Health Care Dive

MARCH 14, 2022

The senator wants FTC commissioners to come up with a more targeted focus for the study and suggested narrowing a review to the impact on consumers and their out-of-pocket costs.

296

296

Healthcare It News

MARCH 14, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy:

208

208

Health Care Dive

MARCH 14, 2022

Hospital executives grappled with defining the term during day one of HIMSS22, and issued advice for hospitals looking to serve the modern consumer — while leaving no patients behind.

Hospitals 287

Hospitals 287

Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

For seniors, receiving skilled care at home – instead of at a skilled nursing facility (SNF) – could have considerable benefits, including better patient experience and lower costs. That’s according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The study was conducted between August and September of 2019 and used a pilot trial where 10 patients were randomly assigned to rehabilitation-at-home (RAH) care.

Home Care 125

Home Care Rehabilitation Patient Experience Hospitals 125

Advertiser: HealthCar

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.

Health Care Dive

MARCH 14, 2022

The lack of workers is actively jeopardizing patient safety with many patients waiting longer for care, even in life-threatening emergencies, according to the report.

Patient Safety 276

Patient Safety 276

NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

In November 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a series of new policies aimed at enabling access to behavioral health services via telehealth. The announcement comes as utilization of behavioral health services via telehealth has been on the rise , which is attributable to a couple of factors: New flexibilities to use telehealth for both providers and patients to support access to health care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic; and.

Telemedicine 113

Telemedicine Remote Care Medicaid Accountability 113

Healthcare It News

MARCH 14, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy:

Patient Experience 175

Patient Experience Hospitals 175

Health Care Dive

MARCH 14, 2022

The federal jury in a class action suit rejected allegations that the California hospital system drove up healthcare costs in its markets through anti-competitive practices.

Hospitals 246

Hospitals Healthcare 246

Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Nice Healthcare’s model is not a traditional one, but it does rely heavily on at-home care. It also just landed $30 million in Series A funding. The home-based primary care company sells itself directly to businesses. Those businesses pay a fixed fee on behalf of their employees, and then those employees can access Nice Healthcare’s services however much they please.

Primary Care 108

Primary Care Healthcare Physical Therapy Home Care 108

Health Care Success

MARCH 14, 2022

Google Ads are about to change more than they have in years—are you ready? The days of creating a set of stand-alone ads, setting your daily advertising budget, and periodically checking your analytics are long gone. Even as I write this, the very idea seems archaic, and I suppose it is when you consider how far technology has come in just the last few years. .

Accountability 105

Accountability Quality Control Healthcare 105

Advertisement

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

Healthcare

Icanotes

MARCH 14, 2022

Healthcare rules and regulations are constantly changing. In late 2021, Congress passed the No Surprises Act. One of the Act's goals is to eliminate unexpected health care bills and minimize payment disputes between patients and providers. When the No Surprises Act took effect in 2022, it also introduced the concept of the Good Faith Estimate. Providers need to give patients who are self-pay or uninsured an estimate of the cost of their treatment before the treatment begins.

Regulations 98

Regulations Medicaid Medicare Integration 98

HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2022

What You Should Know: – Clarify Health , leading cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, just announced its acquisition of Embedded Healthcare – a behavior change platform company created by notable healthcare leaders such as Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to scale value-based care for health plans. – The announcement marks the company’s second acquisition in 6 months and represents Clarify Health’s deep commitment to further build out its technology and cement its l

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Clinical Practice 98

NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

Strengthening Care for People with Serious Illness Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid. March 14, 2022. People with complex or life-threatening conditions often need extra support to manage symptoms and make critical decisions about their care and quality of life. To build a continuum of care for people with serious illness, state health policymakers can support palliative care within Medicaid programs.

Medicaid 94

Medicaid Rehabilitation Quality Assurance Patient Experience 94

HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today House Rx, a health technology platform that empowers oncology and rheumatology physician practices with medically integrated dispensing, announced they’ve secured $30 million in financing. – Founded by two former Flatiron Health executives, Ogi Kavazovic and Tesh Khullar the company has partnered with four medical practices and 30 prescribers since March 2021.

Integration 98

Integration Health Technology Quality of Care Doctors 98

Advertiser: HealthCar

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.

Medi Leadership

MARCH 14, 2022

Ego-driven leaders tend to make up stories when facing challenges in order to avoid taking personal responsibilities. When you encounter an upsetting situation, your ego may cause you to make guesses and judgements about others’ intentions and you start telling yourself a story. In the absence of honest self-reflection, these stories are a lazy way to make yourself feel better about difficult situations. 3 Stories: Victim, Villain, Helpless.

