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Tenet names ex-AmerisourceBergen executive as new CFO

Health Care Dive

Sun Park’s background in healthcare and corporate finance, in addition to the long lead time between his appointment and start date as CFO, indicate Tenet’s efforts to ensure a smooth leadership changeover, according to analysts.

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AWS launches generative AI center backed by $100M investment

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon Web Services launched a new innovation center focused on generative AI backed by a $100 million investment, its most recent bid to keep up with the AI race. | Amazon's cloud unit launched the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center with a $100 million investment, its most recent bid to keep up with the AI race.

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Talkdesk talks about the benefits of being an early adopter of ChatGPT

Healthcare It News

Before COVID-19, healthcare worker burnout had reached crisis levels , research from the National Academies of Medicine shows. More than 330,000 U.S. healthcare professionals left the industry in 2021, with many remaining workers considering leaving, reported commercial intelligence company Definitive Healthcare. For healthcare organizations, burnout leads to decreased productivity, with increased recruitment and training costs.

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Industry Voices—Hospitals can't lose sight of infection control as COVID recedes

Fierce Healthcare

The need for capable healthcare staff was an urgent concern for me as my surgery for a major medical condition was placed on hold. | Unless we commit to a reliable and robust measurement system of hospital-acquired infections, we will continue to have a stressed workforce and need to rely on data generated in other countries.

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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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Health services M&A holding steady despite economic headwinds

Health Care Dive

Deal volumes declined 4% in the year ended May 15 compared to 2022, according to a PwC report. But the consulting firm is “optimistic” about the sector’s M&A outlook for the rest of the year.

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Clover Health settles lawsuits alleging that it hid a federal probe from investors

Fierce Healthcare

Clover Health has reached a settlement in lawsuits alleging that the Medicare Advantage insurtech had not been forthright with investors when the company went public, the company announced in a

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Optum adding 2 more Humira biosimilars to its formulary

Fierce Healthcare

Optum Rx will add two more Humira biosimilars to its formulary later this summer. | Optum Rx will add two more Humira biosimilars to its formulary later this summer.

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How Environmental Design Elevates Healthcare Branding and the Patient Experience

Healthcare Success

The healthcare marketplace is crowded. As patient expectations continue to evolve, the need for thoughtful environmental designs that prioritize peace, tranquility, and healing cannot be overstated—they play a vital role in patient experiences and the perception of overall quality of care. Studies have shown many positive effects of healthcare environmental design on medical outcomes.

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CMS unveils details on reimbursement for new Alzheimer’s meds

Fierce Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released new details Thursday about how it plans to collect patient data as a condition of coverage for a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs, once the m | CMS released new details Thursday about how it plans to collect patient data as a condition of coverage for a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs, once the medications get full approval from the FDA.

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Prevention, not intervention, should be key goal of community care

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

Health Populi

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. Here’s a picture of the annual study’s top-line findings, a roster of the fifty U.S. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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So Many Questions, So Little Time for Pacific Logistics

The Rand Blog

The United States has been struggling to “pivot to the Pacific” for over a decade, and one of the major missing pieces is logistics. It is critical that the logistics underpinning a credible military deterrent be figured out now.

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Emory Healthcare’s Innovation Director: Forward-Thinking Health Systems Need An At-Home Care Strategy

Home Health Care

DispatchHealth has formed a new partnership with Emory Healthcare in Atlanta to offer Emory patients follow-up and high-acuity medical care in the home. As DispatchHealth’s service capabilities and reach continue to grow , the leadership team remains focused on meeting individuals with high medical and social needs where they are. Simultaneously, health systems are looking for ways to keep these patients healthy and out of the hospital.

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Will L.A. Have an Office Apocalypse or Housing Boom? Tax Breaks Might Make the Difference

The Rand Blog

Facing a persistent housing crisis, Los Angeles is doubling down on converting unused commercial buildings into residential properties. But high interest rates make conversions more costly to finance. To mitigate this risk, L.A. might consider fiscal policy that would tip the scale more convincingly toward adaptive reuse.

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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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In A Tough Operating Environment, Home Health Providers Are Snatching Back Control

Home Health Care

Home health providers are in a challenging operating environment, despite their services being more in demand than ever. Their leaders are trying to grapple with those two realities. They want to be the ones that benefit from higher demand, instead of another outsider like UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) or any other company that can escape the operating environment while capitalizing off of the care-to-home shift.

