Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. So what does this mean for patients and providers moving forward? Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the heal

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Other predictions include that primary care will increasingly be provided by non-physicians, like physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and demand for mental health providers will rise by more than 10%.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Poll: Majority of U.S. voters approve of giving Medicare drug price negotiation authority. rking. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 15:53.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The study by the medical group is the latest salvo in a messaging war between provider and payer lobbies as they work to shift the blame for rapidly rising medical costs.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Medicare Advantage premiums to decline slightly in 2022, Part D to rise by nearly 5%. rking. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 14:49.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that virtual reality can be a useful, scalable and appealing alternative to existing pain management approaches. At the same time, however, UC San Francisco researchers noted that challenges remain when it comes to adoption of the technology, especially for addressing the needs of diverse populations.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Experts say there was huge demand for the six-month subsidy, with one estimate finding more than 16 million people lost their employer-sponsored health insurance during the pandemic.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Verily's Onduo inks partnership with Fitbit to integrate fitness trackers with virtual clinic. hlandi. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 20:14.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For the health system, which operates 25 hospitals, the move to form the subsidiary may be in response to insurers cracking down on costly hospital-based imaging.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Health systems-backed Truveta lands investment from Microsoft, cloud partnership. hlandi. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 11:33.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A report out this week from Boston Digital examines the role that original digital libraries of health topics can play in hospitals' web-traffic performance. Among the top 20 U.S. hospitals, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report , 68% of all search traffic comes purely from health information content, said the report. "Hospital sites with comprehensive health content libraries are earning exponentially more traffic than those without them," wrote Philip Chevalier, director of s

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

AHA: CMS' workforce vaccination requirements must be 'feasible, transparent and fair' for all providers. dmuoio. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 16:52.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If the bid to repeal the breakthrough payment rule is finalized, the agency's CMO committed to an alternative pathway that evaluates devices for Medicare patients potentially via clinical trials, outcome registries and real-world data.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Walmart deploys Epic medical records tech across its health centers, virtual care services. hlandi. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 12:53.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Difficult vaccine decisions lie ahead. The agency could soon determine how to handle boosters for recipients of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson's shots.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Wayspring banks $75M funding round with investment from Centene, Highmark. pminemyer. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 10:34.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With more eyes than ever on the home care industry, experts are trying to read the tea leaves to determine if greater standardization will eventually follow. Once considered the “youngest kid” in the larger health care continuum, home care has been ushered into the spotlight over the past couple of years. A few things have activated home care’s growth spurt, Vicki Hoak, executive director of the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA), told Home Health Care News.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Urban Insitute: Outreach to uninsured about ACA exchanges, subsidies lacking. pminemyer. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 13:45.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Temporary regulatory flexibilities implemented during the public health emergency have given health care organizations a chance to test new care delivery methods, including hospital-at-home programs and models that bring the skilled nursing facility (SNF) into the home setting. While COVID-19 flexibilities may eventually go away, the home-focused initiatives they led to are destined to stick around.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Surge in healthcare M&A activity continued in August, with life sciences, pharma companies leading the pack. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 19:28.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The hospital-at-home concept was pioneered over two decades ago at Johns Hopkins. It became in vogue during the earlier parts of the COVID-19 crisis. Now, it feels like just any other part of the at-home care ecosystem. That means there are a lot more home-based care players by nature, including tech-enabled companies like Biofourmis and Luna, which are trying to help enable hospital-at-home models as part of their business plans.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Mass General Brigham vetoes controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm after internal review. dmuoio. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 11:55.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Health Law, Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. Though the Workshop is typically open to the public, it is not currently, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many of our presenters will contribute blog posts summarizing their work, which we are happy to share here on Bill of Health.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Nurses say hospitals rarely in compliance with OSHA's new COVID-19 protections. dmuoio. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 14:35.

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American College of Healthcare Sciences

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Lindsay Little is an MS in Holistic Nutrition alumni who took the leap and opened her own wellness coaching business, Full Bloom Acres, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Discovering Holistic Health. Lindsay first started thinking about holistic health after something that her painting professor said during her Bachelor of Fine Arts undergraduate degree.

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Bookzurman

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up and difficult to see where the work that we, and our peers, do is being applied to help caregivers and patients. That's why we've hand-selected these recent articles featuring the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues that our team finds to be worth a quick read.

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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 29, 2021

An interesting report from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies examined the “ Use of digital health tools in Europe: before, during and after COVID-19 “ Digital health is important not only because the technologies facilitate communication and disease monitoring, but also the technologies facilitate the creation of data that can be used to better improve health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, Genentech launched its first study into health inequities. The company spelled out their rationale to undertake this research very clearly: “ Through our work pursuing groundbreaking science and developing medicines for people with life-threatening diseases, we consistently witness an underrepresentation of non-white patients in clinical research.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

By Lawrence O. Gostin. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed marked limitations in the International Health Regulations (IHR) and constrained authorities of the World Health Organization (WHO). With a rising imperative to advance pandemic preparedness and response, more than twenty heads of government proposed a new pandemic treaty. This prospective pandemic treaty offers a pathway to develop innovative international legal obligations, strengthening core capacities, good governance, and compliance m

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Health IT Analytics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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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.