Wed.Nov 02, 2022

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CMS to ease Medicare ACOs into risk models in bid to boost participation

Health Care Dive

Beginning in January 2024, ACOs that don’t have experience with performance-based risk will be able to stay in a one-sided risk arrangement for up to seven years before transitioning to two-sided risk.

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How to promote equity when connecting providers and patients

Healthcare It News

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CVS agrees to pay $5B to resolve opioid-related lawsuits

Health Care Dive

Walgreens and Walmart also have reportedly reached deals. If they become final, it could end much of the yearslong litigation over the pharmacy companies’ role in the opioid epidemic.

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Nuclear Weapons and Putin's 'Holy War'

The Rand Blog

Russia's nuclear saber-rattling has shifted the stakes of the war in Ukraine. But enabling Russia's blackmail doesn't prevent the catastrophic costs of nuclear escalation. It merely shifts those costs away from Russia and into the future, inviting other nuclear states to pull the same move for their conquests.

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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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CMS finalizes requirements for rural emergency hospital designation

Health Care Dive

The conditions of participation include maintaining an average length of stay of no more than 24 hours and having emergency care available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Enhabit Bullish On Managed Care Agreements, ‘Extremely Disappointed’ In Final Rule

Home Health Care

Yet another large home health company is touting its agreements with managed care plans. This time, it’s Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB). Last week, it was Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) unveiling its agreement with CVS Health’s (NYSE:CVS) Aetna. Between contract agreements and easing labor pressures, Enhabit leaders believe that two of their largest pain points are softening.

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Apply Today to NASHP’s 2023 Emerging Leaders of Color Fellowship

NASHP

Apply Today to NASHP’s 2023 Emerging Leaders of Color Fellowship November 7, 2022. Previous Next Alyzah Virani, 2022 ELC fellow “Being selected for NASHP’s Emerging Leader of Color Fellowship was not something I had predicted, and my experience became one of the most formative ones of my professional career. The fellowship served as a magnifying lens to the health policy-making process and really allowed me to understand all the moving, but equally important, pieces.

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Hospitals face lowest readmission fines since 2014, analysis finds

Health Care Dive

More than 2,200 hospitals will incur penalties, the lowest number in nearly a decade, as the CMS adjusted its calculations for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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JPMorgan Establishes Life Sciences Private Equity Division

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced the establishment of a new life sciences private equity team, Life Sciences Private Capital. – The new team will focus on investing in both early and growth-stage healthcare companies across multiple strategies aligned to specific market opportunities, with a focus on novel therapeutics and technologies in several target areas including Genetic Medicine, Oncology, Neurodegenerative Disease, Rare Diseases, Autoimmunity, AI

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As travel time to abortion clinics skyrockets post-Dobbs, patients turn to telemedicine for abortion pills

Health Care Dive

Orders for abortion pills to telemedicine nonprofit Aid Access have increased in states that have restricted the procedure, according to a research letter, with states with total or near-total bans on abortion seeing the biggest surges.

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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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Carta Healthcare Secures $20M for AI-Enabled Clinical Data Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Carta Healthcare , a pioneer in harnessing the power of clinical data, today announced it closed a $20 million series B round led by South Korean firm Paramark Ventures. Other contributors to the round include Memorial Care Innovation Fund (MCIF) and Frist Cressey Ventures , led by heart surgeon, incoming chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Board of Directors and former U.S.

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CommonSpirit taps new CIO with military background after cyberattack

Health Care Dive

NewYork-Presbyterian’s Daniel Barchi will take the new position starting Monday.

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Research: Proscia AI Predicts Diagnostic Agreement for Melanoma

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Proscia® a provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, has released study results on new artificial intelligence (AI) that predicts diagnostic agreement for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. – The findings, which were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022, highlight the potential of the technology to improve diagnostic accuracy for melanoma and other diseases with low pathologist concordance.

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Lifespark Acquires Livio Health, Gains An Investor On The Way

Home Health Care

Lifespark has agreed to acquire Livio Health, a wholly owned subsidiary of the parent company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross). What’s more, the parent company of Blue Cross has landed a minority owner stake in Lifespark through a cash investment made in addition to the valuation of Livio Health. “It’s really kind of a three piece partnership,” Lifespark CEO Joe Theisen told Home Health Care News.

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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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7 Steps to Lead From Compliance to Commitment

Medi Leadership

Why tactical tools are not enough, and what to do about it. As hospitals struggle to financially recover in the post-COVID landscape and pressures grow to slash costs, healthcare leaders are racing to implement tactical changes shown to produce massive savings at other organizations, in hopes of mirroring those successes. In practice, those changes are never as straightforward as they seem on paper. .

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Humana Set To Add 450K More Patients to Value-Based Home Health Business

Home Health Care

Some of the largest home health companies in the country have had the chance now to voice opinions on the final payment rule for 2023. Most all of them are dissatisfied it. But what is unequivocally true is that the near-term relief it provides – versus what was expected – is major for companies across the country. It also, of course, gives those same providers and advocates even more time to stymie future cuts.

