Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

Amazon has been focused on ways to make prescription drugs more affordable for consumers as it works to carve out a piece of the retail pharmacy market. | Amazon Pharmacy will automatically apply drug manufacturer-sponsored coupons on more than 15 insulin and diabetes care brands during online check-out. With the coupons, many insulin brands are available to eligible customers starting at $35 a month with free delivery.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 14, 2023

The health system alleges providers have lost at least $19 billion per year as a direct result of MultiPlan’s anticompetitive agreements with major payers, including UnitedHealth, Aetna and Elevance.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

Chutes & Ladders—Cleveland Clinic hires first chief analytics officer; Express Scripts exec to work with independent pharmacies ntong Mon, 08/14/2023 - 10:37

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 14, 2023

The amount of private equity deals decreased 23.7% compared to the first quarter this year. However, Q2 deal volume was still 12.3% higher than the average quarterly deal count pre-pandemic, according to a report from PitchBook.

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Healthcare Success

AUGUST 14, 2023

Today’s trusted healthcare sites feature up-to-date, accurate information. They also boast SEO-optimized content. To stay ahead of your competitors in organic search results and reach the right target audience, you must regularly update your content for SEO. In this blog, I share how to do this in five steps. First, let’s define content optimization.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mount Sinai Health System is the first provider to implement Azure Large Instances, which scales database capacity to the level needed for health record workloads.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

For the third year in a row, demand for nurses surpassed what’s been seen in other specialties, according to a report from staffing firm AMN Healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

The number of cancer patients using immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs has steadily risen since they hit the market in 2011, and a new report from Evernorth offers payers key strategies to manage th | The number of cancer patients using immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs has steadily risen since they hit the market in 2011, and a new report from Evernorth offers payers key strategies to manage these therapies.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 14, 2023

See how the latest in AI can move the conversation back to the forefront with clinical documentation that writes itself—all within the EHR—so clinicians can focus on their patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is joining forces with Ryse Health, a company that specializes in providing in-person and virtual care for patients with uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes, in hopes of dri | The thinking behind a new program by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Ryse Health involves taking a long-term approach to managing uncontrolled type 2 diabetes.

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The Rand Blog

AUGUST 14, 2023

As of April 2023, about 152,000 Special Immigrant Visa applicants remain trapped in Afghanistan. Despite many recommendations and bipartisan support for reforming the program, only minor tweaks have been made. Meanwhile, the dangerously slow process has become practically a death sentence.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

Though Mass General Brigham (MGB)’s operations were on the rise during its fiscal third quarter, the integrated nonprofit system said it still has work to do surrounding capacity management, workfo | The integrated nonprofit's 1.4% operating margin reflects "the steps we have taken to improve access and meet the capacity crisis," CEO Anne Klibanski, M.D., said.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2023

Khue Tran, Chief Strategy Officer at Azalea Health One of the most pressing issues in healthcare today is the growing talent shortage of qualified medical professionals. These critical staffing talent shortages could jeopardize communities’ access to care and result in dire consequences. The staffing shortage existed before the pandemic , but it’s only worsened during the past few years.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 14, 2023

A proposed rule from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – which would require at least 80% of Medicaid reimbursement for home- and community-based services go toward worker compensation – received over 2,100 submissions during its public comment period. Many of the comments included gratitude and appreciation for CMS regarding its efforts to enhance the HCBS workforce.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2023

What You Should Know: iCAD, Inc., a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions, today announced it signed an amendment to its development and commercialization agreement with Google Health , which will enable iCAD to integrate Google’s AI technology with its ProFound Breast Health Suite Secondlook for 2D Mammography for use worldwide upon regulatory approval as an independent reader for breast cancer screening for 20 years. iCAD signed a strategi

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 14, 2023

By Abhishek Kumar and Kavya Poornima Balajepalli Climate change is the gravest threat currently faced by human civilization, and our architecture must internalize this reality of our time. Knowing that the best way to protect people from climate chaos is by tackling inequality , it is critical that our built environment integrate universal design, as lack of accessibility has cascading and compounding impact on vulnerable communities, and especially persons with disabilities.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2023

