Fri.Dec 03, 2021

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After court-ordered injunctions, Cleveland Clinic, HCA and other providers hit pause on workforce vaccine mandates

Fierce Healthcare

After court-ordered injunctions, Cleveland Clinic, HCA and other providers hit pause on workforce vaccine mandates. dmuoio. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 16:30.

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Feds ding five providers in HIPAA Right of Access enforcement actions

Healthcare It News

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights announced this week that it had brought HIPAA-related enforcement actions against five healthcare providers. The actions brought the total number of enforcements carried out under the agency's HIPAA Right of Access Initiative to 25. "Timely access to your health records is a powerful tool in staying healthy, patient privacy and it is your right under law," said OCR Director Lisa J.

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Out-of-pocket costs may play larger role in telehealth visits than in-person care: survey

Fierce Healthcare

Out-of-pocket costs may play larger role in telehealth visits than in-person care: survey. rtorrence. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 16:07.

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At Premier Family Physicians, patient self-check-in tech reduces FTEs at one location from 14 to 8

Healthcare It News

Premier Family Physicians, a nine-location group practice based in Austin, Texas, seeks to ensure its providers have the tools they need and processes in place to support patient care and get through each day as productively as possible. To that end, enhancing patient self-management and automating screeners and paper processes is a key goal. THE PROBLEM.

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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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HHS: Telehealth use in Medicare increased 63-fold last year with behavioral health increasing the most

Fierce Healthcare

HHS: Telehealth use in Medicare increased 63-fold last year with behavioral health increasing the most. rking. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 16:14.

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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN NH COVID-19 Data Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending November 21, 2021. This latest data set shows these changes from the November 14 th data set: Resident vaccination rate increased 0.3% from the previous week Staff vaccination increased 0.8% from the previous week (same as week prior) Resident confirmed cases increased 4,563 from the previous week Staff confirmed cases increased 5,109 from the previous week An add

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Strategies to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Medicaid Enrollees: Considerations for State Leaders

NASHP

Strategies to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Medicaid Enrollees: Considerations for State Leaders December 3, 2021. Executive Summary. State-level data indicate that COVID-19 vaccination rates are lower among people covered by Medicaid than the general population. With the development of additional variants of concern, such as Omicron, there is an urgent need to build vaccine confidence amongst those who remain unvaccinated.

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Hack targets Planned Parenthood, exposing personal information of 400K patients

Fierce Healthcare

Hack targets Planned Parenthood, exposing personal information of 400K patients. rtorrence. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 10:13.

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Webinar: Employee engagement in a changing workplace

CHQ Healthcare

For CHG Healthcare , employee engagement has always been paramount. This focus has landed us on numerous “best places to work” lists and helped us maintain a high employee retention rate. Then the pandemic hit and all the rules — and even our very workplaces — changed. With more of our colleagues working remotely, it’s time to think of new methods of employee engagement in a changing workplace.

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Pandemic-era burnout, short-staffing has more nurses eyeing the door, survey says

Fierce Healthcare

Pandemic-era burnout, short-staffing has more nurses eyeing the door, survey says. dmuoio. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 14:22.

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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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‘It’s Back to Basics’: Home Health Giants Share Staffing Strategies, Growth Goals

Home Health Care

This article is an exclusive feature available as a part of your subscription to HHCN +. Basically all of the publicly traded in-home care giants offered internal updates and expectations for the coming year this week during a series of investor presentations. In addition to company-specific plans, the group discussed key policy developments and important macro-level trends such as more high-acuity patients coming to the home health setting.

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COVID-19 Continues to Fuel the Fire of America’s Opioid Epidemic

Fierce Healthcare

COVID-19 Continues to Fuel the Fire of America’s Opioid Epidemic. admin. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 14:18.

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Senior Care Advocates, Hospital Groups Voice Concerns Over Potential 6% Medicare Cut

Home Health Care

Both chambers of Congress passed legislation this week to keep the government funded through Feb. 18. Home health agencies and other Medicare stakeholders are worried, however, about a potential 6% cut that could be coming down the pike. The cuts come in the form of Medicare sequestration and PAYGO. Signed into law in August 2011, Medicare sequestration is a federal savings mechanism that aims to decrease the U.S. deficit by roughly $1.2 trillion over a decade.

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The Devil is in the Details with Biden’s Free COVID Testing Plan

Bill Of Health

By David A. Simon. Yesterday, President Biden announced a new requirement that private insurers must reimburse purchases of at-home COVID-19 tests. This represents a significant departure from current policy, which only requires insurance companies to pay for testing at the direction of a healthcare provider. The new policy has yet to take effect — the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will release formal guidance for private insurers by January 15 th.

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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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Addressing Anti-Asian Racism, Stabilizing U.S. Rivalries, the Debt-Ceiling Fight: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on countering anti-Asian racism, the instability of U.S. rivalries with Russia and China, the rise in extremist online activity, and more.

