Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Like other healthcare providers, Texas' biggest nonprofit hospital system is contending with rising labor and supply costs and softer income as the country enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Monday that the Biden administration would continue to "step up" to assist community health centers, including working with Congress to try to double their funding.
Meditech
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Those who know me well know that I am driven by a sense of optimism — looking to the future with a sense of all that will be possible, even during unpredictable times. I am filled with a tremendous sense of pride to see how our industry has responded to recent challenges none of us would have anticipated. We have done so with a sense of fluidity and the specific intention of making a positive difference.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
The updated five-star ratings are now expected in July instead of April after the agency identified an error in one of the measures.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
It felt super appropriate that I met up with Abner Mason, Founder of SameSky Health, on Valentine’s Day 2022. While we conversed via Zoom, Abner’s positive energy vibrated over the 5,600 miles between him in LA County and me in Brussels, Belgium – nine hours apart, but in the proverbial same room in the conversation. My initial ask of Abner was to discuss the re-branding of ConsejoSano to SameSky Health , but I first wanted to hear the man’s origin story.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The February 10, 2022 Federal Register includes the announcement of the opening of a docket to obtain comment on the proposed clinical practice guideline, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids—United States, 2022. “The clinical practice guideline updates and expands the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain— United States, 2016, and provides evidence-based recommendations for clinicians who
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – TytoCare has received CE Mark approval for its AI-backed Tyto Lung Sounds Analyzer, a web-based software system designed to aid in the clinical assessment of lung auscultation sound data by analyzing recorded lung sounds to determine whether wheezing is detected within the recording. – The Lung Sounds Analyzer will further enable physicians to better diagnose respiratory conditions remotely.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Home care agencies saw client turnover spike in 2021, though not necessarily for negative reasons. Operators at the same time saw caregiver churn remain mostly flat, despite the ongoing labor pressures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to preliminary data from Home Care Pulse’s annual benchmarking study. Executives from the Idaho-based firm previewed these and other insights Tuesday during its Home Care Growth Summit.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Suzanne Cogan, General Manager, SPH Analytics, a Press Ganey Solution. Healthcare organizations are increasingly eager to leverage analytics technologies, including machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), in new ways. One telling sign of this is that the global predictive analytics healthcare market, which was valued at $1.8 billion in 2017, is projected to reach more than $8.5 billion by 2025.
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Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. AHCA/NCAL’s BLS January Jobs Report provides data for LTC, in particular to digest: Note also that Assisted Living communities have also lost staff – 6.7% as have Hospitals (2%) and Home Health agencies (1.7%). Additional information can be found here.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Travis Good, MD, Co-founder and CEO of Haekka. HIPAA, for better or worse, is a part of every healthcare business. It does not matter if your company is a traditional clinic or a cutting-edge AI platform powered by PHI (protected health information). There are different approaches to comply with HIPAA, and organizations as varied as clinics and AI platforms typically employ these different approaches.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
When Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) sold the majority of its home health assets to HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) last year, health care insiders were split on whether it made more sense for one side, the other, both or neither. A year after the definitive agreement was announced, however, it seems to be working out – at least for now – for Brookdale.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – FitOn , the No. 1 fitness app and digital fitness platform, announced today it has raised $40M in new funding and is expanding its reach in healthcare and wellness through the acquisition of Peerfit , a corporate wellness leader. – Peerfit’s founder, Ed Buckley, will stay on in his current role as CEO to continue leading the tremendous growth of the Peerfit business.
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Medi Leadership
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a must for high-performing leaders during regular times, but it is especially important during crises. When times are uncertain and decisions are especially complex, leaders need to tune in to their own emotions in order to better understand and manage them. They also need to be aware of others’ emotions to better understand and manage their relationships with them.
