Fri.Dec 09, 2022

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OSHA moves ahead with permanent COVID-19 standards for health workers

Health Care Dive

The submission for permanent COVID-19 safety standards comes after temporary pandemic requirements for medical facilities were withdrawn last December.

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IHI Forum: Don Berwick calls out greed, rallies industry to protest monetization of healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

IHI Forum: Don Berwick calls out greed, rallies industry to protest monetization of healthcare. agliadkovskaya. Fri, 12/09/2022 - 18:09.

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Variability in Medicare direct contracting savings illustrates promises, pitfalls of value-based care

Health Care Dive

Accountable care organizations' net savings rates ranged from -29.4% to 29.2% in the 2021 Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model.

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Medscape physician survey reveals attitudes on anti-vaxxers, expensive treatment plans, other ethical dilemmas

Fierce Healthcare

Medscape physician survey reveals attitudes on anti-vaxxers, expensive treatment plans, other ethical dilemmas. agliadkovskaya. Fri, 12/09/2022 - 12:40.

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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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Centene reaches $17M settlement with Oregon

Health Care Dive

The payer has reached settlements with 13 states over allegations it overcharged Medicaid programs.

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Many Americans view the economy as a major healthcare concern: Oscar Health survey

Fierce Healthcare

Many Americans view the economy as a major healthcare concern: Oscar Health survey. pminemyer. Fri, 12/09/2022 - 15:58.

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As Twitter rolls back its ban on COVID misinformation, some health experts worry about threat to public health

Fierce Healthcare

As Twitter rolls back its ban on COVID misinformation, some health experts worry about threat to public health. aburky. Fri, 12/09/2022 - 17:35.

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Historic Research Conference Combats the Rise in Gun Violence

The Rand Blog

With new funding for gun violence prevention research, projects are beginning to produce findings. To capitalize on the new findings and help integrate the growing field of researchers working on gun violence prevention, RAND partnered with other research programs to organize the 2022 National Research Conference on Firearm Injury Prevention.

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Mark Cuban's drug company targets self-insured employer market

Fierce Healthcare

Mark Cuban's drug company targets self-insured employer market. hlandi. Fri, 12/09/2022 - 13:51.

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Future Leader: Aaron Stapleton, Founder And CEO, Trinity In Home Care

Home Health Care

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Aaron Stapleton, founder and CEO of the Cincinnati-based Trinity In Home Care, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care 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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Blue Shield of California partners with DispatchHealth for in-home care

Fierce Healthcare

Blue Shield of California partners with DispatchHealth for in-home care. pminemyer. Fri, 12/09/2022 - 13:49.

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5 Behavioral Health Trends Coming Into Focus in 2023

HIT Consultant

Daniel Etra, co-founder, and CEO of RethinkFirst. For the past two years, behavioral health in the U.S. has taken center stage, but the true impact of COVID-19 on families is just now coming into focus. The lingering effect of the pandemic combined with social stressors on top of life’s daily pressures is all taking its toll on mental health. Instead of declining post-pandemic, as a nation, we’re continuing to see an increase in the number of people struggling with some form of anxiety and depre

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FDA OKs bivalent COVID boosters for kids as young 6 months

Fierce Healthcare

FDA OKs bivalent COVID boosters for kids as young 6 months. fdiamond. Fri, 12/09/2022 - 07:49.

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‘Microwave Cooking Of Health Care’: Amid Shift To Value, Providers Caution Against Telehealth

Home Health Care

In order to stay ahead of the needs of consumers and payers, post-acute care leaders — including those in home-based care — are looking to innovate how care and services are delivered to seniors. A major part of this is moving their organizations toward more integrated, cross-continuum care. At Homebase Medical, this means placing a greater emphasis on improving communication.

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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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Serena Williams-Backed Juno Medical Raises $12M to Expand Tech-Enabled Healthcare Clinics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Juno Medical, the modern doctor’s office that’s designed for the 99% raises $12M in Series A funding co-led by Julian Eison, Managing Partner at NEXT VENTURES , and Serena Williams, Managing Partner at Serena Ventures. Other notable participants include Vast Ventures, which led Juno’s seed round, Empire State Development’s New York Ventures, TXV Partners, Genius Guild, Gaingels, and previous investors Atento Capital and Humbition. – Juno’s produ

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Home Care Providers Turn To Technology To Create Sense Of Community Among Workers

Home Health Care

Some of the largest difficulties in home-based care stem from one reality: that the workforce is remote. Yet, providers often preach about the importance of cultivating a culture that is welcoming, engaging and gives employees a sense of purpose. In order to do so, providers have gone lots of different routes. All the while, there are companies popping up that are specifically tailoring their business models to help home-based care providers with this.

