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How the hybrid future of telemedicine may play out

Healthcare It News

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care. While virtual care's widespread adoption will certainly help providers offer more proactive care in lower cost settings and decrease the need for regular in-person visits, i

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Black women disproportionately concentrated in low-wage, hazardous healthcare jobs, study finds

Health Care Dive

The U.S.'s historical legacies of racism and sexism have shaped the employment trajectories of Black women, dating back to how care work was divided in slavery and domestic service, according to new research.

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Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access

Bill Of Health

By Fatima Khan. When news broke last week that Pfizer-BioNTech was submitting for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) a two-dose COVID vaccine regimen for children under 5 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), many parents felt a glimmer of hope after a long time. Up until a few days before, the public was expecting approval to possibly drag into summer.

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Robots cushion omicron's blow to Q4 orthopaedic device sales

Health Care Dive

Zimmer Biomet, Stryker and Johnson & Johnson's businesses endured more pressures tied to the postponement of elective procedures in the fourth quarter, but sales of their robotic systems continued to expand.

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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 Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. The penalties — a 1% reduction in Medicare payments over 12 months — are based on the experiences of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital between July 2018 and the end of 2019, before the pandemic began in earnest.

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Pfizer forecasts $100B in sales, fueled by COVID-19 vaccine, pill

Health Care Dive

The company estimated revenue from its COVID-19 vaccine and new antiviral pill Paxlovid will total $54 billion this year.

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Top Home Care Predictions for 2022

Home Health Care

The personal home care industry has received unprecedented recognition and praise over the last two years. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris explicitly mentioned home care – and home care workers – on the campaign trail and after inauguration. “Just the fact that a sitting president is talking about home care is huge,” Vicki Hoak, the executive director of the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA), said during the Home Care Conference in December.

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Adding more beds is not the solution to overcrowding in Canadian hospitals

Healthy Debate

The post Adding more beds is not the solution to overcrowding in Canadian hospitals appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Amazon Expanding Virtual Care Platform Nationwide, Bringing In-Person Services to 20 New Cities

Home Health Care

Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) in-home care arm is on the move, expanding to more than 20 new cities while rolling out even more care options. Launched in 2019 as part of a pilot with Amazon’s Seattle-based employees, the Amazon Care model uses virtual and in-person visits from medical professionals to deliver “health care to customers when and where they need it.

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‘I do not want to be spat on, punched or kicked’: Exodus of emergency physicians accelerating

Healthy Debate

The post ‘I do not want to be spat on, punched or kicked’: Exodus of emergency physicians accelerating appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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C2i Genomics, Twist Bioscience Partner to Develop Whole-Genome Cancer Reference Materials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Twist Bioscience and cancer genomics startup C2i Genomics announced a partnership to develop whole-genome cancer reference materials. – This resource will provide diagnostic labs around the globe with the ability to better validate and monitor the quality of their whole-genome cancer screening and minimal residual disease (MRD) products for more accurate cancer detection.

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How community hospitals can put their data to work

Meditech

As an independent community hospital, Frederick Health may not have the same resources as other larger organizations, but where we lack in size we make up for in ambition. We take pride in our ability to get things done quickly, which means we have to be selective about which projects to pursue — especially the ones that have a direct impact on our healthcare organization and the care we provide.

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High-Quality Home Health Agencies ‘Out of Reach’ for Vulnerable Medicare Patients

Home Health Care

High-quality home health agencies are often out of reach for the most vulnerable Medicare patients, new findings published Monday in the journal Health Affairs reveal. Typically, patients receiving home health services from high-quality agencies – those that do well on star ratings – experience fewer hospitalizations and other adverse health events.

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Medable Launches Decentralized Clinical Trials Partner Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medable Inc. , a Palo Alto, CA-based provider for patient-centered clinical trials , today launched the Medable Partner Network – uniting a diverse ecosystem of technology, service, data, site, and direct-to-patient partners that work together to accelerate deployment of decentralized clinical trials. – The network includes new partnerships with Advanced Clinical, Cognizant, and CVS, and expanded relationships with Datavant, Oracle, Parexel, PPD, part of Therm

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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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View Each State’s Efforts to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

NASHP

View Each State’s Efforts to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Updated February 8, 2022. Extending Medicaid coverage to postpartum people beyond 60 days is emerging as a key state strategy to address the maternal mortality crisis. This interactive map and chart summarize proposed and approved legislation since 2018, Medicaid waivers, financial estimates, and other initiatives designed to extend coverage during the postpartum period. ( Under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Medicaid

