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Magnolia Regional used price transparency IT to get more CHF patients to fill their prescriptions

Healthcare It News

Cost is a major determining factor for patients deciding whether to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. When medications are too expensive, patients may abandon them, regardless of how important they are to their health. THE PROBLEM. The impact of non-adherence is dire in terms of patient outcomes, with up to 125,000 avoidable deaths attributed to non-adherence every year, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study.

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ACLA, AdvaMed urge Congress to immediately replenish COVID-19 testing fund

Health Care Dive

The lab and medtech groups joined a coalition of more than 60 organizations warning congressional leaders the funding expiration puts “the most vulnerable” Americans at risk of losing resources to diagnose new infections.

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Encompass Health Focused on Home Health Hiring, Medicare Advantage Relationships

Home Health Care

Encompass Health reported a strong financial first quarter for 2022 despite continued staffing constraints in its home health business. On Wednesday, Encompass Health reported total revenue of $1.33 billion for Q1 2022, up 8.4% compared to $1.23 billion in Q1 2021. Its home health revenue checked in at $224 million, up 2.3% from $220 million a year ago.

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Molina's first-quarter COVID-19 costs reached highest peak since pandemic's start, CEO says

Health Care Dive

Still, those costs were almost entirely offset by members cutting back on healthcare visits, a common trend throughout the pandemic, CEO Joe Zubretsky said Thursday.

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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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Questions Linger as Home-Based Care Shifts Toward Value-Based Care

Home Health Care

It would be silly to have an argument over whether value-based care is a good principle. That’s unless, of course, you had to parse out what exactly each individual or organization meant when they referred to value-based care. No one would argue – or should argue – that making the health care system more focused on providing good outcomes for patients at a lower cost is a bad thing.

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Moderna seeks FDA clearance for COVID-19 vaccine in young children

Health Care Dive

The biotech's shot would become the first available to children under 6, the last remaining age group currently ineligible for vaccination.

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Tracking Migration Amid War and Disease

The Rand Blog

Researchers from RAND and RAND Europe have been working on a way to better track migrant numbers, country by country and state by state, in almost real time. They do it by tapping into one of the largest information-gathering operations on the planet, Facebook.

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Komodo Health & AppliedVR Partner to Drive Therapeutic VR for Chronic Pain

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Komodo Health , a company delivering patient-level insights by dynamically analyzing the broadest array of data across patients, practitioners, and health systems. today announced a new partnership with AppliedVR , the leader in therapeutic virtual reality (VR) for pain management. – Using Komodo’s technology, AppliedVR will combine its proprietary insights with Komodo’s real-world data to conduct clinical research into the efficacy, cost savings, and health s

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Amedisys Unconcerned Over Looming Proposed Payment Rate, Ready to Take On Medicare Advantage

Home Health Care

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) will soon be in a league of its own, at least to a certain extent. There are certainly plenty of independent, home-focused companies still on the publicly traded market. But the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based provider has seen its direct peers go one way or the other over the years, especially of late. Humana (NYSE: HUM) acquired all of Kindred at Home.

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Inspire Medical Systems Invests in AI Startup EnsoData

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Inspire Medical Systems has announced its investment in EnsoData , an artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare company helping clinicians uncover disease while patients sleep. – EnsoData’s technology helps address some of the most intractable problems in healthcare: access and affordability for patients and clinician burnout.

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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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Care Compare April Refresh of SNF QRP Data – Now Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The April 2022 refresh of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) data is now available on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC). The data are based on quality assessment data submitted by SNFs to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from Quarter 3, 2020 through Quarter 2, 2021.

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3 Keys to Eliminating Data Breakdowns in Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

Sudish Mogul, Chief Technology Officer of Healthcare Triangle. Across life sciences, experts boldly predict that data is the new currency—and that mobilizing data from clinical trials, wearable devices and even social media will ignite innovation in 2022. But leveraging data for innovation depends not just on data analytics, but also access to the right data and timely analysis.

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Attention LTCH Providers – Errors in CARE Data Sets

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) discovered an error in the patient counts for each LTCH CARE Data Set (LCDS) measure in the March 2022 provider preview reports originally released on April 13, 2022, related to the June 2022 refresh of LTCH quality data on CMS Care Compare.

