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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

Healthcare It News

To the surprise of no one, the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey , finds a major uptick in use of telehealth since before the pandemic: 70.3% of physicians polled say they work in practices that used videoconferencing to provide patient visits in September 2020, according to the survey – that's compared to only 14.3% in September 2018.

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Industry Voices—Not all automation is created equally for clinical documentation improvement

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Not all automation is created equally for clinical documentation improvement. hlandi. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 15:26.

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In lawsuit, former employee blows whistle on Aetna's alleged fraudulent provider network that listed dead physicians

Health Care Dive

The plaintiff discovered that "tens of thousands of children were assigned to [primary care providers] that had no relationship whatsoever to [Aetna]," the suit alleges.

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Definitive Healthcare hauls in $420M in IPO, joining steady stream of health tech firms to go public

Fierce Healthcare

Definitive Healthcare hauls in $420M in IPO, joining steady stream of health tech firms to go public. hlandi. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 10:17.

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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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In rare move, DOJ intervenes in MA fraud case against data mining company

Health Care Dive

Defendants Independent Health, an MA payer, and its now-defunct medical analytics subsidiary DxID denied all allegations of wrongdoing and said they planned to defend themselves "vigorously" in court.

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Aetna misrepresented network to secure Pennsylvania Medicaid contract, lawsuit claims

Fierce Healthcare

Aetna misrepresented network to secure Pennsylvania Medicaid contract, lawsuit claims. pminemyer. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 11:33.

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Contentious report suggests safety net hospitals leveraging discounts to pocket strong gains from cancer drugs

Fierce Healthcare

Contentious report suggests safety net hospitals leveraging discounts to pocket strong gains from cancer drugs. dmuoio. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 16:06.

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Private health coverage for working-age adults fell amid pandemic, Census data shows

Health Care Dive

The drop from March 2019 to March 2021 was largely offset, however, by coverage gains in programs like Medicaid.

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RecoveryOne lands $33M backed by private equity arm of BCBS of Kansas City

Fierce Healthcare

RecoveryOne lands $33M backed by private equity arm of BCBS of Kansas City. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 15:40.

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No Need to Read Between the Lines: How Clear Shifts in Nordic Strategies Create Opportunities for the United States to Enhance Arctic Security

The Rand Blog

Norway, Sweden, and Finland have dramatically shifted their plans and actions in response to Russian threats in the European Arctic. This change could provide an opportunity for the United States to further strengthen cooperation, enhancing security and better countering Russia in the region.

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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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Moderates balk at Medicare drug price negotiation authority pursued by Dems in $3.5T package

Fierce Healthcare

Moderates balk at Medicare drug price negotiation authority pursued by Dems in $3.5T package. rking. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 15:08.

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Vulnerability Theory and Health Justice

Bill Of Health

By Matthew B. Lawrence. If we want to understand how changes to the law might affect health outcomes, we must remain mindful that the law not only regulates how we behave in the world as it is , but also shapes the institutions and structures that make the world the way it is. The dominant theoretical frameworks of classical liberalism and behavioral economics obscure this critical relationship.

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Stakeholder panel calls for stronger price transparency enforcement, data accessibility

Fierce Healthcare

Stakeholder panel calls for stronger price transparency enforcement, data accessibility. dmuoio. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 12:22.

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Future Leader: Nick Muscato, Amedisys Senior Vice President of Finance

Home Health Care

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]. Nick Muscato, senior vice president of finance at Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Amedisys Inc.

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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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Venture firms warn R&D funding for new drugs will 'drop off a cliff' if Dem bill approved

Fierce Healthcare

Venture firms warn R&D funding for new drugs will 'drop off a cliff' if Dem bill approved. rking. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 16:28.

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Social Media and Healthcare: 10 Insightful Statistics

Medical GPS

The power of social media to exponentially amplify good, bad, and even neutral patient experiences and health information simply can’t be ignored today. Despite its prevalence in most of our personal lives and leisure time, a surprising number of practice managers and healthcare organizations still ask why social media matters in healthcare. If you’re still asking why social media matters to your practice, these statistics will provide your answer… or your ultimatum.

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HHS: ACA exchange enrollment reaches 12.2M thanks to enhanced subsidies

Fierce Healthcare

HHS: ACA exchange enrollment reaches 12.2M thanks to enhanced subsidies. rking. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 11:21.

