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Three 2023 telemedicine trends that advance the 'new normal' in healthcare

Healthcare It News

This past year may very well have been the year the "new normal" was sealed for healthcare – one that includes a lot more telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual care than ever before. Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity. As healthcare providers look ahead to 2023, being at the forefront of what's next in telehealth and strategically integrating the technology necessary to stay there

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Dollar General latest player to enter retail clinic arena

Health Care Dive

The pilot could expand to additional stores, depending on customer response, as Dollar General continues to grow its healthcare products and services targeted at rural communities.

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Amazon Pharmacy rolls out service for unlimited generic drug prescriptions for $5 a month

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon Pharmacy rolls out service for unlimited generic drug prescriptions for $5 a month hlandi Mon, 01/23/2023 - 22:15

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Pandemic continues to affect healthcare jobs, tracker finds

Health Care Dive

Healthcare job growth rates have yet to return to levels predicted before the pandemic, according the tracker from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center on Healthcare.

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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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Man Therapy brings effective digital mental health support to the population most likely to commit suicide, CDC study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Man Therapy brings effective digital mental health support to the population most likely to commit suicide, CDC study finds aburky Mon, 01/23/2023 - 17:10

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Maintaining an inbound chain of custody for hospitals

Health Care Dive

Learn how healthcare stakeholders can build and maintain an inbound chain of custody at a busy hospital with competing priorities.

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Collaborating with Kroger Health to transform clinical trials

Health Care Dive

One of America's leading retail healthcare organizations offers expanded access to potential clinical trial participants.

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Substance use disorders cost employer-sponsored health insurance over $35B a year: CDC study

Fierce Healthcare

Substance use disorders cost employer-sponsored health insurance over $35B a year: CDC study fdiamond Mon, 01/23/2023 - 16:36

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Commonspirit hit with another lawsuit in wake of ransomware attack

Health Care Dive

The hospital operator is facing multiple lawsuits alleging it failed to protect the private information of more than 620,000 people.

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Lawmaker-backed report accuses UPMC of 'anti-competitive' monopoly, calls for policy intervention

Fierce Healthcare

Lawmaker-backed report accuses UPMC of 'anti-competitive' monopoly, calls for policy intervention dmuoio Mon, 01/23/2023 - 11:14

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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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US to jack up fees for big mergers

Health Care Dive

Filing fees are expected to soar this year and companies will need to prepare for increased regulatory scrutiny of M&A deals.

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Elevance Health to acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

Fierce Healthcare

Elevance Health to acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana pminemyer Mon, 01/23/2023 - 17:09

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Elevate patient experiences with healthcare data insights

Cloud Blogs

Today's healthcare providers face an onslaught of complex challenges, including higher costs, staffing shortages, evolving patient expectations, and increased competition. In order to survive and thrive, it's critical that they find ways to adapt to these ongoing challenges. In this difficult environment, the most successful healthcare organizations are the ones that are driving digital transformation and tapping into innovative healthcare technology solutions to improve patient care.

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CVS taps key pharmacy services, consumer products execs: report

Fierce Healthcare

CVS taps key pharmacy services, consumer products execs: report pminemyer Mon, 01/23/2023 - 13:32

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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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Does It Really Matter How the COVID-19 Pandemic Started?

Bill Of Health

By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, much air time and social media space has been allocated to the lab leak vs. natural spillover dispute regarding the origins of SARS-CoV-2. To summarize briefly, the question is whether the pandemic was caused by a leak from a biosafety level (BSL) four lab in Wuhan, China , or whether it arose naturally as a consequence of a virus jumping from a bat to an animal and then to humans.

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Optum rolls out new tool that automatically offers members the lowest generic price

Fierce Healthcare

Optum rolls out new tool that automatically offers members the lowest generic price pminemyer Mon, 01/23/2023 - 15:03

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Listen Closely (Your Heart is Talking to You!)

Healthcare Highways

Hand over heart—when was the last time you checked in with your cardiovascular health? Checked your blood pressure? February is National Heart Health Month —whether it’s been 24-hours or 24-years since, this is a good time to get under your own skin and find out what your heart’s been up to lately.

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CVS directing its Chicago ACO Reach patients to RUSH for primary, specialty follow-up

Fierce Healthcare

CVS directing its Chicago ACO Reach patients to RUSH for primary, specialty follow-up dmuoio Mon, 01/23/2023 - 13:32

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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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How Evolving Joint Employment Laws Could Impact Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

Home-based care providers in 2023 should stay on top of regulatory and compliance changes to federal joint employment laws. In the eyes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), “joint employment” means working for two or more companies, one that is responsible for their W2s and compensation and a secondary that also benefits from their services.