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Philips and Prisma Health Partner to Drive Enterprise Interoperability & Imaging Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – South Carolina’s largest health system Prisma Health adopts Philips software solutions for patient monitoring and enterprise imaging, helping to drive interoperability and data analytics, and deliver on Quadruple Aim. – The partnership reflects today’s growing trend of long-term strategic partnerships (LSPs) within hospitals and health systems to better manage the cost and complexity of their technology investments over a defined period of time while expanding

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News 4/29/22

HIStalk

Top News Teladoc Health reports Q1 results: revenue up 25%,

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Femtech Startup Ruth Health Secures $2.4M to Transform Telehealth Approach to Pregnancy Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Femtech startup Ruth Health providing progressive telehealth and comprehensive care platform built for women by women announced it has raised $2.4M seed funding round led by Giant Ventures , with participation from Citylight VC , Cleo Capital Scout Fund , Crista Galli Ventures , Duro VC , Emmeline Ventures , Gaingels , Global Founders Capital , Pentas Ventures , SOMA Capital , Techstars , Torch Capital , YCombinator , and various strategic angels.

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Summary of Key Points: New Optional Event-Level COVID-19 Vaccination Forms in NHSN

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The NHSN Vaccination Team hosted two office hours webinars for the Event-Level COVID-19 Vaccination Forms on Tuesday, April 12th and Tuesday, April 19th. During these webinars, CDC provided long-term care facilities with an overview of how to use this feature to manage person-level vaccination data directly in the application for the COVID-19 Vaccination Modules and discussed frequently asked questions in detail.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

Four in five U.S. physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st.

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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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Walter A. Shewhart: The father of Statistical Process Control

Life Qi

Walter Shewhart (1891 - 1967), known by all as the 'father of statistical process control', became famous, not only for being the master of Deming, but especially for his contributions in the field of statistics and for having developed the theory of common and special causes of variations. In this article, we’re going to find out about his life, his work and his improvement legacy which we benefit from even now, over a century later.

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AWS Awards Arine Grant to Develop Solutions to Reduce Health Inequity

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Intelligent medical optimization company Arine has been awarded has been selected for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) $40M global program supporting organizations that are developing solutions to reduce health inequities. The latest funding will be used to support NotiSphere’s hiring to expand adoption across the industry and enable scalability to support the rapidly growing number of users. – Arine’s proprietary tech platform analyzes comprehensive dat

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Defining How Often HIPAA training Needs to Take Place

Etactics

You want your staff to handle protected health information (PHI) safely and legally. Unfortunately, people tend to forget some of the details about how to stay HIPAA compliant. That’s why healthcare entities administer training. But how often does HIPAA training need to take place? The Privacy Rule and the Security Rule are two of the best-known HIPAA safeguards.

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How interoperability can support value-based care

Nordic

The healthcare industry continues to move away from the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment model and toward value-based care (VBC). The 2021 Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) report found that 40.9 percent of U.S. healthcare payments were tied to value-based reimbursement models, nearly doubling since 2015, when only 23 percent of payments were tied to VBC models.

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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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HIPAA Nightmare: Dentist tells patient to Get a Life

Healthcare Performance

Dr. U. Phillip Igbinadolor, D.M.D. & Associates received a $50,000 civil monetary penalty after his practice disclosed patient PHI in its response to a negative online review. The practice did not respond to the OCR’s data request, did not respond to an administrative subpoena, and did not contest the findings in the OCR’s Notice of Proposed Determination.

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Update to Chapter 7, Home Health Services – Medicare Benefit Policy Manual  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted Transmittal 11386 – Change Request 12615 on April 27, 2022. Look for the red ink on pages 7, 8 and 9 of this 9-page Transmittal.

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Hospital Cost Tool

NASHP

The post Hospital Cost Tool appeared first on The National Academy for State Health Policy.

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Quality of Patient Care Star Rating Preview Reports (HH) for the July 2022 Refresh and Care Compare Quarterly Refresh – April 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. There are incorrect date ranges included for the Acute Care Hospitalization measure on the Quality of Patient Care Star Rating Preview Report, however, all included provider measure scores are accurate. The report should note that the Acute Care Hospitalization claims-based measure reports data from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.

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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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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 4/28/22

HIStalk

Half a dozen people sent me this article about.

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NotiSphere Raises $3.6M to Scale Medical Recall Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NotiSphere , a healthcare technology startup focused on transforming the medical recall alert process by directly connecting suppliers to recall coordinators at healthcare organizations, today announced a $3.6 million Series Seed round led by Royal Street Ventures , with participation from Okapi Ventures , Stage Venture Partners , Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , Coelius Capital , Supernode Ventures and Cedars Sinai Health Ventures.

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Morning Headlines 4/29/22

HIStalk

Teladoc Health Reports First Quarter 2022 Results Teladoc Health reports.

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What’s The Role of Digital Health in Public Health?

HIT Consultant

To a certain extent, the national conversation about the importance of a robust public health system has been happening for the last couple of years in the context of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, rather than discussing how the system can be strengthened and expanded, we’ve instead largely limited it to what the government can and cannot ask the public to do, as though the necessity of a public health system is still in doubt.

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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.