Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
The union contends the health system is planning "hefty cuts" to nurse wages and benefits despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and high levels of burnout among staff.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Feds charge 138 medical professionals with $1.4B in healthcare fraud, including telehealth schemes. hlandi. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 12:25.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Researchers concluded that the lower rate continued for years after the merger was completed, and that such deals could play a significant role in improving the quality of rural healthcare services.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Kaiser Permanente union authorize strike vote amid stalled contract negotiations. dmuoio. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 15:16.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
However, the nation's largest nonprofit system said the pandemic will likely keep stressing operational performance in the coming fiscal year.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Hospital groups push back against stiffer penalties for failing to publish prices. rking. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 15:50.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Ascension latest nonprofit to rebound with $5.7B net income for 2021. dmuoio. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 16:48.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Read more in this guide to discover strategies for high-cost claim optimization.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Alpha Medical lands $24M backed by Samsung to expand virtual women's health services. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 15:33.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In a back-and-forth meeting Friday, the committee opposed clearing a third shot widely for use in people older than 16, but agreed the benefits outweighed the risks for adults over 65 or those at risk of severe COVID-19.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Goldman Sachs, Texas Health Resources back eVisit’s $45M round to scale virtual care for health systems. hlandi. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:19.
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
By Yael Cannon. Health justice begins with exploring and understanding health disparities and the role of law in facilitating the social, political, and economic determinants at their roots. It requires naming structural racism — and the many forms of subordination that flow from it — as a public health crisis and recognizing that health justice is racial justice.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
CMS suspends Part D enrollment in 2022 for UnitedHealth, Anthem MA plans. rking. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 11:19.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. By March 2020, telehealth channels were replacing visits to doctors and emergency departments as shown in the first chart from the CDC’s report on the early pandemic period.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
CDC announces $2.1B investment into infection control, surveillance across healthcare settings. dmuoio. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 11:36.
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
School and nursery closures, lockdowns, and ongoing pandemic restrictions brought huge changes to children and families. The way parents communicated with their children about these events was vital in helping children to cope.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
NextGen Healthcare taps former Teladoc exec Sides as new CEO amid boardroom spat. hlandi. Mon, 09/20/2021 - 20:49.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
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]. Lakelyn Hogan, a gerontologist and caregiver advocate at Omaha, Nebraska-based Home Instead, has been named a 2021 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.
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Patient Safety Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
When leveraged properly, patient safety software offers a multitude of benefits to your healthcare organization. However, this software must also be capable of working in tandem with other healthcare applications. Poor “communication” between software diminishes the end user’s experience and hinders the ability to facilitate positive patient outcomes.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
What You Should Know: – 9am. health , a new San Diego, CA-based virtual diabetes clinic delivering personalized, affordable and kind care directly to consumers, today announced the launch of its unique virtual care platform, which provides comprehensive, affordable and compassionate care to people living with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. In addition, the company also announced $3.7M in seed funding, which included participation from Founders Fund , Define Ventures , Speedinvest and iSee
Patient Safety Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Infection control is an essential aspect of managing a hospital or healthcare organization. While traditional infection preventionists relied on manual data entry and other inefficiencies that hindered their ability to manage information, modern infection control software enhances a healthcare organization’s ability to reduce the spread of infections by using advanced workflows.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Earlier this year, palliative care advocates were hopeful that a formal benefit for community-based services would be coming soon. While that hasn’t happened yet, the clear momentum around a reimbursement pathway for community-based palliative care has prompted more home health agencies and other providers to launch programs of their own. That’s a trend likely to accelerate heading into 2022, thanks to the proposed expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model and recent legi
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The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
President Biden is likely to invite the thriving Baltic countries to his “summit for democracy” in December. But he might also invite four mid-tier post-Soviet states: Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine—imperfect democracies all. By both praising and nudging this latter set, Biden could give his agenda more meaning.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
That is the question that a recent JAMA study– Mulcahy et al. (2021) –aim to answer. The authors use IQVIA MIDAS data to estimate sales price and volume in the US. These can can be used to estimate drug wholesale acquisition cost (WAC), but they ignore rebates. To account for rebates in the US they use SSR Health information Then international prices are identified based on the IQVIA MIDAS data across 6 markets (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the U.K).
Life Qi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In this blog, we‘re going to be looking at how you can measure scale and spread in your Quality Improvement (QI) projects and what methods you can use to help you do this. Let’s start by defining spread and scale in QI. Spread replicates an initiative somewhere else, while scale-up builds infrastructure to support full scale implementation. If you haven’t already, you might want to look at our article ‘Spread and scale – what’s the difference?
NASHP
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
State Medicaid Coverage of Dental Services for General Adult and Pregnant Populations Updated September 20, 2021. Inability to access dental care can result in poor oral health. For pregnant women , oral health complications are associated with poor pregnancy outcomes like low birth weight and preterm birth. State Medicaid programs are required to cover dental services for children under 21, but services for adults, including pregnant women are optional.
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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.
Healthcare Leadership Council
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination has become, it’s an understatement to say, a political hot button issue across the country. Nonetheless, as more private employers insist that their workforces be vaccinated and schools across the country reopen for in-person learning, vaccination credential are going to be increasingly viewed as vital to protecting public safety.
Medi Leadership
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
If you’re a healthcare leader in 2021 , chances are very high that you’re working mightily to transform some aspect of your personal, leadership or team outcomes. Whether it’s an overdue shift in organizational culture, navigating conflict, restoring a damaged reputation or else, wise leaders recognize that new results demand new approaches. As you explore solutions, it’s natural to go on self-education mode, and many begin investing in training… only to grow frustrated by the slow or lack of pr
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Carina Edwards, CEO of Quil. We are incredibly lucky to live in a historically connected world. The internet, smartphones, and technology of all kinds have brought people together in ways unimaginable just a few decades ago. These massive communications paradigm shifts have also left their mark on medicine, although in an unpredictable way. One of the most positive impacts on healthcare hasn’t been a breakthrough treatment or therapy – but an increase in patient engagement and a deep understandi
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Access to long-term services and supports (LTSS) in the U.S. remains limited, which currently puts seniors in need in a bind. Their options are often such: spend down on savings and assets in order to qualify for Medicaid, or rely on unpaid family care or other informal services. A new study from the Washington, D.C.-based research and consulting services firm ATI advisory highlights how that issue could be addressed with increased federal investments.
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.
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