Fierce Healthcare

JULY 24, 2023

As hospitals acquire ambulatory care centers, consumers are more likely to be forced to pay outpatient facility fees for routine care traditionally covered by physician offices at lower costs. | Customers are being surprised with larger medical bills to cover a hospital's operational expenses, and hospital consolidation is major driving factor, a Georgetown University report uncovered.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 24, 2023

Learn how ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) can help move the needle on every aspect of the Quintuple Aim—and the impact its having on clinicians and patients at WellSpan Health.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 24, 2023

While payers are facing headwinds going into the latter part of this year, the ongoing financial impacts of healthcare's labor shortage will be felt in the hospital sector far longer, according to | While payers are facing headwinds going into the latter part of this year, the ongoing financial impacts of healthcare's labor shortage will be felt in the hospital sector far longer, according to a new report from analysts at Moody's Investors Service.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 24, 2023

The analysis comes as private equity investments in healthcare soar and regulators look to crack down on roll-up acquisitions.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 24, 2023

A body of published academic data suggest that private equity ownership of healthcare providers frequently comes with higher costs and reduced quality, according to a systematic literature review p | Evidence of private equity ownership's detrimental impact on healthcare providers is "robust enough" to warrant greater scrutiny and possibly new regulations, researchers wrote in a recent 55-study literature review.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 24, 2023

Lake County, Ohio's Mentor Hospital opened earlier this month, with Cleveland Clinic's first private 5G network – a 5G millimeter wave network built on an Ericsson platform. In addition to several patient engagement touchpoints, the health system says it's looking to private cellular networks to keep up with healthcare's demand for high speeds, low latency and the need for cybersecurity.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 24, 2023

According to Dr Mark Davies, IBM's Chief Health Officer, there are huge potential benefits from digitalizing citizen engagement.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 24, 2023

Virtual healthcare holds the key to not only increasing patient satisf | Virtual healthcare can not only improve outcomes and the patient experience, but it can also help reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint, according to Blue Shield of California.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. The services are available to members of GNC’s new-and-improved loyalty program, GNC PRO Access , which is priced at a fixed fee of $39.99 for one year’s membership.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 24, 2023

Digital health startup Dorsata has filed a lawsuit against electronic medical records software company Athenahealth and women's health practice Unified Women's Healthcare. | Digital health startup Dorsata has filed a lawsuit against electronic medical records software company Athenahealth and women's health practice Unified Women's Healthcare.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 24, 2023

Family members value-based medical group ChenMed are stepping down from leadership roles.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 24, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence companies continue to rake in funding despite a chilly market. | GenHealth AI brought in $13 million in early funding last week that will help the company continue its work building out its large medical model, or LMM.

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The Rand Blog

JULY 24, 2023

Although EU countries, communities, and citizens have been very welcoming to Ukrainian refugees, it is not enough to treat them as short-term visitors, meet their immediate humanitarian needs, and let them wait out the war. By educating and employing them instead, EU countries can enrich their own communities and support Ukraine.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The cost of out-of-pocket home care services in the U.S. has steadily risen. As a reaction to that, some providers are proactively relying less on their private-pay revenue streams. While costs have gone up, so has revenue. Private-pay home care providers generally bill two times more than what they pay caregivers, meaning they can hand off rising costs to the client.

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The Rand Blog

JULY 24, 2023

The bulked-up U.S. presence in Europe will remain necessary for at least three to five years, for at least three reasons: to preserve Ukraine's sovereignty, to sustain U.S. commitments to NATO, and to encourage the development of partner nation capabilities that will eventually enable greater burden-sharing among allies.

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Life Qi

JULY 24, 2023

Life QI is a platform designed to facilitate quality improvement work by providing a centralised space for teams to manage and track their projects. But it is not just for managing the execution of improvement projects. One of the key utilities of Life QI is its reporting functionality. Whilst the platform is first and foremost built to enable teams to execute their improvement ideas, the reporting of this work out to stakeholders around the organisation is also vital.

