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Majority of healthcare leaders struggle with inefficient data, report finds

Health Care Dive

The report comes as provider groups increasingly use artificial intelligence to combat clinician burnout and tech companies invest in healthcare data management.

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Taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill for health systems' massive 2022 investment losses, health economists say

Fierce Healthcare

Taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill for health systems' massive 2022 investment losses, health economists say dmuoio Thu, 03/23/2023 - 17:25

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More physicians want to leave their jobs as pay rates fall, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Two out of three physicians said they were considering an employment change, according to a survey out Thursday from Doximity.

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Idaho hospital to stop obstetrical services citing doc shortages, fewer births and 'political climate'

Fierce Healthcare

Idaho hospital to stop obstetrical services citing doc shortages, fewer births and 'political climate' hlandi Thu, 03/23/2023 - 16:12

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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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17 Execs Share How Health IT Can Address Clinician Burnout, Staffing, & Capacity

HIT Consultant

Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those who remain to do the work are overburdened. We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity.

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Here are the 20 highest paid specialties in 2022 as average physician pay drops 2.4%: Doximity

Fierce Healthcare

Here are the 20 highest paid specialties in 2022 as average physician pay drops 2.

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New bill aims to make Medicare cover breakthrough medical devices for 4 years

Fierce Healthcare

New bill aims to make Medicare cover breakthrough medical devices for 4 years rking Thu, 03/23/2023 - 16:45

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Vivante Expands Virtual GI Care with AI-Driven Care Plans

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Vivante Health , a provider of digital digestive health solutions for employers and health plans, is expanding its GIThrive platform with enhanced technology that optimizes triage, telemedicine appointments with physicians in every state when needed, and more – GIThrive’s virtual care model will now be powered by enhanced technology that facilitates triage, including access to all existing GIThrive features plus GI-related test ordering, prescriptions and tele

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Sutter Health ends 2022 with $249M loss, but draws solace from $278M operating income

Fierce Healthcare

Sutter Health ends 2022 with $249M loss, but draws solace from $278M operating income dmuoio Thu, 03/23/2023 - 12:19

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The Ripples of War Are Only Beginning to Spread. Is America Ready?

The Rand Blog

There are now more than 1.9 million U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 50,000 were physically injured and around 15 percent have experienced PTSD. Perhaps all were exposed to burn pits and other toxins. What are the long-term impacts of the wars on those who fought them?

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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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Industry Voices—Amid a return to normalcy, COVID remains a threat

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Amid a return to normalcy, COVID remains a threat fdiamond Thu, 03/23/2023 - 13:31

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Waud Capital Backs Signify Health Veterans On New Staffing Solutions Venture

Home Health Care

For the second time this year, Waud Capital Partners is making an investment in a home-based-care adjacent platform. On Thursday, the Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm announced it is launching Fusion Health, a new platform that will provide clinical staffing services to health care facilities, health plans and providers, including of the home health care variety.

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American Diabetes Association, Genentech launch eye screening effort for underserved populations

Fierce Healthcare

American Diabetes Association, Genentech launch eye screening effort for underserved populations fdiamond Thu, 03/23/2023 - 13:15

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‘Retention Is Possible In Any Industry’: Examining Staffing Strategies That Work

Home Health Care

Despite the many headwinds home-based care agencies are facing, staffing generally takes the cake as the top one. Providers looking to make up ground in that area are zeroing in on compensation, culture and professional development. These are the key takeaways from a recent webinar from SimiTree, which discussed the best strategies for retaining staff in health care.

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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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Aledade to offer value-based care to Cigna MA members in 2 states, D.C.

Fierce Healthcare

Aledade to offer value-based care to Cigna MA members in 2 states, D.C.

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With MA Cuts Coming, Home Care Supplemental Benefits Hang In The Balance

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care providers have complained about Medicare Advantage (MA) becoming a more mainstream payer source. Still, many have begun to work with MA plans for the first time over the past few years. But now, there’s concern that the government’s crackdown on MA could restrict opportunities even further, particularly when it comes to supplemental benefits.

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Nostalgically Recalling MIPS, the Impact of 2023 Reporting Changes, and How ADS RCM Can Help

Advanced Data Systems

The Feel Good Nostalgia: MIPS is the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, a CMS initiative that determines Medicare payment adjustments to eligible providers based on the provider’s overall MIPS performance score. The provider’s MIPS score determines the provider’s reimbursement bonus, reimbursement penalty, or if the provider remains neutral (no bonus or penalty).

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What Difference Will Polish and Slovakian Fighter Jets Make to Ukraine?

