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How digital and information officers are shaking up health systems

Health Care Dive

Healthcare Dive caught up with Providence’s Sara Vaezy and Intermountain’s Craig Richardville just months into their tenure to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead as patients have come to expect more digital access.

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Google rolls out search features that aim to make it easier to sign up for Medicaid, Medicare

Fierce Healthcare

Google rolls out search features that aim to make it easier to sign up for Medicaid, Medicare. pminemyer. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 11:12.

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MetroHealth fires CEO Akram Boutros over almost $2M in unreported bonuses

Health Care Dive

Boutros has denied all allegations of embezzlement. His lawyer said his firing was “the latest of a series of retaliatory acts” against Boutros after he raised concerns over the “unauthorized hiring of the new CEO.

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How a new fertility business hopes to disrupt the traditional investor approach and preserve clinician decision-making

Fierce Healthcare

How a new fertility business hopes to disrupt the traditional investor approach and preserve clinician decision-making. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 13:34.

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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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Centene continues to sell ancillary business units

Health Care Dive

The sale of Magellan Specialty Health is the latest divestiture in Centene’s plan to sell non-core assets as part of a long-term strategy to improve the company’s profit margin.

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ACA signups top 3M since start of open enrollment, a 17% bump compared to last year

Fierce Healthcare

ACA signups top 3M since start of open enrollment, a 17% bump compared to last year. rking. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 11:58.

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There's an 'arms race' in health tech. Who could be the next M&A target?

Fierce Healthcare

There's an 'arms race' in health tech. Who could be the next M&A target? hlandi. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 17:55.

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Midwest health systems on track to merge

Health Care Dive

At a time when the pace of healthcare mergers has slowed, Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System are forming a system of 11 hospitals.

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Chaotic work conditions during COVID helped foster clinician burnout

Fierce Healthcare

Chaotic work conditions during COVID helped foster clinician burnout. fdiamond. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 13:06.

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Future Leader: Nicholas D’Addabbo, Vice President of Strategy, Innovive Health

Home Health Care

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Nicholas D’Addabbo, vice president of strategy at Innovive Health, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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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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Chutes & Ladders—Geisinger's CIO quietly exits; Amedisys CEO ushered out after low earnings

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Geisinger's CIO quietly exits; Amedisys CEO ushered out after low earnings. aburky. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 14:09.

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Lunit, CARPL.ai Partner to Accelerate AI-Powered Medical Imaging

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lunit signed a global distribution agreement to provide its AI-based radiology solutions for clinical use via CARPL.ai’s platform. Lunit is a South Korean-based AI software company devoted to developing AI solutions for precision diagnostics and treatment support, mainly focused on conquering cancer. – The partnership will deliver Lunit INSIGHT CXR and Lunit INSIGHT MMG for commercial use in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, India, and Singapore.

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What’s Next For Amedisys After Paul Kusserow’s Return As CEO

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Two days after Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) announced that Chris Gerard’s tenure in its top spot would be short-lived, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced the same about its then-CEO, Bob Chapek. One is a home health company, and the other is a mass media and entertainment conglomeration. . Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.

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3 Seismic Shifts Transforming Women’s Health – FemTech

HIT Consultant

Leah Sparks, CEO and Founder of Wildflower Health. My company recently celebrated its 10 th anniversary, which prompted me to reflect on the progress of the women’s health sector over the last decade. There has been so much change, so many technological innovations and clinical breakthroughs. And yet, two things haven’t changed all that much. Our outcomes in the U.S. have not improved; in fact they are in decline.

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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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B.C. physicians’ Pap-a-palooza like a ‘golden ticket’ for patients

Healthy Debate

The post B.C. physicians’ Pap-a-palooza like a ‘golden ticket’ for patients appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Site Enablement Platforms Can Accelerate Clinical Trials by 6  Weeks and Reduce Costs by Over $1M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Florence HealthcareTM , a clinical research technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, recently announced the completion of a year-long third-party study on the impact of Site Enablement PlatformsTM on clinical research timelines and costs. – The study by Marketcap Consulting is the first to compare how traditional site management approaches differ from site-first Site Enablement Platforms.

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Johns Hopkins’ Artificial Intelligence-Based Blood Test Detects Liver Cancer

Health IT Analytics

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Provider Burnout Has Leveled Out in 2022; Staffing Shortages Rises, KLAS Reports

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know : – Value-based care (VBC) has been established as a priority among healthcare organizations and payers as participants have gained more experience in managing their quality metrics and contracts, ultimately realizing returns on their investments. – For their latest report , KLAS talked to 54 healthcare executives—including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMIOs, COOs, VPs and directors of population health, and VPs of analytics—to gauge how they are moving beyond pay-for-perfo

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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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States Make Progress on Palliative Care

NASHP

States Make Progress on Palliative Care November 23, 2022 / by Ella Taggart and Salom Teshale. Palliative care is team-based care that provides support and relief, usually alongside curative treatment, to those with complex or life-threatening conditions. High-quality palliative care focuses on improving quality of life and can avoid unnecessary or unwanted treatment for people facing serious illness through pain and symptom management, communication, and coordinated care.

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How Are Healthcare Providers Using Video For Training & Communications?

Sequence Health

Video is quickly becoming a vital part of the healthcare landscape. From patient care to training and communications, video is being used innovatively to improve patient outcomes and provider efficiency. For example, animated explainer videos educate patients on healthcare treatments, operations, and other procedures. This type of content can easily explain complex topics in a visual format that engages patients and helps them understand their options.

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PayZen Nabs $200M for Personalized, No-Cost Patient Financing

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PayZen , the fintech company tackling healthcare affordability with personalized, no-cost patient financing solutions raises a $220 million growth round. The round is composed of $20 million in equity financing and a $200 million credit facility led by 7wireVentures , while Viola Credit provided a $200 million warehouse credit facility to support continued market expansion. – PayZen will use the funds to scale its operations and product development as the inte

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Three new holiday shareables from Get Ready

Michele Late

As you head out for your Thanksgiving and other holiday celebrations this year, check out three new shareables available from Get Ready! They focus on holiday safety and preparedness, so this year's holiday season can be the best one yet. Use our food safety shareable to remind folks that their food needs to be cooked fully ( 165 degrees Fahrenheit for your turkey ) to enjoy without risk for foodborne illness.

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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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What Has COVID Ever Done For Us? Here 9 Examples

HIT Consultant

Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell. The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink. It may also be remembered as a time of unparalleled cooperation and advancement in technologies, prompted by the Covid pandemic , that provided enduring benefits for generations to come.

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ICD-11 Updates for 2022

Icanotes

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has been the foundation for medical coding, clinical workflows and research across the world, but the current version is about 30 years old. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) even says it's outdated from clinical and classification perspectives and is well beyond due for a major update.

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What Home-Based Care Providers Should Know About How Private Equity Firms Think

Home Health Care

The public perception of private equity (PE) firms is not always rosy, but for health care providers – especially founder-led ones – they can sometimes be a proverbial knight in shining amor. Innovation, expansion and financial freedom can all be achieved through the backing of a PE firm. Like most things in the world, home-based care providers considering engagement with one will likely find there’s good and bad in the proposition.

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How to Do Healthcare and Medical SEO?

Sequence Health

If you’re a healthcare provider or medical professional, then you know that online visibility is critical. Today, patients turn to the internet to research their health concerns and find the best providers. That’s why ensuring your website is optimized for search engines is essential. For example, keywords are some of the most critical components of SEO.

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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.