Tue.Jan 17, 2023

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Healthcare company bankruptcies up 84% in 2022

Health Care Dive

Filings rose significantly throughout last year, with about three times more in the fourth quarter than in the first quarter, according to a report from Gibbins Advisors.

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In a tough fundraising climate for startups, conversations at JPM 2023 shift to partnerships

Fierce Healthcare

In a tough fundraising climate for startups, conversations at JPM 2023 shift to partnerships. hlandi. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 16:11.

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How technology will shape healthcare in 2023

Health Care Dive

Experts gave predictions for virtual care, AI, the digital health market and data privacy this year.

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Providers press CMS to finalize prior authorization reforms to alleviate major administrative burdens

Fierce Healthcare

Providers press CMS to finalize prior authorization reforms to alleviate major administrative burdens. rking. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 17:00.

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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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Protect revenues, enhance patient satisfaction and improve access to care with revenue cycle management

Health Care Dive

Amidst rising inflation, workforce shortages and sharp fluctuations in the demand for high-margin elective procedures, today’s healthcare organizations are facing financial pressures that are nearly unprecedented in scope.

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Why integration of medical devices is critical to patient care

Healthcare It News

Connecting medical devices, such as infusion pumps, patient monitoring systems and dialysis machines, to the electronic medical record (EMR) can help maximize resources while providing a pathway to critical clinical information. “Medical devices were seen as only able to deliver a therapy or service. That is changing,” said Donny Patel, vice president, Enterprise Technology at Baxter.

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CMS: More providers serving as ACOs in 2023 amid new reforms and scrutiny

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: More providers serving as ACOs in 2023 amid new reforms and scrutiny. rking. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 14:25.

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Uninsured rate fell for those historically lacking coverage

Health Care Dive

Researchers in an HHS report said policies like Medicaid continuous coverage and premium tax credits were key to the reduction.

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Veterans can get suicide prevention care for free

Fierce Healthcare

Veterans can get suicide prevention care for free. fdiamond. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:20.

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What is ambient clinical intelligence — and how is it transforming healthcare?

Health Care Dive

Discover how ACI is strengthening patient-provider relationships, reducing burnout and improving care outcomes.

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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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CMS data: Medicare Advantage tops 30M

Fierce Healthcare

CMS data: Medicare Advantage tops 30M. pminemyer. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 14:45.

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Telehealth utilization has declined almost 4%

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Nearly a quarter of inpatient admissions experienced an adverse event in 2018, Massachusetts hospital study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Nearly a quarter of inpatient admissions experienced an adverse event in 2018, Massachusetts hospital study finds dmuoio Tue, 01/17/2023 - 15:03

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How the War in Ukraine Could End Sooner Than Expected

The Rand Blog

There are predictions aplenty that Russia's war on Ukraine will persist. But it could also end soon. Kremlin regime change, a Russian army collapse, or a Ukrainian win are possible. None of these contingencies should be ruled out.

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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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Headspace Health joins the employee wellbeing platform Gympass

Fierce Healthcare

Headspace Health joins the employee wellbeing platform Gympass. aburky. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 15:52.

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Soda Busters: 7 Tips to Sip Healthier

Healthcare Associates

Soda Busters: 7 Tips to Sip Healthier. The average American adult downs 39.6 gallons of soft drinks every year—that’s about. 20 pounds of sugar in one year—from soda alone! Many of these drinks contain the entire recommended daily sugar intake in just one 12-ounce can. So, if you drink three a day, you’re consuming three times the recommended daily amount of sugar.

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80% of Healthcare Execs Want Complete Clinical Data From Other EHRs

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health Gorilla , a Health Information Network and interoperability provider, released it’s inaugural 2023 State of Interoperability report today to understand how healthcare decision-makers are approaching their clinical data strategies in light of patient privacy concerns and new federal regulations. – The study, conducted in collaboration with Flexpa and the Health Management Academy, found that 60% of health systems report duplicative or incomplete da

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The Potentially Dire Long-Term Impact Of Home Health Agency Closures

Home Health Care

Back in October, Hospice and Home Care of Juneau closed after 20 years in business. A month earlier, Trinity Health At Home in Springfield, Illinois, shut its doors and laid off 60 employees. At the start of the new year, Oahu Home Healthcare announced it was shutting down, leaving just eight at-home care agencies on the most populated island in Hawaii.

