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HHS approves Medicaid housing intervention program in Arizona

Health Care Dive

It’s the latest demonstration approval from the agency, following others in Oregon and Massachusetts targeted at expanding access to coverage and addressing nutrition and housing needs.

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NSW Ambulance adopts mobile emergency alert app to empower community response

Healthcare It News

NSW Ambulance is promoting community emergency response by equipping volunteer responders with a mobile emergency alert and dispatch app developed in the United Kingdom. Called GoodSAM (Good Smartphone Activated Medics), the free app alerts a responder to nearby individuals – within 1,000 metres – in cardiac arrest. This allows them to provide CPR or use an AED before paramedics arrive.

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Falling MA star ratings dog payers’ future earnings

Health Care Dive

Volatility in MA stars for the 2023 plan year is raising questions around the earnings outlooks issued by payers.

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Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic disease

Healthcare It News

Alexandra Hospital has taken part in the launch of a new cloud-based digital health service in Singapore by telecommunications provider StarHub, together with its partners, health technology company ConnectedLife and Fitbit. Called LifeHub+, the mobile app-based service seeks to connect clinicians and health coaches with patients who are at risk or dealing with preventable chronic health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

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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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States need help to enforce mental health parity laws, report finds

Health Care Dive

Researchers from Georgetown University advocate for more federal support to remove insurance-related obstacles to treatment.

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Digital investment seeing a major shift in priorities with baby boomers

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Femtech Market to Reach $22B by 2028

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The global femtech market size is expected to grow from $12.65 billion in 2022 to $22.29 billion by 2028, with an estimated CAGR of 9.9% from 2022 to 2028, according to the latest Insight Partners report. – The report reveals that the global femtech market growth is driven by increasing demand for medical devices used in the female health industry and growing demand for technologically advanced femtech products.

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Healthcare payments: Remedy these 3 compliance risks

Health Care Dive

Explore potential consequences and remedies for 3 compliance risks in the healthcare payments space.

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COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers Updated

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This resource document (same title as this blog; 47 pages) was last updated on Thursday, October 13, 2022. In case you missed it, the PHE was extended on October 13, 2022 and is set to expire on January 12, 2023 unless we are notified otherwise. HHS has promised to provide at least 60 days advance notice of its expiration.

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Providence targeted by Oregon consumer protection probe

Health Care Dive

The investigation comes after Washington's attorney general sued the system for pressuring eligible charity care patients to pay.

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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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Why One Home-Based Care Veteran Sees Home Modification As A Major Growth Area

Home Health Care

TruBlue Total House Care recently welcomed Carrie Coumbs as the company’s new senior strategic advisor. Cincinnati, Ohio-based TruBlue is a senior-focused home repair company that operates under a franchising business model. TruBlue specializes in house care, home maintenance and safety modifications. Coumbs is a senior care veteran with 20 years of aging services experience under her belt — serving as a senior vice president at Elara Caring, vice president of national business development and i

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US News now includes health equity in hospital rankings

Healthcare ECONOMIST

This is according to a recent Viewpoint in JAMA from Binger, Chen and Harder (2022). On July 26, 2022, US News & World Report published new and updated health equity measures for hospitals featured on the publication’s website… Each equity measure was developed under a framework comprising 3 domains: access, outcomes, and social determinants of health.

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PE Firm Tenex Capital Reportedly Seeking Buyer For Team Select Home Care

Home Health Care

The private equity fund Tenex Capital is reportedly seeking a buyer for Team Select Home Care, a home-based care services provider that serves the medically complex pediatric population as part of its business model. Tenex has begun taking bids on Team Select in a process that started about a month ago, according to Axios. The financials of the process include “about $35 million of pro forma adjusted EBITDA, on about $250 million of revenue,” according to Axios’ sources.

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Leading and lagging KPIs in Healthcare

Sequence Health

When measuring your business’s success, you must be aware of leading and lagging indicators. Lagging indicators are measures of past performance, while leading indicators are future performance. Both indicators are essential, but they tell you different things about your business. For example, medical call centers use lagging indicators such as the number of patients seen in a day, month, or year.

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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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Home-Based Care Staffing By Geography: Where Workforce Woes Are Worse

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Home-based care staffing shortages are more dire in certain parts of the country than others, a fact that could disrupt the home care and home health industries overall. The shortages in the South and Pacific Northwest are even more pronounced when factoring in the high percentage of seniors with self-care disabilities and other barriers to daily activities. .

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Dementia and Healthcare’s Dilemma

Healthcare Leadership

Blog post by Joe Babaian. Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today. ? Amy Leigh Mercree. Talking about dementia, elder care, and the journey toward the end of life is not easy but it doesn’t have to be ugly. I’m a firm believer in the power of knowledge, collaboration, and hope.

