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Digital health funding reaches new heights with $21.3B so far this year

Health Care Dive

Overall deal volume decreased, though, with 169 deals in Q3 compared to 223 deals in Q2. The third quarter also saw fewer megadeals of $100 million or above.

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CMMI director hints at shift away from payment models for every episode of care, specialties

Fierce Healthcare

CMMI director hints at shift away from payment models for every episode of care, specialties. rking. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 14:40.

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Collins to step down as NIH head in transition for research agency

Health Care Dive

After 12 years in the top job, the veteran director says a new scientist should assume leadership of the world's largest biomedical research institution.

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Willis Towers Watson: Employers expect health costs to rise by 5% in 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Willis Towers Watson: Employers expect health costs to rise by 5% in 2022. pminemyer. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 12:55.

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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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Safeguarding Your Workforce: Antimicrobial Solutions and Their Best Practices

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Decision Point Solutions Primary topic: Population Health Topic: Patient Engagement Population Health Workforce Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Safeguarding Your Workforce: Antimicrobial Solutions and Their Best Practices Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Carbon Health acquires RPM vendor Alertive Healthcare to flesh out at-home monitoring

Fierce Healthcare

Carbon Health acquires RPM vendor Alertive Healthcare to flesh out at-home monitoring. dmuoio. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 13:12.

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Healthcare Dealmakers—Intermountain, SCL Health's 33-hospital merger; Invitae's $325M Ciitizen acquisition

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare Dealmakers—Intermountain, SCL Health's 33-hospital merger; Invitae's $325M Ciitizen acquisition. dmuoio. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 15:56.

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Financial Burden of COVID-19 Shifts from Insurance to Patients

Bill Of Health

By Bailey Kennedy. It’s no secret that health care in America sometimes leaves those without means struggling to pay for their care. However, for the last year and a half, COVID has been an exception to the rule: many insurance companies have stepped up to foot the bills for hospitalized COVID patients. Now insurance companies seem to be returning to the status quo ante COVID by expecting patients to cover a portion of their COVID-19 care.

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Magellan Healthcare, NeuroFlow partner to close gaps in behavioral health care

Fierce Healthcare

Magellan Healthcare, NeuroFlow partner to close gaps in behavioral health care. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 12:55.

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How States are Spending American Rescue Plan, State Fiscal Recovery Funds

NASHP

How States are Spending American Rescue Plan, State Fiscal Recovery Funds. As states face the economic and public health impacts of COVID-19, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides significant funding for continued pandemic response and beginning the road to recovery, including $195.3 billion for states and the District of Columbia, referred to as the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Funds.

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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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Intermountain, Presbyterian and SSM Health announce new digital transformation company

Fierce Healthcare

Intermountain, Presbyterian and SSM Health announce new digital transformation company. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 17:27.

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Honor Closes $370M in Financing, Plans to Triple Home Care R&D Investment

Home Health Care

Honor is back in the spotlight in a big way, just two months after it announced its industry-shaping acquisition of Home Instead. The San Francisco-based company announced Tuesday it has raised $70 million in Series E funding, in addition to securing $300 million in debt financing. Honor has earmarked the funds to further invest in its operations, technology capabilities and its ongoing expansion across the Home Instead network.

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This payer CEO topped Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in Business

Fierce Healthcare

This payer CEO topped Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in Business. pminemyer. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 11:06.

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LGBTQ Health Equity and Health Justice

Bill Of Health

By Heather Walter-McCabe. LGBTQ communities experience health inequities compared to heterosexual and cisgender peers. The health justice framework allows advocates to move the work upstream to the root causes of the problems, rather than placing a band-aid on the resultant consequences once the harm is caused. It is not enough to provide individual treatment for the harm caused by stigma and bias.

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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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NIH Director Francis Collins to step down before end of year

Fierce Healthcare

NIH Director Francis Collins to step down before end of year. dmuoio. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 11:10.

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Sonde Health Launches Vocal Biomarker Tech to Monitor Mental Health and Well-Being

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sonde Health has unveiled Sonde Mental Fitness, a voice-enabled mental health detection and monitoring technology that uses a brief voice sample to evaluate mental well-being. Available as an application programming interface (API) for health systems, employers, and wellness service providers, Sonde Mental Fitness is an easy and affordable way for individuals to engage with and better understand their mental well-being and can serve as a much-needed early warning sy

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Transactions: Aveanna to Acquire Comfort Care in $345M Deal; Henry Ford Health System Partners with Contessa

Home Health Care

Aveanna Healthcare (Nasdaq: AVAH) has agreed to acquire Comfort Care Home Health for $345 million, according to financial filings. The Atlanta-based Aveanna went public through a $100 million IPO earlier this year. While it filed an 8-K on Oct. 1 for the deal , a press release has not yet been issued. Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.

