Sun.Mar 06, 2022

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After Reopening Their Doors, Adult Day Providers Are ‘Starting From Scratch’

Home Health Care

Last year, adult day centers across the U.S. were attempting to safely reopen after COVID-19 forced them to shut their doors. Now, up and running again, the sector still faces challenges while trying to solidify a more prominent role in the senior care space. “In general, two-thirds of states had some sort of temporary restrictions with suspended service,” William Zagorski, board chair of the National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA), told Home Health Care News.

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Monday Morning Update 3/7/22

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Top News Microsoft closes its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance.

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As PACE Model Reaches New Heights, ConcertoCare Launches First In-Person Center

Home Health Care

With its outlook already strong for 2022, the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model continues to gain momentum. ConcertoCare, a value-based care provider that offers an array of home-based care services, announced Thursday the opening of its first in-person PACE center. The center — Cherry Blossom PACE, located in Alexandria, Virginia — will offer ConcertoCare’s interdisciplinary care delivery model to ensure the health, independence and dignity of seniors by helping them re

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MD Anderson Taps Syntrophy to Aggregate Disparate Data, Enable Team Science

HIT Consultant

Building signage with MD Anderson Logo. What You Should Know: – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced efforts to advance its capabilities to seamlessly connect basic science, translational and clinical research data for the benefit of patients through a technology collaboration with Syntropy and the Foundry platform. – This initiative is part of MD Anderson’s new Strategy aimed at focusing its mission to end cancer on approaches that maximize the impact on human

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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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Morning Headlines 3/7/22

HIStalk

Microsoft + Nuance: Better together to transform business and healthcare.

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FDA Guidance: Methods for identifying what is important to patients

Healthcare ECONOMIST

What disease components are most burdensome to patients? How do researchers find this information out? To answer this question, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently put out its second guidance document on Patient-Focused Drug Development: Methods to Identify What Is Important to Patients. A few qualitative approaches they recommend to collect this information include: One-on-one interviews offer the opportunity to explore topics in-depth at an individual level using probing questions.