Tue.Feb 22, 2022

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Ground ambulance costs continue to soar, study finds

Health Care Dive

More ambulance trips are billing for "advanced life support," denoting a higher level of care (and reimbursement). Private insurers' payments for those trips increased 56% between 2017 and 2020, Fair Health found.

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TytoCare, Alice Partner to Expand Telehealth Offerings in Brazil

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, TytoCare has partnered with Alice , Brazil’s first primary care-driven health insurance plan, to expand Alice’s telehealth offerings with at-home medical examinations. – The partnership will mark the first implementation of TytoCare in Brazil. Through the partnership, Alice is offering its members the TytoCare device, enabling seamless digital diagnostics for its members while enabling physicians to offer clinic-quality virtual care.

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As pandemic lingers, more nurses consider leaving their jobs, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Roughly a third of nurses surveyed by McKinsey said they're considering quitting their jobs. That's up from 22% in a poll conducted last February.

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Supporting key trends in Canada’s digital transformation

Meditech

MEDITECH has been a proud vendor partner within the Canadian healthcare industry for over 40 years, entering the Canadian HIT market when many hospitals were starting out with an electronic laboratory application. Decades later, we now strive to advance digital solutions for healthcare organizations, providers, and patients across the care continuum.

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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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Ascension's Q2 profit falls amid omicron surge

Health Care Dive

Ascension's operating margin in the first six months of its fiscal year fell to 0.2% from 5.7% the year prior as it faced a host of challenges.

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Medtronic, AWS to Provide Underserved Communities with AI-Assisted Colon Cancer Screening

HIT Consultant

Genius Intelligent Endoscopy Module. What You Should Know: – Medtronic and AWS , today announced a partnership to provide underserved communities with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy technology through AWS’s $40M Health Equity Assistance Program for colon cancer screening. – Amazon Web Services will support the effort to provide Medtronic GI Genius™ intelligent endoscopy modules to facilities that primarily serve communities with low screening rates or where access

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Sema4, BioSymetrics Partner to Advance Data-Driven Drug Discovery

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Sema4 , a leader in AI-driven clinical data intelligence, announced that they have partnered with BioSymetrics , to accelerate the advancement of drug discovery and new treatments for patients and pharmaceutical companies. – Together the two will leverage Sema4’s Centrellis®, one of the largest and fastest-growing integrated health information platforms that includes approximately 12 million de-identified clinical records, and Elion, BioSymetrics’ pheno

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Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care

Health Populi

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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What happens to the federal deficit when interest rates rise 1%

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Interest rates in the U.S.–as measured using the Fed Funds Rate– have been effectively 0% since the start of the pandemic. In fact, the last time the Fed Funds Rate was over 3% was way back in 2008. With year-over-year inflation in January 2022 hitting 7.5% , it is likely that interest rates will rise. Anyone cal tell you that as interest rates rise, the cost of borrowing increases.

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Private Employer Vaccine Mandates in the Courts

Bill Of Health

By Kaitlynn Milvert. After the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers was withdrawn last month , many pronounced private employers to be “on their own” to make decisions about vaccine requirements for their employees. Until one outlier Fifth Circuit decision last week, federal courts have largely agreed.

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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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Two Former Kindred Execs Plan to Leverage Home Health Experience in Home Care World

Home Health Care

In 2019, a Kindred at Home veteran left the company to make a bet on non-medical home care and become the leader of AccordCare. Nearly three years later, he persuaded another former Kindred executive to do the same. Brandon Ballew and Derek Nordman are now at the helm of the Atlanta-based AccordCare, as CEO and COO, respectively. As Kindred neared its sale to Humana Inc.

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WellSky Acquires TapCloud, Health AI Platform to improve Patient Engagement

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Wellsky announced the acquisition of TapCloud , a virtual, interoperable, and AI-driven patient engagement platform that allows patients to share symptoms and other health data with providers via virtual visit technology, secure messaging, and remote symptom screening protocols. – Frequent communication between patients, clinicians, and payers is critical to providing quality care and delivering on value-based care.

