Wed.Oct 12, 2022

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Walmart steps into clinical trials, joining rivals Walgreens, CVS

Health Care Dive

The new division could become a valuable stream of revenue for Walmart as drug companies look for potential participants in clinical trials and studies.

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State Respite Care and Adult Day Services Policies

NASHP

State Respite Care and Adult Day Services Policies October 12, 2022 / by Kimberly Hodges and Wendy Fox-Grage. Family caregivers across the nation have emphasized to the RAISE Act Family Caregiving Council that what they often need is respite care –-that is, services that provide caregivers time off to attend to their own needs and obtain relief from the ongoing demands of care work.

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Family glitch fix for ACA premium subsidies finalized

Health Care Dive

The new rule extends premium subsidies to previously ineligible dependents of workers with employer-sponsored coverage.

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The CHIPS Act Alone Won't Secure U.S. Semiconductor Supply Chains

The Rand Blog

The implementation of the CHIPS Act shows promise for revitalizing the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing industry via investments in research and development, workforce development, and incentives programs. But executing on these ambitions could take some time and may not resolve all semiconductor supply chain risks.

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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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Intermountain taps Mandy Richards to serve as chief nursing executive

Health Care Dive

Richards comes to the health system from Hartford Healthcare, after spending the bulk of her career at Allina Health.

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Proscia Unveils New Enhancements to its Digital Pathology Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Proscia® , a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, has introduced the next version of its Concentriq® Dx platform for primary diagnostic workflows, which is CE-marked under IVDR. – The release brings together new features and a compelling user experience to help even the largest laboratory networks transition to 100% digital diagnosis.

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FOLX Health Raises $30M, Launches Expert-Led Support Groups for LGBTQIA+ Community

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – FOLX Health , the first digital healthcare service provider designed by and for the medical needs of the LGBTQIA+ community, today announced $30M in new financing led by 7wireVentures , with participation from new investor Foresite Capital and existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners , Define Ventures, and Polaris Partners. – Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner of 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health, will join FOLX Healt

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Future Leader: Kelly Salb, Director of Client Services, Family & Nursing Care

Home Health Care

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link] /. Kelly Salb, director of client services at Family & Nursing Care, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Redesign Health Lays Off 20% of Staff in Restructuring Move

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Redesign Health , a company that builds other healthcare startups, laid off 67 employees, or about 20% of its workforce, Fast Company reports. The cuts come roughly a month after Redesign raised $65 million in Series C funding. – A spokesperson for Redesign confirmed the layoffs, calling the cuts a “restructuring move.

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Another Revenue Driver For Home Care Companies: Assisted Living Placement

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. As seniors age, it’s critical to find the right setting for them to do so. For many, that’s aging in place while receiving home-based care services. For others, it means moving into an assisted living facility. With this in mind, a number of home-based care providers are getting into the business of helping seniors find placement into assisted living facilities. .

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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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The Patient as Prescription Drug Payer – The GoodRx Playbook

Health Populi

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. I collaborated with GoodRx on a “yellow paper” discussing The Health Consumers as Payer , with implications and calls-to-action for pharma and life science companies. You can download the paper at this link.

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Homecare Homebase’s Data-Driven Pushback Against The Home Health Proposed Payment Rule

Home Health Care

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed home health payment rule for 2023 reasonably ruffled feathers across the industry. When given the opportunity to respond, interested parties pointed out some of the potential effects of the proposal, if finalized. Among them: reduced access to care and a worsening patient-to-clinician ratio.

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Virtual care is here to stay. But what are patients’ expectations?

Healthy Debate

The post Virtual care is here to stay. But what are patients’ expectations? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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NASHP Launches a New Behavioral Health Modernization Project: Building Capacity for State-level Systems Reforms

NASHP

NASHP Launches a New Behavioral Health Modernization Project: Building Capacity for State-level Systems Reforms October 12, 2022. The past 20 months have thrown into sharp relief many longstanding and systemic challenges in behavioral health systems across states. The spike in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with diminished provider capacity, further challenged access to care and accelerated calls to modernize strained and under-resourced public behavioral health systems.

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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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Industry at Microsoft Ignite 2022—Accelerate growth with Microsoft Cloud for industries

Cloud Blogs

The pace of change, the momentum of adaptation, and the sheer speed at which the world is redefining what’s possible presents new and powerful opportunities for organizations. Businesses can now get ahead of the curve and build more agile and responsive operations by adopting an industry-specific cloud solution to navigate the changing world. Microsoft’s deep commitment to industry is not new, but in the face of so many changes our commitment has taken on a new urgency.

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Informational Webinar: Behavioral Health Modernization Learning Collaborative (October 25)

NASHP

Informational Webinar: Behavioral Health Modernization Learning Collaborative (October 25). Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 12–1 p.m. ET. Register Now. During this webinar, NASHP will provide an overview of the Behavioral Health Modernization Learning Collaborative and answer questions regarding the collaborative opportunity, including the application and selection process.

