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Moody’s report highlights need for healthcare investment in cybersecurity

Health Care Dive

The ratings agency said healthcare’s vulnerable state makes it “target rich,” which could bring service disruptions and personal data disclosures.

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Express Scripts rolls out new copay caps, PBM model with focus on transparency

Fierce Healthcare

Express Scripts rolls out new copay caps, PBM model with focus on transparency pminemyer Thu, 04/13/2023 - 15:33

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Advocate Aurora is latest nonprofit in the red, posts $751M net loss in 2022

Health Care Dive

Climbing expenses and investment losses contributed to the drop, compared with net income of $1.8 billion in 2021.

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Biotech company Prothena taps Walgreens to recruit patients for Alzheimer’s drug research

Fierce Healthcare

Biotech company Prothena taps Walgreens to recruit patients for Alzheimer’s drug research hlandi Thu, 04/13/2023 - 06:51

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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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Regional Victoria expands access to virtual care with Microsoft HoloLens rollout

Healthcare It News

The state government of Victoria has announced the rollout of Microsoft HoloLens across the East Gippsland region to expand access to virtual care. Backed by an A$80,000 (over $50,000) investment, the region-wide rollout comes following a successful trial at Bairnsdale Regional Health Service – believed to be the world's first application of the technology in a virtual medical setting.

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House oversight committee seeks answers on hospitals' COVID relief funds, improper Medicaid payments

Fierce Healthcare

House oversight committee seeks answers on hospitals' COVID relief funds, improper Medicaid payments dmuoio Thu, 04/13/2023 - 13:59

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Chutes & Ladders—Privia taps Parth Mehrotra as new CEO; Froedtert Health and ThedaCare merge, plan to shake up leadership

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Privia taps Parth Mehrotra as new CEO; Froedtert Health and ThedaCare merge, plan to shake up leadership aburky Thu, 04/13/2023 - 17:30

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Emergency medicine physicians get key help from telehealth

Healthcare It News

Michael Gonzalez will offer more detail at the HIMSS23 session "Emergency Medicine Physician EMS Telehealth: Leveraging Partners in Virtual Care." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S104.

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Justice Department seeks stay on parts of ACA preventive services ruling

Fierce Healthcare

Justice Department seeks stay on parts of ACA preventive services ruling rking Thu, 04/13/2023 - 16:29

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Cleveland Clinic informatics leader on new research recruitment efforts

Healthcare It News

Dr. Laura Jehi will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Transforming Recruitment Strategies in Clinical Research." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 4, room S404.

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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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Appeals court keeps abortion drug approval intact but restricts access

Fierce Healthcare

Appeals court keeps abortion drug approval intact but restricts access rking Thu, 04/13/2023 - 09:21

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Privia Health names new CEO

Health Care Dive

Parth Mehrotra will succeed Shawn Morris, who led the company through its 2021 initial public offering.

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Hey, CISO: How Mature is Your Digital Identity Strategy?

Fierce Healthcare

Hey, CISO: How Mature is Your Digital Identity Strategy?

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Salesforce Launches New Customer 360 for Health Capabilities to Deliver More Personalized Patient Experiences

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Salesforce today announced new Customer 360 for Health capabilities that help healthcare providers deliver more personalized patient experiences and reduce operational costs. – Customer 360 for Health helps healthcare and life sciences organizations enhance the overall care experience with the full power of Salesforce technology, including real-time data from Data Cloud , Einstein AI , and automation with Flow.

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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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Mid-sized health systems leading 'a new wave' of post-pandemic mergers, Kaufman Hall finds

Fierce Healthcare

Mid-sized health systems leading 'a new wave' of post-pandemic mergers, Kaufman Hall finds dmuoio Thu, 04/13/2023 - 16:39

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Bringing The Customer Voice to Life in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Leslie Pagel, Chief Evangelist at Authenticx Voice is a powerful tool. The average person speaks about 7,000 words daily (although anyone who’s spent time around young children knows that estimate is probably low). Yet amid healthcare organizations building a more customer-centric approach to customer experience (CX), many have not included a key piece of the CX puzzle: analyzing the voice of the customer.

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Traditions Health CEO On Differentiating A Contemporary Home Health Business

Home Health Care

Traditions Health is a burgeoning home health provider. The company’s footprint is expanding, and all the while, it is figuring out how to best deal with payer diversification, technological innovation and mitigating the effects of Medicare fee-for-service payment rate cuts. Its CEO, David Klementz, had a one-liner that resonated with the crowd at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event recently.

