Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The initiative prioritizes integrating behavioral health services into primary and other specialty care areas as well as community-based settings like schools.
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
By Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer J. Carroll, and Bayla Ostrach. Health law and policy in the United States are, in many senses, driven by a desire to control. When that control is enacted to impose anti-scientific but deeply moralized social norms, suffering always follows. Consider, for example, the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which ended a constitutionally recognized right to abortion.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The HHS Office of Inspector General found that by loosening emergency use authorization requirements to bring COVID-19 tests to market faster, the agency allowed inaccurate tests to be distributed.
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Vladimir Putin appeared to double-down on his country's war effort in Ukraine September 21st, calling up hundreds of thousands of new troops, threatening Ukraine and the West, vowing to use “all the means at our disposal,” and pointing out that he is not bluffing. Here's what a few RAND experts had to say.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The most serious flaws were failing to prove that UnitedHealth is likely to misuse Change Healthcare’s data to advantage the company, Judge Carl Nichols wrote.
NASHP
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
HHS Releases First of Its Kind National Strategy on Family Caregiving The far-reaching report details 350 recommendations across 15 federal agencies and includes actions for state and local governments, employers, and community organizations. Washington, DC — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a broad national strategy that provides the roadmap needed for federal, state, and local governments, as well as businesses and communities, to better support family caregi
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The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A careful strategy of strength and prudence has helped the West maintain security and manage relations with Moscow. The West may continue this course while upping the ante to help Ukraine defeat and expel Russian forces. In so doing, the West may also be advancing prospects for longer-term peace that might come only through liberalization in Russia.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Of the settlements made public, the insurer’s settlements so far total at least $462.7 million.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Biotech and medical AI innovator Surge announced a $2.6M round co-led by HCVC , a global early-stage fund dedicated to high-potential technology startups, and Boutique Venture Partners, a leading fund based in the Silicon Valley. Veteran angel investors, including Nicolas Godin, the COO/CFO of Cardiologs , also participated in the round. – Based on an exclusive license to Stanford’s patented postoperative complication prediction technology, Surge’s
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Mental health conditions were the No. 1 cause of pregnancy-related mortality, the agency said.
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Life Qi
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A Plan-Do-Study-Act or PDSA cycle is a four-step model for improvement, which can be used to provide a framework for quality improvement changes.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A paper published earlier this year by the Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators in The Lancet aims to quantify the size of the problem. The authors used a variety of data sources including systematic literature reviews, hospital system data, surveillance systems, and other sources. The authors estimated that these data covered 471 million individual records or isolates.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Until the final home health payment rule comes down from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), M&A is expected to stay relatively quiet. However, some experts believe that if cuts are avoided through legislation or other means, M&A should see a massive boon. “If we’re successful as an industry and it’s pushed off to 2026, that gives a level of consistency and predictability in the industry,” Mark Kulik, senior managing director of The Braff Group, said during Home
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
By Vincent “Tank” Sherrill. You fill in the blank! I’ve often referred to the mind as a womb, or a laboratory of life, not a “thing,” but rather a place where thoughts and ideas are conceived. However, since COVID-19 has been introduced on the scene, I’ve watched a cold game being played inside two Washington State prisons: the game between “The Progression of the Mind versus The Regression of the Mind.”.
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Briggs Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. (Wednesday, September 21, 2022) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through its Administration for Community Living, released the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. It highlights nearly 350 actions the federal government will take to support family caregivers in the coming year and more than 150 actions that can be adopted at other levels of government and across the private sector to build a s
Healthcare Council
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
LHC in D.C.: Modernizing the U.S. Healthcare System Leadership Health Care leads delegation to Washington D.C. Editor’s note: This is the first post from the Nashville Health Care Council’s 2022 Leadership Health Care Delegation to Washington, D.C. Look for more content in the coming days. The call for clinical, regulatory and social change was loud.
