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Climate groups call on health systems to divest fossil fuel holdings

Health Care Dive

Although more than 1,550 organizations representing more than $40 trillion in assets have divested fossil fuel investments, the healthcare industry lags behind, according to the report.

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With bankruptcy looming, Bright Health is fully ditching its insurance business

Fierce Healthcare

With bankruptcy looming, Bright Health is fully ditching its insurance business pminemyer Fri, 04/28/2023 - 14:06

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Without vehicle or viable public transit, 1 in 5 miss needed healthcare: report

Health Care Dive

Adults with a disability, Black adults, people with low incomes and those on public insurance were more likely to report going without needed healthcare because of transportation issues, the Urban Institute found.

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One in 5 adults without cars, transit access defer care, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

One in 5 adults without cars, transit access defer care, survey finds dmuoio Fri, 04/28/2023 - 14:23

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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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CMS targets Medicaid payment transparency, wait times in new proposed rules

Health Care Dive

The agency wants to create maximum waiting times for certain appointments in addition to requiring stronger quality monitoring and reporting standards for Medicaid and CHIP managed care plans.

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Walmart Health moves into Oklahoma as part of expansion plans in 2024

Fierce Healthcare

Walmart Health moves into Oklahoma as part of expansion plans in 2024 hlandi Fri, 04/28/2023 - 07:30

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As retailers push into clinical trials, COTA's Miruna Sasu sees big opportunities for real-world, genomics data

Fierce Healthcare

As retailers push into clinical trials, COTA's Miruna Sasu sees big opportunities for real-world, genomics data hlandi Fri, 04/28/2023 - 13:15

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Froedtert & MCW customizes services and tech initiatives around people

Healthcare It News

Wisconsin's Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin health network is striving to meet the challenges of healthcare in part by building healthcare information technology and healthcare services around people and their lives, expanding digital health initiatives beyond its Epic EHR , and diving into app-embedded digital therapeutics. To get an informative look at this strategy, we interviewed Dr.

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Eleos Outreach brings AI-enabled click-to-text functionality to field-based clinicians' EHRs

Fierce Healthcare

Eleos Outreach brings AI-enabled click-to-text functionality to field-based clinicians' EHRs aburky Fri, 04/28/2023 - 13:30

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HIMSS' new C-COMM program tracks community-focused care

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Fertility startup Kindbody banks $25M in funding from Morgan Health

Fierce Healthcare

Fertility startup Kindbody banks $25M in funding from Morgan Health pminemyer Fri, 04/28/2023 - 13:05

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The Problems Facing VA Modernization Are Bigger Than Its Software Systems

The Rand Blog

The list of criticisms of the new Veterans Affairs electronic health record system, Oracle Cerner, is long. It's expensive, downtime has been high, and doctors' orders have gone missing, putting patient safety at risk. How did this implementation go so wrong? And what should be done now?

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Industry Voices—Private equity investment in healthcare is making a positive impact. especially for doctors

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Private equity investment in healthcare is making a positive impact.

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Why Do My Legs Itch When I Walk?

Healthcare Associates

Why Do My Legs Itch When I Walk? Have you ever experienced itching in your legs when walking, running, or exercising? That sensation is known as runner’s itch. It is extremely common in people who start exercising again after taking an extended break from physical activity, such as the period from fall to spring. Runner’s itch may be uncomfortable, but it is rarely a serious condition.

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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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Patient POV is often missing from medial training. Here's how Wolters Kluwer is addressing that

Fierce Healthcare

Patient POV is often missing from medial training.

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Therapeutic Interventions for Progress Notes

Icanotes

Maintaining organized, legible and thorough mental health progress notes is essential for therapists and other clinicians. These notes act as a guide to monitor your patient's progress, determine the efficacy of their treatment plan and decide whether they may benefit from different therapeutic interventions. Documenting your interventions is critical for insurance, compliance and other lawful purposes, so it's important to have access to the right tools and solutions that help you efficiently c

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As the market settles, many investors still maintain a bright outlook for digital health investing

Fierce Healthcare

As the market settles, many investors still maintain a bright outlook for digital health investing agliadkovskaya Fri, 04/28/2023 - 16:47

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CMS Medicaid Proposals Offer Transparency And Accountability, But Compensation Provision Could Cap Business For Cash-Strapped Providers

Home Health Care

On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new rule that would make major changes to the way that home care workers are compensated under Medicaid. While home-based care stakeholders recognize that the proposal could lead to some improvements, many are critical of what they view as a one-size-fits-all approach to strengthening home- and community-based services (HCBS).

