Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. CHC/SEK provides medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction treatment, case management services and pharmacies to all, regardless of ability to pay, and serves about 65,000 patients for more than 220,000 visits per year, making the organization the largest FQHC in Kansas and one of the largest of all rural FQHCs in the United States.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Quest Diagnostics' PCR test for monkeypox received emergency use authorization after the FDA issued guidance on how it will evaluate the tests.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Unwinding Medicaid’s Continuous Coverage Requirement: Themes in States’ Communication Plans September 8, 2022 / by Leah Wilson. As states prepare for the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement, state Medicaid agencies are actively communicating with residents about upcoming changes, encouraging them to update their contact information, and providing information about other health coverage options.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The new CEO and president has worked in almost “every operating unit in the organization” since he joined in 1978, according to a statement.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Consumers consider health and well-being as an “essential” household spending category based on new research from Accenture. Accenture polled over 11,000 consumers in 17 countries, considering how people are faring amid “widespread uncertainty and personal financial strains,” in the firm’s words. While two in three consumers feel financially stressed, 4 in 5 intend to grow or hold their personal spending on health and fitness steady in the next year.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fortune Magazine’s annual “ Best Workplaces in Aging Services ” list once again features a number of familiar names from the home-based care space. The top-15 home-based care organizations on this year’s list include ComForCare, Senior Helpers, 24 Hour Home Care, Compass Care and Reliant at Home. SCAN Health Plan was also included. Every year, Fortune puts together a list of the best places to work that is based on the “Trust Index,” which helps measure workers’ views and opinions about their em

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Donald Trigg Chief Executive Officer at apree health. What You Should Know: – Vera Whole Health, Inc. and Castlight Health, Inc. appoints former Cerner President Donald Trigg as chief executive officer (CEO). – In addition, the companies have rebranded as apree health that will be combine Castlight’s healthcare navigation platform with Vera’s advanced primary care solutions to improve patient outcomes and transform the healthcare industry.

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Healthy Debate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The post ‘Nowhere to go’: Homelessness and mental illness create a ‘revolving door’ of admissions appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Headspace Health , the world’s most comprehensive digital mental health provider, today announced its acquisition of the Shine app, a mental health and wellness platform dedicated to providing a more representative and inclusive mental health experience for the BIPOC community. – Founded in 2016, the Shine app serves over 45,000 paid subscribers and has reached over six million people by offering self-guided content – including daily meditations,

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The 61st episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News caught up with Summer Napier, the president and CEO of Healing Hands Healthcare, a diversified home health company that operates across Texas. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: – Why Napier, an RN with hospital-setting experience, decided to launch Healing Hands in 2016. – How the home health leader views the 2023 proposed payment rule and its potential impact. – Where Healing

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What You Should Know: – epocrates, an athenahealth, Inc. company that delivers digital clinical decision support to healthcare professionals, today announced the release of Bugs + Drugs, a mobile tool that offers clinicians information about bacteria types and antibacterial susceptibility patterns by ZIP code. – A free feature in the epocrates mobile app, the tool supports clinicians in choosing appropriate empiric antibiotics for each patient at the point of care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. For other home-based care providers, the Minnesota-based Lifespark can offer lessons in taking on risk to get to the “apex-predator level,” as its CEO Joel Theisen would say. At the same time, the company is also looking outward to learn from others as it gets ready for a nationwide expansion. That’s why the provider – which offers home health, home care, hospice, primary care, senior living and other services – brought on a handful of advisers re

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What You Should Know: – Ypsomed and Sidekick Health today announced a collaboration to extend Ypsomed’s device and SmartServices offering by implementing a self-injection module in Sidekick’s proven digital therapeutics solution. – The combination of Ypsomed’s devices with Sidekick’s digital health, behavioural economics and gamification expertise will form a unique solution delivering an engaging and personalized patient experience to people with chronic conditions, as well as a tur

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HIStalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What You Should Know: – Weave , the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small businesses, today announced new research, The 2022 State of Healthcare Staffing, illustrating the negative impacts the Great Resignation and burnout have had on the healthcare industry and how staffing issues are impacting the patient experience. – The survey looked deeply into how these staffing shortages are impacting different healthcare organizations, why their staff are leavin

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Health Recovery

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

From longer hospital stays and readmissions to rising inflation, keeping healthcare costs within the margins is a constant challenge for any healthcare facility. The traditional approach would be to shift that cost to consumers or look into resizing the organization. In today’s modern healthcare industry, healthcare providers must instead look at sustainable strategies to reduce healthcare costs while respecting the?

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Etactics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s estimated that 36.2 million Americans will work remotely by 2025. For perspective, that’s an 87% percent increase from pre-pandemic levels. It’s important for companies to continue to evolve to accommodate this shift in work culture. Healthcare in particular is one of the industries seeing changes in processes from operations to management. For example, making sure to stay HIPAA compliant with employees working out of the office offers new challenges.

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Life Qi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

New topics available on the Improvement Hub.

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HIStalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Walmart, UnitedHealth to offer preventive healthcare program for seniors Walmart.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Vatsala Kapur, Senior Director of Government Affairs at Bamboo Health. The U.S. has reached a grim milestone with an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 2021. With a post-pandemic spotlight on mental health and substance use disorder challenges, Congress and the Biden administration are working on multiple plans to address these issues.

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HIStalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

CertifyOS Closes $14.5 Million Series A Funding Round Led by.

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Triage Health Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

On August 4, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued its proposed rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in certain health programs or activities, if any part of the program or activity receives Federal financial assistance.

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