Thu.Dec 02, 2021

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CVS, Microsoft ink alliance to develop digital health, personalized products

Health Care Dive

CVS is looking to weave together its virtual and physical assets to capture a greater slice of patients' healthcare journeys — and the corresponding revenue.

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Zoom announces new integration with Cerner EHR

Healthcare It News

Zoom announced this week that it had launched an integration option with Cerner's electronic health record platform. The initiative, which is currently available to beta customers , is aimed at facilitating easier access to telehealth from within Cerner's EHR. "With virtual care here to stay, providers must focus on delivering a seamless experience for telehealth visits – one that’s easy, intuitive, and frictionless for patients, and secure, trusted and simple from a cli

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3 healthcare CIOs share top industry challenges

Health Care Dive

Healthcare CIOs help companies maintain the quality of care, balance costs, keep critical IT infrastructure up and running and attract enough talent to meet innovation goals.

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CVS inks tech partnership with Microsoft to accelerate its 'digital-first' strategy

Fierce Healthcare

CVS inks tech partnership with Microsoft to accelerate its 'digital-first' strategy. hlandi. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 06:26.

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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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HHS appeals block on vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

Health Care Dive

State and federal lawmakers are battling over the fate of a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers that will soon be decided in court. At least two major health systems have paused their vaccination requirements as a result of the pending litigation.

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PCMA pulls lawsuit over rebate disclosure rule after reaching deal with Biden admin

Fierce Healthcare

PCMA pulls lawsuit over rebate disclosure rule after reaching deal with Biden admin. rking. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 16:20.

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Google rolls out new search tools for health information on Medicare services, languages spoken by providers

Fierce Healthcare

Google rolls out new search tools for health information on Medicare services, languages spoken by providers. rtorrence. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 10:59.

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Insurers now required to pay for at-home COVID-19 tests

Health Care Dive

Nearly 150 million insured Americans will benefit from the move, helping to lower their costs for the over-the-counter tests that can retail for around $25 for one kit.

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Providers slam House for not delaying nearly 10% Medicare payment cuts in must-pass spending deal

Fierce Healthcare

Providers slam House for not delaying nearly 10% Medicare payment cuts in must-pass spending deal. rking. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 10:39.

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Stroke patients could get care more quickly via digital health

Healthcare It News

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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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Express Scripts launches new prescription discount card solution

Fierce Healthcare

Express Scripts launches new prescription discount card solution. pminemyer. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 16:00.

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CVS Health partners with Microsoft to advance digital-first strategy

Healthcare It News

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Chutes & Ladders—MetroHealth CEO, president to retire in 2022; Intermountain CIO heads to nonprofit

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—MetroHealth CEO, president to retire in 2022; Intermountain CIO heads to nonprofit. dmuoio. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 15:54.

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There’s Seemingly Endless Upside for Startups Looking to Make Their Mark on the Aging-in-Place Market

Home Health Care

There’s more room than ever for companies looking to enter the aging-in-place arena and serve the needs of seniors. That’s just one major takeaway from a new report produced by venture capital firm Primetime Partners and thinktank First Longevity. Over the long term, there are demographic changes that will increase the need for aging-in-place services.

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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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Witty: Why UnitedHealth's innovation strategy starts with breaking down silos

Fierce Healthcare

Witty: Why UnitedHealth's innovation strategy starts with breaking down silos. pminemyer. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 13:54.

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10 Reasons Why You Wake Up With a Headache Every Morning and How to Get Rid of Them

Healthcare Associates

10 Reasons You Wake Up With a Headache Every Morning and How to Get Rid of Them. Do you find yourself waking up with headaches in the morning? Are you waking up with a headache every morning? Then you’ve got some digging to do. Morning headaches are very common, and usually, they don’t just happen out of the blue. That throbbing pain in your head likely has an underlying cause, and to get rid of your morning headaches, you’ll need to figure out what’s triggering them.

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Healthcare Dealmakers—Athenahealth sells for $17B; Tenet drops $1.2B on ASCs

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare Dealmakers—Athenahealth sells for $17B; Tenet drops $1.2B on ASCs. dmuoio. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 12:17.

