Tue.Dec 06, 2022

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9 Healthcare Marketing Trends to Embrace in 2023

Healthcare Success

Healthcare consumers continue to move swiftly down the paths of least resistance toward quality care. This spells trouble for healthcare organizations that cannot change with the times. It’s time to pay attention to what competitors offer and find ways to remove unnecessary obstacles to care. In this blog, I share nine healthcare marketing trends you need to embrace in 2023 to remain competitive in today’s ever-changing healthcare marketplace. 9 Healthcare Marketing Trends 2023. 1.

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UMass Memorial Health proves RPM virtual sitting is as effective as in-person care

Healthcare It News

UMass Memorial Health is the largest health system in Central Massachusetts and the clinical partner of UMass Chan Medical School. UMass Memorial is the only adult Level I Trauma Center and Level III Neonatal ICU in Central Massachusetts. The health system's experienced caregivers include experts in behavioral health, cancer, cardiology, children and women's services, heart and vascular care, neurology, pulmonology and surgery.

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18M projected to lose Medicaid coverage at end of COVID-19 emergency

Health Care Dive

Many people who are currently enrolled in Medicaid will transition to other coverage, but 3.8 million people will completely lose insurance, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Kids with long COVID should be tracked over a lengthy period of time, says study

Fierce Healthcare

Kids with long COVID should be tracked over a lengthy period of time, says study. fdiamond. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:15.

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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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20K Kaiser nurses, nurse practitioners ratify new contract

Health Care Dive

After threatening to wage a two-day strike, nurses and nurse practitioners at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Northern California ratified a deal with the system that includes the addition of more than 2,000 new nursing positions.

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UnitedHealth report: As mental health concerns rise, more providers are available to treat these needs

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth report: As mental health concerns rise, more providers are available to treat these needs. pminemyer. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:03.

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15 Minnesota hospitals reach tentative deal to avoid 15,000-nurse strike

Fierce Healthcare

15 Minnesota hospitals reach tentative deal to avoid 15,000-nurse strike. dmuoio. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:52.

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Fresenius CFO named chief executive amid operational turnaround

Health Care Dive

Helen Giza is replacing outgoing CEO Carla Kriwet, who is leaving the company by mutual agreement due to strategic differences, Fresenius said Monday.

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CMS proposes certain payers implement electronic prior authorization systems by 2026

Fierce Healthcare

CMS proposes certain payers implement electronic prior authorization systems by 2026. rking. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 17:04.

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HHS to lift mpox emergency declaration as cases drop

Health Care Dive

New reported daily cases of the virus in the U.S. have dwindled to under 10 from more than 600 per day in August.

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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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'Podnosis': Biosimilars' potential to curtail drug prices and what to do about rural communities' healthcare access crisis

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': Biosimilars' potential to curtail drug prices and what to do about rural communities' healthcare access crisis. tcarey. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 12:46.

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OASIS Education and Automation Coordinators

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This document (5 pages in length) contains contact information for both OASIS Education and Automation Coordinators. Each State has designated OASIS Coordinators to provide guidance on the administration and submission of the OASIS instrument. The list was last updated in February 2022.

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Industry Voices—The goal for healthcare data moves beyond quality to usability

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—The goal for healthcare data moves beyond quality to usability. hlandi. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 15:17.

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Enthea Secures $2M to Expand Psychedelic Healthcare Provider Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Enthea , the first provider of insurance plans for psychedelic healthcare, has announced a $2M Seed Round raise led by Tabula Rasa Ventures to offer psychedelic-assisted therapy as a workplace benefit. – The funds will be used to launch Enthea’s services into 40 markets across the U.S. in 2023 as well as grow its customer base and provider network to increase access to new, evidence-based healing options that have proven to be very effective in improving sympt

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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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Lung damage found in 11% of severe COVID survivors

Fierce Healthcare

Lung damage found in 11% of severe COVID survivors. fdiamond. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 08:08.

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Research Shows Power of Anumana AI-ECG Algorithms to Detect Heart Conditions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The research is mounting to show that Anumana’s AI -ECG algorithms could dramatically improve screening for cardiovascular disease (CVD), providing early warnings of disease from just a standard electrocardiogram (ECG). Yesterday, a study was published in Nature Medicine that shows an Anumana AI algorithm applied to Apple Watch ECG recordings successfully identified a weak heart pump in patients. – This follows other recent research findings, published in The

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Urban: 18M could lose Medicaid coverage after COVID-19 emergency expires, likely next year

Fierce Healthcare

Urban: 18M could lose Medicaid coverage after COVID-19 emergency expires, likely next year. rking. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:07.

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Amedisys CEO Paul Kusserow: We Haven’t Hit Earnings, That’s Why I’m Back

Home Health Care

In his first public-facing appearance since returning to the role of CEO at Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED), Paul Kusserow made the company’s focuses clear. In that vein, he also retired any speculation as to why he came back. “We haven’t hit and been predictable on earnings, so that’s the reason I’m back,” Kusserow said Tuesday at the BofA Securities Home Care Conference.

