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How remote patient monitoring improves care, saves money for chronic care

Healthcare It News

It is estimated that 50% of the U.S. population has a chronic disease, and caring for them is consuming 86% of healthcare costs. Many organizations still rely on traditional chronic care models characterized by periodic in-person encounters that can be inconvenient, expensive and insufficiently frequent. The question is: How will hospitals provide more robust, timely and cost-efficient care moving forward?

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Following Roe ruling, Biden administration warns payers they must cover contraception

Health Care Dive

Historically, insurer compliance with this provision of the law has been inconsistent, but the stakes for women’s health are significantly higher given the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday.

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The Legacy of COVID-19 Is Shaping Consumers’ Purchases for Health-At-Home

Health Populi

While inflation and financial stress is depressing consumer demand for many purchases the “legacy of COVID-19” is having lost-lasting impacts on how people see their homes — especially as sites for health and wellness. GfK highlights the growing interest in wellbeing and device demand in The State of Consumer Technology and Durables 2002 insights from GfK.

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'Most socially responsible' hospitals ranked

Health Care Dive

The Lown Institute index, which measures hospitals with metrics such as value and health equity, found that the best performers were often located in smaller communities.

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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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New Oncology, Primary Care Models Could Offer Risk-Based Avenues for Home-Based Care Providers

Home Health Care

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are taking steps to improve oncology care and primary care this week. While both are not directly related to home-based care, the federal government pushing this should pique providers’ interest. After all, both primary and oncology care have been woven into the home-based care landscape more and more over the last few years.

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Some state abortion laws put on hold as providers grapple with aftermath of Dobbs decision

Health Care Dive

In Louisiana and Utah, judges put temporary holds on abortion bans and set future court dates to litigate the issue. Other states still have trigger laws currently in effect.

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Following Post-Spinoff Comedown, The Pennant Group May Be Poised For Comeback

Home Health Care

Since its spinoff from The Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG), The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) has yet to unlock the upside of its home health and hospice businesses. That may soon change, according to both industry insiders and its current president and future CEO – Brent Guerisoli – who told Home Health Care News he is excited about the prospects of the company’s home health business.

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News 6/29/22

HIStalk

Top News The National Academy of Medicine publishes a paper.

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Lifespark Taps Former Optum Leader to Lead Company’s ‘Aggressive Growth Goals’

Home Health Care

There are several trends in the home-based care industry that are colliding all at once. The baby boomers are getting older, seniors want to age at home more than ever and families who have typically cared for their loved ones are moving away, which is creating a need for digital integration. Those are all macro trends that Matt Nyquist, Lifespark’s new chief population health officer, has his eye on as he steps into a new role with the Minneapolis-based senior care provider.

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Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model: HHVBP Newsletter – June 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The HHVBP Newsletter provides home health agencies (HHAs) with the latest information about the expanded HHVBP Model as well as important tools, news, and timely insights from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the HHVBP Model Technical Assistance (TA) Team.

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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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What Better Way to Use the Arsenal of Democracy?

The Rand Blog

At what point can the United States and other countries no longer afford the massive transfer of weapons to the Ukrainians, lest they jeopardize the readiness of their own militaries? When does the arsenal of democracy shift to the arsenal for self? These are questions that are starting to be raised as the demand for weapons becomes clear in what is now a protracted war in Ukraine.

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Innovation For Hospitals Implant Management

Vie Healthcare

Hospitals spend between 55% to 65% of their expense on implants and management. For instance, these expenses can be found in the catheterization lab, the Operating room , and the Women’s Center, among many other departments in a hospital. Yet, the documentation for the implants is managed on slips of paper with stickers. Moreover, there can be 10-15 different manufacturers and representatives who have their specific management of documenting a case, providing that to a hospital to wade thr

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NHSN Event-Level Vaccination Forms: Office Hours and FAQs – June 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. NHSN has posted the slideset from the Event-Level Vaccination Forms: Office Hours and FAQs. There are 58 slides from this webinar. The focus of this webinar was item #3 in the above overview slide – the Person-Level Vaccination Forms. You’ll find many other such resources on the NHSN Weekly HCP & Resident COVID-19 Vaccination website, including the June 2022/Quarter 3 Guidance Document.

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CMMC-AB May Town Hall: Key Takeaways

Etactics

May’s CMMC-AB Town Hall marked the end of an era. There will be no more CMMC-AB Town Halls discussing what the accreditation body is doing to prepare the ecosystem of consultants, educators and assessors for the upcoming final CMMC rule. That’s because, in May’s Town Hall, the CMMC-AB announced their rebranding to The Cyber AB. If you missed the event and you’re following along, this is what you need to know: The CMMC-AB is now doing business as The Cyber AB.

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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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ClearSky Health Expands Contract With Oracle Cerner

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: ClearSky Health , a network of inpatient rehabilitation facilities is expanding its contract an additional five years with Oracle Cerner to support nine additional facilities in the next 18 months with Oracle Cerner as their EHR supplier. – The partnership to deliver increased continuity, helping clinicians understand a patient’s journey from admission to discharge.

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Almost half of nation's OB-GYN residents train in states poised to ban abortion

Health Care Dive

Physicians warn that the Supreme Court ruling will have a dire impact on training, ultimately affecting patient care.

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Indegene Partners with Amwell to Customized Digital Patient Engagement

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Indegene , a technology-led healthcare solutions provider, today announced a partnership with Amwell to facilitate life sciences organizations to connect patients to better quality care and drive better health outcomes. – This partnership will facilitate Indegene to enable life sciences organizations to drive virtual care automation and patient companionship to advance longitudinal care, behavioral health, and other specialty and chronic care segments.

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Morning Headlines 6/29/22

HIStalk

The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future.

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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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Why Health Plans Are Vital to Health Equity

HIT Consultant

Rachael Jones, SVP of Performance Analytics and Quality at Cotiviti. In Florida, where Black residents are three times more likely to be hospitalized or die from asthma-related complications than white residents, one researcher’s efforts to “strip away the jargon” related to asthma treatment strengthened patients’ engagement in a year-long clinical trial.

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How clinicians can use AI to improve patient care

Meditech

AI can suggest the newest movies for you to watch or navigate you to your destination with a single click — if AI helps people in their everyday lives, why shouldn’t healthcare utilize this technology too? On the latest MEDITECH Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jayson Marwaha, MD, MSc, a general surgery resident and postdoctoral fellow in surgical AI at Harvard Medical School , to learn more about how AI is helping shape the future of healthcare.