Mon.Aug 08, 2022

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Physician practices seek more time to comply with No Surprises rules

Health Care Dive

The Medical Group Management Association asked the HHS and the CMS to delay enforcement of parts of the statute until six months after any final rule is published.

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Multi-channel clinical trial recruitment technology checklist

Healthcare It News

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Five types of entrepreneurship: meaning and defining characteristics

Health Care Dive

Entrepreneurs have a unique set of characteristics – which do you bring to the medical field?

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6 actions payers can take to prepare for the No Surprises Act

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: RingCentral Primary topic: Compliance & Legal Topic: Compliance & Legal Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: RingCentral.

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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 posts net loss for second straight quarter

Health Care Dive

Second quarter revenues failed to keep pace with rising costs at the Sacramento, California-based healthcare system.

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Telehealth Utilization Grew 10.2% Nationally in May 2022

HIT Consultant

FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, May 2022, United States. What You Should Know: – In May 2022, for the second straight month, telehealth utilization, as measured by telehealth’s share of all medical claim lines, grew nationally and in every US census region (Midwest, Northeast, South, West), according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. – FAIR Health reports national telehealth utilization increased 10.2 percent, from 4.9 percent of medic

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CVS Health in Talks to Acquire Signify Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Signify Health is exploring strategic alternatives including a sale , according to a Wall Street Journal report. Initial bids are due this coming week. Additional companies are also in acquisition discussions with Signfiy Health, and CVS could face competition from other managed-care providers and private-equity firms. – The potential Signify acquisition has a market value of around $4.7 B after its shares rose on the news of a potential sale.

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Transactions: Care Advantage Acquires National Home Healthcare; SCAN Group Acquires SafeRide Health

Home Health Care

The Richmond, Virginia-based Care Advantage has acquired National Home Healthcare, which is based in Herndon, Virginia. National Home Healthcare marks the 16th acquisition Care Advantage has made since 2018. It’s the fourth skilled care company under the company’s umbrella, joining All About Care, Paradise Home Care and Virginia Home Health and Hospice. .

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Sibel Health Raises $33M for Advanced Wearable Sensors for RPM

HIT Consultant

Sibel Health has developed an advanced wearable monitoring solution that enables care in the hospital and the home. What You Should Know: – Sibel Health has recently closed a $33M Series B financing round, bringing Sibel’s total funding to date to more than $50M. – In addition, Sibel has announced two new executive appointments. Jon Otterstatter, the former CEO and co-founder of Preventice (acquired by Boston Scientific in 2021), will join as chairman of the board.

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The SCAN Group Expands In Southwest, Open To Expanding Further Across Country

Home Health Care

The SCAN Group is continuing its reach into the American Southwest, with plans of expanding into Texas and further in Nevada. The Long Beach, California-based SCAN Health Plan – a part of the overarching SCAN Group and a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan – will start offering services in Texas starting in 2023. SCAN also plans to expand further into Nevada, broadening the company’s reach to nearly seven million potential customers across 20 markets in five states.

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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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Need For Speed In Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership

Blog post by Joe Babaian. “How did it get so late so soon?”. ? Dr. Seuss. Who doesn’t want it now? We live in the now; technology gives us the feeling, and often the reality, that everything is a click away – even health and wellness. The current state of “now” medicine is changing almost daily with telemedicine roaring to the forefront, urgent-care clinics and ERs promising to treat you immediately and get you on the road again, cancer centers creating satellite facilities down the street, Ly

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CVS Health Among Potential Buyers For Signify Health

Home Health Care

Yet another massive retailer is inching closer to buying a company that is focused on the home as a setting of care. CVS Health Corp. (NYSE: CVS) plans to make a bid on Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY), according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Both companies have been in the news spotlight of late. CVS Health has been overt about its efforts to reach further into the home; it has been targeting traditional home health agencies, and it was reportedly interested in primary care provider

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GHX Launches Lumere Consulting Services for Clinically Integrated Supply Chain

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GHX Lumere announced the launch of its consulting service to support healthcare providers that want to optimize savings and reduce clinical variation. – This premium service combines clinical expertise, data, evidence and technology to help hospitals and health systems improve supply chain performance. Lumere Consulting Services Offering.

