Fri.Mar 31, 2023

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Uber Health launches same-day prescription delivery

Health Care Dive

The service is made possible through integrating Uber Health’s dashboard with ScriptDrop, a tech platform Uber first partnered with in 2021 for prescription delivery.

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Virtua Health improves patient and caregiver experiences with 2-way text messaging

Healthcare It News

Virtua Health, the largest health system in South New Jersey, saw an uptick in virtual care appointments and digital communications during the pandemic as patients sought care at home. With this shift in patient engagement, many health systems, including Virtua, saw an incredible influx of messages to the care team. THE PROBLEM The increase in patient interactions created additional friction in clinical workflows that weren’t optimized to deal with the volume, said Dr.

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Medicaid redeterminations will restart Saturday. Here’s what we know

Health Care Dive

States can begin disenrolling ineligible beneficiaries from Medicaid on April 1, in an event the CMS has called the biggest health coverage transition since the first ACA open enrollment.

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DaVita, Medtronic raise the curtain on tech company, Mozarc Medical, aiming to bring innovation to kidney care

Fierce Healthcare

DaVita, Medtronic raise the curtain on tech company, Mozarc Medical, aiming to bring innovation to kidney care hlandi Fri, 03/31/2023 - 14:32

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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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Biden’s latest drug price-control plans threaten war on cancer, Alzheimer’s and more

Health Care Dive

Former Clinton health policy advisor Kenneth Thorpe argues that federal healthcare price-control policies could wreak havoc in the industry.

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Despite court ruling, insurers say they will continue to offer ACA-mandated free preventive services

Fierce Healthcare

Despite court ruling, insurers say they will continue to offer ACA-mandated free preventive services fdiamond Fri, 03/31/2023 - 13:33

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CVS expects to close Oak Street Health deal by July as acquisition clears regulatory obstacle

Fierce Healthcare

CVS expects to close Oak Street Health deal by July as acquisition clears regulatory obstacle hlandi Fri, 03/31/2023 - 12:05

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VR use in medicine in the spotlight at IVRHA 2023

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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CMS to raise Medicare Advantage pay rates by 3.3% in 2024; phase in risk adjustment changes

Fierce Healthcare

CMS to raise Medicare Advantage pay rates by 3.

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America's Dangerous Short War Fixation

The Rand Blog

Americans have long been fixated on the idea of the short, decisive war. And the United States' adversaries bank on Washington's strategic impatience. If the United States' objective is to win, the only thing worse than fighting a long war may be thinking it's possible to avoid one.

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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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Trustees predict Medicare hospital fund to run out in 2031, three years later than 2022 report

Fierce Healthcare

Trustees predict Medicare hospital fund to run out in 2031, three years later than 2022 report rking Fri, 03/31/2023 - 13:22

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What is locum tenens?

CHQ Healthcare

CHG Healthcare is the largest provider of locum tenens services in the United States. Although this service has a huge impact on the quality of care patients receive each year, many people still don’t know what locum tenens is. In Latin, locum tenens means “to take the place of someone temporarily.” In healthcare, the term refers to medical providers who work temporary assignments.

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HHS appeals judge's ruling on ACA preventive care

Fierce Healthcare

HHS appeals judge's ruling on ACA preventive care pminemyer Fri, 03/31/2023 - 17:53

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How Amedisys Lowered Staffing Costs Through Gig Work

Home Health Care

When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) participated in the connectRN’s $76 million funding round at the end of 2021, it was because it believed in what the company was doing. But, more broadly, it was a reaction to the contemporary staffing situation in home health care. The connectRN platform was originally built to find nurses and other health care professionals work, particularly in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).

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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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ViVE 2023: Healthcare exes skeptical price transparency mandates will lead to more affordable care

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: Healthcare exes skeptical price transparency mandates will lead to more affordable care dmuoio Fri, 03/31/2023 - 14:57

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Should Brain Scans Be Used As Evidence in Trademark Litigation?

