Fri.Sep 27, 2024

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Healthcare conferences to put on your calendar for 2024-2025

Fierce Healthcare

Looking for healthcare events in the fall of 2024 and 2025? We rounded up some of the top conferences, both virtual and live, that are on the calendar. | Here's our roundup of some of the top events in healthcare scheduled in the fall of 2024 and 2025.

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GPs cry My Health Record 'overhaul' and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Australian gov't urged to raise My Health Record funding An organisation of general practitioners in Australia has called on the federal government to upgrade the country's digital health record system. "We’re calling for the federal government to overhaul My Health Record to improve its useability for Australians, GPs, and other health professionals," said RACGP President Dr Nicole Higgins in a statement.

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HHS OIG finds gaps in opioid treatment for Medicare, Medicaid enrollees

Fierce Healthcare

Many counties do not have medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) services available through providers and treatment programs, and even in counties that do, Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries of | A new report from HHS OIG looked at access to medication for opioid use disorder services and found many high need counties do not have specialized providers.

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Acquisitions work as a one-time efficiency boost for hospital margins: study

Health Care Dive

Independent hospitals can receive efficiency and profitability boosts from acquisitions. However, buyouts don’t continue to improve operating metrics for corporate-owned hospitals, according to a new study.

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Fertility Benefits Playbook: How HR Leaders Are Delivering Value in 2025

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Fertility benefits have become a crucial component of employee well-being and retention strategies. In today’s competitive landscape, creating a fertility benefits program that aligns with both employee needs and organizational goals can be more complex than it seems. From cycle-based to flat-dollar and telehealth models, each solution offers unique advantages and challenges that directly affect employee satisfaction and financial well-being.

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CMS: Medicare Advantage, Part D premiums are stable for 2025

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare's open enrollment window opens in a few weeks, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering a broad look at the landscape around Medicare Advantage and Part D before si | Medicare's open enrollment window opens in a few weeks, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering a broad look at the landscape around Medicare Advantage and Part D before signups begin.

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Epic's countermove: Calls for Carequality, Particle Health to go public with patient privacy dispute

Fierce Healthcare

Electronic health records giant Epic wants a behind-the-scenes dispute with Particle Health over patient data made public, saying the startup has mischaracterized the events in its antitrust lawsui | Electronic health records giant Epic wants a behind-the-scenes dispute with Particle Health over patient data made public, saying the startup has mischaracterized the events in its antitrust lawsuit.

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How Enhabit, Bayada Win Home Health Value-Based Care Arrangements

Home Health Care

As more home health providers participate in value-based care arrangements, leaders are learning what works, and what falls flat. Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has been active in the value-based care space. The company has a small – but growing – number of value-based contracts on the Medicare Advantage (MA) side, as well as Accountable Care Organization (ACO) partnerships.

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Chutes & Ladders — Oschner, Emory, AdhereHealth tap female execs for top C-suite roles

Fierce Healthcare

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. | Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.

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Telehealth Satisfaction: A Mixed Bag Despite Growing Adoption, J.D. Power 2024 Study Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Telehealth , hailed as a potential game-changer in healthcare accessibility, has experienced mixed success in meeting patient expectations, according to the latest J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Telehealth Satisfaction Study. – While telehealth usage has skyrocketed, particularly during the pandemic, the study reveals significant variations in patient satisfaction between different telehealth providers and concerns regarding the effectiveness of telehealth for various t

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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How hospital lobbyists are leveraging revenue cycle data to win over Washington

Fierce Healthcare

Timely access to individual and collective revenue cycle data streams is making the difference for hospital lobbyists petitioning Washington for more favorable healthcare policy, say representative | Timely data aggregation is a key weapon in the arms race with payers over issues like medical debt, claims denials and pay interruptions, AHA and FAH policy heads told a room of hospital revenue cycle leaders at a recent vendor event.

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Epic Challenges Particle Health Over Data Privacy Dispute

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Epic Systems , a leading electronic health records (EHR) provider, has initiated a dispute against Particle Health through the Carequality interoperability network, raising concerns about the potential misuse of patient medical records. – The dispute, filed at the direction of Epic’s customer governing council, alleges that some Particle customers used the network to take people’s medical records under false pretenses.

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Industry Voices—An outside-in perspective on how to improve hospital throughput performance

Fierce Healthcare

It is critically important to recognize the need to build out an ecosystem of community-based care options, providing varying levels of care and including both the home and post-acute skilled nursing facilities.