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July Roundup 2022

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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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Velatura Services Selected for Amazon Web Services Health Equity Initiative

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Velatura Services (Velatura) today announced that it has been selected as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative , a $40M, three-year commitment supporting organizations that are developing solutions to advance health equity. – Participation in the initiative will enhance Velatura’s efforts to provide essential data management infrastructure, advance data exchange, improve well-being, and reduce disparities.

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 8/8/22

HIStalk

In my work with large health systems, some of the.

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Geisinger's telemedicine program shoots from 20 specialties to more than 70

Healthcare It News

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. THE PROBLEM. Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need.

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Morning Headlines 8/9/22

HIStalk

Netsmart Announces the Skilled Nursing Industry’s Only Data Analytics Solution.

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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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Digital Front Doors Create Personalized Patient Experience

HIT Consultant

Aan Chauhan, Chief Technology Officer, Mindtree. Heightened patient expectations are changing the way healthcare services are delivered, from the way patients receive care to the way they pay for services and manage their conditions. A need for greater patient-centricity is changing the way payers, providers, and healthcare services organizations do business.

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Content Marketing for Doctors: How to Create Content They Want & Need

Healthcare Success

Welcome to part three of our “Marketing to Doctors” blog series. This series is a comprehensive playbook for healthcare businesses, device and supply companies, SaaS, or anyone who wants to market their products and services directly to doctors (physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals). As mentioned, marketing to doctors can be extremely challenging, complicated, and expensive.

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CMS moves toward guidance on health equity, climate change

Health Care Dive

The CMS published the feedback as the federal government and the Biden administration ramp up oversight of social issues.

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Would supply-side policies reduce regional variation in drug spending?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Based on one study from Sweden, the answer is ‘no’ A paper by Johansson and Svensson (2022) use data from Sweden on regional variation in drug spending. First, some background on the Swedish approach for prescription drugs spending. The Swedish national health service offers universal coverage for all residents. The system is decentralized in 21 regions with responsibility to finance and provide health care.

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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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Statute of Limitations for PPP and EIDL Fraud Extended to Ten Years

Sheppard Health Law

On August 5, President Biden signed two bills into law that extend to ten years the statute of limitations for civil and criminal enforcement actions for fraud on the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (“EIDL”). These two bills—the PPP and Bank Fraud Enforcement Harmonization Act of 2022 and the COVID-19 EIDL Fraud Statute of Limitations Act of 2022—were both passed by Congress with bipartisan support. .

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Senate passes bill extending ACA subsidies, adding Medicare price negotiations

Health Care Dive

The Inflation Reduction Act looked dead just weeks ago until Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced late last month that he had successfully negotiated with Democrats to pass it.

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How a National Emergency Can Bring the Monkeypox Outbreak Under Control

Bill Of Health

By James G. Hodge, Jr., J.D., LL.M. and Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D. Monkeypox is America’s newest emergency—and not a moment too soon. On August 4, 2022, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra declared monkeypox a national public health emergency (PHE). His declaration was proceeded by the global designation via the World Health Organization on July 23, and emergency pronouncements by multiple states (California, Illinois, New York) and cities (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco

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Americans Rationing Healthcare in the Inflationary Era; Out-of-Pocket Expenses Are the Concern

Health Populi

Nearly 100 million people in the U.S. cut back on healthcare due to costs in the first half of 2022, according to the latest poll on health care costs form Gallup and West Health , gauging Americans’ financial health in June 2022. That’s the month when inflation in the U.S. reached 9.1%, a 40-year high. Among Americans’ cuts to household spending was the most common medical self-rationing behavior, delaying or avoiding care or purchasing prescription drugs, the survey found.

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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.