Health Care Dive
MAY 10, 2022
Patients reported issues with hospital staff responsiveness and said their experiences with care transitions out of a hospital setting worsened considerably during the pandemic, according to the watchdog.
Healthcare It News
MAY 10, 2022
Michigan's Henry Ford Health System and General Motors partnered to develop a narrow-network insurance product for GM employees called GM Connect Care. THE PROBLEM. Through this product, HFHS aimed to offer innovative care delivery options that would be convenient and cost-effective for GM's members. The initial ask from the employer was a full service clinic staffed on site at GM world headquarters in Warren, Michigan.
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Health Care Dive
MAY 10, 2022
Mental health services captured a larger percentage of remote care and continued to be the top reason for online provider visits in February, according to data from Fair Health.
Healthcare It News
MAY 10, 2022
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Health Care Dive
MAY 10, 2022
The vendor's revenue grew 11% while expenses climbed 40% year over year, as Amwell invested heavily in research and development for its open architecture Converge platform.
Bill Of Health
MAY 10, 2022
By Angie Swanson-Kyriaco. During opening remarks for Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on December 1, 2021, Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated that the “obligations of motherhood that flow from pregnancy” and the “burden” of parenting are eliminated through adoption. It is no surprise that a conservative, anti-abortion, adoptive parent would have an over-simplified opinion about adoption, expectant parents, and birth parents.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 10, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. May is National Mental Health Awareness month. OSHA provides today’s daily reminder. Suicide is a leading cause of death among working age adults in the United States. It deeply impacts workers, families, and communities. Fortunately, like other workplace fatalities, suicides can be prevented.
Home Health Care
MAY 10, 2022
Value-based care is a continuing focus in home health care, and 2022 brings another massive change as CMS completes its nationwide rollout of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model, now in all 50 states. Agencies in the nine states subjected to the HHVBP test demonstration that began in 2016 have already had several years to develop a clear understanding of what is needed in order to succeed under the HHVBP model, which incentivizes providers based on a series of outcomes.
The Rand Blog
MAY 10, 2022
Monday's all-but-official election of Bongbong Marcos as the next president of the Philippines will hold significant implications for Manila's foreign policy. He is likely to be influenced by the policies of both his father, former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, yielding a new government interested in engaging China while keeping the United States close by.
HIT Consultant
MAY 10, 2022
What You Should Know: – Osmind , a mental health EHR platform helping clinicians and researchers advance new life-saving mental health treatments, today announced a $40 million Series B investment led by DFJ Growth. The Series B round brings the total amount of funding for Osmind to $57M since the company’s founding in 2020. Justin Kao, partner at DFJ Growth, and the co-founder of Helix, will join the Osmind Board of Directors. – Osmind works with mental health providers of all types
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Briggs Healthcare
MAY 10, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America) has published an updated (May 6, 2022) resource: Management of Drug Interactions with Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir (Paxlovid): Resource for Clinicians. Here’s a couple of examples of what you’ll find within this extensive resource: And…. Paxlovid is being used to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in high-risk patients.
HIT Consultant
MAY 10, 2022
Alison Budor, Consultant, Freed Associates. If there’s been a constant in healthcare the past two years, it’s been in the rapidity of change, largely in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Suddenly, healthcare needed to adopt new work models and technologies to provide proper patient care. No wonder healthcare ranked atop all other industries in “new ways of working and processes,” “new tech tools and infrastructure,” and “new staff wellbeing practices,” in a recent survey of 1,200 business leade
Home Health Care
MAY 10, 2022
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) recently floated the idea of home health acquisitions and partnerships. Mostly, it has repeatedly doubled down on the idea that it wants to get into the home. Of the driving forces of that is its own insurer, Aetna. What Aetna believes is best for its members and the health of its business naturally makes its way up to the top of the CVS ladder.
Healthcare Leadership
MAY 10, 2022
Blog by Joe Babaian. In healthcare, the last mile is the link between you and the healthcare network touch point – where care is delivered – the entire healthcare system of people, services, goods, and organizations. This last mile can be as simple and critical as a ride to the clinic or as complex as the smooth exchange of your personally generated healthcare data (wearables, etc.) with and between providers and tools.
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Home Health Care
MAY 10, 2022
Seniors in rural areas often face more hurdles to gaining access to home-based care, especially in comparison to their urban counterparts. Resilient Healthcare’s recent Rural Health Initiative aims to address this. The program is the latest development for the rapidly growing in-home care provider, which specializes in treating higher-acuity patients.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MAY 10, 2022
That is the question answered in a paper by Autor et al. (2022). Some background on PPP: Congress enacted the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which provided uncollateralized, low-interest loans of up to $10 million to firms with fewer than 500 employees—loans that were forgivable on the condition that recipient firms maintained employment and wages at close to pre-crisis levels in the two to six months following loan receipt.
