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COVID-19 telehealth diagnoses fell in August

Health Care Dive

There was no change in telehealth use in the Midwest and Northeast in August, but utilization rose 4.7% in the South and fell 1.4% in the West.

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Data linkage project seeks to improve First Nations maternal and child health outcomes

Healthcare It News

A new project led by indigenous community leaders, together with researchers from the University of Queensland, seeks to link disparate health records of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across health facilities to improve maternal and perinatal health outcomes. The Digital Infrastructure For improving First Nations Maternal and Child Health (DIFFERENCE) project has been awarded A$3 million in funding from the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund.

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Cigna faces questions about M&A strategy amid ‘arms race’ for deals

Health Care Dive

One analyst asked whether not pursuing deals will pose a disadvantage in future years. CEO David Cordani said he is open to M&A but does not think acquisitions are a “silver bullet.

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RCM Solutions in Healthcare are Need for Better Practice in 2023

p3care

RCM Solutions in Healthcare ease up the providers more preferably as they assure the financial stability for their secret practicing future. A provider’s performance is not only dependent on the service they deliver but also on the equipment they use, the time they spend on treating the patients, and the fair and efficient dealing and healthy hospital environment they provide.

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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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Capitated revenue now makes up outsized share of One Medical’s net revenue

Health Care Dive

One year after its Iora acquisition, revenue from capitated contracts represents half of One Medical’s net revenue even though the provider’s at-risk members comprise just 5% of total membership.

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How & Why You Should Become a Clinical Psychologist in 2023?

p3care

People in today’s world have upgraded their standard of living and are striving hard to maintain their lifestyles. They have chosen very hectic daily routines which have deprived them of their mental peace. Their unending desires have no limit. As a result, we have affected our mental health more than our physical health and without noticing it, we are actively creating more problems for ourselves.

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AI ‘s Role in Drug Discovery: Separating the Hype from the Hope

HIT Consultant

Jonathan Montague, President & CEO at HotSpot Therapeutics. Forecasting the influence that artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning technologies will have on the future of healthcare has created a cottage industry in the hype. From the overzealous aspirations of IBM’s Watson Health initiative to the inclusion of AI on Gartner’s 2021 Hype Cycle at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” so much noise has been made around AI/machine learning in healthcare that it can be difficult to appr

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After Big Quarter For Its Home Division, New Modivcare CEO Lays Out Roadmap For Next 90 Days

Home Health Care

It’s official: Heath Sampson is the president and CEO of Modivcare Inc. (Nasdaq: MODV). Sampson, who had held the interim role, let stakeholders and other interested parties know the four things on his plate for the next 90 days during Modivcare’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday. “First, solidifying a high-performing executive leadership team, which includes finding my successor as CFO,” he said.

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Transcarent Selects Prescryptive Health to Power Integrated Pharmacy Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Transcarent and Prescryptive Health announced today a partnership to provide the industry’s most immersive, intelligent, and individualized pharmacy care experience. – Transcarent Pharmacy Care empowers Transcarent Members and their families with an entirely different consumer-directed experience that truly transforms their health and care journey and provides, for the first time, employers and health systems with maximum control over their formulary, benefit

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From HHVBP to LUPAs: Additional Takeaways From The 2023 Home Health Final Rule

Home Health Care

Following the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) release of the final payment rule, it is critical for each home health agency to figure out its own financial standing and strategic plan for 2023. In addition, agencies should be finding key areas for improvement and educating clinicians on the recalibrated case-mix weights and Low-Utilization Payment Adjustment (LUPA) thresholds.

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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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Apple Adds Medication Tracking to iPhone. How Will It Impact The Specialty Patient Journey?

HIT Consultant

Yishai Knobel, CEO and co-founder of RxWare. Imagine visiting your doctor’s office. Instead of swiping a copay card and filling out a paper form by hand, the receptionist says, “We take Apple Health.” You wave your iPhone over a digital kiosk, instantly uploading your current medical record and insurance information. Your copay is then deducted from a health savings account.

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How our independent healthcare system launched a state-of-the-art precision medicine program

Meditech

I still remember the day three years ago when our President & CEO, Tom Kleinhanzl, visited my office and tasked me to lead one of our organization’s most technologically advanced new initiatives — the development of a precision medicine program that would enable all providers at Frederick Health to leverage the power of genetics. Little did I know at the time that the initiative would launch Frederick Health to the forefront of genomic medicine.

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SEMCAP Launches Investment Strategy to Address Healthcare Market Opportunity

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Growth equity investor SEMCAP is launching SEMCAP Health , its healthcare investment strategy to address the significant opportunities at this unprecedented time in the healthcare industry. – SEMCAP Health takes influential minority or majority positions in high-growth healthcare tech and tech-enabled services business.

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Enhance U.S. Rare Earth Security Through International Cooperation

The Rand Blog

Most rare earth elements and materials are sourced from overseas but China dominates extraction and processing. With closer multinational cooperation, the United States and its allies and partners could reduce vulnerabilities due to the dependency on China.

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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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Apple Adds Medication Tracking to iPhone. How Will It Impact The Specialty Patient Journey?

