Wed.Mar 23, 2022

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Centene appoints London as CEO, succeeding longtime leader Neidorff

Health Care Dive

Sarah London specializes in data and technology and has quickly ascended the ranks at Centene, most recently rising to vice chairperson.

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Payer-provider partnerships are essential to creating stable hospital-at-home programs

Healthcare It News

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Moderna, with new data, to seek clearance for COVID-19 vaccine in young children

Health Care Dive

Study results showed two shots of Moderna's vaccine led to similar immune responses as those observed in young adults, although protection against omicron was modest.

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OSHA COVID-19 Healthcare Rulemaking

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On June 21, 2021, OSHA published an interim final rule establishing an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19 in settings where people with COVID-19 are reasonably expected to be present (86 FR 32376).

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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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FDA grappling with influx of illegal COVID-19 tests entering US

Health Care Dive

The agency has issued a flurry of recent warnings about diagnostics that have been illegally imported into the country as the demand for at-home coronavirus testing increased with the omicron surge.

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Have You Accessed Your PEPPER Report?

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. There’s a lot of data entry and data reporting these days – all are important. Don’t forget to look at your facility’s PEPPER report! PEPPER is an educational tool that summarizes provider-specific data statistics for Medicare services that may be at risk for improper payments. Providers can use the data to support internal auditing and monitoring activities.

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When Automation Meets Empathy: Intelligent Virtual Assistants for Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Nate Treloar, COO & Co-Founder at Orbita. Advances in conversational artificial intelligence are transforming basic chatbots into intelligent virtual assistants that provide comfort and utility for healthcare consumers and the healthcare organizations that serve them. Most consumers have their minds made up about automated phone agents, and not too many people like them.

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3 Myths About Executive Coaching

Medi Leadership

Over the years, we’ve had the privilege of helping hundreds of healthcare leaders transform their organizations, build careers and relationships they’re proud of. And yet, we find some myths persist in our industry when it comes to executive coaching. In this post, we cover three common myths that can hold leaders back from advancing their influence and careers.

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Medication Safety for Parents & Caregivers

CDC

When our children don’t feel well, we parents will look to just about anything to bring them comfort. Many times, this means reaching for medication to ease their symptoms. As a pediatrician, I know the safest place to store medicine in between uses is in a location up and away. But as a mom, I’ve felt the temptation during a long, stressful night with a feverish and fussy toddler to leave the medication out for easy reach.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

Alcohol deaths during COVID. Operation Warp Speed: “ scaling not discovering ”. Expedited drug approval programs around the world. Should medical errors lead to jail time ? Travel nursing : a problem or solution?

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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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Clinicians collaborate to advance imaging at the bedside

Osf Healthcare

With help from OSF IT, emergency department physicians at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and OSF Innovation, the company recently unveiled Exo Works™ to the world and introduced a mobile software to streamline the point-of-care ultrasound process.

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9am.health, Ascensia Partner to Expand Virtual Diabetes Clinic

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – 9am.health today announced it is expanding its virtual diabetes clinic through a strategic partnership with Ascensia to add the CONTOUR®NEXT ONE Blood Glucose Meter to Its patient toolkit. – 9am.health patients can now conveniently add Ascensia Diabetes Care’s blood glucose meter and test strips to their personalized treatment plan, with the meter offered free of charge to all patient care plans.

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March 2022 Update of Appendix B – RAI 3.0 User’s Manual

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The March update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts. To ensure accurate formatting, use a current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF.

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Telemedicine-Supported Medication-Assisted Treatment Should Remain Available After Pandemic

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A staggering 100% of patients believe that telemedicine-supported Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) should remain available even after the pandemic comes to an end, according to new findings from a survey conducted by Bicycle Health. – The comprehensive survey studied over 900 patients suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD), and their attitudes about critical topics like recovery, telehealth, and stigma.

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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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15 Best Strategies for Employee Retention in Healthcare

Etactics

With the current shortage of healthcare workers, the number of staff needs to increase dramatically to keep up with the demand for care. Estimates indicate that by 2025, the US will have a shortage of … 446,300 home health aides 98,700 medical and lab technologists/technicians 95,000 nursing assistants 29,400 nurse practitioners So many health professionals have been leaving the field, resulting in not enough staff to care for patients.

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Updates to NHSN Weekly HCP & Resident COVID-19 Vaccination Website

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. NHSN has added the following resources to its landing page : Operational Guidance for reporting HCP COVID-19 Vaccination Data – March 2022 … 3-page PDF Tips for submitting HCP COVID-19 Vaccination Data – March 2022 … 1-page PDF COVID-19 Vaccination Data Refresher Training and Updates – February 2022 … PDF Slideset.

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Morning Headlines 3/24/22

HIStalk

Eko expands algorithmic heart problem detection and lands $30M Series.

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Cardinal Health Investing Heavily in Its At-Home Care Business

Home Health Care

One of the largest companies in the U.S. has carved out significant space for at-home care innovation. That company is Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE: CAH), which has let Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions pave its own way in a budding home-based care market. The company – which posted over $160 billion in revenue last year – has identified its at-home business as a “growth business.”.

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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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White House stops paying providers for COVID-19 testing, treatment of uninsured patients

Health Care Dive

The Biden administration said it will also stop reimbursing providers for vaccinating uninsured patients by April due to shrinking pandemic relief funds.

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Halting HCBS Support Is ‘Like Bringing an Umbrella to a Hurricane,’ Advocates Argue in Senate Hearing

Home Health Care

On Wednesday, the Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), held a hearing to highlight the importance of home- and community-based services (HCBS) for seniors and people with disabilities. He also attempted to explain the broader impact that investment in the sector can have. “Underinvestment in caregiving affects all of us — it even hurts our economy,” Casey said during the hearing.

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League Partners with Google Cloud to Accelerate Healthcare Consumer Experiences

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – League today announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that aims to accelerate and enable successful digital transformation for healthcare providers, payers, pharmacy retailers and employers. – By leveraging Google Cloud’s Healthcare API, League is able to deliver a comprehensive healthcare consumer experience platform and enable the most personalized omnichannel experiences on the market.

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Health Care Behemoth Cardinal Health Investing Heavily in Its At-Home Care Business

Home Health Care

One of the largest companies in the U.S. has carved out significant space for at-home care innovation. That company is Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE: CAH), which has let Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions pave its own way in a budding home-based care market. The company – which posted over $160 billion in revenue last year – has identified its at-home division as a “growth business.”.

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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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On 12-Year Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, New HHS Report Shows Ways the Biden-Harris Administration’s American Rescue Plan Investments Are Lowering Health Care Costs and Expanding Coverage

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “ Today, on the 12 th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a new report highlighting data on the record-setting 2022 Open Enrollment Period and key health care coverage gains made under the Biden-Harris Administration.

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Home-Based Care Providers Increasingly View Updated Technology, Interoperability as Imperatives

Home Health Care

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) this week laid out the gaps that exist in the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) sectors, and what Congress needs to do to help fill those gaps. In a response to a request for information from the U.S. House Republican “Healthy Futures” Task Force Subcommittee on Modernization, NAHC and others laid out policy ideas that would help the home-based care industry get up to speed on health information technology (HIT).

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Antidote Health Secures $22M to Expand Telehealth Platform for Primary Care, Mental Health, Hypertension Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Antidote Health , an NYC-based telehealth provider announced it has raised $22M in Series A funding led by third-time investor iAngels, Group 11 , and Flint Capital. – The company will use the funds to support R&D activity, which includes advanced AI screening and clinical decision support system capabilities.