Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Along with virtual health services now being available for employers across the U.S., Amazon Care is expanding its in-person benefit to 20 more cities this year, the e-commerce giant said Tuesday.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Epic representatives gave a sneak peek at the company's plans for the HIMSS22 Conference and Exhibition this March – including the announcement of Cheers, a new customer relationship management system. "The booth will show off how healthcare organizations can use Cheers to help folks shopping or looking for care, complete an easy intake process, access direct care and remain engaged outside the four walls of a health system," said Sam Seering, a member of the implementation s
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The hospital operator plans to buy 30 more centers from SurgCenter Development in 2022, in addition to the 16 it's already acquired this year, executives said on a earnings call Tuesday.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. Therapists are located at either a central clinical location or their home office and are able to securely deliver care using real-time audio and video through various platforms.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
People flocked to get booster shots as the omicron variant drove a sharp increase in testing, boosting revenue for CVS' drugstore segment. Meanwhile, its payer arm reported lower-than-expected COVID-19 treatment costs.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
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Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Bill Of Health
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
By Stephen Wood. The provision of scarce resources such as intensive care unit (ICU) beds, antivirals, and ventilators during this pandemic has been an ongoing topic of discussion. Repeatedly, states and hospital systems have considered implementing crisis standards of care, which establish triage protocols for scarce resources. Though crisis standards of care are meant to provide an ethics-based approach to the complex process of allocating scarce health care resources, in reality, they fall sh
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The second-largest player slashed its MA growth forecast for the year as startup insurtechs report membership gains.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
What You Should Know: Labcorp today announced its strategic partnership with Ascension , one of the nation’s leading Catholic and non-profit health systems. Through this comprehensive arrangement, Labcorp will manage Acension’s hospital-based laboratories in 10 states and acquire select assets of the health system’s outreach laboratory business. Meanwhile, Ascension can leverage Labcorp’s innovative technology to scale diagnostics in priority clinical areas like oncology, neurology and women’s h
Patient Safety Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Developing healthcare benchmarks is part of a larger risk management strategy aimed at providing organizations with valuable information in a timely manner. Healthcare leaders can then use the benchmark data to keep patients and employees safe. Benchmarked data can come from external or internal sources. Incident data is a critical component of this strategy.
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Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “Nursing staff turnover is a substantial concern for nursing homes that care for millions of older individuals, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Low pay is considered as one of the key reasons for high turnover. However, we do not know whether increasing wages can lead to lower turnover.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Sheila Talton, CEO of Gray Matter Analytics. Healthcare spending is projected to exceed $6 trillion by 2028 , largely driven by rising costs of care for an aging population and the growing number of Americans suffering from chronic physical conditions such as pulmonary disease, diabetes and hypertension. To improve health outcomes while lowering cost of care, providers and payors increasingly are implementing value-based care (VBC) payment models.
Medical GPS
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The Importance of Service Recovery Cannot Be Overstated. In today’s deeply consumer-driven healthcare sector, following up with patients is not only critical to compliance and outcomes, it is becoming the key factor in both retaining and building stronger, healthier patient relationships. When patients indicate that their expectations were not met, a quick follow-up phone call to the patient will increase the likelihood that the patient will remain loyal to the practice.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Coming off a major expansion that took place last year, Zing Health has now set its sights on reducing social isolation. The Medicare Advantage (MA) provider looks to accomplish this through its partnership with Papa – and maybe other home-based care providers in the not-too-distant future. “COVID, if nothing else, demonstrated that social isolation is a real concern when you ask seniors not to go outside, or be in contact with others, lest they contract a disease that may be fatal,” Dr.
