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Digital transformation holds promise for chronic disease management

Healthcare It News

Among the challenges of chronic disease management is the lack of interoperability between different medical records and inability to communicate effectively between patients and their physicians and social workers. In a recent HIMSS21 Digital session, Frank Cutitta, CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab led a panel comprising of Karen Murphy, chief innovation officer at Geisinger, and Tony Farah, chief medical and clinical transformation officer at Highmark Health, who noted innovations in cardiac an

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Hospital patient volumes match 2019 levels, will exceed them next year

Health Care Dive

Hospital executives surveyed by McKinsey also said they will focus on growing surgical volumes — which took a huge hit in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. — but will shift more of them to the outpatient setting.

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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Healthcare It News

Health authorities in Rome have repurposed a COVID-19 telemonitoring tool to monitor people at risk from heat-related illness. In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. These telemonitoring systems allow healthcare to contact elderly and vulnerable people to provide heatwave advice such as adapting their medication or drinking more w

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Google says health projects will continue even as it unwinds dedicated health division

Fierce Healthcare

Google says health projects will continue even as it unwinds dedicated health division. hlandi. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 19:08.

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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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Many insurers are no longer waiving cost sharing for COVID-19 treatment

Health Care Dive

This may pose a new strain for providers as Americans are left to cover their out-of-pocket costs, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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NextGen Healthcare founder Razin looks to shake up board to improve company's performance

Fierce Healthcare

NextGen Healthcare founder Razin looks to shake up board to improve company's performance. hlandi. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 12:58.

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Mayo posts $451M in profit in Q2 amid uneven rebound in patient volumes

Fierce Healthcare

Mayo posts $451M in profit in Q2 amid uneven rebound in patient volumes. rking. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 11:28.

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Google Health's David Feinberg named Cerner CEO

Health Care Dive

The appointment ends a search the Kansas City, Missouri-based EHR vendor began in early May. Feinberg, 59, will succeed Brent Shafer, who was chairman and CEO for three years.

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Nordic Capital, Insight Partners take Inovalon private in $7.3B acquisition

Fierce Healthcare

Nordic Capital, Insight Partners take Inovalon private in $7.3B acquisition. dmuoio. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 12:11.

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Biden said to rule out Woodcock as permanent FDA chief

Health Care Dive

A news report indicated the agency's longtime drug reviewer is no longer in consideration for the role, leaving the FDA's top job in flux as key decisions near on coronavirus booster shots and vaccinations for children.

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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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Number of uninsured adults steady despite impact from COVID-19 pandemic: analysis

Fierce Healthcare

Number of uninsured adults steady despite impact from COVID-19 pandemic: analysis. rking. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 14:01.

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State Efforts to Ban or Enforce COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Passports

NASHP

State Efforts to Ban or Enforce COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Passports Updated August 20, 2021. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that employers could require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as long as they did not violate the Americans with Disabilities and the Civil Rights acts. The federal guidance prompted a number of states to prohibit businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of work.

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Bright Health planning to expand into 42 new markets in 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Bright Health planning to expand into 42 new markets in 2022. pminemyer. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 12:25.

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Updated COVID-19 Data Posted by CMS, CDC and NHSN

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted NH COVID-19 data for week ending August 8, 2021. CDC’s COVID-19 Dashboard shows this data: As of August 12, 2021: NHSN LTC Dashboard … August 16, 2021 : As you can see, the cases as well as the deaths of both residents and staff of NHs is rising.

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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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Industry Voices—2021 update on pharmacy trends to watch

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—2021 update on pharmacy trends to watch. pminemyer. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 10:53.

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Engendering Equity in Biomedical Research by Meeting Communities Where They Are

Bill Of Health

By Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup. To address the root of both health disparities and community underrepresentation in biomedical research, it is mission-critical to teach early-stage career researchers how to empower underrepresented communities as partners in research while respecting and appreciating local history, context, and values. As a researcher, I often encounter empirical studies in the literature that explore and experiment with institutionally – (versus community- ) derived interve

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TRIPP Acquires PsyAssist to Support Patients with VR-Powered Psychedelic Therapy

HIT Consultant

TRIPP , the fastest-growing digital psychedelics platform today acquired PsyAssist to commercialize a first-of-its-kind offering that supports the psychological healing journey of patients in psychedelic-assisted therapies. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will empower psychotherapists and patients to safely and effectively use TRIPP’s VR, AR, and mobile experiences for ketamine-assisted therapy, and clinical trials of MDMA, and psilocybin treatment.