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Amazon Care Expands Telehealth Services Nationwide, Expands In-Person Services in More Than 20 Cities

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon Care expands its telehealth services nationwide and in-person services will be rolled out in more than 20 new cities this year. The service is already available in Seattle, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Arlington. – Amazon plans to expand more than 20 additional cities—including major metropolitan areas like San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and New York City—so customers can access care where and when they need it m

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HIMSS 2022: What’s in Store

Healthcare Leadership Council

The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition is approaching quickly. This year it takes place March 14-18 in Orlando, Florida. A price increase will go into effect on February 14, so be sure to register before then. Each year there are hundreds of education sessions and a packed exhibition hall. The Interoperability Showcase provides live demonstrations and tours to attendees, displaying advanced real-time data exchanges in a variety of healthcare settings.

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America's Experiment in Remedying Child Poverty

The Rand Blog

Amid the debate over whether the success of the expanded child tax credit in reducing poverty is worth its large price tag, many are missing a crucial feature: It was uniquely well-designed to address the increasingly precarious economic reality that millions of Americans experience.

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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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Emergency departments at a ‘tipping point’

Healthy Debate

The post Emergency departments at a ‘tipping point’ appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Focus and outreach attributed to successful ventures fund

Osf Healthcare

In January, OSF Ventures launched its third and largest venture investment fund since its inception in 2016. Stan Lynall, vice president of Venture Investments weighs in on the success of the program.

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. The penalties — a 1% reduction in Medicare payments over 12 months — are based on the experiences of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital between July 2018 and the end of 2019, before the pandemic began in earnest.

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How Healthcare Marketers Can Get More From Google Analytics

Sequence Health

Google Analytics is a powerful tool for healthcare marketers. It can help you track website visitors and understand their behavior, measure the success of your marketing campaigns, and more. In this blog post, we will discuss how healthcare marketers can get more from Google Analytics. We will cover topics such as setting up goals and conversion tracking, creating custom reports, and using segmentation to analyze data.

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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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Apple Pay and Google Pay via MyChart – New in Epic’s App Orchard!

Instamed

InstaMed is the first payment app in Epic’s App Orchard to support Apple Pay and Google Pay in MyChart! Now Epic organizations can let patients pay their healthcare bills online in MyChart using.

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With No End in Sight for COVID, Why Is Congress Not Acting on Telehealth?

HIT Consultant

Naresh Gunaratnam MD, AGAF, Gastroenterologist with Huron Gastroenterology. Long gone are the days of physicians arriving at a patient’s bedside, medical bag, and stethoscope in tow. The idea of a house call is quaint, like something seen in an old movie. But during the COVID pandemic, this olden idea has received a high-tech upgrade in the form of telehealth.

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Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents: Phase Two

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This Initiative is possible through the collaboration of the CMS Innovation Center and the CMS Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office. This effort aims to improve the quality of care for people residing in long-term care (LTC) facilities by reducing avoidable hospitalizations. CMS supports six organizations that each partner with a group of LTC facilities to implement evidence-based clinical and educational interventions that

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Profitability Tops Number 1 Priority for Healthcare Practices in 2022, Survey Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthcare practices named ranked running a profitable practice as their number one priority for 2022, according to a new recently released survey by Updox. Additional practice priorities included improving patient satisfaction (32%), improving patient outcomes (21%), spending less time doing paperwork (12.34%), and improving staff satisfaction (5.65%). – The Updox survey was designed to determine healthcare practice priorities in 2022 and how paperless and vi

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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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3 Effective Appeal Letter Samples for Timely Filing

Etactics

$262 billion worth of claims get denied on an annual basis according to HFMA. If you ran the math and divided that number by the total number of healthcare providers in the U.S., it would amount to around $5 million worth of denials per. That’s an insane statistic. If the average dollar amount of denials costs providers that much, regardless of the size of their practice, how are they supposed to keep their doors open?

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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2022 Overall Best in KLAS Awards

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Epic , Nordic , Galen Healthcare and The Chartis Group won 2022 Overall Best in KLAS® awards , released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the twelfth straight year in 2022 Best in KLAS Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2021.

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AHRQ National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network – New Resources

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The AHRQ National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network has posted several new resources. These resources enable nursing home staff to track and trend COVID-19 vaccine administration data, including boosters, for both residents and staff. The tools support efficient collection of information on vaccination rates and support the coordination of next doses and identification of vaccine hesitancy.

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January Roundup 2022

Life Qi

New Life QI webinar series available from March.

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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.