The case for hybrid care models
Health Care Dive
MARCH 22, 2022
Telehealth is increasingly being woven into healthcare organizations' future plans, giving hope to proponents of hybrid care models.
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Top takeaways from HIMSS22: What CIOs need to know
Healthcare It News
MARCH 22, 2022
Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue. David Chou Healthcare chief information officers had a lot to take in at HIMSS22 this past week.
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Labor union health fund targets hospital prices, looks to form purchasing coalition
Health Care Dive
MARCH 22, 2022
If successful, the coalition would bring together New York City's largest public employee union and the United Federation of Teachers. Together the group would represent about 540,000 people.
Verizon partners with Kajeet on telehealth
Healthcare It News
MARCH 22, 2022
Verizon Business has partnered with wireless connectivity operator Kajeet to offer its BlueJeans Telehealth through Kajeet channel partners. The companies announced this past week that the team-up will give healthcare providers and care teams a new, secure way to connect with patients remotely. "With BlueJeans Telehealth, Verizon is improving access to high-quality healthcare services to create more healthcare equity," said Alex Doyle, vice president of product management at Verizon Bu
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The Kronos outage disrupted one health system's payroll for more than a month. Here's how it moved forward.
Health Care Dive
MARCH 22, 2022
UMass Memorial Health had to quickly improvise a way to run payroll for more than 16,000 employees without hours-worked data, CFO Sergio Melgar said.
The biggest trends in healthcare are hospital care at home and the widening labor gap
Healthcare It News
MARCH 22, 2022
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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity
Bill Of Health
MARCH 22, 2022
By Brooke Ellison. There is a profound need to deconstruct and actively reconstruct the interpretation of disability as it is currently understood. The current framing of disability as inability — whether an inability to be employed or otherwise — has utterly failed not only people with disabilities, but also the communities in which they live. This perception of disability is a relic of attitudinal and policy structures put into place by people who do not live with disability themselves: people
North Carolina, Florida Home Health Providers Navigate RCD Changes
Home Health Care
MARCH 22, 2022
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving home health providers in North Carolina and Florida time to acclimate to the full implementation of Review Choice Demonstration (RCD). For providers in North Carolina and Florida, the rollout of RCD has meant keeping an eye out for key changes. . Broadly, the purpose of RCD is to curb improper billing and fraud by home health agencies in certain states.
New Mask Sign for Facilities: Masks Help Protect Everyone
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Masks can help protect you and others from COVID-19. This sign (CDC) is designed for facilities to print out and place on their entry doors to remind everyone to wear masks in the facility. Learn more about infection prevention and control recommendations for healthcare personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic. .
Cityblock Health Names Co-Founder Dr. Toyin Ajayi as CEO
HIT Consultant
MARCH 22, 2022
Dr. Toyin Ajayi, CEO at Cityblock Health. What You Should Know: – Cityblock Health, a value-based healthcare provider for Medicaid, dually-eligible and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries appoints co-founder Dr. Toyin Ajayi to CEO. Co-founder Iyah Romm is stepping down as CEO but will continue serving as a member of the board. – Dr. Ajayi most recently served as president, where she oversaw the company’s growth and clinical model.
5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist
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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
Project Firstline 2022 Launch of New Resources: Risk Recognition and Infection Control in Health Care
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Project Firstline is excited to announce the availability of our newest suite of infection control educational resources and training materials ! These new resources are designed to help all healthcare workers gain a foundational understanding of infection control, so they can recognize the risk for germs to spread throughout the workday and take action to protect patients and themselves – no matter the situation.
NVIDIA Launches AI Computing Platform for Medical Devices
HIT Consultant
MARCH 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – NVIDIA today introduced Clara Holoscan MGX , a platform for the medical device industry to develop and deploy real-time AI applications at the edge, specifically designed to meet required regulatory standards. – Clara Holoscan MGX expands the Clara Holoscan platform to provide an all-in-one, medical-grade reference architecture, as well as long-term software support, to accelerate innovation in the medical device industry.
OIG Adds COVID-19 Vaccination Status of Nursing Home Staff to Work Plan
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. OIG (Office of Inspector General) has just added COVID-19 Vaccination Status of Nursing Home Staff to its work plan. Residents of long-term care facilities (nursing homes) have been severely impacted by COVID-19 and are disproportionately represented in the number of COVID-19-related deaths in the United States.
Eko Unveils Newly Designed Heart Disease Detection App
HIT Consultant
MARCH 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Eko , a digital health company advancing heart and lung disease detection, today announced the launch of its newly-redesigned Eko App, which will transform patient interactions into an opportunity to screen for cardiovascular disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and there has not been an efficient and affordable solution to screen for heart disease at the physical exam until now. – Eko has transformed the traditional stethoscope in
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New Owner-Identification Strategy Drives Record Growth for HomeWell
Home Health Care
MARCH 22, 2022
HomeWell Care Services CEO Crystal Franz has a lot to be hopeful for in 2022. After a record-breaking growth year in 2021, Franz said there is no plan for the company to slow down. In the year ahead, HomeWell is planning for rapid expansion and national brand recognition. The company is based in Burkburnett, Texas — just north of Dallas — and has about 50 locations across the United States.
