Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The average wait for an appointment is 26 days, pointing to a growing shortage of physicians, a staffing agency said.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Emergency departments should be a last-stop medical option, but for people with disabilities, who visit EDs at a disproportionate rate compared with those without disabilities, this last stop becomes more commonplace. Virtual care has inherent advantages that help to prevent excess visits to the ED for all populations, including people with disabilities.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Teladoc nabbed incoming executive Saranya Loehrer from CommonSpirit, where she served as the nonprofit’s health equity officer.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Wearable devices are being deployed across emergency departments in East Metropolitan Health, beginning with implementation at Armadale Hospital. The technology rollout is being introduced as part of the Health in a Virtual Environment service. It is being formally introduced first at Armadale Hospital following trials at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) and Bentley Hospital.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The companies, which merged earlier this year, have rebranded as Apree Health and selected health IT veteran Don Trigg as their new leader.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As health systems around the world continuously pursue digital transformation, having access to all clinical content has now more than ever become crucial to provide the best patient care. With enterprise access to clinical documents, medical images and other unstructured information, healthcare organisations will gain a more comprehensive view of their patients, improve clinical decision-making and support better outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave health systems and providers the ability to take hospital at home as a concept and run with it during the public health emergency (PHE). Those providers did so, and now they’re wondering what comes next. With regulatory uncertainty moving forward, the hospital-at-home momentum has been put on pause – but not because of patient preference or provider enthusiasm.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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CDC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Long-term care (LTC) settings, such as nursing homes/skilled nursing facilities and assisted living, are home to individuals who are unable to live independently and who need a variety of services, including both medical and personal care. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2015, there were 1.5 million residents living in nursing homes/skilled nursing facilities and almost 919,000 in assisted living.1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 t

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A former hospital nurse and now the CEO of Healing Hands Healthcare, Summer Napier is all about home health innovation. That’s why – since opening in 2016 – the Texas-based Healing Hands has launched a multi-faceted hospital-at-home initiative and a home-based oncology care program. It’s also why Healing Hands is so bullish on forward-thinking legislation such as Choose Home.

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Healthcare Associates

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Eight Tips to Get Rid of Hunger Headaches. Headaches — including huger headaches — have plagued humans as long as we’ve been around. The earliest mention of them dates to 1550BC! Of course, we’ve found better ways to cope with them than our ancient ancestors. After all, the Neanderthals couldn’t cruise over to their local pharmacy for aspirin.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What You Should Know: – Enzee Health , formerly ZapIT! Medical is announcing it has secured $1.5M in seed financing, led by Rev1 Ventures with participation from Tamarind Hill, Harbor Street Ventures, M7 NEO, Redgrave Investments, Service Provider Capital and others. – Enzee empowers hospital personnel to easily perform and track required quality testing within departments, eliminating the inefficiencies of paper record keeping, and making it easier for administrators to assess wheth

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) and University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) have teamed up — in a new joint venture agreement — to offer in-home health care services in parts of Maryland. The aim of this strategic relationship is to increase access to home-based care, as the demand for these services continues to rise. The partnership leverages the resources and expertise of the two organizations, LHC Group Chairman and CEO Keith Myers said in a press statement.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What You Should Know: – LifePoint Health and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership aimed at using Google Cloud’s Healthcare Data Engine to transform healthcare delivery in communities across the U.S. – The Healthcare Data Engine aggregates and organizes data from multiple sources, and for LifePoint, will be used by a patient’s healthcare provider to help clinicians gain further insight into patients records and data.

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Meditech

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

When organizations are creating a new solution, one of the main things they focus on is how to create a consistent and user-friendly experience. Code and feature functions are important, but it doesn’t equal success if you can’t see things from the end user point of view. Using a design system gives development teams a detailed reference to ensure that all design solutions are immediately recognizable, and have a consistent look and feel.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What You Should Know: – Redesign Health , a healthcare company that researches, builds and launches other healthcare companies raises $65M in Series C funding led by General Catalyst with participation from CVS Health Ventures , UPMC Enterprises (the innovation and venture capital arm of leading health system UPMC), Eden Global Partners , Euclidean Capital , Samsung Next , TriplePoint Capital , and founding investor Declaration Partners. – In addition, General Catalyst, CVS Health Ve

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. IPR/APR Webinar Recording Now Available. On Thursday, August 25 th , the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Technical Assistance (TA) Team hosted the live event, “ Navigating Performance Feedback Reports: Interim Performance Report (IPR) and Annual Performance Report (APR).

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Chris Jenkins, Senior Vice President at Healthlink Advisors. How you handle imaging says a lot about your organization’s digital maturity. The ongoing digitalization of industry continues to disrupt business and service models in every sector. Even though U.S. healthcare has traditionally lagged behind other fields in technological adaptation, there has still been a broad and tremendous shift in how healthcare functions, which is driven by IT infrastructure.

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Healthcare Highways

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

More than 3.8 million breast cancer survivors live in the United States – that includes patients being treated and who have completed treatment.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S. to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue.

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Lexis Nexis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Helping solve healthcare’s toughest challenges regarding fraud, compliance, patient engagement, and beyond. Accurate information on patients is a must-have for all of healthcare’s stakeholders. It is essential to have a way to securely authenticate patients, match, and link disparate patient records, and enhance patient profiles with up-to-date and more accurate information, while mitigating cyber threats.

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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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What You Should Know: – V?lenz has acquired Health Cost Control Inc., a national provider of medical cost containment solutions with more than 25 years’ experience. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – With specialization in claim and cost review services for high-dollar claims, including dialysis , air ambulance and behavioral health billing, Health Cost Control offers custom-designed programs for health plans, third-party administrators, insurance companies an

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Lexis Nexis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Rule Out Friction. How can you possibly provide a frictionless user experience? The potential risk hasn’t changed over time unless it has gotten worse. What has changed is the data-driven nature of the industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Including digital identity attributes and dynamic decisioning to your defense strategy will allow you to rule out friction based on your own rules.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What You Should Know: – Kyruus acquires Epion Health , a provider of digital patient engagement solutions. The two companies will join forces to offer healthcare organizations and providers a one-stop shop for patient access and engagement solutions. – The acquisition demonstrates Kyruus’ commitment to the medical group market and will now provide groups and health systems with complete patient access, care coordination, online scheduling, payment collection, and digital engagement s

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Etactics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If you’re reading this you likely already know the giant, disheartening statistic that exists in medical billing…but I’ll tell you anyway. According to AARP, 1 in every 7 submitted healthcare claims gets denied. If you didn’t know that statistic, I’m sorry. Yes, it’s a discouraging statistic, but I can’t imagine it had that much of an effect on you because in order to be in medical billing you need to be resilient.

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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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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A paper by Haque et al. (2022) in JAMA Internal Medicine looks at the price paid for drugs with indicated uses in both medical (i.e., human) and veterinary (i.e., animal) practice. The authors examined 200 human medications with the most prescription fills as identified in the ClinCalc database, who also had the same active ingredient in treatments for pets.

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Solution Reach

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The South Carolina lawmaker announced Tuesday that he planned to introduce a 15-week national abortion ban in Congress.

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HIStalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Technology Company Akido Labs Launches New Medical Network Focused on.

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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.