Healthcare Success

MAY 9, 2022

We know that today’s healthcare consumers want instant and accessible services. . The QR code allows hospitals and healthcare providers to satisfy this need with immediate physician-patient interaction and engagement – all through smartphones and tablets. . Placed strategically, the QR code does wonders for marketing. And today more than ever, they are considered the green, hygienic, and convenient alternative to printed or shared materials. .

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Health Care Dive

MAY 9, 2022

The results spurred payers to paint an improved financial outlook for the full year compared to earlier estimates for 2022.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 9, 2022

We know that today's healthcare consumers want instant and accessible services. . The QR code allows hospitals and healthcare providers to satisfy this need with immediate physician-patient interaction and engagement – all through smartphones and tablets. . Placed strategically, the QR code does wonders for marketing. And today more than ever, they are considered the green, hygienic, and convenient alternative to printed or shared materials. .

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Health Care Dive

MAY 9, 2022

Massachusetts' leading hospital system, under state scrutiny to rein in spending, has cleared a key hurdle in its expansion plans.

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Bill Of Health

MAY 9, 2022

By Michele Merritt. As legal scholars have predicted since the current composition of the United States Supreme Court became apparent, abortion restrictions are increasing; if Roe v. Wade is overturned with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this coming June, over half of the states in the country will likely ban abortion entirely. .

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Health Care Dive

MAY 9, 2022

Contract negotiations started in March. Last month, 2,000 employees represented by the union voted to authorize a strike.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 9, 2022

That's down from a net income of $2 billion at the same time last year.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 9, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 9, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CDC updated the Long COVID or Post-COVID Conditions website on May 5, 2022. The website addresses: Symptoms Symptoms that are hard to explain and manage Health conditions People experiencing any severe illness may develop health problems People More Likely to Develop Long COVID Health Inequities May Affect Populations at Risk for Long COVID Preventing Long COVID Living with Long COVID Data for Long COVID Estimates of the pro

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

Deboshree Sarkar, Product Marketing Manager, PDF Editor Product line at Foxit. We live in an increasingly digital world. Across industries, companies and consumers have come to rely on the rapid exchange of digital information. Healthcare, however, has been an outlier in this regard. While the healthcare digital transformation has been in play for years, it’s still taken longer for the paradigm shift to gain momentum.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 9, 2022

There are currently no international binding rules that would address growing threats in space. Without more-defined and enforceable rules of war regarding space and space assets, the danger of a destructive conflict in space grows significantly.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

Lisa Lindgren, Senior Vice President at Avel eCare. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. How can virtual critical care keep improving to help providers manage future emergency events? In early 2020, as the nation’s healthcare system almost buckled under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, providers searching for a way to stay connected to their patients turned to telemedicine.

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NASHP

MAY 9, 2022

Measuring What Matters: Opportunities for States May 9, 2022 / by Kitty Purington. The meaningful engagement of people in their own care is a salient feature of quality health care. State policy makers have developed a range of strategies to build the patient voice into care and care planning. Such strategies include regulatory requirements for providers to engage in care planning and value-based purchasing models that incentivize managed care plans and providers to ensure that people and their

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

What You Should Know: Handspring , a Newark, NJ-based startup building a vertically-integrated and omnichannel behavioral health center for children and families that includes both virtual care and modern clinics. Today, the company has announced its official launch in New Jersey to provide quality care to more families and children. Handspring has closed a $6.2M seed round to further its mission of making quality mental healthcare accessible to all families was co-led by Newark Venture Partner

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Home Health Care

MAY 9, 2022

Contessa Health’s leaders see palliative care as the true linchpin of their business and have plans to grow the segment in the near future. Though Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) purchased Contessa last year , it has allowed the company to operate independently, which has enabled Contessa leaders to maintain focus on their own growth trajectory, particularly in palliative care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

What You Should Know: – Intermountain Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with digital health venture capital firm General Catalyst that will involve jointly exploring opportunities to accelerate the shift to value-based care through digital and other solutions. – As part of the collaboration, Intermountain and General Catalyst will leverage the Health Assurance Network, which is a group of tech innovation companies within General Catalyst’s investment portfolio that are ded

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 9, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On April 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a national policy for coverage of aducanumab (brand name Aduhelm ) and any future monoclonal antibodies directed against amyloid approved by the FDA with an indication for use in treating Alzheimer’s disease.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, February 2022, National. What You Should Know: – After two months in the top five telehealth diagnoses nationally and in every US census region, COVID-19 fell out of that ranking nationally and in every region in February 2022, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. – The change coincided with a sharp decline in new cases of COVID-19, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , followi

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 9, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On June 21, 2021, OSHA published an interim final rule establishing an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19 in settings where people with COVID-19 are reasonably expected to be present (86 FR 32376).

