Tue.Jan 04, 2022

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Nurses at Massachusetts Tenet hospital ratify contract, ending 9-month strike

Health Care Dive

The deal includes some staffing improvements that were top priorities for nurses, including limits on how many patients can be assigned in certain hospital units, along with wage increases, the union said.

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Hackers hit Broward Health network, potentially exposing data on 1.3M patients, staff

Fierce Healthcare

Hackers hit Broward Health network, potentially exposing data on 1.3M patients, staff. hlandi. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 17:14.

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UnitedHealthcare permanently shelves controversial ER coverage changes following confusion

Health Care Dive

Following concerns from hospitals regarding an apparent change to its ER coverage policy, the payer clarified no changes were made — or will be made — to how it approves or denies its members' emergency claims.

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HCA Healthcare scoops up MD Now Urgent Care's 59 Florida clinics to support statewide investments

Fierce Healthcare

HCA Healthcare scoops up MD Now Urgent Care's 59 Florida clinics to support statewide investments. dmuoio. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 13:02.

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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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Roche, Siemens at-home tests get FDA EUAs as US faces COVID-19 testing shortage

Health Care Dive

The agency granted emergency use authorizations to both companies' over-the-counter diagnostics under a new accelerated review program. However, it may take months for them to scale up production.

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Walmart Health exec Osborne leaves the retailer amid ongoing leadership changes

Fierce Healthcare

Walmart Health exec Osborne leaves the retailer amid ongoing leadership changes. hlandi. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 13:17.

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Healthcare Dealmakers—Oracle's $28.3B Cerner buyout; Cancer Treatment Centers of America joins City of Hope

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare Dealmakers—Oracle's $28.3B Cerner buyout; Cancer Treatment Centers of America joins City of Hope. dmuoio. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 16:11.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. Last night, Steve discussed these trends for media attendees, of which I am one (gratefully) participating in #CES2022 virtually from the hygienic comfort and safety of my home health hub (more on that later in this post).

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Nurses vote to end 10-month strike at Tenet Healthcare's St. Vincent Hospital

Fierce Healthcare

Nurses vote to end 10-month strike at Tenet Healthcare's St. Vincent Hospital. dmuoio. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 11:24.

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Citizen Science Helps Communities Participate in, Understand, and Trust Science

The Rand Blog

Good citizen science brings a community together and helps it prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. A RAND guide takes non-expert investigators from the early stages of defining their questions and setting their goals, through building their teams, to planning for action.

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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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Centene completes acquisition of Magellan Health

Fierce Healthcare

Centene completes acquisition of Magellan Health. pminemyer. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 15:37.

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Federal Vaccine Mandates and Legal Challenges

NASHP

Federal Vaccine Mandates and Legal Challenges. Recent federal vaccine mandate regulations and ongoing litigation are key to the vaccine mandate landscape and have a significant influence on state policy. Federal Mandates. • The Biden administration released the Path Out of the Pandemic COVID-19 Action Plan in September 2021. • As part of this plan, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers with 100+ employees to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations and requires any unv

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Symplr to buy Midas analytics solutions suite from Conduent in $340M all-cash deal

Fierce Healthcare

Symplr to buy Midas analytics solutions suite from Conduent in $340M all-cash deal. rtorrence. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 12:38.

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2021 Medicare Fee-for-Service Supplemental Improper Payment Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This 84-page document supplements improper payment information in the annual Department of Health & Human Services Agency Financial Report (HHS AFR). The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) requires improper payment reporting in the HHS AFR. The improper payment rate calculation complies with the requirements of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-123, Appendix C.

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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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AbbVie latest drugmaker to impose 340B restrictions on sales to contract pharmacies

Fierce Healthcare

AbbVie latest drugmaker to impose 340B restrictions on sales to contract pharmacies. rking. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 15:45.

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Home Health Workforce Has Rebounded from Pandemic Lows, But Not Entirely

Home Health Care

Nurse employment data during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that the health care labor market tightened overall, but certain workers and settings were affected more than others. That’s according to a new analysis published by Health Affairs on Tuesday that analyzed aggregate data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from February 2020 to June 2021 for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistants (NAs).

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Medicare Part B spent $1.5B on COVID-19 tests in 2020, other testing decreased

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare Part B spent $1.5B on COVID-19 tests in 2020, other testing decreased. rking. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 14:29.

