Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Workforce As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts. Paddy Padmanabhan Back in 2020, in the immediate wake of the pandemic, we were celebrating the coming of age of digital health – the 25X to 50X increase in telehealth visits, the explosion in VC funding for digital health s

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Health Care Dive

MAY 20, 2022

The law includes penalties of up to $10,000 per day for hospitals failing to follow requirements and not taking corrective action, though Gov. Jared Polis asked the state health department to go easy on small, rural hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

For some health interactions and interventions, health systems deliver care fueled by real-time, real-world data captured through digital health technology. New research being done by the National Institutes of Health centered on precision nutrition is a recent example of how innovations in health IT are driving the way research translates into patient care.

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p3care

MAY 20, 2022

Each performance category accounts for a particular percentage of the overall score, which determines how much payment adjustment a clinician will receive for the following MIPS year’s performance. The rules and regulations relating to each category also change or are updated every year. So today, we will be discussing the MIPS Quality Measures linked to Allergy and Immunology.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Digital health company Get Well has partnered with Health Journeys, a publisher of guided imagery and meditation audios, to offer its programs to Get Well's clients, with a special focus on veterans. Health Journeys targets specific behavioral health challenges that military service members face, including anxiety, sleep deprivation, burnout, chronic pain, depression, anger, PTSD, grief, addiction, traumatic brain injury and injury rehabilitation.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 20, 2022

Rhode Island's largest health system tapped an interim leader as it searches for a permanent successor to Timothy Babineau, who is stepping down at the end of this month.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending May 8, 2022. Comparing the May 8 th data to the previous May 1 st data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate again remained the same as the 2 previous weeks Residents with booster doses increased by 0.2% again this past week Staff vaccination rate increased 0.1% from the previous week Staff with booster doses increased by 0.4% this past week An additional

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NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

North Dakota Supports Caregivers to Serve Rural Populations May 20, 2022 / by Luke Pluta-Ehlers. States are experiencing direct care workforce shortages that are especially pronounced in rural areas. Responding to these challenges, states are increasingly supporting family caregivers to help older adults receive care at home. North Dakota has championed this approach for decades through their longstanding Service Payments for Elderly and Disabled (SPED) program, which provides payments and suppo

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HIT Consultant

MAY 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Tempus , an $8B precision medicine company, announced the launch of a new psychiatric real-world data program to leverage real-world data to inform mental health treatment. . – Tempus N+ is a collaboration between provider institutions across the country and Tempus to build an infrastructure for data-driven research – providers can seamlessly and securely contribute molecular and clinical data, and in turn, their clinicians and researchers can access a collect

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The Rand Blog

MAY 20, 2022

In his inaugural address in 1998, former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung defined three principles for Korean peninsula peace and security. How might these principles be adjusted to manage today's changing North Korean threats and the Korean security environment?

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HIT Consultant

MAY 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Polygon Networks , a leading blockchain and scaling solution, announced a partnership with Tokenology and MSP Recovery to deliver LifeChain – a new healthcare claims platform. – LifeChain will leverage blockchain technology to solve healthcare’s biggest problems, including fraud, inefficiency in payments and antiquated processes.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 20, 2022

This weekly recap focuses on the internet's role in stoking extremism and hate, how Russia has failed its military personnel, a research roadmap to help prevent police killings in the United States, and more.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MAY 20, 2022

Last month, ICER updated their protocol for identifying drugs that have unsupported price increases (UPI). Not only is ICER examining rising drug prices, but California and Vermont now have laws tracking substantial drug price increases , requiring drug manufacturers to submit information that might justify increases above a certain threshold. ICER says that the UPI reports are not intended to determine whether a price increase for a drug is fully justified by new clinical evidence or meets an I

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The Rand Blog

MAY 20, 2022

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is forcing European nations to quickly re-evaluate how best to maintain their collective security. This makes the concept of European strategic autonomy—the EU's increased ability to operate independently and with partners of choice on defence and security matters—more relevant than ever.

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NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

Family Caregiver Services and Supports Section 3a of the RAISE Act State Policy Roadmap for Family Caregivers. This section of the RAISE Act State Policy Roadmap focuses on state opportunities to support services for families caring for older adults and adults with disabilities. Family caregivers are the major providers of long-term services and supports (LTSS), with an estimated economic value of unpaid contributions totaling approximately $470 billion in 2017.

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Vie Healthcare

MAY 20, 2022

The big win of data discipline: the integration of good business intelligence and analytical support to develop and deliver automated reports that are delivered proactively. In Episode 45 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by Phil Kucharzyk, System Director of Contracting at Bronson Health, to discuss effective contract management strategies for cost savings.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 20, 2022

Several hospital telehealth vendors enjoyed great success in 2020 as they benefitted from unprecedented demand for their IT and services during the pandemic. But as lockdown restrictions were lifted and the strain on hospitals’ in-house capacity across the ICU and other acute care wards eased into the second half of 2021, were the vendors able to maintain their growth?

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Here’s another infection that you may have heard about this week in the media. I’ve been aware of this virus for a few years now on an international basis, but this is a first for the virus being present here in the U.S., much less outside of Africa (the same was said a few years ago about Ebola in the U.S.).

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2022

A couple retiring in 2022 should budget $315,000 to cover their health care costs in retirement, based on the 21st annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate from Fidelity Investments. For context, note that the median sales price of a home in the U.S. in March 2022 was $436,700. It’s important to understand what the $315,000 for “health care costs” in retirement does not cover, explained in Fidelity’s footnoted methodology: the assumption is that the hypothetical opposite-

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HIT Consultant

MAY 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Olive , the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today announced its partnership with Magenta Care Continuum, a HIPAA-compliant health records vault that includes care gap analytics. – Through the Olive Library , payers and providers can access Magenta’s solutions to help close care gaps, improve billing and claims occurrence and ensure compliance and revenue integrity for value-based population management.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CDC updated the Recommendations for People with COVID-19 and COVID-19 Close Contacts infographic and landing page on May 18, 2022. Both infographs are available in Spanish as well.

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