Wed.May 17, 2023

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How ChatGPT can boost patient engagement and communication

Healthcare It News

Patient engagement is top of mind for executives and clinicians at hospitals and health systems today. While there may be a need for more constant touchpoints with patients, that would bring with it an unintended physician burden. So, what's the solution? Some say artificial intelligence can play a role. Especially the latest and most powerful flavor – generative AI, the kind behind ChatGPT.

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Uninsured rate fell 18% during pandemic, CDC finds

Health Care Dive

The findings reflect government subsidies aimed at boosting healthcare access during the pandemic, and requirements that states keep Medicaid beneficiaries on their rolls during the public health emergency.

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FTC expands probe into pharmacy benefit managers to GPOs

Fierce Healthcare

FTC expands probe into pharmacy benefit managers to GPOs pminemyer Wed, 05/17/2023 - 16:36

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How to Create a Brand Style Guide for Your Healthcare Organization

Healthcare Success

We’ve written about branding over the years, everything from strategy and concepts to tactics and execution. This time I’d like to focus on what happens when your strategy is said and done. You can now create great content, right? Well, not exactly. You need a brand style guide that communicates your strategy in a guidebook. Without this guide, you can end up with off-brand content.

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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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WellSpan Health partners with Emerus to build three 'neighborhood hospitals' in southern Pennsylvania

Fierce Healthcare

WellSpan Health partners with Emerus to build three 'neighborhood hospitals' in southern Pennsylvania dmuoio Wed, 05/17/2023 - 13:52

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Included Health and DispatchHealth partner on virtual-to-in-home care

Health Care Dive

Included’s care teams will now be able to coordinate in-home care for patients after a telehealth visit through Dispatch’s network of medical practitioners.

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LGBTQ patients and data-driven health equity goals

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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VA renegotiates $10B Oracle Cerner EHR contract with stronger performance metrics, bigger penalties

Fierce Healthcare

VA renegotiates $10B Oracle Cerner EHR contract with stronger performance metrics, bigger penalties hlandi Wed, 05/17/2023 - 13:22

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Public Health's Failure to Communicate with Communities of Color

The Rand Blog

Misinformation thrived during the pandemic, exacerbating health inequities. To meet its core mission, the public health field needs to engage more actively, particularly in communities it has historically failed to equitably protect.

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The Digital Health Continuum – Connecting Clinical Trials to Care Delivery

Fierce Healthcare

The Digital Health Continuum – Connecting Clinical Trials to Care Delivery mteefey Wed, 05/17/2023 - 16:26

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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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KLAS: PointClickCare Leads in Long-Term Care EMR Market Share?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC. As a result, many organizations are pressing their LTC EMR vendors to address documentation challenges, simplify workflows while mitigating costs, and improve satisfaction in a market that has seen an overall decline.

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Found launches new program to assist employers in managing obesity care, including GLP-1 drugs

Fierce Healthcare

Found launches new program to assist employers in managing obesity care, including GLP-1 drugs pminemyer Wed, 05/17/2023 - 14:53

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Neura Health Raises $8M to Expand Virtual Neurology Clinic

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Neura Health , a virtual neurology clinic, announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding to support its newly expanded go-to-market approach. With the funding, Neura will be able to move beyond the consumer market to bring the company’s neurology care offering to the enterprise sector, initially focusing on employers and health plans.

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Insurers set to pay $1.1B in premium rebates this year: KFF

Fierce Healthcare

Insurers set to pay $1.

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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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Home Health Stakeholders Call On CMS To Rectify ‘Significant’ Forecast Errors From 2021, 2022

Home Health Care

Home health stakeholders are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address an alleged forecast error in the home health market basket for 2021 and 2022. Broadly, CMS calculates the expected impact of cost inflation for home health agencies annually. In order to do this, CMS relies on a forecasting methodology from a private entity that is applied to the most recent cost data available for home health care.

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Walgreens to pay San Francisco $230M for its role in opioid epidemic

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens to pay San Francisco $230M for its role in opioid epidemic aburky Wed, 05/17/2023 - 15:45

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How AI Can Improve the Human Connections of Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Dr. Nele Jessel, Chief Medical Officer, athenahealth ChatGPT is the latest artificial intelligence (AI) advancement making waves. Nearly every industry is evaluating the advantages and disadvantages associated with incorporating this technology into their processes. In healthcare specifically, ChatGPT’s AI capabilities are far away from true disruption, but there is a sharp lens on its future potential for improving healthcare operations and delivery of care.