HIT Consultant

Yishai Knobel, CEO and co-founder of RxWare. Imagine visiting your doctor’s office. Instead of swiping a copay card and filling out a paper form by hand, the receptionist says, “We take Apple Health.” You wave your iPhone over a digital kiosk, instantly uploading your current medical record and insurance information. Your copay is then deducted from a health savings account.

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The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative's Challenges and Successes

The Rand Blog

The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative invested $21 million in community-based organizations to reduce racial disparities in vaccination rollout and support strengthening public health systems in the United States over the longer term. The initiative demonstrated a path forward for funders to center equity in their approach to grantmaking.

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Parkview Health Launches Virtual Care Offering, Powered by Veta Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Veta Health announced today the launch of its virtual care offering at Parkview Health (Parkview) , a not-for-profit, Indiana-based network of 10 hospitals and more than 100 clinics. – In partnership with Veta Health, Parkview will offer its patients virtual care programs designed to support patient recovery and self-management at home.

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Use of accessible technology promotes increased engagement in day program

GoMoHealth

By Gary Enos. Article was published in the October 31st, 2022 issue of Mental Health Weekly featuring GoMo Health. Patient success in a psychiatric rehabilitation program often hinges on events occurring outside the limited time the patient spends at treatment. Seeking to keep patients more engaged at key moments in their week, a New Jersey day treatment program makes regular use of an innovative but still accessible tool for maintaining patient contact. .

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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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Numares Health & Mayo Clinic Expands AI-Enabled Diagnostic Testing Collaboration

HIT Consultant

Numares AXINON® System. What You Should Know: – Mayo Clinic and Numares Health have expanded their collaboration recently to develop AI-enabled diagnostic testing that is more accurate and reliable than current U.S. tests for patients with chronic diseases, including kidney, cardiovascular, liver and neurologic conditions. – The expanded collaboration builds on Mayo Clinic’s clinical research support for Numares Health to include an innovative convertible equity investment.

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[Answered] What is Claims Adjudication?

Etactics

30% of insurance claims get denied on their first submission. Part of this is because of the complicated nature of the claim adjudication process. There’s nothing simple about the claim submission process. Any medical biller with some experience will agree that there are a lot of steps. Billing isn’t as simple as submitting a claim to a patient’s insurance payer, the payer reviewing the document, and you gett paid.

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Debunking 3 Common Myths About Healthcare Revenue Cycle Partnerships

HIT Consultant

Gary Long, EVP & CCO at R1 RCM. The healthcare industry is facing unprecedented challenges, including severe labor shortages. According to a recent study, more than nine in 10 health systems and physician groups are experiencing a workforce shortage in revenue cycle management (RCM) , with many of those reporting vacancies in over half of their RCM roles.

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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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Vermont State Launches Public Health Initiative for Infectious Disease Response

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Vermont Department of Health has launched a first-of-a-kind program to support healthcare professionals with timely information on disease diagnosis, testing, treatment and patient education resources — improving public health response statewide. The program is powered by a partnership with VisualDx and is available to Vermont healthcare professionals. – The Clinician Support Initiative provides access to a vast collection of images and clinical informati

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Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum – November 9, 2022

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, November 9, 2022 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.

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Lumeris Launches Value-Based Care Accelerator for Practices

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lumeris is launching Tribus , a value-based care accelerator for practices to convert from fee-for-service to value-based care using a community based-model. – Under the direction of Dr. Chuck Willey, CEO of Tribus, who is a practicing internal medical physician in St. Louis, doctors will participate in physician-to-physician training and mentorship for anyone looking for a better way to deliver at-risk care for senior populations.

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Let’s Talk: What will the MDS 3.0 Item Set look like on October 1, 2023?

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Yesterday I was honored to present this webinar for Briggs Healthcare. It was great to “see” you there to learn more about what the MDS 3.0 Item Set v1.18.11 will look like next October when it’s implemented in LTC facilities. I shared what that Item Set looks like now (as a draft) as well as what we know at this point in time about the upcoming changes – also some ideas to start preparations for that implementation.

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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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Innovaccer Launches ACO Compare to Help ACOs Lower Costs & Increase Care Quality

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer , the Health Cloud company, introduced ACO Compare 4.0 , the latest version of the company’s popular free tool that enables ACOs to analyze and compare their performance against national and regional benchmarks to help them enhance cost savings and increase the quality of care. – The updated tool is available for ACOs to use at no charge and includes several new features that help providers identify cost drivers that can impact their risk-adjusted p

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News 11/4/22

HIStalk

Top News Specialty EHR/PM/RCM vendor ModMed pays $45 million to.

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Cureatr and Unite Us Launches Health Equity Program

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cureatr and Unite Us are teaming up to launch a comprehensive health equity program to support patients experiencing transitions of care. The partnership with Unite Us has empowered Cureatr to more holistically care for patients and evolve the role of Cureatr’s certified community health workers (CHWs). – In addition to providing services that address medication access issues, the new health equity program allows CHWs to screen patients for social determ

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 11/3/22

HIStalk

I’ve experienced an uptick in email solicitations over the last.

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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.