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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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Authenticx Secures $20M to Enhance Customer Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Authenticx , the new standard in healthcare for listening to customer voices at scale, today announced $20M in Series B funding led by Blue Heron Capital with participation from Beringea, 50 South Capital , High Alpha , Mutual Capital Partners , Signal Peak Ventures , Allos Ventures , Elevate Ventures and M25. – The investment comes after a significant year of growth for Authenticx, which saw a 2.5x increase in ARR in 2022 and 64 new employees since July 2021,

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Avedis Donabedian: The creator of the Donabedian Model of Care

Life Qi

Avedis Donabedian is our penultimate Quality Improvement (QI) hero in our series of blogs. Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1919, he studied as a doctor and made his way into quality improvement, becoming a key influence and innovator in improvement in healthcare. His early systems-based approach to medical quality led to him creating the classic structure-process-outcome model - or Donabedian model that is still used across QI to this day.

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Netherlands Cancer Institute to Deploy Proscia’s Pathology Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Proscia® , a provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, announced that the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), one of the top 10 comprehensive cancer centers in Europe, will deploy its Concentriq® Dx platform. – NKI is transitioning to Concentriq Dx to expand its digital pathology practice, laying the foundation for its pathologists to deliver personalized diagnoses that better inform treatment decisions.

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Biotech Companies Are Opening Manufacturing Sites in Africa: Will This Help Vaccine Equity?

Bill Of Health

By Sarah Gabriele. Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots. Similarly, in 2021, BioNTech started planning its own manufacturing plant in Africa, which will be composed of modular shipping containers.

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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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How American Advantage Home Care Grew From 13 Patients To 200 Through Referrals

Home Health Care

Faced with headwinds such as staffing constraints and cost-of-care increases, home-based care companies have been forced to become more strategic when it comes to referrals and sales. One such company, American Advantage Home Care, is very familiar with this process. When its president and CEO, Cleamon Moorer, first purchased the company in 2019 with his wife, the company had an active census of about 13 patients.

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Engaging your patient population through care programs

Meditech

All patients deserve to feel empowered when making their healthcare decisions. By offering tools and programs that promote patient engagement , organizations can lay the foundation for long-lasting partnerships and a healthier patient population. At Carteret Health Care , we aim to deliver a personalized healthcare experience for our patients, no matter where their care journey takes them.

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Trailblazer Challenge: Interactive after-visit summary

Osf Healthcare

Zackary Vankeulen, director of emergency services at OSF Saint Paul, and his team were finalists in the OSF Trailblazer Challenge with their idea to improve the hospital discharge process by expanding the abilities of OSF MyChart to make the "after-visit summary" more useful to patients.

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Exec Hires: Greenphire Appoints Owen Newman as the CFO

HIT Consultant

Owen Newman, Chief Financial Officer at Greenphire. What You Should Know: – Greenphire , the global leader in financial lifecycle management for clinical trials, today announced the appointment of Owen Newman as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). – Newman brings more than 25 years of financial experience, most recently as CFO of Simeio, a global leader in Identity and Access Management.

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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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2023 Annual Adjustments to OSHA Civil Penalties

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On December 20, 2022, OSHA issued this Enforcement Memo – same title as this Blog. Purpose. The penalty information included in this memorandum is intended to supplement the penalties and debt collection information found in Chapter 6 of the Field Operations Manual (FOM). Tables included in this memorandum reflect penalty amounts for calendar year 2023 and correspond to adjusted penalty amounts found in OSHA Information Syste

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Unlocking Patient Medical Records Through Digital Retrieval of Clinical Data

HIT Consultant

Beth Zuehlke, Chief Customer Officer at Moxe Health. Thousands of times a day, at health systems throughout the US, workers manually search for patient medical charts, print them out on paper, or save them to a file—and then fax, mail, or email them to a payer or third party who has requested it. The productivity for this often manual approach is about five charts an hour per worker, and the average cost to retrieve a medical record varies by state, health system, and the number of pages.

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How to Prevent Documentation Errors in Healthcare

Icanotes

For better or worse, documentation is a significant part of every clinical workflow. When done right, providers stay on the same page and get a complete picture of a patient's health to help guide treatment and analyze results. Reimbursement processes go smoothly, and providers reduce litigation risks. But when errors appear, they can cause significant problems and even risk the patient's safety or privacy.

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KLAS IV Workflow Management 2022: Functionality Drives Recent Purchases

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health systems rely on IV workflow management solutions to streamline and improve pharmacy operations. Functionality has emerged as the most important criterion for prospective clients; however, no vendor meets all customer needs and performs at a high level, and each customer base notes gaps in functionality. – To understand which solutions are being selected and why and help provider organizations select solutions that meet their unique needs, this new repor

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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.