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World Honey Bee Day: How To Make Your Garden Bee-Friendly

American College of Healthcare Sciences

This weekend on August 21st is World Honey Bee Day! If you didn’t already know, the honey bee is one of the world’s most important pollinators. They are responsible for pollinating 180,000 plant species and can pollinate 2,000 flowers in one day! ( Planet Bee Foundation ). Without pollination, many plants wouldn’t be able to produce fruits or vegetables.

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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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MiSalud Launches Digital Health and Wellness Platform for the Underserved US Hispanic Community

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MiSalud Inc., a San Francisco-based digital health startup has raised $5M and is launching the beta version of their digital health and wellness platform led by Pivotal Ventures , a Melinda French Gates company, with Magnify Ventures. MiSalud, which means My Health in Spanish, aims to make healthcare more inclusive by offering personalized healthcare services to US Hispanics through its mobile app and platform. – MiSalud offers a unique combination of personal

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Friday Feature | CMS Rules Attempt to Move Health IT Out of the Stone Age

Bookzurman

BookZurman is proud to share a recent post featuring the insights from guest author, Brian Book , BZ's Founder and President. Interoperability in the 21 st century is a step toward round vs. square wheels. Let’s get your wagon fitted with round wheels for smooth sailing to true interoperability. Brian Book. CMS Rules Apply to You. Yes, You. You’ve certainly heard about the 21 st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (O

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Insights on Afghanistan, Back to School, North Korea: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on the collapse in Afghanistan, what parents think about sending kids back to school, insights from game theory on North Korean denuclearization, and more.

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Medical Billing Services vs. Revenue Cycle Management: What's the Difference?

Advanced Data Systems

We’ve all been through a lot of financial uncertainty brought on by the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare institutions have had their share of financial turmoil. Practices large and small are now trying to build back up.

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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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Provider Adoption of Automated Revenue Cycle Operations On The Rise

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – 78 percent of health systems are currently using or are in the process of implementing automation in their revenue cycle operations, according to recent survey results from AKASA , a South San Francisco-based revenue cycle management automation company. The key findings signal automation in healthcare is no longer an emerging trend but is mission-critical for driving efficiency and cost-effectiveness in revenue cycle operations. – According to the survey, heal

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Physician Switching After Drug Request Refusal

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the title from a study from Lee and Bagley (2011). They examine the potential impact of direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) and the impact of physicians decisions not to prescribe a patient-preferred drug on patient retention. A total of 818 of 2,988 participants in a national telephone survey (27.4%) who had received DTCA reported asking their physician for a prescription drug, and 196 (24.0%) reported that their physician refused to prescribe the drug.

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Supporting COPD Patients in Treatment Education and Adherence

Twistle

Receiving a diagnosis of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) can be overwhelming for patients. Not only is COPD often misdiagnosed but there is currently no cure. . Furthermore, starting a new treatment can be a challenge, as patients can receive numerous COPD treatments at once and they need to use a medical device as a part of their treatment.

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bttn. Nabs $5M for E-commerce Platform for Medical Supply Procurement

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – bttn. , a Seattle-based B2B E-commerce platform for medical supply procurement today announced it has closed a $5M add-on to its seed round led by FUSE. – bttn e-commerce platform address critical supply chain issues such price volatility and constrained access to medical supplies, while rapidly onboarding customers and expanding to all healthcare providers across the country. – The company plans to use the seed funding to expand bttn.’s technology

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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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Medicare Fraud & Abuse: Prevent, Detect, Report … Revised Web-Based Training

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. See updated information in this Medicare Learning Network (MLN) web-based training course: How to identify and report Provisions and penalties Prevention methods.

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Weekender 8/20/21

HIStalk

Weekly News Recap Cerner announces that Google Health VP.

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Protecting Patients Through Healthcare Resiliency

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduces a blog authored by Denise Cardo, MD, Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, that addresses the need for more action to reduce infectious disease threats around the world. This blog highlights lessons learned over the last decade and from the COVID-19 global response that inform ways to prevent healthcare-associated infections, including those caused by antibio

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Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy: The Biden Administration Considers Drug Pricing Strategies While Keeping the “Most Favored Nations” Drug Reimbursement Program on the Sidelines

Sheppard Health Law

On August 10, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“ CMS ”) published a proposed rule (“ Proposed Rule ”) to rescind the Most Favored Nation Model (“ MFN Model ”) interim final rule that was published on November 26, 2020 (“ Interim Final Rule ”). As described in our December 2020 blog post , the Interim Final Rule established a seven-year nationwide, mandatory MFN Model that would test an alternative way for Medicare to pay for certain Medicare Part B single source drugs and biological

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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.