Wed.Aug 10, 2022

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Hospitals still fall short on price transparency, consumer group says

Health Care Dive

Hospitals pushed back on the Patient Rights Advocate report, which found that just 16% of hospitals were fully compliant with the price transparency law.

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Climate Change Is Not Good for Health and Living Things

Health Populi

There is an image from my childhood, drawn by Lorraine Schneider, which reads “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” As I read through a paper published this week on climate change’s contribution to the burden of chronic disease, I couldn’t help but conjure up Lorraine’s observation from my little girl memory bank.

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Cerner agrees to pay $1.9M to settle racial discrimination case

Health Care Dive

Hiring bias, which Cerner denies, resulted in a notable shortfall of Black and Asian hires for certain positions between 2015 and 2019, federal regulators allege.

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Patient-centered care gets a boost from digital efficiency

Healthcare It News

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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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Scan Health Plan makes push into Texas

Health Care Dive

The Medicare Advantage insurer will cover seniors in a total of four states, pending regulatory approval.

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LTC Jobs Report – July 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. AHCA/NCAL has released this sobering Long-Term Care Jobs Report – July 2022 : “After two years of monthly job losses, nursing homes have begun to see modest job gains in recent months. If nursing homes continue to gain jobs at the current, modest pace (on average 4,600 jobs per month), a potential recovery to pre-pandemic staffing levels would not take place until 2026.”.

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Another State Invests Millions Into Aging-In-Place Program CAPABLE

Home Health Care

This month, the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (Colorado VNA) received a $2.3 million grant from the state to expand its CAPABLE program and to provide care for more Medicaid members. CAPABLE is an interdisciplinary program from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing that combines nursing care, occupational therapy and handyman services. It stands for “Community Aging in Place — Advancing Better Living for Elders” and aims to prove that with modest investments and short-term interventions, agi

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Joseph Juran: Founder of many of the key quality management programs

Life Qi

In this article, we are going to look at Joseph Juran’s career in quality management, and look at the ground breaking work he pioneered in quality control. His theories and techniques have filtered down to Quality Improvement (QI) work today. Primarily his Juran Trilogy and the important quality work he did in both the USA and Japan.

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Teladoc Brings At-Home Diabetes Testing for Members

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health recently added an at-home A1C testing program to its chronic care solution, making it easier for members to manage their diabetes while also bridging health equity gaps in chronic condition care. – Livongo by Teladoc Health members will have the option to receive at-home A1C tests provided by LetsGetChecked, a leading healthcare solutions company that enables providers to administer diagnostics and care directly into the homes of patients.

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A New Era? NATO's Prioritisation of Human Security in an Insecure World

The Rand Blog

Human security and NATO's role and responsibility to protect civilians during conflict saw new prioritization in the alliance's 2022 Strategic Concept. While much progress has been made, more could be done to ensure the alliance can deliver on these commitments.

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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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New Strategic Partnership Helps Hospitals Deploy Epic EHR to AWS Cloud

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cloudticity and Sapphire Health announced a strategic partnership to help hospitals and healthcare providers that use Epic EHR to undergo a seamless transition into the AWS Cloud. – This first-ever strategic alliance enables hospital systems to leverage cloud power to ensure their infrastructure can achieve high levels of availability, resilience, and agility.

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Why Home Health Insiders Expect Uptick In Audits, Inquiries From Federal Watchdogs

Home Health Care

Audits from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) can often catch home health agencies by surprise. And after a slower audit period during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts told Home Health Care News that providers should expect a ramp-up in audits over the next year. Battling that element of surprise will be key to getting through a successful audit process.

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Intel Invests $20M in Biofourmis’ Virtual Care Offerings

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital , the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has joined its Series D financing in an extension that brings the total funding raised in the round to $320M. – The initial Series D funding round was announced in April and was led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic with participation by CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) , Trevor Fetter

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Startup Unicorn Biofourmis Secures An Extra $20M From Intel Capital

Home Health Care

Just four months after raising $300 million – and reaching unicorn status in the process – Biofourmis has secured another $20 million in funding. In total, the company has amassed a $320 million Series D. Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, joined the round. In addition to Intel Capital’s involvement, this funding is especially notable at a time when there’s been a dip in digital health investment.

