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CMS redesigns controversial Medicare direct contracting model

Health Care Dive

The decision to retain the direct contracting model — albeit with numerous changes and a new name — was met with mixed reactions from stakeholders.

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Teladoc to partner with Amazon on Alexa-enabled virtual visits

Healthcare It News

Teladoc Health announced this week that it was partnering with Amazon to launch voice-activated virtual care on Alexa-supported Echo devices. According to the companies, U.S. customers around the country can connect with a Teladoc provider via audio at any time for general medical needs. "By introducing and integrating our virtual first care experience with Echo devices, we are providing an innovative and convenient way for users to connect with a doctor," said Donna Boyer, chief produ

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For-profits focus more on outpatient care as inpatient volume remains depressed

Health Care Dive

Inpatient volumes for non-COVID-19 care have flagged throughout the pandemic, leading some operators to focus more heavily on outpatient service lines like ASCs and freestanding emergency departments.

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Geospatial analysis is helping improve community health outcomes

Healthcare It News

One of the tenets of UVA Health's mission is community and health equity. The health and well-being of people in its community, especially those who are challenged by social determinants of health, can be improved through community-based care. With that in mind, UVA Health and its partners have launched WellAWARE, a program that provides community health services to targeted neighborhoods in Central Virginia.

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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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Healthcare sector on alert for cyber threats in wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Health Care Dive

AHA is especially concerned that some hospitals were collateral damage after Russia targeted Ukraine in a 2017 cyberattack that quickly spilled worldwide.

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Please Keep Your Masks On

Bill Of Health

By Chloe Reichel. What is more important: your comfort, or a person’s life? These are the stakes of the move to unmask in the U.S. . The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidance , which suggests that many people in the U.S. can stop wearing masks, has attempted to change the reality of our COVID risk landscape by assigning new colors to risk levels and massively shifting the parameters of these criteria.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. Today, regulatory and market forces have led to improved transparency and enhanced consumerization, changing the face of healthcare. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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HHS sets out plans to make medical device, diagnostics supply chains pandemic-proof

Health Care Dive

The department wants to shore up the public health supply chain by investing in personal protective equipment, durable medical equipment and testing.

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Virginia Invests in Doulas to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes

NASHP

Virginia Invests in Doulas to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes February 28, 2022 / By Abena Asare. The United States is facing a maternal health crisis with poor maternal health outcomes. Across the country, states have adopted many strategies to address maternal mortality and morbidity. One state policy strategy to promote racial equity in maternal health outcomes is Medicaid coverage of doula services.

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Teladoc Health and Amazon Team Up to Launch Teladoc on Alexa

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Whole-person virtual care provider Teladoc Health , today announced a first of its kind experience with Amazon Alexa with the launch of voice-activated general medical virtual care on supported Echo devices. – Customers in the U.S. will now be able to connect with a Teladoc care provider 24/7 from supported Echo devices for general medical needs.

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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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Recovering Routine Immunization Rates — State Strategies to Move beyond COVID-19 

NASHP

Recovering Routine Immunization Rates — State Strategies to Move beyond COVID-19 February 28, 2022 / By Michelle Fiscus, Rebecca Cooper , Sandra Wilkniss. COVID-19 has negatively impacted routine immunization rates across the world as medical providers, patients, and parents have faced challenges wrought by the pandemic. According to data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF , 23 million children worldwide missed out on routine childhood immunizations in 2020, an estimated

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Crisis in the U.S. Healthcare Workforce: Why It’s Time to introduce AI

HIT Consultant

Andrew Pucher, CEO of Dascena, Inc. One of the many acute challenges during the pandemic has been the departure of approximately 18% of the U.S. healthcare workforce, 4 resulting in staffing shortages in hospitals. This has impacted the well-being of the remaining healthcare practitioners 5 as well as their patients – many of whom are deferring care that is vital to disease management and overall maintenance of health, 6,7 or who do not have access to timely emergency care. 1 Though such challen

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What the ACO REACH Model Means for Direct Contracting’s Future

Home Health Care

A new path was laid out last week for home-based care providers wishing to engage in direct contracting with the federal government. As the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday , the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Models will expire at the end of 2022. On Jan. 1, 2023, the accountable care organization (ACO) “REACH” Model – which stands for “Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health” – will take its place.

