Fri.Jun 24, 2022

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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional right to abortion

Health Care Dive

As it currently stands, 26 states are deemed certain or likely to end abortion rights, making abortion effectively illegal in half of the country, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

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Remote patient monitoring in an app boosts quality at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Healthcare It News

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. The evidence from the organization's classic behavioral interventions shows that the more often staff engage patients, the better the patients do.

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Colorado first state to launch public option via federal waiver

Health Care Dive

Through the waiver granted by the CMS on Thursday, Colorado can use federal funds to set up a government-run health plan, a long-held progressive healthcare goal.

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HIMSSCast: Toward a more human-centered approach to hospital stays

Healthcare It News

Rebecca Pinn, director of innovation strategy at EPAM Continuum, specializes in creative thinking about experience design. She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some thinking about some ways patient-facing technologies could be tailored to enable a much more humane and comfortable experience for inpatients and the clinicians who care for them.

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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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'Chaos' from state abortion bans going into effect will have legal, criminal implications for providers

Health Care Dive

The effect of Friday's opinion will be felt by providers, medical groups and hospitals across the country, including primary care doctors and emergency physicians, experts say.

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Outsourcing Medical Billing Services? Ask Them a Few Questions First

p3care

For doctors, clinicians, and other healthcare service providers, the choice to avail of outsourcing medical billing services is based on the cost and revenue cycle management. You can’t trust an unprofessional medical billing company that doesn’t have a good reputation or practices to support its claims. Many options are available to you. And you must have some doubts, but we are here to help you in this regard.

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Current COVID-19 Nursing Home Data Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the COVID-19 Nursing Home data for the week ending June 12, 2022. Comparing the June 12 th data to the previous June 5 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate decreased 0.1% Residents with booster doses increased 0.4% Staff vaccination rate decreased 0.1% Staff with booster doses increased 0.2% An additional 8,808 resident cases were confirmed/reported this week An additional 244 resident deaths

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Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?

HIT Consultant

Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included: – Developing a solution for a national EHR database. – Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug development. R

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The Model for Improvement

Life Qi

What is the Model for Improvement? The model for improvement (or MFI) is one of the most popular Quality Improvement (QI) models in use in healthcare settings today. Described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as a ‘simple but powerful tool for improvement,’ it is a scientific method which was originally developed for the manufacturing industry.

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Synthetic Opioids, Ukrainian Grain, the Metaverse: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on countering the illegal flow of synthetic opioids, freeing up Ukrainian grain to prevent famine, the importance of defining the metaverse, and more.

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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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How did COVID-19 models differ when they were built by economists vs. epidemiologists

Healthcare ECONOMIST

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck, policymakers looked to researchers to both predict the future trend of the pandemic as well as examine how different policy options would impact society. Both epidemiologists and economists rose to the challenge, creating a variety of models to help inform policy decisions. How did the models developed by economists and epidemiologists differ?

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TDS Acquires PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in $140M Deal

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Transaction Data Systems (TDS), the leader in pharmacy software solutions has acquired PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in a deal worth up to $140M. – Further, TDS’s plans to accelerate product innovation will create solutions to further optimize pharmacy workflows, support real-time clinical interventions and expand patient engagement opportunities to clients.

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From Treating Cancer to Curing Cancer – The Promise of mRNA Vaccines in Oncology

Health Advances

By Stephan Isringhausen, Senior Analyst and Holger Müller, Vice President . Key Takeaways. The swift development, good safety profile, and efficacy outperformance of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines led to broad clinical adoption and highlighted the significant potential of mRNA technologies. Considerable expansion of development projects and deal activity around mRNA vaccine technologies demonstrates stakeholder awareness and interest.

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League Launches Developer Program to Empower Healthcare Ecosystem

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – League , a healthcare platform technology provider announced the launch of their Developer program , giving the healthcare industry access to the underlying digital infrastructure that can connect its proliferation of point solutions (i.e. all the apps, websites, and software patients currently use to get care). – The Developer program will give customers, partners and third parties the ability to build on the League platform or embed components using SDKs and

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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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The Growing Importance of Healthcare Informatics With Joe Cagliostro | Episode 50

Vie Healthcare

In Episode 50 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience Jim Cagliostro is joined by Joe Cagliostro, Informatics Site Manager at Robert Wood Johnson, Barnabas Health, to discuss the impact of informatics on healthcare. Episode Introduction. Healthcare as a sector has been slow to adopt the technology. Healthcare informatics can help to bridge that gap.

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Innovaccer Joins the CARIN Alliance to Advance Interoperability

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that it has joined the CARIN Alliance (CARIN), a multisector collaborative working to rapidly advance the consumer-directed exchange of health information to improve the interoperability of healthcare data. – Innovaccer will participate as a member of the multisector alliance to advance healthcare data sharing, enabling consumers, patients, and caregivers easier access to health information.

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Avoiding Endless Liability From ‘Take Home’ COVID Claims

Triage Health Law

You’ve just been informed that an employee who apparently contracted COVID-19 from an exposure in your workplace brought the virus home, and now their spouse, who is in a high-risk category, has contracted the virus and is in the hospital. Do you as the employer face potential liability for the spouse’s illness? More than two dozen so-called take-home COVID-19 lawsuits have been filed across the country, including against some of the largest employers in the U.S.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Modules: Understanding Key Terms and Up to Date Vaccination – Quarter 3 (June 2022) Guidance

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. NHSN has posted an update to the COVID-19 Vaccination Modules: Understanding Key Terms and Up to Date Vaccination guidance document (7 pages) as of June 21, 2022. This document defines key terms related to COVID-19 vaccination for the purpose of NHSN public health surveillance. Facilities can review these definitions when reporting data through the NHSN COVID-19 Vaccination Modules.

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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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How health plans can bring ‘omnichannel’ thinking to member marketing

GoMoHealth

The post How health plans can bring ‘omnichannel’ thinking to member marketing appeared first on GoMo Health.

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More Information on ONC HIT Survey                           

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On June 16, 2022, I blogged on the ONC conducting a national phone-based survey to better understand the state of health IT use and interoperability among skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and hospice facilities. This past Tuesday (June 21, 2022), AHCA/NCAL provided additional information about the ONC survey.

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Connecting with members with a customer data platform for payers

Healthcare It News

Today, technology has revolutionized the member experience. It’s opened up completely new ways to deliver exceptional moments that build patient-insurer relationships. These innovations are in response to rising consumer expectations for frictionless, meaningful interactions across channels and devices – interactions that show understanding and attention to expectations at every touchpoint.* For today’s healthcare marketers, these changes have sparked a shift in strategy and pr