Mon.May 16, 2022

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Insurers seek steep marketplace premium hikes in Vermont

Health Care Dive

Proposed 2023 plan year average increases on individual and family plans of 17% for MVP Health Care and 12% for Blue Cross Blue Shield in the state buck the national trend of declining ACA exchange premiums.

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Learn how technology and mental health meet in the future

Cloud Blogs

During Mental Health Awareness Month, I can't help but reflect on the impact COVID-19 has had on mental health and frontline worker burnout. Each year millions of people around the world face the reality of living with a mental illness, but during COVID-19 we saw many people overwhelmed by loneliness due to extreme isolation, grief over the loss of loved ones, and anxiety due to COVID-19 related factors.

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NIH licenses COVID-19 technologies to WHO-backed program

Health Care Dive

The agreement, which covers three experimental vaccines as well as several key patents, makes products sold in 49 low-income countries royalty-free.

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One Million American Lives Lost to COVID-19

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “(May 12, 2022), we mark a heartbreaking moment in this pandemic: one million American lives have been lost to COVID-19. On the heels of President Joe Biden addressing the nation about our continued fight against COVID-19, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra issued the following statement: “The magnitude of this loss is felt every day by families missing a parent or grandparent, children who have become o

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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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Nonprofit hospitals squeezed by pricier labor, investment losses in Q1

Health Care Dive

The first quarter is going to be "one of the worst for most of our providers," Fitch Analyst Kevin Holloran said last week.

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Homewatch CareGivers Targets In-Home Nutritional Support, Partners with Chefs for Senior

Home Health Care

Access to quality nutrition is often one of the overlooked aspects of maintaining a healthy lifestyle for seniors aging in place. But companies that offer home-delivered meals can help boost patient outcomes and lower overall health care costs. Home-based care providers that are partnering with such organizations see the relationship as a “beautiful fit,” especially as referral sources and payers continue to focus on social determinants of health.

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The Power of ‘Higher Level’ Home-Based Care Research

Home Health Care

A recognizable name in home-based care is switching up its branding to better reflect the work it will set out to do in the near-term future for the space. The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (AAHQI) is now the Research Institute for Home Care. But its mission won’t change, according to it leaders. Instead, it’s goal is to increase its output in order to give home-based care an authoritative, free-standing source of research and information.

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How Healthcare Providers Are Adapting in the Era of Telehealth, and Why Radiology was Uniquely Suited to Go Hybrid

HIT Consultant

Brian Fabrizio, Medical Information Displays Team Leader at LG Business Solutions USA. As hospitals and private health offices nationwide slowly begin to emerge from the COVID-induced challenges posed over the last two years, there is a new understanding of, and necessity for, adaptable medical technology and practices. Changes in the medical environment are becoming more important to the general public than ever before, with telehealth as a growing–and most likely permanent–practice.

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Humana, WCAS Throw $1.2 Billion Into CenterWell Senior Primary Care Expansion

Home Health Care

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) are pumping $1.2 billion into a joint venture (JV) to further expand its senior-focused value-based primary care clinics. Specifically, Humana’s CenterWell Senior Primary Care arm will be the partner in the expanded WCAS relationship. The success and expansion of senior-focused value-based primary care could potentially lead to collaboration between these organizations and home health providers.

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Reimagining Health Care Without Walls – Deloitte’s Vision

Health Populi

Delivering health care during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic proved to both patients and their clinicians that virtual care was not only a viable channel for care, but very often a preferable “place” to collaborate for treatment. Even before the coronavirus pandemic emerged in early 2020, telehealth and the hospital-to-home movement were beginning to become part of a portfolio of delivery modes across the continuum of care.

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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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Voices: David Berman, Managing Principal, Mergers & Acquisitions and Data Analytics, SimiTree

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by SimiTree. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with SimiTree managing principal David Berman to learn the trends taking hold in the post-acute care space over the next few years. Berman also shares the most interesting ways that post-acute care organizations are using data analytics, and explains SimiTree’s MAP: Market Analysis Platform.

