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Pandemic-driven healthcare staffing shortages have mostly eased, report finds

Health Care Dive

Employment in ambulatory services is now well above pre-pandemic levels, as healthcare jobs recuperate from pandemic-driven shortages, according to nonprofit Altarum.

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ViVE 2023: UnitedHealth's new tech exec on how the payer giant is aiming to accelerate transformation

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: UnitedHealth's new tech exec on how the payer giant is aiming to accelerate transformation pminemyer Mon, 03/27/2023 - 22:48

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‘We’ve had to be creative’: How a major health system eased its labor shortage

Health Care Dive

By the summer of 2021, turnover at Memorial Hermann reached 30%. The organization implemented new staffing models and invested in greater staff support. Turnover is now down by half.

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Value-based care enabler Wellvana clinches $84M to expand in existing, new markets

Fierce Healthcare

Value-based care enabler Wellvana clinches $84M to expand in existing, new markets agliadkovskaya Mon, 03/27/2023 - 14:48

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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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CVS to close Signify acquisition this week

Health Care Dive

CVS expects its $8 billion buy of home healthcare provider Signify to close on or near Wednesday, subject to certain conditions.

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ViVE 2023: Hospitals, health tech companies face shortages in data privacy, security talent. Recruiting 'outsiders' could be one fix

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: Hospitals, health tech companies face shortages in data privacy, security talent.

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Ohio AG Yost files suit against Express Scripts, Prime Therapeutics over rising drug costs

Fierce Healthcare

Ohio AG Yost files suit against Express Scripts, Prime Therapeutics over rising drug costs pminemyer Mon, 03/27/2023 - 17:08

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North Carolina becomes 40th state to expand Medicaid

Health Care Dive

The expansion puts an end to a decade-plus political battle in North Carolina over Medicaid and illustrates mounting support for the program.

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Expert: Bright Health 'on life support' even as execs score huge bonuses

Fierce Healthcare

Expert: Bright Health 'on life support' even as execs score huge bonuses fdiamond Mon, 03/27/2023 - 13:25

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IT in healthcare: Enabling a more efficient and satisfied workforce

Health Care Dive

People who dedicate their careers to healthcare often do so because of a deep desire to help others.

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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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CVS set to close $8B deal for health services company Signify Health

Fierce Healthcare

CVS set to close $8B deal for health services company Signify Health rking Mon, 03/27/2023 - 11:14

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What Is the Medical Billing for Digital and Telehealth Services?

p3care

Final Rule for Telehealth and Digital Services The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule on 1st November 2022. The final rule for telehealth and digital service providers includes significant changes. Starting new codes that will impact the future growth of these areas. Moreover, medical billers and coders need to answer questions related to their digital and telehealth services.

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ViVE 2023: Everly Health builds out virtual care program integrated with at-home testing

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: Everly Health builds out virtual care program integrated with at-home testing hlandi Mon, 03/27/2023 - 23:07

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NAHC, HCAOA Unveil Practical Solutions To Address Home-Based Care Workforce Crisis

Home Health Care

For the first time ever, two of the largest associations representing the home-based care industry have joined together on a call to action regarding the workforce shortage. On Monday, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) released a report that details the needs of the nursing and home care aide workforces and specifically recommends policy changes and operational practices that can be implemented to address the workforce sh

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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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Japan's New Security Policies: A Long Road to Full Implementation

The Rand Blog

The historic ambition contained within Japan's new defense strategies is notable. But the reality is that an extraordinary alignment of political, economic, fiscal, and other stars will be necessary for Japan's government to fully implement their stated ambitions over the next 5–10 years.

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CVS Health To Close On Its $8B Purchase Of Signify Health This Week

Home Health Care

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced that it will complete its $8 billion acquisition of Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) this week. “CVS Health today announced it expects to complete its acquisition of Signify Health on or around March 29, 2023, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the remaining customary closing conditions set forth in the merger agreement,” the company wrote in a press release Monday.

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From ViVE and CHIME with Dr. Jayne 3/27/23

HIStalk

This week I’m in Nashville to experience the combined event.

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3 Ways To Modernize Medicare’s Home Health Benefit

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home health stakeholders often talk about the need to modernize the Medicare home health benefit. What they are often getting at is the need to make it easier for providers to deliver crucial care, while, in turn, creating better access to care. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Get Membership Already a member?

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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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A chicken in every pot? How about a family doctor for every patient?

Healthy Debate

The post A chicken in every pot? How about a family doctor for every patient? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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How to Transform Patient Safety Through Evidence-Based Practices

Patient Safety Movement

Patient safety has been top-of-mind for me for decades. When I learned of the startling statistics surrounding patient deaths in hospital settings, I knew a change in patient care was imperative. Recently, I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote at the 5th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety in Switzerland. It was such an honor to meet and speak with so many leaders and ministers of health who are dedicated to patient safety.

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Three Speakers Will Inspire You to Rethink Care Delivery

NCQA

Quality Talks is about new and different ways of thinking. You might find that what you learn inspires you to change how you work. Now in its eighth year, Quality Talks has earned its reputation as anything but ordinary. Deliberately different, the event features speakers with something new and important to say. Three speakers who will be on the Quality Talks stage are rethinking models of care.

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Why I love my sales job at CHG Healthcare

CHQ Healthcare

Sales jobs at CHG Healthcare reward you in many ways Anyone who makes their living in sales will probably tell you it’s a demanding career. And a company’s culture makes all the difference in the world when it comes to growing their careers. Culture is just one of the many reasons sales consultants love their job at CHG. Embracing the challenge Mitch Lyle is a sales consultant with Weatherby Healthcare , a division of CHG Healthcare.

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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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Oregon Saves Millions Using Reference-Based Pricing

NASHP

Most health plans and hospitals determine reimbursement rates by negotiating discounts off the hospital’s chargemaster rates, aka the “ sticker prices ” set by the hospital. Increasingly, hospitals and health systems hold significant market power, and data show they are able to negotiate increasingly high reimbursements from plans. In turn, health care spending ultimately consumes a growing share of state and household budgets.

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HIStalk Interviews Robbie Hughes, CEO, Lumeon

HIStalk

Robbie Hughes, MEng is founder and CEO of Lumeon of.

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The U.S. Administration for Community Living Announces Two New Funding Opportunities for the Lifespan Respite Care Program

NASHP

The U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL) has opened two new Lifespan Respite Care Program funding opportunities. The Lifespan Respite Care Programs are “coordinated systems of accessible, community-based respite care services for family caregivers of children and adults of all ages with disabilities and/or chronic conditions.” Please note that the Lifespan Respite Care Act limits who is eligible to apply for these funding opportunities.

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Apple Watch, ML Can Predict Pain in Sickle Cell Disease Patients

Health IT Analytics

In a paper published… 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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Morning Headlines 3/28/23

HIStalk

Wellvana Health announces $84 million capital raise to drive innovation.

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: March 28, 2023

HKLaw

Miranda A. Franco, Parker M.

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Patients armed with telehealth tools help Baptist Health deliver better care

Healthcare It News

After the near emergency ramp-up of video visits across the organization when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, that serves Kentucky and Indiana, evaluated some of its outcomes, including willingness to do more video visits in the future. THE PROBLEM One of the challenges was with the lack of a significant physical exam.

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4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand

Bill Of Health

By Jennifer S. Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic. By declaring the pandemic over by fiat, the government is giving up the fight when they should be redoubling their efforts.

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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.