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Subcommittee hearing reveals plenty of targets, but little consensus, for lawmakers' healthcare consolidation reforms

Fierce Healthcare

Subcommittee hearing reveals plenty of targets, but little consensus, for lawmakers' healthcare consolidation reforms dmuoio Wed, 05/17/2023 - 20:59

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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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A Place For Mom Sees Big Business Boost From Home Care Referral Services, Senior Living Synergies

Home Health Care

The senior care referral company A Place For Mom (APFM) is well known, particularly for its senior living placement services. But as home care has become more in demand, APFM has followed suit. The company saw a 30% increase in families inquiring about home care services last year. In line with that was a 20% increase in revenue growth for its home care segment, according to APFM.

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Progressives reintroduce 'Medicare for All' bill

Fierce Healthcare

Progressives reintroduce 'Medicare for All' bill pminemyer Wed, 05/17/2023 - 17:11

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The wellness profiteers of virtual health care

Healthy Debate

The post The wellness profiteers of virtual health care appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Health Equity Gap: Why Cybersecurity Should Be A Priority

HIT Consultant

Dr. Erin Jospe, Chief Healthcare Advisor, World Wide Technology There has been a newfound effort to highlight and address the disparity in health outcomes for patients who belong to one or more marginalized communities. Opportunities for health and wellness are dictated by social, economic, environmental, and systemic factors, not by factors that are inherently genetic or physiologic.

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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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Laguna Health Lands $15M, Wants To Become ‘Waze’ Of Hospital-To-Home Transitions

Home Health Care

Laguna Health, a post-hospital recovery assurance company, announced a $15 million Series A Tuesday. The New York-based company plans to use the new funding to further its AI capabilities and help expand its “go-to-market,” co-founder and CEO Yoni Shtein told Home Health Care News in an email. “The funding enables us to double down on our go-to-market momentum with existing and new partners,” Shtein said.

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LRVHealth Raises $200M Fund V Focused on Care Anywhere

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Today, LRVHealth announced that it raised $200M in its fifth fund to accelerate its track record of driving transformational change in healthcare. In addition, the firm has expanded its team of healthcare operators and insiders to focus on a core investment strategy for this new fund that’s anchored around a central theme: Care Anywhere.

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Kaiser to buy Geisinger?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Yes, this appears to be the case. Medscape reports : In one of the largest healthcare deals to date, Kaiser Permanente is acquiring Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health and investing $5 billion to fold it into a new nonprofit subsidiary called Risant Health, which is set to purchase additional medical groups in coming years. While regulators still must review this initial acquisition, the marriage of Kaiser and Geisinger would create a behemoth with more than $100 billion in annual revenue — 95%

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Healthcare AI News 5/17/23

HIStalk

News OpenAI rolls out 70 third-party plug-ins for ChatGPT that.

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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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U.S. Peacetime Policy Toward Russia: Q&A with Miranda Priebe and Bryan Frederick

The Rand Blog

Priebe and Frederick discuss the implications of the findings in their new report, Future U.S. Peacetime Policy Toward Russia: Exploring the Benefits and Costs of a Less-Hardline Approach.

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Servant Leadership at Its Finest: A Q&A With Life Science Leader, Liz Paulson

Lexis Nexis

The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) recognized Liz Paulson, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Life Science Leader, with its prestigious STAR Award at its Woman of the Year luncheon on May 16, 2023. The HBA awards its annual Strategic Transformation Achievement Recognition (STAR) to a volunteer committed to advance and transform the organization while serving as a mentor and leader to others.

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PatientsLikeMe & MGH Partner to Support ALS Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: PatientsLikeMe (PLM), announced a partnership with the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to share de-identified patient data that can improve research outcomes for ALS. The company’s outcomes-rich data is now freely available to the international research community and will be a significant addition to Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) database comprising anonymized data from 29 clinical trials an

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EMTALA and Pregnancy Care Remains a Federal Enforcement Priority

Sheppard Health Law

On May 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced two investigations of hospitals that failed to offer necessary stabilizing care to a pregnant individual experiencing an emergency medical condition (“EMC”), in violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (“EMTALA”). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released a public statement and a letter to hospitals and provider associations , emphasizing the obligations of Medicare-particip

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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.