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Majority of burned-out clinical support staff point to patient communications as the culprit

Healthcare It News

A study published this week from the patient experience vendor WELL Health found that the vast majority of frontline clinical support staff are reporting moderate to extreme burnout. Nearly two-thirds say they've considered switching jobs or quitting due to stress. "While much has been reported on doctor and nurse burnout, less attention has been paid to the frontline clinical support staff who have been working tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure high-quality patient

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Walgreens doubles stake in provider network VillageMD with $5.2B investment

Health Care Dive

Thursday's investment hikes Walgreens' stake in VillageMD from 30% to 63% as the pharmacy operator looks to increases its presence in the red-hot primary care market.

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Editor's Corner—Medicare Advantage open enrollment opens today. Hear top industry execs discuss the trends to watch

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's Corner—Medicare Advantage open enrollment opens today. Hear top industry execs discuss the trends to watch. pminemyer. Thu, 10/14/2021 - 12:41.

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Kaiser, Mayo, Medically Home found coalition to promote advanced hospital-at-home services

Healthcare It News

A group of healthcare organizations announced this week the launch of the Advanced Care at Home Coalition, an advocacy effort aimed at creating a pathway toward safeguarding access to hospital-level services. Founded by the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente and hospital-at-home vendor Medically Home, the coalition says it hopes to work with Congress to ensure continuity of care beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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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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UnitedHealth Group boosts guidance as it posts $4.1B in profit for Q3

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth Group boosts guidance as it posts $4.1B in profit for Q3. pminemyer. Thu, 10/14/2021 - 07:25.

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UnitedHealth, with profit up 29%, expects contested Change acquisition to close early 2022

Health Care Dive

The closing news is likely to anger hospital groups, which have raised concerns the deal could hurt health IT competition and give UnitedHealthcare an unfair advantage in contract negotiations. DOJ is investigating the deal.

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New York Attorney General sends cease and desist to hospital allegedly using unlicensed temporary staffing agency amid strike

Health Care Dive

The letter asks the agency to stop providing services to Catholic Health's Mercy Hospital in Buffalo either for employment or security, and to make sure replacement workers do not interfere with the rights of picketers.

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This startup developed a digital assistant for bereavement support and is attracting major investors

Fierce Healthcare

This startup developed a digital assistant for bereavement support and is attracting major investors. hlandi. Thu, 10/14/2021 - 11:40.

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FDA advisers unanimously back Moderna booster shot for many Americans

Health Care Dive

But the committee members remain opposed to broad use of boosters in healthy young adults, for whom the benefits of an additional shot are less clear.

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Catholic Health's strike staffing agency receives cease and desist citing picketer interference, insufficient licensing

Fierce Healthcare

Catholic Health's strike staffing agency receives cease and desist citing picketer interference, insufficient licensing. dmuoio. Thu, 10/14/2021 - 16:48.

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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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FDA staff take neutral stance on Moderna, J&J boosters ahead of two-day meeting

Health Care Dive

Advisers are discussing an authorization of Moderna's booster on Thursday, with a vote on recommendations to the FDA expected this afternoon.

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Chutes & Ladders—CEOs of Jefferson Health, CommonSpirit Health announce retirements

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—CEOs of Jefferson Health, CommonSpirit Health announce retirements. dmuoio. Thu, 10/14/2021 - 14:50.

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Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins and Others Form ‘Advanced Care at Home Coalition’

Home Health Care

Some of the most premier health care organizations in the U.S. are coming together to form the “Advanced Care at Home Coalition.” The newly formed entity will vie for legislation that will allow more patients to receive hospital-level care in their homes moving forward. Many of the provisions that have allowed health systems and home-based care players to treat patients in their homes during the COVID-19 crisis are tied to the public health emergency (PHE).

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Commonwealth Fund: MA, traditional Medicare beneficiaries face similar barriers in access to care

Fierce Healthcare

Commonwealth Fund: MA, traditional Medicare beneficiaries face similar barriers in access to care. rking. Thu, 10/14/2021 - 14:13.

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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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Protecting the Elderly from Financial Exploitation

The Rand Blog

Older adults are more vulnerable to scams than others and there are no good ways of protecting them. Policy solutions that provide protection against financial fraud could help older adults to live more financially stable lives.

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Lessons from Opioid Use Disorder treatment during the pandemic - why Groups is doubling down on virtual care

Fierce Healthcare

Lessons from Opioid Use Disorder treatment during the pandemic - why Groups is doubling down on virtual care. admin. Thu, 10/14/2021 - 16:59.

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Walgreens Jump-Starts ‘Walgreens Health’ by Investing $5.5 Billion in VillageMD, CareCentrix

Home Health Care

Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA), the holdings company for pharmacy store giant Walgreens, announced two major investments in home-based care on Thursday. The investments kick off its new long-term growth strategy. The first is a $5.2 billion investment in VillageMD to advance an already significant partnership that began in 2019. Walgreens is also betting big on CareCentrix, a health-at-home solutions company, with a $330 million investment.

