Wed.May 18, 2022

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Hospitals charge employer health plans more than 2 times what they charge Medicare for same services

Health Care Dive

Rand researchers also found wide price variations across states. Florida, West Virginia and South Carolina had relative prices at or above 310% of Medicare prices, according to the report.

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Home Care Workforce Action Alliance Formed as Providers Hit All-Time Case-Decline Highs

Home Health Care

It is often said that storytelling can be a powerful tool for change. This is what the members of the newly formed Home Care Workforce Action Alliance are banking on with the announcement of the Voices for Care at Home campaign. The Home Care Workforce Action Alliance is the byproduct of some of the biggest industry stakeholders on the trade association side.

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Mass General files performance improvement plan with state

Health Care Dive

Massachusetts' largest hospital system has set cost savings targets after state regulators found fault with its healthcare spending growth and pressured the nonprofit to scale back a proposed expansion project.

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HealthStream Acquires Continuing Education Platform CloudCME

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: HealthStream , a provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the completion of its acquisition of the remaining equity interest of CloudCME , a Nashville-based healthcare technology company with a nationwide customer base. – The acquisition expands HealthStream’s presence as a market leader in healthcare continuing education and continuing medical education management with the acquisition of another powerful application sp

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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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LabCorp becomes first company to get EUA for direct-to-consumer test for flu, RSV, COVID-19

Health Care Dive

LabCorp's kit is differentiated from other companies' products as it enables at-home sample collection without a prescription.

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HealthQuest Capital Closes $675M for Fund IV to Invest in Transformational Healthcare Companies

HIT Consultant

HealthQuest Capital Team. What You Should Know: – HealthQuest Capital , a sector specialist capital firm focused on companies optimizing value in healthcare, today announced the close of HealthQuest Partners IV, L.P., at its hard cap of $675M. – The oversubscribed fund will enable HealthQuest to continue to invest in growth-stage companies that are revolutionizing the healthcare industry.

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Always Best Care Names Franchise Development VP; Modivcare Announces New Investor Relations Head

Home Health Care

Always Best Care announces new vice president of franchise development. The Roseville, California-based Always Best Care – a home care franchise company – has named a new vice president of franchise development. The company announced this week that Sean Hart will lead the brand’s national growth strategy in new and existing markets across the country. “We have many untapped markets ripe for development,” Jake Brown, president and CEO of Always Best Care, said in a press release.

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Gene therapies and the ISPOR value flower

Healthcare ECONOMIST

What considerations beyond quality adjusted life years and cost should be considered when evaluating gene therapies? A panel from ISPOR provided just such a discussion. As summarized an ISPOR’s Value and Outcomes Spotlight article titled “ Can Pharmaceutical Pricing Move Beyond Cost QALY for Value Consideration? “, Michael F. Drummond pointed out that: …there are other values to consider, such as the domains on the ISPOR Value Flower, and he provided examples from Sweden,

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Eli Lilly Partners with Yseop to Expedite Drug Approval Process

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Eli Lilly and Company partners with Yseop , an AI software company and pioneer in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to deploy Yseop’s world-class enterprise automation platform, Augmented Analyst, to accelerate bringing Lilly’s medicines to patients. – Yseop’s platform uses Natural Language Generation (NLG) to augment human analysis with automated insights.

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Beware the Allure of Training Technology

The Rand Blog

In addition to focusing on acquiring technology that helps retain a competitive advantage, the U.S. Department of Defense could also focus on codifying processes that align technology with user needs and that adapt as technology, military operations, and needs change. Considering context when planning the development and use of training technology could be crucial.

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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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Nearly 60% of Hospitals and Health Systems Have More Than 100 Job Vacancies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – More than 57 percent of health systems and hospitals have more than 100 open roles to fill across their operations, according to new AKASA survey where more than 400 healthcare finance leaders identified vacancies across their healthcare organizations and the revenue cycle. – The findings reveal how insufficient staffing is hampering daily operations and pushing a strained workforce to the limit.

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Increasing Patient Retention Through Improved Patient Engagement

Medical GPS

To thrive in today’s healthcare environment, primary care as well as specialty care physicians must implement and maintain strong patient engagement strategies. Effective patient engagement produces improved patient retention and patient outcomes. (1). Proactively engaging patients about their health and wellness is essential. Every patient has unique circumstances as well as specific health desires and preferences.

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ePROs: Better Patient Input for Better Trial Output

HIT Consultant

Kris Gustafson, Vice President and Global Head Patient Centered Technologies, IQVIA. During the pandemic, electronic clinical outcomes assessments (eCOAs) gained prominence as sponsors looked for more agile tools to help them capture patient data remotely through decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). From the adoption of virtual models like eCOAs and DCTs, a new opportunity emerged to enhance the patient experience.

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Essential ephemera: The sad, over-too-quickly life of a wearable datum

Nordic

A few months ago, I wrote about “homeless data.” I posited that as we continue to generate information about ourselves, we’ll quickly fill up electronic health records (EHRs) with petabytes of data, but precious little knowledge. Some obvious sources of this voluminous information are genomic data that are newly available from your friendly corner laboratory as well as the easily-accessible medical record data from across the street or even the globe.

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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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Greater Good Health Raises $10M for NP-Centered Primary Care Model

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Greater Good Health , the company redefining value-based care through the first primary care model centered around nurse practitioners (NPs) raises $10 million in Series A funding round led by LRVHealth , with participation from Martin Ventures , Health Velocity Capital and more. – Committed to providing NPs with the tools they need to be successful, Greater Good Health offers access to a network of peers, training and development content and personal wellness

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The Tax Code Needs to Do More for Public Health

Bill Of Health

By Bailey Kennedy. With the pain of tax day now a month behind us, it’s worth talking about something that we don’t often associate with the tax code: health. It’s not easy to imagine that the tax code could truly do much to make Americans happier and healthier — but there are ways that it could. Federal and state tax codes could both be reformed in small ways that might encourage Americans to make healthier decisions.

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Morning Headlines 5/19/22

HIStalk

Cerebral just replaced CEO Kyle Robertson as the mental-health startup.

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Keeping Your High Blood Pressure in Check

Healthcare Highways

Having high blood pressure doesn’t have to keep you from living a healthy, full life.

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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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Meet VNS Health: Why America’s Largest Home Health Nonprofit Is Carving Out a New Identity

Home Health Care

Typically, rebranding either serves two purposes: presenting a new company identity or clarifying one that wasn’t getting across. For Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), becoming VNS Health is a case of the latter. On Wednesday, the company announced that it has rebranded to VNS Health, with the goal being to represent the company’s overall evolution.

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Cerner Collaboration to Increase Access to Cancer Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cerner , Elligo Health Research® and Freenome are collaborating to enable a clinical trial through the Learning Health Network to help advance early cancer detection. – Together they will be using the research-activated network of health systems, real-world data (RWD) and multiomics technology, developed by Freenome, with the goal to help accelerate early cancer detection.

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States move to limit hospital visitor policies in wake of pandemic

Health Care Dive

The Republican measures have passed in blue states like Colorado and Illinois.

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