Thu.Nov 17, 2022

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Cleveland Clinic billing for certain messaging on MyChart

Health Care Dive

The amount of messages Cleveland Clinic providers are answering on the portal has doubled since 2019, prompting the system to start billing for those that require more time and expertise.

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Repeat COVID-19 infection deadlier than the first go-round, says study

Fierce Healthcare

Repeat COVID-19 infection deadlier than the first go-round, says study. fdiamond. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 10:38.

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HHS to look at MA risk adjustment as upcoding in spotlight

Health Care Dive

Regulators have considered changing how they calculate patient risk and reimbursement levels for providers, work that the HHS head said is continuing.

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Primary care physician burnout raging across the US and other high-income countries, Commonwealth Fund finds

Fierce Healthcare

Primary care physician burnout raging across the US and other high-income countries, Commonwealth Fund finds. dmuoio. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 13:03.

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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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Primary care physicians are burned out, though faring better in US than other countries

Health Care Dive

Physicians under the age of 55 were more likely to feel stress, emotional distress or burnout compared to older physicians in all countries, according to a report from the Commonwealth Fund.

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HLTH22: Private equity rebuffs critics, says it brings rigor, scale and necessary change to healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Private equity rebuffs critics, says it brings rigor, scale and necessary change to healthcare. dmuoio. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 17:57.

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UnitedHealthcare, AARP team up to lower the cost of hearing aids

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare, AARP team up to lower the cost of hearing aids. hlandi. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 22:13.

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Oak Street has no interest in a takeover, bullish on Walmart partnership and more from CMO Ali Khan

Health Care Dive

In a wide-ranging discussion, Khan shared his thoughts on the future of the business, the Medicare direct contracting program, Oak Street's relationship with Walmart and its positioning in an increasingly competitive market.

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Milliman: Home benefits surge in popularity among Medicare Advantage plans

Fierce Healthcare

Milliman: Home benefits surge in popularity among Medicare Advantage plans. rking. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 15:17.

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Intermountain promotes COO to top job after Harrison’s departure

Health Care Dive

Intermountain has tapped Rob Allen, a longtime executive of the Utah-based health system.

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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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AMA adopts policy to curb influence of private equity on new doctor training

Fierce Healthcare

AMA adopts policy to curb influence of private equity on new doctor training. rking. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 16:53.

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Gerard Out As Amedisys’ CEO; Kusserow Returns To Role Amid Search For Replacement

Home Health Care

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has announced that its president and CEO, Chris Gerard, will leave the company. That move is effective immediately. Current Chairman Paul Kusserow will take back over the CEO role until a replacement is hired. Kusserow was the longtime CEO of Amedisys, serving in that seat for seven years prior to Gerard taking over earlier this year. “We are confident that under Paul’s leadership, Amedisys will continue to have a future of profitable growth, innovation,

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Primary care program decreases ED use for people with substance use disorders

Fierce Healthcare

Primary care program decreases ED use for people with substance use disorders. fdiamond. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 13:19.

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Medtronic Launches World’s First and Only Infusion Set for Insulin Pumps

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medtronic announced the U.S. launch of Medtronic Extended infusion set , the first and only infusion set labeled for up to 7-day wear. An infusion set is tubing that delivers insulin from an insulin pump to the body and typically requires a set change every two to three days. – The Medtronic Extended infusion set uses advanced materials that help reduce insulin preservative loss and maintain insulin flow and stability to double the wear time of an infusion set

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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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Chutes & Ladders—Northwell center for maternal health names director; Broward Health CEO joins DeSantis' transition team

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Northwell center for maternal health names director; Broward Health CEO joins DeSantis' transition team. aburky. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 18:38.

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Spot AI Closes $40M for AI-Powered Camera System for Hospitals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Spot AI closed a $40M Series B funding round to help individuals in the healthcare system and front lines of a hospital make better decisions around security, workforce safety, and process efficiency. – Leveraging cutting edge AI chip technology built into the Spot AI platform, users can easily access, identify and mark important regions to become easily searchable from their phone, tablet or desktop.

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Home Care Providers Starting to Convert Medicare Advantage To Private-Pay Business

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Whether to engage with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans or not is one of my favorite topics of discussion in home care right now. And that’s for a simple reason: Not everyone agrees on the answer. The MA debate is one we’ve been discussing on Home Health Care News for a long time now. In fact, there is a similar debate going on in the home health care industry simultaneously. .

