Mon.Nov 07, 2022

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Senator outlines potential cybersecurity mandates for health systems

Health Care Dive

Cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a secondary concern and must become incorporated into every organization’s core business model, according to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared. pminemyer. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:36.

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St. Luke's Health reports data breach

Healthcare It News

A hack into a third-party vendor's email reportedly led to the exposure of patient and clinical data, resulting in care delays and clinical workflow disruptions across the health system. St. Luke's Health learned that a data breach affecting consultant Adelanto Healthcare Ventures had compromised protected health information. The data breach affecting the Texas-based system of 16 hospitals is unrelated to the massive ransomware attack on its parent company, CommonSpirit Health.

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Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker—DispatchHealth rakes in $330M; Care.ai banks $27M for ambient intelligence

Fierce Healthcare

Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker—DispatchHealth rakes in $330M; Care.ai banks $27M for ambient intelligence. hlandi. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 17:36.

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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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Walgreens-backed VillageMD buys Summit Health for $9B

Health Care Dive

Cigna’s health services division Evernorth is also taking a stake in the deal, and will become a minority owner in VillageMD.

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Walgreens' VillageMD inks $9B deal to buy Summit Health, marking largest physician deal of the year

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens' VillageMD inks $9B deal to buy Summit Health, marking largest physician deal of the year. hlandi. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 11:57.

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'Well-intentioned, poorly executed waste': How tech companies aim to reduce billions in wasteful spending

Fierce Healthcare

'Well-intentioned, poorly executed waste': How tech companies aim to reduce billions in wasteful spending. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 23:29.

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Proteomic tests empower precision medicine

Health Care Dive

Measuring proteins can improve the accuracy of prognostic and diagnostic testing and can help uncover new treatment options for patients.

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Medical supplies company CCS leverages chronic care experience to address gestational diabetes

Fierce Healthcare

Medical supplies company CCS leverages chronic care experience to address gestational diabetes. aburky. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:04.

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Mental healthcare can get a boost from telehealth

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Charity care accounts for less than 1.4% of operating expenses at half of US hospitals, KFF finds

Fierce Healthcare

Charity care accounts for less than 1.4% of operating expenses at half of US hospitals, KFF finds. dmuoio. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 17:05.

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Referring and ordering physician monitoring: How to ensure continuous compliance

Health Care Dive

Best practices for monitoring, referring and ordering physician populations, exposing the gaps and vulnerabilities that could leave you open to risk.

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CMMI aims to bolster primary, specialty care coordination via new payment models

Fierce Healthcare

CMMI aims to bolster primary, specialty care coordination via new payment models. rking. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:53.

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Therapist Shame and Documentation: How the Shame Spiral Keeps You Behind on Notes and Hating Documentation

Icanotes

Guest blog by Miranda Palmer, LMFT, who has been helping therapists expand, launch, and revamp solo and group practices since 2007. She knows the true inner workings of private practice and how to create happy, sustainable practices that get great clinical outcomes. Let me start by saying this. There’s nothing to be ashamed of in regard to your documentation.

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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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What a divided Congress could mean for healthcare in the next year

Fierce Healthcare

What a divided Congress could mean for healthcare in the next year. rking. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 16:49.

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Cybersecurity is Patient Safety: Policy Options in the Health Care Sector

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “ 45 MILLION people were affected by attacks on the health care sector in 2021. An Increasingly Dangerous Threat. Over the past decade, the American public has witnessed increasingly brazen and disruptive attacks on its health care sector that jeopardize sensitive personal information, delay treatment, and ultimately lead to increased suffering and death.

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Payers recover overpayments 50% faster with enterprise technology: study

Fierce Healthcare

Payers recover overpayments 50% faster with enterprise technology: study. jpiatt. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 12:43.

