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TeamHealth sues UnitedHealthcare over denied payments for emergency services in Nevada

Health Care Dive

The lawsuit alleges that UnitedHealthcare did not pay the Fremont physicians after treating an infant with a traumatic brain injury and a child with a ruptured appendix.

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In the EU, early patient engagement is a must-have for research projects

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Megadeals lift healthcare M&A revenues to record in Q2

Health Care Dive

Fewer but larger deals are becoming the norm in the hospital sector, according to Kaufman Hall's latest update on deal activity.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. states since 2008. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.

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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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Molina to pay $150M for Wisconsin Medicaid firm in latest acquisition

Health Care Dive

Acquisitions are key to Molina’s growth strategy, CEO Joe Zubretsky has said.

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The Key Problems with Medicare’s Home Health Benefit

Home Health Care

Home-based care services are a crucial element of medical care. Despite this fact, issues surrounding accessibility have hindered the Medicare home health benefit’s ability to be effective, a new report published in Health Affairs Thursday suggests. The report was authored by Henry J. Kaiser’s President Barbara Lyons, as well as Diane Rowland, the former executive vice president of and emerita of the foundation.

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A Toolkit for Avoiding Mass Shootings

The Rand Blog

RAND has developed an online educational toolkit to provide practical strategies and guidance on deterring, mitigating, and responding to mass attacks. Research highlights three top ways to mitigate and/or respond to mass attacks right now: through proactive prevention, relentless follow-up, and diligent preparation and training.

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Providers fear penalties in states with abortion bans following Roe's fall

Health Care Dive

Lawmakers and physicians discussed provider concerns surrounding penalties for performing emergency abortions in states with laws criminalizing the procedure during a Wednesday hearing.

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athenahealth Alums Launches Fold Health: Digital Health Tech Stack For Primary Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A team of serial health tech entrepreneurs who sold their mobile EHR app to athenahealth has announced the launch of ed Fold Health , the first interoperable digital health tech stack for primary care. – Fold Health closed a round of $6M from former athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, SkyFlow CEO Anshu Sharma, Saama Technologies CEO Vivek Sharma along with Anand Chandrasekharan from General Catalyst, Mohanjit Jolly from Iron Pillar , Gokul Rajaram from Firebolt Ve

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Teladoc's new CMO Vidya Raman-Tangella on the telehealth giant's clinical strategy and new products

Health Care Dive

The executive caught up with Healthcare Dive to chat day one priorities, her vision for health equity, closing care gaps and why this might be the role she’s wanted all her career.

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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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Blue Cross NC Expands Mental Health for Children, Underserved Areas Through Collaboration with Headway

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In its latest effort to address critical mental health needs in North Carolina, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) today announced it is expanding its network of behavioral health providers through a collaboration with Headway , a mental healthcare company that works with insurers to deliver high-value mental healthcare. . – Together the two companies will make it easier for Blue Cross NC members to quickly access – as soon as 48 hour

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Lack of payment pathway clarity hinders digital therapeutics, analysts say

Health Care Dive

The Forrester Research report warns of a sector beset by payment issues, “snake oil” and “middling adoption.

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UCI Health Partners with Luna to Expand Access to Care with In-Home Outpatient Physical Therapy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Luna , the leading provider of in-home physical therapy, has teamed up with UCI Health , to expand access to patient care by providing in-home physical therapy across Orange County, California. – With a focus on evidence-based care, UCI Health is the only academic health system in Orange County and the clinical arm of the University of California, Irvine.

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News 7/15/22

HIStalk

Top News A JAMA viewpoint article by informatics leaders Kevin.

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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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Wysa Secures $20M for AI-Powered Mental Health Chatbot

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wysa , a Boston, MA-based AI digital platform for mental health, today announces it has secured $20M in financing led by HealthQuad , who along with British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, joins earlier investors W Health Ventures , Kae Capital , Google Assistant Investments , and pi Ventures amongst others. – Funds will enable access to clinically evidenced digital therapeutics (DTx) in the US, UK, India and other glo

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Impact of Innovation on Market Access for Wound Care Products

Health Advances

By Darcy Krzynowek. Wounds just will not go away. Despite an abundance of traditional wound dressings as well as advanced dressing and technologies like negative pressure wound therapy and over 75 , the prevalence continues to grow, driven by the aging population, growth in underlying disease, and a resurgence in surgical procedures post-COVID. However, adequate reimbursement continues to be a challenge for wound care products launching in the US, mostly due to lack of evidence.

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A Guide to CHF Patient Education with Telehealth & RPM?

Health Recovery

Congestive heart failure or CHF continues to be the leading cause of hospital admissions and readmissions for people above 65 years old in the United States. At 26.9% of the total readmission rate , CHF accounts for the highest 30-day rehospitalization rate among medical and surgical conditions. In fact, 1 in 4 heart failure patients is reported to be re-admitted within 30 days of hospital discharge.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

Canada’s collapsing health system ? Outsourcing and mortality in NHS. 2021 IVI Annual Report. Improving EHR. US excess deaths : 1933-2021.

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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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A Guide to COPD Patient Education with Telehealth & RPM?

Health Recovery

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory lung disease that obstructs airflow from the lungs and causes permanent tissue damage. It is commonly caused by prolonged exposure to irritating gasses or particles, especially cigarette smoke.

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 7/14/22

HIStalk

I spent some time on Wednesday attending a deep dive.

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RPM Pricing: A Quick Guide

Health Recovery

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) pricing can be a complex subject with many factors involved, including but not limited to: what products are being used, what patient populations are being served, how large those patient populations are, how procurement is done, and what the contract term is. On top of that, there are operating costs, logistics and management costs, implementation costs and a slew of other things that can make RPM seem like a significant investment to take on.

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Morning Headlines 7/15/22

HIStalk

Making Electronic Health Records Both SAFER and SMARTER Informatics leaders.

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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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Payer Diversification Increasingly Important Amid Gloomy Home Health Reimbursement Landscape

Home Health Care

Here I am, yet again, writing about the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for the home health care industry. But it’s no small deal. Advocates were in Washington, D.C., this week to desperately argue on behalf of the industry that the rule was unfair. In doing that, they displayed the nuts and bolts of the situation clearly: If CMS continues course, it would mean a cumulative cut of $18 billion to home health payments over the next decade.

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As Congress, Biden administration squabble over COVID-19 funds, an ongoing pandemic response posture strains public health

Health Care Dive

Congress and the administration are at odds on the need to purchase more vaccines and therapeutics while the public health workforce is beleaguered, former Moderna VP Richard Hughes argues.

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11 Different Types of Workplace Harassment (Everything You Need to Know)

Etactics

Harassment in the workplace is just an unfortunate part of reality. It takes a multitude of forms, making the behaviors hard to pinpoint. The problem is that there are so many different types of workplace harassment and each has its own interpretations. Even the most diligent HR professional could miss key indicators. The federal government deems any form of harassment in the professional world unlawful.