Health Care Dive
MARCH 30, 2022
Hospitals are increasingly acting as venture capitalists, ratcheting up investments in companies with products they can use and scale, according to a data analysis of hospital VC arms conducted by Healthcare Dive.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 30, 2022
This past month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General released a study examining how Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing Medicare fee-for-service claims data and Medicare Advantage encounter data from March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, along with those from the same period the year prior, the agency calculated the total number of services used via telehealth and in-person, as well as the typ
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Health Care Dive
MARCH 30, 2022
Florida is freezing enrollment in Centene's plans, according to a March 17 letter sent to the CEO of the Florida division, the Sunshine State Health Plan.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 30, 2022
Doug McDonald, Director of Technology in the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks. In March 2020, many office workers packed up their bags under the mandate of their employers, assuming they’d be working from home for a few weeks so the coronavirus could “blow over.” Fast-forward two years: many of those same employees have yet to step foot back into their old offices, and some never will again.
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Health Care Dive
MARCH 30, 2022
Meanwhile, the percentage of claims for telehealth shot up from just 0.22% of all claims in 2019 to about 15% in 2020, as COVID-19 restrictions set in and patients worried of virus transmission.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 30, 2022
What You Should Know: – Hims & Hers & Carbon Health partnership adds the seventh U.S. state to the Hims & Hers provider network, which enables seamless care for a wide range of conditions. – Collaboration advances Hims & Hers efforts to transform healthcare by adding another high-quality provider to its growing network of provider relationships.
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The Rand Blog
MARCH 30, 2022
The decision of seven Arctic countries to suspend collaborative work with Russia in the Arctic is by far the most severe and consequential break in cooperation the region has ever seen. This breakdown of Arctic diplomacy could have several important impacts on the region and could potentially threaten the United States as well as its allies.
Health Care Dive
MARCH 30, 2022
A growing number of health insurers, private equity companies and hospitals are snapping up home health and hospice practices, with hopes for a substantial ROI.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 30, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin might have assumed that once conquered, Ukraine would be easy to hold. But there has been no lightning success, no defecting Ukrainian soldiers. If he can't find collaborators, Putin's chances of achieving even reduced ambitions in Ukraine may be dim indeed.
Home Health Care
MARCH 30, 2022
Two digital companies with serious ambitions in the at-home care space – Hero and Assure Health – have partnered. Both are relatively new companies. Hero is a at-home, digital medication management platform, a company that hopes to become much more than that as it grows older. Meanwhile, Assure Health is an at-home remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapy monitoring (RTM) platform.
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Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 30, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Federal Register will publish a proposed OSHA rule designed to improve tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses on March 30, 2022. That proposed rule is Docket No. OSHA-2021-0006. The unpublished, public inspection copy of the proposed rule, all 108 pages, can be viewed here.
Home Health Care
MARCH 30, 2022
Diversion between home health providers and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is a constant in the industry. One home health provider — Elevate Home Health Group — is sidestepping this dynamic entirely by forming partnerships with SNFs. Specifically, the company has partnered with The Portopiccolo Group and OPCO Texas Skilled Management. For Elevate, the goal of these partnerships is to improve overall health outcomes and capitalize on growth opportunities.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 30, 2022
What You Should Know: – VivoSense , an agile end-to-end scientific solutions company developing novel digital endpoints from wearable sensor data raises $25 Million in Series A funding. – The financing will accelerate the development of novel digital biomarkers and improve digital clinical outcome assessments. VivoSense will also use this financing to expand and refine its informatics platform for data analysis from wearable and connected technologies to deliver validated digital cli
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 30, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The OIG (Office of Inspector General) posted this 19-page report with the same title as this blog on March 15, 2022. (OIG) based this analysis on Medicare fee-for-service claims data and Medicare Advantage encounter data from March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, and from the prior year, March 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020.
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The Rand Blog
MARCH 30, 2022
In the best of times, it is no small feat to put together a quality summer learning program. Given that districts are focusing not only on academic recovery from COVID learning loss, but on retaining teachers, supporting students' and teachers' mental health, and addressing increases in misbehavior, they need immediate, digestible guidance for summer programming.
