Wed.Nov 16, 2022

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Google hasn’t given up on personal health records

Health Care Dive

The tech giant, despite past setbacks, is continuing user testing around a consumer-facing health record. “It’s an ongoing curiosity,” Chief Health Officer Karen DeSalvo told Healthcare Dive at the HLTH conference.

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New healthcare privacy challenges as online data tracking, sharing methods evolve

Healthcare It News

This past June, a John Doe plaintiff who was a patient at Baltimore-based Medstar Health System filed a class action complaint against Meta Platforms in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff alleged that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was using its Pixel tracking technology to access patient information from websites and portals of hospitals and health systems for targeted marketing.

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CommonSpirit posts $400M loss due to higher labor costs, dip in volumes

Health Care Dive

The health system said its payer mix has softened, as revenue from commercial members dropped compared to the first quarter of last year.

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Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care

Healthcare It News

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.

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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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Virtual physical therapy provider OneStep using smartphones to determine upper-extremity range of motion

Fierce Healthcare

Virtual physical therapy provider OneStep using smartphones to determine upper-extremity range of motion. aburky. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 13:47.

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Preventable hospital patient safety events declined over past decade, Leapfrog Group says

Health Care Dive

Incidents of falls and trauma and of objects unintentionally left in a body after surgery decreased by about 25% since 2012, according to the group that assigns letter grades to hospitals.

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Divided Congress after midterms will allow HHS to execute on policy priorities, Becerra says

Health Care Dive

The department will focus on implementing drug price negotiation in Medicare and surprise billing regulations, according to the secretary.

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Yet more data underscore the growing risk of suicide among youths

Fierce Healthcare

Yet more data underscore the growing risk of suicide among youths. fdiamond. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 09:16.

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The Drifting Menace

The Rand Blog

The drifting mine threat is not going away: they are simple, effective weapons that are easily made and deployed even by actors with limited naval capabilities. A holistic approach to tactics, enforcement, and technology development could help counter the threat and maintain future freedom of the seas.

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New Senate bill seeks to add Part D options for PACE beneficiaries

Fierce Healthcare

New Senate bill seeks to add Part D options for PACE beneficiaries. rking. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 15:40.

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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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Pros & Cons of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

p3care

Electronic health records are real-time medical records in digital form. It manages patient information from medication management to advanced analytics. Electronic health records (EHRs) are now widely used in American healthcare institutions. As of 2015 , 8% of non-federal acute care hospitals were using basic EHR systems , up from 9.4% in 2008 , according to the ONC for health IT.

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Urban Institute: Most adults unaware of looming Medicaid eligibility redeterminations

Fierce Healthcare

Urban Institute: Most adults unaware of looming Medicaid eligibility redeterminations. rking. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 17:17.

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How Russia's War in Ukraine Has Impacted Its Christian Image

The Rand Blog

Over the past decade, the Russian government has taken pains to present itself as a bastion of Christianity and traditional values. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, however, there have been noticeable cracks in the receptivity to this messaging strategy.

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Why payers should be preparing now for new COVID-19 boosters

Fierce Healthcare

Why payers should be preparing now for new COVID-19 boosters. fdiamond. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 14:27.

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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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The Right Tool for the Job: Supporting Vaccination Rates with Universal Paid Sick Leave

Bill Of Health

By Alina Schnake-Mahl, Rebecca Finkel, and Jennifer Kolker. Policies like paid sick leave are key tools to prevent another “winter of death” and disruption, finds our recent study of U.S. cities’ sick leave and vaccination data. Further, universal paid sick leave policies are particularly effective at protecting the most vulnerable communities.

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Leapfrog Group: Hospitals have made 'significant' patient safety gains over the past decade

Fierce Healthcare

Leapfrog Group: Hospitals have made 'significant' patient safety gains over the past decade. dmuoio. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 15:46.

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How Traditions Health Became One Of The Fastest-Growing Home Health Agencies – And What’s Next

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. David Klementz left Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) to become the CEO of Traditions Health in April of last year. Like many others, he saw the future value in delivering care in the home. Since then, he’s helped build one of the fastest-growing home health agencies in the space. . Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.

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CommonSpirit Health kicks off its fiscal 2023 with a $397M net loss, 0.3% operating margin

Fierce Healthcare

CommonSpirit Health kicks off its fiscal 2023 with a $397M net loss, 0.3% operating margin. dmuoio. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 12:52.

