Thu.Jul 07, 2022

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Major payment vendor data breach, North Korean threat raise ransomware concerns for hospitals

Health Care Dive

A recently disclosed ransomware attack could have exposed patient data from more than 650 healthcare providers.

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The Economic Returns of Foreign Language Learning

The Rand Blog

If just 10 percent more students in the United Kingdom mastered Arabic, Mandarin, French, or Spanish, the economic returns could be measured in billions of British pounds. Removing the language barrier reduces trade costs.

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After failed merger bid, Care New England vows to remain independent

Health Care Dive

Rhode Island's second-largest health system said it will develop key partnerships with Brown University and Lifespan to help improve liquidity and operating performance.

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Obstacles to Lasting Peace Between Ukraine and Russia

The Rand Blog

The current situation in Ukraine suggests that neither side will be able to achieve a decisive military victory that settles the disputes that led to the war. Ukraine and Russia theoretically could reach an agreement to stop the fighting, but the politics between the two sides and centuries of confrontational history do not suggest a lasting peace.

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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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Nearly 150 US facilities earn best hospital awards in Leapfrog, Money rankings

Health Care Dive

California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania had the most hospitals receiving top awards. Florida led the pack with 26 facilities designated.

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6 Healthy Eating Tips for Older Adults

Healthcare Associates

6 Healthy Eating Tips for Seniors. Good nutrition can help you stay active as you grow older. A balanced diet can also reduce your risk for health problems, including heart disease and diabetes, which tend to be more common among older adults. Here are six healthy eating tips for seniors that can help you feel great and reduce your risk for disease. 1.

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'Replacement Theory' Is a Danger to Us All

The Rand Blog

“Replacement theory” is woven into the very fabric of American society—and made all the more visible by the precipitous rise in hate crimes today. What can be done to reject and fight back against this zero-sum thinking?

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CareConnectMD Closes $25M Funding Round While ‘Shifting into the Home Setting’ 

Home Health Care

CareConnectMD Inc. — a Costa Mesa, California-based and physician-led medical group — has raised a $25 million financing round led by the Minneapolis-based TT Capital Partners. The funds will go towards expanding CareConnectMD’s footprint in California, Ohio and Texas, as well as other markets. The $25 million has also been earmarked for investment into the company’s technology platform as well.

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COTA Appoints Noel Alaka as VP of Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

Noel Alaka, VP of Life Sciences at COTA. What You Should Know: Today, oncology real-world data analytics company COTA announced the appointment of Noel Alaka as Vice President of Life Sciences. As VP of Life Sciences, Alaka will be responsible for helping grow and build partnerships with leading life sciences companies that are looking to adopt real-world data and real-world evidence to help accelerate innovation in treatments for patients facing cancer.

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HomeWell Care Services Breaks From Industry, Drops Initial Franchise Fee to $0?

Home Health Care

A home care company is turning the franchise model on its head. Instead of making potential new owners pay an initial franchise fee, HomeWell Care Services announced that it will remove the fee for new owners moving forward. Now, new owners will now be able to reinvest what would otherwise be their initial franchise fee into their company once it’s up and running.

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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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News 7/8/22

HIStalk

Top News The federal government warns healthcare organizations to defend.

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What Major Primary Care Deals Mean for In-Home Care Operators

Home Health Care

There are multiple big-time, primary care deals on the horizon. . And the names tied to those deals are behemoths in size and influence. They are also tied heavily to the home-based care space. This week, stocks were jumpy for Cano Health Inc. (NYSE: CANO) and 1Life Healthcare Inc. (Nasdaq: ONEM), the parent company of One Medical. Reportedly , Cano Health could be the next acquisition target for Humana Inc.

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Giving clinicians the tools for safer opioid prescribing

Meditech

Recent statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control show the grim news that opioid overdose deaths continued to increase this year.

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Estimating quality of life in oncology

Healthcare ECONOMIST

How do you measure changes in quality of life for patients with cancer? Today we will review 3 different approaches: health state based, health state with age decrements, and health state with time-to-death (TTD) decrements. Health state based. One common approach is just to use the quality of life of a given health state. For instance, in a simple 3 state model (i.e., stable disease or pre-progression, post-progression, death), one has a quality of life associated with each of these health stat

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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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Putting the Brakes on Healthcare M&A and Provider/Payor Contracting: AB 2080 Poised to Dramatically Impact Healthcare Transactions in California

Sheppard Health Law

Assembly Bill 2080 [1] (“AB 2080”), known as the “Health Care Consolidation and Contracting Fairness Act of 2022,” was approved by the California Assembly on May 26, 2022, and if passed by the Senate and signed into law before the August 31 st recess, will significantly affect healthcare M&A activity in California for a broad spectrum of healthcare providers, payors and other stakeholders. [2] .

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WellNow Urgent Care Acquires Physicians Immediate Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – WellNow Urgent Care , one of the country’s fastest-growing urgent care providers has completed the strategic acquisition of Physicians Immediate Care , a Midwest leader in urgent care and occupational health services with 55 locations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. WellNow currently operates 128 centers across New York, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. – The acquisition follows a period of rapid growth for WellNow, which opened its first location in

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Morning Headlines 7/8/22

HIStalk

North Korean State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Use Maui Ransomware to Target.

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Epic Integrates Caris Molecular Testing Portfolio with Epic’s ORA Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Caris Life Sciences (Caris), the leading molecular science and technology company today announced an enhanced partnership with Epic to integrate Caris’ market-leading molecular testing portfolio with Epic’s Orders and Results Anywhere (ORA) network. – Caris builds upon its current Genomics Module integration within the nation’s largest electronic health record provider by offering seamless ordering and receipt of Caris molecular profiling res

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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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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 7/7/22

HIStalk

I’m back in the swing of things post-camp and am.

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June Roundup 2022

Life Qi

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Lawmakers amplify calls for federal agencies to increase data privacy after Dobbs decision

Health Care Dive

Seventy-two Democratic members of Congress want the FTC to use its full power to guard patients from data brokers collecting and selling data that could be used to prosecute pregnancy-related crimes.

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More Americans Trust Small Biz and the Military than the Medical System, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

The most trusted institutions in the U.S. are small business and the military, the only two sectors in which a majority of Americans have confidence. Americans’ trust in institutions hit new historic lows in 2022, Gallup found in its latest poll of U.S. sentiment across all major sectors. Today, more Americans have faith in the police than in the medical system, according to a Gallup poll finding that Confidence in U.S.

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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.