Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Digital therapeutics, or Digital Health Applications (DiGA), are apps for the detection, monitoring, treatment, or alleviation of medical conditions. The DiGA initiative is part of the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) that sets the legal framework for doctors to prescribe DiGAs to the 73 million citizens insured with a statutory health insurer that reimburses their use, and has been recognised as a pioneering approach globally.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Federal judge halts CMS' COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in 10 rural states. dmuoio. Mon, 11/29/2021 - 15:30.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

City of Hope, based near Los Angeles, is a research and treatment organization for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. Part of that strategic direction was working with technology companies to ensure that City of Hope leveraged telehealth in a high-quality, patient-centric way while easing the burden of travel times for patients undergoing treatment.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Several companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, are already at work adapting their coronavirus shots to the newly identified variant, which experts worry could more readily evade vaccine protection.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Business Group: 6 health and wellness trends to watch in 2022. pminemyer. Mon, 11/29/2021 - 12:17.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Though patients returning to medical care delayed earlier in the pandemic helped its provider division, UPMC's health plan margin shrank due to higher medical claims in the period.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Testing manufacturers such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, Qiagen and Lucira Health claim their tests are not impacted by the new strain, which has been designated a "variant of concern" by the World Health Organization.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Hims & Hers partners with Uber Eats to deliver its health and wellness products. rtorrence. Mon, 11/29/2021 - 12:35.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Banner Health's finances are back in the black, though labor costs continue to challenge the Arizona-based system.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Biden dismisses need for more lockdowns as new COVID-19 variant sparks travel restrictions. rking. Mon, 11/29/2021 - 13:22.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

New market research finds that while digital strategies are widespread in healthcare, execution challenges persist.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Best Buy shelled out $400M for Current Health as it ramps up health strategy. hlandi. Mon, 11/29/2021 - 12:59.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For the majority of seniors living alone, recovering from an acute illness at home is preferable to doing so in a long-term care facility. That’s according to a recent study by researchers at UC San Francisco. The study examined data from 4,772 adults who were part of the Health and Retirement Study, which tracked health changes in those transitioning from working to retirement.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

UnitedHealth Group expects at least $317B in revenue for 2022. pminemyer. Mon, 11/29/2021 - 16:55.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Top Hospital Connectivity Trends for 2022. admin. Mon, 11/29/2021 - 09:51.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Home care has become a crucial part of care plans for primary care providers (PCPs), according to a new value-based care report conducted by Humana (NYSE: HUM). The report tracked physician progress and patient outcomes based on 2020 data and highlighted how value-based PCPs were able to leverage home care to improve some of those outcomes. “Home-based care can be a partner and support system to help PCPs and other physicians take the best care of their patients,” Andrew Lynch, the vice presiden

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The Rand Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Nuclear-war strategists' work offers a warning for Congress: The more times a game is played, the more treacherous it becomes, because when both sides believe catastrophe will always be averted in the end, each behaves more rashly. In the debt-ceiling dispute, the United States could end up defaulting precisely because each side keeps waiting for the other to blink.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Last month, the Government Accountability Office released a report on the cost of rare disease. The report is interesting, and especially interesting is Appendix 1 which has a detailed list of studies of the cost of rare disease for about 50 rare diseases. Below are some highlights: Currently, there are no treatments or cures for most rare diseases.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Date: Thursday, December 9, 2021. Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Topics: 1) Office of Ombudsman for Long-Term Care updates 2) Food code updates and common survey findings 3) Physical environment updates and common survey findings 4) Other assisted living survey updates. Contact: health.assistedliving@state.mn.us.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Callan Schebella, EVP, Product, Five9. Communicating clearly and effectively with patients is a hallmark of good patient care. However, as the Delta Variant defines the next phase of COVID , many healthcare organizations are experiencing a massive surge in patient communication volume. Not only do they need to communicate important updates about the virus, testing, appointments, and vaccinations; but they are also still dealing with a swell of inbound questions from patients needing answers to o

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. There’s new FAQ guidance posted as of Monday, November 22, 2021 on the CMS Current Emergencies website: Over The Counter (OTC) Home Testing and CLIA Applicability. This 4-page FAQ addresses: Does use of over the counter (OTC) tests authorized by the FDA intended for home use require CLIA certification?

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Health IT Analytics

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Specialty drugs have delivered significant improvements to patient health, but oftentimes they pay be expensive. To try to insure that these treatments are used appropriately, some health plans impose a utilization management tool known as “prescriber requirements” where only certain types of physicians may prescribe a drug. While this may be useful for some complex therapies, it may also limit access and increase provider administrative burden.

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Life Qi

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Now, much more than ever, we understand how important joy in work is to our colleagues. Burnout among staff affects the quality and safety of healthcare and clearly the wellbeing of those providing care. The added pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic have put staff under even greater pressure. The same factors that cause burnout also diminish joy in work.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

What Has Everyone Excited about COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11-year-olds? With the rollout this month of the COVID-19 vaccine for those 5-11 years of age, we can now directly protect children with asthma for whom COVID-19 infection is an even bigger hazard for our children during the pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “comorbidities” has entered our daily vernacular, mostly in reference to adults’ chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes, but with pediatric asthma,

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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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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Home care provider Executive Care recently received an investment from global investment firm The Riverside Company. The financial terms were not disclosed. Hackensack, New Jersey-based Executive Care is a private-pay personal care company that operates a network of 13 franchise locations and offers a plethora of services, including companionship, homemaking, personal care and live-in care.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Erin Jospe, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Kyruus. As we learn to equilibrate with COVID-19 , we are collectively learning how to modulate our acceptance of risk in order to re-emerge and engage with the world around us. It has at times over the course of the pandemic been a necessary choice, oftentimes in the name of risk, to forgo routine healthcare.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

State Community Health Worker Models Updated November 29, 2021. As states transform their health systems many are turning to community health workers (CHWs) to tackle some of the most challenging aspects of health improvement, such as facilitating care coordination, enhancing access to community-based services, and addressing social determinants of health.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

What You Should Know: – Elsevier acquires Osmosis – a digital health education platform that has simplified the complex learning journey for millions of medical students and healthcare professionals around the world. – A growing demand for healthcare workers and medical education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is driving the need for digital healthcare education solutions.

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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.