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New Set of Standards Aims to Ensure Effectiveness, Equity of AI

Health IT Analytics

The National Academy of Medicine partnered with various health leaders to create a code of conduct for using AI in healthcare.

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As The ‘Premium Dollar Holder,’ Chapters Health Sidesteps Home Health Care’s Difficult Regulatory Landscape

Home Health Care

In a crowded home health market, Chapters Health System has been able to set itself apart due to its unique company structure. Specifically, Chapters Health views its home health services as more of an asset or tool. A tool to enhance care in an already capitated model, more than just as a service line or revenue stream. “This way, if the patient needs one, two or 20 visits, they get those because the dollars are already accounted for,” Chapters Health President and CEO Andrew Molosky told Home

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How the centre line and control limits are calculated in Life QI

Life Qi

As discussed in our series of articles about SPC charts , Statistical Process Control is a tool used for monitoring and enhancing a process's quality and consistency by plotting data over time on a chart. The control chart, one of the main SPC tools, depicts the values of a process variable across time and evaluates them against predetermined control limits.

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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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USC Researchers to Leverage Ophthalmology AI for Improved Patient Care

Health IT Analytics

USC Roski Eye Institute researchers are investigating how artificial intelligence may help automate clinical tasks and improve ophthalmology care.

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Teacher Well-Being, Russian PMCs, AI Conspiracy Theories: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on how America's teachers are doing, the proliferation of Russian private military companies, preparing for conspiracy theories about artificial intelligence, and more.

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Saving the healthcare workforce requires the courage to innovate

Nordic

More than 100,000 registered nurses (RN) left the workforce in 2021. This is the largest drop in certified RNs over the past 40 years. Many have pointed to the increasingly heavy workload that nurses have to shoulder as one of the primary reasons for an exit. And that’s worrying. Until 2020, the number of nurses entering the workforce was almost enough to replace historic exit rates.

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Six Different Ways: Ukraine Lessons for Japanese Defense Planners

The Rand Blog

Japanese leaders have already begun internalizing key lessons from Ukraine. But Japanese officials are silent on whether they are preparing for a short conflict or a long one. This matters because, as the Ukrainian war demonstrates, a protracted struggle could require different plans from the ones Japan is possibly making.

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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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UPDATED: Final MDS 3.0 Item Sets version 1.18.11 v3

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The final Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Item Sets version (v)1.18.11 have been updated and are now available in the Downloads section on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual page. The NC and NQ Item Sets have been replaced with revised versions; the remaining item sets remain unchanged from the last posted version.

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How Many Bottles of Water Should I Drink In a Day?

Healthcare Associates

How Many Bottles of Water Should I Drink In a Day? Hydration plays an important role in your overall health, given how the human body depends greatly on water for survival. Without enough water, you can face problems such as seizures and kidney damage. But exactly how many bottles of water should you drink a day to stay healthy and hydrated? Here’s what health experts say about the amount of water you should be drinking every day, and how to request an appointment with Healthcare Associates of T

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Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model: Overview of the Interim Performance Report Webcast — July 27, 2023

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Members of the HHVBP Model Technical Assistance (TA) Team will provide an overview of the data and information available in the IPR, which will help home health agencies (HHAs) monitor their performance during the calendar year (CY) 2023 performance year. Note: Only CCNs with a Medicare-certification date prior to January 1, 2022, will receive a July 2023 IPR.

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Diagnosis and Assessment of Gender Dysphoria

Icanotes

According to the Pew Research Center, about 5% of young adults in America feel that their gender is different from the sex they were assigned at birth. Whether they identify as transgender or nonbinary, many of these people struggle with what's called gender dysphoria. This experience is a significant feeling of distress, discomfort or incongruence between one's assigned gender and their experienced or expressed gender.

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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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CMS Offers Useful Information on Website and Is Considering Additional Steps to Assess Underlying Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS is responsible for ensuring that participating nursing homes meet federal standards and provides information on nursing homes’ quality on its web-based tool, Care Compare. CMS’s Five-Star Rating System, which includes an overall and three component star ratings—health inspection, staffing, and quality measures—is a prominent source of information on Care Compare.

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