Wed.Feb 08, 2023

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Top healthcare trends of 2023

Health Care Dive

Providers and payers are still grappling with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the winding down of pandemic-era policies, which will have major effects on hospitals and insurers.

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DOJ collected nearly $2B in health fraud False Claims Act cases in fiscal year 2022

Fierce Healthcare

DOJ collected nearly $2B in health fraud False Claims Act cases in fiscal year 2022 rking Wed, 02/08/2023 - 16:01

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Biden zeroes in on drug costs during State of the Union address

Health Care Dive

The president called for extending Medicare's $35 insulin price cap to all Americans and blasted “big pharma” for record profits while at the same time “unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars.

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Singapore General Hospital shifts to gamified VR nurse training

Healthcare It News

The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology. A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions developer Microtube Technologies, developed an immersive gamified training module called IV NIMBLE (Nursing Innovation in Mobility-based Learning) to enhance nurses' training.

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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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Cigna restricts coverage of new ALS drug, deepening fears about access

Health Care Dive

The health insurer’s national formulary considers Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ Relyvrio to be "experimental, investigational or unproven for any use,” and now does not recommend covering it.

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Merchandising healthcare access: adopting e-commerce techniques

Healthcare It News

As the consumerization of healthcare continues to take shape, the next frontier of healthcare access may well be merchandising healthcare inventory, contended Derek Streat, cofounder and CEO of DexCare, a digital transformation platform vendor. By combining healthcare and e-commerce technologies and strategies, healthcare provider organizations can dramatically improve digital discovery of, and access to, care for patients, he said.

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With Oak Street Health deal, CVS pushes healthcare ambitions as investment in value-based care heats up

Fierce Healthcare

With Oak Street Health deal, CVS pushes healthcare ambitions as investment in value-based care heats up hlandi Wed, 02/08/2023 - 18:03

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CVS buys Oak Street Health for $10.6B

Health Care Dive

The acquisition is a major development in the strategic positioning of large retailers in the primary care space, analysts said.

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Humana, ChenMed continue an established partnership by announcing five-year network agreement

Fierce Healthcare

Humana, ChenMed continue an established partnership by announcing five-year network agreement aburky Wed, 02/08/2023 - 17:29

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Hands-on cardiac education pays dividends for patients and others, says Abiomed

Healthcare It News

At a Heart Recovery Advocate Day held on February 3 at Abiomed's Danvers, Massachusetts, headquarters, patients shared their stories of heart recovery, toured the facility, participated in lab demonstrations and had the opportunity to meet the operators who made their left ventricular assist devices, right ventricular assist devices and lung-assist devices.

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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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Femtech startup Evvy launches new platform to fill gender research gap, provide precision health for women

Fierce Healthcare

Femtech startup Evvy launches new platform to fill gender research gap, provide precision health for women aburky Wed, 02/08/2023 - 12:42

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How AI-driven patient scheduling can improve health equity

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Do masks really protect against COVID-19? Meta-analysis authors want to see more evidence

Fierce Healthcare

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Centene set to lose 2M Medicaid members as pandemic protections end

Health Care Dive

The insurer said it expects to add some members who are no longer eligible for Medicaid to its ACA exchange plans.

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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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Chartis Group: Rural hospital closures expected to pick up as relief dollars go away

Fierce Healthcare

Chartis Group: Rural hospital closures expected to pick up as relief dollars go away rking Wed, 02/08/2023 - 14:06

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What Fruits Are Good for Diabetes?

Healthcare Associates

What Fruits Are Good for Diabetes? Whether you’ve recently been diagnosed with diabetes or you’ve been managing it for years, you may have questions about your diet. Deciding what to eat each day is critical to managing your health, but knowing how different foods affect your blood sugar can be complicated. You don’t have to cut out all sweet foods, however.

