Fri.Nov 11, 2022

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CommonSpirit continues to wrangle with cyberattack

Health Care Dive

A majority of the providers affected by the attack last month have regained access to electronic health records, but the system said it is still working to return to normal operations.

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CMS seeks to close gaps in health equity data collection as new measures roll out

Fierce Healthcare

CMS seeks to close gaps in health equity data collection as new measures roll out. rking. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 15:32.

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VA, Healthy Together collaborate on mobile access to health records

Healthcare It News

The initial offering enables veterans to view and store immunization records all in one place. WHY IT MATTERS. Healthy Together uses the Department of Veterans Affairs Lighthouse program to securely access relevant VA data when veterans connect their VA accounts. The collaboration is part of the VA's efforts to provide more ways for veterans to securely access and utilize their health records and data through the agency's API.

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HLTH22: Instacart Health partners with ChenMed, Helper Bees, Levels Health to address the root causes of food insecurity

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Instacart Health partners with ChenMed, Helper Bees, Levels Health to address the root causes of food insecurity. aburky. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 16:56.

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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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Congressional committee requests investigation of hospital price transparency compliance

Health Care Dive

Committee members said in a recent letter that hospitals have had “ample time” to comply with the rules.

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Nurses plan to picket outside of 22 Kaiser Permanente locations

Fierce Healthcare

Nurses plan to picket outside of 22 Kaiser Permanente locations. fdiamond. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 09:08.

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Survey: Patients as Consumers Embrace Post-Covid Model and Want to See More

Fierce Healthcare

Survey: Patients as Consumers Embrace Post-Covid Model and Want to See More. jpiatt. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 07:06.

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Wheel Acquires GoodRx Care Backend Tech for $19.5M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Virtual care company Wheel acquires GoodRx Care ’s backend virtual care technology, including its clinician-centric EMR, powerful clinical management tools, and flexible patient experience software for $19.5M in cash. – As part of the acquisition, Wheel will integrate GoodRx Care’s underlying technology to expand its existing virtual care platform capabilities and GoodRx will continue to own the consumer-facing GoodRx Care website and mobile app.

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Industry Voices—What people want from virtual primary care

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—What people want from virtual primary care. pminemyer. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 12:39.

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The Common Denominators of Sustainability in Healthcare: Measurement and Transparency

HIT Consultant

Michael Byczkowski, Global VP, Head of Healthcare Industry at SAP. The global healthcare industry accounts for roughly 5% of greenhouse gas emissions. That is about the same as the cement and chemical industries combined, and more than that of the aviation and shipping industries together. In the United States, the number is even higher : roughly 8.5% of U.S. carbon emissions emerge from healthcare.

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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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Northwell Holdings, Aegis Ventures team to launch virtual menopause care platform Upliv

Fierce Healthcare

Northwell Holdings, Aegis Ventures team to launch virtual menopause care platform Upliv. pminemyer. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 11:32.

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What Experts Are Saying On OASIS Payer Expansion, OASIS-E Implementation

Home Health Care

The expansion of OASIS is yet another hurdle home health agencies will have to face in the future. It could be a massive undertaking for agencies, and one that still comes with some uncertainty in regards to the financial burden for agencies. “Right now, some agencies love that they are only required to record OASIS data on, for example, private insurance, because it cuts down on the work they have to do,” Cindy Krafft, co-owner and co-founder of the consulting firm Kornetti & Krafft Health

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MDLive expands virtual primary care platform to improve chronic condition management

Fierce Healthcare

MDLive expands virtual primary care platform to improve chronic condition management. pminemyer. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 14:36.

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A Year Later, Sharecare Reflects On ‘Tremendous’ Acquisition Of Home-Focused CareLinx

Home Health Care

CareLinx — a tech-enabled home-based care company that coordinates personal care services and offers clinical care services — is trending upwards. Sharecare (Nasdaq: SHCR) CEO Jeff Arnold offered up this update during the company’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday. The digital health company Sharecare is a virtual platform that helps people manage all their health needs in one place, and access health records and other information.

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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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Industry Voices—Improving veteran pain management requires a committed, comprehensive approach

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Improving veteran pain management requires a committed, comprehensive approach. hlandi. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 17:17.