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COVID-19 FAQs | Your Top Questions Answered

Voyage Healthcare

COVID-19 Infection. What is considered a positive exposure? A positive COVID-19 exposure is defined as having close contact (being closer than 6 feet for more than a total of 15 minutes. Minutes are cumulative over a period of 24 hours) with someone who is COVID-19 positive. An infected person can spread COVID-19 starting 2 days before they have symptoms.

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Regulating Out of the Social Media Health Crisis

Bill Of Health

By Bailey Kennedy. If something changes the pathways in our brains and damages our health — and if it does so to Americans on a vast scale — it should be regulated as a threat to public health. It’s time for our regulators to acknowledge that social media fits this description. Social media poses an active health threat to many of its users, in a way that is akin to other regulated substances: it has been tied to a variety of harmful health outcomes, including depression.

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Friday Links

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Top health insurers by state. UnitedHealth revenues: $320 billion. Shortages and health care staff elasticity. How to ask useful questions. Physician assistants or physician associates ? And for fun: What the Packers did on their bye week.

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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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National Influenza Vaccination Week: December 5 – 11, 2021

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. December 5 – 11, 2021 is National Influenza Vaccination Week. Have you gotten this year’s flu shot? Did you know that people with certain chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, and heart disease are at higher risk of developing serious flu complications? A flu shot is the best way to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your community from flu.?

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M&A: PE Firm Carlyle Acquires Health IT Solutions Provider CNSI

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: PE Firm Carlyle acquires CNSI, a provider of health information technology enterprise solutions from A&M Capital Partners. Global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) announced that affiliated funds managed by Carlyle have agreed to acquire CNSI from Alvarez & Marsal Capital Partners. CNSI provides innovative healthcare technology solutions for some of the most forward-thinking State and Federal clients.

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ICD-10: New Diagnosis & Procedure Codes Effective April 1, 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 national emergency, 3 new diagnosis codes and 7 new procedure codes describing introducing or infusing therapeutics, including vaccines for COVID-19 treatment, will be effective April 1, 2022. A new Medicare Code Editor (MCE) code edit and revised coverage edits will also be effective April 1.

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Nordic Consulting Acquires S&P Consultants to Expand Cerner Division

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Nordic Consulting expands its Cerner footprint with the acquisition of health IT consulting firm, S&P Consultants. Nordic Consulting , a global health and technology consulting company has acquired S&P Consultants , a healthcare IT consulting firm with a strong focus on Cerner services. As part of the acquisition, S&P will become a Nordic global company – alongside Bails , Healthtech , and Tasman – collectively helping healthcare leaders navigate com

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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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Zero Suicide for Behavioral Health Practices 

Icanotes

If you're a healthcare professional, you care about your patients. You want them to have the best chance at recovery. You may wonder how you could've helped those who commit suicide even though they've seen a professional for their suicidal thoughts. There is a way to potentially help patients contemplating suicide, and it's to implement the Zero Suicide model.

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How Federal Funds Can Support States In Modernizing The Behavioral Health Crisis Continuum Of Care

NASHP

Background. The COVID-19 pandemic has both exacerbated behavioral health needs in states and uncovered systemic gaps to service delivery, including for crisis intervention services. In response, new federal funds through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) are available to states to help expand and modernize the full continuum of crisis services so that individuals can be assessed, triaged, and diverted away from higher levels of care – including hospitalization, incarceration, and involuntary c

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CMS Loosens Restrictions on Co-Located Healthcare Providers; Enforcement Interpretation Still to Be Determined

Sheppard Health Law

On November 12, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) revised and finalized draft guidance first issued on May 3, 2019, for co-location of hospitals with other hospitals or healthcare providers [1] (the “ Finalized Guidance ”). The Finalized Guidance is intended to guide CMS Surveyors in evaluation of such hospitals’ compliance with Medicare Conditions of Participation related to shared space, services, and staff.

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How to Reduce Hospital Readmissions with Telehealth & RPM

Health Recovery

Hospital readmissions are expensive and affect every part of the healthcare ecosystem, from providers to payers to patients. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), hospital readmission rates are as high as 14%, costing $15,200 on average per readmission. As healthcare organizations shift towards a value-based care model, reducing hospital readmissions becomes a top priority not only as a means to control costs, but as a strategy to achieve important metrics such as i

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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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Register for the December Hospice Quality Reporting Program Forum

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On Thursday, December 16th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar to share updates for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program. During this webinar, CMS subject matter experts will provide information on the following topics: The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey Introduction of Star Ratings.

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Weekender 12/3/21

HIStalk

Weekly News Recap Nordic acquires S&P Consultants. A private.

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OSHA Extends Comment Period for COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing ETS

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has extended the comment period for the COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard to Jan. 19, 2022. OSHA extended the comment period by 45 days to allow stakeholders additional time to review the ETS and collect information and data necessary for comment.

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Prioritizing Purchased Services with Richard Dormer | Ep.25

Vie Healthcare

In Episode 25 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa is joined by Rich Dormer from VIE Healthcare to discuss why prioritizing purchased services is essential for every hospital. As Lisa comments: ‘’If you think about… inflation … hospitals need to be proactively prioritizing purchased services…because you’re going to see the impact of inflation on purchased services spend.’’.

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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.