Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2022

An array of disconnected, niche, point applications, and those not purpose-built for healthcare, are further fragmenting an already disjointed healthcare experience – and potentially marginalizing the role of local health systems in the lives of the communities they serve. Some health systems see a need to unify their virtual care capabilities across an integrated platform, telemedicine vendor Teladoc Health observes.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 28, 2022

How tools and improved processes can ward off burnout at the source in medical education programs.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2022

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 28, 2022

Even as cases of the omicron variant plummet, the metrics indicate a "challenging recovery," according to Kaufman Hall's monthly report.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

Mike Serbinis, Co-Founder and CEO of League. The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar. Stop me if you have heard this before: incumbent players in a broad industry made very slow and fragmented technological advances for years with no real threat to their business.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 28, 2022

The drug, found to be ineffective against a coronavirus strain known as BA.2, is no longer authorized for use in 10 states and U.S. territories, a limitation that could be widened further.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

Foogal, a recipe app designed to support patients’ healthy cooking and eating, launched on 24th March. In its initial version, Foogal addresses several specific diet paradigms: for patients demanding a wellness protocol, an autoimmune protocol, or wanting to address insulin resistance. Foogal got my attention via a tweet @FoogalApp on 25th March.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

If all the shortcomings of humanity were stripped away, equity would still be an elusive goal for algorithms for reasons that have more to do with mathematical impossibilities than backward ideologies. But even if attaining equity is fundamentally difficult, seeking it is not futile.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

U.S. health care expenditures ballooned in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but they’re starting to normalize. National home health spending, in turn, experienced a comparatively small decline over the past year. That’s according to the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which published its annual spending analysis in Health Affairs on Monday.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 28, 2022

By James Lytle. Recent guidance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) encouraged several states to adopt policies that prioritized race or ethnicity in the allocation of monoclonal antibody treatments and oral antivirals for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2. The guidance proved to be highly controversial, prompting two states, Utah and Minnesota, to withdraw their guidance , and leading a third state, New York, to become the subject of two federal lawsuits that challenge the guidance’s l

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MARCH 28, 2022

Compassionate Homecare Inc., has agreed to pay $6.53 million to MassHealth in order to resolve allegations of unauthorized billing for services. The settlement irons out a 2018 lawsuit filed by the Attorney General’s office against Compassionate. The state’s lawsuit alleges that the company stole millions of dollars from MassHealth. Aside from the $6.53 million settlement, $375,000 will be earmarked for payment of unpaid wages for former Compassionate employees.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Russia used a brutal approach in Grozny and Aleppo, and may use a similar approach against Ukraine's cities. But it could be less effective or riskier in Ukraine. Ukraine's determination to resist is strong, and the West is supplying an impressive array of advanced weaponry and intelligence support.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Home care franchise giant Seniors Helpers entered this year with big ambitions, partly fueled by its April 2021 acquisition by Advocate Aurora Enterprises. Those ambitions include new data initiatives to take the international home care provider to the next level, as well as staffing investments to help win the workforce battle, according to co-founder and CEO Peter Ross.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MARCH 28, 2022

Fierce Healthcare reports that in 2022 Medicare Advantage enrollment is continuing to grow at the expense of traditional fee-for-service Medicare. They write that: Medicare Advantage plans signed up another 2.3 million beneficiaries for the 2022 coverage year, with the program now making up 45% of all Medicare enrollment, a new study found. …total 2022 enrollment in Medicare grew by 1 million beneficiaries, a spike of 1.6% over 2021.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Florida Blue Medicare — the state’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan — is collaborating with Emcara Health to offer eligible members access to home-based primary care. The collaboration reflects how payers are increasingly turning to in-home care organizations of all shapes and sizes. “There’s an advantage in being able to go into a member’s home and see what challenges they’re living with,” Dr.

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Health Care Success

MARCH 28, 2022

Is your hospital or medical practice website optimized for local searches? If not, you’re missing out on a high-intent audience ready to convert. . Why? Because healthcare consumers can’t find your business online if it’s not optimized for local SEO. . Effective local SEO for doctors, hospitals, and health systems requires a complete understanding of the healthcare consumer’s needs and wants and Google’s ever-changing algorithm.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on March 25, 2022. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the ‘Folders’ button, then select ‘My Inbox’ or the Inbox beginning with ‘LTC’ and the state abbreviation followed by a facility ID.

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HIStalk

MARCH 28, 2022

The only thing being discussed in the virtual physician.

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Sequence Health

MARCH 28, 2022

If you want your landing pages to be as effective as possible, then you should consider adding video testimonials. Video testimonials are a great way to show potential customers that real people have had success with your product or service. They also help to build trust and credibility. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of using video testimonials on landing pages and how to get them from patients as part of your medical SEO.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

Telehealth or telemedicine refers to providing healthcare using telecommunications technology. For example, doctors may provide consultation and diagnosis remotely for various health concerns, including urinary incontinence. There were multiple studies and programs for treating incontinence using telehealth, and many showed positive outcomes. One initiative was an 8-week course given to some participants with moderate incontinence symptoms.

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Healthcare Leadership

MARCH 28, 2022

I have been meeting with a lot of company leaders lately and there is a question that has been floating around in my head that I would love to discuss with the HCLDR community: Are we too hostile to outsiders in healthcare? Jumping into Healthcare. The COVID pandemic exposed a lot of gaps in healthcare systems around the world. Entrepreneurs both inside and outside healthcare moved rapidly to fill those gaps with new products, services, and technologies.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Healthcare revenue cycle management platform provider nThrive today announced it has rebranded, FinThrive ™, which will be formally launched through a pending rebrand. The new name signals the Company’s intention to break the cycle of inefficiency associated with traditional RCM technologies, while designing a modern software approach that empowers stakeholders across healthcare’s financial ecosystem.

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Baird Group

MARCH 28, 2022

The topic of rounding is nothing new for healthcare leaders. For years we’ve talked about purposeful rounding. It’s important to ask questions that focus on what is going well and what they need. But be sure you are ready to listen to what employees tell you during rounds. Scripted Rounding. A few years ago, I was working with a hospital that was under financial strain.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

Healthcare data is notoriously vulnerable to hacking. The pandemic has stretched industry resources thin, and data quality and security are suffering as a result. In addition, the rise in mobile applications, the adoption of mobile workstations, and the ease with which organizations can now expand into cloud accounts have made the industry more vulnerable than ever before.

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HIStalk

MARCH 28, 2022

AmplifyMD snags $23m in F-Prime-led Series A Specialty telehealth startup.

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NASHP

MARCH 28, 2022

The Direct Care Workforce Section 3 of the RAISE Act State Policy Roadmap for Family Caregivers. Rationale for Strengthening the Paid Direct Care Workforce. Nearly 20 million adults in the United States need assistance with self-care and other daily tasks, including about 17 million individuals living in the community, with family caregivers serving as the primary source of care and support for many.

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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Altibbi , the Middle East’s largest AI-based digital health platform raises $44 million in Series B fund funding led by Foundation Holdings, Hikma Ventures and existing investors Global Ventures and DASH Ventures. The Series B round marks the largest single financing round for a regional Digital Health company. – Raising more than $50M in funds since its founding in 2011, Altibbi’s diverse shareholder base also includes high-profile investors Endeavor Catalyst

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