Tue.Aug 02, 2022

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DOJ sues Idaho over near-total abortion ban in first post-Roe challenge

Health Care Dive

In a suit filed in Idaho’s southern district, the Department of Justice claimed that Idaho’s “near-absolute” abortion ban blocks clinicians from providing necessary care in medical emergencies as required by federal law.

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Stony Brook Medicine crafts a telehealth strategic plan that bears fruit

Healthcare It News

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 million people in Suffolk County, New York. It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote t

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Providers say inpatient pay adjustment for inflation not sufficient

Health Care Dive

Groups like the American Hospital Association had asked for more adjustments, but the CMS declined to set aside its regulatory payment formula.

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HQRP Quarterly Update for 2nd Quarter of 2022 is Available 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Hospice Quarterly Update for the second quarter of 2022 is now available. This update includes Hospice Quality Reporting Program highlights from April 2022 to June 2022, events and engagement opportunities for the third quarter of 2022 (July – September 2022), and selected questions and answers from the Hospice Quality Help Desk.

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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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Hospitals face sixth straight month of negative margins, report finds

Health Care Dive

Month-to-month increases in patient volumes were not enough to offset the growing cost of care, according to a Monday report from Kaufman Hall.

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How Policies That Punish Pregnant Women Backfire

The Rand Blog

There is overwhelming evidence and consensus from the medical and public health communities that supportive approaches are what help pregnant women with substance use disorders. Unfortunately, the overturning of Roe v. Wade has opened the door for more policies that police and punish women rather than evidence-based solutions that we know can, do, and will save lives.

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OIG: Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied With Federal Requirements for Infection Prevention and Control and Emergency Preparedness  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “Selected nursing homes may not have complied with Federal requirements for infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness. Specifically, 28 of the 39 nursing homes had possible deficiencies. We found 48 instances at 25 nursing homes of possible noncompliance with infection prevention and control requirements and 18 instances at 18 nursing homes of possible noncompliance with emergency preparedness requirements

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Enhabit Home Health & Hospice’s Rocky Start On The Public Market

Home Health Care

Enhabit Home Health & Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) is the newest face on the home health public market. External factors have made it far from a red-carpet welcome. Its cost per visit shot up in the second quarter, the proposed home health rule is hanging over its head and – all the while – it’s dealing with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans that aren’t yet willing to pay fair rates for its services.

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Brave Health & MedArrive Partner to Power Virtual Mental Health

HIT Consultant

– Brave Health , a virtual-first behavioral health provider focused on serving Medicaid and Medicare populations, today announced an innovative referral partnership with MedArrive. – Through this collaboration, if MedArrive identifies an eligible health plan member in need of mental health support, MedArrive’s field providers can immediately refer that member to Brave Health’s behavioral health providers in real time and schedule care within 72 hours.

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Mount Sinai Furthers Its Contessa Partnership To Create Full-Continuum Home-Based Care Agency

Home Health Care

Contessa – the higher-acuity care provider and subsidiary of Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) – has extended its partnership with Mount Sinai Health System. Under the extension, Mount Sinai South Nassau’s home health agency will now become a part of the two organizations’ existing joint venture. The JV now includes home health, hospital-at-home, SNF-level care at home and palliative 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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Digital Pharmacies 2022: Disruptors or Just Another Delivery Channel?

HIT Consultant

With cost and convenience at the forefront of consumer spending decisions and US prescription drug spending continuing to rise through 2026 to an estimated $730.50 billion, winners will offer consumers more robust online resources including pricing transparency, discounts, generic options and more information about the drug itself. According to a 2022 MARS survey by Kantar, 34% of total U.S. adults aged 18+ stated that they purchase prescriptions or over-the-counter drugs online.

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Despite Home Health Slowdown, Addus Looking At ‘Bigger Transactions’ In Near Term

Home Health Care

The Biden administration has shown time and again its commitment to home- and community-based services. And Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) is beginning to reap some of the benefits. . The Frisco, Texas-based in-home care services providers has begun to receive more substantial funding from the states it operates in through the American Rescue Plan.

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Got a Labor Shortage? Make It Easier to Work

The Rand Blog

If the United States wants to avoid a long-term worker shortage, it should look to what policy can—but has failed to—fully address. We have a long history using carrots and sticks, but this is a problem we may not be able to cajole or punish our way out of. Finding workers can be as simple as giving more people a chance to work.

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How Telehealth’s Future May Be Brighter With New Bill's Passage

Solution Reach

Finally, a piece of good news! If you’re a fan of telehealth as an alternative care delivery method for your patients, the technology’s pandemic-era coverage flexibilities may soon be extended through 2024.

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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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Patient Support Isn’t Just About the Price of Therapy: It’s About Safety, Really Rich Data and Trust

Health Populi

When I talk about patient support programs (PSPs), I’m most often focused on supporting peoples’ access to medicines due to costs, bolstering health literacy, and addressing health citizens’ risks of drivers of health that can be obstacles to optimal health outcomes (those challenging social determinants of health). A new report from Deloitte on Intelligent post-launch patient support speaks to another crucial definition of patient support: post-market surveillance and patien

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Four Pillars of Digital Identity Strategy

Lexis Nexis

Not Your Grandma’s View of Identity. Cyberattacks have become common, and prevention has become an essential part of business operations. Sadly, healthcare data has become a preferred target for bad actors. Even before that was true, there were breaches that affected online users – their identity information is available for criminals to use it over and over again.

