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Bright Health exits 6 states amid financial, operational woes

Health Care Dive

Bright, which went public in June last year, wants to refocus on growth in markets where it can have a bigger impact. The seven-year-old startup lost almost $1.2 billion in 2021.

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At Baptist Health, Epic-linked asynchronous telehealth boosts provider and patient experience

Healthcare It News

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM. Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care deli

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Physician pay is climbing after early-pandemic slump

Health Care Dive

Doctors' financial compensation increased in the past year, resuming a longer-term trend though gender, racial and ethnic pay disparities persist.

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D2C healthcare startups are ready to increase patient access

Healthcare It News

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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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How health system leaders are navigating ongoing staffing shortages: survey

Health Care Dive

More than 90% of health system leaders have increased compensation to recruit and retain staff, while 81% said they are still filling gaps with agency labor, per a new Advis report.

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Rebuilding Ukraine

The Rand Blog

By leveraging better investment conditions and reforms and broad international support, Ukraine could carry out a well-executed reconstruction program. It might repair much of the war damage and help Ukraine move into the ranks of faster-growing European economies.

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Preparing for a Cyberattack Starts at the Local Level

The Rand Blog

The ongoing Russian war in Ukraine has highlighted the need for federal, state, and local level emergency managers to prepare to respond to a cyberattack with widespread impacts that significantly disrupt critical infrastructure.

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High-Acuity Care Opportunities, Workforce Shortages Guide Amedisys’ M&A, JV Strategies

Home Health Care

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has been vocal about leaning into the opportunities that offering higher-acuity care in the home will bring. That has also had an influence on the company’s M&A and JV strategies. “Our acquisition of Contessa Health last year created the platform for us to directly offer those high-acuity services,” Kris Novak, vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Amedisys, told Home Health Care News.

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FY2023 SNF PPS Proposed Rule: PDPM Parity Adjustment Recalibration Worksheets

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Check out the PDPM Parity Adjustment Recalibration Worksheets as you review and process the FY2023 SNF PPS Proposed Rule published last week. These worksheets are available in that.zip file: When you select the first worksheet, you’ll see this: Start with the Overview and Methodology tabs then work your way across the remaining pages.

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Suki Adds “Show Me” Command to its Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Suki , a provider of voice artificial intelligence (AI ) technology for healthcare launches new “show me” commands for its voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare. – The commands allow clinicians to quickly retrieve a wide set of patient information, including vital signs, medications, allergies, and medical and surgical histories — untethered from the electronic health record (EHR) — enabling them to be more present with their patient

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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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Climate Change Will Transform How We Live, but These Tech and Policy Experts See Reason for Optimism

The Rand Blog

To slow climate change and adapt to the damage already underway, the world will have to shift how it generates and uses energy, transports people and goods, designs buildings, and grows food. That starts with embracing innovation and change.

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Blue Spark Technologies Raises $40M for AI-Based Remote Patient Monitoring

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Blue Spark Technologies, Inc., a Cleveland, OH-based provider of wearable remote patient monitoring solutions, announced that it has raised $40 million in growth funding led by Ghost Tree Partners with support from Aon. – The funding will go towards scaling the company’s sales and marketing functions and the continued advancement of Blue Spark’s wearable remote patient monitoring solutions.

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InHome Therapy Wants to be the Outsource Partner Home Health Agencies Need

Home Health Care

InHome Therapy wants to be the ultimate problem solver in home health care as the industry undergoes a number of regulatory and workforce-related challenges. The company recently acquired Contract Therapy Services Inc., a provider of physical, occupational and speech therapy, as well as registered dietitian services. The deal falls in line with InHome Therapy’s strategy: to grow its footprint through acquisitions.

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The Critical Shift in ASC EHR Adoption: Overcoming Barriers

HIT Consultant

Maura Cash RN, BSN, CASC, VP of Clinical Strategies for HST Pathways. Extraordinary advances in technology have opened up previously unthinkable possibilities for the healthcare industry and improvements in patient care. Electronic health records (EHRs) are one of many health IT advancements in recent years, and they prove to have a significant impact on both providers and patients alike.

