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HIMSS23: Best Buy Health, VillageMD execs see collaboration as critical to future of healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Best Buy Health, VillageMD execs see collaboration as critical to future of healthcare agliadkovskaya Wed, 04/19/2023 - 15:15

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The evolution of Amazon Pharmacy

Health Care Dive

Amazon health leader Vin Gupta discusses affordability initiatives, how Amazon Pharmacy needs to spread awareness among providers and what its affect could be on small community pharmacies.

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HIMSS23: Athenahealth rolls out new tool to measure how well patients engage with digital health

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Athenahealth rolls out new tool to measure how well patients engage with digital health aburky Wed, 04/19/2023 - 16:23

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Elevance sees revenue boost as it focuses on Medicaid redeterminations

Health Care Dive

The payer said it was pleased with the recent CMS decision to phase in risk adjustment changes to the Medicare Advantage program that would allow it to “smooth the impact” to beneficiaries and providers.

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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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Bipartisan reps, hospitals back new bill delaying billions in DSH payment cuts to FY2026

Fierce Healthcare

Bipartisan reps, hospitals back new bill delaying billions in DSH payment cuts to FY2026 dmuoio Wed, 04/19/2023 - 12:20

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Supreme Court delays decision in court battle over abortion pill

Health Care Dive

An administrative stay of a Texas district court ruling will remain in place through Friday, pushing out a Supreme Court decision in the closely watched case over the drug mifepristone.

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Clover cuts 10% of workforce, moves core operations to UST HealthProof

Health Care Dive

Carrying out the restructuring will result in a charge of about $7 million to $9 million in the first half of 2023, the company reported.

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How mobile health apps and self-monitoring enhance patient care

Fierce Healthcare

How mobile health apps and self-monitoring enhance patient care mteefey Wed, 04/19/2023 - 12:47

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HIMSS23: Stanford Health Care finding success with inpatient telehealth

Healthcare It News

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Elevance Health's profits rise 11% in Q1 to $2B

Fierce Healthcare

Elevance Health's profits rise 11% in Q1 to $2B pminemyer Wed, 04/19/2023 - 07:38

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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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HIMSS23 Day 1 wrap-up

Healthcare It News

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Industry Voices—4 health plan priorities in 2023 and beyond

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—4 health plan priorities in 2023 and beyond pminemyer Thu, 04/20/2023 - 00:21

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How Kim Jong-un's Fears Shape North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Agenda

The Rand Blog

North Korea has ramped up the frequency and intensity of its missile launches and other provocations over the last year, continuing its nuclear weapon–buildup while threatening attacks against South Korea and the United States. Why is North Korean leader Kim Jong-un making such excessive investments in his nuclear and weapons programs and dramatically showing off his country's military capabilities?

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Providence taps Cadence to roll out remote monitoring to chronic disease patients

Fierce Healthcare

Providence taps Cadence to roll out remote monitoring to chronic disease patients dmuoio Wed, 04/19/2023 - 15:50

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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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Is anyone listening to Canada’s caregivers?

Healthy Debate

The post Is anyone listening to Canada’s caregivers? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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LHC Group Executes First Acquisition Post-Optum Deal

Home Health Care

LHC Group is back on the M&A scene, sans the stock ticker next to its name. UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum officially acquired the company on Feb. 22. For the first time since then, LHC Group has made an acquisition of its own. It is acquiring the Delaware-based, Medicare-certified home health agency Summit Home Care. “Our recent combination with LHC Group expands in-home capabilities,” Dirk McMahon, president and COO of UnitedHealth Group, said during the company’s first-quarter ear

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Healthcare AI News 4/19/23

HIStalk

News OSF HealthCare (IL) selects AI-powered Cortex utilization management technology.

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Elevance Health Trying To Create ‘Differentiated Experience’ For Post-Acute Care Providers

Home Health Care

For Elevance Health Inc. (NYSE: ELV), the focuses remain clear: Medicare Advantage (MA) member growth and value-based care growth. To achieve both of those, the company is likely to leverage home-based care. Elevance’s myNEXUS – a post-acute care convener – remains one of the company’s emerging assets within the Carelon health care services platform, Carelon President Peter Haytaian said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

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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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Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

Health Populi

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. Welcome to the Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Trust and Health , released this week, with striking findings about how the economic, post-pandemic life, pollution and climate change all feed mis-trust among citizens living in 13 countries — and their eroding trust for health care systems.

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From HIMSS 4/19/23

HIStalk

This is how the main aisles look in the exhibit.

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Machine-Learning Technique Improves High Blood Pressure Treatment

Health IT Analytics

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From HIMSS with Dr. Jayne 4/19/23

HIStalk

Tuesday was a strong first day for the exhibit hall.

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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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Trying and Sentencing Youth As Adults: Key Takeaways from Recent Petrie-Flom Center Event

Bill Of Health

By Minsoo Kwon All 50 states have transfer laws that either allow or require children to be prosecuted in adult criminal court, rather than juvenile court. There is no constitutional right to be tried in juvenile court. What has modern neuroscience shown about the differences between the developing and the adult brain, and how justifiable is trying, prosecuting, and sentencing children in the adult criminal justice system?

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Mid-week Links

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Human Genome Project : twenty years later ICER’s UPI protocol. Cross-market hospital mergers. UnitedHealth 1Q profits: $5.8 billion. Cancer vaccine in the works.

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Why You Shouldn’t Fear FHIR

NCQA

In a recent webinar about the transformation of quality measurement, NCQA Chief Technology Officer Ed Yurcisin (introduced here and interviewed here ) covered a range of topics, perhaps none more important than his reassurance, “FHIR is not scary technology.” Ed shared simple definitions and metaphors to make his case. FHIR novices inside and outside NCQA found his explanations helpful and relatable.

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Supreme Court Hears Arguments on False Claims Act Scienter Standard

Sheppard Health Law

Companies regularly are required to interpret ambiguous and vague regulatory provisions. Today, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of consolidated cases to determine whether a defendant’s subjective interpretation of an ambiguous regulation is relevant to determining the knowledge (or scienter) element of the False Claims Act or, as the Seventh Circuit held in the case below, that once a defendant can articulate an objectively reasonable interpretation its contemporan

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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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New DOJ Compliance Guidance: How do you measure up?

Healthcare Performance

The U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, publishes a guidance document: Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP). The DOJ has updated the guidance multiple times, most recently in March 2023. This guidance is used in two ways: Federal prosecutors conducting criminal fraud or misconduct investigations (including healthcare fraud) use it to evaluate the effectiveness of a corporation’s compliance program.

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Freezing the squeeze on the Canadian primary care system

Nordic

Canada’s primary healthcare system is in … quite a state. Primary care is the first entry point into the healthcare system for many and provides foundational services that support health and well-being. The pressures on primary care have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic; this is only a part of the strain seen across the global primary care landscape by factors such as consumer behavior, labor shortages, demographic shifts, and digital disruption.

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Health Recovery Solutions Announces HRS Analytics at HIMSS23

Health Recovery

Health Recovery Solutions Joins Samsung’s Exhibition Booth at HIMSS and Launches New Analytics Suite for Operational Efficiency and Improved Patient Outcomes

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UPDATED AGENDA: April 19, 2023 Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum is scheduled for: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 PM at 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) Please call at least 15 minutes prior to the forum start time. **This Agenda is Subject to Change** Opening Remarks Chair – Brian Slater, Center for Medicare, CMS Co-Chair- Kelly Vontran, Center for Medicare, CMS Moderator – Jill Darling, Office of Communications, CMS Announcements & U

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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.