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Surprisingly, physician burnout could contribute to slightly better outcomes, new study suggests

Health Care Dive

But this doesn't indicate that physician burnout is beneficial or should be tolerated, researchers said, stressing that the relationship between burnout and outcomes is complex and needs further investigation.

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SNF QRP Quick Reference Guide Updated Again

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. For the second time in March 2022, CMS has posted an updated Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Quick Reference Guide. This version – 3.0 – is dated March 30, 2022. The only change from the previous version (v2.0) dated January 28, 2022, posted March 2, 2022, is this (found on page 3 of 5): The last sentence in v2.0 read: “However, due to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), impl

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Ascension, AdventHealth make breakup official, renaming hospitals

Health Care Dive

The end of the joint venture formed in 2015 to run hospitals in the Chicago area will see 14 facilities operate under the Ascension name and four carry the AdventHealth banner.

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CMS Program Measure Needs and Priorities: March 2022 – 2022 Measures Under Consideration List

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “In preparation for the statutory requirement and to remain transparent and allow for additional stakeholder feedback, each spring CMS solicits public and private stakeholders to submit candidate quality and efficiency measures for consideration by the Agency as a part of the pre-rulemaking process.

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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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5 FDA decisions to watch in the second quarter

Health Care Dive

Between April and June, the agency will advance key regulatory reviews in ALS and gene therapy as well as host an advisory meeting on cancer drugs.

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Is There a Future for Multilateralism?

The Rand Blog

The rise in the use of informal arrangements and the proliferation in the use of regional arrangements have weakened multilateral institutions. Multilateralism's failure, if it happens, could raise significant challenges on how to address global public issues.

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Why Alivia Care Wants To Go Past the ‘Meat and Potatoes’ of Home Health Care

Home Health Care

At a time when more home-based care entities are looking for ways to stand out and take their business to the next level, Alivia Care Inc. CEO Susan Ponder-Stansel wants to offer more than what she considers the “meat and potatoes” of home health services. For Alivia Care — a company that entered the home health market with the acquisition of Better Life Home Health in 2021 — this means services that are a major differentiator when it comes to health outcomes.

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Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum: April 7, 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum is scheduled for. Thursday, April 7, 2022, PM at 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET). Please call at least 15 minutes prior to the forum start time. **This Agenda is Subject to Change**. Opening Remarks. Chair – Brian Slater, Center for Medicare, CMS.

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Advocate Aurora Enterprises Acquires MobileHelp, Looks to Pair Its Technology with Senior Helpers

Home Health Care

When Advocate Aurora Enterprises — a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health – acquired the home care provider Senior Helpers around this time last year, it came as a surprise to some. The surprise wasn’t due to the fact that Senior Helpers was acquired, but instead because of the acquirer. The Midwest-based Advocate Aurora Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, integrated health systems in the U.S., which was not the type of entity expected to take over a non-medical home care franchise. .

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Regulatory Barriers Present Challenges for At-home Birth

Bill Of Health

By Bailey Kennedy. Statistics released at the end of last year confirmed what many already knew anecdotally to be true. Many women had turned to home births during the pandemic. While the absolute number of women who chose to use home birth to deliver their children was quite small — about 9,000 more women chose to give birth at home in 2020 versus 2019 — the percentage increase was notable.

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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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Home Health Consolidation Is ‘Not a Gordon Gekko-Type Situation,’ M&A Experts Argue

Home Health Care

The pace hasn’t been as aggressive as some expected, but the home health industry has been undergoing a wave of consolidation over the past several years, with the number of freestanding agencies decreasing annually since at least 2015. While consolidation can certainly bring added stresses for existing operators, experts in the mergers-and-acquisitions field note there are also positives for proactive buyers and sellers.

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8 Past Due Letter Templates That Get You Paid

Etactics

A 2019 study determined that the average American has over $90,000 in debt. The debt landscape is so bad right now that some can’t afford our medical bills. According to TransUnion almost half of all patients don’t pay off hospital bills of $500 or less. Worse, the same source points out that 99% of healthcare invoices aren’t paid off if they’re over $3,000.

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Understanding Religious and Medical Exemptions for Vaccinations (COVID-19)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This March 29, 2022, webinar recording discusses the guidelines for medical and religious exemptions reporting in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), and the impact these exemptions have on vaccine measures for facilities. The webinar was part of TMF’s Nursing Home Office Hours and is just shy of 38 minutes.