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Vaccination Regulation: Enforcement of Rule Imposing Vaccine Requirement for Health Care Staff in Medicare- and Medicaid-certified Providers and Suppliers is Suspended so Long as Court Ordered Injunctions Remain in Effect

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted QSO-22-04-ALL the afternoon of December 2, 2021. Here’s an excerpt from that QSO Memorandum (bolding and italics added by me): “On November 29 and November 30, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued preliminary injunctions against the implementation and enforcement of the Interim Final Rule against Med

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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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Biden will announce commercial insurers must cover at-home COVID-19 tests as part of strategy to combat omicron

Fierce Healthcare

Biden will announce commercial insurers must cover at-home COVID-19 tests as part of strategy to combat omicron. rking. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 11:48.

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Microsoft and CVS Health Partner to Accelerate Personalized Care Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: CVS Health and Microsoft announce a new strategic alliance to reimagine personalized care and accelerate digital transformation. CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Microsoft Corp. (NYSE: MSFT) today announced a new strategic alliance focused on developing innovative solutions to help consumers improve their health while empowering over 300,000 CVS Health employees – including frontline workers – with tools to better serve more than 100 million people.

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What Are the Practical Considerations for Outcome-Based Payment in the NHS?

The Rand Blog

Uncertainty can surround the effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of a new medicine, making it difficult to agree on a medicine's price. One solution to avoid unduly delaying or restricting patients' access is to link the medicine's price to the outcomes it produces in a patient. Despite some barriers, outcome-based payment could offer a “win” for patients, the NHS, and industry.

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The 4 Forces Shaping Home Health Care in 2022

Home Health Care

Home health operators each year have to adapt on a number of different fronts, from relatively minor coding updates to major payment adjustments. But in addition to the more run-of-the-mill items, providers occasionally have to navigate macro-level forces that literally change the industry itself. At least four such forces will redefine home health care in 2022, I believe.

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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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Artificial Intelligence, MRI Detect Early Signs Of Tumor Cell Death

Health IT Analytics

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Fastest-Growing Brands for 2021 Are About Digital Money, Social Connections and Boomers’ Best Lives

Health Populi

Two pharmaceutical companies bubble up among the 20 fastest-growing brands for 2021 in Morning Consult’s report on the Fastest-Growing Brands of 2021. But the surprise in this year’s top 20 brand rankings was that five of them addressed consumers’ financial flows: Coinbase, AfterPay. Cash App, Mastercard, Chime, and Bitcoin. One year ago when I covered this study, I found that the fastest-growing brands of 2020 had everything to do with the pandemic.

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Social Determinants Of Health Cause COVID-19 Health Disparities

Health IT Analytics

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Meet David Tolley, Petrie-Flom Center Advisory Board Member

Bill Of Health

The Petrie-Flom Center is excited to welcome David Tolley to our Advisory Board ! Tolley is a Partner at Latham & Watkins LLP and is the chair of the Litigation & Trial Department for the firm’s Boston office. He represents health care organizations in high stakes matters, including government investigations and litigation. Tolley has also worked on pro bono litigation with the Center for Health Law Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School to help secure access to life-saving therapies f

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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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How Aveanna Has ‘Materially Changed’ Its Business After Going Public

Home Health Care

When Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) became a public company earlier this year, it expressed the desire to expand its reach past pediatric home health to seniors. While there were some skeptics within the industry on how feasible that would be, the Atlanta-based company has done an impressive job executing on that strategy thus far. On Wednesday, it announced that it had closed on Southern California-based Accredited Home Care for a purchase price of $180 million.

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Dark Data in Healthcare: Health IT’s Next Big Opportunity?

HIT Consultant

Dr. Christopher Bouton, CEO & Founder, Vyasa. Healthcare IT professionals have long faced data challenges – from sorting out storage issues during the Big Data age to complying with HL7 standards to adapting infrastructure amidst a rapid shift to telehealth. While these advancements have all improved information sharing across the industry and ultimately the patient experience, it’s also created mountains of data.

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Zero Suicide for Behavioral Health Practices 

Icanotes

If you're a healthcare professional, you care about your patients. You want them to have the best chance at recovery. You may wonder how you could've helped those who commit suicide even though they've seen a professional for their suicidal thoughts. There is a way to potentially help patients contemplating suicide, and it's to implement the Zero Suicide model.

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Is Dark Data Healthcare IT’s Next Big Opportunity?

HIT Consultant

Dr. Christopher Bouton, CEO & Founder, Vyasa. Healthcare IT professionals have long faced data challenges – from sorting out storage issues during the Big Data age to complying with HL7 standards to adapting infrastructure amidst a rapid shift to telehealth. While these advancements have all improved information sharing across the industry and ultimately the patient experience, it’s also created mountains of data.

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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.