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Home Health Providers Seek Clarity on CMS Plan to Resume TPE Program

Home Health Care

As a response to the COVID-19 emergency, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pressed pause on the targeted probe and educate (TPE) program in March 2020. A year later, CMS has plans to resume the program, according to an August 2021 MLNConnects newsletter. Broadly, TPE is a medical review program that began for the home health and hospice settings in December 2017.

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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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CareFirst unveils new virtual primary care practice, CloseKnit

Fierce Healthcare

CareFirst unveils new virtual primary care practice, CloseKnit. pminemyer. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 14:51.

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24 Hour Home Care Buys Non-Medical Division of Home Health ‘Bundling Expert’ GrandCare

Home Health Care

Often in the home-based care field, transactions are driven by companies seeking to expand their service lines to become one-stop shops for referral partners. Sometimes, however, dealmaking is ignited by a desire to double down on existing expertise. An example of the latter M&A tactic happened Wednesday, with 24 Hour Home Care buying the non-medical caregiving division of GrandCare Health Services.

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IncludeHealth Launches Device Agnostic Musculoskeletal Operating System

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – IncludeHealth , a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) health company, launched its proprietary Musculoskeletal Operating System (MSK-OS™) in collaboration with Google and ProMedica Health System. The MSK-OS™ is a hardware-free, device-agnostic platform combining the most accessible, measurable pose estimation technology available with proprietary clinical intelligence and tools to transform virtual MSK care delivery. – The new MSK-OS™ platform will power the next ge

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#HelloHumankindness and Happy New Year….

Health Populi

When Dignity Health, the Catholic health care system, launched the “Hello humankindness” PR campaign in June 2013 , well, they had me at “Hello.” When the project went live, Dignity Health’s President/CEO Lloyd Dean provided the rationale for the program, saying: “What’s missing in the public discourse about health care is the fact that while medicine has the power to cure, it’s humanity that holds the power to heal.” Dean pointed to two driv

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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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Swift Medical Launches AI Digital Wound App to Support Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Global digital wound care provider Swift Medical , today announced the launch of a new application specifically designed to help pharma and med device researchers conduct decentralized clinical trials. Since patients are now doing more trials at home, study coordinators have had trouble tracking skin side effects remotely — or trusting patients to conduct adequate analysis and recording on themselves. – Swift Medical’s first product, Swift Skin and Wound, provid

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Relative importance of pharmaceuticals on health outcomes: 1990-2015

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Health outcomes have improved in the US over the last 25 years. Clearly public health initiatives (e.g., reduced smoking rates) is having an impact, but another key key question is, what is medical technologies are driving these gains? Is it new surgical techniques, better diagnostics, improved medical devices, or new pharmaceuticals? This answer is difficult to answer empirically, but a paper by Wamble et al. 2019 wanted to see what the experts thought.

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Upcoming NHSN Webinar: Changes to Weekly COVID-19 Vaccination Data Collection Forms for LTCFs

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Topic: 2021 Changes to the Weekly NHSN COVID-19 Vaccination Data Collection Forms for Long-Term Care Facilities. Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021 Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST. Register in advance for this webinar: [link] icon. After registering , you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­.

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Let’s invest in helping more seniors stay at home – and stay active

Healthy Debate

The post Let’s invest in helping more seniors stay at home – and stay active appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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Reasons to Get Your Flu Shot Today this Season

Voyage Healthcare

Wondering when you should get a flu shot? Experts recommend getting the seasonal flu vaccination as early as possible to provide the best protection. That’s because if you wait until mid-season to get your flu shot, you could be risking your health, the health of your loved ones, and your community.

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She was jilted at the neurosurgery altar but found true love in pediatrics

Healthy Debate

The post She was jilted at the neurosurgery altar but found true love in pediatrics appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Will Unemployment Insurance Be Reformed? Ask Businesses, Not Workers

The Rand Blog

The expiration of pandemic benefits points to the flaw at the heart of unemployment insurance: The constituency that pays for benefits isn't the constituency who receives them. Lasting reform to the unemployment insurance system will mean finding a way to benefit employers directly.

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Reimagining Patient Support Through Digital Peer Coaching Programs

HIT Consultant

Dr. Rosemary Ku VP of Medical Affairs at Better Health. Studies have found that social connectedness is so critical to human life that loneliness is more dangerous than obesity and isolation can increase mortality by 30%. Peer support, which is a system of giving and receiving help from others with a shared experience, not only increases social connectedness but also creates opportunities for participants to connect with their peers and exchange practical tips for how to overcome the challenges

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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.