Wed.Jun 29, 2022

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CMS launches voluntary incentive program aiming to cut cancer death rate

Health Care Dive

The Enhancing Oncology Model requires participating providers to offer services including patient navigation, 24-hour access to clinicians, a detailed care plan and screening for social needs.

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Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

Healthcare It News

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. Her role now is multifaceted in that she assists with various parts of CereCore’s go-live implementations, stays up to date on policies and procedures, and works to

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Mass General Brigham's health plan launches rebrand as it looks to expand

Health Care Dive

AllWays Health Partners will change its name to Mass General Brigham Health Plan as it looks to leverage the name recognition of the system and deepen integration with the provider.

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Dubai Health Authority to pilot value-based healthcare with EJADAH

Healthcare It News

Dubai Health Authority ( DHA ) and its health insurance regulatory body have launched a “first-of-its-kind” digital-led programme that is expected to form the foundation for value-based healthcare adoption in the emirate, it has been announced. Unveiled by Dubai Health Insurance Corporation’s (DHIC) CEO, Saleh Al Hashimi, EJADAH will reportedly “help improve government oversight of the health sector by overseeing clinical, economic and human-centric outcomes.

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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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Rising expenses offset small hospital gains in May, report finds

Health Care Dive

The report from Kaufman Hall displays a continued trend of lackluster hospital performance that’s expected to continue throughout 2022, with margins expected to remain below pre-pandemic levels for the rest of the year.

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GluCare.Health launches value-based weight management pilot

Healthcare It News

A Dubai-based healthtech startup has partnered with Novo Nordisk to launch what is considered one of the first value-based reimbursement model trials in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). GluCare.Health – named amongst the 50 most-funded startups in the region by Forbes Middle East at $20 million – and the Danish multinational pharmaceutical company will kick off their partnership with a 150-patient weight management pilot programme in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

Health Populi

As more than 1 in 3 U.S. workers were unemployed during the pandemic and another 38% had reductions in hours and pay, Americans’ personal forecasts and expectations for retirement have been disrupted and dislocated. In its look at The Road Ahead: Addressing Pandemic-Related Setbacks and Strengthening the U.S. Retirement System from the Tramsamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS), we learn about the changing views of U.S. workers on their future work, income, savings, dreams and fears

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Using Research, Data, and Evidence-Informed Practices to Support Family Caregivers

NASHP

Using Research, Data, and Evidence-Informed Practices to Support Family Caregivers Section 5 of the RAISE Act State Policy Roadmap for Family Caregivers. States value family caregiving as a key element of supporting care recipients living in the community. Data is central to states’ abilities to support caregivers in providing care. Data enables the state to understand the demographics and needs of its caregivers and how they utilize supports.

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War of the Worlds: How Cognitive Dissonance and Repression Shape Russian Perceptions of the Conflict in Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Cognitive dissonance theory offers a compelling explanation for one of the confounding phenomena emerging from the war in Ukraine—Russians who refuse to believe their Ukrainian family members' lived experiences of the war. How is it that of the two cognitions Russians are wrestling with, the Kremlin's manufactured truth often prevails?

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Reimagining The Future of Pharmacovigilance (PV): Regulations, Tech, Public Perceptions

HIT Consultant

Barry Mulchrone, Senior Director& Head of Pharmacovigilance Oversight and Analytics, IQVIA Annette Williams, VP & Global Head, Lifecycle Safety, IQVIA. Monitoring the safe and effective use of medicines has now been an essential part of public health policy for several decades. New advances in technology (e.g., ICH E2B for the electronic exchange of case reports) over the past 20 years coupled with progressive legislation have been a catalyst for an explosion in safety data over this per

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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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Russia's Ambitions and the War in Ukraine: Q&A with Dara Massicot

The Rand Blog

Dara Massicot is a senior policy researcher at RAND who specializes in Russian military strategy. In this interview, she discusses Russia's war in Ukraine, its incorrect assumptions about Ukraine's will to fight, and how hard it's going to be for Russia to restore its military capabilities.

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Precision Medicine: Is Personalized Care Really Here?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – New Definitive Healthcare report, Is Personalized Care Really Here? analyzes the US claims data to review how precision medicine has been used in recent years for cancer, transplant matching, genetic testing during pregnancy and more. – Trends within — and adjacent to — precision medicine suggests that consumer preferences for more effective, convenient and affordable care are driving rising rates of precision medicine procedures.

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UnitedHealth Group Exec: MA Plans, Providers Need to Bridge Gap With Communication

Home Health Care

The relationship between Medicare Advantage plans and home health care agencies has not changed much over the last few years. They are often filled with bitterness, yet and lack communication. What has changed is how vocal home health providers have been about the issue. Providers went from shying away from the topic, to discussing it on background, to taking the microphone and more or less rallying their peers to fight back.

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How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education

Bill Of Health

By Leah Pierson. There has been too little evaluation of ethics courses in medical education in part because there is not consensus on what these courses should be trying to achieve. Recently, I argued that medical school ethics courses should help trainees to make more ethical decisions. I also reviewed evidence suggesting that we do not know whether these courses improve decision making in clinical practice.

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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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Tomorrow Health Secures $60 Million, Sets Goal of Serving 100 Million Patients in Home

Home Health Care

Tomorrow Health — a home-based care technology startup that can deliver roughly 40,000 different types of medical supplies into patients’ homes — announced an even larger Series B funding after receiving $25 million in April. Tomorrow Health has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the startup’s total funding to $92.5 million after it secured $25 million in Series A last year.