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Empowering Mission Partners to make data-based decisions

Osf Healthcare

Through the recent development of the Analytics Catalog, we created a broader vision to empower data-driven decision-making to optimize and transform health care for those we serve.

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What Are the Top 5 Healthcare Integration Challenges and How Can You Overcome Them?

Sequence Health

Healthcare integration can be a difficult process, but it is necessary for ensuring that your data is properly managed and accessible. In this blog post, we will discuss the top 5 challenges of integrated healthcare systems and how you can overcome them. By understanding these challenges and taking the necessary steps to address them, you will be able to improve the efficiency of your healthcare organization and provide better care for your patients!

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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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At-Home Primary Care Provider Patina Health Forms Partnership with Independence Blue Cross

Home Health Care

In December, Patina Health announced that it raised $57 million in Series A. Two months later, the at-home primary care provider has announced its first partnership, with Independence Blue Cross, to serve Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries in Pennsylvania. Patina will gain access to over 100,000 plan members in Southeastern Pennsylvania overall, including those located in the Philadelphia area.

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How to Leave a HIPAA Compliant Voicemail (5 Examples Included)

Etactics

Patients actively want to participate in their health. As a result, communicating back and forth with them is super easy since they prioritize their doctor. The above statement is completely false, although it does sound nice. If you’re a healthcare professional, you know that sometimes patients aren’t the easiest people to contact. You would think that they’d have a sense of urgency when it comes to staying in contact, but sometimes they just don’t have time or they’re stubborn ( depending on t

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What if a Physician Isn’t Good at Telehealth?

Healthcare Leadership

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend a user group conference for a large Health IT company. One of the most interesting conversations that I overheard was on the topic of physicians who were not good at telehealth. Here is a synopsis of the story one Chief Medical Officer told his peer from another organization: “We have several doctors on staff, some older, some younger, who are just terrible at using the telehealth platform.

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News 2/23/22

HIStalk

Top News WellSky will acquire TapCloud, whose patient engagement platform.

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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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Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum – February 24, 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum is scheduled for: Thursday, February 24, 2022 PM at 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET). Please call at least 15 minutes prior to the forum start time. **This Agenda is Subject to Change**. Opening Remarks Chair – Brian Slater, Center for Medicare, CMS Moderator – Jill Darling, Office of Communications, CMS Announcements & Updates Update on the Master List and additional

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Morning Headlines 2/23/22

HIStalk

Cerner Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results Cerner,

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CIOs looking to expand telehealth and make it part of the permanent workflow

Healthcare It News

During the last two years, U.S. hospitals and health systems have very quickly deployed a lot of telemedicine systems to take care of patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these systems were not planned in great detail, and not planned with a great deal of permanence in mind. Telehealth took hold, though, and now healthcare provider organizations face a future of hybrid care – part in-person care and part virtual care.

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What is Integrated Marketing and Why It’s Crucial for Healthcare Brands

Health Care Success

Business leaders in every industry understand that morale starts at the top. . When the C-suite is aligned and shares a unified, consistent message throughout the entire organization, it instills loyalty, trust, and confidence in your brand, mission, and goals. . Ideally, marketing relays this message to your consumers. . But since marketing happens in many channels, or forms of media, many brands have a hard time producing a consistent message across these channels. .

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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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Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future

HIT Consultant

Jen Goldsmith, President Tendo Systems. Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of healthcare data will reach 36% – that’s 6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial services, and 11% faster than media and entertainment.

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Who Stays Well – Who Gets Sick – Who Dies of COVID-19? Fuel Versus Friction Tip Sheet

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. TMF QIN Networks shared this infographic that certainly provides food for thought: TMF QIN Networks has also developed and shared this Fuel Versus Friction Tip Sheet. The table below offers fuel-based interventions intended to increase vaccine uptake and friction-based interventions that respond to hidden barriers that hold people back from vaccination.