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Ransomware stakes are life-or-death, says Ponemon report

Healthcare It News

Nearly half of healthcare provider respondents (45%) said ransomware attacks increased complications from medical procedures, according to a new study from the Ponemon Institute. That's up from 36% in 2021. WHY IT MATTERS For the report, " The impact of ransomware on patient safety and the value of cybersecurity benchmarking ," which was sponsored by Censinet, Ponemon researchers surveyed 579 healthcare IT professionals at healthcare-delivery organizations in the fourth quarter of

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UnitedHealthcare launches behavioral health coaching program for commercial plans

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare launches behavioral health coaching program for commercial plans pminemyer Thu, 01/19/2023 - 15:05

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Cigna-owned Express Scripts taps new president

Health Care Dive

Previously, Adam Kautzner led pharmaceutical and retail network contracting and drug sourcing as vice president of supply chain for the PBM and Accredo Pharmacy.

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Microsoft to lay off 10,000 employees to cut costs as it doubles down on artificial intelligence

Fierce Healthcare

Microsoft to lay off 10,000 employees to cut costs as it doubles down on artificial intelligence aburky Thu, 01/19/2023 - 16:35

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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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More than quarter of ground ambulance transports could result in surprise bill

Health Care Dive

Ground ambulances were left out of federal legislation banning surprise billing, but the sector may be ripe for similar regulation given the prevalence of out-of-network rides, according to research in Health Affairs.

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Over 25% of commercially insured ground ambulance trips could come with a surprise bill: study

Fierce Healthcare

Over 25% of commercially insured ground ambulance trips could come with a surprise bill: study dmuoio Thu, 01/19/2023 - 17:34

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Avalere: Some beneficiaries could still face drug affordability issues after Part D redesign

Fierce Healthcare

Avalere: Some beneficiaries could still face drug affordability issues after Part D redesign rking Thu, 01/19/2023 - 15:40

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Study throws claims of telehealth savings into doubt

Health Care Dive

However, Kaiser Family Foundation researchers did stress telehealth’s benefit in expanding access and convenience for consumers.

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Included Health inks 2 new payer partnerships to expand access to LGBTQ+ care

Fierce Healthcare

Included Health inks 2 new payer partnerships to expand access to LGBTQ+ care agliadkovskaya Thu, 01/19/2023 - 15:14

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Medtech hazards: Problems with Philips’ recall put safety of home-use devices at top of danger list

Health Care Dive

Patient safety group ECRI is challenging manufacturers to provide easy-to-follow device registration instructions and write simply worded recall notices.

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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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What are the Reporting Options for Eligible Clinicians for MIPS 2023?

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Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) has shared an authorized program for providers in the US. This program is not other than the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Each year the Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services gives a final rule with little modifications for implementation. The same goes for MIPS 2023 reporting requirements.

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Tenet shakes up leadership, operations team

Health Care Dive

The role changes come a year after the system’s previous COO, Suam Sutaria, was promoted to CEO following the retirement of Tenet chief executive Ron Rittenmeyer.

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Chutes & Ladders—Express Scripts gets new president; GE Healthcare names CTO

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Express Scripts gets new president; GE Healthcare names CTO aburky Thu, 01/19/2023 - 12:10

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39 Organizations Sign Global Heath Equity Pledge to Advance Health Equity Globally

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, World Economic Forum announced that 39 organizations have signed the Global Health Equity Network Zero Health Gaps Pledge. – The pledge includes 10 key commitments all signatories have made to embed health equity principles throughout their operations, workforce and guiding philosophies. It marks the beginning of an historic journey to making health equity an integral part of business strategies globally and an important step towards a world without hea

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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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Building on the surge in real-world data, Crescendo Health launches to accelerate clinical trials

Fierce Healthcare

Building on the surge in real-world data, Crescendo Health launches to accelerate clinical trials hlandi Thu, 01/19/2023 - 16:08

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Gender Biases in Health Care: Listen to Women About Their Own Health

The Rand Blog

More and more information, evidence, and personal stories are emerging suggesting women are not being listened to or believed by health care professionals about their symptoms of physical illness. There is ongoing work in the United Kingdom to improve and integrate women's health services, which creates hope for improvements.

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Intermountain Health taps Story Health to help manage heart failure patients outside the doctor's office

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Intermountain Health taps Story Health to help manage heart failure patients outside the doctor's office dmuoio Thu, 01/19/2023 - 12:18

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Immigrant Location Policies Can Be Done Right, but That Isn't Happening Right Now

The Rand Blog

Sudden influxes of migrants across the southwest U.S. border are not new, but they are also increasing. Immigration relocation policies are likely one of the best ways to address migrant surges if done in an organized, humane, and thoughtful way.

