Wed.Sep 28, 2022

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How one FQHC uses telehealth for primary care, behavioral health and addiction treatment

Healthcare It News

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. FQHCs were established to provide affordable medical services to those in need, regardless of their ability to pay.

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In surprise result, Alzheimer’s drug from Eisai, Biogen shows benefit in large trial

Health Care Dive

The companies said the drug, called lecanemab, met all of its goals in the Phase 3 study. The data are a significant finding and provide stronger support for a much-debated hypothesis for treating Alzheimer’s.

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How Hospital Authority Hong Kong is working towards sustainable healthcare

Healthcare It News

Hospital Authority has made significant achievements over the past years in digitising its processes and ways of delivering care to patients and communities. For over 30 years, it has invested in developing its clinical management system, which is now considered one of the most advanced systems in the world. Recently, it also began working on projects that contribute to its vision of a smart hospital.

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AHA asks HHS to delay Oct. 6 deadline for information blocking compliance

Health Care Dive

Health groups must start sharing health information electronically as regulators seek to make it easier for consumers to access their health data. But groups warn they’re not prepared to meet the deadline.

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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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How A University Is Using A 105-Year-Old Home To Solve Aging-In-Place Challenges

Home Health Care

Excess moisture, faulty structuring and bad wiring. Those are some of the common issues that arise in the seniors’ homes. But the home is where seniors want to remain as they age. That’s why the University of Pittsburgh is trying to push the needle forward with its healthy home lab. The project brings together researchers from multiple disciplines with the goal of improving the viability of the home environment in order to support aging in place.

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Hospitals altered charity care policies during pandemic, study shows

Health Care Dive

Many made positive changes, but vague and unpublicized eligibility criteria were also common, research published in JAMA Network Open found.

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Nebraska awards Medicaid managed care contracts to 3 insurers

Health Care Dive

The health plans, selected from a field of five, will receive five-year contracts.

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India-Pakistan Ties Are Warming—but Don't Get Excited Just Yet

The Rand Blog

While the warming trend in India-Pakistan ties is encouraging, it makes sense to keep a healthy check on expectations. Events could easily derail progress. Ultimately, it will take trust for India and Pakistan to normalize their relationship, and developing trust takes time.

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Kaiser Permanente, Geisinger, USMM Share Secrets to Home-Based Care Innovation

Home Health Care

Organizations far and wide are leveraging their internal innovation and home-based care to reduce readmissions and other avoidable hospitalizations. Three of those organizations — all unique in their own way — were on hand at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE event to discuss what makes their companies innovative and what disruptions they are making in the home.

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Use of PDSAs in healthcare

Life Qi

Why use PDSAs in healthcare? In this article we are going to take a look at why the ‘Plan-Do-Study-Act’ or PDSA cycle is so widely used within healthcare organisations. We’re going to delve into the benefits – and any disadvantages – of using PDSAs in healthcare and how you can use them to drive Quality Improvement.

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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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Amedisys, DispatchHealth Add New Chief People Officers; Cypress Living Names HCBS VP

Home Health Care

Adam Holton joins Amedisys as chief people officer. Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has named Adam Holton as its new chief people officer. Holton has more than 20 years of experience of relevant experience under his belt. “At Amedisys, we strive to create an exceptional employee experience because our people are the heart of what we do,” Chris Gerard, president and CEO of Amedisys, said in a press statement.

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Fitbit & Google Cloud Launches Device Connect for Fitbit

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud are introducing Device Connect for Fitbit , which empowers healthcare and life sciences enterprises with accelerated analytics and insights to help people live healthier lives. – Fitbit data from their consenting users is made available through the Fitbit Web API, providing users with control over what data they choose to share and ensuring secure data storage and protection.

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Take the survey: What are your priorities for primary care?

Healthy Debate

The post Take the survey: What are your priorities for primary care? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Maryland Passes Legislation for HIE to Operate as State Health Data Utility

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Maryland State Legislature has passed inaugural legislation, mandating the state-designated health information exchange (HIE), CRISP , to operate as the state-designated health data utility (HDU) beginning Oct. 1. – Effective October 1, 2022, state law will require the state-designated HIE to provide data in real-time to individuals and organizations involved in the treatment and care coordination of patients and to public health officials to support public he

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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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The Future of Healthcare is in the Home

GoMoHealth

GoMo Health CEO and Chief Behavioral Technologist Bob Gold was featured in the Invest NJ 2022 North & Central Jersey report discussing the future of healthcare and the shift to at-home care models. “Our general outlook is that there is going to be an increasing shift to healthcare not delivered in a facility, but at home, and all healthcare institutions have to build an infrastructure to support the shift from facility-based care to home-based care.

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5 Tantalizing Tips to Get Your Practice More Patients

Solution Reach

Nothing quite electrifies practice management like consistently seeing a stream of new patients coming through your front door. In an increasingly more competitive market, your ability to grow your business can be as critical to your success as the quality of the care you deliver. How well you’re able to acquire new patients can be the difference between a thriving practice and one that’s just hanging on for dear life.