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How to Build Better Relationships with the Health Insurance & Payer Communities

HIT Consultant

Dr. Jessica Badichek, Chief Informatics and Compliance Officer, MediTelecare. Modern healthcare is an intricate dance between quality and quantity. Payers and insurance providers want better patient outcomes due to the high cost of poor health, while health providers want to ensure their patients aren’t overlooked and are appropriately cared for. To understand how we can satisfy the needs of both patients and payers, we’ll have to take a step back and look at the relationship between payer commu

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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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Cross-market hospital consolidation is on the rise and understudied, researchers say

Fierce Healthcare

Cross-market hospital consolidation is on the rise and understudied, researchers say. dmuoio. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 14:54.

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Willingness to Use Video Telehealth Increased During Pandemic, Study Finds

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Americans’ use and willingness to use video telehealth has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising most sharply among Black Americans and people with less education, according to a new RAND Corporation study. – Following a representative survey panel of Americans from March 2019 through March 2021, researchers found that the willingness to use video telehealth increased overall from 51% in February 2019 to 62% in March 2021.

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Expanded Medicaid coverage may lower kidney-related hospitalizations

Fierce Healthcare

Expanded Medicaid coverage may lower kidney-related hospitalizations. fdiamond. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 13:04.

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Hemanext Raises $18M to Expand Blood Storage and & Transfusion Tech

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Hemanext , a Lexington, MA-based blood processing, storage, and transfusion technology company raises $18M in Series B funding from noted global private investors with deep finance and healthcare expertise. To date, the company has raised approximately $130M (inclusive of $8M in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health).

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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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For Health Plans, Member Engagement Is Everything

Fierce Healthcare

For Health Plans, Member Engagement Is Everything. mteefey. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 13:15.

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“It’s the evidence, stupid”

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the quote from Iga Lipska, MD, PhD, MPH from the Medical University of Gda?sk, Clinical Trials Center in Warsaw, Poland. She was one the panelists at the ISPOR Europe Plenary speech. There were a lot of good sessions, many of which I will be posting on throughout the week. The first plenary was titled “The Convergence of HTA and Regulation: A New HTA Reality and Collaboration with Regulatory Agencies” The main discussion point was how Regulation (EU) 2021/2282 would be implem

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Kaiser Permanente reports $1.55B net loss, red operations in Q3 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Kaiser Permanente reports $1.55B net loss, red operations in Q3 2022. dmuoio. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 10:51.

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Canada flexing its nuclear muscles in medicine, energy production and nuclear waste management

Healthy Debate

The post Canada flexing its nuclear muscles in medicine, energy production and nuclear waste management appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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VillageMD Inks Deal To Acquire Summit Health-CityMD In $8.9B Deal

Home Health Care

Just a week after reports that VillageMD had its eye on Summit Health-CityMD, the former announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire the latter. With investments from Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) and Evernorth – Cigna Corporation’s (NYSE:CI) health services organization – the deal is valued at $8.9 billion. “You think about the power of what these organizations can do focused on value-based care — it’s really quite exciting,” Tim Barry, CEO and chair of V

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How the Unpredictable Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Infection Pose a Challenge That Tort Law Cannot Meet

Bill Of Health

By Jennifer S. Bard. The longer the pandemic continues, the more obvious it is how effective the sweeping federal and state laws shielding medical providers from malpractice associated with COVID-19 have been. Few cases have been brought, and so far there is no record of successful judgements or settlements. Even without these statutes, proving negligence in COVID-related cases would be exceptionally difficult, given the ever-evolving virus and treatment options.

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The Vote.

Healthcare Leadership

Blog by Joe Babaian. With America’s mid-term election upon us, what else would be appropriate for the HCLDR discussion? Let’s be honest, with Twitter in turmoil, a Blood Moon lunar eclipse coming, and a very consequential election, this is the time for a more open discussion. Let’s take some time to discuss our thoughts not on policy, but on our feelings.

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a16z Bio+ Health Partners with Bassett Health to Bring Digital Health Solutions to Rural New York

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health fund today announced a strategic partnership with Bassett Healthcare Network , an integrated healthcare system in central New York state. – The strategic partnership aims to leverage digital healthcare technologies from a16z’s portfolio companies to address the inequities and systemic challenges of delivering high-quality healthcare to rural patient populations through Bassett Healthcare Network.

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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.