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Queensland's Gold Coast Health deploys Rauland's Concierge platform to reduce contact in COVID-19 wards

Healthcare It News

Queensland's Gold Coast Health has set up a bedside terminal solution by health IT provider Rauland Australia to reduce physical interactions in its COVID-19 ward. WHAT IT DOES. Rauland's Concierge platform combines Siemens HiMed bedside terminals and Rauland’s software and services. It supports patient engagement with features including telehealth, on-demand patient education, patient information, electronic meal ordering, patient communications and entertainment.

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Clover Health, MedArrive Team Up for In-Home Vaccination Effort

Home Health Care

As of Friday, nearly 55% of the U.S. population was fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. Despite a strong start, that figure now puts the nation behind several other countries as far as vaccination rates. A big part of the issue with the modestly increasing vaccination rates in the U.S. is widespread skepticism, often fueled by misinformation campaigns.

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Telemedicine: What Slows Down the Healthcare of the Future

HIT Consultant

The implementation of remote healthcare — telehealth services — reformed medicine. The infamous pandemic accelerated the growth of the already substantially expanding industry. With the skyrocketing investment in virtual care, new legal regulations that expand the possibilities of remote healthcare, the telehealth industry is predicted to expand from $3 billion to $250 billion.

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Why Senior-Focused Primary Care Centers Are Reaching into the Home

Home Health Care

More and more primary care centers have chosen to specialize in serving seniors. In particular, companies such as CareMax Inc. (Nasdaq: CMAX), VillageMD and Humana Inc., mainly through its CenterWell Senior Primary Care arm, have all solidified their spots in the senior care sector by becoming a one-stop-shop for geriatric services. Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.

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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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11 Ways to Use Two-Way Text to Improve Patient Experience

Solution Reach

Real-time, two-way text is an ideal way to engage with patients, especially when managing a combination of in-person and virtual visits. Since the COVID pandemic began, interest in phone calls has dropped 14 percent. Patients would prefer electronic communications—both automated and real time. Here are several ways to use text messaging to give patients the experience they want while reducing work for staff.

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RCM: The Art of Compassionate Billing—and Why You Should Put Patients First

HIT Consultant

Florian Otto Co-founder and CEO, Cedar. A woman is charged $22,000 for stitches and scar repair after being bitten by a dog. A man gets hit with a $30,000 bill for ACL reconstruction surgery. People around the country receive Covid-19 test bills ranging from a few dollars to more than $1,000—and to make things worse, they aren’t supposed to receive a bill, anyway.

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Are patients able to shop for lower priced providers?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

This is what a study by Whaley et al. (2021) aims to find out. Many employers have introduced rewards programs as a new benefit design in which employees are paid $25–$500 if they receive care from lower-priced providers. Our goal was to assess the impact of the rewards program on procedure prices and choice of provider and how these outcomes vary by length of exposure to the program and patient population.

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Morning Headlines 9/20/21

HIStalk

Feds charge 138, including doctors, with $1.4 billion in health-care.

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Report: To Address Long-Term Care Shortages in the US, Major HCBS Investments Are Needed

Home Health Care

Home-based care advocacy comes from both sides of the aisle in Washington, D.C., these days. Now, a new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is shining further light on the need for the delivery of health care in the home. The Bipartisan Policy Center is a think tank that promotes bipartisan solutions to the country’s biggest issues. The group specifically laid out five specific recommendations to improve the availability of long-term care in one of its latest reports.