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MAY 9, 2022

A paper by Ge et al. (2022) aims to answer this question with a discrete choice experiment survey of medical students at Shandong University in China. Respondents had to select a preferred treatment which varied over 3 dimensions: profit to the physician, patient health benefit, and patient financial cost. The paper abstract is below: The assumption of patient-regarding physicians has been widely adopted in the health economics literature.

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Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

MAY 9, 2022

Admin. May 9, 2022. Why Should You Outsource Revenue Cycle Management? Revenue Cycle Management is a crucial part of a successful practice. However, healthcare providers ignore it sometimes. In addition, it is not necessary that providers know how to run a profitable medical practice. So, practices can hire third-party company to help manage the revenue cycle effectively.

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Sequence Health

MAY 9, 2022

There is no doubt that electronic health records (EHR) have had a profound impact on the healthcare industry. Many experts believe that EHRs are one of the most important advances in healthcare technology in the past decade. But how do EHRs work, and more importantly, how do they improve patient care? In this blog post, we will explore those questions and discuss some of the benefits of using EHRs in clinical practice.

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Baird Group

MAY 9, 2022

I’m Just Here for the Food , By Angela Fieler. I was coaching an executive recently who was complaining that staff are “just not engaged.” I asked how he was defining employee engagement. At the root of his complaint was the fact that the CEO was doing quarterly town hall meetings at which staff simply didn’t talk. Engaging Staff Through Town Hall Meetings.

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Home Health Care

MAY 9, 2022

Pennant acquires Bozeman home health provider, Twin Falls senior living asset. The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) announced this week that it has acquired the assets of First Choice Home Health, a home health and personal care services provider in Bozeman, Montana. “This acquisition complements our existing hospice operations in the state, expanding the continuum of care services we can provide our patients and their families, and opens the door to greater expansion within the region,” Brent

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, R1 RCM , a leading provider of technology-driven revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, is announcing a 10-year end-to-end partnership with ScionHealth , a new Louisville-based health system comprising nearly 80 hospitals, to provide exclusive enterprise RCM services to its long-term acute care hospitals. – ScionHealth joins healthcare systems including Ascension, Intermountain Healthcare, LifePoint Health, Penn State Health and more that have chosen

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Health Recovery

MAY 9, 2022

Staying on top of Chronic Care Management (CCM) CPT codes allows your organization to get Medicare reimbursements on time and coordinate patient care efficiently. These benefits lead to cost-savings across departments—ultimately, protecting your bottom line and revenue cycle. To fully optimize your Medicare reimbursements, here’s a list of relevant CCM CPT codes, their descriptions, and the associated costs for your remote patient monitoring (RPM) program.

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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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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

What You Should Know: – In an effort to make blood glucose data more actionable for providers and patients alike, Rimidi , a leading clinical management platform announced its integration with the ARKRAY GLUCOCARD ® Shine Connex Blood Glucose Monitoring System to Rimidi’s Platform. – The integration enables providers to manage blood-glucose control more proactively within existing workflows, thus boosting patient adherence.

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HIStalk

MAY 9, 2022

Are HCC Codes and RAF Scores Enough?By Sara Pastoor, MD.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 9, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The May 6, 2022 edition of CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR ) showcases the Effectiveness of a COVID-19 Additional Primary or Booster Vaccine Dose in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Nursing Home Residents During Widespread Circulation of the Omicron Variant — United States, February 14–March 27, 2022.

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HIStalk

MAY 9, 2022

I spent a good chunk of the weekend outdoors, enjoying.

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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.