Health Care Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
Improving affordability, providing virtual care and boosting mental health offerings will be top priorities for U.S. employers over the next two years, according to a Willis Towers Watson report.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 27, 2022
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
Whether or not telehealth visits result in duplicative care — a hot topic on the Hill as Congress debates future telemedicine regulation — could depend on if users have acute or chronic conditions, according to new research.
Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2022
“It’s hard to be healthy in the U.S. today.” That is the underlying premise and reason for The Building H Index. Health happens outside of doctors’ offices and hospital operating rooms. Health is made in our homes, in our communities, in our daily lives as we go about working, playing, learning, and praying. Too often, in those daily life-flows, making a healthy decision is harder than defaulting to a less-healthy one.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
In the latest open-ended strike, nurse demands for new contracts focus heavily on recruitment and retention of staff amid nationwide labor shortages.
Bill Of Health
APRIL 27, 2022
(Photo: Sign at the central train station in Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) that offers free support for pet owners coming from Ukraine. Courtesy of Kristin Sandvik.). By Kristin Bergtora Sandvik. Introduction. The care for animals rapidly became a part of the humanitarian narrative of the attack on Ukraine. There are countless accounts of the efforts of activists, shelters and zoo staff to keep animals alive, as well as underground operations to get them to safety.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Home Health Care
APRIL 27, 2022
The amount of money being invested in the home-based care space has many people excited about the future, particularly as smaller startup companies continue to grow. VC firms have in recent years pumped over $2.5 billion into senior care and home-based care startups, according to Crunchbase data, with notable examples being MedArrive and Sprinter Health.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
The now five-person office will assist CEO Sarah London in setting policy and executing the company's enterprise agenda, London announced Tuesday on a call with investors.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted these updates to the LTC Survey Process, dated April 26, 2022: The Survey Resources with Staff Vaccine Documents Folder is found here , in the Downloads section: Subscribers to Briggs 1766 and 1766E will receive this update within a few days.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
Teladoc bought chronic care giant Livongo for $18.5 billion two years ago, but the asset's waning value and external market factors triggered the massive goodwill impairment charge in the first quarter.
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Home Health Care
APRIL 27, 2022
The way in which home care agencies are finding and hiring caregivers is evolving. Over time, word-of-mouth recruitment via current employees is having a lesser impact on overall hires, while job hiring sites like Indeed are having a greater impact. Of the top 10 caregiver recruitment sources last year, Indeed – between free and paid plans – took the cake as the most “successful” hiring methodology for agencies, according to data from Home Care Pulse’s annual benchmarking study.
The Rand Blog
APRIL 27, 2022
In his book, Isolating the Enemy: Diplomatic Strategy in China and the United States, 1953–1956 , Dr. Tao Wang reviews key moments in the diplomatic strategies of China and the United States between 1953 and 1956. Although the book illuminates fascinating aspects of the period's diplomatic history, it unfortunately does not offer much insight into the reasons for the relative success of these contrasting strategies.
Home Health Care
APRIL 27, 2022
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) has been vocal about its plan to develop its health care services capabilities in three phases. The first phase is building the capabilities; the second phase includes enhancements to align its capabilities with value-based principles, and the third is integrating these capabilities in select local markets. With the divestiture of its majority interest in Kindred at Home’s hospice and personal care assets to private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CDR), Humana co
The Rand Blog
APRIL 27, 2022
A cascade of care is a seemingly uncontrollable sequence of medical services that is driven by the desire to avoid even the smallest risk of a bad outcome. We set out to identify what drives cascades and to design an intervention to mitigate them.
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Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The February 2022 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) provides information on Glycemic treatment deintensification practices in nursing home residents with type 2 diabetes. “Nursing home (NH) residents with diabetes represent a large, growing population at high-risk for adverse events from glucose-lowering medications (GLMs).
The Rand Blog
APRIL 27, 2022
Now that the Russian military in Ukraine has retreated north, a de facto cease-fire is in place in Kyiv and central Ukraine. This could present an opportunity for the United Nations to call for a formal cease-fire in reclaimed territory and issue a recommendation to willing states to move into Ukraine with a peacekeeping force.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – CareCloud, Inc. , a healthcare technology solutions provider for medical practices and health systems nationwide, has announced its new offering, CareCloud Wellness for chronic care management as part of its growing suite of digital health solutions that help providers enhance patient care and revenue streams. – CareCloud Wellness gives practices the means to easily participate in the government’s chronic care management (CCM) program , without having to expan
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 27, 2022
Is telehealth over before it began? Let’s hope not. First, there is the clinical aspect. While telehealth was vital during the pandemic, it is unclear to what degree telehealth can fully substitute for in-person care (see Hatef et al. 2022 ). Likely telehealth is superior to in-person visits for some types of care, inferior for others, and reasonable substitute for many.
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HIStalk
APRIL 27, 2022
Public Health Agencies Share the Blame for COVID-19 MisinformationBy Peter.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted the April Five-Star State-Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table which was updated April 27, 2022. This document – Five Star Quality Rating System Technical Users’ Guide: State Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table – provides the data for the state-level cut points for the star ratings included in the health inspection domain.
HIStalk
APRIL 27, 2022
Chief Nursing Officer Checklist for Healthcare Technology ImplementationsBy Robert Wittwer.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2022
Marc Leighton, VP of Product at Florence Healthcare. Prior to COVID , major technological transformation initiatives were already underway at many clinical trial sites, sponsors, and contract research organizations (CROs.) But the move to decentralized trials accelerated dramatically in 2020 and 2021–and it’s not slowing down. Survey data from WCG Avoca shows that research sites and sponsors expect 89% of clinical trials to qualify as a hybrid, with a mix of decentralized technology and in-perso
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HIStalk
APRIL 27, 2022
The Scale of Interoperability: Healthcare Data is at Zettabyte Level.
Sheppard Health Law
APRIL 27, 2022
President Biden issued Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government (Executive Order) on inauguration day in 2021, signalizing the Administration’s intent to advance health care equity and racial justice in the United States by minimizing the influence of the social determinants of health.
HIStalk
APRIL 27, 2022
HHS puts $90M toward improving health center data collection HHS.
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