The Rand Blog

The news that Poland and Slovakia are to deliver MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine signals a departure from the longstanding stance of the international community, which had hitherto resisted Kyiv's calls for more combat aircraft. While this donation will be welcomed in Ukraine, it could raise political and practical issues the West must address to maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks.

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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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Let’s Get Personal! Addressing Patient Barriers to Telehealth

GoMoHealth

The world’s experience with COVID-19 only brightened the spotlight on the opportunity to utilize telehealth as a communications vehicle for improving health equity in America, specifically when addressing access to care. Key to adaptation is establishing a comfort level with patients in using digital resources to manage their healthcare, which is largely influenced by the confidence that they can have the same personalized experience in a remote environment as when they are in-person with their

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How to create an SPC chart and how technology can help

Life Qi

As we’ve seen in previous articles in this series, creating, and preparing to create an SPC chart – or a Statistical Process Control chart - can be a lengthy and involved process, but one that ultimately can bring great reward to your Quality Improvement (QI) programme. Used widely by the NHS to help understand whether improvement has come about by change, the NHS says that SPC is a methodology that ‘provides an easy way for people to track the impact of improvement projects.

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Interview with Rippel Foundation CEO Becky Payne

Health Business Group

Becky Payne led the development of the Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience. It commits federal agencies to strengthen the vital conditions needed to improve nationwide well-being. It’s a government-wide approach to bring to bear the huge breadth of federal resources to improve resilience at the individual and community level.

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10 Essential Steps to Become a Registered Aromatherapist (RA)

American College of Healthcare Sciences

By Dorene Petersen Chair Aromatherapy Registration Council One of the most frequently asked questions I hear from ACHS students, graduates, and aroma enthusiasts is: How do I become a Registered Aromatherapist (RA)? As you may already know, an RA is an aromatherapist who has successfully demonstrated a core body of aromatherapy knowledge by passing the Aromatherapy Registration […] The post 10 Essential Steps to Become a Registered Aromatherapist (RA) appeared first on American College of

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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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Governing Health Data for Research, Development, and Innovation: The Missteps of the European Health Data Space Proposal

Bill Of Health

By Enrique Santamaría Together with the Data Governance Act (DGA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the proposal for a Regulation on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) will most likely form the new regulatory and governance framework for the use of health data in the European Union. Although well intentioned and thoroughly needed, there are aspects of the EHDS that require further debate, reconsiderations, and amendments.

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Aledade Expands Access to Value-Based Care for More Medicare Advantage Customers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Aledade is continuing its strong momentum today, announcing that Cigna Healthcare Medicare Advantage customers can now receive value-based care from Aledade’s network of independent primary care practices. – Participating practices can access Aledade’s cutting-edge data analytics, user-friendly guided workflows, and health care policy expertise, as well as integrated care services supported by AledadeCare Solutions. – This news comes shortly after Aleda

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Revised Guidance and Survey Process for Reviewing Home Dialysis Services

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted a revised QSO-18-24-ESRD – same title as this blog – on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. There is a great deal of red ink in this Memorandum (10 pages with an 11-page survey process attachment) so be sure to review it carefully with your team if you provide such services. Please also share it with colleagues that provide these services.

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Maximizing Resources & Outcomes with a Patient Revenue Strategy

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 3 minutes Many healthcare organizations rely on practice management software (PMS) to simplify daily operations, such as financial and administrative tasks. There is no denying that these tools can help the business side of the practice run more efficiently. For high-growth medical practices, efficient business operations alone won’t help them stand out in a competitive healthcare market.

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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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Presence of authorized generics among Medicaid beneficiaries

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Authorized generics (AGs) are generic drugs that–unlike independent generics–are sold by the brand-name drug manufacturer under a generic label. How big a role do these AGs play among Medicaid beneficiaries. A paper by Rome et al. (2023) aims to answer that using public Medicaid prescription use data between 2014 and 2020. Using these data, they find: From 2014 to 2020, 1023 AGs accounted for 175 million filled Medicaid prescriptions.

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News 3/24/23

HIStalk

Top News ED patient experience software vendor Vital raises $24.7.

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AHN/RHS Partner with Unite Us to Support Integrated Behavioral Health and Social Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Unite Us is partnering with Advance Health Network IPA and Recovery Health Solutions IPA (AHN/RHS), behavioral health independent physician association’s (IPAs) operating in affiliation and comprised of 47 behavioral health and human service organizations serving the New York City and Long Island communities, to advance the integration and coordination of care for individuals with both behavioral health and social needs. – Through this relationship, AHN/

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 3/23/23

HIStalk

People are always asking me how I’m reacting to various.

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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.