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‘You’ll Hear Optimism In Our Voices’: Analyzing Recent Admissions, Hiring and MA Trends

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. The home health industry is at an inflection point. As any year comes to a close – especially 2022 – it’s one of the most interesting times to hear what executives are saying about their own companies and the industry at large. . Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content. Individual Membership $400 per year.

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Costs and benefits of advance preparations for future pandemics. ISPOR Europe Round-ups: Day 1 , 2 and 3 Impending intergenerational crisis. Limited COVID-19 vaccine externalities ? Free insulin (not real) Puerto Rico’s health success in the mid-20th century.

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Home Health PPS Rate Update for Calendar Year 2023

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On November 10, 2022, CMS posted Transmittal 11702 – Change Request 12957. There’s also a corresponding MLN Matters Number: MM12957 : Both documents should be reviewed by your team as well as your billing staff.

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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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Quotation of the Day

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The generic share of total prescriptions dispensed in the US increased from 14% when the Hatch-Waxman legislation was passed [1984] to 42% by 2000 and 92% today. James C. Robinson in JAMA 2022.

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Early Increases in Seasonal Influenza Activity Continue Nationwide

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. That’s the headline in FLUVIEW – week ending November 5, 2022. LTCFs (e.g., nursing homes/skilled nursing, long-term care for the developmentally disabled, and assisted living facilities) from all 50 states and U.S. territories report data on influenza virus infections among residents through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-term Care Facility Component.

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Important Deadline Approaches for California Healthcare Employers to Apply for Worker Retention Payments

Sheppard Health Law

On June 30, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation to stabilize and promote the retention of California’s healthcare workforce in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This response included the allocation of $1.3 billion for retention payments to physicians and other clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers. California’s Department of Health Care Services (“ DHCS ”) will administer the distribution of those funds through its Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility COVID-19 Worker Retenti

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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN Nursing Home COVID-19 Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending October 30, 2022. Comparing the October 30 th data to the October 23 rd data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.2% from the previous week. Residents up to date with vaccines increased 1.2% from the previous week.

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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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Supporting America's Veterans: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on helping veterans succeed in civilian jobs, a bakery that doubles as a business school, Black Americans’ military service, and more.

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2021 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections Progress Report Shows Increases in Some HAIs

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CDC has released the 2021 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections Progress Report , which shows significant increases in the standardized infection ratio (SIR) between 2020 and 2021 in some HAIs for some facility types. Changes in SIRs among acute care hospitals from 2020 to 2021 include: 14% increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia. 12% increase in ventilator-associated events (VA

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What is P4P? How It Is Affecting Healthcare Overall?

p3care

The US government has shown its concerns about healthcare delivery since the beginning. They want to make quality care accessible for every individual. That’s why they have expanded the Medicaid program. Now it covers all those individuals having income not more than 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). Moreover, the government has supported every single effort to minimize the healthcare cost for all.

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Minnesota: Waiver Extended-Additional 4 Months for Addition to Nurse Aide Registry

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) received an extension for the Federal Emergency 1135 Regulatory Waiver of Training and Certification of Nurse Aides (referred to as the CMS 1135 Waiver), which allows nurse aides who are not yet registered on the Nurse Aide Registry to work in skilled nursing facilities during the public health emergency.

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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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Kenyan online pharmacy launches HIV telehealth program

Healthcare It News

MYDAWA, the first online pharmacy in Kenya, has received $1.2 million in grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and evaluate innovative Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, delivery. The company says its new telehealth application enables end-to-end virtual healthcare for customers seeking to access Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, a medication that is taken after possible exposure to HIV, and PrEP, which is taken daily by those who have an ongoing risk of acquiring HIV.

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Veterans Day – 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The observance of Veterans Day is more than free food, a paid holiday for some, sales in stores (and an infamous blizzard if you’re old enough to remember or have heard about it through family). The above was the 1 st sentence in my blog exactly 1 year ago today. I would be honored to have you read that again – especially to remind yourself of the history of this day.

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Health Care in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections – Considerations for Conversations at HLTH

Health Populi

You and I are ending this week looking back three days, Friday morning quarterback style, wondering how the U.S. 2022 midterm elections could impact health and health care in America. We can never know with 101% certainty the answer to this question following any U.S. election. This year’s midterms leave us especially in need of scenario planning, especially as on this day, we still do not know what the final balance of power in the U.S.