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AI Mental Health Chatbot Diagnoses Disorders with 93% Accuracy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – London-headquartered digital health startup , Limbic, has announced that its psychological assessment tool, Limbic Access , has achieved Class IIa UKCA medical device certification – making it the first and only AI mental health chatbot in the world to earn this status for its clinical effectiveness, safety and risk management. – The certification confirms that its mental health e-triage chatbot, which is able to diagnose mental health disorders with an accura

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Dealmaking Tips From Home-Based Care’s Top Acquirers

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Over the past few years, a number of home-based care companies have been able to achieve rapid, inorganic growth. Due to these organizations’ acquisition prowess, their leaders have become experts in spotting deal landmines and goldmines. Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content. Individual Membership $400 per year Purchase Group 2–5 members $380 per year* Purchase Need more than 5 members?

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FDA’s 2022 Drug Approvals

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The year 2022 was a good, but perhaps not great year for innovation. According to the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s (CDER) New Drug Therapy Approvals 2022 report , there were 37 novel drugs approved in 2022. This number is down from the historical rate of approvals between 2013-2021 (43.4 approvals per year) and especially down relative to the last 5 years (51.2 approvals per year).

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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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9 Executive Revenue Cycle Predictions/Trends to Watch in 2023

HIT Consultant

Nate Maslak, the co-founder/CEO of Ribbon Health Price Transparency: In 2022, we saw CMS’s Transparency in Coverage rule go into effect, requiring non-hospital entities like health plans and providers to publish publicly available rates for care. In 2023, we’ll see this price transparency data become more mainstream as it finally makes its way into the hands of patients, empowering them to find the best care for them, reevaluate their care choices, and shop around for the best possible care opti

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NAHC President: 2022’s Workforce Initiatives More ‘Aspirational’ Than ‘Productive’

Home Health Care

Looking back at Congress’ role in improving home-based care workforce issues in 2022, the industry saw more of an “aspirational” year than a “productive” one. That’s according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). He expressed this sentiment during a presentation at the Home Care 100 conference in Orlando, Florida on Monday.

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Key Leadership Competencies: Emotional Intelligence

Medi Leadership

This post kicks off a 7-part series in leadership competencies we find most critical for driving meaningful transformation in healthcare. Details below. A few months ago, we reviewed key leadership competencies we’ve found most critical in driving meaningful transformation as conditions change in unpredictable ways. It is not a coincidence that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is at the top of the list.

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Integration is the New Innovation for Healthcare in 2023: Reflections on CES2023 and JPM2023

Health Populi

The peak of venture investment for digital health was in 2020 and 2021, precipitously declining later in 2022. And the outlook for 2023 is practical and Show-Me: that is, demonstrate clinical outcomes and return-on-investment before “I” (for investors) can take a leap of faith to spend a dollar, a Yen, a Euro, or British pound on a shiny new-new healthcare thing.

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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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Elevate patient experiences with healthcare data insights

Cloud Blogs

Today’s healthcare providers face an onslaught of complex challenges, including higher costs, staffing shortages, evolving patient expectations, and increased competition. In order to survive and thrive, it’s critical that they find ways to adapt to these ongoing challenges. In this difficult environment, the most successful healthcare organizations are the ones that are driving digital transformation and tapping into innovative healthcare technology solutions to improve patient care.

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Key Leadership Competencies: Emotional Intelligence

Medi Leadership

This post kicks off a 7-part series in leadership competencies we find most critical for driving meaningful transformation in healthcare. Details below. A few months ago, we reviewed key leadership competencies we’ve found most critical in driving meaningful transformation as conditions change in unpredictable ways. It is not a coincidence that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is at the top of the list.

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Automated Patient Waitlist: Management & For Benefits Your Practice

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 4 minutes High-growth practices are adding an automated waitlist to their scheduling strategy to increase patients and make appointment gaps a thing of the past. As a busy practice, one of the most frequent challenges you may face is filling appointments due to cancellations or rescheduling. While you can’t control when your patients reschedule or cancel, you can automatically fill those open slots.

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Elevate patient experiences with healthcare data insights

Cloud Blogs

Today's healthcare providers face an onslaught of complex challenges, including higher costs, staffing shortages, evolving patient expectations, and increased competition. In order to survive and thrive, it's critical that they find ways to adapt to these ongoing challenges. In this difficult environment, the most successful healthcare organizations are the ones that are driving digital transformation and tapping into innovative healthcare technology solutions to improve patient care.

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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.