Thu.Mar 24, 2022

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Wisconsin passes law making threats against healthcare workers a felony

Health Care Dive

The state already has a law making it a felony to commit battery against nurses, emergency care providers or those working in an emergency department, but this expands that protection to threats.

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Home-Based Care Providers Sue CMS, HHS Over COVID-19 Relief Funds

Home Health Care

A group of New York home-based care providers are taking aim at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a lawsuit filed Friday. Broadly, the case alleges unfair distribution of funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. The plaintiffs in the case are Safe Haven Home Care Inc., Angel Care Inc., Silver Lining Homecare Agency, Evergreen Homecare Service of NY Inc., Elim Home

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Record 14.5M Americans signed up for ACA coverage this year

Health Care Dive

But the generous subsidies that contributed to the increase in enrollment are temporary and set to expire at the end of the year absent congressional action.

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IA SNFs and NFs: NF Day-Weighted Case Mix Index (CMI) Methodology

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The afternoon of Wednesday, March 23, 2022, the Iowa Department of Human Services posted INFORMATIONAL LETTER NO. 2326-MC-FFS. The subject is: NF Day-Weighted Case Mix Index (CMI) Methodology. In 2021, the Iowa Legislature directed Iowa Medicaid to evaluate the technical aspects of the case mix reimbursement system and rebasing processes.

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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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Appeals court nixes Hackensack-Englewood hospital merger in New Jersey

Health Care Dive

New Jersey's largest hospital system lost its challenge to merge with Englewood Hospital, a transaction the FTC sought to halt because of competition concerns.

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HHS OIG Signs Off on Substance Use Recovery Incentive Program

Sheppard Health Law

On March 2, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of the Inspector General (the “OIG”) issued a new advisory opinion (“ AO 22-04 ”) related to a program through which the Requestor would provide certain individuals access to digital contingency management (“CM”) and related tools to treat substance use disorders (“Program”).

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RedDress Donates FDA-Cleared Wound Care Solution to Aid Injured Ukrainians

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – RedDress , a Florida-based Israeli medical company is shipping revolutionary blood-clotting wound care systems to Ukraine to help with serious injuries and severe trauma wounds. – RedDress began shipments of 400 of their ActiGraft systems this week to multiple hospitals in Ukraine to help treat civilian casualties as a result of the indiscriminate Russian attacks.

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National Wastewater Tracking Could Help Us Stay Ahead of COVID-19—but Congress Cut the Funds

The Rand Blog

For years, medical experts have used wastewater to track the spread of diseases. The National Wastewater Surveillance System has the potential to significantly change the way we fight COVID-19 as well as future pandemics, bacterial diseases, and viruses. But building up the robustness of a wastewater surveillance system will take financial support, and it's not clear Congress will provide it.

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UK Startup Oliva Raises $6.3M for Workplace Mental Health Platform

HIT Consultant

Oliva Co-Founders Javier Suarez and Sançar ?ahin. What You Should Know: – Oliva , a London-based workplace mental health platform announced it has raised $6.3M (£4.84M) in seed funding led by Stride VC , a seed-stage VC firm based in London, along with additional investment provided by Moonfire. – The seed raise marks the largest seed funding for a mental health startup in Europe.

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Making Sense of a Unified Post-Acute Value-Incentive Program

Home Health Care

Home health agencies have had to navigate several changes since 2020, from the payment mechanics of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) to the new policies of the public health emergency (PHE). Yet there’s another change on the distant horizon that forward-thinking operators can’t afford to forget about: a unified payment system for post-acute care providers, one that’s rooted in value-based care.

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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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Why Mainstream Precision Medicine Hinges on Healthcare HPC Storage

HIT Consultant

Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions at Panasas. The healthcare industry is experiencing a data deluge, and it shows no sign of slowing down. In 2020, estimates reported that healthcare data comprised a staggering 30% of the world’s total data volume ; projections for 2025 bump that number up to 36%, a growth rate outpacing every other industry.

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To Improve the Effectiveness of Transportation Business, Modivcare Launches Transportation Council

Home Health Care

Modivcare (Nasdaq: MODV) announced this week that it is launching a national Transportation Provider Advisory Council (TPAC) to gather feedback and perspective on how to better serve its patients. Modivcare is a Denver-based company that offers technology-enabled health care services and provides non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT). The company’s Modivcare Home division includes its personal care, remote patient monitoring and nutritional meal delivery services.

