Health Care Dive

MARCH 1, 2022

The two companies make interesting bedfellows for the partnership, given they are direct competitors in virtual-first primary care delivery.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 1, 2022

Tech-enabled vendors and services on the market have expanded with rapid acceleration since the pandemic. Telemedicine, though, cannot directly provide services to address social determinants of health, services that still remain scattered and disparate. Hospital technology leaders could potentially benefit from companies that offer an umbrella of technologies and services that address health disparities for vulnerable populations to promote health outcomes and equity with an inclusive and expan

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 1, 2022

Pear Therapeutics CEO Corey McCann said the agency's new HCPCS code for prescription digital behavioral therapy is an important milestone for getting digital therapeutics as a product category covered by more insurance plans.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CDC updated mask guidelines on Friday, February 25, 2022. In short, here’s what that looks like: “ COVID-19 Community Levels are a new tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data. Levels can be low, medium, or high and are determined by looking at hospital beds being used, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 1, 2022

It's unclear what percentage of the claims are substantiated, though 77% of the possible claims of information blocking are against healthcare providers.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Business leaders have warned for years that what they see on job applications does not match what they need in new employees. There are not enough workers with the right digital skills. And as the world economy struggles to its feet after COVID-19, that skills gap threatens to keep pushing it down.

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Center for Health Progress

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2018, a domestic terrorist and white supremacist opened fire and killed innocent members of the Tree of Life Synogogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This place of prayer was partially targeted because of their resettlement support programs for immigrants and refugees. This was an act of antisemitism deeply embedded in racism and white nationalism.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 1, 2022

Providers and patients again delayed non-emergent care, either to mitigate the spread of the virus or preserve resources for patients with more urgent needs, according to Kaufman Hall.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Experity , the national leader in on-demand care solutions, today announced a strategic growth investment from GTCR , a private equity firm with significant experience in healthcare technology and services. Existing investor Warburg Pincus will retain a minority interest in the company. – The strategic growth investment from GTCR, along with the combined capability of two world-class investors (including Warburg Pincus) will provide industry-leading innovation

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Nordic

MARCH 1, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to be more agile. We have witnessed the disruption of traditional operating models, with healthcare institutions pushed to innovate and modify the ways in which they provide patient care. Mobility and digital health have become the new normal, making care more consistent and streamlined.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Accenture and Microsoft will assist the Mount Sinai Health System (Mount Sinai) with its transition to the cloud to help enable innovation at a much faster pace. – By modernizing its infrastructure, Mount Sinai will be able to reinvest cost-savings and focus on its healthcare mission. The migration to Microsoft Azure could deliver millions in savings.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 1, 2022

By Matt Bauer. Science and engineering graduate students’ curricula should include cross-disciplinary studies in intellectual property (IP). These students research, discover, and invent new technology and methodologies for their thesis work. Accordingly, they should be better equipped to understand and navigate the fundamentals of intellectual property to protect those innovations.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, the department of Cedars-Sinai announced it has established a new division to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to help solve complex medical problems and enhance clinical care. – The new division, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, or AIM will be led by Sumeet Chugh, MD, an associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute and a prominent expert in sudden cardiac arrest, who has long relied on technology and population-wide data t

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Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2022

This article is sponsored by Select Data. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Ed Buckley, CEO of Select Data, to learn about the emerging role of machine learning and predictive analytics in home-based care. Buckley discusses the challenges and opportunities for implementing this kind of technology, as well as the degree to which the home-based care industry is prepared in adopting and utilizing AI.

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HIStalk

MARCH 1, 2022

Top News Amazon announces that Alexa users can access virtual.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2022

The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model has certainly drawn increased interest during the COVID-19 pandemic, a frequently repeated fact that’s both generally true and also relatively ambiguous. Now, there are organizations and faces behind that “interest” in the home- and community-based care model. At the end of February, SCAN Health Plan and Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA) announced that they were teaming up to help form a PACE organization dubbed myPlace Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

Voice technology has become a mainstream household Internet of Things thing for consumers, used to streamline and ease peoples’ daily tasks to hear about the weather, listen to favorite tunes, or seek information. At the same time, the pandemic fostered growing experience with and appreciation for virtual care platforms and on-ramps to health care when needed.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2022