Voyage Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
We are pleased to once again offer a drive-through option for your flu shot this year! The drive-through will take place at our Crystal (September 24th), Maple Grove (October 1st), and Plymouth (October 8th) locations. Flu shots are by appointment only. Anyone receiving the flu shot must be over the age of 1 year old. You do not need to be a current Voyage Healthcare patient to receive a flu shot.
Healthcare Council
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
LHC in D.C.: Frontline Perspectives on Healthcare Advocacy Nashville healthcare leaders hear from policy experts on 2022 priorities and beyond Editor’s note: This is the second post from the Nashville Health Care Council’s 2022 Leadership Health Care Delegation to Washington, D.C. See the first post here. Following a lively keynote dinner discussion with The Cook.
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HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – MDwise and Cityblock Health , the first tech-driven healthcare provider for communities with complex health and social needs announced that they will be collaborating to provide high-quality, comprehensive care to 10,000 Medicaid members at launch in select Indiana communities, including Indianapolis. – As part of this strategic collaboration, Cityblock will open comprehensive care clinics to provide care services for these individuals, addressing physical hea
Briggs Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. An updated table providing the data collection time frames and final submission deadlines for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) is available in the Downloads section of this webpage. The direct link is here. A table providing the data collection time frames and final submission deadlines for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Progra
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Butterfly Network announce the deployment of 500 Butterfly iQ+ devices, the world’s only handheld, whole-body ultrasound probe, to healthcare practitioners in Kenya to advance maternal and fetal health. – This deployment is part of a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand access to medical imaging across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sheppard Health Law
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
On Friday, August 26, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration and the Department of Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service (the “Departments”) published a final rule updating key regulations pertaining to the No Surprises Act (the “ Final Rule ”).
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HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Venture capital firm General Catalyst announced a partnership with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) , the largest hospital system in the UK with a diverse patient population and a longstanding commitment to innovation. – As part of the partnership, General Catalyst and GSTT will work together to identify innovative digital solutions that benefit patients and providers by addressing problems such as hospital capacity constraints, long wait times
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
This article is sponsored by CDW Healthcare. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Liz Cramer, Chief Post-acute and Senior Care Strategist at CDW Healthcare, to learn how providers are using technology to help staff operate at the top of their licenses. She also discusses some of the key takeaways from CDW’s recent roundtable discussion around the top tech trends in health care and explains what her team is doing to help their customers act upon those trends.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, XpertDox, LLC. , a Birmingham, AL-based revenue cycle company specializing in autonomous medical coding powered by artificial intelligence raises $1.5M from TN3, LLC, an Arizona based Private Equity Capital firm. – XpertDox’s XpertCoding solution harnesses the power of artificial intelligence in order to autonomously code medical claims faster, more accurately, and cheaper than traditional manual processes.
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
(Clockwise from top left: Matt Chun, Sarah Gabriele, Katie Gu, Sanjay Reddy, Aparajita La th). We are excited to welcome a new group of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family. These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from across Harvard. They each will undertake a year-long research project with mentorship from Center faculty and affiliates, and also will blog here at Bill of Health regularly.
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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.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Tom Laughlin, AVP, Premier Client Services, Inovalon. Two decades ago, business priorities within a healthcare organization were largely driven by a select few executive visionaries. Today, the most successful healthcare organizations are using data to validate ideas and further refine them through advanced studies and predictive models. The data-informed healthcare organization has come of age through recent advances in data technologies, a surge in artificial intelligence and machine learning
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Prince Villanueva, CEO at the San Mateo, California-based OPO Health, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – UnitedHealthcare and Peloton have renewed and expanded their relationship to help more people get or stay active and improve their overall well-being. – Since originally launching the offer in 2021, UnitedHealthcare members are collectively completing over 1 million Peloton classes per month; among enrollees who have taken at least one class during a given month, members are taking an average of over three classes each week.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
With the recent additions of paid pregnancy disability leave and paid parental leave to its employee benefits package, Total Care Connections is moving away from the industry standard as a way to improve working conditions and bolster its recruitment and retention efforts. The Tempe, Arizona-based Total Care Connections is a provider of home care and private nursing services.
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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.
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