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Surviving a Job Transition: 8 Tips for Healthcare Leaders

Medi Leadership

This is a season of difficult transitions for many healthcare leaders as the industry adjusts to the challenges of life in the post-COVID landscape. Though the nature and magnitude of those transitions vary, job changes in particular can be painful setbacks, leaving you feeling stuck and anxious about the future. The following are simple tips gleaned from my experience as a fellow healthcare leader and executive coach, which have proven to help many of our peers navigate change and uncertainty.

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Remote Patient Monitoring Documentation Requirements

Health Recovery

Remote patient monitoring reimbursement can be hard to navigate. Providers must properly document and have the correct RPM service codes to successfully receive their reimbursements. It can be a complicated process you don’t want to get wrong, given the potential losses.

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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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How does FDA determine if a drug should be approved for compassionate use?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

As part of The 21st Century Cures Act , FDA is required to consider additional mechanisms to expedite access to new drugs, including those currently under investigation. In fact, the 21st Century Cure Act mandates that pharmaceutical manufacturers have to post their policies on expanded access (a.k.a. “compassionate use”) for investigational drugs by: (1) the first initiation of a Phase 2 or Phase 3 study or (2) within 15 days after the drug receives a fast track, breakthrough, or re

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7 Steps to Lead From Compliance to Commitment

Medi Leadership

Why tactical tools are not enough, and what to do about it. As hospitals struggle to financially recover in the post-COVID landscape and pressures grow to slash costs, healthcare leaders are racing to implement tactical changes shown to produce massive savings at other organizations, in hopes of mirroring those successes. In practice, those changes are never as straightforward as they seem on paper. .

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Diagnosis: EHR Avoidance Syndrome

HIT Consultant

David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems. If you’ve read the healthcare IT trade press recently, you’ve no doubt seen stories about the clinical usability of EHRs and how it can be improved. When you look at the issue closely there are, ultimately, two approaches to “breaking the usability barrier” of these systems: 1. Provide EHR users with instant access to relevant clinical information for any condition a patient presents.

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Surviving a Job Transition: 8 Tips for Healthcare Leaders

Medi Leadership

This is a season of difficult transitions for many healthcare leaders as the industry adjusts to the challenges of life in the post-COVID landscape. Though the nature and magnitude of those transitions vary, job changes in particular can be painful setbacks, leaving you feeling stuck and anxious about the future. The following are simple tips gleaned from my experience as a fellow healthcare leader and executive coach, which have proven to help many of our peers navigate change and uncertainty.

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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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Steps To Ensure Trust By Staff & Patients After The Pandemic Research Report

Vie Healthcare

Pandemic research report to keep staff and patient trust in difficult and trying times. Read all the tips contained within. DOWNLOAD REPORT. The post Steps To Ensure Trust By Staff & Patients After The Pandemic Research Report appeared first on VIE Healthcare Consulting.

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HealthTap Launches Eval360 for Health Plans to Expand PCP Care for Members

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – HealthTap , the leading virtual primary care provider, announced today the official launch of Eval360, an innovative product for health plans that enables HealthTap’s primary care doctors to conduct comprehensive virtual medical evaluations and easily share useful health data back with those partner plans, by providing a 360-degree view of a member’s health status. – HealthTap completed a successful beta period for Eval360 for over 15,000 seniors through its p

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Why The Hospital Supply Chain Needs to Come Back to the United States

Vie Healthcare

The absolute vitality of a properly functioning supply chain to the success of every healthcare organization cannot be understated. Attitudes towards the US healthcare supply chain are overdue a change. Historically, the US healthcare supply chain has been regarded as a support function to the various departments of each organization, but it is not that straightforward.

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Valera Health Secures $45M to Increase Mental Health Access for High Acuity Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Valera Health , a virtual mental health provider serving high acuity patients raises $44.5M in growth equity raise led by Heritage Group. The round also included participation from Cigna Ventures , Horizon Healthcare Services and existing investors, which include Windham Ventures , AXA Venture Partners , Aquiline Technology Partners , Trinnovate Ventures (BCBS AZ), Figure Eight Investments , Watershed VC , and Alsora Capital.

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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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Patient Satisfaction & Your Hospital’s Financial Performance

Vie Healthcare

Drawing on our frontline expertise at VIE Healthcare®, this report explores five key strategies to enhance the patient experience, together with an introduction to an innovative digital transformative tool to begin that process, iSUGEZT. Technology is changing the way in which we live and work, and the healthcare sector is not immune to this disruptive change.

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Spread the Word, Not C. diff

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. November is C. diff Awareness Month. Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a germ that causes severe diarrhea, which can be life-threatening. It can affect anyone and is usually associated with recent antibiotic use. CDC estimates that C. diff causes almost half a million infections in the United States each year and contributes to about 29,300 deaths.

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Hospital Spend Data Analytics Research Report

Vie Healthcare

Drawing on our frontline expertise at VIE Healthcare®, this report explores the cost saving potential that can be realized with hospital spend data analytics. In 2014, the US healthcare sector was described as an industry “in need of analytics,” yet despite that need, progress towards embracing spend data analytics as normative has been slow and the sector lags behind other industries.

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Workplace Stress

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Do you know these statistics about workplace stress? Workplace stress has been reported to cause 120,000 deaths in the US each year. Approximately 65% of U.S. workers surveyed have characterized work as being a very significant or somewhat significant source of stress in each year from 2019-2021. 83% of US workers suffer from work-related stress 54% of workers report that work stress affects their home life.

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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.