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Coronavirus variants are accelerating front-line worker burnout to new heights

Health Care Dive

While physicians said chaotic work environments are to blame for their burnout, nurses cited after-hours workloads, according to a recent report from KLAS Research's Arch Collaborative.

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Health systems reap big rewards by acquiring practices, but physicians aren’t sharing in those benefits, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Health systems reap big rewards by acquiring practices, but physicians aren’t sharing in those benefits, study finds. hlandi. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 12:46.

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SCOTUS blocks challenge to New York's health worker vaccine mandate

Health Care Dive

The lawsuit was filed by a group of doctors and other medical professionals protesting that the state's requirement for staff in hospitals, long-term care and other healthcare facilities does not allow for a religious exemption.

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HHS to distribute $9B in COVID-19 relief funds to smaller providers this week

Fierce Healthcare

HHS to distribute $9B in COVID-19 relief funds to smaller providers this week. rking. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 11:31.

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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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Humana sues slate of drugmakers, alleging anticompetitive practices to protect HIV drug monopoly

Health Care Dive

The payer filed suit Monday against Gilead, Teva, Janssen and Bristol Myers Squibb, alleging the drugmakers conspired to protect the market dominance of lucrative HIV medications despite the existence of generic alternatives.

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U.K. antitrust watchdog investigates Microsoft-Nuance deal following E.U. probe

Fierce Healthcare

U.K. antitrust watchdog investigates Microsoft-Nuance deal following E.U. probe. rtorrence. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 18:22.

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Supreme Court blocks challenge to New York's health worker vaccine mandate

Fierce Healthcare

Supreme Court blocks challenge to New York's health worker vaccine mandate. hlandi. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 20:16.

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Neidorff to retire as Centene, activist investor group agree to board shakeup

Health Care Dive

The longtime CEO is now set to be replaced by the end of next year, and a new policy mandates a board retirement age of 75.

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Remote care management startup Cadence hits $1B valuation with $100M series B

Fierce Healthcare

Remote care management startup Cadence hits $1B valuation with $100M series B. rtorrence. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 15:02.

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Flurry of doctor group buyouts helps fuel 'extraordinary' surge in health M&A

Health Care Dive

Companies across the healthcare spectrum are pursuing deals to strengthen operations after two years of pandemic-driven challenges, a new PwC report found.

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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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Centene CEO Neidorff to retire next year

Fierce Healthcare

Centene CEO Neidorff to retire next year. pminemyer. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 10:37.

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Sorry Not Sorry: How a hospital complaint system perpetuates harm after medical error

Healthy Debate

The post Sorry Not Sorry: How a hospital complaint system perpetuates harm after medical error appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Disrupting Hospital Price Increases: Using Growth Caps in Insurance Rate Review

NASHP

Introduction. Rising prices for health care services are a major determinant of increased health care spending and health insurance premiums. Hospital prices (for inpatient and outpatient care) are the largest driver of rising health care spending in the commercial market in the U.S. Much of the increase in price stems from hospital market consolidation and the failures of competition in the health care marketplace.

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Ophelia Raises $50M to Expand Its Novel Approach to Opioid Addiction Treatment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ophelia announced its $50 million Series B funding round, led by Tiger Global to expand access to medication-assisted treatment (the CDC’s recommended first-line treatment) to more people with opioid use disorder. – Funding will enable Ophelia to become a national provider, integrate with additional payors and partners, and grow its clinician support platform.

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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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About TransUnion Healthcare, an nThrive company

nThrive

Those who joined us for the 2021 nThrive User Forums were treated to many conversations between nThrive’s product experts and the healthcare clients they work with on a regular basis. These discussions highlighted the strength of nThrive’s solutions and the commitment our team has in ensuring our clients are able to accurately and efficiently utilize our SaaS healthcare revenue cycle technology products.

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Xandar Kardian Raises $10M for Contactless Health Monitoring

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Toronto-based startup Xandar Kardian raises $10M to empower digital automation of building control and contactless measurement of vital biomarkers. Xandar Kardian , a Toronto-based digital health startup announced today that it closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Phoenix Venture Partners , Portfolia Active Aging & Longevity Fund and Taronga Ventures.

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VOICES: Wes Little, Chief Analytics Officer and General Manager, WellSky

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by WellSky. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Wes Little, Chief Analytics Officer and General Manager, for WellSky. Wes describes his new role and how the development of WellSky is impacting data analytics and the future of home-based care. Home Health Care News: You’ve recently taken a new role at WellSky as the general manager of the company’s home division, in addition to your role as Chief Analytics Officer.