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Employers expect more from their health and well-being vendors, says WTW survey

Fierce Healthcare

Employers expect more from their health and well-being vendors, says WTW survey fdiamond Wed, 02/08/2023 - 13:45

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Faro Health Secures $20M to Streamline Smart Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Faro Health , a cloud-computing company that is developing digital infrastructure for smart clinical trials raises $20M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst to help scale the digital transformation of clinical trials––essentially making it easier and quicker for drug developers to greatly reduce the cost and time of trials. – The round also included participation from previous investors Section 32 , Polaris Partners , Zetta Ventures , and Northpond Vent

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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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UnitedHealthcare rolls out new member reward program with focus on wellness

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare rolls out new member reward program with focus on wellness pminemyer Wed, 02/08/2023 - 11:43

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Southern Illinois Healthcare Selects Xealth to Digitally Engage Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) announced that it’s using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to automate digital programs, starting with smoking cessation. SIH plans to add additional digital health programs to deliver operational efficiencies while enhancing the patient experience. – The Xealth digital health platform is designed to help clinicians integrate, prescribe and monitor digital health tools for patients from one location within

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Seeing Is Knowing: Human-centered Design in Data Visualization

Fierce Healthcare

Seeing Is Knowing: Human-centered Design in Data Visualization mteefey Wed, 02/08/2023 - 14:21

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Blood Sugar Monitoring Devices Pose Wearability & Use Problems for Older Diabetic Adults & Caregivers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In an initial trial of continuous glucometer use, faulty device adhesive — a serious wearability challenge — and patient difficulty in interpreting graphs produced by the device, were noted. In a subsequent trial, 70 older adults with diabetes wore glucometers and activity monitors and used smartphones and electronic medication bottles to track and manage blood sugar over a two-week period. – Among these 70 patients, two-thirds of whom were African

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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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CVS reports double-digit revenue growth in 2022, $4.1B in profit

Fierce Healthcare

CVS reports double-digit revenue growth in 2022, $4.

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How Specific Recruitment Strategies Lead To Better Retention In Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

In order to consistently recruit caregivers to home-based care, providers and human resource departments need to better understand what workers want and what they are struggling with. That was one of the many takeaways from a study conducted by MissionCare Collective and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), which focused on current caregiver challenges and opportunities.

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CVS finally makes primary care play, scooping up Oak Street Health in $10.6B deal

Fierce Healthcare

CVS finally makes primary care play, scooping up Oak Street Health in $10.

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CVS Health’s $10B Oak Street Health Acquisition, From A Home-Based Care Perspective

Home Health Care

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced Wednesday that it has agreed to purchase Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH) for $10.6 billion. The companies expect for the transaction to close sometime this year. While Oak Street Health is a primary care provider, it does do work in the home. But, more broadly, CVS Health’s move to acquire the company sheds further light on a core and recent trend in health care: large retailers and payers going after two capabilities – primary care and at-home care.

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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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ICYMI: HIPAA and Social Media IRL

Sheppard Health Law

Social media’s interplay with healthcare privacy presents a constantly evolving challenge. ICYMI (“in case you missed it”), there is an uptick in enforcement and scrutiny IRL (“in real life”) related to communications through social media and other public platforms by entities subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”).

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Health Recovery Solutions Recognized Fourth Consecutive Year for Best in KLAS RPM Category

Health Recovery

HRS wins 2023 Best in KLAS, an award that celebrates technology partner collaborations that reduce healthcare costs and inefficiencies and improve the patient experience, in Remote Care Delivery

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HITMC23 urges industry to “Be Remarkably Human”

Meditech

No matter the role you play in healthcare IT, there was much wisdom to be gained at the 2023 Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference (HITMC). Celebrating ten years since its founding, creator John Lynn set the event’s tone by pushing attendees to connect on a more personal level.

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New Bill Looks To Combat Home Health Worker Shortages Via Public-Private Partnership

Home Health Care

In a move to address the shortage of health care professionals, a new House bill — the Kentucky Healthcare Workforce Development Act — has been introduced in the state. Broadly, the legislation aims to combat workforce shortages by building a public-private partnership that will increase workforce training and education initiatives. “This bill kickstarts career paths for Kentuckians that are interested in a health care career,” the principal draftsman of the bill told Home Health Care News.

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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.