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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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Where the Director of the Center for Medicare Wants to See Care Go

Home Health Care

One of the most important Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) leaders – Dr. Meena Seshamani – is optimistic about the future of the home health care industry. She detailed why last month at Home Health Care News’ Capital+Strategy event, pointing to more care taking place outside of traditional facilities, innovative care models and the shift to value-based care in general.

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Small Doses of Psychedelics for Cluster Headaches

Bill Of Health

By Bob Wold. One understudied condition for which small doses of psychedelic substances such as psilocybin may be beneficial is cluster headache. As founder and executive director of the advocacy group Clusterbusters, I have seen firsthand, as a patient and an activist, that, despite its modest name, cluster is far from “just” a headache. It is a chronic pain condition that lasts “on” and “off” for months or years, often with no hint as to its origin.

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Reported Exposure Trends Among HCP: COVID-19 Cases March 2020–March 2021

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. A recent CDC study published in the American Journal of Infection Control on April 13, 2022 provides some interesting information, including these highlights: 83,775 health care personnel COVID-19 cases reported known exposure settings Cases reported health care (52%), household (31%), and community (26%) exposures Health care exposures and community COVID-19 incidence had similar temporal trends Community COVID-19 incidence

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Exercise Equipment Advertisements and Consumer Distrust

Bill Of Health

By Jack Becker. Are you ready to learn about “the most innovative piece of exercise equipment ever”? To take advantage of “the momentum of gravity to target your entire midsection”? Doesn’t everybody want to “lose those love handles nobody loves”? To finally “have the flat washboard abs and the sexy v-shape [they’ve] always wanted”?

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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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Benefits of a Healthy Workforce

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the title of a recent FTI Journal article from my colleague Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert, the President, of FTI Consulting’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy. An excerpt is below. Indeed, pre-pandemic data collected by FTI Consulting’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy for two metropolitan areas, Buffalo and Nashville, portends trouble.

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The Role of Google, Facebook, and Yelp Reviews in the Era of Healthcare Consumerism

Healthcare Success

Patient reviews can make or break a business in this era of healthcare consumerism and online reputations. And they’re here to stay. . More than 94% of healthcare patients use online reviews as the first step in researching physicians and hospitals. They’re also the third most crucial driver in consumers’ decision to select a new healthcare provider after insurance acceptance and location.

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3 Trends Disrupting Healthcare Right Now | Ep. 42?

Vie Healthcare

The Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity. In Episode 42 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by her show producer Lisa Larter to discuss 3 trends disrupting healthcare right now. As Lisa Larter comments, ‘’The healthcare industry is ripe for disruption right now, and that requires a different way of looking at all aspects of patient care, medicine, diagnostics, rapid testing, you name it.

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The Role of Google, Facebook, and Yelp Reviews in the Era of Healthcare Consumerism

Healthcare Success

Patient reviews can make or break a business in this era of healthcare consumerism and online reputations. And they're here to stay. . More than 94% of healthcare patients use online reviews as the first step in researching physicians and hospitals. They’re also the third most crucial driver in consumers’ decision to select a new healthcare provider after insurance acceptance and location.

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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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3 Trends Disrupting Healthcare Right Now | Ep. 42?

Vie Healthcare

The Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity. In Episode 42 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by her show producer Lisa Larter to discuss 3 trends disrupting healthcare right now. As Lisa Larter comments, ‘’The healthcare industry is ripe for disruption right now, and that requires a different way of looking at all aspects of patient care, medicine, diagnostics, rapid testing, you name it.

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Voices: Rich Berner, CEO, Complia Health

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by Complia Health. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Complia Health CEO Rich Berner to learn the impact that his work in the business consumer space has had on his approach to health care technology. Berner also shares insights into Complia Health’s smart aging platform that automates much of the chronic condition management that happens above the EMR, and discusses how independent care agencies can best position themselves to successfully p

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3 Trends Disrupting Healthcare Right Now | Ep. 42?

Vie Healthcare

The Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity. In Episode 42 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by her show producer Lisa Larter to discuss 3 trends disrupting healthcare right now. As Lisa Larter comments, ‘’The healthcare industry is ripe for disruption right now, and that requires a different way of looking at all aspects of patient care, medicine, diagnostics, rapid testing, you name it.