Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters. Paddy Padmanabhan For a while now, we have been watching how voice-recognition based artificial intelligence tools can improve physician productivity, reduce burnout and impr

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 20, 2022

Black patients were 2.5 times more likely to have one or more negative descriptor such as "noncompliant" or "aggressive" in their EHR compared with White patients, researchers found.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

As more data has emerged about telehealth after the initial spike in March 2020, many industry-watchers, providers and patients are seeking to dig into who's using virtual care – and who's eased off. But it's not just about the "who," notes Sanjula Jain, chief research officer at the market analytics company Trilliant Health.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Cyberattacks top list of 2022 health tech hazards alongside supply chain problems, damaged infusion pumps. rtorrence. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:20.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 20, 2022

Support for rapid updates, the limitations of current reimbursement policies, cybersecurity risks as well as a "pressing need" for new regulatory frameworks are among the challenges facing DTx companies, according to researchers.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

HRSA to distribute $103M to improve mental health of stressed healthcare workforce. rking. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 12:23.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Fierce JPM Week: How 23andMe plans to harness its massive database to further its ambitions in drug development. hlandi. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 17:06.

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Healthcare Associates

JANUARY 20, 2022

10 Foods To Eat With a Sore Throat. A sore throat can often ruin your appetite, as it can cause pain and discomfort when you chew and swallow certain foods. Fortunately, there are foods you can eat that are not only soothing to the throat but also contain nutrients that can make your pain go away faster. Here’s what to eat when you have a sore throat, and how to contact a doctor if you frequently suffer from a sore throat. 10 Best Things To Eat With a Sore Throat.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Nearly 4K people may have gotten slightly lower Pfizer COVID-19 dose at a Kaiser Permanente location. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:22.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 20, 2022

Jason Ausili, Pharm.D., Chief Clinical Officer, FDS Amplicare, now part of EnlivenHealth™. As interoperability provisions from the 21 st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) enter their enforcement phase, pharmacy leaders within the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative (PHIT), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and pharmacy system vendors met recently to discuss the state of pharmacy interoperability.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

CVS Health and Uber Health partner on free medical transportation to reduce barriers to care. rtorrence. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 12:22.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

This article is brought to you by WellSky. The article is based on an interview that took place during a live Q&A session with Andy Eilert, President of Emerging Markets at WellSky, who interviewed Kunu Kaushal, Founder and CEO of Senior Solutions Home Care and the Founder and Advocate of the Independent Home Care Alliance, and Mag VanOosten, President and Chief Clinical Officer at UnityPoint at Home.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Nonprofits AAMC, AAHC say their April 1 merger will 'amplify' academic medicine. dmuoio. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 14:30.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) was the first health care titan to report its 2021 year-end results, doing so Wednesday morning. The Minnetonka, Minnesota-based company showed few signs of a pandemic-driven slowdown and hinted at big home-based care moves on the horizon. “Our broad home-based clinical care initiatives at Optum and UnitedHealthcare are central to improving near- and longer-term health outcomes for people with medical, behavioral and social needs,” UnitedHealth Group COO Dirk McMah

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Monopoly lawsuit alleges HCA intentionally diverted patients from partner ASCs to its own hospitals. dmuoio. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 11:41.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 20, 2022

How should you report the methodology, results and limitations of your economic model? One of the most commonly used approaches is the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) checklist. CHEERS was developed in 2013 ( Husereau et al. 2013 ) and a new version has been developed this year ( Husereau et al. 2022 ). Below are the key sections of CHEERS with the 28 key points listed below.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Fierce JPM Week: How virtual-first plans are tackling the balance between in-person, digital care. pminemyer. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 11:22.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Positive Hospital Margins. In these audiograms, taken from Episode 19 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa discusses the role that cost awareness plays in patient care and the need for analyzing hospital margins are the key to growth. It’s a huge myth that hospitals are making lots of money. If your hospital has a positive margin derived mainly from investments, fundraising and other capital sources, that’s a problem.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

States ask for more guidance from HHS on when COVID-19 emergency will end. rking. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:52.

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Medbridge Education

JANUARY 20, 2022

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many saw telehealth as a temporary means to safely offer uninterrupted care amid lockdowns and staffing shortages. While telehealth still offers those benefits, new opportunities to leverage virtual visits have emerged, offering an effective supplement to in-person visits that has been shown to expand access and help provide the appropriate […].

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Chutes & Ladders—Hims & Hers taps Uber vet as CFO; UCSF appoints president, CEO. dmuoio. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 17:02.

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Health Recovery

JANUARY 20, 2022

Population health, defined by Kindig and Stoddart as “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group,” is a crucial strategy. At its core, it focuses on delivering the right type of care to specific patient groups, ultimately leading to improved patient outcomes and lower costs. "Population health is defined as the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Blue Shield of California adds Ginger to Wellvolution platform to expand mental health support. hlandi. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 11:13.

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

By Barak D. Richman and Steven L. Schwarcz. Among the many failures to mitigate the harm from COVID-19 in the U.S. has been the failure to meet surging demand for inpatient care. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Humana's CenterWell planning to add 26 centers over the next year. pminemyer. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 13:07.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. If you are a health care worker or leading a health care organization, we have well-being resources for you. The National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience offers this collection of resources that highlight strategies and tools that health care leaders and workers can use across practice settings to take action toward decreasing burnout and improving clinician well-being.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Fierce JPM Week: Cityblock's Ajayi on how to build from COVID's spotlight on health disparities. pminemyer. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 13:13.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result of the COVID-19 emergency, there has been an increase in new home-based care models such as SNF at home and, most notably, hospital at home. The latter saw an uptick when the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced its “ Acute Hospital Care At Home ” waiver program in 2020. “Hospital at home and SNF at home are examples of value-based care, in that they promise to improve a patient’s experience getting care where they really want to receive that care

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – DrChrono Inc., an EverHealth® solution that is developing an essential platform and services for modern medical practices, today announced an integration partnership with Solv , an app that delivers everyday healthcare on-demand, equipping providers with the technology they need to improve patient access to quality healthcare, virtually or in person. – The integration aims to ultimately provide a simple, friendly, and transparent experience that increases pati

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

2022 Healthcare Predictions. In these audiograms , taken from Episode 29 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa is joined by Lisa Larter to discuss predictions for healthcare in 2022. Healthcare Prediction #1. The hospital supply chain will need substitutes and effective data analysis. Hospital supply chain needs to focus on planning, preparedness, and being anticipatory in 2022.

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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.