Healthy Debate
MARCH 30, 2022
The post Privatization is not the answer. Solutions for our ailing health-care system are hiding in plain sight appeared first on Healthy Debate.
Life Qi
MARCH 30, 2022
The initiation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across the NHS provides a renewed opportunity to drive holistic improvement across all facets of care, from local council to primary care providers, to NHS trusts. Driving coordinated improvement by teams across numerous disciplines and multiple organisations, representing all elements of patient care certainly offers a unique challenge – one that Life QI provides a solution for!
Bill Of Health
MARCH 30, 2022
By Kaitlynn Milvert. In August 2021 , the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) put in place requirements for service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Litigation has since ensued over the military branches’ restrictive approach to religious exemptions to vaccination. On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed into one such case: the Court granted the government’s request for a partial stay to allow the Navy to continue to use vaccination status in making deployment and assignmen
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Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 30, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. I’m a big fan/follower of NETEC (National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center), especially these past 2+ years. If you haven’t heard of them, attended a webinar or listened to their podcasts, I encourage you to do so – you’ll learn a lot. Provide your Infection Preventionist(s) with this resource as well.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MARCH 30, 2022
A paper by Holmberg et al. (2022) in JAMA provides a number of examples of how collider bias can lead to problematic causal inference. The term collider bias is often invoked when using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to map the causal pathway. Collider bias occurs when you aim to measure the impact of A on B by controlling for C, but it is the case that A and B both have a causal impact on C.
HIStalk
MARCH 30, 2022
The Life and Times of Dave Garets, Healthcare IT Evangelist.
Meditech
MARCH 30, 2022
I’m writing this on my flight back from Orlando following the 2022 HIMSS Conference. It’s been a whirlwind of a week and I’m finally getting a chance to take a breath and reflect on the experience.
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HIStalk
MARCH 30, 2022
Thirty Years in Healthcare IT, An Accidental PilgrimageBy Jim Fitzgerald.
Osf Healthcare
MARCH 30, 2022
Whether it’s helping a patient quickly schedule an appointment, seeing them in person at an OSF OnCall Urgent Care clinic or assisting them with navigating their OSF MyChart account, OSF OnCall is often the first point of contact for our patients.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 30, 2022
As Russia's war in Ukraine grinds on and the humanitarian disaster deepens, Washington may be tempted to focus exclusively on punishing Putin. But that approach might well backfire. Over the long term, the United States wants stability and peace in and around Ukraine and to ensure that Moscow pays a cost for its aggression without making it a global pariah.
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 30, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. F888 COVID-19 Vaccination of Facility Staff: Are you ready for the new F-tag? The new F888 regulation covering COVID-19 vaccination of facility staff means that providers must now develop policies and procedures to ensure all staff are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. What exactly does this mean for your organization?
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.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 30, 2022
What You Should Know: – UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum has agreed to acquire LHC Group, a national patient-focused provider of high-quality in-home health care services for $5.4 billion ($170 per share). – The acquisition will further strengthen their shared ability to advance value-based care , especially in the comfort of a patient’s own home.
Etactics
MARCH 30, 2022
Daycare payment is just one of the many items on the list of what parents need to pay for. These costs aren’t insignificant, either. The estimate of childcare and education expenses made up 16% of the total cost of raising a child born in 2015. The total cost to raise a child from birth through age 17 was $233,610. That means that it’s over $37,000 just for childcare and education.
Health Policy News
MARCH 30, 2022
The American Medical Association (AMA) released a report defining opportunities to incorporate technology to advance behavioral health integration (BHI) and outlining a framework to measure BHI models. This report, which.
Health Advances
MARCH 30, 2022
By Masha Dumanis, Senior Director. Ortho Conference or Tech Conference? If I had to sum up the theme of AAOS last week in one word, it would be: Data! This year, the conference was techier than ever – shiny and slick digital displays lined nearly every booth. From robotics and their integrated surgical planning (or even implant design) solutions like THINK and Monogram , to collection of patient data through sensors – like Zimmer’s new PersonaIQ.
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.
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