Philips & Nuvo Group Partner to Tackle Maternal Care Disparities in Rural Colorado
HIT Consultant
MARCH 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Nuvo Group announced a strategic collaboration with Philips to address maternal care disparities in rural areas, beginning in Colorado. – Following the White House’s call to action on maternal health, the companies’ goal is to offer an integrated solution for rural-based care providers and their patients to increase access and drive adherence to prescribed prenatal care via the INVU by Nuvo remote pregnancy monitoring system.
Implementing a QI system for an ICS
Life Qi
MARCH 22, 2022
Regional Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are a mechanism to partner organisations to meet health and care needs and provide a collaborative approach to improve population health and reduce inequalities. It removes traditional divisions between hospitals and GPs, between physical and mental health, and between NHS and council services.
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MARCH 22, 2022
Top News Madison, WI-based DeliverHealth acquires PresidioHealth, which offers automated.
A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address
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A Promising Era for Women of Color in U.S. Elections, but Gains in Broader Workplace Leadership Remain Elusive
The Rand Blog
MARCH 22, 2022
Women of color remain significantly underrepresented in workplace leadership and along the promotion pipeline in comparison to white women, as well as to black and white men. How much more work needs to be done to achieve the combination of race and gender equity in leadership?
The Financial Toxicity of Health Care Costs: From Cancer to FICO Scores
Health Populi
MARCH 22, 2022
The financial toxicity of health care costs in the U.S. takes center stage in Health Populi this week as several events converge to highlight medical debt as a unique feature in American health care. “Medical debt is the most common collection tradeline reported on consumer credit records,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called out in a report published March 1, 2022.
Duty Bound to Disaster: Beware the Imperative in Foreign Policymaking
The Rand Blog
MARCH 22, 2022
Appeals for bolder action in Ukraine will understandably only grow more intense as the appalling humanitarian toll mounts. But imperative-driven action almost always leads countries astray—and in the days and weeks ahead, it will be critical for the United States to stay alert for its symptoms.
Houston, we have a data problem
Nordic
MARCH 22, 2022
Last year, Nordic’s CEO Jim Costanzo wrote about “ healthier data, healthier people.” He noted that our electronic health records (EHRs) are missing essential information about what’s going on between infrequent visits to the clinic or emergency department, and he wrote about how this lack of data negatively affects patients. But it’s not just too little information that is a concern.
The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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Quality Measure Rating Threshold Changes with the April 2022 Refresh
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. In March 2019, CMS released memorandum QSO-19-08-NH , which outlined a plan to update the quality measure (QM) rating thresholds every six months. The plan was to increase the thresholds by 50% of the average rate of improvement in QM rating scores. For example, if there is an average rate of improvement of 2%, the QM rating thresholds would be raised 1%.
9 Major Patient Engagement Trends to Embrace in 2022
Health Care Success
MARCH 22, 2022
While many businesses long for a return to pre-COVID normal, savvy healthcare organizations and health systems embrace virtual and digital services that champion a patient engagement future that exceeds expectations in our new reality. Has your business embraced virtual and digital patient experience trends, or are you still waiting for things to “get back to normal?”.
Did health care productivity really decline in recent decades?
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MARCH 22, 2022
Based on analysis from National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs), multifactor productivity (MFP) in the health care and social assistance sector declined by 0.4% per between 1987 and 2018. On the other hand, the economy as a whole experience a 0.9% increase in MFP. With new technology, telehealth, gene therapies, treatments going generic, is it really the case that productivity in health care declined?
Transactions: Traditions Health Enters Kansas Home Health Market; 24 Hour Home Care Acquires Bright Moon Care
Home Health Care
MARCH 22, 2022
Traditions Health announces Serenity Health Management acquisition. Traditions Health continues to be acquisitive. . The College Station, Texas-based home health and hospice agency announced the acquisition of Serenity Health Management last week, moving it into Kansas for the first time from a home health perspective. Serenity is also a provider of both home health and hospice with locations in both Wichita and Hutchinson.
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.
Best Practices for Behavioral Health Organizations Contracting with Commercial Plans
Etactics
MARCH 22, 2022
Written by: Ray Dalessandro and Gary Humble Is your behavioral health agency exploring contracting with commercial plans? Here are some critical items to consider before you do! Over the last few years, many Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs) focused on their administrative and clinical operation systems. The reason? They needed to meet the needs of their clients' Medicaid Managed Care Plans (MCPs).
New State Data Show ARPA Increased Affordability and Access for Consumers in State-Based Health Insurance Marketplaces
NASHP
MARCH 22, 2022
SBMs anticipate thousands may disenroll from coverage if the enhanced subsidies expire. Washington DC—Key findings reported by the state-based marketplaces (SBMs) show that the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) lowered costs and expanded access to health insurance for over 4.2 million Americans. These data further show that expiration of ARPA provisions will lead to significant premium increases for the majority of consumers enrolled in coverage through the SBMs.
What the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Means for Your Cybersecurity
Healthcare Performance
MARCH 22, 2022
I recently had a conversation with Scott Wolff, President and owner of LanServ, a St. Louis IT and managed service provider. Scott was a recent guest expert for a MPA webinar that discussed HIPAA Security Risk Assessment and cybersecurity. I asked Scott if there has been an increase in cyber threat activity as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Fun HIPAA Training Games to Keep Your Employees Engaged
Etactics
MARCH 22, 2022
You know that working in or around the healthcare space means you have to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). You also know that there’s a section within the regulation that recommends HIPAA training to take place. That’s not a surprise. But, like most laws, there’s a lot up for debate as to what is and isn’t required from a training perspective.
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.
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