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New York files False Claims Act case against Fresenius in whistleblower suit

Health Care Dive

The state of New York has formally joined a lawsuit against the major dialysis provider that alleges Fresenius performed thousands of medically unnecessary vascular procedures on kidney disease patients.

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Marshfield Clinic creating hospital-at-home program with Dispatch Health

Healthcare It News

Marshfield Clinic Health System is partnering with DispatchHealth to bring its rural patients in-home medical care. WHY IT MATTERS. Marshfield serves a population in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula with more than 60 Marshfield Clinic locations and 11 hospitals. With this new collaboration, it will expand access to its patients in rural communities in their homes.

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Intermountain Healthcare taps chief digital executive

Health Care Dive

Craig Richardville’s responsibilities include overseeing the newly combined health system’s technology, data and digital services for its 33 hospitals and 385 clinics.

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Central Adelaide Local Health Network introduces digital 'pre-hab' for surgery patients

Healthcare It News

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has launched a new digital programme which aims to help make a patient fit for surgery. The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care. According to a media release, it includes a comprehensive health screening questionnaire and provides a personalised checklist of items which patients can discuss with their GP

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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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FDA clears Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine as 4th option in US

Health Care Dive

The regulator’s decision comes more than a year after the main part of the principal trial was completed, raising questions about the shot’s effectiveness against omicron.

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Does Sodium Make You Gain Weight?

Healthcare Associates

Sodium is an essential nutrient that plays a vital role in many bodily processes. However, high sodium intake has been linked to various health problems, including high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. It may also lead to weight gain and increase your risk for obesity. The right balance of sodium in your diet can help you stay healthy and avoid weight gain.

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5 Anti-Aging Solutions Aided by Healthcare Technology

HIT Consultant

Displaying signs of aging is a natural part of getting on in the years. But it doesn’t automatically mean that you can’t do anything to minimize or lessen the effects of aging on your face and your body. Looking and feeling youthful can have a number of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits, including staying fitter for longer and advancing your career.

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Security technology for tracking medical devices and medicine inventory

Health Care Dive

A crucial part of the medical industry is that medical devices and medicine inventories must be kept secure and safe. Using security technology is the best way to assure that medical assets are being looked after properly while allowing you to keep up to date with the latest innovations. In th.

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Glooko Launches Diabetes Medical Education Academy in Ireland

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Glooko announced, in partnership with the Diabetes Technology Network (DTN)/Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD), the expansion into Ireland of Academy , the company’s online medical education program for clinicians who treat people with diabetes. – Originally inspired after discussions with the National Health Service England (NHSE) as part of its effort to ensure all healthcare professionals learn uniformly about technology, the program will

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‘The Patient Will See You Now’: Aetna’s CMO Explores Home Health Care’s Future

Home Health Care

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is one of the most influential health care entities in the United States. It having the health insurance giant Aetna underneath its umbrella is no small part of that. . As some of the larger retailers in the U.S. have gotten further into home-based care – including Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA), Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and others – insiders have especially kept their eye on CVS because of Aetna.

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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 Health Selects Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Northwell Health , New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to improve patient care, clinician experiences, and to help the health and hospital network operate more efficiently. – Privacy and security will be of the utmost importance in all aspects of this digital transformation.

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At-Home Care Company Papa Lays Off 15% Of Workforce

Home Health Care

Papa, a company that provides in-home companionship services for older adults and their families, has laid off 15% of its workforce. Its CEO, Andrew Parker, announced the news late Wednesday on LinkedIn. “Today was a tough day for Papa. In light of the current environment and our long-term goals, I made the difficult decision to reduce our team by 15%,” Parker wrote.

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Geisinger Taps Cohere Health to Streamline Prior Authorizations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) and Cohere Health , a provider of utilization management (UM) technology, announced they are joining forces to streamline the prior authorization process for providers. – Cohere’s collaborative UM platform will help GHP support value-based care delivery, reduce administrative costs, and lead the nation in aligning quality improvement initiatives across all its lines of business, including Commercial, Exchange, Medicare Advanta

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Home Health Providers Continue to See Telehealth as Staffing Tailwind

Home Health Care

With the market for home-based care continuing to grow, providers need to make sure their employees are ready for a digital future in the space. They also need to focus on what their employees want out of a career, and should be able to pivot and adapt as the industry evolves. Those were the main takeaways from Tuesday’s SimiTree webinar, which took a closer look at growth and retention.

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COVID-19: Addressing the Urgent Mental Health Needs of Frontline Workers

HIT Consultant

Jorge E. Palacios, MD, Ph.D. – Senior Digital Health Scientist at SilverCloud Health. It is no secret that one by-product of the ongoing pandemic is an exacerbation of the country’s mental health crisis. According to research from Johns Hopkins , one in four Americans experience a mental health disorder in a typical year. Yet among adults in the U.S. rates of depression have steadily climbed from 8.5% before the pandemic to an alarming 32.8% in October of 2021, according to research publis

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AMA Survey on Telehealth

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The American Medical Association surveyed its members between November and December of 2021 to examine their current use of telehealth. As outliend in the “ 2021 Telehealth Survey Report “, the key findings of the survey were: Uptake. 85% of physician use telehealth. 56% of respondents said they believe they will increase telehealth use in their practices.

