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When will the ER catch up with value-based care?

Health Care Dive

Amid transformation, innovation and buzzwords in value-based care, one crucial area absent is the emergency department, argues Troy Williams, vice president of healthcare systems partnership for First Choice Health.

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HIMSS23: Epic analytics leader details efforts to bring GPT-4 into healthcare and growing work in genomics, life sciences

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Epic analytics leader details efforts to bring GPT-4 into healthcare and growing work in genomics, life sciences hlandi Thu, 04/20/2023 - 08:09

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Hospitals look for immediate return on investments in tough operating environment

Health Care Dive

“We’re not going after anything that’s kind of cool that takes a couple of years to get to the bottom line. This is about immediate returns,” an Advocate Health executive said Wednesday at HIMSS23.

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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs taps RevSpring for pharmacy payment tech

Fierce Healthcare

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs taps RevSpring for pharmacy payment tech agliadkovskaya Thu, 04/20/2023 - 17:41

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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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LCMC Health sues feds for blocking Tulane hospital deal despite securing COPA

Health Care Dive

The lawsuit comes after the Federal Trade Commission blocked the sale to allow for an antitrust review, despite the system receiving a certificate shielding the acquisition from federal scrutiny.

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Express Scripts aims to boost independent pharmacists in rural areas

Fierce Healthcare

Express Scripts aims to boost independent pharmacists in rural areas pminemyer Thu, 04/20/2023 - 12:55

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HIMSS23: Global leaders seek a balance between tech innovation and health equity

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Global leaders seek a balance between tech innovation and health equity aburky Thu, 04/20/2023 - 13:40

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Verizon to deploy 5G in new-build Cleveland Clinic hospital

Health Care Dive

The project, slated to be finished in July, is Verizon’s first full 5G hospital installation, according to an executive.

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Memora Health nabs $30M to scale up complex care management solution

Fierce Healthcare

Memora Health nabs $30M to scale up complex care management solution hlandi Thu, 04/20/2023 - 15:35

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How to Prevent Kidney Failure

Healthcare Associates

How to Prevent Kidney Failure Kidney disease is a common condition in the United States. The CDC estimates that over 37 million people have chronic kidney disease, and many do not know that they have it. While it is not curable, chronic kidney disease can be treated to slow the progression of the disease. If you are at higher risk for chronic kidney disease, you can take steps now to prevent developing kidney failure.

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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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Pandemic-era Medicare pay bump not enough to cover hospitals' 17.5% expense growth, AHA argues

Fierce Healthcare

Pandemic-era Medicare pay bump not enough to cover hospitals' 17.

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Consumers Are Driving More Home Care Service Offerings Within Medicare Advantage

Home Health Care

When Medicare Advantage (MA) plans began offering expanded supplemental benefits, it opened the door for more engagement with home care providers. Flashforward to 2023, and nearly a quarter of plans are offering some level of in-home support services. That’s according to Tyler Overstreet Cromer, principal at the Washington, D.C.-based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory.

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State Department cap on EB-3 visas limits international relief for nursing shortage

Fierce Healthcare

State Department cap on EB-3 visas limits international relief for nursing shortage dmuoio Thu, 04/20/2023 - 15:49

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Countering Russia's Nuclear Threat in Europe

The Rand Blog

President Vladimir Putin's announced plan to put nuclear arms in Belarus may pose risks to NATO's nuclear posture. Three decades after the Soviet collapse, some allies might be uneasy about re-energizing NATO's nuclear mission. But others might argue that not responding to Russia's moving forward its nuclear arms could cause the Kremlin to doubt NATO's nuclear credibility.

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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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HIMSS23: HCA Healthcare pilot testing Augmedix's medical speech recognition tech in ERs

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: HCA Healthcare pilot testing Augmedix's medical speech recognition tech in ERs hlandi Thu, 04/20/2023 - 21:43

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Strategies Used by States to Link Medicaid Managed Care Plan Payment to Performance in Behavioral Health Service Delivery

NASHP

State Medicaid agencies are taking proactive steps to ensure quality of care and access to behavioral health services. They are accomplishing this by considering plan performance in the provision of behavioral health services as a determinant of payment for the plans. It is expected that these states will continue to refine their models, and other states may follow suit.

