Mon.Mar 06, 2023

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Transcarent to acquire majority of telehealth platform 98point6 for $100M

Health Care Dive

Transcarent will get 98point6’s self-insured employer business, affiliated physician group and a software license. Meanwhile, 98point6 will rebrand as 98point6 Technologies and focus on licensing its software to third-party providers.

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How providers like UAB, Parkland Hospital are supporting at-risk mothers using a device already in their pockets

Fierce Healthcare

How providers like UAB, Parkland Hospital are supporting at-risk mothers using a device already in their pockets aburky Mon, 03/06/2023 - 12:22

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Better crisis communications: 5 steps for better patient, staff engagement

Health Care Dive

Whether trying to convey routine information or respond to once-in-a-blue-moon crises, hospital leaders can turn critical communications into trust and engagement builders.

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Hospital-at-home steps out of the COVID-era through new Atrium Health, Best Buy partnership

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital-at-home steps out of the COVID-era through new Atrium Health, Best Buy partnership aburky Mon, 03/06/2023 - 17:17

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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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Revolutionizing healthcare: 4 ways tablets are transforming patient care

Health Care Dive

From virtual patient observation to video remote interpreting, discover the game-changing ways tablets are transforming patient care in the healthcare industry's digital revolution.

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Hospitals hope new Congress doesn't bring new DSH cuts to safety-net hospitals

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals hope new Congress doesn't bring new DSH cuts to safety-net hospitals rking Mon, 03/06/2023 - 15:48

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Lower margins, softer liquidity sets the stage for hospital dealmaking in 2023

Fierce Healthcare

Lower margins, softer liquidity sets the stage for hospital dealmaking in 2023 dmuoio Mon, 03/06/2023 - 13:56

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Guide to PPC Landing Page Optimization

Healthcare Success

Your paid search landing page is a stand-alone web page typically separate from your website. It’s the first page visitors see after clicking your paid search ad, making it solely responsible for high-quality lead conversions and performance. Getting it right is essential. The effectiveness of its design, message, page load speed, lead capture form, and several other factors are critical to its success.

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Transcarent to acquire part of AI-powered primary care startup 98point6

Fierce Healthcare

Transcarent to acquire part of AI-powered primary care startup 98point6 pminemyer Mon, 03/06/2023 - 10:55

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Putin Could Escalate with Nuclear Testing

The Rand Blog

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put the world on notice that Russia might resume nuclear explosive testing. He may see this as bolstering his scare tactics over Ukraine by signaling a possible willingness to use nuclear weapons. While testing could also help Russia improve its nuclear arms, politics rather than technology are likely to drive any decision to test.

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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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Bacterial co-infections cause twofold increase in mortality in COVID patients: study

Fierce Healthcare

Bacterial co-infections cause twofold increase in mortality in COVID patients: study fdiamond Mon, 03/06/2023 - 08:43

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Cisco @ OFC – Bold Innovations to Power Your Future-Ready Network

CiscoHealth

Capacity, bandwidth, open, convergence, automation, simplification, sustainability – the industry buzzwords that reign in today’s optical networking ethos.

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Spring Health taps leading psychiatrist as chief medical officer as mental health company eyes next phase of growth

Fierce Healthcare

Spring Health taps leading psychiatrist as chief medical officer as mental health company eyes next phase of growth hlandi Mon, 03/06/2023 - 06:19

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Transcarent Acquires 98point6 AI-Powered Virtual Care Platform and Care Business

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Transcarent , a health and care experience company that makes it easy for people to access high-quality, affordable care announced it will acquire AI-powered virtual care platform and care business of on-demand primary care company, 98point6. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed; however, insiders expect the deal to be valued at $100M. – As part of the acquisition, hundreds of 98point6 enterprise customers including Boeing, Kindercare and Ba

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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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Moody's: Insurers should expect slower earnings growth this year

Fierce Healthcare

Moody's: Insurers should expect slower earnings growth this year pminemyer Mon, 03/06/2023 - 15:20

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5 Tips to Retain Patients & Enhance the Patient Experience

Medbridge Education

For many hospital and private practice organizations across the U.S., patient dropoff is a continuous challenge, leading to poor outcomes, low patient satisfaction, and lost revenue. Organizations are turning to digital patient care to enhance the experience, improve accessibility, engage patients, and give them what they want: Roughly 4 in 5 patients want to use […] The post 5 Tips to Retain Patients & Enhance the Patient Experience appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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Why Home Health Providers Could Become Primary Drivers Of Hospital At Home

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership One of the most intriguing story lines in home-based care over the next year will be whether home health providers can successfully make themselves an integral part of hospital-at-home care in the U.S. When hospital at home first began to increase in prevalence in 2020 due to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, home health providers were generally not involved in programs at all.

