Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
After posting a $1 billion loss during the prior-year period, the nonprofit Catholic giant posted about $5.7 billion in net income for its fiscal year ended June 30.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
FTC warns health apps must notify users about data breaches or face fines. hlandi. Fri, 09/17/2021 - 13:28.
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p3care
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Medical billing and coding is a serious profession. It seems just a simple math or accounting field, but the reality can make you wonder about how hard it is. Yes! Medical billing is no easy job. That is why many medical practices and physicians are outsourcing the respective service to professionals. Let’s say if you interview any of the healthcare professionals about their most stressful task, claim compilation and submission would be among the top scorers.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
CMS delays enforcement of key interoperability requirement of payer-to-payer data exchange. rking. Fri, 09/17/2021 - 16:30.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that more than half of adolescent patient portal accounts with outbound messages were accessed by guardians. The findings, say the researchers, could be useful in guiding health system approaches to protecting confidentiality with regard to patient portals.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
CMS final rule boosts insurer user fees and extends ACA open enrollment period for 2022 coverage year. rking. Fri, 09/17/2021 - 17:19.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Humana rumored to be eyeing Centene takeover, again: report. hlandi. Fri, 09/17/2021 - 11:26.
Medcenter
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Exercise… The word itself can spark anxiety for many. It’s easy to come up with excuses to avoid exercise, and even easier to fall into sedentary habits. Dylan Daniels, EP, CCEP, understands. As a Clinical Exercise Physiologist at UVM Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital Daniels’s job is to help patients who have avoided the […]. The post 10 Minutes is Better Than No Minutes appeared first on UVM Medical Center Blog.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
CommonSpirit Health bounces back in FY21 with $1B operating gains. dmuoio. Fri, 09/17/2021 - 15:52.
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
By Medha D. Makhlouf. A major contribution of health justice is that it provides a framework for understanding how universal access to health care protects collective, as well as individual, interests. The pandemic has underscored the collective nature of the health and wellbeing of every person living in the United States, regardless of immigration status.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
HHS announces funds, legal protections for abortion providers and patients. agliadkovskaya. Fri, 09/17/2021 - 17:00.
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
One way of improving patient safety within healthcare organizations is by working to being highly reliable. High reliability organizations (HROs) are not ordinary. They are organizations that operate in highly complex environments for extended periods of time without serious accidents or catastrophic failures. HROs have developed ways of managing the unexpected more so than other organizations despite working in fast-paced, high-risk environments.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
What You Should Know: – 76% of patient-facing clinicians believe telehealth will make up a majority of patient care in the near future, according to key findings from Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) first-ever multi-country Future of Healthcare” Survey. The new report not only found healthcare clinicians and IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) optimistic about the future of telehealth but 85% of ITDMs noted that IT modernization is now one of the driving forces behind infrastructure inves
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Nasogastric tubes (NGTs) are used as an alternative approach to deliver nutrition and medications, or a method to remove stomach contents. Insertion of these tubes is considered a simple procedure; however, wrong placement or dislodged tubes can lead to patient harm and possibly death. The risk of harm and death increases when misplaced or dislodged tubes are not identified prior to using them.
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HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
What You Should Know: Vyne Medical announced the acquisition of Ahana Pediatrics, Inc., and its advanced connected care solution. Designed to empower groups of clinicians to collaborate in delivering higher-quality care to patients, the technology will be incorporated into Vyne Medical’s cloud-based Refyne™ platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
In the United States, almost 1 million patients with sepsis are admitted to hospitals annually, and the cost of managing sepsis admissions is higher than any other disease state. Early identification and treatment are critical for survival, though both are notoriously difficult as symptoms are often nonspecific. Four years ago, WellSpan Health asked, “What if there were a way to provide real-time, meaningful clinical decision support to bedside providers to identify sepsis sooner and start lifes
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
What You Should Know: – AKASA™ , an automation company for healthcare revenue cycle management, released a report titled, “ New Productivity Benchmarks For The Healthcare Revenue Cycle ” that includes the first-ever publication of the average time it takes health system staff to complete critical tasks within revenue cycle operations based on AKASA’s proprietary data. – These revenue cycle management benchmarks are some of the first for the revenue cycle industry and accurate
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Suicide in skilled nursing facilities—centers that provide around-the-clock treatment and rehabilitation—is a serious issue. Chronic physical ailments often take precedent over mental health issues, which can make it easy to overlook them. Tony Salvatore, director of Suicide Prevention at Montgomery County Emergency Service, provides insight into the problem and how we can better quantify it, and some simple fixes that can have a big impact.
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HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
What You Should Know: Half of the healthcare administrative staff report seeing an increase in the amount of manual data entry in the past 12 months — and 92% of clinicians agree that too much time spent on administrative tasks is a major contributor to healthcare worker burnout. This and other findings are revealed in the new Internet of Healthcare Report, produced by independent research firm Wakefield Research on behalf of Olive.
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Background: Home care workers help older individuals and those with disabilities with a variety of functional tasks. Despite their core role providing essential care to vulnerable populations, home care workers are often an invisible sector of the healthcare workforce. The transmission of COVID-19 and the nature of home care work raise several questions about the overall safety of these workers during the pandemic.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
What You Should Know: – Hinge Health , a Digital Musculoskeletal Clinic™, today announced it has acquired wrnch , developer of the leading computer vision platform for measuring human motion. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – wrnch’s three-dimensional motion-tracking technology enables the same precise tracking of full-body movement used by elite athletes and the motion picture industry.
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and around the world. When a patient who has experienced trauma in an MVC presents to the emergency department, they may be unable to participate in their own care due to numerous factors, such as being unconscious, physically incapacitated, or suffering from confusion.
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Briggs Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted nursing home data for the week ending September 5, 2021.
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Background Several studies have examined the effects of simulation and live training experiences on abdominal paracentesis skills, but no study has examined the durability of such training or compared skills retention between the simulation-only and hybrid training approaches. Methods A subset of internal medicine residents who participated in simulation-based training in abdominal paracentesis were assigned to an additional, live training experience.
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Join the author today for the 2021 CeBIL Symposium. Register here! By Sarah Rickwood. The 2020s are the age of orphan medicines. Orphan medicines are available for a larger number of diseases and patients than ever before, a testament to the success of legislation established decades ago encouraging the development of these medicines in both the U.S. and European Union.
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
If you are a Harry Potter fan, you are familiar with the term “cloak of invisibility”: a magical cloth that renders the object it covers or the person who dons it invisible. What does this fictional artefact have to do with patient safety? Well, in this case it serves as a metaphor for patients (including me) who have felt their identities were overlooked (cloaked) during the blood draw process.
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.
Voyage Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
We are pleased to once again offer a drive-through option for your flu shot this year! The drive-through will take place at our Crystal, Maple Grove, and Plymouth locations and are by appointment only. Anyone receiving the flu shot must be over the age of 1 year old. You do not need to be a current Voyage Healthcare patient to receive a flu shot.
Patient Safety
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Introduction The Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database houses medical device reports submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In May 2020, the FDA released guidance about medical device reporting during a pandemic, anticipating delays in reporting and investigating events involving medical devices. Methods We aimed to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted medical device reporting by analyzing reports in the MAUDE database that mention COVID-19
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on lowering prescription drug prices, reforming unemployment insurance, addressing anti-Asian racism, and more.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Federal government worker vaccine mandate. Hospitals vs. nurses on vaccine mandates. AMA response to Medicare physician fee schedule revisions. Boston, SF, San Diego. The end of nursing homes in Canada?
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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