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GoMoHealth
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 9, 2022. GoMo Health. Shelley Schoenfeld, Chief Marketing Officer. E-mail: sschoenfeld@gomohealth.com. Phone: 732-484-9144. GoMo Health Expands Management Team. Welcoming Lawrence H. Krampf, Healthcare Marketing Executive and Relationship Manager. Asbury Park, NJ, February 9, 2022: GoMo Health, a leading health and wellness patient and consumer engagement company is excited to welcome Larry Krampf as Chief Revenue Officer, joining corporate leadership in the growt
Advanced Data Systems
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
As your organization devotes itself to providing outstanding healthcare for patients, you have to consider what the overall experience is like for each person who passes from the waiting room into the examination room.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The Future of Wellness in 2022 is, “shifting from a ‘feel-good’ luxury to survivalism as people seek resilience,” based on the Global Wellness Institute’s forecas t on this year’s look into self-care and consumer’s spending on health beyond medical care — looking beyond COVID-19. GWI published two research papers this week on The Future of Wellness and The Global Wellness Economy ‘s country rankings as of February 2021.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) mentioned home-based care from time to time when discussing strategy pre-2020. Over the last two years, however, those mentions have become anything but rare. And when an analyst asked on the company’s fourth quarter earnings call whether CVS may get further into Medicare-based home health soon, CVS Health CFO Shawn Guertin answered with a definitive “yes.”.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
What You Should Know: – PayZen , a fintech startup tackling healthcare affordability in the U.S., today announced its technology has been approved by Epic to offer its “Care Now, Pay Later” solution on the App Orchard Marketplace. . – The integration provide a seamless solution to Epic EHR providers, as well as a high-quality user experience for patients.
Nordic
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
In an article in last month’s Modern Healthcare, noted cardiologist and medical futurist Eric Topol lamented that the current set of electronic health record (EHR) vendors do “not properly deliver all the data clinicians need to practice more accurate medicine.” He went on to say that there “[is] so much homeless data out there,” referring to “genomics, readings from wearable sensors, environmental factors, and other items that do not fit neatly into traditional EHR platforms.”.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS issued QSO-22-12-ALL today with the same title as this blog. “States that fail to perform survey and certification functions in a manner sufficient to assure the CMS of the full certification of compliance with all Conditions of Participation, Conditions for Coverage, and Requirements for Participation for providers and suppliers, may, among other things, receive a revised Survey and Certification budgetary allocation.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
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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.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. jRAVEN (version 1.8.1) is now available for download which contains the following update: The new version number for the PDPM Grouper, v2.0003. The release notes and install instructions are found here on the QIES Technical Support Office website. The release date for this update was February 4, 2022.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Thirty Madison and Nurx to merge, creating the leading virtual.
Etactics
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
When you think of bullying, you might imagine school kids picking on each other during recess. Maybe they’re making fun of someone who isn’t good at sports trying to play kickball. Or perhaps your mind goes to high school girls cyberbullying each other on social media. Whatever the case is, your initial thought might not go to bullying in the workplace.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
What You Should Know: – Scopio Labs , provider of the world’s first full-field digital cell morphology solution, today announced a $50M investment for its end-to-end hardware and software platform for digitizing, quantifying and analyzing hematology and other digital cytology samples. – The Series C round included OurCrowd , Aurum Ventures , Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank Invest and Ilex Medical , with the participation of strategic investors operating in the field and existing investors
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.
Icanotes
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Therapy focuses on a patient's concerns in the present while addressing past issues that might influence their current situation. If you offer eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, you work with patients to help them process traumatic events from their past. EMDR therapy is considerably different from other forms of treatment, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or talk therapy.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS issued this News Alert just a few minutes ago: As part of its commitment to improve transparency and help families and caregivers find the best nursing home care for their loved ones, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now posting data on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots administered to nursing home residents and staff on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Should your employer offer you a single health plan type or is it better to be offered a menu of health insurance options that vary by generosity level. At first glance, the answer seems that more choice is better; different individuals may have different risk preferences; some may prefer higher premiums and more generous coverage while others prefer lower premiums with higher cost sharing.
Lexis Nexis
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
It appears that healthcare interoperability is finally having its day. As it transitions from a buzzword that has circled around the industry into a meaningful reality, patients, healthcare systems, health plans and health information technology (HIT) companies each stand to benefit from this new approach to data sharing. Improved technology, enhanced access to personal health data, and strong defined standards to streamline the exchange of health information.
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.
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