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Voices: Alex Hoopes, PharmD, CAHIMS, Director, Healthcare Innovation, Cardinal Health™ at-Home Solutions

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by Cardinal Health. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Alex Hoopes, Director of Healthcare Innovation at Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions, to learn how home-based care operators can take new angles on the vital yet draining discussion around the industry’s staffing shortage. Hoopes also shares advice on how home-based care providers can use technology to improve patient-caregiver relationships, and a look ahead at what Cardinal Health is doi

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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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MemorialCare Taps TytoCare to Offer Virtual Exam Kits for Enhanced Telehealth

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TytoCare , a provider of AI-powered , on-demand, remote medical exams has inked a partnership with MemorialCare , a health system in Orange and Los Angeles Counties, to bring patients diverse telehealth options and allow them to pursue comprehensive primary care options from home. – The integration of the TytoCare solution into MemorialCare’s current telehealth appointments enhances the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients through in-depth, p

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Rise of Innovative Medtech in APAC

Health Advances

By Eric Woo, Senior Analyst, Gary Cheng, Vice President, and Vikki Leung, Consultant. Health Advances Hong Kong attended APACMed MedTech Forum 2021 and were excited to hear the exchange of views from different stakeholders on the future of medtech. One key theme resounded: the rise of innovative medtech in the Asia Pacific Region, especially in China.

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14 Tips for developing the best incident reporting form

Patient Safety Blog

When setting up an incident management system, it’s important to think about the structure and the questions that you’ll ask on the reporting forms. The answers contribute to the ease of analyzing the incident, the management of the reports, and the insights the report will provide into the safety situation within your healthcare organization.

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Readers Write: Unleash Human Capacity – And Leave Time for More Breakfast Burritos – With Better OR Scheduling

HIStalk

Unleash Human Capacity – And Leave Time for More Breakfast.

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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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Press Only: NASHP’s Hospital Cost Tool Demonstration

NASHP

Press Only: Hospital Cost Tool Demonstration. Thursday, April 7, 2022, 1–2 p.m. ET. Register Now. To better understand hospital costs, the National Academy for State Policy (NASHP) in collaboration with Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy and Mathematica Policy Research, with support from Arnold Ventures, has launched the interactive Hospital Cost Tool.

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Readers Write: Why Data Quality Matters in Price Transparency Workflows

HIStalk

Why Data Quality Matters in Price Transparency WorkflowsBy Cory Deagle.

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2022 Supply Chain Trends With Pandush Mitre | Ep. 40

Vie Healthcare

In Episode 40 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa is joined by Pandush Mitre from the VIE Healthcare team to discuss current trends in supply chain and contract management. As Lisa comments, ‘’Hospitals that take that deep historical, analytical view and create a spend baseline… they are getting different results… than by getting a report from their vendors or just taking out a few invoices and renegotiating on that.’’.

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 4/4/22

HIStalk

I spent some time this weekend at a non-healthcare, non-technology.

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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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At-Home Digital Health Innovations Transforming Diabetes Care

HIT Consultant

Mark Clements, MD, PhD, CPI, FAAP, Chief Medical Officer, Glooko, Inc. If you’re looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19 dark cloud still enshrouding the world, consider this: The pandemic has turbocharged widespread acceptance of at-home digital health solutions. Forced to function in a world of social distancing, healthcare providers and physicians have quickly discovered how easily telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital therapeutics can improve patient care. .

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Morning Headlines 4/5/22

HIStalk

SOC Telemed Stockholders Approve Acquisition by Patient Square Capital SOC.

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A Unique Perspective on “Brain Health” from Three Moms (who are also healthcare experts!)

GoMoHealth

GoMo Health partnered with three healthcare experts (and moms!) to get their different perspectives on how to prioritize self-care – and brain health — during the perinatal journey. . Aligned with our mission to empower prenatal and postnatal women to thrive as they navigate this major life transition, we appreciate the perspective of these three experts, and their focus on taking advantage of resources and support.

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Your Guide to Healthcare Industry Competitive Analysis for Branding & Digital Marketing

Health Care Success

If you want to dominate organic, paid, and local search results, you’ve got to study your business from several angles. . Building a deep understanding of your competitors’ strengths and weaknesses and what makes your shared audience click improves branding, SEO, paid search, social media, and other general marketing strategies. . However, understanding which marketing tactics you and your competitors are doing well and which could use improvement is just the beginning. .

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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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The Marriage Plot

The Rand Blog

For more than a quarter century, the U.S. government has been sending an unmistakable message to poor, single mothers: Get married. If America genuinely wants to address poverty and achieve gender equality, this has to change.

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Health Populi

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. Underpinning that household budget concern are gas and health care costs. Overall, 55% of people in the U.S. pointed to inflation as the top challenge the nation faces (ranging from 46% of Democrats to 70% of Republicans).

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