Thu.May 05, 2022

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ER providers push for federal protection against rising health worker violence

Health Care Dive

Nurses have been bitten, punched and strangled with stethoscopes, "all while just trying to provide basic care to patients," Todd Haines, a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, said Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

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Real-time tracking is a must for chronic care management

Healthcare It News

To ensure success under value-based care models, providers need specific clinical information readily available at the point of care to make decisions and take measures to improve outcomes. Unfortunately, in most instances, they simply don't have it. No one person can keep track of every relevant indicator for a disease. But with the key hallmark indicators, providers can proactively engage the patient, engage their family, engage their home care provider, and say, "These are the things

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Hospital, payer, IT groups urge Congress to overturn ban on unique patient identifier

Health Care Dive

Industry groups are ratcheting up the pressure on Congress to nix a decades-old ban on using federal funding to create a UPI as subcommittees continue hearings for 2023 appropriations bills.

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How monitoring tools can prevent diabetic amputations

Healthcare It News

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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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Hospitals, PBMs say drugmaker restrictions on 340B discounts stifling finances

Health Care Dive

Four court decisions on the legality of the restrictions — two in favor of drugmakers and two against — are currently pending appeals.

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The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has re-shaped consumers across many life- and work-flows. When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023.

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Transforming patient experience with connected care

Healthcare It News

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Biogen, having scrapped Aduhelm, tries to convince investors of turnaround plan

Health Care Dive

Though executives claimed that inking deals and de-risking research programs are priorities, analysts questioned whether any meaningful strategic changes will occur in the near term.

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Mental Health Awareness is Everywhere. Why Shouldn’t Virtual Care Be Standard?

HIT Consultant

Geoffrey Boyce, CEO of Array Behavioral Care . May is Mental Health Awareness Month , which for years has been a platform to increase understanding about mental illness and advocate for better mental health care. Now more than ever, you don’t have to look too hard to see that mental health is a daily fixture in the national conversation. Unfortunately, mental health issues have become far too common for people of all ages and in all walks of life.

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Centene to sell 2 pharmacy businesses as it advances portfolio review

Health Care Dive

Thursday's news builds on the payer's plan to sell off non-core assets as it looks to sharpen its focus on its main business.

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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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How Signify Health’s Home Elevations Are Helping Drive Value-Based Care

Home Health Care

No longer satisfied with just being a player in the value-based care space, Signify Health Inc. (NYSE: SGFY) ultimately is seeking to be a transformative force in health care. “As we think about our product roadmap, the core of our strategy is to build out capabilities to connect health plans and other risk-bearing entities with provider groups, in an effort to accelerate the transformation of the U.S. health care system from fee-for-service to value-based care,” CEO Kyle Armbrester said on a Q1

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Access to virtual care highlights urban/rural divide

Healthy Debate

The post Access to virtual care highlights urban/rural divide appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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LHC Group Continues to See Home Health Cost Per Visit, Wage Rates Decline

Home Health Care

LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) has long been a home health giant attracting plenty of attention. But the spotlight on the company has never been brighter, thanks to UnitedHealth Group’s plan to purchase the provider for $5.4 billion and roll it into Optum. This week, that spotlight is on the challenges and opportunities that LHC Group has continued to navigate in 2022’s first quarter.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

Trends in retail prescription drug costs. How would you fix the federal budget ? ACA premiums fall. Prioritizing mental health care. School choice and housing values. Liability risk and innovation. European Health Data Space : what’s next?

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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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Payment ‘Patchwork’ Limiting Near-Term Scalability of Home-Based Palliative Care

Home Health Care

Home-based palliative care is an untapped business opportunity for many home health and hospice providers in the U.S., but multiple factors continue to hinder near-term scalability. Data on the availability of home-based palliative care is limited, so it’s difficult to pinpoint just how large the market really is. Experts familiar with the space have previously estimated that about 50% of all counties have access to at least one community-based palliative care program, however, with hospice and

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Children’s Innovation Lab advances lung monitoring device

Osf Healthcare

Dr. Adam Cross, pediatric hospitalist and Children's Innovation Lab leader, proposed an idea to develop a device that can remotely monitor lung function in children and has partnered with Caterpillar to take his prototype to the next level.

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Nurses Month 2022: Nurses make a difference 

Spok Inc

We hope you will join Spok, the ANA Enterprise organizations,?and colleagues around the country in recognizing the many sacrifices and contributions of nurses. The post Nurses Month 2022: Nurses make a difference appeared first on Spok Inc.

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10 Examples of Patient Confidentiality (Exceptions Included)

Etactics

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) establishes requirements surrounding patient confidentiality. Patient confidentiality refers to the right patients have to keep their records private. Physicians and medical professionals have moral and legal obligations to handle patients' protected health information (PHI) privately. Patient privacy is even included within the Hippocratic Oath.

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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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Cerner & AKASA Partner on AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Automation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health IT leader Cerner and AI developer for healthcare operations AKASA announce a partnership to scale automation within the revenue cycle at hospitals and health systems using AI and machine learning. – The collaboration offers Cerner customers access to AKASA’s AI-based Unified Automation® platform which is purpose-built for healthcare.

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HHS OIG Report On Prior Authorizations Under Medicare Advantage

Sheppard Health Law

Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector (“OIG”) released a report that studied prior authorization denials and payment denials by Medicare Advantage Organizations (“MAOs”) (the “Report”). While the Report found that the “vast majority” of prior authorizations and payment requests were approved, the Report focused on the finding that MAOs “sometimes” denied prior authorization and payment requests that met Medicare coverage rules claiming that the denials

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Morning Headlines 5/5/22

HIStalk

Offor Health Completes Series A Round With Additional $9 Million.

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Clean Hands May Have Saved My Son’s Life

CDC

As both a mom and preschool teacher, I have said “wash your hands” more times than I can imagine. Before my newborn son died in a hospital, I never imagined I needed to say it to a doctor. But if all healthcare personnel always used proper hand hygiene in my son’s care, sepsis may not have been a part of my baby’s hospital stay. The single most important thing healthcare personnel can do to protect their patients is clean their hands.

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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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Morning Headlines 5/6/22

HIStalk

Allscripts Announces First Quarter of 2022 Results Allscripts reports an.

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Lessons from Latin America as the U.S. Regresses on Reproductive Rights

Bill Of Health

By Alma Beltrán y Puga. As the Supreme Court of the United States moves closer to overturning Roe and Casey , looking south to Latin America highlights the egregiousness of these developments. Recently, Mexico and Colombia have provided landmark decisions that recognize a woman’s freedom to choose over her body is a fundamental right. Both rulings use strong arguments to frame abortion as protected under a constitutional umbrella that enshrines the right to equality and non-discrimination, and t