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Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency

Bill Of Health

By Leah Pierson. Clinicians across medical settings commonly euphemize or understate pain — a practice that has concerning implications for patient trust, consent, and care quality. Intrauterine device (IUD) placement offers an instructive case study, and highlights the need for transparency in describing painful medical procedures. IUDs are one of the most effective forms of birth control, and tens of millions of women have them placed every year.

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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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Out with the old and in with the new: Lane Regional Medical Center adopts Expanse Patient Care to make ED hand-off safer and simpler

Meditech

There's no doubt that a busy ED can be an overwhelming experience for a patient when they receive care. But it can be overwhelming for us nurses, too. Rotating staff shifts, a high work volume, and constantly juggling priorities can make our jobs hectic and stressful. In an atmosphere of what sometimes looks like “controlled chaos” from an outside perspective, it can be challenging to keep providers on the same page during a patient’s care journey through the ED, especially at the time of hand-o

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COVID-19 Healthcare Quality and Worker Safety Information

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. 2021-2022 Influenza (Flu) Season: CDC Key Points and Frequently Asked Questions — The burden of flu in the United States can vary widely and is determined by several factors, including the characteristics of circulating influenza viruses, the timing of the season, how many people have preexisting immunity to circulating influenza viruses, how well the flu vaccine is protecting those who are vaccinated against illness, and how

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All aboard! Next stop: Health IT of the Future

Bookzurman

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up and difficult to see where the work that we, and our peers, do is being applied to help caregivers and patients. That's why we've hand-selected these recent articles featuring the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues that our team finds to be worth a quick read.

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SDOHs Tied To Poor Autoimmune Disease Outcomes Among Minorities

Health IT Analytics

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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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Infographic: The state of healthcare communications

Spok Inc

In this infographic, get a sneak peek of the results of our 2021 survey on the state of healthcare communications. See the three major takeaways we discovered from our survey of hundreds of healthcare professionals. The post Infographic: The state of healthcare communications appeared first on Spok Inc.

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Central Logic Integrates Offering and Rebrands to ABOUT

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthcare technology company Central Logic, today announced it has rebranded as ABOUT (ABOUT Healthcare, Inc.), as the company also announces the integration of two earlier acquisitions with its core solution, to better serve health system clients across the country. – The integration of Ensocare—which automates the inpatient referral process to post-acute care; and Acuity Link—which provides transportation communications and logistics management software—int

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What CMMC Stands For and Why You Need Know It

Etactics

CMMC stands for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. Although a simple acronym, it’s not an easy regulation. It’s an upcoming standard that’s placed on the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). At the time of writing, writing and deliberating the standard is still happening in Washington. As such, there are a lot of rumors and misinformation swirling around the topic.

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Wolters Kluwer Targets Health Equity with Best Care Everywhere

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced the launch of Best Care Everywhere , a mission-driven movement to build and strengthen health equity globally. Wolters Kluwer is committed to the belief that all people—everywhere—should receive the best care possible. – Wolters Kluwer is tackling challenges head-on in an array of healthcare settings to help reduce inequities in learning, research, decision support, and care.

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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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DBT Basics: Tips and Techniques for Clinicians

Icanotes

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), also called dialectical behavior therapy, gives patients a wide range of skills and strategies for managing powerful emotions. This method, focused on being in the present moment, can help many patients avoid the detrimental effects of unhealthy coping strategies such as self-harm and violence while better tolerating the stressors we face daily.

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Imprivata, VMware Partner to Give Clinicians Password-Free Access to Any App

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Imprivata® , the digital identity company for healthcare and beyond, and VMware® (NYSE: VMW) today announced a collaboration that will free clinicians entirely from having to type passwords on mobile devices by combining Imprivata GroundControl, Imprivata OneSign®, and VMware Workspace ONE™. This new integration unlocks the full power of both company offerings with the tap of a badge to give clinicians more secure, no-password access to any app from their mobile dev

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Updated Hospice Current Measures and New Quality Measure (QM) Specifications User’s Manual

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Version 1.00 of the HQRP QM Specifications User’s Manual and updated Current Measures document are now available. These documents detail the four HQRP measures that meet the HQRP requirements. They are the HIS Comprehensive Assessment at Admission (NQF# 3235); the claims-based Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life; the claims-based Hospice Care Index; and the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®)

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Innovaccer Launches Patient Relationship Management (PRM) Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, unveiled its Patient Relationship Management (PRM) solution on the Innovaccer ? Health Cloud , the first solution to bring patients’ clinical and care episodes to the forefront of a tailored patient engagement journey. – Now providers can integrate clinical data with claims, pharmacy, laboratory, SDoH, and other consumer information to establish a complete patient record that helps engagement strategies go beyon

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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.