Mon.Feb 07, 2022

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Staffing overtakes financial challenges as top concern among hospital CEOs, survey finds

Health Care Dive

While earlier shortages were characterized by staff calling in sick and school closures, stress and burnout now are leading to rising turnover with many healthcare personnel at their breaking points.

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The Risk of Scientific Misinformation with Preprints and Science Twitter

Bill Of Health

By Matthew Bauer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, science has moved quickly, and the pace of disseminating research findings also has sped up. When science (and the media) moves this quickly, all involved — including scientists, journalists, and the general public — should exercise a greater degree of caution when interpreting research. Peer review vs.

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COVID-19 upended the cold chain. And it was for the best.

Health Care Dive

Ultimately, the necessitated innovations of the last two years accelerated the development of a smarter, more resilient global infrastructure.

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Modi's Foreign-Policy Juggling Act

The Rand Blog

India lives in a difficult neighborhood, and there are no easy, straightforward solutions. But thus far—and especially under Modi—India has managed its foreign-policy challenges with remarkable effectiveness. With new partners and by making some tough decisions, there is a very good chance that it will continue to do so.

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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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Hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections rare and dropping, study suggests

Health Care Dive

In the last half of 2021, the rate of patients who contracted COVID-19 in a hospital rose at only half the rate as overall COVID-19 admissions, likely due to increased vaccination rates, researchers said.

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Patient Payment Tools to Accelerate Cash Flow

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 2 minutes The payment process often involves small hurdles that can quickly grind cash flow to a halt for healthcare practices. Digitizing a handful of points on the patient journey can eliminate those hurdles while improving efficiency overall. Do you know all the ways you can make cash flow frictionless within your practice? Automation.

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CMS Revises COVID-19 Focused Infection Control Survey Tool for Acute and Continuing Care Providers and Suppliers

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has revised QSO-21-08-NLTC with the date of February 4, 2022, and the same title as the title of the blog. There’s a lot of red in the entire 4-page Memorandum beyond the Memorandum Summary (above). Note also that the Memorandum now includes Providers and Suppliers which is italicized and in the title in red ink. “ Refocusing the COVID-19 FIC Survey and Tool for Acute and Continuing Care: Returning to the Existing Standa

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CVS Health Taps Medable to Bring Decentralized Clinical Trials to Pharmacies Nationwide

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medable and CVS Health announced a strategic collaboration that will make clinical research more accessible to patients of all demographics. Using Medable’s decentralized trial platform available to CVS Health’s thousands of community MinuteClinics nationwide, most people will be within just five minutes of a decentralized clinical trial research site – finally busting the longstanding barrier to research for millions of Americans. – Where applicable, CVS Heal

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Exploring Aromatic Love Potions on Valentine’s Day

American College of Healthcare Sciences

Whether you are indulging in self-care, celebrating love with your special love, or your family and friends, this Valentine’s Day, plan to luxuriate in sensual essential oils and harmonious herbs. It is a great time to boost your home apothecary and we have curated an alchemical love collection of herbs and oils and other tools just for you. History is rich with examples of aromatic love potions.

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Koda Health Raises $3.5M to Expand Advance Directives Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Koda Health , a Houston, TX-based advance directives platform empowering patients to take control of their healthcare journey raises $3.5M in seed funding led by Ecliptic Capital alongside participation from Headwater Ventures , Sigmas Capital , CRCM, and a number of angel investors. The funding will be used to double the size of Koda’s team over the next six months and expand operations to all 50 states. . – Most commonly found Advance Directives are no

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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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‘Huge Shift in Strategy’ Paying Off for House Calls Company Heal

Home Health Care

Los Angeles-based Heal is among the in-home primary care providers working to “bring back the house call” in modern medicine. It’s doing so in 2022 with a pretty major overhaul to its business strategy. Launched in 2014 by husband-and-wife team Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, Heal started out as an on-demand primary care company serving the general public instead of a targeted patient population.

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How to Break the Cycle of Conflict with Russia

The Rand Blog

Europe might well be on the brink of a major catastrophe. Until Russia, the United States, Europe, and the states stuck in between them reach a consensus on a revised regional order, post-Soviet Eurasia will remain a source of instability and conflict.

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How Home Care Co-Ops Are Sidestepping Some of the Industry’s Biggest Challenges

Home Health Care

While there are thousands of home care agencies operating across the U.S., very few are currently considered true “home care co-ops,” or organizations that are owned and directed by the workers themselves. Some believe that may change moving forward, with the workforce-driven co-op model potentially gaining more popularity amid ongoing labor challenges.

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The Impact of Health Information Management Services on The Revenue Cycle

Advanced Data Systems

newIt’s essential to pay close attention to the flow of revenue in your healthcare organization. And to that end, prudent managers will make sure that they use the right tools to gain insight into the revenue cycle and to manage the details.

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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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Morning Headlines 2/8/22

HIStalk

AristaMD Acquires Referral Management Solution, Preferral, to Increase Patient Access.

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Patient Demand and Overuse of Prescription Drugs

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The concept of moral hazard is well-known. If patients pay a small share of drug or other medical cost, they may decide to overuse such services. Physicians, however, may also have an incentive to overprescribe if either their reimbursement is tied to prescriptions written. For instance, CMS pays physicians 103% of wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) for any physician administered drugs; thus reimbursement to physicians increases with WAC.

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HIStalk Interviews Torbjörn Kronander, CEO, Sectra

HIStalk

Torbjörn Kronander, PhD, MSEE, MBA is president and SEO of.

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Social Media in Healthcare: 7 Ways to Increase Consumer Engagement in 2022

Health Care Success

Social media is an indisputable knowledge hub for every type of consumer, including the healthcare consumer. In the United States alone, eight in 10 internet users search for health information online and 74% of these people use social media. Consumers are returning to their favorite social media platforms time and again to get the information they need from the sources they know and trust. .

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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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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 2/7/22

HIStalk

As a consulting clinical informaticist, one of the things I’m.

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Former VP Al Gore Sees Home-Based Care as ‘Central’ to a Sustainable Health Care System

Home Health Care

Former Vice President Al Gore believes he is as big of a proponent for home-based care as he is the environment. Well, maybe not quite. But he did express a lot of enthusiasm for delivering health care in the home at Home Care 100 Monday, both with surface-level compliments and more in-depth arguments. Specifically, Gore discussed how and why more money should be diverted to providers in both personal home care and home health care.

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Top 5 Data Management Challenges Healthcare Organizations Face

HIT Consultant

Micah Horner, Product Marketing Manager at TimeXtender. In the United States, healthcare costs make up more than 17% of GDP. The data that healthcare organizations generate, collect, and manage is massive, having an ever-growing impact on the industry. RBC Capital Markets, a global investment bank, estimates that approximately 30% of the world’s data volume is generated by the healthcare industry.

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How China Plays by Different Rules—at Everyone Else's Expense

The Rand Blog

A single Chinese state-run firm has secured a controlling interest in at least 33 radio stations in 14 countries. But there is virtually no opportunity for foreign ownership, input, or influence in the Chinese media marketplace. This inequity presents U.S. leaders with an opportunity: Unless China opens its media marketplace to foreign investment and ownership, its firms should be forced to divest their American holdings.

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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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How China Plays by Different Rules—at Everyone Else's Expense

The Rand Blog

A single Chinese state-run firm has secured a controlling interest in at least 33 radio stations in 14 countries. But there is virtually no opportunity for foreign ownership, input, or influence in the Chinese media marketplace. This inequity presents U.S. leaders with an opportunity: Unless China opens its media marketplace to foreign investment and ownership, its firms should be forced to divest their American holdings.

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