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New Jersey hospitals appeal FTC merger challenge

Health Care Dive

Hackensack Meridian Health, the largest health system in New Jersey, wants to to acquire a close competitor. The Federal Trade Commission won an injunction to stop the deal, which is now headed to an appeals court.

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Federal judge grants final approval of $575M settlement against Sutter Health

Fierce Healthcare

Federal judge grants final approval of $575M settlement against Sutter Health. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 13:13.

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Philips sleep apnea, ventilator recall triggers US lawmaker scrutiny, legal woes

Health Care Dive

Patients seeking class-action status and Sen. Richard Blumenthal are questioning the medtech's timing of the recall and outreach to patients. Philips has not quantified the impact of the suits but said it could be material.

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As NNU blames hospital cost cutting for labor shortage, industry groups keep the focus on COVID-19

Fierce Healthcare

As NNU blames hospital cost cutting for labor shortage, industry groups keep the focus on COVID-19. dmuoio. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 17:25.

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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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Cleveland Clinic profitable in Q2 as patients return, but COVID-19 surge hits Florida hospitals

Health Care Dive

The hospital system's rebound from 2020's pandemic-driven losses accelerated, but its facilities in Florida saw an increase in COVID-19 patients in July and August, with some non-emergency care postponed.

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Hospitals to face new emission goals, and potential penalties for noncompliance, under new HHS office

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals to face new emission goals, and potential penalties for noncompliance, under new HHS office. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 11:12.

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Employers name mental health access as key priority: survey

Fierce Healthcare

Employers name mental health access as key priority: survey. pminemyer. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 14:25.

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Embracing transformation to thrive in the future of healthcare

Health Care Dive

Healthcare leaders identify their top priorities and investments in the months ahead.

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As NNU blames hospital cost cutting for labor shortage, industry groups keep the focus on COVID-19

Fierce Healthcare

As NNU blames hospital cost cutting for labor shortage, industry groups keep the focus on COVID-19. dmuoio. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 17:25.

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How asset management can address the cybersecurity implications of HIPAA

Health Care Dive

Learn how cybersecurity asset management can help evaluate HIPAA security rule compliance.

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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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Louisiana hospitals mend damaged roofs, coordinate patient transfers following Hurricane Ida

Fierce Healthcare

Louisiana hospitals mend damaged roofs, coordinate patient transfers following Hurricane Ida. dmuoio. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 13:26.

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Costa Rica Leads the Way in Cutting Carbon Emissions

The Rand Blog

Almost every country has pledged to slash carbon emissions to slow the gears of global warming. Costa Rica's plan provides a glimpse of what a carbon-neutral future will look like. It shows how nations can take action and make investments that hold up, regardless of what future comes to pass.

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Fitch: COVID-19 resurgence threatens nonprofit hospitals' margins, credit ratings

Fierce Healthcare

Fitch: COVID-19 resurgence threatens nonprofit hospitals' margins, credit ratings. dmuoio. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 14:44.

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‘We Want to Support People Being in Their Home’: Walmart, Amazon Outline Health Care Strategies

Home Health Care

If home-based care is not a very real part of both Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) future health care plans, each has done a bad job of hiding it lately. During MATTER’s recent “Healthcare 2040: Changing Care Delivery Models” virtual event, each behemoth company had a representative touting home-based care and the outsized role it would play in the future of U.S. health care.

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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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Cleveland Clinic posts $339M profit in Q2 after major patient revenue rebound

Fierce Healthcare

Cleveland Clinic posts $339M profit in Q2 after major patient revenue rebound. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 15:10.

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How CommonSpirit Reduced Medicare Spending by $136M

Home Health Care

CommonSpirit Health carved out $136 million in savings to Medicare for 2020, while also improving overall outcomes for hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries, the company recently announced. CommonSpirit Health is a participant in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), which began back in 2012 after being designed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Sutter Health pays DOJ $90M to settle False Claims Act lawsuit over Medicare Advantage mischarging

Fierce Healthcare

Sutter Health pays DOJ $90M to settle False Claims Act lawsuit over Medicare Advantage mischarging. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 16:30.