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Northwell Invests $10M in Brightline for Virtual Pediatric Behavioral Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Brightline , the category leader in virtual behavioral healthcare for children, adolescents, and families, announced a $10M investment by Northwell Health , New York’s largest healthcare provider, bringing its total Series C funding to $115M. – This strategic investment and partnership will create greater access to innovative pediatric mental health services across the New York Metro area at a critical time for families.

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Third (3rd) National Stakeholder Call with CMS Administrator

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Please join the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, and her leadership team, who will provide an update on CMS’ recent accomplishments and how our cross-cutting initiatives are advancing CMS’ Strategic Plan. CMS serves the public as a trusted partner and steward dedicated to advancing health equity, expanding coverage, and improving health outcomes as we engage the

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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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Reproductive Governance in a Post-Roe US: The Weaponization of Health Systems

Bill Of Health

By Alicia Ely Yamin. I was living and working in Peru in 2001, when Karen Noelia Llantoy discovered she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. Llantoy, a minor at the time, became profoundly depressed. Her own physician, a social worker, and a psychiatrist all concurred that she should have a termination, as anencephaly is a fatal brain defect that also poses an unnecessary risk to the mother’s physical health, and the pregnancy was having a severe impact on Llantoy’s mental health.

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Quality Reporting Program: Non-Compliance Letters for FY 2023 APU

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare . CMS is providing notifications to facilities that were determined to be out of compliance with Quality Reporting Program (QRP) requirements for CY 2021, which will affect their FY 2023 Annual Payment Update (APU). Non-compliance notifications are being distributed by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and were placed into facilities’ CASPER folders in QIES, for Hospice and SNFs, and into facilities’ My Reports fo

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Patient Loyalty: The Service Recovery Paradox

Medical GPS

Negative survey scores and unfavorable patient feedback present an opportunity that cannot be found in any other circumstance. . When talking about the opportunity represented by negative survey scores and unfavorable patient feedback, a common response I often hear is, “What are you talking about, Jerry, I thought we wanted to avoid negative survey scores and unfavorable patient feedback”. .

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Medicare and Medicaid Program: Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities: Regulatory Provisions to Promote Efficiency, and Transparency Extension of Timeline Filed     

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Earlier this morning (July 13, 2022), CMS filed CMS-3347-RCN. “The Social Security Act (the Act) specifies that a Medicare final rule must be published no later than 3 years after the publication date of the proposed rule or interim final rule, as applicable, except under exceptional circumstances.

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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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Innovaccer Expands into Public Sector to Accelerate Public Health Transformation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health cloud company Innovaccer Inc , today announced it is expanding into the public sector to improve collaboration between agencies, optimize case management, manage increasingly complex alternative payment models, and improve the individual’s experience through technology. – The Innovaccer Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform (DAP) collects, cleans, and connects data, making it available and shareable between systems to accelerate digital transformation

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The alchemy of care variation

Nordic

I regularly speak to groups of physicians about clinical practice and leveraging technology to improve patient care. I have learned that certain words or phrases can derail a great conversation, and hence, I try to avoid those terms. Sometimes there is a questionable rationale behind the negative reaction. For example, the dreaded “P-word.” Yes, you know what I mean: provider.

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How the spread of Catholic-owned healthcare facilities may complicate access to reproductive care

Health Care Dive

Catholic facilities must follow ethical and religious directives that say they can’t provide abortion or sterilization services and may not "promote or condone" contraceptives.

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Morning Headlines 7/14/22

HIStalk

Brightline Closes $10 Million Extended Series C Financing from Northwell.

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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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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees with HHS Payment Methodology for Disproportionate Share Hospitals

Triage Health Law

The fight about how Medicare compensates disproportionate share hospitals (“DSH”) is one of the longest-running reimbursement disputes of recent years, and it has generated copious work for judges around the country. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court settled one piece of the conflict: the counting of “Medicare-entitled” patients in the Medicare fraction of the “disproportionate-patient percentage.

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Minnesota MDS – Legislative Updates  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Prevent delays in payments by correctly entering therapy start and end dates. To prevent delays in processing payments, staff must ensure that the Therapy Start and End Dates are correctly entered on all PPS, OBRA Comprehensive, and OBRA Non-Comprehensive assessments when appropriate.

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6 Success Strategies as CMS Drives More Accountable Care by 2030

HIT Consultant

Siddharth Thakkar, VP, Product and Marketing at IKS Health. For the better part of a decade, the shift toward value-based care in the U.S. has been driven by the establishment of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). Working to develop, test and evaluate new payment and delivery models in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, CMMI has taken aim at improving the provider experience, generating better patient outcomes and reducing the overall cost of car

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Home Health Sector Remains Area of Focus For Fraud Watchdogs

Home Health Care

The federal government saw a return of nearly $1.9 billion in health care fraud settlements and judgments in 2021. Of this $1.9 billion, the Medicare Trust Funds received $1.2 billion, and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) received roughly $98.7 million. The Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (HHS-OIG) annual report, released Monday, details the distribution of funds, as well as the enforcement actions of the Department of Justice (DOJ) throughout

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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.