Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
It's the latest sprint in an ongoing race among drugstore chains to build out nationwide medical clinics, as consumers increasingly look for low-cost, convenient care options close to the home after two years of the pandemic.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
A systematic review of 28 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week found that telehealth-delivered interventions for patients of color were mostly effective when it came to treating and managing many conditions. However, technological difficulties were the main barriers to effective telehealth consultation.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Numerous pharmacists urged commissioners to probe the practices of PBMs, which they allege harm their independent pharmacies and threaten to drive them out of business.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
COVID-19 has created another health crisis in this country – a massive increase in depression and other mental health issues associated with being isolated. Further, the opioid crisis has worsened with an increase in addiction. THE PROBLEM. For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The agency's commissioners will weigh Thursday whether to investigate PBMs and their relationship to drug prices and "practices that may disadvantage independent or specialty pharmacies," according to the meeting agenda.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Royal Melbourne Hospital introduces remote heart device interrogation amid lockdowns. The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), a public hospital in Victoria has turned to remote interrogations of cardiac implanted electronic devices (CIED) to continue checking up on patients amid COVID-19 lockdowns. Remote device interrogation kiosks have been set up at local pharmacies where patients can show up and connect their devices.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The vast majority of home-based care organizations are dealing with capacity constraints, rising levels of staff burnout, recruitment roadblocks and other operational challenges. While many of the current hurdles are due to macro-level forces that are largely outside of an operator’s control, some can be cleared with the help of smart scheduling, strategic incentives and impactful training programs.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Bakul Patel, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health's chief digital health officer, will help FDA meet its 2022-2025 strategic priorities and set regulatory policies for the new technologies such as AI and machine learning.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. It’s easy to lose sight that we’re in flu season when we’re up to our eyeballs battling COVID-19. It is indeed flu season and here’s the current stats : We’ve seen worse maps for the past 23 months – lots of red on the COVID-19 maps. Still, we can’t let our guard nor surveillance lapse on preventing severe illness and death from the flu.
Healthcare Associates
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
When To Worry About a Headache. Headaches are a common symptom of many different health conditions. The burden of severe headache and migraine is high in the United States, where it affects one in six Americans at least once during a three-month period, reports the journal Headache. Headaches can be caused by a wide range of problems, some of which are more serious than others.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health , today announced the launch of Chronic Care Complete, a first-of-its-kind chronic condition management solution to help individuals improve their health outcomes while living with multiple chronic conditions. – The solution provides members with a unified, comprehensive experience that leverages connected health monitoring devices, access to health coaches and support from physicians and mental health specialists.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Nursing homes face a broad range of challenges from public emergencies, such as emerging infectious disease outbreaks and natural disasters. To protect residents and prevent disruption of care during emergencies, nursing homes must develop and maintain an emergency preparedness program that addresses a wide range of issues, from maintaining emergency supplies to collaborating with local emergency responders.
Meditech
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
I’ve always been intrigued by the role of CIO. I know a lot of people probably still equate this role to someone who deals with servers and devices all day, but the role has evolved significantly in the last decade alone. Today’s CIOs are at the center of innovation for their healthcare organizations, meaning they need to be well versed in all of the shifting trends and challenges their peers face, and in developing IT strategies to support them.