Bill Of Health

By Matthew Chun In a recent paper in Science Advances , researchers have proposed using neuroscientific data from brain scans to “improv[e] the state of evidence-based legal decision-making” in trademark infringement cases. But can — and more importantly, should — such evidence be used? In this blog post, I will review the federal legal standards for trademark infringement, describe the researchers’ proposed use of neuroscientific evidence in trademark litigation, and assess th

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Kahun Integrates AI Physician Chatbot with ChatGPT

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Kahun , an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians announced it is integrating its AI chatbot for physicians with ChatGPT , an open-source AI chatbot platform to build on the advanced Large Language Model’s (LLM) ability to engage in human-like conversation with patients. – By integrating ChatGPT, Kahun builds on the language model’s text fluency to boost patient engagement pre-visit, cutting the time needed for the healthcare provider to conduc

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How Home-Based Care Providers Are Doing More With Less Staff

Home Health Care

As staffing remains a top issue for home-based care providers, leaders are finding themselves having to utilize workers in a way that will allow the stretching of resources. At The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG), utilizing technology has been key for that. “Using technology effectively would be at the top of my list,” Pennant COO John Gochnour said during a recent Axxess webinar.

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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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VIVE 2023: 6 Digital Health Executives Share Their Key Takeaways

HIT Consultant

John Erwin , CEO of Carenet Health A common thread throughout my conversations at ViVE was the increased competition for health consumers. Larger health systems are continuing to be fragmented by smaller specialties, like Northwell Health, which reported their outpatient care volumes are continuing to rise. Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and busi

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Violence in Schools, Neurodiversity and National Security, Drug Cartels: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on preventing school violence, dealing with drug cartels, the benefits of a neurodivergent national security workforce, and more.

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‘We’re Payer Selective’: How Home Health Providers Are Navigating The Payer Evolution

Home Health Care

Medicare fee-for-service rates are not where home health providers want them to be. That’s forced their hand when negotiating rates with other payer sources. “We are payer agnostic, but we’re payer selective,” Traditions Health CEO David Klementz said Thursday at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event in Washington, D.C. Traditions Health is a Nashville-based home health provider and one of the fastest-growing companies in the space.

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CMS Blanket Stark Waivers will Terminate Upon End of COVID-19 Emergency

Triage Health Law

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declarations effective May 11, 2023. As a result, many of the regulatory waivers and flexibilities available to health care providers, including the blanket waivers applicable to many Stark Law requirements (the “Stark Waivers”), will terminate on that date.

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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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What is HIDI?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

ICER recently released a white paper titled “ Advancing Health Technology Assessment Methods that Support Health Equity “ In addition to discussing a variety of methods–e.g., distributional cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA), extended cost effectiveness analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)–for quantifying the value of new treatments in terms of their ability to reduce health disparities, ICER also introduces the very simple health improvement distribution ind

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Health Policy News March 2023

Health Policy News

The March edition of Health Policy News is dedicated to two potential implications for consumers due to the end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE) – both related to healthcare.

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New Resource for Hospice Quality Reporting Program: CAHPS Hospice Survey – Care Compare Data Refresh Schedule

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has prepared a fact sheet that summarizes CAHPS data refreshes on Care Compare. This resource is available in the Downloads section of the Public Reporting: Key Dates for Providers page. If you have questions about accessing the resource or feedback regarding trainings, please email the  PAC Training Mailbox.

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Expanding women’s health: Addressing health disparities with innovations

Nordic

Technology has revolutionized many aspects of our lives, opening a world of new possibilities for how we manage our health. These tools offer the hope of closing some of the care gaps that we see today. This is a prime opportunity to talk about what technology can do specifically for women's health (and please: let’s follow Chrissy Farr’s imperative to stop referring to it as “femtech”), a complex and multifaceted part of healthcare that is in desperate need of a more holistic approach.

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

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the nursing home data for the week ending March 19, 2023. Comparing the March 19, 2023 data to the March 12, 2023 data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.1% this past week; Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.1% this past week; Staff primary vaccination completion rate remained the same this past week; Staff up to date increased 0.1% this past week; An additi

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What do highly satisfied users of EHRs do differently? ?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: The goal of the Arch Collaborative is to help organizations understand not just how to make the EHR usable but how to help clinicians embrace it as a tool essential for delivering great care. To that end, this report examines the responses of over 3,000 highly satisfied EHR users to identify what they do differently from less satisfied peers.

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ML Model Uses Time, Location Data to Predict COVID-19 Transmission

Health IT Analytics

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Part 1: A Guide to De-identified Data, Anonymous Data and Tokenized Data in Healthcare, Plus Expert Determination

Lexis Nexis

Detailing the nuances between some of healthcare’s most common (misused) data-related terms We are all guilty at one time or another of using words or phrases interchangeably with different root meanings. And when it comes to healthcare data, understanding these nuances and aligning on definitions make a big difference in protecting such sensitive health data information.

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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.