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GOP lawmakers ready to scrap Oracle Cerner's $16B VA contract unless 'deeply flawed' EHR fixed

Fierce Healthcare

GOP lawmakers ready to scrap Oracle Cerner's $16B VA contract unless 'deeply flawed' EHR fixed hlandi Tue, 01/31/2023 - 20:39

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Insurance lobby blasts Medicare Advantage audit rule

Health Care Dive

America’s Health Insurance Plans lobby said the rule seeking to claw back billions of dollars from health insurers is unlawful and fatally flawed.

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Employers hope to address parents' concerns about their kids' mental health

Fierce Healthcare

Employers hope to address parents' concerns about their kids' mental health fdiamond Tue, 01/31/2023 - 07:39

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Leveraging augmented reality to enhance workflow simulation and product demonstration

Healthcare It News

Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges: high staff turnover leading to nursing burnout, hiring of temp/travel staff requires regular onboarding and hits tight budgets, and scheduling in-person meetings and trainings can become bottlenecks. Mixed Reality simulation offers a fully virtual, on-demand tool. Users can train where they want, when they want reducing scheduling bottlenecks and reducing training T&E spend.

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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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COVID-19 vaccines, boosters keep kids out of the ER: study

Fierce Healthcare

COVID-19 vaccines, boosters keep kids out of the ER: study fdiamond Tue, 01/31/2023 - 15:33

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Intermountain and Story Health partner on specialty care for heart failure

Healthcare It News

Intermountain Health is looking to artificial intelligence and high-touch coaching to increase care personalization and medication adherence for patients with heart failure. WHY IT MATTERS Coaches from Story Health, which helps develop personalized care plans using clinical data, will be available to answer Intermountain patients' questions via text or call.

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Court rules for drugmakers over HHS in 340B fight over contract pharmacies

Health Care Dive

The decision is a win for drug manufacturers Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca. The companies sued the HHS after regulators ordered them to stop restricting sales of 340B drugs to contract pharmacies.

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Former Oracle exec Troy Tazbaz tapped as FDA director of digital health

Fierce Healthcare

Former Oracle exec Troy Tazbaz tapped as FDA director of digital health aburky Tue, 01/31/2023 - 15:29

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Persistent, heightened labor expenses pummeled hospitals last year, Kaufman Hall reports

Health Care Dive

Negative margins and heightened labor expenses continued for hospitals in 2022, causing them to suffer their worst financial year since the pandemic began, according to the report.

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CVS Health goes live with virtual care service with a focus on primary care, mental health

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Health goes live with virtual care service with a focus on primary care, mental health hlandi Tue, 01/31/2023 - 13:54

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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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MEDITECH’s top 5 podcasts of 2022

Meditech

Life doesn’t pause when new challenges come to light, yet clinicians are expected to stay current while also juggling their regular duties. Podcasts offer an easy, digestible way to hear about new information on-the-go: in other words, the perfect format for busy healthcare workers. On the MEDITECH Podcast, we host a variety of accomplished guests who share their insights on topics ranging from AI to staff retention efforts to health equity.

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Blue Shield of California teams with Accolade on new virtual-first plan

Fierce Healthcare

Blue Shield of California teams with Accolade on new virtual-first plan pminemyer Tue, 01/31/2023 - 15:58

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The Transformation in Behavioral Digital Health Services

Sheppard Health Law

This blog is the second installment of our Digital Health Trends series. Overview Digital health services have exploded since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and behavioral health services have seen large increases in utilization. Prior to the pandemic, telehealth visits for mental health or substance use disorder represented less than 1% of outpatient visits, but by mid-2020 nearly 40% of telehealth outpatient visits were for mental health or substance use.

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Texas doctors file new surprise billing lawsuit challenging arbitration fees

Fierce Healthcare

Texas doctors file new surprise billing lawsuit challenging arbitration fees rking Tue, 01/31/2023 - 18:00

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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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Inclement Weather Update 1/31/2023

Healthcare Associates

Due to weather and our ongoing concern for the safety of our team and patients, all Healthcare Associates of Texas clinics will continue to see only virtual video appointments through Thursday, Feb. 2, morning. Pending weather, no face-to-face appointments will be held until 10 a.m. Thursday. All patients who have an appointment scheduled and who will be affected by the weather-related closure will be contacted.

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'Podnosis': What hospitals will need to do to overcome financial woes, and building equity measures into value-based care

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': What hospitals will need to do to overcome financial woes, and building equity measures into value-based care tcarey Tue, 01/31/2023 - 21:49

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The Public Health Emergency Proved Certain Regulatory Red Tape Was Unnecessary

Home Health Care

With the public health emergency (PHE) set to finally end on May 11 , home health stakeholders are finding that the impact won’t be as disruptive as once feared. This is because most of the biggest issues have already been addressed by Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). “Congress addressed the face-to-face encounter side of it, so we’re not going to be losing as much as we might have, if that hadn’t happened,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association fo

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CBO debt projections: Too optimistic or too pessimistic?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Every year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) makes projections of what the federal budget will look like, in particular, what the government debt and annual deficits will be. Note that these should not be seen as forecasts since CBO projections aim to measure what will happen over the next 10 years assuming no change to any laws (which is of course unrealistic).