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Afghanistan Was Lost Long Ago

The Rand Blog

The United States failed to build a lasting state in Afghanistan. Although the mission was not doomed from the start, early miscalculations and critical mistakes made success unlikely.

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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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Olive launches an in-house studio to help boost digital health innovations

Fierce Healthcare

Olive launches an in-house studio to help boost digital health innovations. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 12:57.

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Mitigating Bias in Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

Bill Of Health

By Sara Gerke and Chloe Reichel. Recently, Google announced a new direct-to-consumer (DTC) health app powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose skin conditions. The company met criticism for the app , because the AI was primarily trained on images from people with darker white skin, light brown skin, and fair skin. This means the app may end up over-or under-diagnosing conditions for people with darker skin tones.

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Sanas’ Accent-Matching Solution for BPOs Launches with $6M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today Sanas.ai – which has been operating under stealth for a couple of years – is launching and announcing seed funding. Their AI platform for audio matches the accent of the person you’re speaking with to yours with no perceptible lag time. Top venture funds investing in the company’s $5.5 million seed round include Human Capital, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, and DN Capital.

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Meeting the challenges of managing the military patient's journey

Healthcare It News

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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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PreciseMDX Launches Digital Health Platform to Automate Diagnostic Testing Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PreciseMDX , the leading end-to-end digital health platform, introduces a cloud-based solution that automates and simplifies the diagnostic testing experience, empowering labs to deliver a transformative journey to providers and patients. PreciseMDX dramatically improves connectivity between clinical labs, providers, and patients during every step of the diagnostic testing process for any type of test. – Their first-of-its-kind platform enables labs of any siz

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CMS Releases Latest Nursing Home Provider Datasets

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Last week (August 25, 2021), CMS posted 19 updated Nursing Homes Including Rehab Services Datasets : FY 2021 SNF VBP Facility-Level Dataset Provider Information Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program – National Data Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program – Swing Beds – Provider Data MDS Quality Measures Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program – Provider Data Penalties

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Using Data Analytics to Close Care Gaps, Improve Patient Outcomes

Health IT Analytics

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Team Coaching in Healthcare: Driving Ownership For Results

Medi Leadership

>> Access part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 of this series. The most common refrain we, as coaches, hear when we interview leaders in an organization is, “We need more accountability in this place!” That’s consistent with data compiled by Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , reporting accountability as the component teams cite as their greatest need.

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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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SDOH Play Role in Surge in Youth Diabetes Cases, Health Disparities

Health IT Analytics

According to a new study,… read more

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Latest COVID-19 Data from CMS, NHSN and CDC

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted NH data for week ending August 15, 2021. The home page for the CMS nursing home data is found here. CDC’s COVID Data Tracker shows this information: NHSN’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Data Dashboard shows this data (as of August 23, 2021): The NHSN data reflects the rise in cases and deaths for both residents and staff in nursing homes.

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Right at Home Helps Franchisees Launch Vaccination Clinics as Delta Variant Continues to Spread

Home Health Care

Right at Home has teamed up with the National Minority Health Association (NMHA) and its COVID-19 vaccination reward program, Flex for Checks. “It’s a really great holistic program that we are pretty excited about,” Kerin Zuger, chief of strategic growth at Right at Home, told Home Health Care News. Right at Home has more than 500 home care offices across the U.S., in addition to a footprint in seven other countries.

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Health Care Code Sets: ICD-10 (MLN Matters)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. MLN Matters has posted a Health Care Code Sets Fact Sheet which is a great educational and reference tool. You’ll find updated information in red font within the Fact Sheet. Medicare code sets provide an easy guide for health care providers, suppliers, medical coders, and billing and claims staff when submitting inpatient and outpatient claims for diagnoses, procedures, medical equipment, supplies, and drugs.

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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.