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COTA Promotes Miruna Sasu to President and CEO

HIT Consultant

Miruna Sasu, Ph.D., MBA, President & CEO at COTA, Inc. What You Should Know: – COTA, Inc. , an oncology real-world data and analytics company, announced today that Miruna Sasu , Ph.D., MBA, has been appointed president and chief executive officer. – Since April 2021 when she was hired as the company’s chief strategy officer, Miruna has helped spearhead a series of research collaborations focused on investigating racial disparities in cancer care and the drug development process,

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News 3/25/22

HIStalk

Top News VA Deputy Secretary Donald Remy says the agency.

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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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Podimetrics Secures $45M for SmartMat to Prevent Diabetic Amputations in High-Risk Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Podimetrics raises $45M to help at-risk providers and health plans prevent diabetic amputations in high-risk patients. – With this latest round of funding, Podimetrics plans to focus on hiring to build out their product development and research teams, while also expanding the breadth of services delivered by their nurse support team.

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Go Local and Go Beyond Medical Care: What Hospitals, Health Plans, and Pharma Can Do to Rebuild Trust

Health Populi

Without trust, people do not engage with health care providers, health plans, or life science companies… nor do many people accept “science fact.” I explore the sad state of Trust and Health Care. published in the Medecision Liberate Health blog, with a positive and constructive call-to-action for health care industry stakeholders to consider in re-building this basic driver of well-being.

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MDS 3.0 v1.17.2 – PRA Collection of Information Notification

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On Thursday, March 24, 2022, CMS is posting FR Doc. 2022-06214 in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS’ intention to collect information from the public.

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‘Transformation’ in health care depends on leaders’ people skills

Healthy Debate

The post ‘Transformation’ in health care depends on leaders’ people skills appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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Japan's Wake Up Call

The Rand Blog

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has drawn concern and comparison to what China may have in mind for Taiwan. Given China's history of provocations, it could behoove Japanese leaders to devote renewed attention to how they would deal with a Taiwan crisis, especially as it could include an attack on Japan.

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Cross-border medical care in Europe

Healthcare ECONOMIST

In Europe, some patients are able to seek medical care in other countries. Reasons for doing so include shorter waiting times, access to treatment that is no obtainable in their home country’s public health care system, quality of care, and costs. Cross-border medical care affects many people: “20 to 24 million patients worldwide spending an average of 3410 U.S. dollars annually, sizing the market at 65–87.5 billion U.S. dollars “ A paper by Amuedo-Dorantes et al. (2022) divide

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InstaMed’s 12th Annual Trends in Healthcare Payments Report Reveals 87% of Consumers Were Surprised by a Medical Bill in 2021

Instamed

Findings examine how changes brought on by the pandemic, increased conversations about social determinants of health (SDOH) and a demand for price transparency are driving the demand for digital in healthcare payments. PHILADELPHIA – (March 24, 2022) – InstaMed, a J.P. Morgan company, today released the Trends in Healthcare Payments Twelfth Annual Report – highlighting trends from the major industry stakeholders: consumers, providers and payers.

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

Bill Of Health

By Sapna Kumar and Ana Santos Rutschman. Research funding contracts can help to safeguard against profound inequities in global allocation and distribution of lifesaving diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. During large transnational public health crises, global demand soars for diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. Although some of these products can be developed within compressed timelines, global production capacity remains limited.

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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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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 3/24/22

HIStalk

I’m still recovering from HIMSS22. Between the Daylight Saving Time.

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CPQ: Optimizing MedTech Operations and Sales to Accelerate Cash Flow

HIT Consultant

Chris Lekander, VP of Delivery, Wilco Source. The lead-to-cash process in most B-to-B organizations––particularly those operating in the medical device industry––is often complex and lengthy. This is even more apparent when operations, sales and customer success teams operate in manual and siloed environments. In this all-too-common scenario, not only does it slow cash flow velocity, it also leaves the organization vulnerable to inconsistencies, inaccuracies and more errors every time a handoff

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Morning Headlines 3/25/22

HIStalk

VA officials ‘looking forward’ to launch of new medical record.

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50+ Staggering California Human Trafficking Statistics and Laws

Etactics

Human trafficking crimes can occur against anyone, no matter their age, gender, or where they’re from. Traffickers treat victims like objects because they only see them as a tool to make money. These criminals have no empathy for the victims’ well-being and health. Essentially, human trafficking is a crime where the perpetrators profit by forcing vulnerable people into servitude.

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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.