Accountability 79

Accountability Nursing 79

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. During this week, IHI (Institute of Healthcare Improvement) seeks to advance important discussions locally and globally, and inspire action to improve the safety of the health care system — for patients and the workforce.

Patient Safety 81

Patient Safety Prevention Primary Care Patient Experience 81

Healthcare ECONOMIST

MARCH 14, 2022

This is the goal of a paper by Yang et al. (2022) out in Health Economics. They first provide a nice review of the literature and divide the methodologies around risk taking into type types. I briefly summarize that literature below. Direct methods. These methods may ask individuals about their attitude toward risk or likelihood of engaging in risky behaviors.

Accountability 74

Accountability 74

NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

ACL Announces Call for Nominations for Two Advisory Councils March 2022. ACL is pleased to announce the publication of Federal Register Notices to seek nominations for two family caregiving-related advisory councils. The RAISE Act Family Caregiving Advisory Council. Authorized by the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage Family Caregivers Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-119) – commonly referred to as the “RAISE Family Caregivers Act” – the Family Caregiving Advisory Council will support th

69

69

Advertisement

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!

Hospitals

Sequence Health

MARCH 14, 2022

If you’re a healthcare provider, then you know that the medical patient portal is a valuable tool for your patients. It allows them to access their medical information from anywhere at any time. However, many patients are not using the patient portal. This is because they don’t know about it or they don’t understand how it can benefit them.

Healthcare Providers 52

Healthcare Providers Healthcare 52

Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Home health providers likely breathed a sigh of relief when the final payment rule for 2022 pushed the start date for the nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model to 2023. Even so, many providers have begun actively preparing for the model’s implementation. Others, however, are taking a more passive approach. “The biggest way we’ve been preparing for it was by getting our information in a row,” Beau Sorensen, chief operating officer of First Choice Home Health

Nursing 52

Nursing 52

NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

The federal Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative is built on four pillars: diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and response. States can play a key role in EHE efforts by strengthening public health prevention, monitoring infection data, and providing treatment infrastructure and services to individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Prevention 52

Prevention Nursing Integration Healthcare 52

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare . CMS posted Admin Info: 22-06-ALL on Thursday, March 10, 2022. This is a 27-page Memorandum. Every year, CMS conducts a formal assessment of each State Survey Agencies’ (SAs’) performance relative to measures included in the SPSS program. CMS works with the SAs to strengthen oversight so that the care provided in nursing homes and other acute and continuing care providers and suppliers is of the highest quality.

Regulations 52

Regulations Nursing Healthcare 52

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.

Healthcare

Clearwave Inc

MARCH 14, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes The first step to running a successful practice is having an easy check-in system. To grow your practice and reach more potential patients, you must focus on patient relationships by simplifying interactions wherever you can. Patient check-in is a fantastic place to start updating a business model, as it can make or break the overall experience for the patient.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Doctors 52

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has updated the Nursing Home Resource Center with the date of March 1, 2022. “Here, you’ll find our nursing home resources, including COVID-19 public health emergency response information.”.

Nursing 52

Nursing Healthcare 52

HIStalk

MARCH 14, 2022

Clarify Health Acquires Embedded Healthcare to Scale Value-Based Care for.

Healthcare 75

Healthcare 75

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. With the date of March 10, 2022, CMS quietly updated QSO-20-38-NH. [FYI NOTE: Last week, I reported that CMS had posted an updated Nursing Home Visitation FAQ document on March 10, 2022. Trying to locate a corresponding QSO, I found the revised QSO Memorandum further down in Policy & Memos to States and Regions website: The September 2021 revision was in chronological order (the original QSO is August 26, 2020) as shown a

Nursing 52

Nursing Healthcare 52

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.

Healthcare

Nordic

MARCH 14, 2022

Technology has the power to transform healthcare, but often technology challenges can feel more like barriers than enablers. As the number of patients and providers in an organization grows, maintaining a positive user experience and minimizing issue resolution times becomes increasingly challenging.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare 98

Bill Of Health

MARCH 14, 2022

By Jennifer Bard. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages into its third year of global death and destruction, the Supreme Court of the United States has effectively thwarted every measure by federal or state government to implement the public health tools that for hundreds of years have been used to stop the spread of contagious disease. They have done so by operationalizing what were previously fringe and relatively harmless academic views in ways that extend their powers beyond any previous boundaries

Regulations 132

Regulations Medicaid Medicare 132

Bill Of Health

MARCH 14, 2022

By Doron Dorfman. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the incoherence of the Republican party’s employment agenda, which, on the one hand, deifies full, in-person employment, and, on the other, makes the workplace hostile to this aim through relentless deregulation. Throughout the pandemic , the GOP has vocally advanced the narrative that employees must physically return to the office to prevent recession.

Prevention 98

Prevention Hospitals 98