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The Rand Blog

JULY 24, 2023

The surging security relationship between the United States and Taiwan is exposing some long-simmering differences, with questions about Taiwan's defense investments atop Washington's list of concerns.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2023

Axxess — a home-based care technology company that provides agencies with cloud-based software solutions — has acquired Complia Health. The deal had been in the works for some time, John Olajide, founder and CEO of Axxess, told Home Health Care News. “[The Complia Health team] has excellent leadership, we have similar cultures, and they’ve had success in the marketplace,” he said.

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Advanced Data Systems

JULY 24, 2023

First, let’s point out how the phrase “practice management” (PM) is a misnomer because - as alluded to in our own heading above - “PM” encompasses operations, EDI, finance, analytics, workflow, scheduling, and engagement. So, a comprehensive PM platform that’s implemented in the cloud or on your own in-house server (a well-rounded vendor should still support in-house configurations based on your preference) should be a machine that (1) bolsters your staff, (2) eliminates tedious hands-on routine

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2023

There have been plenty of conversations regarding the FY 2024 proposed home health payment rule from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). However, one aspect of the rule that could be the “most impactful for home health providers moving forward” – according to VitalCaring President Luke James – is the temporary payment adjustments.

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HKLaw

JULY 24, 2023

Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector.

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Healthcare Leadership

JULY 24, 2023

Blog post by Joe Babaian It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. ~ Warren Buffett This week on #hcldr let’s talk about something we all think about – sometimes directly, other times more passingly, but we all know it matters: our online reputation via our interactions and how that translates into our “real life” During this entire pandemic, everyone has shed some layers of their prot

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Home healthcare technology provider Axxess announced it has acquired Complia Health , a provider of EMR solutions, technology and services for home care, home health and hospice agencies. – The acquisition will help both organizations combine resources to help clients accelerate outcomes and provide world-class care team and consumer experiences.Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Sheppard Health Law

JULY 24, 2023

Oregon and Delaware have recently joined an increasing number of states enacting comprehensive privacy legislation intended to safeguard consumer [1] personal data by tightening regulation of businesses controlling and processing personal data. [2] Under the recent legislation, Oregon and Delaware intend to provide consumers with knowledge about uses of, and autonomy over, their personal information. [3] Background and Scope of Application Oregon.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2023

This article is sponsored by CareXM. In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Ellen Kuebrich, Chief Growth Officer of CareXM, to talk about solving for staffing while lowering operational costs. She shares a perspective on the current landscape of home-based care and where it’s headed, and she also discusses the strategic modeling that has helped some of the top HHH agencies in the US operate more efficiently.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2023

Anna Maw, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Human factors and assessments in medical devices are becoming more important to health systems and health services researchers. The evolving priorities within healthcare truly underscore the importance of human factors and to practitioners gaining access to key contextual information to facilitate a more holistic view of the system.

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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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NASHP

JULY 24, 2023

The Basics: Why Do States Need New Capacity to Address Consolidation? Why Address Consolidation? Evidence suggests that vertical integration and growing consolidation in health care leads to higher hospital and provider prices and higher total spending — all while having little to no impact on improving quality of care for patients, reducing utilization, or improving efficiency.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Pager Inc. today announced that its virtual care navigation and collaboration platform, which serves 23 million members, is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace , effective immediately. – This new offering includes additional benefits for Pager clients who have a Google Cloud account. Purchases made on Google Cloud Marketplace count toward a dollar-for-dollar drawdown on any Google Cloud committed spend. – In addition, these clients enjoy consolidat

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare August 8, 2023, 1-2:30 PM ET Preadmission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR) is a federal requirement to help ensure that individuals are not inappropriately placed in nursing homes for long term care. This webinar will focus on PASRR person-centered expectations for adaptation to culture, language, ethnic origin, and communication preferences, using the federal standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Servic

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Lone View Capital , a growth-oriented private equity firm has acquired a majority ownership stake in healthcare workforce platform Smartlinx. – Lone View’s investment and deep operational expertise will support Smartlinx’s Healthcare Workforce Platform as the Company expands its innovative workforce management software and human capital solutions to address the rapidly changing needs of the long-term care, post-acute and adjacent senior care industries.

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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.