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LCMC Health petitions courts to toss FTC review of its Tulane University hospitals acquisition

Fierce Healthcare

LCMC Health petitions courts to toss FTC review of its Tulane University hospitals acquisition dmuoio Thu, 04/20/2023 - 14:10

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Run chart vs Control chart

Life Qi

In this series of articles, we have been focusing on Statistical Process Control methodology. We’ve also had a look at control or SPC charts – a really useful way of plotting and measuring data. However, there are other charts you can use - such as run charts - in your Quality Improvement (QI) project.

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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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Medicaid redeterminations, expansion set to collide in North Carolina

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid redeterminations, expansion set to collide in North Carolina pminemyer Thu, 04/20/2023 - 15:26

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HCBS Utilization Has Grown Significantly, But The Workforce Hasn’t

Home Health Care

Workforce growth has not kept pace with the growth of utilization in home- and community-based services (HCBS), a new study found. From 2013 to 2019, the number of home care workers per 100 HCBS participants declined by 11.6%. Preliminary estimates suggest that a decline in that ratio continued post-2020. “When you look over time, we actually found that the number of home care workers was increasing, which we were initially a little bit surprised about,” Rachel Werner, executive director of the

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Catch up on MEDITECH’s solutions at the 2023 Clinical Informatics Symposium

Meditech

MEDITECH is proud to present our upcoming Clinical Informatics Symposium , a dynamic opportunity for attendees to learn innovative strategies for improving processes, quality, and patient outcomes. The symposium is designed to guide clinicians and IT professionals through the complexities of today’s care challenges, with tangible tools to help them thrive.

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From HIMSS with Dr. Jayne 4/20/23

HIStalk

Wednesday opened with me feeling a little draggy, which wasn’t.

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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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1000 Citations

Healthcare ECONOMIST

I just reached 1000 citations for my research in Google Scholar. Very exciting! To read my research, click here.

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Interview with Navigating the Code Author Dr. Barry Chaiken

Health Business Group

Health care futurist and informaticist Dr. Barry Chaiken wrote Navigating the Code as a call for the use of revolutionary technology to transform the patient-physician journey. He believes IT can resolve the century's greatest medical and business problems. In this episode Barry talks about a high school teacher who made a big impression, and his progression from physician to executive to author.

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Disrupt Podcast #66: Brady Schwab, Chief Growth Officer, Right at Home

Home Health Care

This episode is brought to you by CareAcademy. Today, our guest is Brady Schwab, the chief growth officer at Right at Home. We get into contemporary challenges in personal care – and how to mitigate those – as well as growth opportunities, and how to accelerate those. Subscribe to Disrupt to be notified when new episodes are released. Listen today!

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2023 Telehealth Reimbursement Advances: Reimbursement Codes

Health Recovery

Welcome to part 2 of our blog series on telehealth reimbursement. In part 1, we discussed the different reimbursement models for telehealth services and addressed some of your burning reimbursement questions. Now, in part 2, we will take a closer look at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursement codes for chronic care management (CCM), remote patient monitoring (RPM), and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) services.

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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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From HIMSS 4/20/23

HIStalk

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Upcoming COE Webinar: Substance Use 101: The If’s and What’s of Substance Use Disorder Basics

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Webinar Date: April 25, 2023 Webinar Time: 2 – 2:30 p.m. EST Join this webinar to discover how to define substance use, misuse and substance use disorders. Review substance use screening tools that can be used in nursing facilities and the importance of using stigma-free language.

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HCA Healthcare Launches AI-Enabled Ambient Documentation Partnership

Health IT Analytics

HCA Healthcare and Augmedix… read more

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CMS April 2023 Quarterly Home Health Q&As

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS past posted the April 2023 CMS Quarterly OASIS Q&As. This Q&A is 6 pages in length, addressing 14 questions: Question 1: When did the new risk models for 2023 take effect? Question 2: Are the new items that were added to the OASIS-E instrument being used in the new risk models that took effect 1/1/2023?

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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.