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Quantum Algorithms for Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Isabella Martinez, Lead Quantum Technologist at Booz Allen. Kevin Vigilante, Chief Medical Officer and EVP at Booz Allen. The field of computational life sciences can and should invest in the development of quantum algorithms today to take advantage of the near-term improvements and long-term transformational potential of quantum technology. Advancements in technology have always driven breakthroughs in medicine.

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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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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill Of Health

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Avi va Wang , Liam Bendick sen , and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues relevant to current or potential future work in the Division.

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CHIME/symplr Report Reveals Hospital Exec Priorities and 2023 Initiatives

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – symplr , a provider of enterprise healthcare operations software, has announced the findings of its 2022 symplr Compass Survey. – The research captured sentiments from decision makers at top U.S. health systems to obtain insights about healthcare operations technology at their organizations, including effectiveness, challenges, and areas of opportunity.

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Expanded HHVBP Model: Pre-Implementation Reports & Live Streaming Event

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. As the expanded HHVBP Model prepares to start the first performance year on January 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the November 2022 Pre-Implementation Performance Report (PIPR) to all active home health agencies (HHAs). The PIPRs provide HHAs with data on their quality measure performance used in the expanded HHVBP Model, with comparison to HHAs nationally within peer cohorts.

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American Healthcare: The Challenge to Stay on Top

Healthcare Leadership Council

The Healthcare Leadership Council hosted a webinar which highlighted the relationship between intellectual property (IP) and innovation, a linkage that is critically important in healthcare. The panel was comprised of: Joe Allen, Executive Director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition. Eric Aaronson, Pfizer’s Chief Counsel for Corporate Affairs, Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Enforcement Departments.

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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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Future Leader: Richard Kauffman, Vice President And Chief Information Security Officer, Amedisys

Home Health Care

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link] /. Richard Kauffman, vice president and chief information security officer at Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED), has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Impact of elections on health care. “ This is our COVID ” Are patient satisfaction scores harming patients and physicians? The cost of satisfaction. Proposal for a healthcare minimum wage. Crypto news: Don’t regulate crypto. SBF interview.

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News 11/18/22

HIStalk

Top News EHNAC (Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission) will merge with DirectTrust.

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3 Reasons the Cloud is Critical for Ensuring Patient-Centered Care

HIT Consultant

Morris Panner , President, Intelerad Medical Systems. As the healthcare sector embraces value-based care, the patient – not the procedure – is the central focus for providers. But the move to patient-centered care requires several significant deviations from the status quo. For example, more personalized treatment is required through information sharing and collaborative decision-making among providers, patients and their families.

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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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U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week: November 18 – 24, 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This Friday kicks off U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW), November 18-24. This year’s theme is prevention. Data in CDC’s 2022 COVID-19 Special Report [PDF – 44 Pages] showed that many patients with COVID-19, including outpatients, receive unnecessary antibiotic treatment.

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Evaluating Evidence Base in Digital Health Solutions: The Real Questions Stakeholders Should Be Asking

HIT Consultant

Siobhán Harty, Digital Health Scientist at SilverCloud Health, a part of Amwell. Throughout the pandemic, digital health companies have seen significant growth, with one study finding that U.S.-based digital health startups surpassed $29 billion in 2021, almost twice the funding seen in 2020. When done correctly, the use of these digital innovations can help people reduce the burden of dealing with mental health challenges by providing accessible, affordable, and timely care to users.

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VA Nursing Home Care: Opportunities Exist to Enhance Oversight of State Veterans Homes

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Many aging veterans rely on nursing home care to meet their daily needs. In fiscal year 2021, VA paid about $1.5 billion for veteran nursing home care provided in state veterans homes. GAO was asked to provide information on VA’s oversight of state veterans homes, and the joint explanatory statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, contained a provision for GAO to review the relationship between V

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HLTH22: Rimidi Launches New Respiratory Module to Deliver Better Treatment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rimidi launches its new Respiratory Module through integration with Teva Pharmaceuticals’ digital inhalers that be integrated into healthcare provider workflows, enhancing respiratory care and population health management. – This new module allows providers to comprehend the full picture of the patient’s disease status both in the clinic and at home – giving clinical teams the tools they need to make personalized, predictive care decisions and improve ou

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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.