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Amazon will see you now: reading between the lines of the One Medical acquisition

Health Care Dive

The deal’s near-term ramifications are unlikely to be monumental. But what it represents should be concerning for One Medical’s primary care competitors and larger entities looking to capture a greater slice of the healthcare market.

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[Podcast] COVID Disruption & Its Indelible Mark on Healthcare Marketing

Healthcare Success

The COVID pandemic accelerated a longstanding issue within the healthcare industry: balancing labor shortages with increasing patient volume. While market disruptors such as Telehealth and other retail clinics provide communities with more care options, they also drive higher staffing demands on an already small pool of candidates. Not only that, but many doctors and nurses are choosing to retire early or leave their professions altogether.

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OIG warns of telehealth fraud risks in wake of DOJ crackdown

Health Care Dive

The special alert to healthcare providers describes how fraudsters recruit and reward practitioners in schemes to exploit the growth of telemedicine.

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Northern Adelaide Local Health Network sets up digital prenatal care platform

Healthcare It News

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network has digitised its delivery of prenatal care to reduce the administrative burden on its midwives while enabling personalised support to pregnant women. Pregnancy Online Platform NALHN (POPN) was developed in partnership with Personify Care, which has powered the system with digital pathways that deliver information specific to a woman's stage of pregnancy.

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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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Teladoc names ex-Providence executive as new COO, filling vacancy

Health Care Dive

The chief operating officer role has been empty since David Sides departed Teladoc in September to become the chief executive of an ambulatory technology company.

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UT Austin, MITRE team up on ethical AI initiative

Healthcare It News

The University of Texas at Austin is working with the MITRE Corporation on a new partnership to develop more innovative and ethical artificial intelligence research. WHY IT MATTERS. The project is focused on work already underway by interdisciplinary teams of researchers working as part of UT Austin's Good Systems research grand challenge. Officials say MITRE's investment of $1 million in support of Good Systems will help expand its team expertise and support a greater number of faculty

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Vulnerabilities in health data privacy causing tension among patients

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Ochsner piloting program to hire Ukrainian nurses

Health Care Dive

The system will offer eight nurses employment and assist them and their families in getting acclimated to their new communities. Nurses will be committed to their roles for at least two years.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

I’ve returned to the U.S. for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. home base, reunite with friends and family, and re-join life and living this side of the Atlantic.

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WHO declares growing monkeypox outbreak global health emergency

Health Care Dive

The decision comes as the U.S. scrambles to slow the spread of the virus.

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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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Theator Raises $39.5M for AI-Driven Surgical Intelligence Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Theator , the first-of-its-kind AI-driven Surgical Intelligence Platform, announced that it has extended its Series A funding round by $24M, bringing the round’s total to $39.5M. – The extension was led by Insight Partners with support from existing investors including Blumberg Capital , Mayo Clinic , NFX , StageOne Ventures , iAngels , and former Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt.

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Positive Thinking – The Right Choice?

Healthcare Leadership

Blog by Joe Babaian. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ~Omar Khayyam. For some, the only way to live is to be relentlessly positive; for others, the drive to see things as they are manifests itself in a running commentary that includes all storm clouds. Is there a benefit to choosing one dogma over the other? Seems simple! How can business get done if working with people who are not empowered to say yes ?

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Media Mix Transformation for Pharma Marketers: The Power of CTV & Digital Video

HIT Consultant

Lauren Ohlsson, Lead of Industry Solutions, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, at VDX.tv. Consumers continue to cut ties with traditional TV and cable services, prompting industries like the prescription pharmaceutical industry to evolve their marketing mix to accommodate emerging media. . Pharma advertisers spend billions on traditional TV advertising, but as streaming services began to experience explosive growth early in the pandemic, advertising strategies had to adapt.

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The Mutual Rewards of Hiring a Veteran: Q&A with Kyleanne Hunter and Kayla Williams

The Rand Blog

July 25 is National Hire a Veteran Day, and its purpose is to encourage employers to look to this diverse pool of workers to fill positions. Employers stand to benefit from the experience and skills that veterans acquire during military service. For veterans, a fulfilling career can ease the transition to civilian life.

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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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Health Note Raises $17M for Pre-Clinical Intake Automation Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health Note , the pre-clinical intake automation platform that uses digital patient intake to prepare clinical notes for providers ahead of patient visits, announced the close of a $17M Series A financing round led by SignalFire. SignalFire is joined by UnityPoint Health , Northwell Health Holdings , the for-profit arm of Northwell Health focused on investment in early stage/growth opportunities, strategic partnerships and the cultivation of internal innovations tha

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‘We’re in the Fight’: The Preserving Access to Home Health Act Is Introduced in the Senate

Home Health Care

A new bill that would prevent the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from reducing home health payments this year – and until 2026 – was introduced in the Senate Monday afternoon. Dubbed The Preserving Access to Home Health Act, the bill was introduced by Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), both of which have been longtime advocates of at-home care.

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The Lessons the United States Learned, and That Russia Did Not

The Rand Blog

As dissimilar as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars may be to the war in Ukraine, those conflicts taught the United States a few important lessons, often the hard way. As a result, the U.S. military probably would have avoided the problems that beset the Russians in Ukraine—not in spite of the global war on terrorism, but because of it.

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Frontline Honors: Sidi Kamara, Capital City Nurses

Home Health Care

Sidratu “Sidi” Kamara, Caregiver for Capital City Nurses, has been named a 2022 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News. To become a Frontline Honoree, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a dedicated, high-performing frontline worker who delivers exceptional experiences and outcomes; a passionate worker who knows how to put their vision into action for the good of seniors and aging industry professionals; and an advocate for seniors, their indus

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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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HIStalk Interviews Matt Roberts, Healthcare Industry Practice Lead, Juniper Networks

HIStalk

Matt Roberts is global practice lead, healthcare industry of Juniper.

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Increasing Access to Routine Child Immunizations: State Approaches for Increasing Pharmacy Enrollment in the VFC Program

NASHP

Increasing Access to Routine Child Immunizations: State Approaches for Increasing Pharmacy Enrollment in the VFC Program July 25, 2022 / by Ella Roth , Katie Greene , and Michelle Fiscus. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a detrimental effect on child immunization rates. Almost 27 percent of surveyed households had one or more children who missed or delayed a preventive visit because of the pandemic.

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 7/25/22

HIStalk

This weekend marked the first time in a decade that.

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Indiana’s Approach to Supporting Mobile Integrated Health Programs

NASHP

Indiana’s Approach to Supporting Mobile Integrated Health Programs July 25, 2022/ by Jodi Manz. Background. In the wake of the enormous strain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic across the health care system, states are considering opportunities to improve access to care while identifying ways to innovate the delivery of care. Such potential innovation includes thinking about how to deploy available health care workforce differently and how to better incentivize lower-cost, person-centered care.

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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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Morning Headlines 7/26/22

HIStalk

Theator, an AI platform that analyzes surgery videos, closes out.

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OIG Warns Physicians About Entering into Arrangements with Telemedicine Companies

Sheppard Health Law

On July 20, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert warning physicians and other practitioners to exercise caution when entering into telemedicine arrangements that have certain suspect characteristics. Based on both the OIG’s and the Department of Justice’s experiences in bringing fraud and abuse enforcement actions, the OIG identified the following characteristics as suspect: The patients for whom the physician/prac