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Shoes and Wheelchair Wheels Transferred MRSA From Room to Room in LTCFs

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The title of this blog is one of the highlights from a study published September 30, 2022 in the American Journal of Infection Control. Other highlights include: • Floors and shoes are potential sources for dissemination of pathogens. • A benign virus inoculated on the floor disseminated to high-touch surfaces. • Studies of floor or shoe disinfection are needed.

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Pleno Secures $40M to Disrupt Sequencing Market, Scale Multi-omics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Pleno, Inc , a multi-omic instrument platform company revolutionizing biological target detection for clinical testing and biomedical research raises $40M in Series A funding led by Deerfield Management and Foresite Capital. – The funding will accelerate the development of Pleno’s Hypercoding™ instrument platform, called RAPTOR ™, which is slated for early customer access in 2023 and full availability in 2024.

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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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Morning Headlines 10/13/22

HIStalk

WELL Health to Acquire EMR, Billing and Clinical Assets from.

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Growing Surgical Revenue, OR Automation Named Top Priority for Health Systems

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Increasing surgical services revenue is a top priority for healthcare systems, with automation seen as a way to accomplish it, according to a new survey of healthcare executives conducted by The Health Management Academy. – Seventy-six percent of respondents named increasing surgical services revenue as a top priority, while half the health systems represented said they plan to increase investments across their surgical services in the next two years.

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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare: Ease provider burden and help create customers for life

Cloud Blogs

The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst for change that accelerated shifts in consumer preferences and healthcare delivery innovation. Health consumers, with a renewed focus on health and wellness and tighter budgets, have become more calculated about where they spend their money and the experience they expect from their care provider. Healthcare systems are also struggling to overcome the impacts of clinician burnout and the "great resignation", which are continuing to drive significant challenges

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Healthfirst and MediSys Launch FHIR Platform, Hyphen

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthfirst and The MediSys Health Network announced today they are using Hyphen to connect longitudinal data from claims, quality measures and electronic health records (EHRs) to identify gaps in care, making it easier for clinicians to address patient needs in real-time. – Hyphen is a cloud-based platform that uses Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standards to share member data directly into provider or hospital EHR systems, along with patien

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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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COVID-19 and the Problem of Multiple Sufficient Causes

Bill Of Health

By Nina A. Kohn. Although politicians and pundits warned that businesses would drown in a “ tidal wave ” of lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for COVID-19 infections, plaintiffs face significant barriers to recovery. Not the least of these is the requirement that a tort plaintiff establish that the defendant was the “actual cause” (or “cause in fact”) of the plaintiff’s injury.

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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare: Ease provider burden and help create customers for life

Cloud Blogs

The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst for change that accelerated shifts in consumer preferences and healthcare delivery innovation. Health consumers, with a renewed focus on health and wellness and tighter budgets, have become more calculated about where they spend their money and the experience they expect from their care provider. Healthcare systems are also struggling to overcome the impacts of clinician burnout and the "great resignation", which are continuing to drive significant challenges

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White House Designates October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. President Biden designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month and encouraged the public and private sectors to take immediate action to protect against cyber threats in a White House press release. Cyberattacks affect our day-to-day lives, our economy, and our national security.

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An Update on the Federal and State E-Roe-sion or P-Roe-tection of Abortion Rights

Sheppard Health Law

The Jackson v. Dobbs decision catalyzed a shift in the legal landscape of reproductive rights in the United States. The decision held that there is no federal constitutional right to an abortion, leaving the ability to regulate access to abortion services to the states. In the wake of this ruling, there have been a number of legal developments that range from states implementing laws that prohibit or restrict access to reproductive care, to federal agencies taking action to protect patient priva

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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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Culture change needed for population health management to flourish

Health Care Leader News

We are witnessing a step change in how healthcare is understood, planned and delivered thanks to a combination of system-wide working and growing use of population health management (PHM). PHM is a fundamental enabler to achieving the NHS’s legal duty to improve health and wellbeing, increase quality, and make sustainable use of NHS resources – the Triple Aim.

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Medical Gaslighting Remains Rampant for Women: Whose Job is it to Stop It?

HIT Consultant

Gina Nebesar, Chief Product Office of Ovia Health. Have you ever gone to a medical appointment, knowing and feeling with certainty that something is wrong, only to have a doctor downplay and write off your symptoms? Medical gaslighting, a relatively new, non-clinical term, refers to the practice of minimizing or dismissing a patient’s symptoms, concerns, or experiences.

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Cultural change needed for population health management to flourish

Health Care Leader News

We are witnessing a step change in how healthcare is understood, planned and delivered thanks to a combination of system-wide working and growing use of population health management (PHM). PHM is a fundamental enabler to achieving the NHS’s legal duty to improve health and wellbeing, increase quality, and make sustainable use of NHS resources – the Triple Aim.