Wed.Jul 20, 2022

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'I am terrified': Doctors warn lawmakers of grim health impacts from Roe reversal

Health Care Dive

Anti-abortion laws have had a chilling effect on patient care, resulting in providers — concerned about the potential for legal action — delaying or denying in some cases life-saving services, doctors told a House committee.

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The Old Gays Working with Walgreens on TikTok: Breaking Down Stereotypes and Having Fun with Health

Health Populi

How much do I love this media campaign from Walgreens , collaborating with the foursome The Old Gays who have a growing multi-million person fan base on TikTok? How much? A whole lot! Kudos to Walgreens for creating engaging, informative, and fun! content to learn about how people can benefit from using the company’s app … for, Ordering prescriptions (90-day supply).

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Providence restructures leadership team, cuts executive jobs

Health Care Dive

The health system will reduce its regional executive teams to three divisions from seven as it aims to be a leaner organization amid continued headwinds.

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Updates to MDS 3.0 RAI User’s Manual 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted an update to the current (v1.17.1R October 2019) RAI User’s Manual. It includes the revision of an existing page and the addition of a new page. contains revisions to pages in Chapter 3, Section I, of the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual v1.17.1R that clarifies the need for a detailed evaluation and appropriate diagnostic information to support a diagnosis, such as for a mental disorder, prior to coding the diagnosis on the MDS,

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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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JPMorgan's healthcare arm to invest $30M in plan administrator Centivo

Health Care Dive

It’s Morgan Health’s third major investment in a startup looking to lower the costs of employer-sponsored healthcare in the past year.

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Frontline Honors: Cathy Creevey, BAYADA Home Health Care

Home Health Care

Cathy Creevey, home health aide for BAYADA Home Health Care, has been named a 2022 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News. To become a Frontline Honoree, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a dedicated, high-performing frontline worker who delivers exceptional experiences and outcomes; a passionate worker who knows how to put their vision into action for the good of seniors and aging industry professionals; and an advocate for seniors, their industry, and

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The Benefits of Supporting Medical Information Teams with AI Agents

HIT Consultant

Richard Marcil, Chief Customer Officer at ConversationHEALTH Simon Johns, Director of Medical Information and Marketed Product Safety at IQVIA. Life science organizations field a wide range of requests for medical information from the healthcare providers and patients they serve. Addressing these inquiries is important from numerous perspectives, from customer support and pharmacovigilance to post-market surveillance, medication adherence and patient outcomes. .

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Hospitals need 'transformational changes' to stem margin erosion

Health Care Dive

A combination of higher rate hikes, aggressive cost-cutting and M&A could help ailing nonprofits avoid negative rating actions, according to Fitch.

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Formerly a SNF-Based Platform, connectRN is Now Honed in on Home Health

Home Health Care

The connectRN platform was built to find nurses and other health care professionals work, particularly in skilled nursing facilities (SNF). But over time, workers were asking enough about home health opportunities that the company thought it should get further into home-based care. Serendipitously, Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) came into the picture and partook in connectRN’s $76 million funding round , announced last December.

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Elevance steps away from New York Medicare Advantage contract amid continued litigation

Health Care Dive

CEO Gail Boudreaux told investors Wednesday the insurer "needed greater certainty" in order to continue with the contract.

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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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Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell

HIT Consultant

Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell. For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. However, with the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule , consumers, specifically Medicaid members, there is a greater push to give access to, and ownership of, this data.

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How PathWell Went From Tech Company to Growing Home Health Provider

Home Health Care

PathWell started as a technology company with the goal to help other operators with back-end issues. When COVID-19 hit, everything changed. The Connecticut-based company, at the direction of co-founder and CEO Raman Brar, decided to change the direction of the company to become a provider itself. Over the past two years, PathWell has grown into a multi-state provider through organic expansion and acquisitions.