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Consumers’ and the White House’s Growing Focus on Food and Nutrition

Health Populi

Today, the White House is convening a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. So it’s a propitious time to weave together some of the latest research and insights into food-as-medicine and a key determinant of health and well-being. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and current economic stress facing U.S. families and households, the Biden-Harris Administration is bringing together experts and advocates addressing hunger, food and health including Chef Jose Andres (who must be cloni

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Strengthening Oral Health in the U.S. Through Integration and Workforce Development: Lessons from State and Federal Health Officials

NASHP

Strengthening Oral Health in the U.S. Through Integration and Workforce Development: Lessons from State and Federal Health Officials September 27, 2022 / by Allie Atkeson and Megan D’Alessandro. Coverage and service delivery of dental services remains separate from medical coverage. As states are not required to include dental services for adults in their Medicaid programs, the ability for low-income individuals to access dental care is often a factor of where they live.

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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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Unlocking the power of AI in Microsoft Cloud for industries

Cloud Blogs

AI is transforming industries by helping organizations in modernizing business processes and accelerating development. While global AI software revenue is forecasted to reach $62.5 billion in 2022, a 21.3 percent increase from 2021 (Gartner ® ), 1 a common challenge is moving from experimentation to making AI part of standard operations. Microsoft is deeply invested in AI solutions, engaging highly experienced researchers, data scientists, and thought leaders.

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Don’t Overtrain: Avoiding Career & Leadership Burnout

Medi Leadership

Leaders are corporate athletes. . Elite leadership performance requires considerable physical and emotional endurance, mental focus, and determination. The demands that a leader places on their body are substantial. However, few leaders take the time to remember that they have a body, let alone pay close attention to caring for it. Over time, many healthcare leaders succumb to mediocre physical and emotional health. .

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Unlocking the power of AI in Microsoft Cloud for industries

Cloud Blogs

AI is transforming industries by helping organizations in modernizing business processes and accelerating development. While global AI software revenue is forecasted to reach $62.5 billion in 2022, a 21.3 percent increase from 2021 (Gartner ), 1 a common challenge is moving from experimentation to making AI part of standard operations. Microsoft is deeply invested in AI solutions, engaging highly experienced researchers, data scientists, and thought leaders.

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MedStar Health Awarded $2M Telehealth Research Grant

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MedStar Health has received a nearly $2 million telehealth research grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to expand its research collaboration with Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare focused on telehealth access, safety, and equity. – The grant will allow researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period to apply a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems engineering approa

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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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Unlocking the power of AI in Microsoft Cloud for industries

Cloud Blogs

AI is transforming industries by helping organizations in modernizing business processes and accelerating development. While global AI software revenue is forecasted to reach $62.5 billion in 2022, a 21.3 percent increase from 2021 (Gartner ), 1 a common challenge is moving from experimentation to making AI part of standard operations. Microsoft is deeply invested in AI solutions, engaging highly experienced researchers, data scientists, and thought leaders.

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Prescryptive Health Acquires Full-Service PBM Northwest Pharmacy Services

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Prescryptive Health , a health tech company empowering consumers with prescription drug pricing data, has acquired Northwest Pharmacy Services Inc, a full-service, non-profit Pharmacy Benefit Manager. NWPS serves over 44,000 members in the Pacific Northwest. – As part of this new acquisition, NWPS members will have access to Prescryptive’s exclusive blockchain-powered mobile solution, bringing transparency, choice and control over prescription drug prici

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GAO Report: Medicare Telehealth – Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight and Help Providers Educate Patients on Privacy and Security Risks

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) temporarily waived certain Medicare restrictions on telehealth—the delivery of some services via audio-only or video technology. Use of telehealth services increased from about 5 million services pre-waiver (April to December 2019) to more than 53 million services post-waiver (April to December 2020).

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights

Bill Of Health

By Asees Bhasin. While reproductive injustice against immigrants is not new, they are now even more vulnerable to reproductive oppression in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning the constitutional right to abortion. Immigrant reproduction has long been vilified and opposed, with immigrant parents facing accusations of being hyper-fertile and giving birth to “anchor babies.

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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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COVID-19 Focused Infection Control Survey Tool for Acute and Continuing Care Providers and Suppliers (REVISED)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted the revised QSO-21-08-NLTC on Monday, September 26, 2022. This QSO Memorandum does not apply to Nursing Homes/LTC. Ending the COVID-19 FIC Survey and Tool for Acute and Continuing Care: Returning to the Existing Standard Survey Process. CMS has always focused its regulatory and oversight efforts on ensuring the health and safety of all patients, including Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries, yet the COVID-19 PHE warran

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Tavros Therapeutics Raises $7.5M to Develop Targeted Cancer Therapies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Tavros Therapeutics , a precision oncology platform company leading the new frontier of targeted therapies exploiting tumors’ genetic vulnerabilities raises $7.5 million in Seed II financing co-led by existing investor Piedmont Capital Investments and new investor KdT Ventures, with participation from Alexandria Venture Investments. – Tavros launched in 2020 with a $3 million seed financing by Piedmont Capital Investments and a strategic collaboration with Zen

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Freezing the squeeze: The three A’s of efficiency

Nordic

In a recent blog post, we covered the plethora of factors forcing health systems to do more with less. Collectively known as The Big Squeeze , they include market forces, labor issues, and a clinical tsunami of Long COVID and post-COVID sequelae. In this article, we discuss how to increase internal efficiency so the organizational strategy can offset the external drivers responsible for the Big Squeeze.

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How Health Systems Can Set A Robust Governance Strategy Over Clinical Taxonomy

HIT Consultant

Rachelle Montano, VP of Clinical Strategy at Loyal. Having a structured clinical taxonomy system in place is key to ensuring healthcare consumers are successfully finding care in the way they’re actually seeking it. The patient experience is enhanced when patients are able to find the right doctor and the right location for their individual health needs.

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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.