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Clear Arch Health Acquires Life Care Solutions to Expand RPM Marketshare

HIT Consultant

le. What You Should Know: – Clear Arch Health, a division of MobileHelp and a leading provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) solutions, today announced the company acquired Life Care Solutions (LCS), a division of Resideo. – Life Care Solutions has been a global leader in the remote patient monitoring industry for two decades, with a complete RPM solution to help streamline care coordination and improve outcomes.

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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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Real-world evidence firm Aetion grabs privacy-protected synthetic data provider Replica Analytics

Fierce Healthcare

Real-world evidence firm Aetion grabs privacy-protected synthetic data provider Replica Analytics. rtorrence. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 14:54.

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symplr Acquires Midas Health Analytics Solutions for $340M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – symplr , a global leader in enterprise healthcare operations including governance, risk management, and compliance (“GRC”) SaaS solutions announced it has agreed to acquire Midas Health Analytics Solutions (“Midas”) from Conduent Incorporated for $340M. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. – The acquisition highlights symplr’s aggressive M&A

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Humana, Vancouver Clinic join forces on new primary care practice in Oregon

Fierce Healthcare

Humana, Vancouver Clinic join forces on new primary care practice in Oregon. pminemyer. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 12:09.

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Aetion Acquires Synthetic Data Platform Replica Analytics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Aetion , a real-world evidence (RWE) tech platform, has just announced its acquisition of Replica Analytics , a pioneer in using ML to generate synthetic data. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – This acquisition allows Aetion to solve for one of the toughest problems in RWE: access to fit-for-purpose data.

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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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Ianacare locks down $12M amid growing caregiver market

Fierce Healthcare

Ianacare locks down $12M amid growing caregiver market. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 15:31.

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Bamboo Health Promotes Rob Cohen to CEO

HIT Consultant

Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health. What You Should Know: – Bamboo Health™, formerly Appriss Health and PatientPing, today announced that Rob Cohen, president and general manager of Bamboo Health, is assuming the role of CEO effective December 16, 2021. Appriss CEO Krishnan Sastry is now executive chairman for Bamboo Health and serves as an advisor to Cohen. – The promotion comes as Bamboo Health transitions from one of several business units under the Appriss Inc. name to an independen

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HHCN+ Report: The Past, Present and Future of the Home Health Public Market – and Why It Matters

Home Health Care

The home health market is made up of about 9,900 home health agencies, with businesses ranging in size, service mix and structure. The publicly traded home health companies, in particular, offer a snapshot of the industry in the present – and often a sneak peek at what’s to come. While the names of the publicly traded home health giants over the past 15 years have changed, there has also been a mindset shift among the well-established companies that remain.

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Caira Surgical Secures $5M for Robotic Solutions for Joint Replacement Surgery

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Caira Surgical , a revolutionary computer-assisted navigation system for joint replacement surgery raises $5M from series seed investors to include a leading OUS Strategic and several MedTech venture funds. These include U.S.-based Mountain State Capital; Amsterdam-based Snowboat BV, a Dutch fund formed by the founders of Avania Clinical (previously Factory-CRO); and Grenoble, France-based Haventure, founded by Stephane Lavallee, Ph.D.

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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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10 Irresistible Ideas to Show Your Patients You Appreciate Them

Solution Reach

Patient appreciation should be an intrinsic part of your practice’s marketing plan. Why? Because it’s valuable to patients and critical to your bottom line.

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Serving your community with a quality strategy

Meditech

One of the most rewarding things about working in healthcare is the opportunity to make a difference — for patients , for the populations we serve, and for the people we work with. Working in a field where change can come in the blink of an eye, I’ve learned that there is no substitute for a solid quality strategy.

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Nurse employment and wage trends

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Recent news articles have spilled much ink about the current nurse shortage. According to Pew , due to nursing shortages “Hospitals nationwide are canceling nonemergency surgeries, struggling to quickly find beds for patients and failing to meet the minimum nurse-patient ratios experts recommend.” Nursing wages are rising as well. The Baltimore Sun reports that the University of Maryland Medical System is planning to spend $5.1 million to recruit nurses.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill Of Health

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Beatrice Brown , Aviva Wang, and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of November.

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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.