Health Care Dive
JULY 27, 2022
The move will slim the organization down into separate units it will call Insurance Services and CenterWell, building on the payer’s recent acquisition of Kindred amid the push for care at home.
The Rand Blog
JULY 27, 2022
While well-intentioned, another U.S.-PRC hotline would give false hope that the two countries would resolve disputes more rapidly during a crisis. The United States is better off changing its expectations, understanding how the PRC views crisis communications, and shifting the focus to the internal, inter-agency process by which U.S. policymakers would coordinate in a crisis with Beijing.
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Health Care Dive
JULY 27, 2022
The strategy to improve outcomes and equity includes ensuring access to reproductive healthcare services and adopting a new “birthing-friendly” hospital designation.
HIT Consultant
JULY 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – Syapse raises $35M led by an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC (Innovatus) to tackle the challenge of understanding, preventing, and treating complex cancers. – The investment will allow Syapse to expand its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, making it more efficient to uncover meaningful insights from real-world oncology data.
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Health Care Dive
JULY 27, 2022
The effort was driven by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which also recently helped nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, initiate a vote to decertify their union.
Home Health Care
JULY 27, 2022
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is restructuring. It will make its CenterWell arm, which includes its home health and primary care capabilities, one of two business units. The goal is to simplify the company’s organization and strategy moving forward. Formerly known as Kindred at Home, CenterWell Home Health is the rebranded home health organization of the Louisville, Kentucky-based Humana.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIT Consultant
JULY 27, 2022
Dr. Arnaud Rosier, CEO at Implicity. The first implantation of a pacemaker in a human occurred in 1958. Since then, the technology behind permanent cardiac rhythm management has steadily evolved, enabling a variety of implants known collectively as cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). Today, CIEDs are the standard of care for a range of cardiac arrhythmias, and researchers estimate that 1.2–1.4 million of these devices are implanted annually worldwide.
Home Health Care
JULY 27, 2022
Home-based care startups in the digital health space are starting to figure out what lane they should be driving in as they adapt to a new investment environment. Despite some troubling figures from investments made in digital health, insiders with Rock Health Advisory say that a shift in strategy, and a willingness to partner with other like-minded companies, is helping those companies survive.
Advanced Data Systems
JULY 27, 2022
Running a flourishing medical practice can be an extremely labor-intensive process that involves a lot of moving parts. Anything that you can do as a manager to simplify your team’s workflow and add efficiencies to the system will go a long way toward helping your organization thrive amongst your competitors. Ordinary office management software tools will not suffice for the complicated environment of a busy medical practice.
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 27, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Before you start reading, stop for a few minutes and consider the state of oral hygiene in your facility, whether it be LTC, AL or in your own home. Are you providing/doing appropriate oral hygiene? What about your own oral hygiene habits? Okay, now read on. Kaiser Health News published this eye-opening piece – Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients.
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HIT Consultant
JULY 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd. , a company developing treatments for severe neurodegenerative diseases, and NeuraLight, a company developing objective and sensitive biomarkers for neurological disorders, today announced a collaboration to advance the science of digital biomarkers in the detection and monitoring of neurological diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). – This agreement marks NeuraLight’s first clinical trial and comes on the heels o
Health Populi
JULY 27, 2022
Apple wants to be your “intelligent guardian for health,” based on a 60-page paper shepherded by Jeff Williams, the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Published last week, the paper is one of the big signals trumpeted this U.S. summer marked by the BA.5 omicron subvariant of SARS-CoV-2, inflation pressures on our household budgets, social/political tensions, and hot-hot weather.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JULY 27, 2022
A paper by Gracia, David and Conti (2022) in Health Affairs Forefront poses the question ‘how do financial incentives impact venture capitalist’s (VC) investment decisions in early-stage biotech companies, and ultimately innovation?’ To get the answer, the authors interviewed 5 venture capitalists to get their thoughts. Based on these interviews, the authors had 7 key findings.
HIT Consultant
JULY 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, announced a Series D financing round of $50M. The Series D round was co-led by Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures with participation from Threshold Ventures , Ascend Partners , and individual investors including Fay Rotenberg and Jonathan Bush.
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Nordic
JULY 27, 2022
Aficionados of my blog posts will know that we long ago established that I’m old. Some would say archaic (Joseph children, I am looking at you!), but I think that is harsh. Be that as it may, back when I was in medical school and residency, I was taught to meet the patient where they are. This meant, as I recall, to understand what circumstances my patients found themselves in and respond to their needs with the specific situation in mind.
HIT Consultant
JULY 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – Mayo Clinic and Mercy announced a 10-year collaboration agreement— a first-of-its-kind alliance between two large healthcare systems that will use the most current data science and years of deidentified patient outcomes to find diseases earlier and start patients on paths to better health more quickly. – With the combination of privacy-protected, cloud-based technology architecture, and the growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning, this aggregate
HIStalk
JULY 27, 2022
Payment Integrity Leader ClaimLogiq Acquires NLP Pioneer SyTrue Payer-focused payments.
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 27, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on July 20, 2022. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the ‘Folders’ button, then select ‘My Inbox’ or the Inbox beginning with ‘LTC’ and the state abbreviation followed by a facility ID.
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HIStalk
JULY 27, 2022
The Next Frontier for Healthcare ConsumerizationBy Aaron Fulner Aaron Fulner,
Health Advances
JULY 27, 2022
By Jeff Bessen, Engagement Manager. Executive Summary. The biomedical potential of CRISPR was discovered just 10 years ago, but the past decade has seen significant advances in the clinic and in the lab. Today, developers of CRISPR-based therapies are running in vivo clinical trials in a handful of orphan diseases, as well as using CRISPR to generate novel cell therapies for hematologic malignancies.
HIStalk
JULY 27, 2022
The ABCs of Using NLP for SDOHBy Marty Elisco Marty.
Home Health Care
JULY 27, 2022
Home care providers likely exhaled a sigh of relief when the American Rescue Plan passed last year, earmarking funds intended to enhance home- and community-based services (HCBS). And they’re once again breathing easier now that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – through the U.S Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – announced that states would have an extra year to use funding from the American Rescue Plan.
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HIT Consultant
JULY 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – Payment integrity tech provider ClaimLogiq acquires SyTrue , a provider of healthcare natural language processing (NLP) technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – The acquisition combines the premier payment integrity platform with the leading NLP technology solution to transform how health plans address payment integrity, risk adjustment and data management.
Medical GPS
JULY 27, 2022
Being a nurse is hard. You face a lot of challenges, both physical and mental, and see numerous patients every day. At some point in your career, no matter how successful you’ve been, you may even start to doubt your abilities. After all, there are thousands of other nurses that do the same jobs as you, but some nurses are just better than others. Why is that?
HIT Consultant
JULY 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – Spectrum Solutions , LLC announced the publishing of findings from their research collaboration with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Dr. David Wong, UCLA School of Dentistry that successfully demonstrated a superior ability to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from saliva. – Specifically, amplified EGFR mutations associated with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using Spectrum’s saliva collection and preservation system with the Elec
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 27, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare . July 26, 2022 marks the 32 nd anniversary of the ADA. The ADA is a historic civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public.
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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.
HIT Consultant
JULY 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – Sheba Medical Centre, Israel’s largest medical center, today announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to help doctors improve the diagnosis and treatment of people with Crohn’s disease. – Sheba developed a new, first-of-its-kind application capable of quickly and accurately analyzing extensive video data of a patient’s digestive system, providing valuable insights to aid medical professionals.
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 27, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Just a few minutes ago, CMS posted this Press Release with the same title as this blog: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today (July 27, 2022) launched its enhanced Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System which integrates data nursing homes report on their weekend staffing rates for nurses and information on annual turnover among nurses and administrators.
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