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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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Faced with costly discharge bottlenecks, hospitals want Congress to pay for patients' extended stay

Fierce Healthcare

Faced with costly discharge bottlenecks, hospitals want Congress to pay for patients' extended stay. dmuoio. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 12:50.

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Modivcare Forecasts Major Growth In Personal Care, Further Benefits From Value-Based Contracts

Home Health Care

Modivcare Inc. (Nasdaq: MODV) leaders are forecasting pretty significant growth for the company in the near-term future. Specifically, they expect 7% to 10% growth across the entire company. Just one month after laying out his 90 day goals for Modivcare during the company’s Q3 earnings call, President and CEO Heath Sampson shared his target growth rate for the overall business.

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement, AMA lead new cross-stakeholder coalition to improve equity

Fierce Healthcare

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, AMA lead new cross-stakeholder coalition to improve equity. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 09:25.

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Future Leader: Elizabeth Rosema, Executive Director, Atrio Home Health

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]. Elizabeth Rosema, executive director of Atrio Home Health, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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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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Show Me The Evidence and The ROI: Digital Health Investing in 2023 via GSR Ventures

Health Populi

With valuations of digital health companies expected to decline in 2023, investors in the sector are Missourian in spirit in “Show Me” mode: here, it’s all about the clinical evidence and ROI, according to a survey from GSR Ventures. conducted among over 50 major digital health venture capital investors. Most of the 50+ responses to the survey expect that in 2023, valuations for digital health companies will decrease by over 20%: that’s a net of 83% including 60% expect

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Can Doctors Objectively Quantify and Measure Pain?

HIT Consultant

Dr. Frank Fornari, Chairman and Founder, BioMech Health. Millions of Americans live with acute and chronic pain that affects every aspect of their lives. Pain by itself is an important marker of how a patient is feeling and indicates what kind of medical intervention might be necessary. The healthcare industry needs a clinically acceptable way to objectively measure pain and since pain is a very complex mixture of biochemistry and genetics and it’s unlikely that a laboratory test that directly q

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Introducing Kaitlyn Laube Ward, DPM – Foot and Ankle Specialist!

Voyage Healthcare

Kaitlyn Laube Ward, DPM, is a foot and ankle specialist that will be joining Voyage Healthcare in January 2023. She is Board-Certified by the American Board of Podiatric Medicine and Board-Qualified by the American Board of Foot & Ankle Surgery. Dr. Laube Ward earned her medical degree from Des Moines University and completed her residency training at the Franciscan Foot & Ankle Institute in Federal Way, Washington.

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How RPM Can Help with the Surge of Respiratory Illnesses

Health Recovery

What’s the Problem? Respiratory illnesses like the flu, COVID-19 and RSV spreading across the United States at unusually high rates. Troublingly, those illnesses continue to impact children as well as adults – making it more important for clinicians to take advantage of modern healthcare tools like remote patient monitoring as a supplement to care.

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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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Don’t Let Drugs Bring You Down: The Importance of an Effective Drug Diversion Program

Sheppard Health Law

Overall, healthcare professionals are 10-15% more likely to develop substance abuse issues than the general population. [1] As addiction to prescription medication has reached nation-wide epidemic proportions, it has become a major driver of drug diversion. Drug diversion occurs when prescription medicines are obtained or used illegally. Healthcare practitioners and facilities are the gatekeepers tasked with safeguarding prescription controlled substances.

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Understaffing increases cybersecurity risk

Healthcare Performance

Workforce statistics: An (ISC)2 workforce survey of 11,779 cybersecurity practitioners and decision makers reported strong increases in cybersecurity workers: The US cybersecurity workforce increased by 5.5% between 2021 and 2022. Globally, the increase was 11.1%, or 464,000 new workers. But demand for cybersecurity workers increased almost twice as fast resulting in an increase in need.

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New Liquid Biopsy Detects Breast Cancer at Its Earliest Stages

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Exai Bio and researchers at UCSF released data demonstrating that Exai’s novel, RNA-based liquid biopsy platform accurately detected breast cancer at the earliest stages and smallest tumor sizes. – Earlier detection of breast cancer is crucial for optimal patient outcomes but cannot always be achieved based on symptoms or mammography.

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Updated Hospital Cost Tool Adds New Data to Help States and Employers Further Explore Hospital Costs

NASHP

Updated Hospital Cost Tool Adds New Data to Help States and Employers Further Explore Hospital Costs December 6, 2022. Additions to Online Dashboard include data on labor and benefit costs, COVID-19 provider relief funds, and operating profit margins. . An updated version of the Hospital Cost tool (HCT), a dashboard created in a partnership between Mathematica , Rice University’s Baker Institute and the National Academy for State Health Policy is now available with new data that provides a more

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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.