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Employees cause more cyber breaches in healthcare than other industries, report finds

Health Care Dive

Employees were responsible for 39% of healthcare breaches last year. That's compared to 18% across all industries, according to new Verizon research.

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AI and IoT device connects with concierge platform for RPM

Healthcare It News

Healthcare workflow technology company Braidio has partnered with health IT vendor BlueSemi with the aim of creating a preventive home-health and telehealth ecosystem. BlueSemi's primary product is a handheld device called EYVA, which measures six vitals, including blood glucose, without requiring a pinprick for blood. By integrating the device with Braidio's My Health Concierge platform, the companies will be attempting to encourage positive behavioral change.

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Medtech companies keep supply, staffing challenges in check even as recession risks loom, analysts say

Health Care Dive

Companies are coping with factors such as supply disruptions, staffing shortages, inflation and foreign-exchange hurdles, according to analysts at William Blair.

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Study: Teletherapy program reduces OCD symptoms

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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The Case for Centering Hospital-at-Home Programs Around Home-Based Care Providers

Home Health Care

Though it’s by definition the delivery of high acuity care in the home setting, hospital-at-home programs tend to be operated by, and centered around, hospitals. But there are cost benefits to building these programs around home-based care providers, a Health Affairs article published on Tuesday suggests. The research came about as authors from Milliman Inc. and AccentCare tried to consider some different options for addressing the logistical challenges of implementing hospital-at-home pro

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How Long Do Hemorrhoids Last?

Healthcare Associates

How Long Do Hemorrhoids Last? Hemorrhoids can be extremely difficult to deal with, especially when they cause pain and discomfort. When you develop hemorrhoids, you want them to go away as quickly as possible so you can experience relief from your symptoms. Here’s how long it usually takes for hemorrhoids to go away and what you can do in the meantime to feel better.

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AWS Launches New Healthcare Accelerator Focused on Health Equity

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. The Accelerator is open to startups with US operations and applications open today. – This is part of AWS’s efforts to help organizations use the power of the cloud to help tackle the health equity gap – other efforts include the $40 million AWS Health Equity Initiative , which AWS also provided an update on in today’s announ

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CMS Administrative Memo Revised: Transition Several Providers and Suppliers and Provide Additional Guidance and Updates to the Standard Operating Procedures 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS revised Admin Info: 22-02-ALL on May 19, 2022. To improve efficiency in the enrollment process for Medicare-participating certified providers and suppliers, CMS is transitioning certain certification-enrollment functions performed by the CMS Locations to CMS’ CPI/PEOG and the MACs.

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LetsGetChecked Launches Virtual Consultation Offering with Healthcare Providers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – LetsGetChecked , a leading healthcare solutions company, announced today the launch of Virtual Consultation services through its secure clinical messaging platform in the company’s proprietary app. – The new offering furthers the company’s ongoing commitment to pioneer a full lifecycle of personalized healthcare including diagnostic testing, virtual care, e-prescription, and treatment plans, all from the comfort of home.

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Where Home-Based Care Dealmaking Stands Among Other Subsectors

Home Health Care

While the appetite for home health and home care dealmaking remains strong, other health care subsectors are catching up. Coming off a record-breaking 2021 for M&A deals, the home-based sector saw a slightly down Q1 in 2022. However, experts have told Home Health Care News that M&A players are taking their time with deals, and even though the number of deals is lower, the valuations in those deals have not dipped.

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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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Compendium 2022 Update: Strategies for Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention

CDC

Updated recommendations on how to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), as well as ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events (VAEs), and non-ventilator healthcare-associated pneumonia (NV-HAP) were recently published. These changes come at a time when the need to strengthen infection prevention programs and help hospitals rebuild and support healthcare systems is urgent.

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Navigating the Ups and Downs of Patient Appointment Volumes

Solution Reach

The hits keep coming. If it’s not global health threats it’s staff shortages and surging inflation throwing yet another curve ball at healthcare practices. If it seems like you just can’t get a break in trying to find some semblance of normality in all this craziness, you’re not alone.

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Combating Disinformation by Bolstering Truth and Trust

The Rand Blog

For Jessica Cecil, founder and former head of the Trusted News Initiative, today feels a bit like the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, in which agreed-upon facts endure in only a few isolated places of elite discussion and there is no common language of politics. She spoke about the need for governments, companies, news organizations, and relevant civil society groups to work together to combat disinformation at a meeting of RAND Europe's Council of Advisors.