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Arcadia Raises $125M to Expand Healthcare Data Analytics Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Arcadia , a healthcare data analytics company raises $125M from Vista Credit Partners and a strategic investor and financing partner focused on the enterprise software, data and technology market. Arcadia helps providers and health plans deliver actionable insights to advance care and research, drive strategic growth, and ensure financial success.

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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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Common cause and special cause variation

Life Qi

In past articles in this series of blogs, we have looked at Statistical Process Control (SPC) and how it works within the Quality Improvement (QI) setting. We know that SPC charts are designed to measure how a process or system changes over time.

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OM1 Launches AI-Powered Digital Phenotypes Platform, Creating “Fingerprints” for Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: OM1 , a real-world data, outcomes and technology company with a focus on chronic conditions, launches PhenOM™, its artificial intelligence-powered platform for personalized medicine. Calibrated using OM1’s longitudinal health history datasets, PhenOM uses AI to identify unique digital phenotypes associated with conditions and outcomes and compare patients’ records to them to highlight risks and opportunities.

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‘It’s Kind Of The Perfect Space’: Private Equity Firms Still See Massive Upside In Home Health Care

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Inflation reaching multi-decade highs, uncertainty in the banking world and credit markets drying up dampened private equity health care M&A activity in 2022, especially in the second half. Many anticipate that investment slowdown to continue into 2023, but there’s a good chance the home health industry will buck that trend.

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Top 4 Reasons Why Medical Practices are Outsourcing Their Billing

Advanced Data Systems

When your medical office was just starting up, it made sense to handle all billing internally. But as your enterprise grows in size and perhaps in scope, too, you might find that inefficiencies are creeping into the workflow. Or, perhaps your staff is finding it difficult to stay on top of code changes and updates to billing protocols.

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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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Always Best Care, AccordCare Making ‘Critical’ Training Investments To Fuel Growth

Home Health Care

Education is emerging as a key tool for home-based care providers as they try to recruit and retain staff. When utilized correctly, quality education is a resource that can help providers keep up with market demand. Always Best Care learned education’s importance firsthand through its own struggles. “We did an in-depth study in house,” Sheila Davis, senior executive vice president of area operations at Always Best Care, said recently at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy conference.

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Appreciating Water as a Driver of Health: Designing for Good, from the UN to Liberia and Flint, Michigan

Health Populi

The United Nations (UN) convened the 2023 Water Conference convened March 22-24, 2023, in New York City. The meeting brought together stakeholders from all over the world to brainstorm how to meet UN sustainability development goals (SDGs) for #6 of the 17 SDGs addressing clean water and sanitation. This event was billed in the words of the conveners, a “watershed moment to tackle the global water crisis and ensure a water-secure future.” That water-secure future is a critical factor

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Voices: Scott Decker, Chief Executive Officer, Homecare Homebase

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by Homecare Homebase. In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Scott Decker, Chief Executive Officer, Homecare Homebase, to learn about market trends and the opportunities EHR vendors have to bring value to the industry. From looming rate cuts and constant regulatory changes to workforce shortages and increased expenses, the home-based care industry has its share of challenges.

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News 4/14/23

HIStalk

Top News Carlyle Group abandons its interest in acquiring a.

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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 Telehealth Reimbursement Advances: Reimbursement Models

Health Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented acceleration of telehealth services, making remote care a standard practice. Healthcare providers increasingly recognize the benefits of telehealth, including increased access to care, reduced costs, and improved patient outcomes. However, to sustain telehealth programs, healthcare providers require reimbursement for remote patient monitoring (RPM), chronic care management (CCM), and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) services.

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USC White Paper: “Mitigating the Inflation Reduction Act’s Adverse Impacts on the Prescription Drug Market”

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the title of a new USC Schaeffer Center white paper authored by Dana Goldman, Joe Grogan, Darius Lakdawalla, Barry Liden, Kyi-Sin Than, Erin Trish and myself. An excerpt from the press release is below, and the full white paper is here ( HTML , PDF ). 1. Bring transparency and a focus on value to the IRA price-determination process. To assess value, economists commonly use cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), but traditional, quality-adjusted life-year-based CEA can discriminate against pa

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 4/13/23

HIStalk

From the “it’s always good to double check your.

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Interview with CalmWave CEO Ophir Ronen

Health Business Group

Even in a perfect world a hospital ICU is a tough enough environment. And today’s reality is usually pretty bad, with alarms going off constantly –most of them false alarms. My guest , Ophir Ronen is a longtime entrepreneur –getting his start as co-founder of one of the first commercial Internet backbones. His current company, CalmWave uses AI to combat alarm fatigue in the ICU.

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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.