Health Care Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
Of the 43% of organizations that reported a data breach in the past two years, 88% said at least one connected device was a contributing factor to the breach, according to a new report.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 4, 2022
Whether they are about mental health, COVID, general health concerns or any number of other issues, healthcare provider organizations constantly are managing droves of calls from patients. Vendors of cloud technologies are aiming to tackle the issue of high call volumes while at the same time helping healthcare call centers reimagine the patient and employee experience.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
“We're prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday.
Bill Of Health
AUGUST 4, 2022
In its unanimous 2013 decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (569 U.S. 576) the U.S. Supreme Court held that naturally occurring genomic sequences are not eligible for patent protection. Not surprisingly, some representatives of the biotechnology industry, and many patent lawyers, reacted negatively to the decision, and have steadily lobbied Congress to restore patent protection for isolated and purified genomic sequences.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
The order follows the DOJ’s decision to sue Idaho over its near-total abortion ban as the end of Roe has left states to decide whether to outlaw the procedure.
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 4, 2022
Russia's threatened exit from the International Space Station could simply be more bluster from Moscow at a time of heightened tension between Russia and the West over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But it also appears to be another signal that Russia's profile in space is in decline, a trend that is likely to continue and that the United States could be preparing for now.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 4, 2022
Retail and technology giant Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) last month announced plans to acquire primary care innovator One Medical for an astounding $3.9 billion. The transaction doesn’t immediately affect senior-focused in-home care providers, but it’s another major stepping stone on the path toward disrupting the current U.S. health care system. What’s more, the deal reflects the ongoing consumerization of health care and steady emergence of nontraditional players, many of which have already revealed
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
The payer raised its revenue and operation income targets for the year as a result of the quarterly performance.
Life Qi
AUGUST 4, 2022
In this article, we’re going to take a look at clinical microsystems: what they are, what they consist of, what they do and their value to healthcare, and - more specifically - their value within Quality Improvement (QI).
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
If Congress doesn’t pass the legislation before Sept. 30, furloughs and delays lie ahead for the agency.
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Health Care Leader News
AUGUST 4, 2022
Have you noticed much of a difference now that your CCG is no more, and you are part of an Integrated Care System (ICS)? Whilst the three letter abbreviations in the NHS have changed, the problems facing a more familiar abbreviation – GPs – have not. Change requires much more than altering a name and can be difficult in any organisation or system. The ICS is comprised of an Integrated Care Board (ICB) which has the responsibility for NHS resources and an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) which i
Home Health Care
AUGUST 4, 2022
Two days after Modivcare (Nasdaq: MODV) announced that its former CEO Dan Greenleaf has been replaced , Interim CEO L. Heath Sampson painted a rosy picture of the company’s future. Greenleaf, while at the helm, helped the company execute on multiple massive deals, including its acquisitions of the personal care providers Simplura Health Group and CareFinders – for $575 million and $340 million, respectively – as well as the remote patient monitoring (RPM) companies VRI and Guardian Medical Monit
Meditech
AUGUST 4, 2022
When Ozarks Healthcare decided to go LIVE with Expanse in 2020, one of the most important parts of our plan was to have one medical record for our patients.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 4, 2022
For LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG), its plan to combine with UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum is still the big headline. All the while, the company is still navigating through the same home health care landscape that its peers are. Back in March, UnitedHealth Group announced that it would acquire the Lafayette, Louisiana-based company for the price tag of $5.4 billion.
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Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 4, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes is committed to improving the quality of care for individuals with dementia living in nursing homes. The National Partnership has a mission to deliver health care that is person-centered, comprehensive and interdisciplinary with a specific focus on protecting residents from being prescribed antipsychotic medications unless there is a valid, clinical indication
Health Populi
AUGUST 4, 2022
The goal of self-care for health-making is to improve lives by scaling health-and-wellness accessible to all, Bayer believes, giving people more control over their personal health. Self-care work-flows must be based in science to ensure products and services are trusted and deliver on their clinical promise, Bayer explains in Science-Led Self-Care: Principles for Best Practice, a paper published this week which the company intends to be a blueprint for the industry.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 4, 2022
How have medical expenditures varied over time and across states? That is the question being asked by Johnson et al. (2022) in a recent Health Affairs paper. The authors use State Health Expenditure Accounts data between 1999-2014 and then extrapolate these trends forward with a regression-based approach to predict State spending through 2019. Using this approach, the authors find that: In 2019 state-specific per person spending ranged from $7,250 to $14,500.
