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Amazon closes $3.9B buy of One Medical

Health Care Dive

The acquisition, which closed without a challenge from regulators, gives Amazon a footprint in primary care and reinvigorates the company’s long-held plans to sell healthcare services to employers.

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Costly discharge delays highlight need for more downstream care options, New York group's analysis shows

Fierce Healthcare

Costly discharge delays highlight need for more downstream care options, New York group's analysis shows dmuoio Wed, 02/22/2023 - 12:48

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UnitedHealth closes $5.4B buy of home health business LHC

Health Care Dive

LHC will become part of UnitedHealth’s health services arm Optum to help deliver integrated care, as demand for home and community care increases.

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Hospital lobby urges FTC to withdraw or add healthcare exceptions to sweeping noncompete ban

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital lobby urges FTC to withdraw or add healthcare exceptions to sweeping noncompete ban dmuoio Wed, 02/22/2023 - 15:55

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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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Sutter Health taps first chief consumer, brand officer

Health Care Dive

Jennifer Bollinger will be the first to serve in the newly created position within nonprofit Sutter Health.

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Google Cloud, Redox team up to accelerate data interoperability for health plans, providers and digital health startups

Fierce Healthcare

Google Cloud, Redox team up to accelerate data interoperability for health plans, providers and digital health startups hlandi Wed, 02/22/2023 - 08:03

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Court temporarily bars former Cigna exec Amy Bricker from taking role at CVS

Fierce Healthcare

Court temporarily bars former Cigna exec Amy Bricker from taking role at CVS pminemyer Wed, 02/22/2023 - 14:35

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Further FTC Education Needed On Non-Compete Ban’s Potential Effects, Legal Insiders Suggest

Home Health Care

Because the home care industry is so large and fragmented, consensus is often hard to come by. That is the likely outcome for the debate around banning non-compete agreements , too. For instance, there are plenty within the industry who believe that would be a step in the right direction. But then there are the providers. And many of their leaders recognize how much the ban could hurt their businesses – in more ways than one.

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Role of resiliency in weathering COVID pandemic weighed in VA mental health study

Fierce Healthcare

Role of resiliency in weathering COVID pandemic weighed in VA mental health study fdiamond Wed, 02/22/2023 - 13:26

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BrightInsight Adds ixlayer to BrightInsight Ecosystem to Improve Therapy Matching

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – BrightInsight announced that ixlayer has joined the BrightInsight Ecosystem , a network of more than 20 of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies driving growth and adoption of digital health solutions. – The BrightInsight Ecosystem of partners collaborates to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to drive digital innovation, adoption and engagement.

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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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New procurement model needed to alleviate healthcare challenges

Fierce Healthcare

New procurement model needed to alleviate healthcare challenges jpiatt Wed, 02/22/2023 - 15:00

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KLAS Names Chartis, Nordic, Tegria Top Performers for IT Advisory Services

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In the IT advisory space, many firms perform well, but the breadth of their expertise varies—some firms offer many services, while others focus on a specific area. KLAS’s latest report examines the breadth of firms’ validated services as well as client satisfaction and performance consistency. – To provide better transparency into IT advisory services, KLAS has broken them into the following four segments: IT planning and assessment, revenue cycle optimi

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Study: Protection from prior COVID infection almost as good as vaccines

Fierce Healthcare

Study: Protection from prior COVID infection almost as good as vaccines fdiamond Wed, 02/22/2023 - 15:03

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The Three Vladimir Putins

The Rand Blog

What happens next in the war in Ukraine depends almost exclusively on the mindset, will, and decisions of Vladimir Putin. The various descriptions of Putin suggest three different characters: strongman Putin, messianic Putin, and rational Putin. We may take more comfort in the last. We probably shouldn't.

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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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Chartis Group: Medicare Advantage's growth is slowing. But don't panic just yet

Fierce Healthcare

Chartis Group: Medicare Advantage's growth is slowing.

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How Teachers Can Shield Students from Harm as Debates Rage over Race and Gender

The Rand Blog

By conveying to girls and students of color that they are individually capable of overcoming adversity—and that who they are matters—educators might soften the blow of public laws and policies that send the opposite message.

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The call is coming from inside the waiting room

Fierce Healthcare

The call is coming from inside the waiting room mwen Wed, 02/22/2023 - 14:58

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Inside 2 Emerging Risk-Based Home Care Models

Home Health Care

In order to become less dependent on fee-for-service business, home health providers have begun to take on more risk. That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. Resilient Healthcare has used that trend to its advantage. Resilient is a Plano, Texas-based home-centered management services organization that works with home health providers on hospital-at-home and care management services.

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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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Amazon closes $3.9B One Medical deal as its builds out its healthcare strategy

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon closes $3.

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Employers and the Future of Public Health

Bill Of Health

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers either incentivized or required employees and customers to be vaccinated and/or masked even in the absence of federal and state mandates.

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UnitedHealth, LHC Group close $5.4B merger deal

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth, LHC Group close $5.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

New CMMI drug pricing models. Cell and gene therapies inundate FDA. Does cost attribute in a DCE increase respondent attention span? Physicians to unionize ? Does medical marijuana reduce opioid prescribing for cancer patients? BioGPT.

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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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Improve your Star Ratings with high-touch strategies

Fierce Healthcare

Improve your Star Ratings with high-touch strategies mteefey Wed, 02/22/2023 - 12:02

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CMS Booklet for Medicare Beneficiaries Updated: Medicare Coverage of Skilled Nursing Facility Care

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has updated the SNF care booklet for Medicare beneficiaries. The 44-page booklet can be found here. The revision date of the booklet is identified as December 2022.

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Changing Your Healthcare Mindset with Rhone D’Errico | E. 63

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction The pandemic forced health systems to explore new ways of delivering care and education. Rhone shares the benefits of LinkedIn as a mindset platform, the skills unique to Nursing Practitioners and how students in search of preceptorships can benefit by taking the ‘’cookie basket to the clinic’’. He also explains why telepsychiatry provides patients a safe space and extols the power of servant leadership.

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Staffing the Shortage: How Interim Leadership Can Help Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

As staffing challenges in the health care industry persist, the crunch to find top talent will likely continue in the months and even years ahead. For the home-based care industry, finding and retaining staff has presented a unique set of obstacles. The home health care industry was already on a growth fast track before the pandemic, and COVID made more and more people want health care services from the safety of their homes.

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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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Morning Headlines 2/23/23

HIStalk

New Releases: SDOH Toolkit and Learning Forum Sessions for the.

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Five-Star Quality Rating System: State-Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table for February 2023

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted the Five-Star Quality Rating System: State-Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table … February 2023 on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. This document – Five Star Quality Rating System Technical Users’ Guide: State Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table – provides the data for the state-level cut points for the star ratings included in the health inspection domain.

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Earn CEUs with MPA’s Virtual HIPAA Training!

Healthcare Performance

4.5 NAB CEUs! 4 AHIMA CEUs! April 26 th , 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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Partnership Aims to Improve Early Cognitive Decline Detection with NLP

Health IT Analytics

Brigham and Women's… read more

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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.