Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 25, 2022
“We’re not just competing among healthcare organizations anymore,” Geisinger Chief Nursing Officer Janet Tomcavage said. “Now we’re really competing with the broader labor market.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 25, 2022
HIMSS is calling on healthcare stakeholders to get involved in two initiatives to help expand access to quality care for underserved and at-risk populations. As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively. The first is focused on protecting access to care via the telehealth flexibilities that have enabled broad expansion and uptake of virtual care since the start of the C
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The past year has been rocky for the startup telehealth provider, as it faced dissatisfied patients and a Justice Department investigation into allegations it overprescribed controlled substances.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The Australian government is investing A$312.6 million (around $200 million) over four years to improve the ICT systems in the aged care sector. It is part of the A$3.9 billion ($2.5 billion) 2022-2023 October budget for implementing aged care reforms to "improve safety, dignity, quality and humanity." WHY IT MATTERS. According to Health Minister Mark Butler, the ICT modernisation budget will help reduce the administrative burden for over 2,000 providers and sustain the existing operat
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 25, 2022
About 2,000 mental health clinician’s at the system’s facilities in Northern California walked off the job in protest of what they said were prolonged waiting times and unmanageable work loads.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 25, 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
OCTOBER 25, 2022
By Teneille Brown. We opened up. On the backs of our workers. The country’s gravel, its highways. Paved with dead bodies. That kept the cars and trucks moving. products. Don’t cry for the risks we were asked to take. swaddled in lies. they hushed us like babies. ignoring people of science. when the bough was breaking—broke. Instead, cry, the beloved companies, the nervous CEOs who demanded immunity. not just protection to make reasonable mistakes. in the face of uncertainty, but a Monopoly pass
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The PBM contract is one of the largest to change hands recently, one analyst said. Centene will drop CVS Caremark in 2024.
CDC
OCTOBER 25, 2022
This blog is a part of a series that CDC launched to highlight the importance of patient safety by providing educational information and simple ways to help people stay informed on public safety topics. Read the blog below, authored by Nile’s Project founders Carole and Ty Moss, to learn more about the importance of preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Healthcare Associates
OCTOBER 25, 2022
5 ways to prevent nosebleeds from stress. Plenty of us get squeamish at the site of blood, especially if it’s our own. And it can be alarming if we start bleeding for no clear reason. Nosebleeds — more specifically stress nosebleeds — are often the culprit. You could be standing in line at the grocery store, sitting at your desk or driving in your car when you suddenly feel a trickle — or maybe a small gush — of blood ooze out of your nostrils.
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2022
What You Should Know: – Resilience Lab , a mental health provider enabling communities of clinicians to improve outcomes and access announced that it has joined Aetna as an in-network mental healthcare provider. – Resilience now has in-network partnerships with three of the nation’s largest health insurance carriers, including Aetnea, United Healthcare and Humana, allowing them to serve more than 50 million Americans across five northeast states. – This expansion is a key part
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The overturning of Roe v. Wade will disproportionately affect vulnerable populations like service women and pregnant women with substance use disorders. And abortion misinformation will likely increase. RAND researchers discuss these issues and potential policy responses.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Michael Galarnyk, AI Evangelist at cnvrg.io. The costs for drug discovery and development are skyrocketing, but AI (artificial intelligence) is introducing new efficiencies to help find effective treatments faster. A study in 2020 concluded that the estimated median capitalized research and development cost per product was $985 million. Contributing factors to this included larger trial sizes, the need to assess health technology, the requirement to provide data on comparative drugs’ effectiven
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Honor names new president, appoints new chief product, financial officers. San Francisco-based Honor, the home care tech company that owns Home Instead , has named Ian Clarkson as the company’s new president. Clarkson will lead Honor’s core operations, overseeing the teams that are in charge of care, growth and products. He will also focus on the day-to-day operations as well as Honor’s long-term success and strategy.