What You Should Know: Safety net hospital Nashville General Hospital today announced a strategic partnership with Oracle Health to implement its CommunityWorks EHR platform. Oracle Health’s CommunityWorks will replace multiple systems with one united EHR that will enable clinicians to access patient records from the 150-bed hospital and more than 20 outpatient and clinic settings across the county.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

AUGUST 14, 2023

How much money will IRA save Medicare? A paper by Hernandez et al. (2023) aims to answer this question. The methods they use are as follows: For the 10 drugs likely subject to negotiation by Medicare in 2026 based on 2020 gross spending and loss of exclusivity, we extracted 2020 data from 5 sources: (1) net sales from SSR Health; (2) total units sold in the United States from IQVIA National Sales Perspective data; (3) 2020 Part D claims from a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries; (4) units and s

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Medi Leadership

AUGUST 14, 2023

We’ve all known “natural-born” leaders who seem to ooze charisma and good business sense. Often they succeed for a while… until they don’t. At some point, the skills, approaches and relationships that got them where they are stop working or delivering desired results. Despite their past successes and stellar reputation, even “natural-born” leaders hit a wall and stop progressing without intentional, guided development.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a request for additional information regarding UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) planned acquisition of Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED). That’s according to a proxy statement Amedisys filed last week to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “This is a huge transaction,” Les Levinson, co-chair of the transactional health care practice Robinson & Cole LLP, told Home Health Care News.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal Saturday/Sunday edition featured a big story on the economic force of women in the summer of 2023, termed “the women’s multiplier effect” — that women’s spending is a powerful force in the U.S. economy (and as it turns out, in Sweden’s economy as well). The article was titled, “Women Own This Summer.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 14, 2023

Travis Messina co-founded Contessa Health as a hospital-at-home startup in 2015. He served as CEO until March 2023, helping to grow the business into a higher-acuity care innovator with joint venture partnerships with some of health care’s biggest names. Messina now finds himself leading another organization. The Franklin, Tennessee-based Regent Surgical Health announced Monday that Messina has been named the company’s new CEO while also being appointed to its board of directors.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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The Rand Blog

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Russians have burned through more of the expected life span of their aircraft more quickly than anticipated. To make up for it, they'll have to procure more aircraft, increase maintenance, reduce operations, or accept a smaller force—or some combination of those.

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Lexis Nexis

AUGUST 14, 2023

How You Can Get a Competitive Edge Using Claims Data Intelligence Revenue is critical for all businesses, but hospitals and health systems have been hit hard with inflation and labor shortages. And before that – COVID. Health leaders are tasked with strategically uncovering new revenue opportunities and assessing the potential returns on investment.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS revised the State Performance Standards (SPSS) Guidance via Admin Info: 23-12-ALL dated August 11, 2023. Every year, CMS conducts a formal assessment of each State Survey Agencies’ performance relative to measures included in the SPSS program. CMS works with the State Survey Agencies to strengthen oversight so that the care provided in nursing homes and other acute and continuing care providers and suppliers is of the high

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 14, 2023

In hospitals, where patient experience is important and quality of care is non-negotiable, a subtle yet profound practice has emerged as a catalyst for positive change: Executive Leadership Rounds. This powerful initiative, often overlooked amidst the hustle and bustle of hospital operations, holds the potential to support the transformation of HCAHPS patient experience scores, breathing new life into the patient relationship while driving operational excellence.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has just posted the FINAL MDS 3.0 RAI User’s Manual, v1.18.11 – effective October 1, 2023 – here. It’s 1706 pages in length. August 14, 2023 NOW AVAILABLE: Final MDS 3.0 RAI User’s Manual version 1.18.11 The final Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) User’s Manual version (v)1.18.11 is now available in the Downloads section on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (R

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HIStalk

AUGUST 14, 2023

Patty Riskind, MBA is CEO of Orbita of Boston, MA.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CDC has updated 4 hand hygiene in healthcare settings videos earlier this spring: Also recently updated is the Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes video: Threats to nursing home residents’ health are changing and we must adapt to protect them. Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are a known threat to nursing home residents, these germs can cause serious infections and are often hard to treat.

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HIStalk

AUGUST 14, 2023

Many physicians enjoy seeing antique medical equipment or visiting.

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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.