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XIFIN Acquires OmniSYS to Expand into Pharmacy Market – M&A

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – XIFIN enters the pharmacy market with the acquisition of OmniSYS to support the healthcare industry shift to more convenient, cost-effective care settings; provides a technology-driven connection between pharmacies, diagnostic providers, and payors. – The XIFIN/OmniSYS transaction is aligned with this activity and will support retail pharmacies as they move in this direction.

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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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5 blogs our readers loved in 2021

Meditech

Cloud technology, digital health strategies in response to COVID-19, and improving patient safety through toolkits —these are just a few of the topics that resonated with our readers on the MEDITECH Blog this year. As we continue to persevere through the challenges of the pandemic and highlight the importance of thought leadership in healthcare, let’s recap our five most popular blogs of the year and look forward to more exciting innovation and transformation in 2022.

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UpLift Raises $8M to Integrate Psychiatry with Mental Healthcare Delivery Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UpLift, a vertically integrated mental healthcare delivery platform raises $8M in secondary funding which they plan to allocate to expand their hybrid model services to include psychiatric treatments in an effort to close the behavioral healthcare gap and optimize the appropriate plan of care. UpLift , the first vertically integrated mental healthcare delivery system, announced their expansion into psychiatry as well as the closing of $8M in secondary funding led by

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Clearlake Capital-backed nThrive completes acquisition of TransUnion Healthcare

nThrive

Those who joined us for the 2021 nThrive User Forums were treated to many conversations between nThrive’s product experts and the healthcare clients they work with on a regular basis. These discussions highlighted the strength of nThrive’s solutions and the commitment our team has in ensuring our clients are able to accurately and efficiently utilize our SaaS healthcare revenue cycle technology products.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Dude Solutions Acquires Facility Health Inc.

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Dude Solutions, a Clearlake-backed software company acquires Facility Health (FHI), a technology that helps healthcare organizations manage assets and facilities. . Today, Dude Solutions , the leading SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates “Clearlake”), today announced it has acquired Michigan-based Facility Health, Inc.

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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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Managing Fatigue During Times of Crisis: Guidance for Nurses, Managers, Other Healthcare Workers

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “At times of crisis, healthcare workers (e.g., nurses, advanced practice nurses, physicians, nursing assistants, etc.) continue to provide care, despite ever challenging work demands, including higher influx of critically ill patients, increased work stress, and a frequent need for overtime.

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Physical Activity and Physical Education After the Cal200 Litigation

Bill Of Health

By Jack Becker. Since 2009 , Donald Driscoll has been fighting for physical education (P.E.) classes in California’s elementary schools. The attorney, along with Marc Babin and Cal200, Inc., has filed a series of lawsuits against over 100 school districts claiming that schools do not provide the required allotment of P.E. time under California law.

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Artificial Intelligence Predicts Coronary Artery Disease Mortality

Health IT Analytics

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DispatchHealth Makes Second Acquisition, Buys Dynamic Mobile Imaging

Home Health Care

In a move to further cement its growing mobile diagnostics services, DispatchHealth announced Tuesday that it has acquired Dynamic Mobile Imaging. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Our industry-transforming vision at DispatchHealth is to create the world’s largest in-home care system and ensure convenient, safe and lower-cost medical care,” COO Shannon Werb told Home Health Care News in an email.

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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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The Future of REF: Driving a Culture to Maximise High-Quality Research and Impact

The Rand Blog

To understand the impact of the Research Excellence Framework, RAND Europe studied the attitudes of the United Kingdom's research community towards the assessment. Through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, the study team was able to gain valuable insight into researcher views across disciplines, career stages, and types of institutions.

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Landmark Names Chris Johnson CEO, Looks to Double Patient Population

Home Health Care

Landmark Health is capping off 2021 with a new leader at its helm. The company named Chris Johnson CEO on Tuesday. Founded in 2014, the Huntington Beach, California-based Landmark is a multidisciplinary mobile medical group that delivers comprehensive in-home medical care to “the sickest and frailest” patient populations. The company – whose physician-led teams work alongside patients’ existing health care providers, including home health agencies – currently operates across 18 states.

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4 strategies for addressing an elective surgery backlog

CHQ Healthcare

During the height of the pandemic, many states shut down hospitals’ elective surgeries to conserve beds and PPE for COVID-19 patients. Since then, elective care has fully resumed at many locations, but the backlog of non-emergent procedures continues to linger. And with additional waves of COVID cases hitting facilities across the country, many hospitals have announced they are again postponing elective procedures.

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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA Webinars!

Healthcare Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA webinars: All webinars are 11:00 a.m. CST - 12:00 p.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. February 9, 2022: How to Conduct a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis. 1.2 CCB CEUs. The HIPAA Security Risk Analysis is required by law. It’s also one of the top areas of OCR enforcement: we often see settlements with covered entities and business associates who either failed to conduct a comprehensive HIPAA Security Risk Analysis – or did con

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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.