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Envision Healthcare files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Health Care Dive

The physician staffing firm suffered from declining profits amid hurdles from the COVID-19 pandemic, prolonged legal battles with health insurers over reimbursement and regulatory crackdowns on surprise billing.

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PBGH: What employers want to see as Congress aims to reform PBMs

Fierce Healthcare

PBGH: What employers want to see as Congress aims to reform PBMs pminemyer Mon, 05/15/2023 - 16:13

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CVS shuttering clinical trials unit

Health Care Dive

The company plans to wind down the business in phases, with a full exit by December 2024.

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CVS closing down clinical trials business after 2 years

Fierce Healthcare

CVS closing down clinical trials business after 2 years pminemyer Mon, 05/15/2023 - 13:36

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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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Cognitive care needs can be identified by digital assessments

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Union workers at 5 California HCA hospitals vote to strike

Fierce Healthcare

Union workers at 5 California HCA hospitals vote to strike dmuoio Mon, 05/15/2023 - 14:09

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Experts call for addressing rising Black maternal mortality from all sides

Fierce Healthcare

Experts call for addressing rising Black maternal mortality from all sides aburky Mon, 05/15/2023 - 18:27

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Home-Based Care Providers Are Still Finding Success With Word-Of-Mouth Recruiting

Home Health Care

Solving the toughest workforce issues in home-based care will come down to consistent messaging, a detail-oriented focus and intense advocacy. That was the message during a joint webinar from the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), which took a closer look at ways to combat the caregiver shortage.

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As COVID-19 recedes, payers face changed coverage landscape

Fierce Healthcare

As COVID-19 recedes, payers face changed coverage landscape fdiamond Mon, 05/15/2023 - 17:03

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Flatiron Health Launches Integrated RWE Solutions for Oncology

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Building upon over a decade of experience providing high-quality, real-world oncology data, Flatiron Health has announced the expansion of their real-world evidence (RWE) offerings to include analytic, scientific, and consultative services, leveraging the high-quality foundational real-world data (RWD) assets that the company is well known for.

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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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Cano Health pursues asset sales to focus on Medicare Advantage business

Fierce Healthcare

Cano Health pursues asset sales to focus on Medicare Advantage business hlandi Mon, 05/15/2023 - 17:56

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How to Improve Patient Confidence When Rolling Out New Medical Technology

HIT Consultant

Korey Johnson, Managing Partner at Bold Insight A staggering 55 percent of patients have lost trust in a healthcare provider after a negative experience. Sometimes, that trust is broken during interactions with a medical device or digital therapeutic. Maybe a patient’s diabetes management app uses overly clinical language, or perhaps it doesn’t walk them through every app feature.

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Acuity, payer mix declines drag CommonSpirit Health to $1.1B operating loss over 9 months

Fierce Healthcare

Acuity, payer mix declines drag CommonSpirit Health to $1.

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Validic Acquires Connected Health Platform Trapollo

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Validic has acquired the assets of Trapollo LLC , a connected health, technical support, and device logistics provider that helps healthcare organizations care for patients at home. Trapollo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cox Communications, Inc. With the acquisition of these Trapollo assets, Validic rounds out its core capabilities to make personalized healthcare a practical reality for patients and clinicians.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

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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LightSpring Home Care’s New Leader Wants To Prove Smaller Agencies Can Do Big Things

Home Health Care

Marcus Primavera has been in the health and human services for two decades. Eventually, he became an executive director at Sevita Health. But when it was time to make another career change, Primavera joked that he felt like Al Pacino’s character in “The Godfather Part III.” “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in,” Primavera recalled. “But in all seriousness, I missed my colleagues, I missed the industry.

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NIH Launches $6M TARGETED Genome Editor Delivery Challenge

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced the launch of the TARGETED (Targeted Genome Editor Delivery) Challenge. The multi-phase challenge will award up to $6M in prize money to support NIH’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) commitment to developing targeted delivery systems to deliver genome editors to somatic (non-reproductive) cells of the body.