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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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HLTH22 Day 3 News Summary

HIT Consultant

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. DispatchHealth , a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital. New investors included Adams Street Partners, the Olayan Group, Silicon Valley Bank, Pegasus Tech Ventures and Blue Shield of California.

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DOL Recovers $28 Million In Back Wages For Home Health Workers, Others

Home Health Care

The U.S. Department of Labor announced this week that it has recovered more than $28 million in back wages and damages for nearly 25,000 workers in the home health, skilled nursing facility (SNF) and residential care settings. Specifically, the DOL reported that it had recovered $1.2 million in back wages for 600 home health care workers in Texas and Louisiana.

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Edifecs Partners with Empowered-Home to Deliver Automated Prior Authorizations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Edifecs and Empowered-Home announced a partnership to provide automated prior authorizations to medical associations, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Independent Physician Associations (IPAs), medical groups, and home health care agencies. – The Edifecs prior authorization solution combined with the clinical decision support system of patient management software company, Privis Health, forms the backbone of Empowered-Home’s ecosystem.

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Armand V. Feigenbaum: The Father of Total Quality Control

Life Qi

Armand V. Feigenbaum – also known as the ‘Father of Total Quality Control’ - was born in 1922 in New York City. His life’s work has hugely influenced the thinking of Quality Improvement (QI), with his book ‘Quality Control: Principles, Practice, and Administration’ helping to bring together his ideas and principles on the theory of Total Quality Control (TQC).

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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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Patent Awarded for Saliva-Based Test to Help Diagnose Concussion

HIT Consultant

Pictured is Quadrant’s Clarifi™ mTBI Saliva Test collection device, which is in the research and development phase. What You Should Know: – Quadrant Biosciences announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company and two of its academic partners, the State University of New York Research Foundation and the Penn State Research Foundation, with U.S.

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HARmonized Protocol Template to Enhance Reproducibility (HARPER)

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Clinical trials have detailed study protocols and are registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. What level of details are needed for real-world data (RWD) analyses that aim to estimate treatment effects? In Europe, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) requires registration of many study protocols using a template for observational post-authorization safety studies ( PASS ) conducted by marketing authorization holders.

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Vivalink Integrates with Garmin, Other Wearables to Address RPM Interoperability

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Vivalink is addressing these RPM interoperability challenges by announcing today that leading wearables and medical-grade devices are integrating with the company’s Biometrics Data Platform. – Now, leading pulse oximeters, blood glucose monitors and sleep monitors by companies like Garmin and Roche are available alongside the Platform to accelerate development and deployment of novel healthcare applications and research.

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Seeing The Potential Harm of Antibiotic Overuse Clearly

CDC

This blog is a part of a series that CDC launched to highlight the importance of patient safety by providing educational information and simple ways to help people stay informed on public safety topics. Read the blog below, authored by Christian John Lillis, to learn more about the potential harms of antibiotic overuse. The widespread use of penicillin, which began during World War II, forever changed the history of medicine.

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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.

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Cognoa Appoints Former CMO, Dr. Sharief Taraman as CEO

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cognoa , a pediatric behavioral health company appoints Dr. Sharief Taraman as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Taraman previously served as Cognoa’s Chief Medical Officer and brings nearly two decades of clinical specialization in neurodevelopmental conditions, clinical informatics, and business acumen. – Dr. Taraman served as the company’s Chief Medical Officer since 2017, leading clinical evidence generation and regulatory milestones of Canvas Dx and those resu

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Mayo Clinic Uses Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Heart Failure

Health IT Analytics

Published in Nature… read more

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Haystack Oncology Launches with $56M for Post-Op Cancer Detection Tech

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Haystack Oncology (“Haystack”), an oncology company that applies the next generation of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection technology raises $56M in Series A financing led by Catalio Capital Management (“Catalio”), which co-founded Haystack through its private equity and structured equity investment vehicles.

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How to Develop a Healthcare Social Media Calendar for Your Practice?

Sequence Health

Social media is a powerful tool that can be used to connect with patients and promote your healthcare practice. However, if it is used effectively, it can save time. That’s why developing a social media calendar and strategy for your healthcare practice is essential. For example, hashtags are a great way to increase engagement and reach on social media.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.