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Why take an ICS approach to quality improvement

Life Qi

Improvement is at the heart of the ICS purpose. In earlier articles in this series of blogs, we have looked at how Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are being created to provide partnerships of health and care. We also discovered how they will plan and deliver joined up services to improve the health of people in their localities. In this article we’re going to look at how Quality Improvement (QI) is at the heart of the ICS purpose and how a QI system for ICSs could provide a great way to collabora

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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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Butterfly Launches System-Wide Ultrasound w/AI-Guided Option

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Butterfly Network today launched Butterfly Blueprint , a system-wide platform that supports scaled deployment of ultrasound across hospitals and health systems. – Blueprint integrates ultrasound information into health systems’ clinical and administrative systems and workflows. That means clinicians across all disciplines now have a tool that allows them to see and know results sooner to drive better care decisions, efficiency and outcomes.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. Today, regulatory and market forces have led to improved transparency and enhanced consumerization, changing the face of healthcare. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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‘When Is Too Much, Too Much?’: Home Care Costs Continue to Increase

Home Health Care

In order to keep pace with the labor market, as well as other contributing factors, home care providers across the country have had to increase the cost of their services. Those providers have also begun to wonder when — or if — those rising costs may start to affect client demand. Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content. Individual Membership. $400 per year.

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What Kind of Resistance Can Ukraine Mount?

The Rand Blog

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered general mobilization, and Ukrainians are already engaging in irregular warfare and preparing for a prolonged resistance. What might a comprehensive Ukrainian resistance entail? What is the potential effectiveness, and what are the risks? What support could the international community provide?

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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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Food Insecurity, Energy Prices, and Medical Debt Spike in February 2022

Health Populi

There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S. household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. This further underscores the reality that medical spending in the U.S. is taking shape as a consumer service or good, competing with — potentially crowding out — other household line items like foo

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5 Ways to Improve Local SEO for Medical Practices

Sequence Health

If you’re a medical practice looking to improve your local SEO, you’re in the right place. In this blog post, we will discuss five ways that you can optimize your website and generate more leads from potential patients in your area. Improving your local SEO is a great way to attract more patients to your practice, and it’s easier than you might think!

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We’re In This Together – Don’t Give Up

Healthcare Leadership

Blog Post by Joe Babaian. “Don’t give up” is my message today to you! We are facing unprecedented world strife reigniting more than kindles of the Cold War. What’s the good news then you may ask? It seems an impossible task, but don’t give up. It’s not contrite to remember the late Dr. Robert Schuller’s famous saying: “Tough times don’t last, tough people do. ”. ~ Dr.

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Encompass Health Still Not Ruling Out Sale of Home Health and Hospice Segment

Home Health Care

Some interesting news came across the wire Monday afternoon as Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) provided an update on the separation of its home health and hospice business. . Encompass Health had said in the past that it planned to spin off the segment into its own publicly traded company : Enhabit Home Health & Hospice. While that still seems to be the plan, it appears it’s a more tentative one than previously thought. .

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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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GHX Acquires Syft, AI-Powered Hospital Supply Chain Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today GHX announced its acquisition of Syft , a leading provider of AI-enhanced inventory control and end-to-end supply chain management software and services. – As a wholly-owned subsidiary of GHX, Syft joins GHX’s value-based care division’s growing portfolio of solutions that help modernize the supply chain. Modernizing Healthcare Supply Chain to Overcome COVID-19 Related Challenges.

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Morning Headlines 3/1/22

HIStalk

Teladoc spikes on partnership with Amazon for virtual care on.

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Selux Diagnostics Raises $50M for Next-Generation Phenotyping Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Selux Diagnostics, Inc. , a personalized diagnostics company to combat superbug infections and fight antibiotic resistance raises $50M in Series C financing led by RA Capital Management, with participation from Sands Capital, Schooner Capital and Northpond Ventures. – The funding will support the U.S. commercial launch of its Next-Generation Phenotyping (NGP) rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform.

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HIStalk Interviews Kevin Field, President, Clearsense

HIStalk

Kevin Field is president of Clearsense of Jacksonville, FL. Tell.

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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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Four Reasons Facebook & Instagram Advertising Are Essential for Healthcare Marketing

Health Care Success

How much of your marketing budget is allocated to paid social media advertising ? Are you wondering if it’s worth investing in healthcare Facebook ads? If it’s not something you’re taking seriously in 2022, you’re missing out on a massive opportunity to attract new audiences, increase awareness, drive conversions, and improve your bottom line. With approximately 1.9 billion daily active users (DAU) on Facebook and 500 million DAU on Instagram stories , social media offers an enormous advertising

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Readers Write: It’s Time for the EHR to Give Back to Clinicians

HIStalk

It’s Time for the EHR to Give Back to CliniciansBy.

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XRHealth Secures $10M to Expand Virtual Reality Treatment in the Metaverse

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – XRHealth , the gateway to the healthcare metaverse, announced today that they raised $10M in funding to expand virtual healthcare treatment in the Metaverse. The funding was backed by HTC, Bridges Israel impact investment fund, AARP, and crowdfunding on StartEngine.com and existing investors. – XRHealth’s platform is FDA and CE registered and provides an immersive experience for users, transporting them to a virtual world for comprehensive therapeutic care.

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 2/28/22

HIStalk

I spent the week wading into the world of post-operative.

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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.