Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The evolution of data from a historical asset into live, instantly usable information is fundamental for any healthcare provider looking to value-based care models for the delivery of optimised patient treatment. This is the view of Dr Lloyd McCann, CEO of Auckland-based Mercy Radiology and Clinics, and Head of Digital Health for Healthcare Holdings Limited, which is five years into its digital transformation journey across a portfolio of three hospital sites, 16 radiology clinics and a comprehe

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Sheela Datta, Chief Client Officer, VirtualHealth Brendan Harris, VP, UPMC Community HealthChoices. As healthcare leaders reflect on lessons learned during the pandemic, the need for more tech-driven and proactive care models is taking center stage. It has become clear that organizations that invested in robust technology infrastructure early on were better positioned to not just survive a global pandemic – but thrive –growing their reach and supporting their patients.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This article is an exclusive feature available as a part of your subscription to HHCN +. When Georgetown Home Care (GHC) mandated its workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in early August, it got an immediate reply from one worker. “I quit,” the worker said. While John Bradshaw, the company’s CEO, still believed it was the right thing to do, he began preparing for an exodus of caregivers.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

OCTOBER 10, 2021

That is the question posted by Ganguli et al. (2021). The define low value care as one of 41 specific services. They then use data across 556 health systems serving more than 11m beneficiaries to answer this question. Which types of low value care are most commonly used? The most common low-value services were preoperative laboratory testing (mean [SD] rate, 28% [4%] of eligible beneficiaries), prostate-specific antigen testing in men older than 70 years (mean [SD] rate, 27% [8%]), and use of an

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HIStalk

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Top News The VA hires an independent body to review.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Over the past couple weeks, moderate Democrats have threatened to walk away from the White House’s $3.5 trillion economic package, which President Joe Biden hopes to use to strengthen America’s at-home care infrastructure for seniors and individuals with disabilities. As a candidate, Biden proposed spending $400 billion on home- and community-based services (HCBS) to help make up for years of underinvestment.

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