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WellSpan Health & Helix to Create Population Genomics Program

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – WellSpan Health and Helix , the nation’s leading population genomics and viral surveillance company, announced today a partnership to create a comprehensive population genomics program designed to improve patient healthcare outcomes by integrating genetic insights into clinical care and research. – Patients who are interested can have a DNA sample collected to generate genomic data.

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How China Is Building Influence Through Arms Sales

The Rand Blog

China may be using arms sales to strengthen alliances around the South China Sea and counter the United States' regional alliances. Beijing's security relationships around the South China Sea could be a harbinger of what it might replicate in Africa and possibly Latin America.

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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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Revisions to Appendix I – Survey Procedures for Life Safety Code Surveys

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted Transmittal 209 – Revisions to Appendix I_Survey Procedures for Life Safety Code Surveys on December 8, 2022. [Subscribers to Briggs 1766 / 1766E will receive this transmittal in an update early next week as a placeholder in that LTC Survey Guide until the corresponding SOM posting is available.].

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The Racial Wealth Gap, the Effects of Long COVID, Teacher Diversity: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on understanding the racial wealth gap, why long COVID may threaten the U.S. economy, what prevents people of color from becoming and staying teachers, and more.

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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN Nursing Home COVID-19 Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the latest nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending November 27, 2022. Comparing the November 27 th data to the November 20 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.2% this week. Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.5%.

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Point32, Wellthy Partner to Offer Members Tech-Enabled Caregiving Support

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Point32Health (the combined entity of Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts Health Plan) and Wellthy , the tech-enabled caregiving support company, are launching a new collaboration to support caregivers. – Through this new program, commercial members of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan’s fully-insured health plans throughout New England will now have access to Wellthy, the market-leading solution for caregiving.

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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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Information Provided During December 8, 2022 SNF/LTC Open Door Forum   

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The SNF/LTC Open Door Forum (see agenda here ) provided some key information to providers, including: CMS has not established a specific go-live date for transition to iQIES, but this will take place in early 2023. Providers will be notified when the date is set. To this point, 60% of LTC providers have registered a PSO (Provider Security Official).

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If You Are Not Using AI for Medical Coding, You Are Not Doing Your Job

HIT Consultant

Amit Kayaker, VP of Commercial Development, Fathom. A quick, efficient, and well-managed revenue cycle creates a solid foundation for a profitable medical organization. That’s why if you’re responsible for ensuring the health of your organization’s revenue cycle and you are not using AI for medical coding, you are not doing your job. Let me explain.

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Taxpayers Could Save Nearly $4 Billion Dollars as a Result of HHS-OIG

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “America’s taxpayers could see recoupment of billions of dollars in misspent Medicare, Medicaid, and other health and human services funds as a result of work by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), according to a new report. The Fall 2022 Semiannual Report to Congress  (SAR), in part, provides an overview of HHS-OIG’s activities for the reporting period comprising the last hal

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Wastewater Monitoring Tool Tracks COVID-19 Trends, Public Health Threats

Health IT Analytics

Researchers from Arizona… read more

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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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VA Provides Veterans with Immersive, VR Treatment for Chronic Lower Back Pain

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AppliedVR , an immersive therapeutics (ITx) pioneer advancing a novel, virtual reality-based approach to medicine, today announced a contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide its FDA-authorized RelieVRx (formerly EaseVRx) solution to select Veterans impacted by chronic lower back pain (CLBP). – AppliedVR was awarded the contract with the VHA Innovation Ecosystem, a division of the VA that discovers, evaluates, and spreads mission-dr

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Call for Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change

Bill Of Health

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School , the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD) , and the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme (DICARP) at McGill Law Faculty are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the following digital symposium hosted by Bill of Health : BEYOND VULNERABILITY: THE RIGHTS AND AGENCY OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS.