Tue.Apr 18, 2023

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Pharmacists stump for more active role in primary care

Health Care Dive

At the HIMSS conference in Chicago on Tuesday, pharmacists argued that state and federal regulators should allow them to do more to practice the full scope of their licenses.

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Define Ventures raises $460M to invest in early-stage digital health startups

Fierce Healthcare

Define Ventures raises $460M to invest in early-stage digital health startups hlandi Tue, 04/18/2023 - 09:23

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Teladoc expands provider-based program to prediabetes, weight management as demand surges for weight loss drugs

Health Care Dive

The virtual care vendor said it plans to apply evidence-based guidelines to prescribe a class of diabetes medication that includes Ozempic when clinically appropriate.

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HIMSS23: Verizon, Cleveland Clinic to build new Ohio hospital, first in US to be embedded with 5G from get-go

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Verizon, Cleveland Clinic to build new Ohio hospital, first in US to be embedded with 5G from get-go agliadkovskaya Tue, 04/18/2023 - 18:41

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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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CMS walks back limits on non-standardized plan options, finalizes marketplace standards

Health Care Dive

The final rule comes as a record 16.3 million Americans, spurred by COVID-19 incentives, signed up for ACA marketplace plans during 2023 open enrollment.

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AWS notches partnerships with 3M, Philips as it strengthens foothold in healthcare cloud, AI

Fierce Healthcare

AWS notches partnerships with 3M, Philips as it strengthens foothold in healthcare cloud, AI hlandi Tue, 04/18/2023 - 15:01

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Report: Hospitals, payers making strides on price transparency compliance

Fierce Healthcare

Report: Hospitals, payers making strides on price transparency compliance dmuoio Tue, 04/18/2023 - 09:49

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Patients should be at the center when designing digital health experiences

Healthcare It News

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HIMSS23: Google proceeds with caution in piloting its LLM in healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Google proceeds with caution in piloting its LLM in healthcare aburky Tue, 04/18/2023 - 17:52

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Easy-to-use devices key to equitable remote patient monitoring

Healthcare It News

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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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No Surprises Act largely successful in protecting consumers though gaps remain, stakeholders say

Fierce Healthcare

No Surprises Act largely successful in protecting consumers though gaps remain, stakeholders say dmuoio Tue, 04/18/2023 - 15:18

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CVS Health names new president of Aetna

Health Care Dive

Brian Kane, who previously worked as a consultant and was CFO at Humana, will replace Daniel Finke, who is stepping down.

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HIMSS23: InterSystems quietly preaching the gospel of interoperability while charting progress with partners like the VA

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: InterSystems quietly preaching the gospel of interoperability while charting progress with partners like the VA aburky Tue, 04/18/2023 - 18:47

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Militaries, Metals, and Mining

The Rand Blog

Securing access to supply, increasing global and domestic capacity, and diversifying supply chains upstream to downstream for critical minerals should be at the top of the agenda for both nations and private industry. Failure to do so could put both climate mitigation strategies and U.S. military readiness at risk.

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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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The Compliance Issues That Make Home-Based Care Sellers Untouchable

Home Health Care

Home-based care’s acquirers have become more disciplined. And it’s not just because of rate cuts or higher inflation, either. It’s also because, after the M&A rush of 2021 , outside investors are more aware of the compliance issues that can come along with small- to mid-sized sellers. Strategic buyers are also tired of dealing with “fixer-uppers.

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A Potential Backslide in Mental Health Care for Millions of Americans

The Rand Blog

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency declaration expires in less than a month. When it does, it will have broad-sweeping effects, and one of the most significant is little known: It could begin undoing the expansion of mental health care access for millions of Americans.

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How have US cost-effectiveness thresholds changed over time?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the questions Peter Neumann and David Kim (2023) answer in their JAMA research letter published today. They use 1990-2021 data from the Tufts Medical Center CEA Registry. The results are summarized in the graphs below. First, we see the use of a explicit cost effectiveness threshold increasing over time, from only 45% of published studies to 91% of all studies.

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Help at Home Appoints Georgia Market Leader; Former Humana CFO Joins Aetna

Home Health Care

Help at Home names market leader for Georgia Help at Home has named Hermina Yarde as its new market leader in Georgia as the company plans to expand further in the Peach State. Yarde’s appointment comes just a month after the franchise company acquired Prosper Home Care , a home care provider based in Atlanta, that added “scale and depth” in a core market, according to the company. “I am excited to add Hermina’s unique expertise as the leader of our Georgia operation,” Help at Home C

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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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From HIMSS with Dr. Jayne 4/18/23

HIStalk

It was a slow start at HIMSS on Monday. I.

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Voices: Tim Ashe, Chief Clinical Officer, WellSky

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by WellSky. In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Tim Ashe, Chief Clinical Officer, WellSky, to learn about patient engagement and the role it plays in better health outcomes and whole-person care. He explains why it is important to have patients and families play an active role in their treatment and wellness plans, and he talks about the benefits of patient engagement tools for both patients and clinicians.

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“Your care, your way:” Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023

Health Populi

Consider the key drivers of supply and demand in health care, globally, right now: On the medical delivery supply side, the shortage of staff is a limiting factor to continuing to deliver care based on the usual work-flows and payment models. On the demand side, patients are taking on more demanding roles as consumers with high expectations for service, convenience, and safe care delivered closer to home — or at home.

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From HIMSS 4/18/23

HIStalk

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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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5 Tips for Launching a CMS Hospital at Home Program

Health Recovery

As the healthcare industry increasingly grapples with capacity issues, rising costs, and patient-centric care demands, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital at Home model has emerged as a viable solution.

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The Council of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Convention: Implications for Health and Patients

Bill Of Health

By Hannah van Kolfschooten The Council of Europe , the most important international human rights organization on the European continent, currently is drafting a Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (AI Convention). The Convention aims to protect fundamental rights against the harms of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and is expected to become a global leading convention, as non-European states such as the United States (U.S.) are considering becoming si

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Children & Asthma

Healthcare Highways

Every 24 hours, humans manage to inhale air upwards of 17,000 times, pulling 2,000 gallons of whatever’s around us inside our airways by mouth or nose—whichever gets the job done.

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OCR Announces Proposed Rulemaking to Strengthen Reproductive Health Privacy

Sheppard Health Law

On April 12, 2023, OCR issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to strengthen HIPAA’s protections around reproductive health care privacy. The NPRM responds to President Biden’s Executive Order 14076, which directed HHS to consider ways to strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health care services, following the Supreme Court’s rule in Dobbs v.

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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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Key Leadership Competencies: Teams Thinking

Medi Leadership

As a firm of executive coaches working exclusively with healthcare leaders , we’ve come to realize the competencies required to lead well in our industry are changing. Rapidly. Take team dynamics, for instance. While it has always been true that healthcare is the product of the integration of multiple disciplines, there is increasing recognition that effective management of the intersection of those disciplines is critical for high performance and true transformation.

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4 Reasons to Have More Fun at Work

Baird Group

Did you know that having fun at work is not just a luxury but a necessity for your well-being and productivity? Working in a medical setting, you know better than anyone that the work can be challenging, stressful, and emotionally taxing. It’s easy to get caught up in the seriousness and forget the importance of having fun. While it may seem like “wasted time” in a busy department, having fun can have long-lasting positive effects and save you time in the long run.

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Sleep Better, Live Better

Healthcare Highways

Sleep takes up one-third of our lives—that's a lot of down time, and until the 1950’s most scientists believed that during most of it, human brains and bodies power down completely.

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Designing for Health: Interview with Chris McCarthy, Part 2 [Podcast]

Nordic

When we think of innovation, we often gravitate towards new digital solutions. Even when well designed, the technology and workflows associated with it may create obstacles to efficiency (and the dreaded “workaround”). In certain use cases, analog, old-fashioned designs can be more powerful than new digital innovations. Whether digital or analog, incorporating human-centered design principles has never been more critical for healthcare organizations.

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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.