Wed.Sep 21, 2022

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Judge denies DOJ’s move to block $13B UnitedHealth, Change deal

Health Care Dive

The judge’s ruling follows a trial in which the DOJ argued that UnitedHealth’s bid for Change would disadvantage rivals and result in higher costs, lower quality and less innovative commercial health insurance.

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The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative

Bill Of Health

By Matt Dowell. Recently, I remotely attended a mask-optional, in-person meeting where campus leaders proudly proclaimed that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is my college’s “top priority.” As a disabled faculty member who writes about disability access in higher education, I found myself considering how to make sense of such a statement — how seriously to take such statements, how much to care that such statements are being made.

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Emotional exhaustion worse for healthcare workers in second year of pandemic, research finds

Health Care Dive

Nurses reported feeling more emotionally exhausted during the pandemic, with physicians also noticing an increase. The report comes as some nurses fight for better working conditions.

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Showcasing new tools for patient experience and population health

Healthcare It News

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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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Doctor, hospital lobbies move to dismiss lawsuit over surprise billing ban

Health Care Dive

The groups hinted that another lawsuit may be on the way despite the bid to dismiss the original claims.

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How ‘Workforce Sharing’ Could Help Fill Gaps In Home Care

Home Health Care

In lieu of competing, home-based care providers may need to work together in order to keep up with the growing demand for services. Companies can do that by finding unique ways to deploy caregivers and leverage certain technologies to increase productivity. “We were challenged before the pandemic and we’ve certainly been challenged through the pandemic,” Home Helpers President and CEO Emma Dickison said last week at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE event.

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Cross-country project gives patients a say in solving primary-care crisis

Healthy Debate

The post Cross-country project gives patients a say in solving primary-care crisis appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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When One Size Doesn’t Fit All: PPE Fit and Equity in Health Care

CDC

Mia Frederick (contractor, TANAQ) is a writer for CDC’s Project Firstline in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Infection control, including the appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is an essential part of healthcare worker and patient safety. But what happens when PPE doesn’t fit correctly or there is a lack of training on proper PPE use?

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2023 Healthcare Mandates

Advanced Data Systems

2022 is not quite finished yet, but you’ll want to spend some time considering what’s ahead in the coming year for your medical organization. After all, it’s best to be as prepared as possible for upcoming requirements that will have a big effect on your practice and the way you do business during the next two years of the Biden administration.

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BrightInsight & bioMérieux Partner to Develop Clinical Digital Solution for Diagnostics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know : – BrightInsight, Inc., provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions and bioMérieux , a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announced today a partnership to develop and bring to market a Clinical Digital Solution for diagnostics enabling clinical decision support for disease areas across their diagnostic tests. – bioMérieux will launch a digital solution for diagnostics leveraging the complia

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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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News 9/21/22

HIStalk

Top News A Washington federal judge clears the way for.

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Naveris Raises $51M for Early Detection of Viral-Driven Cancers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Naveris, Inc. , a commercial-stage life sciences company dedicated to improving patient care through earlier detection of viral-driven cancers, recently announced a $33.4M expansion of its Series A financing, bringing the total investment in Naveris to $51M. – The financing was led by Gurnet Point Capital , joined by TechU Ventures and BrightEdge , the impact and venture capital arm of the American Cancer Society.

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Morning Headlines 9/21/22

HIStalk

UnitedHealth Wins Court Approval of Its Change Healthcare Takeover A.

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KLAS Report Explores EHR Satisfaction by Provider Specialty

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – One of the ways organizations can target improvements for those who are less satisfied is to look at EHR satisfaction by specialty—there is currently a gap of about 30 points between the most satisfied specialty (hospital medicine) and the least satisfied specialty (ophthalmology). – The goal of this new report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative, “ Exploring EHR Satisfaction by Provider Specialty ,” is to help readers understand this variation and le

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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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For physicians, less is often more

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Virtual Reality Therapy May Serve as Effective Adjunct To Anesthesia For Surgical Procedures

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know : – The results of a clinical trial using software from XRHealth , developer and operator of virtual treatment rooms in the metaverse, published in PLOS ONE demonstrated that virtual reality therapy may serve as an effective adjunct to anesthesia for surgical procedures. The trials were conducted with XRHealth’s immersive virtual reality software. – The results of the trial showed that the majority of patients (13/17) using the XRHealth VR technology did not need

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The Dr. Oz Paradox

Bill Of Health

By Claudia E. Haupt. Why does the law sanction giving bad advice to one patient, while it permits giving bad advice to millions of YouTube or television viewers, which may result in significant physical harm? We might call this the “Dr. Oz paradox.” Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race, is a famous television personality as well as a licensed physician.

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