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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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M&A: eVisit Acquires Bluestream Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – eVisit , a virtual care operating platform for health systems and large, complex healthcare delivery organizations acquires Bluestream Health , a digital front door and virtual care workflow solution that manages patient and provider interactions throughout the care delivery process. – Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Despite Safety Concerns, Hospital-At-Home Market Projected To Reach $390.4 Billion

Home Health Care

It was not too long ago when only a handful of U.S. health systems invested in hospital-at-home programs, with Mount Sinai and Johns Hopkins Medicine being two of the very early adopters. Since the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency, that has changed – in a big way. Hospital-at-home alternatives are becoming table stakes for many systems, with some of the most recent examples of that trend being Atrium Health’s partnership with Best Buy and Contessa’s joint venture with Virginia Mason

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Do Car Companies Know Where Their Critical Minerals Come From?

The Rand Blog

The initial slate of electric vehicles qualifying for a new federal tax credit was announced in April. Key to eligibility is the source of critical minerals used in their batteries. While the list of acceptable nations of origin is still being worked out, there's an important practical question the IRS should ask: Do car makers really know where their critical minerals come from?

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Health Policy News April

Health Policy News

Health Policy News’ April edition focuses on a timely issue in health policy- state efforts to eliminate gaps in care for those leaving incarceration, with a focus on a recently.

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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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Taking Social Determinants of Health From Data to Analysis and Action

Lexis Nexis

The original sponsored article appeared on Healthcare IT Today. Healthcare organizations are spending significant resources – time, money, and human capital – to address social determinants of health (SDoH) and health equity. Effective execution requires going upstream of the programming itself to understand the social determinants of a population. According to Data Bridge Market Research , the U.S.

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California’s Section 1115 Re-Entry Demonstration Waiver : An Indicator for States

Health Policy News

In January 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved California’s Section 1115 Re-Entry Demonstration Waiver, the first waiver of its kind to receive approval from the agency.

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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN Nursing Home COVID-19 Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending April 16, 2023. Comparing the April 16, 2023 data to the April 9, 2023 data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate remained unchanged this past week; Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.1% this past week; Staff primary vaccination completion rate remained unchanged this past week; Staff up to date remained decreased 0.1% thi

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Transitional Care Management: From Hospital to Home

Health Recovery

Transitional care management (TCM) is crucial to improving outcomes for patients with complex healthcare needs. Patients with comorbid conditions often struggle with managing their health during episodes of acute illness, leading to high readmission rates and poor patient outcomes.

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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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Significant Updates to Internet Only Manual: Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Manual, Chapter 6

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted Transmittal 11996 on April 27, 2023: There are 2 pages of this 46-page Transmittal that identify revisions and deletions to this Manual.

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Why Use Geofencing in Healthcare?

Sequence Health

When it comes to healthcare call centers, you want to be able to promote your practice in your local area. This is especially true if you have specialty services. Geofencing is a certain tactic that can help you use data at a higher level based on local geographic area. In this article, let’s talk about what geofencing is and how health care practices can use it powerfully.

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Petrie-Flom Student Fellowship Now Accepting Applications

Bill Of Health

What do a MacArthur Genius award winner, several health law professors at top schools, executive directors of leading health law centers, an associate chief counsel of the FDA, and partners and associates at top health care law firms all have in common? The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship ! The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship is a competitive one-year program designed to support Harvard graduate students interested in pursuing independent scholarly projects related to health law poli

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The Reasons For A Multilingual Call Center For Healthcare

Sequence Health

Any healthcare call center today needs to be able to address the needs of various patients living in multiple locations. Your hospital should always be looking to improve its operations with regards to appointment setting, insurance verification, inbound, outbound calls and more. That being said, what is the importance of having a multilingual call center?

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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.