Tue.Feb 14, 2023

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ONC debuts first cohort of qualified networks in TEFCA, including Epic, eHealth Exchange

Health Care Dive

Epic, CommonWell Health Alliance, eHealth Exchange, Health Gorilla, Kno2 and Konza — which collectively cover a significant swath of American health records — have committed to go live within TEFCA in 12 months.

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CMS halts, recalls billing arbitration decisions after Texas court vacates guidance

Fierce Healthcare

CMS halts, recalls billing arbitration decisions after Texas court vacates guidance dmuoio Tue, 02/14/2023 - 11:54

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Surgical procedures cost significantly more at hospitals in networks versus independent facilities, study finds

Health Care Dive

The median price for a shoulder arthroscopy was $4,432 at hospitals within a network, compared to $2,643 at independent hospitals, new research in JAMA Network Open found.

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Marker Learning scores $15M to continue bringing down the cost of learning disability assessments

Fierce Healthcare

Marker Learning scores $15M to continue bringing down the cost of learning disability assessments aburky Tue, 02/14/2023 - 17:36

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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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Sanford-Fairview delay merger after push from Minnesota AG

Health Care Dive

Even with the delay, the attorney general's office alleged that the two systems had not yet fully complied with the office’s repeated requests for information.

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Tammy Baldwin presses Ascension for details on private investments after media reports

Fierce Healthcare

Tammy Baldwin presses Ascension for details on private investments after media reports rking Tue, 02/14/2023 - 12:14

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Humana Foundation rolls out new strategy to tackle health equity

Fierce Healthcare

Humana Foundation rolls out new strategy to tackle health equity pminemyer Tue, 02/14/2023 - 14:54

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Earthquake in Turkey, Syria: Insights from RAND Researchers

The Rand Blog

More than 36,000 people have been confirmed dead in one the strongest earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria in the past century. As search-and-rescue missions continue and recovery begins, a handful of RAND researchers shared some of their initial thoughts.

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CMMI releases three new models aimed at lower generic, novel drug costs

Fierce Healthcare

CMMI releases three new models aimed at lower generic, novel drug costs rking Tue, 02/14/2023 - 16:35

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How Healthcare Organizations Can Enhance Patient Experience & Trust During the Winter Surge

HIT Consultant

Toni Land, Head of Clinical Healthcare Experience at Medallia It’s well known that the winter season typically creates spikes in illness and, consequently, a surge in healthcare visits. What might not be so obvious is that this time of increased demand is also the ideal opportunity for healthcare organizations to prioritize building trust and improving experiences for patients, clinicians and team members.

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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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Do clinicians really need to diagnose long COVID? We asked the experts

Fierce Healthcare

Do clinicians really need to diagnose long COVID?

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FemTech: Samsung Adds Menstrual Cycle Tracking Capabilities to Galaxy Watch5

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Samsung Galaxy Watch5 users will soon be able to access temperature-based menstrual cycle tracking through the Cycle Tracking feature. This new capability was developed in partnership with Natural Cycles , a women’s health company and app maker, and marks the first time Natural Cycles’ algorithm has been adapted for a smartwatch. – The partnership combines Natural Cycles’ fertility technology with Samsung’s BioActive Sensor to give users more detailed insights

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Workforce issues again top of mind for hospital CEOs in 2022: survey

Fierce Healthcare

Workforce issues again top of mind for hospital CEOs in 2022: survey dmuoio Tue, 02/14/2023 - 17:22

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Unintended Bias in AI-Driven Healthcare Applications

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically, Machine Learning (ML) technology, have experienced rapid adoption in the healthcare space as tools for diagnosis and decision-making. Such tools are intended to address challenges in the healthcare system to both processes and put into practice the proliferating medical findings, and also to support delivery of the promise of personalized and precision medicine. – Unintended bias in

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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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'Podnosis': What can be done about errors in health records, and the postpandemic telepsychiatry sector

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': What can be done about errors in health records, and the postpandemic telepsychiatry sector tcarey Tue, 02/14/2023 - 15:09

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SNFs Retook Higher Hospital Discharge Share Than HHAs In Early 2022

Home Health Care

After the public health emergency was declared in March of 2020, hospital discharges bottomed out the following month. While they ticked back up in 2021 and 2022, they still remain 25% lower than they were in February of 2020. And while home health care gained a greater share of post-acute referrals compared to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) early on in the pandemic, there’s been normalization since then.

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PitchBook: After a hot 2022, PE healthcare deals expected to decline in coming months. But a rebound is possible

Fierce Healthcare

PitchBook: After a hot 2022, PE healthcare deals expected to decline in coming months.

