Mon.Jul 11, 2022

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California to manufacture its own insulin, Newsom says

Health Care Dive

Saying the medicine’s high cost “epitomizes market failures,” California’s governor announced a $100 million budget to create a production facility and develop affordable insulin products.

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Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health

Healthcare It News

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience. Paddy Padmanabhan Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health. Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience.

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Transforming virtual care to virtual-first care beyond the pandemic

Health Care Dive

The rapid expansion of virtual-first healthcare is dramatically reshaping how care is accessed and delivered.

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Getting Started With Google Analytics 4 for Healthcare Brands

Healthcare Success

Google Analytics is an extremely powerful tool for healthcare businesses. According to BuiltWith, more than 28 million websites use Google Analytics to better understand how users engage with their web properties—including more than 66% of the top 100,000 websites worldwide. The development and subsequent launch of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) in October 2020 was spurred by a 2018 ruling of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , the strictest data privacy and security law in the world.

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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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1 in 5 Americans report still receiving surprise medical bills after federal ban

Health Care Dive

A Morning Consult survey highlights weakness in the surprise billing law, which does not protect consumers from balance bills related to labs and blood work in all instances.

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How AI and NLP can boost care via remote patient monitoring

Healthcare It News

Shannon Hastings is the chief technology officer at Project Ronin, where he helps to lead the organization in delivering systems to help cancer patients and clinicians, including remote patient monitoring for cancer patients. Ronin uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and electronic health records in its work to manage cancer patients.

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Critical digital systems yet to be implemented across Australia's residential aged care sector: survey

Healthcare It News

The Aged Care Technology Consortium in Australia has noted the dearth of critical digital system implementations across the residential aged care sector in a recent nationwide survey. FINDINGS. The survey, which was conducted in June, gathered responses mostly from facility managers (37%), followed by nursing directors (20%), CEOs (13%) and care managers (7%).

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House oversight committee launches investigation into reproductive health data collection

Health Care Dive

The committee sent letters to five data broker companies and five personal health apps requesting information on how they store and share user data.

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States Prepare for Launch of 988 Mental Health Crisis Line

NASHP

States Prepare for Launch of 988 Mental Health Crisis Line July 11, 2022 / by Jodi Manz. Beginning July 16, the telephone number to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, an existing hotline composed of a network of call centers, will shift to 9-8-8 across states. In accordance with the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act signed in 2020, this three-digit number will be adopted universally and will connect individuals to call centers staffed by trained crisis workers or volunteers.

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CVS names executive to new chief data, tech officer role

Health Care Dive

Tilak Mandadi will be responsible for the healthcare giant’s digital and tech strategy, along with overseeing company growth through digital and consumer-focused services.

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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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GE Healthcare Launches First 5G Innovation Lab for Remote Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GE Healthcare , a leading global medical technology, diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, inaugurated its 5G Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, the first for GE Healthcare across the globe. – With the advantage of massive bandwidth, high data speeds, low latency, and highly reliable connectivity, 5G has the potential to disrupt the patient care continuum, transforming diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis. 5G Enabled Precision Healthcare.

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Change for the Medical Malpractice Compensation System in England?

Bill Of Health

By John Tingle. It is fair to say that the British public are generally speaking very proud of our National Health Service in England, and treasure it greatly. The NHS Constitution sets out the seven key principles which guide the NHS in all its activities, and these include: The NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all. Access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not an individual’s ability to pay.

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5 Public Health Challenges to Watch in the Post-Pandemic Era

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). – This survey of 301 public health officials found that while slightly more than one in two (52%) are optimistic about what data can achieve for their communities, the rate of digital transformation remains uneven, and organizations face significant barriers to change.

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Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Post-acute care (PAC) represents an important component of the health care delivery system in the United States, with the Medicare fee-for-service program spending more than $57 billion on these services in 2019 (The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), 2021a). PAC providers include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), and home health agenc

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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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Moving Analytics Nabs $20M for Virtual & Remote Cardiac Rehab Program

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Moving Analytics , an Irvine, CA-based telehealth provider of cardiovascular prevention programs raises $20M in Series A funding led by Wellington Access Ventures and Seae Ventures with participation from Philips Ventures , SteelSky Ventures , Aphelion Capital (American Heart Association’s official VC fund), Nueterra Capital , and Citi Ventures.

