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ATA applauds 2-year extension of telehealth flexibilities in Congressional Omnibus

Healthcare It News

The American Telemedicine Association this week cheered the bipartisan omnibus appropriations bill from both houses of Congress for including a two-year extension for Medicare telehealth flexibilities that have been in place since the COVID-19 public health emergency was declared in 2020. WHY IT MATTERS. The telehealth group's ATA Action affiliate also thanked leaders from both parties on Capitol Hill for the fact that the package also included provisions delaying the Medicare telemental hea

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The Advocate-Atrium merger closed without an antitrust challenge. What does that mean for competition in 2023?

Health Care Dive

Health systems have morphed into multi-regional players through acquisitions, but have evaded federal antitrust enforcement, raising questions about the future of policing merger deals.

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Joint Commission cuts 14% of accreditation requirements for 2023, freezes fees

Fierce Healthcare

Joint Commission cuts 14% of accreditation requirements for 2023, freezes fees. dmuoio. Thu, 12/22/2022 - 12:21.

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Medtronic starts US robotic surgery trial in push to challenge Intuitive

Health Care Dive

Medtronic delayed the Hugo program to make changes in light of surgeon feedback, but now plans to evaluate the use of the surgical robot in urologic procedures, facing off against competitor Intuitive.

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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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U.S. to release flu medication from Strategic National Stockpile

Fierce Healthcare

U.S. to release flu medication from Strategic National Stockpile. fdiamond. Thu, 12/22/2022 - 11:59.

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How The Rural Add-On Payments Changed Where Home Health Services Were Delivered

Home Health Care

Utilization of home health services fell in both urban and rural counties from January 2016 to March 2022 in the “high-utilization” categories, in part, due to the rural add-on payments. In 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a rural add-on payment, or a percentage increase, at the request of Congress.

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Home Health And Home Care Predictions That Missed The Mark In 2022

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Predictions are a lot like playing the offensive line. If you do your job and get them correct, it goes unnoticed. If you get them wrong and make a blunder, they’re far more noticeable. But it’s more fun to point out the blunders anyway. And given how 2022 turned out and all the predictions we made at Home Health Care News in January, it won’t be hard to find them. .

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Ernest Codman: A pioneer of health outcomes

Life Qi

Born in Massachusetts in 1869, Ernest Codman is known as the ‘Father of Outcome Management’. He worked as a clinician and still influences Quality Improvement (QI) to this day. Ernest Codman trained as a surgeon and made it his lifelong work to follow up on his patients after their treatment and systematically record their outcomes.

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Franchisees Trends, Legal Battles And Staffing Woes: 7 Stories That Flew Under The Radar in 2022

Home Health Care

Some stories are able to make a big splash instantly, while some are more of a slow burn, taking time to attract the attention of readers. While the former has already received some much deserved fanfare, Home Health Care News wanted to take the time to shine the spotlight on the latter. These stories are diverse in topic matter, style and structure.

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Five Best Practices for IV Medication Administration Safety 

PDC Healthcare

Healthcare professionals are faced with many obstacles while administering IV medication to patients, which can lead to medical errors and a risk for patient safety. Nearly 40% of medical errors take place during medication administration as it is one of the most intricate processes for healthcare staff. It is critical to ensure the 5 rights […].

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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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Researchers Assess ML Algorithm for Undiagnosed Dementia Detection

Health IT Analytics

A group of researchers is… read more

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Neurorehabilitation and Recovery: Going Through Hell

Bill Of Health

This article is adapted slightly from remarks the author delivered at the 2022 International Neuroethics Society annual meeting on a panel about neurorehabilitation moderated by Dr. Joseph Fins. By Leslie C. Griffin. I’m a tenured law professor at UNLV. This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. I am healthy, happy, working, and working out.

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Medicaid Palliative Care Benefits: Actuary Analysis and Request for Applications for NASHP’s State Institute to Improve Care for People with Serious Illness

NASHP

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is hosting a webinar to highlight the exciting opportunity for states to apply to NASHP’s new State Serious Illness Institute, through which states can receive technical assistance with public policies that improve care for people with serious illness. The webinar will also feature the newly published actuary analysis of a Medicaid palliative care benefit.

