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The shifting digital health investment landscape in 2022

Health Care Dive

Signs point toward another historic year in VC investment, experts say, which will benefit the medical system as it evolves to encapsulate more digital services.

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Here's why UnitedHealth Group's CMO says virtual care is a 'game changer' to reach underserved populations

Fierce Healthcare

Here's why UnitedHealth Group's CMO says virtual care is a 'game changer' to reach underserved populations. hlandi. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 16:19.

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OIG audit targets hospital compliance with surprise billing rule

Health Care Dive

The effort aims to gauge whether providers receiving federal relief funds to help survive the pandemic complied with restrictions on unexpected bills for inpatients with COVID-19.

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As HHS releases another $2B in COVID relief payments, hospitals call for Congress to cover delta, omicron expenses

Fierce Healthcare

As HHS releases another $2B in COVID relief payments, hospitals call for Congress to cover delta, omicron expenses. dmuoio. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 12:13.

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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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Hospitals request more federal help battling rising labor expenses, staffing shortages amid omicron

Health Care Dive

The hospital lobby also is renewing its push in requesting the Federal Trade Commission investigate travel-nurse staffing firms for anticompetitive behavior as facilities have seen elevated pay rates throughout the pandemic.

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Lawmakers, AHA urge White House to investigate nurse staffing agencies' price hikes

Fierce Healthcare

Lawmakers, AHA urge White House to investigate nurse staffing agencies' price hikes. dmuoio. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 17:18.

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Flatiron Health inks RWD partnership with Japanese cancer center to drive international expansion

Fierce Healthcare

Flatiron Health inks RWD partnership with Japanese cancer center to drive international expansion. hlandi. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 19:49.

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Customer service for healthcare: Improve patient and staff experiences with efficient service

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: ServiceNow Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Analytics Interoperability Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: ServiceNow.

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Insurers missing the mark on mental health parity, new federal report says

Fierce Healthcare

Insurers missing the mark on mental health parity, new federal report says. pminemyer. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 15:01.

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Customer operations in healthcare: Building blocks to transform patient experiences and minimize operational complexity

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: ServiceNow Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Analytics Interoperability Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: ServiceNow.

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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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Judge lifts block preventing former ThedaCare employees from starting new roles at Ascension

Fierce Healthcare

Judge lifts block preventing former ThedaCare employees from starting new roles at Ascension. dmuoio. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 15:46.

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US turns to Gilead's COVID-19 drug to help counter omicron

Health Care Dive

With other COVID-19 treatments ineffective against the variant or in short supply, the FDA is expanding its approval of Veklury to include outpatient use.

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Aledade taps former North Carolina HHS secretary to run its new health services unit

Fierce Healthcare

Aledade taps former North Carolina HHS secretary to run its new health services unit. hlandi. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 12:13.

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Diagnosis: Stress, Anxiety and Anger – the 2022 Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report

Health Populi

As physicians deal on the frontlines in Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re stressed, anxious, and angry concludes the Medscape 2022 Physician Burnout & Depression Report. This year, the tagline focuses on stress, anxiety and anger. [Over the past couple of years, the study has used the word “suicide” in the title of the report, FYI].

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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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First telehealth-focused VC fund launches with $75M for enterprise solutions in mental health, obesity, pediatrics

Fierce Healthcare

First telehealth-focused VC fund launches with $75M for enterprise solutions in mental health, obesity, pediatrics. rtorrence. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 14:38.

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Bill Of Health

By James R. Jolin. U.S. incarcerated populations have long dealt with chronic sleep deprivation, often with little to no reprieve. This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. Estimates for the incidence of such sleep deprivation in correctional facilities are admittedly varied (likely a consequence of little epidemiological sleep research in the U.S. correctional systems on the whole), but

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Change Healthcare mulling sale of its ClaimsXten arm to secure federal OK for UnitedHealth merger

Fierce Healthcare

Change Healthcare mulling sale of its ClaimsXten arm to secure federal OK for UnitedHealth merger. pminemyer. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 17:32.