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Total Quality Management

Life Qi

What is Total Quality Management. Total Quality Management or TQM is a quality management approach often used in Quality Improvement (QI), with a focus on producing quality products and services in order to fulfil customer needs. TQM is described as: “an effective system for integrating the quality development, quality maintenance, and quality improvement efforts of the various groups in an organisation so as to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allow full custome

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AMA recommends that physicians should learn about health economics

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Should physicians learn about health economics? The American Medical Association (AMA) thinks so. In a statement from 2019 , the organization stated. The American Medical Association (AMA) today adopted new policy expanding its efforts aimed at ensuring all medical students and residents receive training in health care economics. Building on the AMA’s ongoing work to transform the way future physicians are trained to deliver care within modern health systems, the new policy encourages medical sc

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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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Here’s How Insurers Can Take a More Strategic Approach to Community Investment

Healthcare Leadership Council

This is a guest post by John Lumpkin, M.D., President of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) has been committed to engagement with the communities we serve for nearly a century. This work is not about writing checks or “giving back.” Instead, we think of our community support as “investing in.

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Many Hospitals Receiving Discounted Drugs May Not Offer Patients Pharmaceutical Assistance

Bill Of Health

By Amy Cook, JD, Jonathan Larsen, JD, MPP, and Sabrina Ruchelli, JD. Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires that pharmaceutical manufacturers give discounts on specified outpatient drugs to certain covered entities who typically serve low-income or otherwise underserved patients, including hospitals and clinics. However, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are no measures built into the program to assure that 340B program discounts are being used to sup

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Only 22% of Health Systems Have A Custom Mobile Engagement Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Nine out of ten healthcare executives believe a well-designed, consumer-facing mobile app would help their organization achieve its digital strategy goals, according to a recent survey commissioned by Gozio Health , a location-aware mobile engagement platform provider. – 82% of health system executives plan to increase investment in patient-facing mobile technology over the next three years.

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Recruitment Announcement – Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for Hospice QRP and Home Health QRP Health Equity Quality Measure Development 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Abt Associates is currently recruiting a wide range of hospice, home health, and health equity stakeholders—for example, providers, patient advocates, quality improvement, and health equity experts—to participate in a Technical Expert Panel (TEP) to provide input on a proposed health equity structural composite measure for both hospice and home health care settings.

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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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New Study Links One Drop’s AI-Powered Blood Glucose Forecasts to Better Engagement and Diabetes Outcomes

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – One Drop, a leader in precision health solutions for people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, announced outcomes from a retrospective cohort study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) on the effects of its novel AI-powered blood glucose (BG) forecasting feature. – In the present study, cohort members using One Drop’s glucose forecasting feature were more likely to log glucose values in the app than those who did n

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Closing Gaps in Care with Advanced Interoperability Capabilities

Lexis Nexis

For health plans participating in risk-based agreements, gaps in care have serious implications for the health outcomes of members and their ability to attain higher quality scores necessary to receive financial bonuses and drive member enrollment. To remediate these care gaps, payers must improve their ability to access data by making significant changes to their health IT infrastructure.

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Morning Headlines 7/21/22

HIStalk

How Apple is empowering people with their health information A.

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Why Socially Determined Wants to Further Involve Home-Based Care Companies in ‘Information Gathering’

Home Health Care

The core of Socially Determined’s mission is figuring out what influences the decisions people make about their health care. Trenor Williams, the company’s CEO, has a family medicine background whose mother ran Meals on Wheels in the Agency on Aging department in southwestern Virginia. “This is all near and dear to my heart,” Williams said, the CEO of Socially Determined, to Home Health Care News.

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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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Compliance lessons from recent fraud cases

Healthcare Performance

Outlier billing patterns will get you noticed! A New York ENT physician was convicted of filing false claims with Medicare and Medicaid. The physician submitted claims totaling about $585,000 to Medicare and Medicaid and was paid roughly $191,000. The fraudulent act was upcoding of ear exams or ear wax removal to an incision procedure of the external ear.