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Looming Provider Choice Home Care Regulations ‘Slap in Face’ to Smaller Providers

Home Health Care

A new proposal in Pennsylvania that would create “unnecessary” duplication for how disabled patients choose their home care providers and receive care is causing some angst in the Keystone state. The proposal not only affects providers in Pennsylvania, but could also force patients to rely on out-of-state agencies to provide replacement care if a patient’s caregiver is sick or unavailable.

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Tebra Raises $72M to Help Independent Practices Thrive

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Tebra , the digital backbone for independent healthcare practices, announced that it has closed more than $72M in funding at a valuation greater than $1B. – This capital infusion will accelerate Tebra’s merger plans including expanding market share, developing and launching the combined product line and advancing the new branding for the company.

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Optum, Red Ventures Reportedly Forming Consumer Health JV

Home Health Care

In an under-the-radar move, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has been combining Optum Health assets with Red Ventures’ health care portfolio to create a new consumer health joint venture (JV) dubbed “RVO Health.”. That’s according to a Monday report from Axios. The ownership “structure” of the JV is not clear, according to the report. All that is clear is Red Ventures received cash proceeds in exchange for contributed assets, which were, in turn, used to pay down a term loan.

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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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Making Fitness Easier: 5 Tips for Starting a Fitness Journey

Healthcare Highways

According to the CDC, only 53.3% of adults in the U.S. meet the aerobic physical activity recommendation and only 23.2% meet both the aerobic and muscle-strengthening recommendations.

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Signify Health Exits CMS’ BPCI-A Program, Turns Attention to Home-Focused Segment

Home Health Care

In order to capitalize off its growth, Signify Health Inc. (NYSE: SGFY) will be shifting its focus to its home and community services business, the company announced last week. It also plans to wind down its episodes of care services segment, and turn attention to its recent Caravan Health acquisition. “Our [home and community services] segment is experiencing tremendous growth as our health plan clients have prioritized access to the home as part of their focus on closing clinical, behavioral,

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Demystifying SARS-CoV-2 Testing for COVID-19 (Fourth Edition – The Long-Term Dx Industry Impact)

Health Advances

Click here to download the full presentation. Summary. As we enter the endemic phase of COVID-19, we wanted to share our final edition of Demystifying COVID-19 Testing. In this edition, we provide an update on testing dynamics and share our assessment of the impact on the industry and our predictions for the future. Please join us during AACC, to further discuss the pandemic’s long-term implications.

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NASHP Launches a New Public Health Modernization Project

NASHP

NASHP Launches a New Public Health Modernization Project: Key Priorities and Opportunities for Building Linkages Between Public Health and the Healthcare System July 11, 2022. As policymakers begin to look beyond the immediate COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the pandemic continues to pose unprecedented challenges to both public health and the broader healthcare system.

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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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Morning Headlines 7/12/22

HIStalk

Memorial Hermann Health System Invests in EnableComp, an Industry-Leading Specialty.

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Immunization Schedules for the Whole Family

Healthcare Highways

Unlike most medicines, which are designed to treat or cure disease, immunizations were created to prevent and decrease the threat posed by diseases.

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Leadership Health Care Announces2022–2023 Board of Directors

Healthcare Council

Leadership Health Care (LHC), an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council, announces the appointment of its 2022-2023 board of directors, effective as of July 1, 2022. Drake Jarman, SVP growth and development, Contessa, has been named board chairman, and Michaela Poizner, partner, Baker Donelson, will serve as board vice chairman. “As we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Leadership.

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What is Autism Acceptance?

Healthcare Highways

Approximately 1 in 44 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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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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National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call – July 13, 2022 @ 3pm (ET)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Please join the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wed, July 13, 2022 at 3:00pm ET for a National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call. Long-term care providers, facility staff and resident advocates are encouraged to attend.

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Group B Strep: Explained

Healthcare Highways

According to the CDC , about 1 in 4 pregnant women are carriers of group B strep (GBS).

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 7/11/22

HIStalk

I missed the initial announcement last month, but the US.

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The Harmful Effects of UV Rays, and What You Can do About it

Healthcare Highways

Nearly 90% of skin melanomas are caused by excess UV exposure.

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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.