Health Care Dive

MAY 3, 2022

Nurses will return to work Tuesday after ratifying a deal on new contracts that include measures to better retain and recruit nursing staff, the union said.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Extremist groups have been trolling the internet for decades, and they have learned to temper their words and disguise their intentions. A new scorecard can help users—or parents, or advertisers, or the social media companies themselves—understand when they might be interacting with extremist content.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 3, 2022

Many patients returned for nonurgent procedures and other non-COVID-19 care, especially outpatient, that had been previously delayed, according to a Kaufman Hall report.

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2022

When the Germans bombed England during World War II, “remote misses” ended up giving Londoners “survivor exhilaration,” which resulted in boosted morale as opposed to the Germans’ expectation of diminishing it. Though far from an apples-to-apples comparison, home-based care operators that were pummeled by Omicron-related workforce shortages at the beginning of 2022 – that are rebounding now – have a newfound optimism for the future, given what they’ve been through.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 3, 2022

Some doctors listed in managed care provider network directories didn't file any Medicaid claims over the course of a year, according to new research published in Health Affairs.

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2022

With new rules and regulations from Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) to a full rollout of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Program (HHVBP), the home health care landscape is ever-changing, with industry leaders consistently challenged to maintain compliance. With added pressures due to staff shortages, leaders today need to ensure they are on top of meeting those compliance requirements — without significant disruptions for their teams.

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2022

Following a record-breaking year for home care, home health and hospice M&A, deal volume took a dive in the first quarter of 2022. In fact, it was record-breaking on the opposite side of the spectrum. Despite the low figures, M&A experts are still optimistic that the number of deals will rebound. A total of 26 home health, home care and hospice deals occurred in the first quarter of 2022 compared to over 50 transactions in both the third and fourth quarters of 2021, according to a report

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – StimScience , the company using personalized neuroscience to improve sleep, today announces its new consumer sleep product, Somnee. Somnee is the first-ever electronic sleep aid headband to use personalized non-invasive brain stimulation to improve the wearer’s sleep quality. – In a 1,500-night home pilot study, Somnee cut the time it took beta users to fall asleep in half, and it reduced the amount of overnight tossing and turning by more than one-third.

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Meditech

MAY 3, 2022

After speaking with Julia Hanigsberg, the President & CEO of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, it’s easy to see why she’s received so many accolades.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Serenity Engage announces new, innovative technology integrated with Amazon’s Senior Living solution from Alexa Smart Properties. ??. – By marrying Amazon’s Alexa voice AI and video technology with Serenity’s platform, Serenity’s custom Alexa deployment serve as a personalized, digital concierge – bringing simplicity and connection to an otherwise complex, siloed system.

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MAY 3, 2022

What does it take to develop leaders who are consistently effective in driving transformation, building high-performing teams, and achieving personal, professional and organizational goals? One of the greatest blessings in my career as a former executive in healthcare was working with an executive coach. Talk about a transformational experience. To understand the value of executive coaching , it’s important to understand what it isn’t.

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Isabel Healthcare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

One of the common misconceptions related to virtual triage / symptom checker tools is that the more questions the system asks, the more accurate the list of possible conditions / triage level recommendations will be and so, overall, the conclusion is that it is more thorough and, therefore, a better tool. If you are looking to provide your patients with a symptom checker/triage tool or are a patient looking to use one, this may intuitively make sense, but you would be very wrong.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Magellan Federal , which serves 300 U.S. military bases, has partnered with NeuroFlow to support United States military families with personalized, digital behavioral health and well-being support. – The platform will give hundreds of thousands of service members the ability to track their mood, report on the highs and lows of military life, and engage with counselors if needed.

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Etactics

MAY 3, 2022

Patients’ ability to pay concerns almost 90% of dentists. What’s worse is the same study that that statistic came from found that the second biggest concern among dentists was practice revenue. Both of those statistics are concerning. Being concerned about revenue isn’t anything new, whether you were in the healthcare space or not…it always lands within the top 5 aspects that organization owners think about most.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Luma Health , a digital health company streamlining patient-provider communications announced a strategic partnership with Change Healthcare , a healthcare technology company that provides the connection and data transfer between providers, payers, and consumers. – The two companies will develop solutions to meet health systems’ demand for streamlined and unified clinical, operational, and financial journeys.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MAY 3, 2022

In order for health care providers to be reimbursed for the services they provide, they need to input a variety of information into health insurance claims systems including what type of services were performed. The codes used to define the services provided are Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System ( HCPCS ) codes.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

Anne Davis, VP of Government Markets & Strategy at Wellth. Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes.

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HIStalk

MAY 3, 2022

Top News Allscripts closes the sale of its hospital and.

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MAY 3, 2022

Ed Marx, Chief Executive Officer, Divurgent. What You Should Know: – Divurgent , a healthcare IT consulting company, today announced it has appointed Ed Marx, a renowned leader with more than 30 years of experience, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). – In addition, Colin Konschak, company founder and CEO since 2007, will move to a new role as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

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HIStalk

MAY 3, 2022

Cerner Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results Cerner.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Atlas Healthcare Partners (Atlas) , which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in partnerships with health systems and physicians, announced today that Banner Health has invested into Atlas. – Atlas formed a joint venture partnership with Banner in 2018 to develop and operate a network of ASCs in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming.

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2022

Element5 announced on Tuesday that it has raised $30 million in a Series B. This latest round of funding was led by the New York-based venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) firm Insight Partners. Insight Partners has a history with Element5. Last year, the VC and PE firm also led Element5’s $15 million Series A. “[Insight Partners] has a lot of experience in the post-acute space,” Joe Randesi, co-founder and CEO of Element5, told Home Health Care News.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Vivalink , a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions launches a multi-vital blood pressure patch for remote patient monitoring is now available for research and development. – The advanced multimodal continuous signal processing patch captures ECG trace, heart rate, respiratory rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure on a single device.

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