Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Whoever replaces Krevans will inherit a difficult financial situation, shaky relations with worker groups and a brand marred by several recent legal disputes with the federal government.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
CMS official says Medicaid must cover Aduhelm as industry awaits national coverage decision. pminemyer. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 10:54.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Providence health system this week announced the launch of its new Providence National Foundation, which aims to drive philanthropy for technology-driven innovation and clinical research toward whole person care, health equity and more. WHY IT MATTERS. Providence National Foundation will work with local organizations across the seven states covered by the health system: Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Aetna hit with class-action lawsuit alleging discriminatory policies for mental health treatment. hlandi. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 17:16.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
This study of health delivery organizations is one of the first finding a direct impact on patient care down the line, and comes roughly a year after a patient in Germany died as a result of delayed care following a ransomware attack.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
How many employees have hospitals lost to vaccine mandates? Here are the numbers so far. dmuoio. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 15:38.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
UnitedHealthcare to make Apple Fitness+ available in fully insured employer plans. pminemyer. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 14:57.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Noelle Eder, who first joined the company in August 2020, will add data and analytics to her role.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Evernorth CEO Tim Wentworth to retire, Eric Palmer tapped as successor. pminemyer. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 12:21.
Briggs Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted nursing home COVID-19 data for week ending September 12, 2021. This latest data set shows these changes from the September 5 th data set: Resident vaccination remains unchanged from the previous week Staff vaccination increased 0.7% from the previous week Resident confirmed cases increased 5,257 from the previous week Staff confirmed cases increased 6,968 from the previous week An additional 435 resident deaths
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Walmart, large employers launch virtual care service to tackle Black health disparities. hlandi. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 14:59.
Health Recovery
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The healthcare ecosystem is experiencing many obstacles today. The COVID-19 pandemic, the nursing shortage, and the added challenge of health inequity pose large barriers to healthcare delivery.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Chutes & Ladders—Sutter Health president, CEO to retire; Joint Commission taps HCA's Perlin for top spot. dmuoio. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 17:37.
Center for Health Progress
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Clinician jobs platform Nomad Health targets industry-wide labor shortage with $63M equity, debt raise. dmuoio. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 11:14.
Spok Inc
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
HL7 standards are important to healthcare interoperability goals and EHR optimization. Read this post to learn more about HL7 standards, including APIs and FHIR. The post HL7: What it is and why it’s important to understand appeared first on Spok Inc.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Dems seek to save competing health priorities in potentially pared down $3.5T infrastructure bill. rking. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 15:31.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Trade groups, providers and individuals have always advocated on behalf of the home health and home care sectors. In doing so, stakeholders have confronted both wins and losses along the way. Some of those milestones are old. Some of them — especially with the onset of the ground-shaking COVID-19 pandemic last year — are fresh on everybody’s minds.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
KFF: Analysis finds out-of-pocket spending on dental, hearing in Medicare far outweighs vision benefits. rking. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 16:22.
Life Qi
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Whilst identifying and proving a changes result in improvement is commendable, the sustainability of the changes is the real measure of long term success! Once your QI project is implemented you may think that your job is done. But what use is an improvement without the conditions to ensure it is maintained? To sustain continuous QI can be a carefully orchestrated balance of conditions, ranging from leadership, to measuring success, to consistency, all of which we are going to explore in this ar
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Zelis Helps Address New NSA and TiC Regulations. admin. Thu, 09/23/2021 - 15:54.
Meditech
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
COVID-19 continues to change the way we all live and work, and as healthcare leaders, our frontline providers have seen and experienced the pandemic like no one else. They have continued to support their patients and colleagues through these difficult and historic times, incorporating new innovations into their daily work.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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Healthcare Leadership Council
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
In the complex deliberations on Capitol Hill to assemble a social spending package that can pass both houses, one of the prominent proposals being discussed is the expansion of Medicare benefits to include dental, vision, and hearing coverage. The cost would be significant, over $300 billion over 10 years based on an earlier estimate. There are valid arguments to be made for closing gaps in current Medicare coverage.
Advanced Data Systems
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Delivering healthcare today is a more dynamic and complicated process than in the previous century. While we enjoy the benefits of advanced technology, which improves how we collaborate with external partners and accelerates treatment planning, there are regulatory compliance issues to contend with that add layers of effort.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
One in two people in the U.S. receive health insurance through employers. As large employers tend to be on the vanguard of benefit plan design, it’s useful to understand how these companies are thinking ahead on behalf of their employees. With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey.
Health IT Analytics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
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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.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) M&A run continues. The Lafayette, Louisiana-based company recently announced agreements to acquire Generations Home Health along with Freda H. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care, both in Virginia Beach, Virginia. LHC Group expects $7 million in annual revenue from the deals. Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.
Briggs Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CDC has posted COVID-19 community data for Time Period: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 – Tuesday, September 21, 2021. Remember that you can determine your community’s level of transmission on this same page, using the options seen below on that page. On this CDC page , you’ll see this data as of September 22, 2021, at 4:30pm (ET): NHSN nursing home data as of September 20, 2021 @ 5:30am (ET) : CMS has not yet updated its
Health Business Group
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Mike Rea is a self-professed bad scientist and bad musician but despite –and perhaps even because– of those limitations, he’s built some pretty good companies. As CEO of IDEA Pharma and Protodigm , he makes a distinction between the invention of a drug in the lab and the level of innovation in its development. Although he compares the work to that of a CRO, he clarifies that it’s really a bit upstream from there.
Briggs Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The subtitle of this September 22, 2021 AHCA/NCAL Press Release is “86 percent of nursing homes and 77 percent of assisted living providers said their workforce situation has gotten worse over the last three months. 58 percent of nursing homes limiting new admissions due to shortages.
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.
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