Wed.Mar 09, 2022

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Threats, obscenities, homicide: Healthcare workers stressed by pandemic face elevated violence

Health Care Dive

Millions of healthcare workers across the country are becoming inured to workplace violence, which can range from verbal abuse and threats to physical attacks and even homicide.

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill Of Health

By Ne?e Devenot, Emma Tumilty, Meaghan Buisson, Sarah McNamee, David Nickles, and Lily Kay Ross. Amid accelerating interest in the use of psychedelics in medicine, a spate of recent exposés have detailed the proliferation of abuse in psychedelic therapy, underscoring the urgent need for ethical guidance in psychedelic-assisted therapies (P-AT), and particularly relating to touch and consent.

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OSHA stepping up hospital inspections for COVID-19 mitigation efforts

Health Care Dive

The agency will ramp up investigations at healthcare facilities that previously received pandemic-related citations or complaints to make sure they're effectively prepared and able to prevent the rise of potential variants.

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MediView XR Secures $9.9M for Augmented Reality Surgical Navigation Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MediView XR, Inc., raises $9.9M in SAFE financing syndicated by Inside View Investments, LLC, a private investment firm. MediView has raised approximately $14.4MM in total funding to date. – Investment will support key technology development, commercialization and regulatory submissions. MediView XR Inc., a Cleveland-based medtech company that leverages augmented reality, remote connectivity and spatial computing data to create revolutionary surgical navigat

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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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Moderna extends patent waiver for COVID vaccine, but only for lower-income countries

Health Care Dive

Health advocates say Moderna is narrowing its pledge not to enforce patents worldwide for the duration of the pandemic, while the company argues that, in higher-income countries, vaccine supply isn't a barrier to access anymore.

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LG and Amwell Partner Co-Develop Digital Health Service Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – LG announced its partnership to Amwell to expand the boundaries of virtual care. By combining LG’s broad innovation portfolio with Amwell’s deep digital health care experience, the two companies plan to jointly develop new device-based service solutions designed to make it easier for patients to access care, whether in a hospital or at home. – This new alliance represents a key part of LG’s strategic vision for creating new products and servi

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Between a Rock and Hard Place: Recommendations for Balancing Patient Safety and Pandemic Response

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Arlington, Va., March 8, 2022 – As the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is issuing an urgent call-to-action to shore up the nation’s infection prevention and control (IPC) infrastructure.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit). The tagline on this paper is, “Convenience and choice drive patient decisions as new digital options take hold.” I was particularly keen to dig into this study based on i

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Key Barriers Could Limit Adoption of Home-Based Care Models

Home Health Care

Over the past few years, the U.S. health care system has learned that home-based care companies are well-positioned to respond to unique challenges, with at-home care approaches often boosting patient satisfaction, lowering costs and improving quality of care. Despite that positive movement in the home-based care market, a few key barriers could limit broader adoption and growth in the sector, experts caution.

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'Grow Your Own' Prep Programs Can Improve Diversity of the Teaching Workforce

The Rand Blog

Black and Hispanic educators are much more likely than white educators to say they plan to leave the profession, threatening to exacerbate an already overwhelming lack of diversity. Local, “grow your own” alternative teacher preparation programs can help to strengthen the diversity of the teaching workforce, as well as enable districts to address broader staffing challenges.

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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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Two years into the pandemic, social workers are in critical demand

Healthy Debate

The post Two years into the pandemic, social workers are in critical demand appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Terrorism Research: How RAND Defined and Built a New Field of Knowledge

The Rand Blog

In the early 1970s, amid a worldwide rash of bombings, hijackings, and hostage-takings, RAND researchers began creating the first international database of terrorist incidents. Maintained until 2009, it chronicles more than 40,000 terrorist attacks since 1968.

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LTCH Provider Preview Reports Related to the March 2022 Care Compare Refresh Have Been Reissued and are Now Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) discovered an error in measure calculations for the Ventilator Liberation Rate measure in the provider preview reports previously issued on January 26, 2022, related to the March 2022 refresh of Care Compare, for the reporting period July 01, 2020 through June 30, 2021.

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Key questions: Mid-week links

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Fair prices? Fair access ? Harmonize HTA ? What has California done on drug prices ? Do work hours explain the gender pay gap ? Does HDHP lead to lower hospital-negotiated prices for childbirth services ? Is regret minimization or utility maximization a better decision rule? Does steps per day impact mortality ?

