Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2023

The 2023 Healthcare Experience Trends report aims to provide healthcare leaders with a global snapshot of insights and recommendations on what patients expect and what employees need. WHY IT MATTERS. For the analysis, Qualtrics, which offers a HITRUST-certified and FEDRAMP-compliant experience management platform, surveyed nearly 9,000 consumers across 29 countries and 3,000 healthcare employees across 27 countries.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

New Jefferson Health program enables clinical, academic nurses to partner on research agliadkovskaya Wed, 01/18/2023 - 14:16

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 18, 2023

Across all genders, primary care specialties like internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics had the largest number of active physicians and residents in 2021, according to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Black patients get better care when nurse practitioners have full practice authority: study. fdiamond. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 15:46.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 18, 2023

Accountable care organizations and value-based care advocates cheered the news, with the National Association of ACOs calling 2023 a “turning point” for growth.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Healthcare ranked lowest for employee satisfaction, Qualtrics survey finds aburky Wed, 01/18/2023 - 16:40

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Health insurers well-positioned to weather inflation, utilization shifts in 2023: Fitch. pminemyer. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 16:51.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 18, 2023

The job cuts are part of a larger restructuring plan, with the telehealth company saying it’s eliminating redundant roles after prior mergers.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Providers' price hikes push patients to defer care, rely on payment plans, surveys say. dmuoio. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 12:15.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Simon Close is the new president of senior care at 24 Hour Home Care. He’ll take the helm of the private-pay business at one of the larger home care companies on the West Coast, and a company with nationwide aspirations. His journey is an unlikely one. Not only did he not come up in personal home care, he also isn’t originally from the U.S. Now that he’s got three years under his belt at 24 Hour Home Care, though, he has plenty of opinions on what the company – and the industry – can do better m

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Teladoc Health lays off 300 employees, 6% of its non-clinician workforce. aburky. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 13:22.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs have been ubiquitous in the home health space for the past few years, but in light of the nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP), the process may begin to hold more weight than ever. Broadly, QAPI is a catch-all term for any kind of auditing or quality metrics at a home health agency. .

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Providers seek more incentives in ACO REACH to target highly underserved areas. rking. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 15:37.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Sharecare , the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced Ornish Lifestyle Medicine by Sharecare , the company’s Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR) program, is now available through a virtual delivery model. – Reimbursable through Medicare and many commercial plans, Ornish Lifestyle Medicine by Sharecare is the first and only ICR program scientifically proven in randomized controlled trials to often reve

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Cleveland Clinic anticipates $200M+ operating loss in 2022, CEO says dmuoio Wed, 01/18/2023 - 14:40

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Healthcare Associates

JANUARY 18, 2023

When to See a Doctor for a Cough. A cough is a common symptom of acute illnesses such as the common cold and flu. Chronic conditions like asthma and sleep apnea can also cause it. However, there may be instances where a cough is associated with more severe conditions that require immediate medical attention, such as pulmonary embolism. Knowing when to see a doctor for a cough is key to catching certain illnesses and diseases early on so you can receive treatment.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Express Scripts taps veteran supply chain exec as new president. pminemyer. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 13:45.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Included Health today announced a partnership with Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care , both Point32Health companies, to provide fully integrated LGBTQ+ healthcare services, including gender affirming physical and mental health, to commercial health plan members. The partnership is a first-of-its-kind offering, embedding the LGBTQ+ health concierge service in the health plans of Point32 members. – Effective as of January 1, 2023, fully-insured (

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

With interest in scaled home health assets climbing among strategic buyers, few, if any, large home health companies are likely to stay independent, according to Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) CEO Paul Kusserow. Kusserow made these remarks at a dinner hosted by Jefferies Financial Group, according to Brian Tanquilut, equity analyst for the investment banking firm.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Orbita , a leading provider of intelligent virtual assistants and workflow automation for healthcare, launched a new solution set to transform the healthcare website experience. Orbita Blaze uses conversational AI and advanced search technology to interpret and address patients’ requests promptly and with precision, so they access the information and care they need. – Poor healthcare web navigation has historically been a barrier to care, as 78% of people who

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Nordic

JANUARY 18, 2023

I think most regular readers of this blog know that I sometimes like to use big words, like plethora, tachycardia, and even penultimate. Sure, they won’t win any awards in terms of character count, but they are most definitely punching above their weight. I believe that today’s post continues in that fine tradition with the addition of mumpsimus. Mumpsimus refers to a tradition or custom that is adhered to even though it has been shown to be unreasonable.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Arrive Health , a provider of real-time benefit tools and integrated solutions that improve patient affordability, today announced the acquisition of a suite of innovative patient engagement and automation technologies developed by UPMC Enterprises and the UPMC Pharmacy Network. – The acquisition adds AI-driven virtual assistant technology and a robust patient management system to its affordability offerings, expanding support for more than 200 million patient

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Official statistics don't capture the pain of inflation for many Americans. That's because there's something wrong with how we define the middle class. Far more American households earn a middle-class income than enjoy a middle-class lifestyle.

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Life Qi

JANUARY 18, 2023

In its ‘Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit’ the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) describes driver diagrams as ‘a roadmap for achieving the overall project aim.’ Driver diagrams can be used to plan improvement project activities and represent a key element of QI projects. While there are many advantages to using driver diagrams, there are some limitations that you should be aware of.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

For its proponents, the idea of strategic ambiguity seems to have become an end in itself that has not adapted, and logically cannot adapt to the disruptive growth in Beijing's military power. The conditions under which the policy worked seem to have evaporated with China's rise. Strategic clarity may offer a way out of this dilemma.

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 18, 2023

By  Ameet Sarpatwari , A viva Wang , 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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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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Life Qi

JANUARY 18, 2023

In this blog we’re going to look at the process of how to develop a driver diagram. Described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as a ‘visual display of a team’s theory of what drives or contributes to, the achievement of a project aim,’ driver diagrams can be a really useful way to visualise what your project is trying to achieve and how you are going to progress your Quality Improvement (QI) project.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 18, 2023

That is the takeaway according to a November-December 2022 survey by PhRMA of 25 large pharmaceutical manufacturers. Among respondents, it was clear the IRA price setting provisions are already impacting, and are expected to have a growing impact on, R&D plans moving forward: • 78% expect to cancel early-state pipeline projects. • 63% said they expect to shift R&D investment focus away from small molecule medicines. • 95% said they expect to develop fewer new uses for medicines because o

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Etactics

JANUARY 18, 2023

Nearly 15% of all claims get denied according to AARP. This amounts to over 200 million claim rejections each day! Medical billing has plenty more disheartening statistics, but I’ll spare you on all of those for now. But I do have some good news! There are ways you can avoid claim rejections and thus keep your revenue flowing. Being in the medical billing field, you have to stay on your toes… but you already knew that.

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Clearwave Inc

JANUARY 18, 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes Digital patient check-in systems, via kiosks, mobile and tablet, help practices improve data accuracy and reduce waiting times. When used strategically, these systems also enable specialty practices to tap into the needs of their most important stakeholder, the patient. Here are the most impactful ways our customers use custom questions and how our customers are supported by our clearwaveCARE team to ensure success. 1.

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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.