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Balancing Skill With Patient Experience

Baird Group

Many healthcare positions require a high degree of technical skill, but balancing skill with patient experience is a skill unto itself. This is especially true in direct patient care. After all, if you mess up an important technical task, you could hurt or even kill someone. But it is important to remember that those tasks almost always involve a human being at the other end of the procedure – a person who is typically frightened and vulnerable.

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A Guide to Hypertension Patient Education with Telehealth & RPM?

Health Recovery

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a common health condition that affects nearly 50% of adults in the United States. In most cases, adults with hypertension are suffering from primary or “essential” hypertension. Unfortunately, this means that the cause of their high blood pressure is unknown. Meanwhile, a small subset of adults has secondary hypertension, which means that there is an underlying but possibly correctable cause such as a hormone imbalance or kidney disorder. ?

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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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Doceree Partners with Tealium to Enrich Precision Targeting of HCPs

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Doceree , a global platform building unprecedented solutions for HCP programmatic marketing with proprietary data tools is teaming up with Tealium , the world’s largest independent customer data platform (CDP) to advance Doceree’s capabilities to collect, collate and analyze data sets, ultimately helping with the company’s mission of reducing healthcare costs. – US healthcare costs grew by 9.7 percent in 2020 alone, highlighting the need for healthcare p

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Atrial Fibrillation Patient Education Guide with Telehealth & RPM

Health Recovery

Atrial fibrillation (A-Fib or AF) is a condition in which the heart beats irregularly or abnormally fast (arrhythmia), potentially causing blood clots in the heart. If left unattended, atrial fibrillation can increase the risk of stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

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TidalHealth to Deploy AI Co-Pilot to Combat Clinician Burnout

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TidalHealth , a health system dedicated to community health and patient-centric care, today announced a new partnership with Regard, a company developing an artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilot for physicians to help diagnose medical conditions, and hip. – Through the implementation of Regard’s software, physicians within the TidalHealth network are able to automate electronic health record (EHR) chart reviews and enhance patient safety by ensuring all diagno

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Updated Agenda: August 4, 2022 SNF/LTC Open Door Forum

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Yesterday, I posted the SNF/LTC Open Door Forum that will be held this Thursday afternoon. This afternoon, CMS posted the updated agenda for that ODF. See below (I’m reposting the entire notice with the updates identified in red. Hint – you’ll find added hyperlinks beneath MDS transition to iQIES): The next CMS Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)/Long Term Care (LTC) Open Door Forum scheduled for: Date: Thursday, August 4, 2022

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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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CareFirst BCBS Taps Headway to Expand Access to Mental Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst), the largest not-for-profit health plan in the mid-Atlantic region, and Headway , a tech-enabled company that expands access to in-network mental health care by removing barriers that providers, payers, and the people they serve face, announced a collaboration to scale CareFirst’s mental health care program. – CareFirst launched a search in fall 2021 for a company to help them better support and engage their me

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Now Available in iQIES: Expanded HHVBP Model Sample Reports

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. For learning purposes only, CMS is providing two sample reports– one for the Interim Performance Report (IPR) and one for the Annual Performance Report (APR). These sample reports do not include actual home health agency (HHA) performance data. The content of the sample reports is based on the same scoring methodologies and other policies as presented in the Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH P

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Mira Launches Ovum Wand to Predict Menopause and Monitor Fertility Status

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The FDA has listed Mira’s new Mira Ovum Wand as an over-the-counter tool to detect the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) in urine. Starting October 2022, the product will be available to U.S. customers. The wands help monitor FSH levels to predict approaching menopause. They can also be used to monitor fertility and find possible causes of reproductive issues for women after 35. – Mira’s new Ovum Wand provides lab-accurate detection of the follicl

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Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Finalized Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2023 Rates; Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule for inpatient and long-term care hospitals that builds on the Biden-Harris Administration’s key priorities to advance health equity and improve maternal health outcomes. As required by statute, the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) rule updates Me

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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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Lyniate Acquires CareCom to Expand Semantic Interop Capabilities

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lyniate , a global leader in healthcare data interoperability acquires CareCom , a provider of semantic interoperability. This acquisition builds on Lyniate’s recent merger with NextGate, a longtime leader in patient identity management. – The combined organization will better support healthcare organizations in converting unstructured content into standardized data to help them assemble and manage more complete and accurate patient information, enabling bette

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August is National Immunization Awareness Month

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. ???? National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is an annual observance held in August to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages. To commemorate NIAM, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have developed toolkits with key messages, graphics, and educational resources to highlight the benefits of immunization across the lifespan.

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ResMed Acquires Digital Therapeutics App for Insomnia

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today ResMed , a provider of digital health solutions for sleep and respiratory care, acquires Germany-based mementor , the maker of somnio , which provides a digital solution for treating insomnia and marks ResMed’s first foray into the digital therapeutics space. – Founded in 2014, somnio is Germany’s first and only permanently approved Digital Health Application (DiGA) in the field of sleep medicine and thus eligible for reimbursement in Germany.

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News 8/3/22

HIStalk

Top News Oracle lays off staff in its marketing and.

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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.