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News 5/25/22

HIStalk

Top News The EU reportedly gives Oracle unconditional antitrust clearance.

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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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CDC COCA Call Today: What Clinicians Need to Know About Monkeypox + CDC Advisory 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. OVERVIEW. This COCA Call will present what clinicians need to know about monkeypox including guidance about the typical clinical presentation, treatment options, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, and reporting to public health authorities. What Clinicians Need to Know about Monkeypox in the United States and Other Countries.

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Russia Will Struggle to Sustain Its Disinformation Machine, Former New York Times/BBC Chief Tells RAND Europe

The Rand Blog

As former head of the New York Times and the BBC, Mark Thompson has tackled disinformation on both sides of the Atlantic. One of his big takeaways: It's not as easy as you might think to sustain a successful disinformation campaign.

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CareFirst BCBS Launches Enterprise-Wide Social Risk Intelligence Strategy with Socially Determined

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the largest health plan in the mid-Atlantic region announces a first-of-its kind initiative with analytics company Socially Determined to use social determinants of health (SDoH) analytics across all business functions. – Access to these actionable insights will support CareFirst’s mission to advance health equity and advocate for affordable, accessible, and quality care for members, employers and the communities they serve.

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5 Friendly Overdue Invoice Letters That Convert

Etactics

If you’re an “average” American, you would have over $90,000 in debt. There’s nothing average about that number…it’s massive. Yet, it’s the reality of the debt landscape that many of us face. Unfortunately, your clients also happen to fall within that bucket. Even if your business doesn’t focus on the direct-to-consumer market, your clients likely still have a mountaintop of debt to climb.

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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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KAID Health Raises $4.25M for AI-Powered Provider/Payer Whole Chart Analysis Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: KAID Health ,makers of an artificial intelligence -enabled clinical analysis and provider engagement platform,today announced its $4.25M in Series A funding bringing their total capital raised to $6.45M. – The funding will fuel growth of the provider/payer platform that integrates with the electronic medical records (EMR) to identify high-value tactical care and coding interventions.

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Morning Headlines 5/25/22

HIStalk

Oracle to win unconditional EU nod for $28.3 billion Cerner.

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Geisinger Selects AWS as Strategic Cloud Provider to Migrate Over 400 Apps to AWS

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Geisinger has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its strategic cloud provider and will transition its entire digital portfolio of more than 400 applications and numerous workflows to AWS. – The project will be one of the largest electronic health record (EHR) cloud migrations to AWS to date, expected to enable life-saving technologies and save Geisinger several million annually.

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COVID-19 Rebound After Paxlovid Treatment  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Issued May 24, 2022. Summary The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to update healthcare providers, public health departments, and the public on the potential for recurrence of COVID-19 or “COVID-19 rebound.

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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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How Patient Movement Benefits from Standardized Acuity Scoring

HIT Consultant

Dr. Martin Sellberg, Co-Founder of Motient. Nurses and providers typically assess patient acuity and volume at the beginning of their shift, whether formally or informally. Managers use patient acuity to balance nursing assignments, and nursing staff uses it to determine which patient care action should be prioritized next. Taking a standardized approach to acuity assessments not only provides more objectivity, but also gives hospitals the data they need to make a variety of tactical and strateg

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15 Healthcare Marketing Strategies to Attract Today’s Healthcare Consumer

Healthcare Success

Healthcare consumerism has drastically changed the way healthcare professionals need to market and deliver their services. Today’s consumers expect a healthcare experience as innovative and digitally advanced as any other industry. Hospitals, health systems, and medical practices must evolve to meet these changing needs to remain competitive or risk falling behind.

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Interoperability: A Powerful Solution to Staffing Challenges Continues to be Overlooked

HIT Consultant

Cynthia Morton, Executive Vice President for the National Association for the Support of Long-Term Care (NASL) Therasa Bell. Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Kno2 (Boise). In our ever-changing world, clinicians nowadays must find more efficient ways to operate with fewer resources. Increased patient loads, reimbursement changes, rule and regulation adjustments and thin margins, all while being short-staffed can be compared to a smoldering bonfire that reignites every time t

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The Leaked Dobbs Opinion, Explained

Bill Of Health

By Chloe Reichel. On May 2, 2022, Politico published a leaked draft of the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which showed the Supreme Court’s intent to overturn the right to abortion as decided in Roe v. Wade. In response to the leak, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted a discussion with legal historian and Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law Mary Ziegler and Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director, James A.

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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.