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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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IRF/LTCH/SNF QRP August 15, 2022 Submission Deadline Reminder

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching. IRF-PAI and LTCH CARE Data Set assessment data and data submitted to CMS via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) for January 1 – March 31 (Q1) of calendar year (CY) 2022 are due with this

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SpendMend Completes Acquisition of VIE Healthcare Consulting

Vie Healthcare

SpendMend acquires industry-leading provider for margin improvement and cost savings in healthcare. SpendMend, a leading provider of solutions to optimize the cost-cycle for the healthcare industry today announced the successful completion of its purchase of VIE Healthcare Consulting. The acquisition will help SpendMend to expand its set of solutions to help healthcare-industry clients reduce costs across purchased services agreements.

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Revised Guide to Home Health Help Desks

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. A revised version of the comprehensive 1-page Guide to Home Health Help Desks is now available in the downloads section of the Home Health Quality Reporting Program Help Desk webpage, [link]. This document provides guidance to home health providers for questions related to a variety of topics.

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A Glimpse of the Holy Grail for Healthcare Cost Transparency

HIT Consultant

Michael Rea, PharmD, Founder & CEO at Rx Savings Solutions. Imagine being told which car or computer you must buy and just forking over whatever it costs. Even if you’re only paying a portion, would you simply write a blank check? That’s essentially what American healthcare consumers have been doing for decades, even as the cost of healthcare and consumers’ share of it continue to climb.

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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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Business Associate HIPAA Training: Everything You Need to Know

Etactics

When you think about HIPAA, I bet your mind will jump to healthcare professionals. After all, the law does stand for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. If you happen to work as a healthcare professional, odds are that you already know that you have to train your employees on an annual basis about the law’s requirements. If you don’t you’ll face a massive fine.

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ThedaCare Invests $3M in Qventus to Deploy AI-Enabled Care Operations Automation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Health system ThedaCare announced it has invested $3M in Qventus and it also deploying the technology to drive operational efficiencies in inpatient and perioperative care settings and across its organization. Through the investment, ThedaCare will collaborate with Qventus to develop new solutions and innovations, as well as support Qventus in expanding its technology to additional hospitals and health systems across the United States.

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Overcoming frozen thinking in healthcare

Nordic

Frozen thinking occurs when Princess Elsa of Arendelle uses her magical powers to control and create ice and snow, sometimes to the detriment of her younger sister, Anna. No, wait. That’s wrong. Actually, frozen thinking happens when one is locked into a set of assumptions that may have been true at one time but may no longer hold. Some examples of frozen thinking in healthcare are the concepts that patients must come to the office to see the physician, that the patients have to wait near the fr

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage with Telehealth & RPM

Health Recovery

With COVID-19 subvariants and nursing shortages on the rise, hospitals and healthcare providers must look at ways to continue providing high-quality care for their patients.

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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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Astellas Pharma Selects Verizon to Transform Global Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Verizon Business has announced that it has been selected to build and manage Astellas Pharma Inc’s (Astellas) global network infrastructure. – Today’s announcement builds on the company’s network-as-a-service foundation and supports its private networks, mobile edge compute and business solutions vectors of growth.

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Morning Headlines 8/11/22

HIStalk

Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D.

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Femtech Startup Nanopath Raises $10M to Develop POC Diagnostics for Women’s Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Nanopath , a molecular diagnostics company enabling high-quality molecular testing in minutes raises $10M in Series A funding, co-led by co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Medtech Convergence Fund , to develop a point-of-care diagnostics platform for women’s health screenings. – The company plans to use the latest round of funding to support development and commercialization of Nanopath’s biosensing platform that aims to transform how women’s p