Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. There are many signposts pointing to the various flavors of mental and behavioral health challenges, from younger peoples’ greater risk of depression and suicide ideation to increased deaths of despair due to overdose among middle-aged people.

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Cloud Blogs

JANUARY 3, 2022

In every industry around the world, the past several months have seen organizations adjust to challenges, pursue new business opportunities, and accelerate their digital capabilities in the face of the pandemic that has reshaped our world. Disruption demands the capacity to turn challenge into opportunity. In today's world, this capacity is built on a strong digital foundation.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2022

John Cherf, MD, MPH, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Lumere, a GHX company. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians were attuned to the operational and financial challenges faced by most hospitals and healthcare systems. They just weren’t necessarily living those challenges firsthand. . However, when procedures were canceled and demand for supplies soared, the experience became more personal.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2022

The Richmond, Virginia-based home care provider Care Advantage Inc. went through a dealmaking lull during the early days of COVID-19. Unfortunately, the pandemic has not yet completely subsided. But that lull certainly has. On Dec. 29, Care Advantage announced it acquired Dover, Delaware-based Silver Lining Home Healthcare. With the deal, the company has made three acquisitions in as many months.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2022

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic , physicians were attuned to the operational and financial challenges faced by most hospitals and healthcare systems. They just weren’t necessarily living those challenges firsthand. . However, when procedures were canceled and demand for supplies soared, the experience became more personal. Many physicians experienced steep revenue decline as well as the challenges of securing the right medical supplies when they were needed.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2022

In-home care giant AccentCare is starting the new year off with an identity refresh. The goal: to help gain traction in a fragmented market and better define its organizational mission. Unveiled Monday, the refresh includes a shift toward a single, company-wide name, plus an updated logo. It also includes a new vision and corporate purpose to help guide AccentCare into 2022 and beyond, CEO Steve Rodgers told Home Health Care News.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

The 2022 South Korean presidential campaign has focused largely on personal attacks and allegations of corruption with little attention being paid to pressing issues facing the nation. The absence of meaningful policy debate and clarity on policy deliverables will continue to leave the South Korean electorate largely uninformed about what may be the most important decision they will make in 2022.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2022

Last April, Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS), Homecare Homebase (HCHB) and CellTrak announced they were teaming up to build “the industry’s first integrated, enterprise-level solution for all types of home-based care.”. The next big step in that collaboration has come for two of those organizations. Hearst, the parent company of HCHB, has struck an agreement to acquire the Chicago-based CellTrak for an undisclosed sum.

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Life Qi

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we begin the New Year, we look back at 2021 and are continually grateful for the Life QI Community that has built up around us. 2021 continued to be a tough year with Covid still at the forefront but this didn't stop lots incredible work happening in QI. The passion for quality improvement in healthcare is so powerful and continues to drive brilliant work across the globe and we are honoured to be a part of that.

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NASHP

JANUARY 3, 2022

As states continue developing their health equity strategies, an emerging consideration is how commercial algorithms that are used by states’ Medicaid managed care organizations to inform clinical care decisions may exhibit significant bias. . In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use, noting that “AI holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwi

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 3, 2022

Performance-based risk sharing (PBRS) have grown in importance in recent years. While most PBRS are used for expensive pharmaceutical products, PBRS also have been used with medical device and diagnostic manufacturers. Device/diagnostic PBRS may differ from those of pharmaceuticals for a number of reasons. First, while health insurers bear the burden of paying for most pharmaceuticals, device and diagnostics are relatively more likely to be reimbursed by hospitals or health systems.

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Cloud Blogs

JANUARY 3, 2022

In every industry around the world, the past several months have seen organizations adjust to challenges, pursue new business opportunities, and accelerate their digital capabilities in the face of the pandemic that has reshaped our world. Disruption demands the capacity to turn challenge into opportunity. In today's world, this capacity is built on a strong digital foundation.

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 3, 2022

This post was originally published on the Verfassungsblog as part of our joint symposium on international pandemic lawmaking. By Ching-Fu Lin and Chuan-Feng Wu. The COVID-19 pandemic has blatantly exposed the flaws of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its International Health Regulations (IHR) in addressing cross-border communicable diseases. Commentators have examined the IHR’s decades of struggle in fulfilling its objectives to control cross-border pandemics such as COVID-19, pointing ou

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HIStalk

JANUARY 3, 2022

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Clearwave Inc

JANUARY 3, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Incorporating a robust and modern technological approach to their business is no longer optional for a practice that wants to stay competitive in the current market. Patients no longer desire a simple way to schedule an appointment. They now expect it. The demand for this solution to patient scheduling needs has dramatically increased as the world has changed and evolved.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2022

In these audiograms, taken from Episode 28 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Trends in Healthcare, Lisa Miller discusses trends in healthcare cost management. Robust Contract Management Is Vital for Cost Reduction in Healthcare. The most common concerns I hear when I speak to healthcare leaders are around contract management. That might be a contract that needs reviewing or concerns about benchmarking.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy director Rhianna Rogers reflects on her 2022 resolution: Draw together folks from different cultural perspectives to speak with and learn from one another, and work together to find ways to make the world better for all.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2022

In these audiograms, taken from Episode 28 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Trends in Healthcare, Lisa Miller discusses trends in healthcare cost management. Robust Contract Management Is Vital for Cost Reduction in Healthcare. The most common concerns I hear when I speak to healthcare leaders are around contract management. That might be a contract that needs reviewing or concerns about benchmarking.

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Center for Health Progress

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we begin 2022, and continue to face an out of control pandemic, we are excited to announce a new chapter of leadership at Center for Health Progress. We have made significant gains in our priority to disrupt hierarchy–moving towards shared and distributed power across the organization. Over the past year, we began to put our new 2021-2024 Strategic Framework into action in meaningful ways.

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HIStalk

JANUARY 3, 2022

Jury finds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty on multiple charges.

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