Like its industry peers, The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) has had to navigate COVID-19-related business disruptions as well as other headwinds, some of which even prompted the company to start looking under its own hood for answers. Now, operating with the view that COVID and many of its impacts have become endemic, the company has a stronger sense of what’s in store for 2022.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – MEDITECH today announced the availability of Expanse Ambulatory in independent and physician-owned practices, without requiring an Expanse EHR in the hospital setting. – The subscription-based solution lives in the cloud, so there is no significant IT footprint required. Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management. Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management solution offers efficient office workflows and intuitive features like drag-and-drop scheduling, automated pa

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Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2022

Medicare Advantage (MA) supplemental benefits adoption has been slow by some measures and rapid by others. . A new report from the consulting firm Milliman offers a look into that dynamic and shows exactly where each of those benefits stands in 2022. Among the primarily-health related benefits, in-home support services (IHSS) remains the most popular benefit by a large margin.

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Clearwave Inc

MARCH 1, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes A summary of the 2021 No Surprises Act: The No Surprises Act (NSA) went into effect on January 1, 2022, protecting patients from surprise medical bills after treatment and requiring Good Faith Estimates (GFEs) for uninsured and self-paying patients. Where the NSA is Located – the Consolidated Appropriations Act (2021). On December 21, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act (2021) was passed by Congress and signed into law on December 27 th.

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Lexis Nexis

MARCH 1, 2022

The inaugural ViVE healthcare conference kicks off on March 6 in Miami Beach and this Minnesotan is ready! The ‘industry’s new health information technology event’ has created quite the buzz in healthcare and beyond, with over 4,000 attendees and more than 250 speakers lined up to talk anything and everything health tech. Two leading industry organizations – CHIME and HLTH – have joined forces to make this event come to life.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 1, 2022

Texas HB 1445, which went into effect on January 1, 2022, exempts medical billing services performed before the submission of the relevant insurance claim from state sales tax. The new legislation legally exempts medical billing services from the statutory definition of taxable “insurance services.” Practically speaking, this relieves management services companies, and ultimately physicians and patients, from bearing the burden of tax payments of up to 8.25% for the provision of certain medica

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Etactics

MARCH 1, 2022

According to the Federal Reserve , the total amount of household debt in the U.S. reached $15.24 trillion. How big of a check do you think you would need to pay the balance of $15,240,000,000,000? Luckily, that’s the total amount of debt for every household…so it doesn’t all fall on you (whew). To get the average amount of debt, you take $15.24 trillion and divide it by the total number of U.S. households.

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HIStalk

MARCH 1, 2022

Our Next Chapter: Announcing a $50 Million Growth Capital Round.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 1, 2022

Propelled into mainstream use by the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is becoming standard practice for many healthcare providers. According to David Ernst, MD, president of telemedicine innovator EPOWERdoc, these solutions will transform access to care and continue to drive more cost-effective delivery models, particularly at the EMS and emergency medicine level.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS emailed this statement approximately 1 hour ago (afternoon of Tuesday, March 1, 2022): “At tonight’s State of the Union address, the Biden-Harris administration is announcing a vision to improve quality of care and quality of life for nursing home residents. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be leading that charge including setting minimum staffing requirements, enhancing oversight and accountabili

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MARCH 1, 2022

As I do every year, below are the highlights of the state of the union address related to health care. Capping insulin prices. First, cut the cost of prescription drugs. We pay more for the same drug produced by the same company in America than any other country in the world. Just look at insulin. One in 10 Americans has diabetes. In Virginia, I met a 13-year-old boy, the handsome young man up there, Joshua Davis.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

Brett Furst, President, HHS Technology Group. You don’t have to be a news junkie or political aficionado to know that state unemployment information systems massively failed during the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when they were most desperately needed. Overwhelmed by a rush of newly laid-off workers, websites crashed and timed out while phone lines were tied up for hours, leading to frustration and delays in benefits payments – harming local economies and imperiling American families.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Mid-afternoon Monday, February 28, 2022, the White House issued this Fact Sheet with the same title as this blog (bolding added by me): All people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and to have access to quality medical care. And in no case should a health care facility be causing a patient harm.

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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.