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The NIH Has the Opportunity to Address Research Funding Disparities

Bill Of Health

By Leah Pierson. The Biden administration plans to greatly increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2022, presenting the agency with new opportunities to better align research funding with public health needs. The NIH has long been criticized for disproportionately devoting its research dollars to the study of conditions that affect a small and advantaged portion of the global population.

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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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COVID and Flu: You Have the Power to Help Prevent a Twindemic

Medcenter

Fall is here, apples are ripe for the picking and school is back in session, but as we put our gardens to bed and prep our homes for winter, we should do the same when considering our health this season. COVID-19 has consumed our attention but there’s another threat right around the corner: the flu. […]. The post COVID and Flu: You Have the Power to Help Prevent a Twindemic appeared first on UVM Medical Center Blog.

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Yet Another Look at Health Law Citations

Bill Of Health

By Scott Burris. Brian Leiter has published his list of ten most-cited health law professors , and there’s a slightly expanded version on this blog thanks to Mark Hall and Glenn Cohen. They both use the Sisk data, which draws solely from the Westlaw journals file. But the field of health law makes as big a scholarly contribution outside the legal literature as in , which is important when we think of who we write for and how health law faculty are assessed.

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North Korea's 'Business as Usual' Missile Provocations

The Rand Blog

North Korea in recent weeks has revved up its cycle of missile provocations, its go-to method of securing leverage against the United States and South Korea in the on-again off-again nuclear negotiations. How will the United States and South Korea choose to respond?

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Intelerad Acquires Ambra Health, Forming $1.7B Leader in Cloud PACS and Enterprise Imaging Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Intelerad Medical Systems™ , a global leader in medical image management solutions, announced its acquisition of Ambra Health , forming the global leader in cloud PACs and enterprise imaging. The acquisition marks Intelerad’s fourth deal this calendar year, with the transaction valuing the combined company $1.7B. – Ambra powers some of the largest health systems – such as Johns Hopkins Medicine, Memorial Hermann and New York-Presbyterian, as well

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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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The impact of public health efforts on US Mortality

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Research by D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles & Daniel I. Rees in the NBER report provides some useful graphs looking at how various public health interventions have impacted health outcomes in the U.S over the last century. Specifically, the authors show that public health interventions aimed at improving the health of the municipal water supply had large impacts on both mortality for some groups, illness, and inequality of health outcomes.

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15 HLTH 2021 Predictions from Digital Health Executives to Watch

HIT Consultant

Before HLTH 2021 kicks off in Boston on October 17th, here are 15 predictions from digital health executives to watch: Siva Namasivayam, co-founder and CEO of Cohere Health. “The explosion of telehealth will certainly be a hot topic at HLTH. I expect the other trend will be focusing on mental health, especially in the context of the post-Covid era.

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States Use American Rescue Plan Act Funds to Strengthen Home and Community-Based Service Workforce

NASHP

States Use American Rescue Plan Act Funds to Strengthen Home and Community-Based Service Workforce October 14, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing shortages in behavioral health and long-term care providers. States are leveraging an enhanced match opportunity available through the American Rescue Plan Act to address — and potentially reverse — this shortage.

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Prenosis, Roche Partner to Combat Hospital Sepsis Using Precision Diagnostics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Prenosis Inc. , a precision diagnostics company transforming clinical diagnosis with artificial intelligence, announced today the expansion of an existing partnership with Roche Diagnostics that will total close to $6 million to improve and expedite the clinical recognition of sepsis. – Building upon the collaboration that the companies started together in 2020, Prenosis will significantly expand its core NOSIS™ dataset, and the two companies will work togethe

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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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What Health Care Can Learn from Chick-fil-A, Clorox, and Chewy – Liberating Health

Health Populi

When we think about “3 C’s” for health care experience leadership, we might turn to Cleveland Clinic, Cigna, and CVS/health. In my latest post for the Medecision Liberation site, I point to a new trio of “C’s” to inform and inspire our patient/consumer/caregiver experience designs: Chick-fil-A, Clorox, and Chewy. Why these three?

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Can Predictive AI Fully Inform Patient Care Decisions?

HIT Consultant

Laura Coughlin, RN, BSN, MBA VP, Clinical Innovation and Development, Change Healthcare. In recent years, the healthcare industry has fully embraced the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform healthcare practice and delivery. From the advent of big data to the arrival of EHRs , the industry is familiar with the hype that accompanies technology advancements.

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Predictive Analytics Spots Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children

Health IT Analytics

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Health Care Executives Share Provocative Takes on the Future of Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

Two weeks ago, Home Health Care News hosted our flagship FUTURE Conference in downtown Chicago. Since then, I’ve been reflecting on the event’s panels as well as my on-background conversations to get a better feel for where the health care world — and home-based care, in particular — is headed. Value-based care and the shift away from fee-for-service Medicare was predictably a major discussion point, as was the evolution of acute care at home models and what the U.S.

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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.