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Invest in Your Future With Free Cisco Certification Training on Cisco U.

CiscoHealth

Before I found my way into tech, I worked in completely different fields, like healthcare and the nonprofit space.

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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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Cardinal Health, Signify Health Get Together For At-Home Care Collaboration

Home Health Care

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) has teamed up with Signify Health (NYSE:SGFY) to offer in-home clinical and medication management services. Recognizing that members don’t always take their medications as prescribed, the aim is to lower costs and address care gaps for over 2.3 million health plan members through the partnership. “Adding an in-home channel to our engagement model enhances the patient experience, and also boosts our ability to meet those health plans’ CMR goals,” Fran Gregory, vice pres

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What is a Tukey outlier?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Previously, CMS implemented a Tukey outlier deletion method when calculating Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans (PDP) star rating. A Final Rule implemented in 2022, however, removed the use of Tukey outlier deletion from quality measures. Based on 2020 historical data, 17% of MA plans would have lower star ratings as compared to only 1% would have higher star ratings after removing the Tukey outlier deletion.

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ACI Segmentation and Migrations made easier with Endpoint Security Groups (ESG)

CiscoHealth

Let’s open with a question: “How are you handling security and segmentation requirements in your Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric?

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Key Leadership Competencies: Connection

Medi Leadership

It is impossible to overstate the importance of connection in healthcare. Whether you think of connection in literal terms like a heart electrode connected to a patient, or the interaction of the healthcare team as they work together to serve patients and their families, connection is critically important. Connection links together people, information and functions in a way which integrates the contribution of those elements to accomplish a shared goal.

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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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Six States Selected to Participate in Aging Policy Academy

NASHP

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), in partnership with West Health and the Milbank Memorial Fund , has selected six states to participate in its Aging Policy Academy: Arizona Indiana Louisiana Montana New Jersey Ohio The Academy aims to assist states with accelerating measurable progress on policies that will address the needs of older adults, while optimizing state spending and capacity.

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How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

Most consumers are bullish on the benefits that digital health technologies can play in their health. Most health care practitioners are also positive about the potential of digital health — recognizing room for improvement for better data integration, interoperability, and the opportunity to bridge gaps to achieve health equity and bolster access.

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 3/6/23

HIStalk

Jayne Goes to ATA I have arrived at the American.

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State Medicaid Strategies to Support Postpartum Health with Contraceptive Care

NASHP

States are using a variety of strategies to improve access to postpartum contraceptive care, including coverage, payment, and quality levers to increase access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). Access to effective contraception soon after having a baby can help avoid unintended or mistimed pregnancies, which may put a person’s health, and that of a subsequent pregnancy, at risk.

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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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That’s Criminal: The Choices Fertility Specialists May Have to Make

Bill Of Health

By Gerard Letterie Fertility care operates in a delicate emotional space that demands complete trust across the consult table. Trust that decisions will be made with the patient’s best interests. Trust that guidance will be offered exclusive of any other competing influence, be it financial, personal, or convenience. In a post- Dobbs setting, new, restrictive laws may disrupt this delicate equilibrium.

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Rational Inattention

Healthcare ECONOMIST

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it Herbert A.

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Key Leadership Competencies: Connection

Medi Leadership

It is impossible to overstate the importance of connection in healthcare. Whether you think of connection in literal terms like a heart electrode connected to a patient, or the interaction of the healthcare team as they work together to serve patients and their families, connection is critically important. Connection links together people, information and functions in a way which integrates the contribution of those elements to accomplish a shared goal.

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5 Tips to Retain Patients & Enhance the Patient Experience

Medbridge Education

For many hospital and private practice organizations across the U.S., patient dropoff is a continuous challenge, leading to poor outcomes, low patient satisfaction, and lost revenue. Organizations are turning to digital patient care to enhance the experience, improve accessibility, engage patients, and give them what they want: Roughly 4 in 5 patients want to use […] The post 5 Tips to Retain Patients & Enhance the Patient Experience appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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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.