Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

Instacart reaches deal with Boston Children's to help deliver nutritious meals to patients rking Fri, 03/24/2023 - 15:18

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MARCH 24, 2023

Tracy Chu will offer more detail during her HIMSS23 session "Automation Improves Digital Education App Performance." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19 at 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 5, room S505.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

AHA: MedPAC report on hospital finances 'misleading;' recommended 2024 pay bump 'totally insufficient' dmuoio Fri, 03/24/2023 - 15:39

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 24, 2023

Joel Theisen argues for an update of HIPAA that acknowledges an advanced technology landscape and gives providers a fuller picture of patient health.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

UnitedHealthcare study: College students more likely to face mental health needs than parents think pminemyer Fri, 03/24/2023 - 16:42

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 24, 2023

The agency is providing a 180-day transition period for devices that were exempted during the pandemic, and said companies that currently have an EUA should start preparing.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 24, 2023

Although home health providers want to see as many patients as possible to keep up with demand, it is impossible under current circumstances. With that in mind, providers are questioning why they would willingly take on managed care beneficiaries knowing they’d be sacrificing dollars. Some industry experts believe providers should, at the very least, be more aggressive in negotiating managed care contracts.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

Chutes & Ladders—Allegheny Health Network's next president, Children's National Hospital's upcoming CEO & more dmuoio Fri, 03/24/2023 - 12:20

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

Sue Nallapeta, CTO at Trusted Health What You Should Know: – Trusted Health , the leading career marketplace for healthcare professionals announced the appointment of Sue Nallapeta as its new Chief Technology Officer. Nallapeta is the fourth woman to join Trusted as a C-level executive in the last year, and eighty percent of the company’s senior leadership is now women. – Nallapeta is a seasoned engineering leader with more than 15 years of experience leading teams across a variety o

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

Oak Street Health, Interwell Health launch joint venture to offer primary care in dialysis centers hlandi Fri, 03/24/2023 - 13:10

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MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Given the severity of labor shortages and staffing constraints facing health systems nationwide, C-suite executives are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to fill gaps and improve productivity, according to a recent survey conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy) with support from Outbound AI. – Almost half of executives (47.5%) report their health system is currently using AI solutions for the workforce, while all others (52.5%) report th

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

China's military modernization goals serve a variety of political and military purposes, none of which imply any intent to actually start a war. A grasp of the myriad drivers could help observers more accurately assess the danger posed by the PLA's modernization.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Given the severity of labor shortages and staffing constraints facing health systems nationwide, C-suite executives are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to fill gaps and improve productivity, according to a recent survey conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy) with support from Outbound AI. – Almost half of executives (47.5%) report their health system is currently using AI solutions for the workforce, while all others (52.5%) report th

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Instead of traveling to Taiwan like Nancy Pelosi did, U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is abiding by the advice of President Tsai Ing-wen to skip the trip. They will meet in California. This could be seen as a major victory for China's aggressive stance toward U.S. ties with the island and could embolden Beijing.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Flume Health , a healthcare technology company for payer operations launches Flume Relay to systematize the complex solution integration process involved in designing, launching, and administering a health plan. – Flume Relay aims to solve payers’ greatest limitation: the integrations and real-time data exchange with the plethora of vendors and systems that make up a health plan.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 24, 2023

As technology solutions come to market in home health care, they’re becoming utilized by providers to solve a myriad of challenges. One such company is Higher Standards Home Health, a Dallas Texas-based home health agency. The company provides nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy in the home setting. In an effort to further live up to its name, Higher Standards Home Health has begun utilizing a mobile communication platform to improve its clinical environment a

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

This weekly recap focuses on reflecting on the Iraq War, the pandemic and prison education, North Korea’s latest threats, and more.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 24, 2023

Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of February. The selections feature topics ranging from an analysis of the approval and marketing of biosimilars with a skinny label and their associated Medicare savings, to a discussion of the Philips Res

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Abbott today released the latest installment in the company’s multi-year Beyond Intervention series of global healthcare market research designed to uncover challenges that arise within the patient journey of people living with cardiovascular disease and to identify opportunities for patient care improvement. – The latest report stems from a survey of more than 2,000 patients, physicians and healthcare leaders, and reveals challenges resulting from a systemic

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The March update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – In support of Lipoprotein(a) Awareness Day, 23andMe , a human genetics and biopharmaceutical company, today announced a collaboration with Novartis to increase awareness for Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)). – High levels of Lp(a) are associated with increased risk of heart attack, stroke and other life threatening conditions.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Swingtech sends informational messages to hospices related to the Quality Reporting Program (QRP) on a quarterly basis. Their latest outreach communication can be found on the HQRP Requirements and Best Practices web page. If you want to receive Swingtech’s quarterly emails, then add or update the email addresses to which these messages are sent by sending an email to QRPHelp@swingtech.com.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 24, 2023

The Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its third jury trial in its mission to secure criminal convictions against companies and executives accused of labor-side antitrust violations on March 22, 2023, when a jury in Maine acquitted four home healthcare staffing executives of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Act. In United States v. Manahe , the DOJ charged Faysal Kalayaf Manahe, Yaser Aali, Ammar Alkinani, and Quasim Saesah with entering into an approximately two-month conspiracy between April a

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending March 12, 2023. Comparing the March 12, 2023 data to the March 5, 2023 data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate remained the same as past week; Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.2% this past week; Staff primary vaccination completion rate increased 0.1% this past week; Staff up to date with vaccines remained remains the

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Health IT Analytics

MARCH 24, 2023

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Information for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) booklet (14 pages – February 2023) explains how to properly document and bill for services, including: Bed and board, nursing, and other related services Facilities Medical social services Drugs Biologicals Supplies, appliances, and equipment for inpatient hospital care and treatment An Office of Inspector General report – September 2022 – found that Medicare improperly

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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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Health IT Analytics

MARCH 24, 2023

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. – A new report from Accenture , US health inequity: beyond the statistics , analyzes the role US healthcare ecosystem participants can play in addressing health inequities due to race and ethnicity. The statistics are staggering.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 24, 2023

Home-based care is arguably getting more attention from the U.S. president now than it ever has before. So much so, in fact, that home health providers and advocates may start looking at President Biden himself as an ally in their fight against payment rate cuts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Biden’s comments during an event celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act included more support for home health care and its ability to increase patient sati

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

Kevin Agatstein, CEO at KAID Health Dimitri Linde, Clinical AI Specialist at KAID Health Clinical Natural Language Understanding (cNLU), the technology by which computers extract meaning from clinical text, is quickly becoming a common feature in the healthcare IT landscape. In 2021, 30% of surveyed healthcare organizations were either using or exploring the technology.

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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.