives healthcare organizations insights into how to design experiences for caregivers and patients, as well as streamlining operations.

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What is Over-hyped and Under-hyped in Healthcare?

Healthcare Leadership

Over the long weekend (it was a holiday yesterday in Canada), I was doing a bit of cleaning and I stumbled across an old brochure that I had taken from a company who was building a blockchain based patient engagement solution. This brochure was from about 6 years ago when the hype around blockchain had reached a crescendo. I won’t name names, but I looked up the URL on the brochure and sure enough, the company no longer exists.

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Head-Worn Device Leverages ML, MEG, Distinguishes Between Hand Gestures

Health IT Analytics

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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 5/24/23

HIStalk

Norton Healthcare still reeling 2 weeks after cyber attack Norton.

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Potential Racial Bias Found in Type 2 Diabetes Risk Prediction Models

Health IT Analytics

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Putin Is Following Brezhnev to a Dead End

The Rand Blog

Four decades ago, Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR into what many Soviets called the “era of stagnation.” Vladimir Putin is taking Russia down a similar path. The USSR tried to recover by turning to reform-minded leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, but too late. The USSR collapsed. Could Russia?

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Jet Health Appoints Larry Nabb To Succeed Stacie Bratcher As CEO

Home Health Care

Jet Health has a new top leader at its helm. On Tuesday, the company announced that it has named Larry Nabb CEO, effective immediately. Nabb succeeds Stacie Bratcher, who has served in the CEO position since March 2020. “Jet Health has steadily grown through acquisition, as well as organically over the past several years, resulting in the strong presence it established and positive reputation it earned throughout the markets they serve,” Nabb said in a press statement.

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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.