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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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How to Make The Transition to Rules-Based Nurse Scheduling Software

HIT Consultant

Tony Torti, SVP of Schedule360 at QGenda. In today’s complex and fast-paced healthcare landscape, the benefits of rules-based nurse scheduling software are undeniable. First, consider the challenges nurses face: they comprise the largest percentage of healthcare professionals, and their role is one of the most demanding. According to a recent study by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, 22% of nurses are considering leaving their jobs, 60% of which said they were more likely to do

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How to fix the broken supply chain?

Healthcare Leadership

The following is a guest post from Anne Snowdon, PhD @anne_snowdon and Nancy Pakieser @Pakieser They will be leading us in a discussion about healthcare’s supply chain – how broken it is and how we might fix it together. Join them on Tuesday March 15th at 8:30pm ET (for your local time click here ). The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly exposed the fragility of the global healthcare supply chain system.

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With Workforce Stabilizing, LHC Group Expects Strong Organic Home Health Growth

Home Health Care

LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) President and COO Joshua Proffitt is more bullish than he’s been in “quite some time” about the growth potential of the company. That’s because the overall increased demand for home-based care has created an environment for top-line growth. . “The strong demand that we’re experiencing really shows no sign of letting up, with at-home care coming to the forefront right now,” Proffitt said during a presentation Tuesday at the Cowen 42nd Annual Healthcare Conferen

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Medtronic Taps Vizient to Offer AI-Powered Surgical Video Management & Analytics Platform for OR

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medtronic announced a new contract with Vizient , a leading healthcare performance improvement company for more than half the nation’s healthcare providers, to offer Touch Surgery™? Enterprise, the first AI-powered cloud-based video management and analytics platform for the OR. The latest offering from Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics portfolio , Touch Surgery™ Enterprise makes it easy to capture and analyze surgical video and ensures data privacy compliance with AI th

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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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The Importance of Telehealth Parity Laws

Icanotes

The purpose of telehealth services is to allow physicians, clinicians, therapists and other healthcare providers to offer treatment virtually for patients from almost any location. With the importance of social distancing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become a valuable tool in giving patients the medical and behavioral health care they need.

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Proscia & Hamamatsu Partner to Accelerate Scaled Adoption of Digital Pathology

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Proscia , the leader in digital and computational pathology solutions, and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., a leading provider of whole slide imaging systems, today announced a collaboration to accelerate digital pathology adoption at an enterprise scale. – The cooperation agreement increases the availability of the companies’ best-of-breed, unified solution that combines Proscia’s Concentriq® platform and Hamamatsu’s NanoZoomer® series of whole sli

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HIStalk’s Guide to HIMSS22

HIStalk

Download as PDF. Bamboo Health Booth 4115, Interoperability Showcase Booth.

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Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases

Bill Of Health

By Wendy E. Parmet. In October 2020, Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya issued what they called the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). In it, they argued that “The most compassionate approach [to the pandemic] … is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while protecting those who are at highest risk.

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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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Readers Write: Reimagining Healthcare in 2022 with Personal Emergency Response Services

HIStalk

Reimagining Healthcare in 2022 with Personal Emergency Response Services By.

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35+ Costly Medical Bankruptcy Statistics

Etactics

Do you cringe when you hear the word debt? If I had to guess, hearing that word would make you imagine all of the bills that you have to pay off. Maybe this causes anxiety for you. If so, you aren’t alone. 72% of people stress about money at some point each month. This has to do with the fact that 77% of all American households have debt, leading to around $15 trillion of debt in the United States alone.

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Morning Headlines 3/10/22

HIStalk

Cedars-Sinai Establishes New Division: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine The Department.

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Gates Foundation Donates $5M for 1,000 Butterfly Ultrasounds to Sub-Saharan Africa

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, today announced it received a grant in the amount of $5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and fetal health. – Through this grant Butterfly will provide 1,000 healthcare workers in Sub-Saharan Africa with Butterfly iQ+, the world’s only handheld.

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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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HIStalk Interviews Sanjula Jain, PhD, SVP, Trilliant Health

HIStalk

Sanjula Jain, PhD is SVP of market strategy and chief.

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UPMC Invests in Kyruus’ Provider Match To Optimize Patient Access

HIT Consultant

– UPMC , a Pittsburgh-based healthcare provider and insurer, announced it is expanding its strategic partnership with Kyruus to further optimize patient access. . – UPMC has been a Kyruus customer since 2019 and now will be directly investing in the company and collaborating on the future development of Kyruus’ ProviderMatch platform.

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Government Watchdogs Looking to Ding Home-Based Care Providers

Home Health Care

With the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel finally visible, home-based care agencies will now have to worry about checking their peripherals once they reach the other side. Government watchdog agencies are expected to come hard for providers in 2022 and beyond. The Biden administration released a 68-page report Monday pertaining to the “state of labor market competition,” for instance.