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SONIFI Health & NESA Bring Epic Virtual Care to Patient TVs

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Leading patient engagement technology provide r SONIFI Health has partnered with NESA—a rapidly growing virtual care technology provider whose AI-powered solution is embedded directly into Epic’s ECAL/CAL virtual care platform—to improve patient care and engagement with SONIFI Health’s interactive TV system. – Building on the success NESA has experienced deploying virtual care on wall-mounted displays and mobile carts in hospitals, integrations with SONIF

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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ReproDialogue: Critical Discussions on Self-Managed Abortion & Reproductive Justice

Bill Of Health

Photo credit: Martina Šalov International Safe Abortion Day is 28 September. This new digital symposium, ReproDialogue: Critical Discussions on Self-managed Abortion & Reproductive Justice by guest editor Lucía Berro Pizzarossa in collaboration with Birmingham Law School and the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy at the University of Birmingham , brings the international revolution in self-managed reproductive healthcare into focus.

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Future Leader: Lindsey Van Gompel, Executive Director Of Specialty Programs, Advocate Health, Continuing Health Division

Home Health Care

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Lindsey Van Gompel, executive director of specialty programs at Advocate Health’s Continuing Health Division, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Healthcare Worker Vaccination is Important for Respiratory Virus Season 2024

CDC

Respiratory virus season is here. As a healthcare worker, you play a critical role in slowing and preventing the spread of viral respiratory infections, including flu and COVID-19. Like hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and environmental cleaning and disinfection, vaccination is a critical tool in our infection control toolbox. Getting vaccinated in combination with implementing standard infection control practices can help protect you and others in your healthcare facility.

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SPACE-H Accelerator to Explore Astronaut Disease Treatment in Space

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NaNotics LLC, a biopharmaceutical company developing NaNots® – novel subtractive nanoparticles that treat disease by capturing and clearing pathogenic molecules from blood – today announced that it has been selected for the inaugural SPACE-H Accelerator program – a collaboration between Starburst, NASA’s Human Research Program (NASA HRP), the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), Methuselah Foundation, and Microsoft Federal. – The SPACE-H

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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Crosswalking ISO/IEC 27001 to NIST SP 800-171A: A Comprehensive Guide

Etactics

ISO/IEC 27001 provides a head start to implementing NIST SP 800-171A. This guide crosswalks work done under ISO/IEC 27001 into NIST SP 800-171A. The crosswalk resource enables mapping Annex A controls to NIST assessment objectives. The crosswalk accommodates both 2013 and 2022 versions of ISO/IEC 27001. We developed this resource with help from Dr. Robert Jenkins of QBE.

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PACE-H Accelerator to Explore Astronaut Disease Treatment in Space

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NaNotics LLC, a biopharmaceutical company developing NaNots® – novel subtractive nanoparticles that treat disease by capturing and clearing pathogenic molecules from blood – today announced that it has been selected for the inaugural SPACE-H Accelerator program – a collaboration between Starburst, NASA’s Human Research Program (NASA HRP), the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), Methuselah Foundation, and Microsoft Federal. – The SPACE

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Tyler Cowen on the price of Ozempic. Problems with the OMB’s social welfare function. Link between alcohol and cancer. Disparities in the rural-urban life expectancy. Why will Part D plans “…move drugs that are selected for [MFP] negotiation into a higher cost-sharing tier ”?

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Finding Success Amid Complexity: 3 Payer Strategies for Better Risk Adjustment Results

HIT Consultant

Katie Sender, MSN, RN, PHN, CRC VP, Clinical and Coding Services at Cotiviti, Inc. Risk adjustment requires constant attention to ensure accurate coding, timely regulatory compliance, and streamlined communications across the payer-provider continuum. Increasingly rigorous oversight from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the Inspector General (OIG) are calling for better diligence, planning and administrative oversight for effective risk adjustment.

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.

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State Medicaid Approaches to Respite Care for Children and Youth with Chronic and Complex Needs

NASHP

Introduction Family caregivers play a critical role in supporting children and youth with chronic illness, behavioral and special health care needs, and medical complexities. Without access to adequate services and supports, family caregivers are often relied upon to fill gaps in care. This may include providing complex, nursing-level medical care (e.g., tracheostomy care), technical medical equipment tasks (e.g., adjusting feeding tubes), treatment or therapeutic services for behavioral health

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The Importance Of Cultural Competence In Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

Cultural competence in home care means providing care that considers the cultural, social and linguistic backgrounds of patients and their families. It recognizes that individuals are unique and that their backgrounds influence their views on care. Cultural competence also emphasizes the importance of culture without making assumptions about a patient based on race, country, religion or sexuality.

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Senate Democrats introduce bill to boost rural, safety-net hospital obstetrics pay

Fierce Healthcare

The chair of the Senate Finance Committee and several of his Democratic colleagues have introduced a bill that would increase Medicaid payments to rural and safety net hospitals for maternity care. | The Keep Obstetrics Local Act, which is backed by several provider groups, aims to address obstetrics service line closures and maternal mortality.

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