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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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SetPoint Medical Raises $80M to Advance Platform for Autoimmune Diseases

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, SetPoint Medical announced $80M in Series C equity and $65M led by new investors, Norwest Venture Partners and Viking Global Investors , with debt financing provided by Runway Growth Capital. – The company is developing its novel platform for the treatment of chronic, inflammation-mediated autoimmune diseases and is initially focused on a potentially less immunosuppressive option for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

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The Two Factors Impacting Home Health M&A In 2023

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Two factors are having a substantial impact on home health care M&A right now — one affecting the seller and one affecting the buyer. Each is largely out of home health providers’ hands. The first is interest rates and general market conditions, and the other is the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) ongoing efforts to cut reimbursement rates.

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AVIA Launches Nationwide Digital Health Marketplace

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AVIA just announced the launch of AVIA Marketplace , a vendor selection platform available for free. It provides a one-stop shop for hospital and health systems executives to research and select digital health solutions for their transformation journey. The AVIA Marketplace is the first step in a broader suite of offerings to help digital health companies bring the greatest capabilities to market—strengthening both sides of the ecosystem. – The platform stream

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Home Care Providers Keep Cautious Eye On Medicare Advantage: NAHC President

Home Health Care

Home health providers should keep a close eye on the rise and popularity of managed care plans under Medicare Advantage in 2023. That was one of the many messages from Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), during Wednesday’s webinar with Netsmart. “There is a strong sentiment of privatizing the Medicare program and offering it through managed care plans,” Dombi said.

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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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Intermountain and Story Health Partner on Specialty Care for Patients with Heart Failure

HIT Consultant

What Should Know: – Intermountain Healthcare and Story Health , a health technology and services company that provides scalable specialty care beyond the clinic, have entered into a strategic partnership to improve access to specialty care for patients with heart failure. – The partnership combines Intermountain’s leadership in clinical quality improvement and excellence in healthcare delivery with Story Health’s specialty care platform solution to extend access to the hi

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How Should I Budget for an Executive Coach?

Medi Leadership

As a healthcare executive , you have a track record of strong performance and career success — it’s what brought you where you are today. You were likely promoted because your contributions brought such value to your organization that your leaders wanted to replicate those successes on a greater scale. Why would high-performing leaders like you consider executive coaching ?

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News 1/20/23

HIStalk

Top News Bayer acquires Scotland-based Blackford Analysis, which offers radiology.

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Why is finding new indications for existing drugs so important?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The primary reasons is that it is much faster and less expensive to repurpose an existing drug for a new disease than trying to identify a new therapeutic agent. A paper by Islam et al. (2021) explains why: Available information. A repurposed drug has an extensive portfolio of knowledge relating to human pharmacokinetics, bioavailability and toxicology, which helps to mitigate risk of drug failure. ( Ashburn et al. 2004 , Pantziarka et al. 2015 ) Drug development times are shorter.

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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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How Should I Budget for an Executive Coach?

Medi Leadership

As a healthcare executive, you have a track record of strong performance and career success — it’s what brought you where you are today. You were likely promoted because your contributions brought such value to your organization that your leaders wanted to replicate those successes on a greater scale. Why would high-performing leaders like you consider executive coaching?

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5 strategies for physician recruitment in a high-growth environment

CHQ Healthcare

Physician recruitment is tough everywhere, but the challenge is even greater when you’re trying to grow a healthcare organization to serve the nation’s fastest growing community. Bob Trinh, CEO of The Villages Health (TVH), a multi-specialty healthcare system serving over 60,000 patients across nine care centers in The Villages , Florida, is meeting the challenge head on with creative strategies for hiring the physicians they need.

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Inflation, Recession Fears Increase Tension Between Healthcare Patients and Providers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Weave (NYSE: WEAV), the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small- and medium-sized businesses, today announced new research, the 2023 Healthcare Business Insights Report, which examines how inflation and recession fears are impacting small healthcare offices, the patient experience and the strength of patient-provider relationships. – The healthcare industry has become increasingly more competitive in the last five years.

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5 ways CHG is working to strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion

CHQ Healthcare

At CHG Healthcare, a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is ingrained in our company culture. We’re dedicated to delivering a values-based work environment where everyone feels respected, involved, and has equal opportunity to succeed. We formed our first team fully dedicated to DEI in early 2021 to increase our focus on integrating DEI philosophies and practices across the entire organization, and we’ve worked to get better ever since!

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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.