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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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News 2/1/23

HIStalk

Top News Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) introduces a bill, co-sponsored.

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JAMA on whether AI can be included as a co-author on publications

Healthcare ECONOMIST

In short, the answer is ‘no’ The full rationale is here , but here is an excerpt from their policy: Nonhuman artificial intelligence, language models, machine learning, or similar technologies do not qualify for authorship. If these models or tools are used to create content or assist with writing or manuscript preparation, authors must take responsibility for the integrity of the content generated by these tools.

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FTC Unlikely To Challenge UnitedHealth Group-LHC Group Deal

Home Health Care

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will reportedly not challenge UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) deal for LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) after all. Both companies stock rose Tuesday after that news surfaced from a CTFN report. Just last week, LHC Group stock dropped after a report from Capitol Forum suggested that the FTC may be looking into vertical theories of harm pertaining to the deal.

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South Carolina’s Abortion Debates: A Game of Ping Pong

Bill Of Health

By Katie Gu On January 5, the South Carolina Supreme Court permanently struck down Senate Bill 1 (S.B. 1), also known as the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act , which banned most abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. The decision was issued just five days before the state’s General Assembly returned for 2023, setting into motion a game of ping pong between the state branches of government in South Carolina’s abortion debates.

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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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ProKidney Taps CVS Health Clinical Trial Services for Precision Recruitment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CVS Health Clinical Trial Services and late clinical-stage cellular therapeutics company ProKidney Corp. today announced a collaboration to enroll patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease into the proact 1 (REGEN-006) Phase 3 clinical trial of REACT ®. ProKidney’s lead product candidate, REACT ® (REnal Autologous Cell Therapy), is a first-of-its-kind, patented, autologous cellular therapy with the potential to not only slow and stabilize the progress

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Clearwave Tips and Tricks

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 4 minutes Our goal is to ensure all of our clients and their administrative staff feel comfortable and confident using Clearwave. The CAREcommunity helps make this goal possible, 24/7. In the CAREcommunity, your practice staff can self-service any technical needs or get answers to questions about Clearwave. You’ll see up-to-date, curated resources, along with pictures and videos that you can use to quickly solve a problem or get an answer.

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Growing Pains in Cell and Gene Therapy

Health Advances

By Alicia Shields and Vivek Mittal Introduction A few weeks ago, San Francisco was abuzz with events and participants attending the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Industry leaders, investors, scientists, physicians, and others gathered to share data, learnings, challenges, and hypotheses. Health Advances was in the midst to capture industry insights and network.

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Prescryptive Health Announces New Language Capabilities to Increase Patient Accessibility

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Prescryptive Health , a healthcare technology company on a mission to rewrite the script for the U.S. pharmaceutical market launches a new Spanish language access on their mobile-first patient solution, myPrescryptive. – Built on blockchain, myPrescryptive gives healthcare consumers ownership of their prescription, delivering pricing options and financial assistance information, pharmacy services like testing and vaccinations, and pharmacy benefit plan informa

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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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Making Rounds: The up and downside of disintermediation

Nordic

Health systems are facing the Big Squeeze , the combination of factors including market forces, labor pains, a clinical tsunami, and disintermediation, that threaten the ability to fully deliver on their mission.

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Prisma Health Moves to the Innovaccer Health Cloud

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – South Carolina’s largest health system, Prisma Health selects the Innovaccer Health Cloud to be its primary value-based care platform for analytics, workflow, and Snowflake data platform management. – With the Innovaccer Health Cloud’s data and analytics platform, Prisma Health can integrate disparate EHRs and other healthcare systems to create a unified patient record.

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Driving the Patient Experience: What You Permit, You Promote

Baird Group

Every hospital we’ve ever worked with has a series of expectations for their staff members related to the patient experience. Things like addressing patients by their preferred name or taking responsibility for trash or spills are usually on the list. Your hospital probably also has a list of “service standards” contained in some policy manual or online as well.

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ProKidney Taps CVS Health Clinical Trail Services for Precision Recruitment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CVS Health Clinical Trial Services and late clinical-stage cellular therapeutics company ProKidney Corp. today announced a collaboration to enroll patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease into the proact 1 (REGEN-006) Phase 3 clinical trial of REACT ®. ProKidney’s lead product candidate, REACT ® (REnal Autologous Cell Therapy), is a first-of-its-kind, patented, autologous cellular therapy with the potential to not only slow and stabilize the progress

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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.