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Lean Methodology

Life Qi

What is ‘Lean’? Lean is a quality management system with a focus on improving flow and removing ‘waste’ from a system or process and making it as efficient and effective as possible for the customer. Driven by the identification of customer needs, Lean maximises value for the customer and aims to improve processes by removing activities that are non-value-added.

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House Lawmakers Call Out ‘Bad Actors’ Within Medicare Advantage

Home Health Care

House lawmakers are pushing for more oversight of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in light of concerns over higher spending, improper claim denials and access to treatment. A number of lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight subcommittee examined the issue during a hearing that centered around the MA program on Tuesday. “I am deeply concerned with recent reports that seniors in private sector Medicare Advantage plans are facing unwarranted barriers to accessing timely, med

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Mid-week links

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Does having a doctor in the family impact health outcomes? Yes and No. Millionaire migration. BA.5 and the need for variant-proof vaccines. “… doctors desire autonomy and independence, but patients need their healthcare professionals to collaborate, coordinate and agree on best practices.” Bayes factors measure prior or posterior predictive performance?

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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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Lean Methodology

Life Qi

What is ‘Lean’? Lean is a quality management system with a focus on improving flow and removing ‘waste’ from a system or process and making it as efficient and effective as possible for the customer. Driven by the identification of customer needs, Lean maximises value for the customer and aims to improve processes by removing activities that are non-value-added.

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Why Is The Patient Experience So Important In Healthcare?

Sequence Health

How do we define the “patient experience”? According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the patient experience is defined as the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system. This is wide ranging and encompasses their experience with their health plans, doctors, nurses, hospital staff, and facilities. The patient experience, however, is not the same thing as patient satisfaction.

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BREAKING NEWS: CMS TO ENFORCE SNF COMPLIANCE IN OCTOBER

Healthcare Performance

Today, CMS issued new and revised. guidance for long-term care surveyors. This guidance includes the following updates: Clarifications and technical corrections of Phase 2 guidance issued in 2017. New guidance for Phase 3 requirements that went into effect November 28, 2019. Arbitration requirements and guidance which went into effect September 16, 2019.

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Breaking News: CMS Posts Updated Appendix PP and Survey Guidance

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Just a few minutes ago, CMS posted QSO-22-19-NH. This QSO Memorandum has a lot of moving parts that impact ALL LTC facilities. Beneath the hyperlink in the 1 st paragraph of this blog, you’ll find these resources: QSO-22-19-NH (PDF) … 6 pages Appendix PP Guidance to Surveyor for Long Term Care Facilities (PDF) … 847 pages SOM Chapter 5 – Complaint Procedures (PDF) … 101 pages SOM Exhibit 23 – ACTS Required Field (

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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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Merck Digital Sciences Studio Launches to Support Biomedical Startups

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Merck , today announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development. – MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct investment, access to powerful Azure Cloud computing and opportunities to pilot their technologies in collaboration with discovery and clinical scientists at Merck.

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California District Court Finds that EKRA Applies to Compensation Methodologies for Labs’ Employed Marketers Who Market to Physicians

Sheppard Health Law

Since its passage in late 2018, the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) (18 U.S.C. § 220) has posed interpretive challenges. Our detailed critical analysis of EKRA is available here. EKRA prohibits, among other things, the exchange of remuneration for referrals of patients or patronage to a clinical laboratory, or an individual’s use of the services of a clinical laboratory.

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Care Access Acquires IBPClin to Expand Decentralized Clinical Trial Capabilities to Latin America

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Care Access announced the acquisition of IBPClin , a leading clinical trial center in Rio de Janeiro. As a result, Care Access will bring its innovative approach to decentralized clinical research to Latin America. – The acquisition demonstrates progress toward building diverse representation in clinical research and is a strategic first step following Reify Health’s $220 million investment round that was raised to accelerate diversity.

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Patient referral leakage: Are health systems making it easy to do the right thing?

Nordic

I recently spoke with a colleague about a large hospital client which is examining how they can reduce their patient referral leakage. By referral leakage, I mean patients who get primary or emergency care from a doctor at one health system who then seek specialty outpatient care from a clinician at a different health system. On a slightly sarcastic sidenote, I think it is fun when we use terms like “leakage” to describe business-related concepts.

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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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HIStalk Interviews Brian Robertson, CEO, VisiQuate

HIStalk

Brian Robertson, MHSA is founder, chairman, and CEO of VisiQuate.

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Most Healthcare Facilities Lack Holistic Digital Identity Strategy, Report Finds

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthcare facilities are struggling with implementing and enforcing holistic digital identity management strategies, according to the new Imprivata report released today titled, Security and Digital Identity in the Healthcare Industry. – The findings show that despite 69% of respondents saying identity management is important to their organization’s security strategy, 51% have still experienced a security incident in the last year.

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Morning Headlines 6/30/22

HIStalk

Socially Determined Closes $26M Series B Financing to Set the.

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Does improved health impact earnings?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

According to a recent paper by Stephens and Toohey (2022) , the answer is ‘yes’ This paper examines the labor market effects of a randomized health intervention of working-age men that was focused on reducing mortality due to coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. MRFIT succeeded in improving the health of the Special Intervention group along several dimensions.

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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.