Healthy Debate
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
The post ‘Lives are at stake’: Burnout, staff shortages raise spectre of harmful events in hospital appeared first on Healthy Debate.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Hero — a digital home-based care medication management platform — has teamed up with Henry Ford Health System. Through the partnership, Henry Ford’s in-home care patients will have access to Hero’s platform to help with their medication regimens. The partnership reflects how health systems are embracing innovative solutions to care for patients in the home setting.
Sequence Health
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
What are future healthcare technology trends in 2022? This is a question that many people are asking, and it is difficult to say for sure. However, there are some trends that we can expect to see. In this blog post, we will explore some of the healthcare predictions for the future that experts have made about technology in the next few years. We will also discuss how these changes could impact your business.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – Hurdle Health , a digital platform revolutionizing mental healthcare by providing services with a focus on culturally intentional mental healthcare for people of color today announced expanded service availability in Texas, Massachusetts and California with plans to add even more states by Q2 2022, including Tennessee, Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia, and New York. – With these expansions, the mental health service and its specially trained therapists are now lic
Clearwave Inc
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes For growing healthcare practices, the decision to embark on any level of digital transformation is complicated. The promise is compelling, with greater efficiency across the practice, less administrative burden on office staff and a streamlined patient experience among the arguments in favor. At the same time, there is the expense and learning curve that comes with new technology and new processes to consider.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – Season Health announces anchor partnerships with Geisinger , CommonSpirit Health , and Cricket Health to scale Food as Medicine initiatives. Season is funded by LRV Health , 8VC , Bain Capital , Healthy.VC and Company Ventures , Toyin Ajayi (Co-founder and CMO of Cityblock Health ), and Max Mullen (Co-founder of Instacart). – These partnerships will combine Season’s industry-leading digital food pharmacy and medically tailored meal program with Geisinger, Comm
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
The 53rd episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with John Kunysz, the president and CEO of Intrepid USA, to chat about how the Texas-based home health and hospice provider plans to ramp up its expansion and co-locating plans in 2022 and beyond. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn about: Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: – Intrepid’s quest to find a new PE partner to drive future growth – How the compan
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.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – VillageMD announced it has acquired Healthy Interactions , which helps patients manage chronic conditions through interactive educational programming as part of a stronger patient-provider relationship. – The Healthy Interactions program, which offers virtual, in-person and hybrid sessions, will be available from Village Medical and Village Medical at Walgreens providers in 14 markets by the end of 2022.
Etactics
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
In 2017, an American Medical Association (AMA) found that healthcare facilities spend two days every week working through prior authorization (PA) requirements on average. Based on the current rate of burnout within healthcare , that’s way too much time spent on dealing with insurance organizations. The solution is simple, right? Figure out a way to make this weekly workload easier by streamlining processes.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Nevada Tech Company Brisk Health Launches Mobile Urgent Care Las.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – Accenture and League , a health-focused platform-as-a-service company, are collaborating to create experiences and increase access to improve outcomes for people, providers, payers, and retail pharmacies. – As part of the collaboration that combines Accenture’s data analytics and systems integration capabilities with League’s healthcare experience platform, the two companies will scale platform implementations and innovations to create personalized digital hea
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.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – Ro raises $150M in new funding led by ShawSpring Partners , with participation from General Catalyst , FirstMark Capital , TQ Ventures , SignalFire , BoxGroup , The Chernin Group , Initialized Capital , Altimeter Capital , Baupost Group, and Seven Seven Six. – Ro also announced today the launch of Ro Derm — a digital clinic for skincare and the latest Ro-branded offering following the launch of Ro Mind, a digital clinic for mental health, and Ro Pharmacy
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Gidi Stein, MD, PhD is co-founder and CEO of MedAware.
Bill Of Health
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
By Carmel Shachar. The desire to get back to “normal” is an understandable one. And despite their prevalence for the last two years, masks don’t fit into most people’s concept of normal. But removing mask requirements means rejecting yet another public health tool to control the pandemic and protect our health care system. First, some context: most states haven’t had indoor mask mandates in place for many months.
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.
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