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Driving nurse retention and performance as turnover rates climb

Medi Leadership

Chances are your organization is struggling to fill nurse vacancies today, and nurses under your roof are struggling with burnout. Some are actively looking for a way out, ready to jump ship for better compensation, work/life balance, or retirement. . You’re not alone in that predicament, of course. Earlier this spring, a letter from the American Hospital Association to Congress reported two-thirds of hospitals have a nurse vacancy rate of 7.5% or higher, and 95% of healthcare facilities report

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Another Kind of Performance-Enhancing Drug in Sports: Substances That Improve Creativity

Bill Of Health

By Jack Becker. Discussions about performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) are normally all about physical abilities. They revolve around PEDs that can alter strength, speed, stamina, recovery, and even stability. But if every sport were just a competition of physical traits, they’d be pretty boring. Sports combine physical competition with competition of strategy, technique, and other non-physical components (to varying degrees).

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Medicaid and Health Equity: CalAIM’s Bold Experiment

Sheppard Health Law

More than 13 million people were enrolled in Medi-Cal in California in September 2021, making it the largest Medicaid program in the nation. In December 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS’) request for a five-year extension of its Medicaid section 1115 demonstration and a five-year extension of its Medicaid managed care section 1915(b) waiver.

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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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Coverage with evidence development for medical devices in Central and Eastern Europe

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The value of medical devices caries with it less certainty than pharmaceuticals for a variety of reasons. As described in Kovács et al. (2022) medical devices: often have multiple applications, frequently, undergo product modifications and during their product lifecycle, multiple incremental technological innovations take place affecting both clinical and economic consequences of their adoption into the clinical settings.

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Learn how technology and mental health meet in the future

Cloud Blogs

During Mental Health Awareness Month, I can't help but reflect on the impact COVID-19 has had on mental health and frontline worker burnout. Each year millions of people around the world face the reality of living with a mental illness, but during COVID-19 we saw many people overwhelmed by loneliness due to extreme isolation, grief over the loss of loved ones, and anxiety due to COVID-19 related factors.

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5 Main Benefits of Social Media in Healthcare

Sequence Health

There is no doubt that social media has had a profound impact on the way we live our lives. It has changed the way we communicate with each other, and it has even changed the way we do business. One industry that has been particularly affected by social media is healthcare. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of social media in healthcare.

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Accuracy of Falls Reporting in Home Health OASIS Assessments   

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. In April 2022, CMS will begin publicly reporting on the Care Compare website the percentage of patients in home health care who fell and endured major injuries for each home health agency (HHA). HHAs report falls in patient assessments using the standardized Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), and CMS reports the agency fall rates calculated from these assessments.

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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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CMS Issues Contract Year 2023 Final Rule for Medicare Advantage Organizations and Prescription Drug Sponsors

Sheppard Health Law

On April 29, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), issued the final rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Final Rule”). CMS promotes the Final Rule as advancing “CMS’ strategic vision of expanding access to affordable health care and improving health equity in Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D through lower out-of-pocket prescription drug costs and improved consumer protec

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Nursing Facility Staff Vaccinations, Boosters, and Shortages After Vaccination Deadlines Passed  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “In a new analysis , KFF researchers find that COVID-19 vaccination rates among nursing home staff increased by 25 percentage points nationally (63% to 88%) from when the Biden administration announced the vaccine mandate for health care workers in August 2021 to after vaccination deadlines passed in March 2022.

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Morning Headlines 5/17/22

HIStalk

Skylight Health Group Reports First Quarter 2022 Financial Results Skylight.

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Delivering Patient-Centered Care Means Decluttering the Digital Health Landscape

HIT Consultant

Simon Mathews, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Pager. Digital health companies (DHCs) and their solutions continue to grow at a rapid pace. This is in part being fueled by the record funding for DHCs, with over $29 billion for US-based companies in 2021 alone. As a result, patients are inundated with solutions from every direction – from employers, health plans, and directly through consumer-oriented apps and wearables.

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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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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 5/16/22

HIStalk

With the rise of telehealth, there’s a lot of discussion.

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Action Is Needed Soon to Ensure More Affordable Health Insurance Coverage

NASHP

Action Is Needed Soon to Ensure More Affordable Health Insurance Coverage May 16, 2022 / by Christina Cousart and Maureen Hensley-Quinn. Without Congressional action in the coming weeks to extend the American Rescue Plan Act’s (ARPA) enhanced marketplace tax credit, the gains made in the last year to increase affordability and enrollment for millions could be temporary.