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Why Home Health Payment Uncertainty Could Lead To More Strategic M&A

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership While some of the other subsectors already have more clarity on what their CY2024 may look like, home health operators are still operating in the dark. The home health proposed payment rule is still likely a month away, and the final rule likely more than four months out. It seems most are expecting the worse – yet another payment rate cut from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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TELUS Health Launches Total Mental Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: TELUS Health launches Total Mental Health – an innovative solution that provides employees with access to a team of care professionals who will curate personal care journeys with continuous mental health counseling, therapist led iCBT programs, digital tools, assessments, and ongoing tracking and feedback. Accessible by employees through their company’s health benefits, Total Mental Health leverages TELUS Health’s world-leading technology to offer a one-stop app for m

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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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The latest wave of innovation in Microsoft Industry Cloud

Cloud Blogs

This is an exciting time of year for Microsoft Industry Cloud as we continue our commitment to helping every organization use technology to accelerate their digital transformation and build organizational resilience. Advances in technology, including recent work in AI and large language models, are creating a new world of innovation that will shape how organizations function, serve, and optimize digital transformation.

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Types of propensity score matching

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Summarized from a nice review paper by Basu, Unuigbe and Masseria (2023). Stratifying by Quintiles of propensity scores (PS). Under this approach, the empirical distribution of the estimated PS across the entire sample (including treated and untreated participants) is divided into quintiles. Indicator variables for the first 4 quintiles are then used as covariates, along with the treatment indicator and the interactions between them, in an ordinary least squares regression Inverse probability we

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Could Australia’s recent radiation scare happen in Canada?

Healthy Debate

The post Could Australia’s recent radiation scare happen in Canada? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Patient Portals Vs. Password-Free Patient Engagement: What Gastroenterology Practices Are Seeing

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 5 minutes By Chloe from Clearwave | May 15, 2023 Patient portals have gained popularity as patients search for more efficient ways to manage their healthcare needs. While they’re not a replacement for in-person care, patient portals can be useful for sharing clinical results, requesting prescription refills and patient-to-provider communication.

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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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Healthcare Insecurity: A Looming Threat We Can’t Ignore

Healthcare Leadership

Blog by Joe Babaian Healthcare Insecurity Unveiled The rising tide of healthcare costs: It’s no secret – healthcare costs are skyrocketing. A study published in JAMA found that healthcare spending in the US increased by about $933.5 billion between 1996 and 2013. With this staggering rise, many are left wondering: Can I afford to get sick?

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Datavant, AWS Partner to Generate Clinical and Patient Insights

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Datavant , a provider helping organizations securely connect health data, announces that it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate their ability to manage and optimize clinical and patient insights. Pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, research institutions, and healthcare technology customers can now access Datavant’s cutting-edge data de-identification technology in AWS, connect to the hundreds of rea

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Managed Care Plans Aid States in Return-to-Normal Medicaid Eligibility

Lexis Nexis

Medicaid coverage is in flux for many Americans. During the COVID public health emergency, Medicaid disenrollments were paused. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 called for the continuous coverage to end on March 31, 2023. States started disenrolling Medicaid members as of April 1, 2023. During COVID, Medicaid enrollment grew substantially (27.9%).

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How Patient Portals Impact Gastroenterology Practices Collections & Acquisition

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 5 minutes Patient portals have gained popularity as patients search for more efficient ways to manage their healthcare needs. While they’re not a replacement for in-person care, patient portals can be useful for sharing clinical results, requesting prescription refills and patient-to-provider communication. However, patient portals have the potential to adversely affect patient collections and acquisitions.

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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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Thank you, Blood Donors!

Healthcare Highways

World Blood Donor Day (June 14th) celebrates ordinary citizens around the world who make voluntary, unpaid blood donations to their community’s blood banks.

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Predictive Analytics Model Forecasts Diabetic Kidney Disease

Health IT Analytics

Researchers from Sanford… read more

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 5/15/23

HIStalk

May can be a busy time for families who have.

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Celebrating Life, In Spite of Cancer

Healthcare Highways

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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.