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2 Years Later, Senior Helpers CEO Breaks Down Advocate Aurora Enterprises Integration

Home Health Care

It’s been two years since Advocate Aurora Enterprises – a subsidiary of Advocate Health – acquired Senior Helpers. Since then, the home care franchise has entered a new phase. While this wasn’t the first time Senior Helpers has been on the other end of an acquisition — the company has been sold three times in its history — it was the first time the company was sold to a strategic partner.

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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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Oscar Health execs remain confident in path to profitability even as losses swell in 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Oscar Health execs remain confident in path to profitability even as losses swell in 2022 pminemyer Tue, 02/14/2023 - 16:13

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Save the date: MEDITECH customers speaking at AHA leadership conference

Meditech

Join a gathering of some of the brightest minds in healthcare at the 2023 AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference. This annual event welcomes participants to four days of educational and networking opportunities and includes a prolific agenda addressing rural-specific challenges such as finances, staff recruitment, care access, community outreach, and more.

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Key Leadership Competencies: Social Intelligence & Awareness

Medi Leadership

In a previous post , we kicked off our Leadership Competencies series with emotional intelligence — a skill that sits at the top of critically important competencies in a leader. In our current environment of constant change, unmanageable stress, competing priorities and more, the ability to keep our emotions in check every moment and in every situation is challenging.

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As Value-Based Care Gains Popularity In Health Care, So Can In-Home Cancer Care

Home Health Care

As payers look to achieve high-quality, accessible and affordable cancer treatment, there is an increasing interest in value-based approaches — particularly in at-home cancer care. In fact, one of the main strategies for value- and health-system based cancer care is to accelerate the delivery of care outside of brick-and-mortar settings, according to a new study from the consulting firm Manatt Health.

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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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How an Unexpected Conversation Launched My Cisco Career Journey

CiscoHealth

When I entered the workforce, Cisco was never on my radar. I was complacent at the company I worked for and had every intention of retiring from that company.

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Key Leadership Competencies: Social Intelligence & Awareness

Medi Leadership

In a previous post , we kicked off our Leadership Competencies series with emotional intelligence — a skill that sits at the top of critically important competencies in a leader. In our current environment of constant change, unmanageable stress, competing priorities and more, the ability to keep our emotions in check every moment and in every situation is challenging.

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Cisco Webex on iPad: Better Together

CiscoHealth

Co-authored by Will Suk , Global Partner Executive at Cisco Cisco on Apple products delivers the best ‘work from anywhere’ experiences.

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New Analysis Sums Up How to Measure Health Equity

NCQA

Health equity is essential to ensuring quality health care—there can be no quality without equity. Most health equity measures focus on evaluating health disparities and stratifying measures using social determinants of health (e.g., race, ethnicity, income, level of education). To better measure health equity in new ways that integrate performance measures, a new NCQA policy brief reviews four measurement approaches for states’ Medicaid managed care programs.

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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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Transform Your Cardiology Practice: 3 Signs Your Practice Could Be More Efficient

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 4 minutes Increasing efficiency is key to transforming your cardiology practice and increasing revenue. Today making this transformation often demands a balance between staff work and technology solutions. Considering, labor costs are up 30% year-over-year, to maximize the value of full-time employees (FTEs), high-growth practices are leaning into technology solutions.

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CMS Updates Chapter 5 and 7 of the SOM Also Posts an Administrative Information Memorandum for States and Surveyors

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Last Friday, February 10, 2023, CMS posted these Transmittals: R212SOMA … Revisions to State Operations Manual (SOM) Chapter 5 and R213SOMA … Revisions to State Operations Manual (SOM), Chapter 7 The 24 pages in the Chapter 5 Transmittal and the 84 pages in the Chapter 7 Transmittal are the changed pages for each Chapter.

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CARE4 Project Delivers Single Patient Portal with MEDITECH Expanse

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MEDITECH today announced the CARE4 project has delivered a single patient portal across acute and ambulatory settings with MEDITECH Expanse. – Since becoming the first Canadian MEDITECH customers to go LIVE with Expanse Ambulatory, the partnership’s goal has been to ensure that all patients associated with their facilities can easily see and manage their health information from a single place.

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Taking the temperature of health systems

Nordic

For the last 18 years, I have been a physician at the forefront of digital health transformation. I celebrate the disappearance of illegible handwriting, especially my own, and rejoice in new opportunities to improve care through comprehensive data and analytics. Our healthcare system has changed immensely during that time. But sometimes, we need to be shaken out of our routine to notice the extent of the change and perhaps the wisdom of it.

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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.