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Bayada to Lay Off Nearly 700 Employees, Close Four Locations

Home Health Care

Bayada Home Health Care is laying off 682 workers in Florida while closing five of its locations in the state. The Business Observer was the first to report the news. The locations hit hardest by the layoffs are Brooskville, Brandon and New Port Richey, where 306, 150 and 144 workers will lose their jobs, respectively, according to the report. Other locations that were affected include Clearwater and Tampa.

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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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Atlas Health banks $40M in latest funding round to expand software, sales team

Fierce Healthcare

Atlas Health banks $40M in latest funding round to expand software, sales team. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 16:35.

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Should doctors care about your address?

Nordic

If there’s anything I like, it’s pushing the envelope a little. Not too much, mind you. Just the right amount. I think I did a good job with the title of this blog post. It’s a bit provocative, but I suspect I won’t get too much hate mail. It’s an odd question, really. Should your doctor care about your address? From a medical perspective, does it matter where you live?

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Swiftarc Ventures Launches $75M Telemedicine Venture Fund

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Swiftarc Ventures , an NYC-based early and growth-stage consumer and consumer health-focused venture capital firm announced it has launched a $75M telehealth -focused venture fund. – The telehealth fund is aimed at harnessing breakthrough innovation opportunities currently emerging from key legislative changes in healthcare delivery within the United States and globally.

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Transition to Integrated Care Systems

Life Qi

There are many changes in play currently in the way the NHS is structured, not least the transition to Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in England - with the Health and Care Bill setting out how health and social care should be integrated - and the creation of integrated care systems (ICSs), set out in NHS Long Term Plan. ICSs were set to be put on a statutory footing from April 2022, and there has naturally been a huge amount of guidance produced in order to ensure the creation of strong and effe

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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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Make “Delighting the Patient” a differentiator for your organization

Meditech

When you’re a small fish in a big pond, you need to do something to stand out from the crowd and be noticed. The same holds true for when you are a relatively small healthcare organization surrounded by giants. You need a differentiator — something that you can give patients that others cannot. With consumerism becoming prevalent in healthcare and patients exhibiting more control over how and where they receive care, it is no longer enough to merely improve the experience for patients.

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Book Review: The Right Price

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The book The Right Price: A Value-Based Prescription for Drug Costs is a fantastic book for individuals interested in understanding why value-based drug pricing makes sense. It is a bit more technical and more detailed than the average health policy book, but there are few formulas or detailed methodological explanations. Rather, the book provides a compelling argument and a great review of the literature on the benefits of and challenges of implementing value-based drug pricing.

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News 1/26/22

HIStalk

Top News Cerner lists the Golden Parachute Compensation that will.

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Operational Efficiency Is the Superpower Your Workforce Needs

Solution Reach

There is a reason that people are referring to this time as "the Great Resignation." One of the biggest impacts of COVID-19 and the shutdowns was changing the way we look at work. This happened on multiple levels. The most obvious was that people could work from anywhere which gave many people more options. They were no longer locked into a job they did not really enjoy because they could not move to a new location.

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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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Using Machine Learning For Personalized Breast Cancer Screenings 

Health IT Analytics

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Slingshot: an effort to help Mission Partners launch ideas

Osf Healthcare

At OSF HealthCare, we help take the pressure off of Mission Partners working to create, grow or scale their health care concepts through the OSF Innovation Studio. Our team is focused on rapidly advancing ideas from exploration to implementation or commercialization within and outside of the Ministry.

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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting 2022

Twistle

UPCOMING EVENT. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting 2022 – Chicago, IL. AAOS 2022 is the most highly anticipated and innovative orthopaedic event of the year. Join Health Catalyst in Chicago, IL at McCormick Place between March 22 – 26, 2022. Be sure to stop by the Health Catalyst Booth 4275 to learn how your organization can improve patient outcomes using Twistle by Health Catalyst patient engagement technology.

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Telemedicine Platform Offers Outpatient COVID-19 Treatment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Alpha Medical , a virtual primary care group that empowers women to take control of their healthcare by offering a medical team specifically trained for a woman’s unique needs, announces it will prescribe PAXLOVID, an investigational medication used to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and children 12 years of age and older, and are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death, under a EUA. – Alpha Medical, whose

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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.