Mon.Sep 27, 2021

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Broadband investments can improve health, as long as insurers don't roll back telehealth coverage

Health Care Dive

Jason Resendez of Consumers for Quality Care argues it's time for insurers, policymakers and health systems to embrace telehealth as an integral part of the future of healthcare.

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CVS Caremark takes aim at health inequities, starting with sickle cell, HIV

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Caremark takes aim at health inequities, starting with sickle cell, HIV. pminemyer. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 15:55.

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Delta pressure on US hospitals dragged August operations, Kaufman Hall finds

Health Care Dive

"The August data show we are not out of the woods yet, and hospitals face additional uncertainties as we move into the fall and winter," Erik Swanson, senior vice president of data and analytics at Kaufman Hall, said.

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Pain doctor convicted in $100M fraud scheme involving unnecessary spinal injections

Fierce Healthcare

Pain doctor convicted in $100M fraud scheme involving unnecessary spinal injections. hlandi. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 12:54.

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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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Beaumont, Spectrum deal delayed by FTC backlog

Health Care Dive

The two Michigan health systems expected the union to close this fall. But now it will take longer than originally anticipated as the Federal Trade Commission is experiencing a surge in merger filings.

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Advocate Aurora, Novant Health, Stanford Health Care back Xealth’s $24M round to expand digital health services

Fierce Healthcare

Advocate Aurora, Novant Health, Stanford Health Care back Xealth’s $24M round to expand digital health services. hlandi. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 10:58.

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Hospital finances 'not out of the woods yet' as delta fuels high-acuity stays in August

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital finances 'not out of the woods yet' as delta fuels high-acuity stays in August. dmuoio. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 15:24.

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Epic's vaccine credential tech now available to 25M patients

Healthcare It News

The electronic health record vendor Epic said its vaccine credential technology is now available to 25 million individuals through their MyChart account. "Once we got buy-in, we went up to 25 million over the course of four weeks," Nick Frenzer, implementation executive at Epic, told Healthcare IT News. "We're really excited about this project – we need all the tools we can get right now," said Frenzer.

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HHS doles out $73M to 10 universities for health IT workforce initiatives

Fierce Healthcare

HHS doles out $73M to 10 universities for health IT workforce initiatives. hlandi. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 15:54.

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Seniors’ Desire to Age in Place Remains Overwhelmingly Popular

Home Health Care

The COVID-19 emergency has only strengthened the desire seniors have to age in place — an already favorable position among older adults. In fact, over 90% of seniors prefer to remain in their homes as opposed to moving into an assisted living facility, a new survey from American Advisors Group (AAG) found. “For seniors, the comfort, safety and independence of their home outweigh the desire to move,” Martin Lenoir, chief marketing officer at AAG, said in a press release.

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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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FTC's backlog is delaying regulatory review of Beaumont-Spectrum merger, systems say

Fierce Healthcare

FTC's backlog is delaying regulatory review of Beaumont-Spectrum merger, systems say. dmuoio. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 12:15.

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Preparing Your Practice for Flu Season During a Pandemic

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 2 minutes Before the pandemic, practices provided walk-in flu shots. This approach worked perfectly for years. But the traditional way of delivering care is no longer practical because of COVID-19. Now that healthcare professionals have to deal with COVID-19 and the flu simultaneously, this brings more challenges. Practices are faced with conflicting needs from those coming in for their flu shot and healthcare workers.

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KFF: Delta cases, hospitalizations lead to uptick in vaccinations

Fierce Healthcare

KFF: Delta cases, hospitalizations lead to uptick in vaccinations. rking. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 16:21.

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Top Women in Healthcare Staffing 2021

CHQ Healthcare

CHG Healthcare’s Top Women in Healthcare Staffing recognizes leaders and rising stars in physician and advanced practice recruiting, staffing, and retention. To be selected for the list, individuals must be nominated by a representative of one of CHG Healthcare’s staffing brands, enterprise client team, or marketing team. From those nominations, our editorial jury selects the women we consider to have demonstrated the highest levels of excellence in their career, quality in recruitment and reten

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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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How Machine Learning Is Helping Consumers Take Action on Their Health

HIT Consultant

Craig Wigginton, Chief Technology Officer at Icario. For years machine learning (ML) has been touted as a way for health plans to leverage the mounds of data they collect on their members, but practical use cases remain relatively uncommon. For some, the perception may be that ML is a futuristic and somewhat impersonal way to operate, but the exact opposite is true — ML is already being used and is here to stay, and when deployed correctly it actually creates a more personalized experience for m

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How AdaRose is empowering patients as consumers