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5 ways to demonstrate your value as a physician recruiter

CHQ Healthcare

You may not be used to drawing attention to your contributions as a physician recruiter. But there are compelling reasons to highlight the ways you bring value to your healthcare organization, and demonstrate your value as a physician recruiter. When leaders understand the way your work impacts the organization — both financially and operationally — they’ll be more likely to give you the resources you need to be successful.

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Mitigating Healthcare Cyber Risk Through Vendor Management

HIT Consultant

Nathalie Feria, Manager at Kaufman Rossin’s Risk Advisory Services. Daniel Rosenberg, Manager at Kaufman Rossin’s Risk Advisory Services. Look to these best practices to enhance your organization’s vendor risk management program. Vendor partnerships are critically important in today’s business world, especially as the pandemic accelerated many organizations’ digital transformation and the shift to remote operations, cloud adoption, and virtual services, such as those through telehealth, medical

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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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Readers Write: Five Lessons from the Five Years Since the EClinicalWorks Settlement

HIStalk

Five Lessons from the Five Years Since the EClinicalWorks SettlementBy.

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The Case for Incorporating Patient Perspectives into Clinical Decision Support

HIT Consultant

Greg Samios, President & CEO of Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer, Health. A recent report from the Leapfrog Group found that patient experience scores at hospitals declined during the pandemic. This should be no surprise. Hospitals faced an incredible crucible during COVID-19 , with many still experiencing high levels of stress in their systems.

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 10/17/22

HIStalk

When I speak with physicians who don’t have a lot.

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RLDatix to Acquire Porzio Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – RLDatix , the leading global provider of healthcare operations software and services that drive safer care has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Porzio Life Sciences , a market leader in compliance solutions for the life sciences industry which had been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the law firm of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman since 2004. – Porzio Life Sciences simplifies compliance by combining its regulatory expertise with product innovation to

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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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Morning Headlines 10/18/22

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Cityblock Health Creating 140 New Jobs Cityblock Health will bring.

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Eyenuk Raises $26M for AI-Powered Eye Screening & Predictive Biomarkers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) digital health company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening™ and AI Predictive Biomarkers™, today announced it has secured $26 million in a Series A financing round, bringing the Company’s total funding to over $43 million. – The capital raise was led by AXA IM Alts and was joined by new and existing investors including T&W Medical A/S, A&C Foelsgaard Alternativer ApS, Kendal

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Readers Write: The Clinical Dilemma at the Tipping Point – How We All Can Drive Transformation in Healthcare

HIStalk

The Clinical Dilemma at the Tipping Point – How We.

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Cap Rx and RxSpark Partner to Lower Drug Prices Nationwide

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – RxSpark , a pharmacy discount platform inked announced a new partnership with Capital Rx , a health technology company changing the way prescription drugs are priced and patients are serviced, to offer its users access to more affordable medications. – The new partnership will ensure that RxSpark prices are now cheaper 70% of the time for the most purchased medications relative to those of competitors.

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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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Ortho Summit 2022 – Chatting Cutting Edge MSK Innovation in Boston – Part 2

Health Advances

By Masha Dumanis, Vice President. IN PART 1 WE DISCUSSED BIOLOGICS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS TREATMENTS. THIS WEEK WE TURN OUR ATTENTION TO POST-OPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT AND THE WORLD OF DATA. Post-Op Pain Management – Many Ways to Skin a Cat. As I first shared in April – non-opioid post-op pain management has come front and center. Thanks to both lobbying efforts from the manufacturers and an emphasis on its importance from clinicians, non-opioid pain products have been granted pass-through payment s

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Walmart Now Offering Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Walmart announced it will begin offering over-the counter (OTC) hearing aids* at Walmart.com and Walmart Vision Centers in CO, MI, MO, OH, PA, TN and TX, and will soon be available at additional Walmart Vision Centers nationwide. – Walmart’s new offerings include an assortment of top brands like Lexie powered by Bose and HearX that will offer cutting-edge technology like Bluetooth and self-tuning app capabilities and discreet, sleek designs, with prices

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The Supreme Court of India’s Landmark Abortion Ruling, Explained

Bill Of Health

By Aparajita Lath. The Supreme Court of India recently ruled that all women, whether married or not, have equal rights to access abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation, in compliance with the provisions of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (MTP Act). Prior to this ruling, the MTP Act was understood to permit abortions up to 20 weeks (on the advice of one medical practitioner), and up to 24 weeks in certain specific cases, e.g., minors, pregnancies resulting from rape, women experienci

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Imprivata Expands Its Integrated Digital Identity Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Digital identity company, Imprivata , today announced the extension of its integrated digital identity platform, creating the only solution to accelerate identity intelligence through simplified visibility of user activity. – Currently, an alarming 51% of organizations don’t monitor access to critical systems and data, making it extremely difficult to remain compliant with regulations while preventing data hacks and breaches.

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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.