Health Care Leader News
AUGUST 4, 2022
Have you noticed much of a difference now that your CCG is no more, and you are part of an Integrated Care System (ICS)? Whilst the three letter abbreviations in the NHS have changed, the problems facing a more familiar abbreviation – GPs – have not. Change requires much more than altering a name and can be difficult in any organisation or system. The ICS is comprised of an Integrated Care Board (ICB) which has the responsibility for NHS resources and an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) which i
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Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 4, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “COVID-19 has affected all aspects of health, including mental health, and disrupted daily life. It created additional obstacles for those experiencing mental health and substance use challenges. Further, many people have been forced to cope with the death of loved ones, especially children, and face the aftermath of those losses.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 4, 2022
What You Should Know: – Homeward raises $50M Series B funding round co-led by ARCH Venture Partners and Human Capital. – The funding round also includes participation from General Catalyst , which led Homeward’s Series A funding, and Lee Shapiro and Glen Tullman, Co-Founders of 7wireVentures , one of the country’s most successful early-stage healthcare venture funds.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 4, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Komodo Health announced that its platform will be used in studies led by Stanford Medicine focused on the short- and long-term health impacts of COVID-19. – Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences will use Komodo Health’s platform, AI analytics tools, and de-identified patient data to study the real-world effects of the pandemic on health outcomes among different patient populations.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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HIStalk
AUGUST 4, 2022
Some days are more challenging than others when it.
Etactics
AUGUST 4, 2022
The CMMC Assessment Process (CAP) provides the procedures and guidance for CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organizations (C3PAOs) conducting official CMMC Level 2 Assessments of organizations seeking certification (OSCs). There are four phases of the CAP: Plan and Prepare the Assessment Conduct the Assessment Report Assessment Results Close-Out Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&M) and Assessment (if needed) The CAP supplements other official publications endorsed or published by the Department
HIStalk
AUGUST 4, 2022
WVU Medicine’s partnership with DHS is ending Davis Health System.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 4, 2022
What You Should Know: – Diagnostic Robotics has announced the closing of a $45M Series B funding round led by StageOne investors , with participation from Mayo Clinic, thus becoming a Mayo Clinic Platform portfolio company. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, as well as other existing investors such as strategic angel investor Bradley Bloom, co-founder of Berkshire Partners , participated in this funding round as well. – The new funding will be used to accelerate product devel
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.
Etactics
AUGUST 4, 2022
Human trafficking is the practice of exploiting adults and children for use as commodities, or objects, in conditions of sexual and labor servitude. Also referred to as modern slavery, human trafficking is where people illegally trade human beings through recruitment or abduction. Traffickers use tactics such as… Luring people in with false promises of economic opportunity Withholding identification, work authorization, or travel documents Demanding repayment with alleged or real debts Using vio
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 4, 2022
What You Should Know: – Tribun Health, the European leader in software development for digital pathology, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Mindpeak, a global leader for pathology artificial intelligence (AI) software with world-class industry experts in the development of AI algorithms to provide precision and speed in clinical pathology. – Together, Tribun Health and Mindpeak help pathologists analyze whole-slide-images (WSI) of immunohistochemically (IHC) stained
Bill Of Health
AUGUST 4, 2022
By Jonathan Perez-Reyzin. Within the psychedelic legal landscape , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays a central role — it is the regulatory mechanism by which drugs like MDMA and psilocybin may soon become legal for medical use. But for many working in drug policy, medicalization is not the exclusive goal. Indeed, there have been calls for legalization of psychedelics for non-medical use — and we are seeing an early attempt at such a model in Oregon.
Health Populi
AUGUST 4, 2022
Two in three Americans disapproved of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision ( aka the Dobbs case), the latest Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll found. While inflation tops voters’ priorities, abortion access resonates for key voting blocs. KFF conducted this survey among 1,847 U.S. adults 18 and over between July 7 and 17, 2022.
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.
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