Healthcare It News

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TRIPP Launches First Augmented Reality Experience On 5G-Powered Glasses

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TRIPP , a Los Angeles, CA-based XR wellness and digital psychedelic platform, today announced its continued expansion beyond virtual reality into augmented reality (AR), launching on Nreal’s mixed reality glasses in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany and Spain. TRIPP was also selected as one of six companies to join T-Mobile’s Wellness Accelerator Program, working directly with technologists and business leaders at T-Mobile to build other 5G-powered experiences that p

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Fast Science vs Good Science at a Time of Growing Anti-Science

Healthcare Leadership

We live in a world where science is quickly weaponized or demonized (depending on what you believe). Studies saying one thing are pitted against studies that say the opposite. Yet rarely does the underlying science get called into question and even if it does, it gets buried in rhetoric. The CBC recently published a story about how a Canadian COVID-19 study that turned out to be wrong, went viral.

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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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Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action

Bill Of Health

By Tsung-Ling Lee. Despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recent efforts to broaden participation, the international infectious disease control regime remains state-centric. As such, the state-centric infectious disease regime violates the fundamental principle of how contagious diseases spread within and across countries — the virus recognizes no national borders, nor does the virus discriminate.

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Quantifying patient administrative burden

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Previously, I wrote about how the US healthcare system imposes $90 billion of costs on physicians related to drug utilization management. According to a study by Kyle and Frakt (2021) , the U.S. healthcare system also imposes a significant burden on patients as well. The authors use the 2019 Health Reform Monitoring Survey ( HRMS ) to answer this question.

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Socially Determined, DataGen Partner to Bring SDoH Insights to Hospitals and Health Systems

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Socially Determined , the Social Risk Intelligence™ company for organizations committed to addressing the social determinants of health , today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with DataGen , the healthcare analytics company that 48 state hospital associations, and their members, trust to deliver insights on payment policy changes, value-based programs and market dynamics.

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Fast Forward with Dorothy Davis, President and CEO, Visiting Nurse Health System

Home Health Care

As president and CEO of Visiting Nurse Health System, Dorothy Davis is responsible for an organization that provides home health care, community care and end-of-life hospice services to more than 7,000 patients and clients each day throughout greater Atlanta. Under Davis’s leadership, Visiting Nurse Health System has revived its mission, diversified its service mix and driven ancillary revenue across multiple key areas.

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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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Grand Rounds Health, Doctor on Demand Launch Coalition to Address Health Disparities in the Black Community

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand , the leader in integrated virtual care and navigation, today announced a solution designed to help remove barriers to care for the Black community. Developed using insights from an innovation coalition of Global and Fortune 500 companies, the product will be the first dedicated care concierge and healthcare navigation platform focused on improving the healthcare experience and advancing health equity for Black Americans.

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CHG is requiring employees to be vaccinated — here’s why

CHQ Healthcare

CHG announces employees are required to be vaccinated beginning December 1, 2021. CHG CEO Scott Beck. As a company committed to making a difference in healthcare, our highest priority is ensuring the health and safety of our people, our customers, and our communities. Since the start of the pandemic, healthcare providers — and the healthcare systems they support — have felt the deeply devastating effects of COVID-19 on those they serve and have carried an incredibly heavy toll themselves.

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Readers Write: Achieving Health Equity through Improving Diversity in Nursing

HIStalk

Achieving Health Equity through Improving Diversity in NursingBy Karen E.

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Deep Learning Model Could Predict Outcomes for HCC Patients

Health IT Analytics

Cleveland Clinic… read more

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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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An HIT Moment With … Ajay Kapare

HIStalk

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Join the ACHE-WI Chapter Board

Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

The American College of Healthcare Executives-Wisconsin Chapter strives to assemble a board that encompasses a diverse representation of leaders throughout the state who are committed to the advancement of healthcare leadership and fulfilling the chapter’s mission. The mission of the Chapter is to be the professional membership society for healthcare executives; to meet its members’ professional, educational, and leadership needs; to promote high ethical standards and conduct; to adv

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Readers Write: Curating Information to Reduce Physician Burnout

HIStalk

Curating Information to Reduce Physician BurnoutBy Nele Jessel, MD Nele.

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Inaugural AWS Summit Healthcare Accelerator Finalists Announced

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced the ten finalists and participants for the first ever AWS Healthcare Accelerator. The ten companies were selected from 427 applications from 31 countries around the world by a panel from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and KidsX. The AWS Healthcare Accelerator is a four-week technical, business, and mentorship accelerator opportunity open to U.S.

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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.