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Susan Perlmutter, Chief Revenue Officer, REPAY. The past few years have seen an enormous acceleration in the adoption of technologies that streamline and modernize payments across all industries. As embedded finance becomes more popular and companies begin to embrace automation technologies, there’s a clear opportunity for healthcare providers to embrace digital payments.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Prior authorization policies may save money for payers, but they impose significant costs on patients and providers. A JAMA Viewpoint by Anderson, Darden and Jain (2022) examines various approaches for improving prior authorization in Medicare Advantage. In a recent survey of 1004 physicians, 88% reported that the burden associated with prior authorization requirements was high or extremely high.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2022
What You Should Know: – Elion , a San Francisco-based independent digital health technology marketplace company, today announced it has raised $3.3M in seed funding from leading digital health investors NEA , Max Ventures , 8VC , AlleyCorp , Charge Ventures and Floating Point , with additional participation from a broad set of healthcare founders and angels. – In addition to the round of funding, Elion has released its beta product to the public.
Meditech
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Promoting health literacy across communities and populations is a goal shared by all of us in healthcare. Health literacy protects against disease, prevents avoidable health complications, and promotes a higher quality of personal healthcare. Proactive steps to increase a patient’s understanding of medication and recovery needs can be the defining factor in reaching a successful outcome.
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2022
What You Should Know: – COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company, announced its latest financing by an investment fund managed by Deerfield Management and additional capital from existing investors. – The company will use this new funding to further expand its real-world data platform and services in order to drive more efficient and inclusive drug development in oncology. – Perella Weinberg Partners LP served as exclusive financial advisor and Goodwin Proc
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Magellan Healthcare and the senior care startup DUOS are taking their partnership to the next level. This week, Magellan announced the launch of its new Senior Assistance program, powered by DUOS. The new service will allow Magellan members to get connected with personal assistants — or “Duos” — who focus on members’ social needs to help maximize their independence while aging in place.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, ObvioHealth and Oracle have announced a partnership to enable the rapid collection, integration and analysis of this complex data to get breakthrough therapies to market faster and cheaper within the APAC region. This partnership will integrate ObvioGo, ObvioHealth’s next generation decentralized clinical trial (DCT) platform and mobile app, and Oracle Clinical One Cloud Service, facilitating pharma-grade analytics and reporting that can deliver more timely p
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Biotechnology has a broad and often misunderstood scope, one with significant implications for today's warfighter, and it may be reaching a critical junction. As it continues to mature, proactive policy becomes necessary for the federal government to leverage emerging capabilities effectively and remain competitive.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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Home Health Care
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Now more than ever, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are including home-based care services in their plans. While some organizations are giving their members access to these offerings for the first time, others have long embraced home-based care. One of these early adopters is SCAN Health Plan, which is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit MA plans, serving more than 273,000 members.
Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The afternoon of October 24, 2022, CMS posted these updates to the LTC Survey Process : The Revision History for LTC Survey Process Documents and Files provides some additional information: There are indeed a lot of significant updates! One example is that 20 (half) of the Critical Element Pathways have been updated and a new CEP added – that of Binding Arbitration Agreements.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Home, Sweet Hospital-At-Home? . It depends, I hedge in my latest essay for Medecision. In our bullish and, on its face, compassionate and cost-rational embrace of the migration of acute care from hospital beds to peoples’ living and bedrooms, there are several guardrails to consider beyond sheer payment and reimbursement calculations. Consider, The caregivers for the folks heading home from hospital.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2022
What You Should Know: – Clarius Mobile Health , a leading provider of high-definition wireless ultrasound systems, today announced Clarius Marketplace , a new platform that enables ultrasound innovators to bring their AI-powered software solutions to market faster by integrating with the Clarius ecosystem, which includes 10 wireless ultrasound scanners and advanced Software-as-a-Service. – Clarius members will gain access to solutions designed to streamline ultrasound training, impro
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.
Healthcare Performance
OCTOBER 25, 2022
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2022
What You Should Know: – Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes. – A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
Etactics
OCTOBER 25, 2022
If you’re a veteran in the healthcare field, I’m sure healthcare revenue cycle management comes second nature to you… or you at least know what it is. But for anyone new here, it can seem like a tangled web of terms, regulations and uncertainty. Providing healthcare no longer just stays between a doctor and the patient, it now involves many different parties.
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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