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The Power of Strong Implementations: How HIT Vendors & Customers Can Lay A Foundation for Success

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health systems are increasingly working to get the most out of their IT investments. Focusing on a strong implementation can have a huge impact. Analysis of KLAS data gathered from 2018–2022 suggests that the quality of implementations may be more important than the technology selected. – The data primarily focuses on solutions that require complex, large-scale implementations (e.g., acute care EMRs, ERP solutions, patient accounting systems, and PACS solution

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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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NASHP State Policy Institute to Improve Care for People with Serious Illness: Request for Applications

NASHP

To apply to NASHP’s State Policy Institute to Improve Care for People with Serious Illness, please complete this online application. The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation , invites state applications to participate in its 2023-2025 State Policy Institute to Improve Care for People with Serious Illness.

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December 2022 Appendix B (RAI Manual) Update

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The December update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts. Appendix B – RAI 3.0 User’s Manual…December 14, 2022 Update. Changes to Appendix B…December 2022 Update.

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Achieve the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare with Telehealth and RPM

Health Recovery

The Quadruple Aim is an expansion of the Triple Aim framework developed by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement to advance the U.S. healthcare system. The initial framework focused primarily on improving the lives of patients.

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Retraining Improves Performance of ICU Predictive Analytics Model

Health IT Analytics

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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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National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call on Thursday January 5, 2023

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Please join the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday January 5, 2023 at 3:00 pm ET for a National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call. Long-term care providers, facility staff and resident advocates are encouraged to attend.

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News 12/23/22

HIStalk

Top News HHS publishes ownership data for all 7,000 Medicare-certified.

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Important Updates on the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Swingtech sends informational messages to hospices related to the Quality Reporting Program (QRP) on a quarterly basis. Their latest outreach communication can be found on the HQRP Requirements and Best Practices webpage. The direct link to this message is here. If you want to receive Swingtech’s quarterly emails, then add or update the email addresses to which these messages are sent by sending an email to QRPHelp@swingtech.

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 12/22/22

HIStalk

Home health is a hot topic for many healthcare organizations.

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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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HHS Proposes to Standardize Electronic Health Care Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signature Processes to Improve the Care Experience for Patients and Providers

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS, on behalf of HHS, issued the proposed rule, Adoption of Standards for Health Care Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signatures, and Modification to Referral Certification and Authorization Transaction Standard (CMS-0053-P). If finalized, the proposed rule would adopt standards for “health care attachments” transactions, such as medical charts, x-rays, and provider notes that document physician referrals and office

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Why You Should Demand a Team of Healthcare Marketing Specialists

Healthcare Success

We recently received an inquiry from the Marketing Director for a 40-location, single-specialty medical practice in the Midwest. Even though it was after hours, I was available so I took the call. Michelle (not her real name) and I hit it off immediately. She told me about her demanding job and how she felt her boss was unwittingly setting her up to fail.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

People are sick of being sick, the New York Times tells us. “Which virus is it?” the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Entering 2023, U.S. health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops.

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We’re Feeling the Effects of the Nursing Shortage. Health Tech Can Help

HIT Consultant

The healthcare industry is in desperate need of nurses — and fast. Chances are this isn’t news to you. You’ve seen the countless headlines covering the impact the pandemic has had on nurses , and how that nursing shortage has impacted employment numbers, healthcare facilities, and patient care. Nurses are burnt out. They’re stressed, exhausted, and struggling to find adequate mental health support.

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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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What Are the 34 Symptoms of Menopause?

Healthcare Associates

Do you think you may be starting menopause? For many women, this is a tricky question to answer. The average age of menopause is 51 years old. However, symptoms of menopause may start many years before you fully stop getting your menstrual period. These symptoms are typically caused by fluctuating levels of the hormone estrogen. This can begin in your 30s and 40s , during a time called perimenopause.