Advanced Data Systems
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
For the most part, you would prefer that patients come to your offices for an in-person appointment. But it’s not always feasible to set up appointments on a regular basis for checking on a patient’s condition. And now that we’ve been through a once-in-a-century global pandemic, patients have more reasons to stay at home unless it’s absolutely necessary for a face-to-face encounter with your staff.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
What would you prefer: Option A : Flip a coin with where if it lands heads you win $20 but if it lands on tails you get $0 Option B : Win $10 for certain. If you prefer option A, you are risk loving; if you prefer option B you are risk averse. If you are indifferent between these choices you are risk neutral. A key question is, what share of individuals have these preferences and how strong are these preferences.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Australia faces stiff geopolitical competition in Antarctica, and it's not just China and Russia with eyes on the prize. If the Antarctic becomes a hub of geopolitical tension, Australia may need to revise its strategy.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
In terms of business, providers are slowly beginning to move away from the strict distinctions of home health, home care and hospice. “These are separate businesses,” Dexter Braff, president of The Braff Group, said on Wednesday during a panel discussion at the 18th annual Healthcare Private Equity & Finance Conference. “These are only separate because of the payment mechanism.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The majority of school districts report they don't have enough staff to hire, particularly substitutes, bus drivers, and special education teachers. A recent survey also revealed a major challenge for the superintendency. Only half of superintendents said they were likely to stay in their jobs for the long term.
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Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. If you missed this webinar (February 17, 2022), want to view it again, want to grab the handouts and/or want to tell a colleague about it, here’s your chance: View Webinar Recording (Registration Required) F888 COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements – An Overview (Webinar Slides-Handout) CMS-20054 – Infection Prevention Control and Immunization (Webinar Handout) COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Complimentary Copy (Matrix – Webinar Hando
Bill Of Health
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
By Leah Pierson. Academia often treats all areas of research as important, and two projects that will publish equally well as equally worthy of exploring. This, I believe, is misguided. Instead, we should strive to create an academic culture where researchers consider and discuss a project’s likely impact on the world when deciding what to work on. Though this view is at odds with current norms in academia, there are four reasons why a project’s potential to improve the world should be an explic
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
What You Should Know: – In partnership with Cerner Corporation , the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, today announced the launch of the Inclusive Care Clinical Council, a group of healthcare experts, leaders and stakeholders who will assess the impact of the Foundation’s Inclusive Care efforts and guide how it can be expanded to healthcare systems. – The goals of the Clinical Council are to generate a dialogue around assessing the system-wide impact of inclusive care , identify how inclusi
Vie Healthcare
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
In Episode 34 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa is joined by Carol Turano, facilitator of VIE’s EXCITE! program and a qualified ropes instructor. Together they discuss innovative approaches to solving challenges and the benefits of experiential learning. As Lisa comments on the origins of EXCITE! ‘ ‘I thought, wouldn’t it be unique if we could take this outdoor experience and bring it inside into a two hour workshop, we’ll call it EXCITE!
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Clearwave Inc
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 2022 No Surprises Act (NSA). If you’ve read through the NSA’s provider requirements for patient financial transparency and fallen into a few rabbit holes in the process, you’re not alone. Many facilities and administrators are struggling to gain a comprehensive understanding of what is needed – and develop implementation plans with their existing staff and workflows.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
A trip to the Home Care 100 conference in Phoenix, Arizona, this past week was refreshing. . It was an escape from the frigid Chicago temperatures. It offered the opportunity to talk to many of the faces that make up the home-based care industry, in person, for the first time in a long time. . But most of all, it allowed me to witness individual opinions and industry trends – that may have been percolating underground for some time – coming to the surface. .
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. February 11, 2022…CDC updated Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Approved or Authorized in the U.S. : There is a huge amount of information and resources on this landing page, including all previous updates (24) in the past year.
Etactics
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
When interacting with individuals from other cultures, backgrounds, and environments, people need to be aware that there are different interpretations of words and actions. Understanding what these differences are is so important in both our personal lives and in the workplace. First of all, walking into a cultural blunder is humiliating. Someone from a different background as you could perceive your actions or words as rude when you meant to be polite.
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.
Spok Inc
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Planning to attend the HIMSS 2022 conference? Get a head start by learning about some of the education and technology being showcased at the in-person and digital event. The post 3 things to expect at HIMSS 2022 appeared first on Spok Inc.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Brian Yarnell is founder and president of Bluestream Health of.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health. ” The company said the topic was too controversial to feature in this moment. “Google and Twitter are blocking its paid media ads to promote the content, flagging
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.
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