Home Health Care
MAY 10, 2022
This article is brought to you by WellSky. The article is based on a panel discussion that took place during the Home Health Care News Capital and Strategy event with Steve Morgan, Chief Operating Officer at WellSky, Kris Novak, Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions at Amedisys Inc., Bruce Vanderlaan, Managing Director at Mertz Taggart, and Ross Sallade, shareholder at Polsinelli.
Osf Healthcare
MAY 10, 2022
As if delivering a baby prematurely wasn’t stressful enough, there are circumstances when new mothers can’t be physically near their babies. Perhaps the mother had complications following birth and has to stay in her hospital bed or maybe her baby is just too sick for physical contact.
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Home Health Care
MAY 10, 2022
Reverence – a digital home-based care coordination platform – announced its launch and the $9.5 million it has received in funding Tuesday. The funding that Reverence secured, which was led by Target Global, will go towards building out a suite of products. The company has also earmarked some funds for the purposes of growing its team. As the New York-based company continues to build its technology platform, its aim is to partner with health plans and coordinate the care of seniors receiving hom
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 10, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted updated LTC Survey Process documents on May 9, 2022. The Revision History for LTC Survey Process Documents and Files shows these updates: A quick look at the previous updates shows that this is the 3 rd update in the past 30 days. [NOTE: Briggs subscribers to the #1766: Survey Guide – Interpretive Guidelines for Long-Term Care or the #1766E: Survey Guide – Interpretive Guidelines for Long-Term Care manu
Etactics
MAY 10, 2022
Heartbreak and the separation of families aren’t pleasant subjects. But the reality is that there were over 630,000 divorces in 2021 alone. So, avoiding the subject entirely isn’t realistic. Beyond the personal turmoil associated with separating from a spouse, there’s a lot that needs to happen from a legal perspective. Although some states don’t legally require that those involved source a lawyer, they’re highly recommended.
Medbridge Education
MAY 10, 2022
SEATTLE – May 11, 2022 – For the third year in a row, MedBridge has been recognized for its outstanding innovation in the health and medical technology space. MedBridge, the industry-leading professional development and patient engagement solution for healthcare professionals, has been selected as the winner of the Best Overall Patient Engagement Platform Award in […].
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Home Health Care
MAY 10, 2022
The home health segment of The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG), to some extent, carried the company at the beginning of 2022. In the first quarter alone, it had an 11.9% growth in admission rate. After “ sobering ” moments in 2021 – when the company performed beneath its standards – Pennant CEO Daniel Walker is pleased with how the company has turned things around, he said on Tuesday’s first quarter earnings call.
Healthcare Performance
MAY 10, 2022
The FTC regularly sends out consumer alerts on various scams. Turbo Tax’s “free” tax service and car dealer junk add-on fees are just a couple of recent alerts. Many times, these emails hit the trash bin after reading the subject line. This morning, my inbox had the FTC’s latest alert: Shutting Down Tech Support Scams. This morning was different – I opened the email and read the alert.
HIStalk
MAY 10, 2022
Top News Harris rebrands the hospital and large physician practice.
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 10, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing a virtual training program that will review the updated guidance for the IRF-PAI 4.0 and the LCDS 5.0 for providers in the IRF and LTCH settings. Part 1 of the Virtual Training Program is now available. The recorded training session videos deliver foundational knowledge necessary to understand the new items and guidance*.
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.
HIStalk
MAY 10, 2022
CareCloud Reports First Quarter 2022 Results CareCloud reports Q1 results:
Bill Of Health
MAY 10, 2022
By Malinda L. Seymore. Adoption and abortion both rely on concepts of consent, each an exercise in autonomy. Yet in adoption, we rarely consider the constraints on autonomy that often preclude meaningful choice. . When I think of adoption consent, I think of Dawn’s case. She was 18 years old, working part-time as a cashier and living at home with her mother and stepfather when she became pregnant.
HIStalk
MAY 10, 2022
Harris Completes Purchase of Allscripts Hospitals and Large Physician Practices.
HIT Consultant
MAY 10, 2022
What You Should Know: – OncoHost , an AI-powered precision oncology platform, today announced a $35M Series C funding round led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech VC , as well as other prominent investors. Additional investors included leading Israeli financial firm Leumi Partners, Israel’s largest pension fund Menora Mivtachim, OurCrowd and other existing investors. – The funding will go towards expanding OncoHost’s ongoing multicenter PROPHETIC trial as well as support its upcoming U.S. co
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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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