Healthcare It News
AUGUST 23, 2021
Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mobility Patient Engagement With Google Health and Apple both reported to be, respectively, closing down and scaling back their healthcare efforts, it's worth asking just how disruptive consumer technology companies can be in this hugely complex and fragmented industry.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
KFF: Preventable COVID hospitalizations among unvaccinated cost U.S. health system $2.3B. dmuoio. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 16:01.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 23, 2021
The dissolution of the health-specific division is the latest of a number of rolled back initiatives from tech giants in the space.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
CMS delays enforcement of key parts of price transparency rule by 6 months. rking. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 16:49.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 23, 2021
An examination of 50 health systems points to the uneven distribution of federal coronavirus relief funds as a consequence of not having nuanced financial information readily available, Harvard and the Urban Institute researchers said.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
Pharmacies gearing up to administer COVID-19 booster shots. pminemyer. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 11:44.
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
Appeals court strikes down bid from hospitals and clinics to recalculate Medicare outlier payments. rking. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 15:27.
Bill Of Health
AUGUST 23, 2021
By Ross D. Silverman and Gabriel T. Bosslet. As COVID-19 vaccination mandates become increasingly common , we can expect exemption requests (and misuse) to become increasingly widespread, too. Most entities requiring vaccination mandates or proof of vaccination upon entry may offer limited grounds upon which an individual may request an exemption, usually based upon religious beliefs or medical reasons.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
Amid rising expenses, Banner Health sees $179M operating income for H1 2021. dmuoio. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 17:20.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 23, 2021
In a move to increase COVID-19 vaccinations among home-based care workers, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has teamed up with the National Minority Health Association (NMHA) and the Flex for Checks program. “We don’t see this as a small issue to be addressed,” NAHC President Bill Dombi told Home Health Care News. “We still see it as a continuing and large issue.
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The Rand Blog
AUGUST 23, 2021
The Biden administration has yet to detail its goals in the Indo-Pacific region and how it plans to achieve them. But following recent virtual engagements and U.S. visits to the region, at least three key points have crystallized.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
Advocate Aurora's net income, revenue bounce back in Q2. dmuoio. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 13:47.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 23, 2021
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Geek Doctor
AUGUST 23, 2021
The evidence is mixed but suggests that these overlooked variables have a profound impact on each patient’s journey. This article was written by Tim Suther, Nicole Hobbs, Jeff McGinn, Matt Turner with Change Healthcare, John Halamka, MD, MS, president of Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 23, 2021
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The Rand Blog
AUGUST 23, 2021
Given the potential value of virtual reality (VR) as a tool—and the increasing competition from China—the United States could focus more energy on advancing VR in a coordinated fashion. Otherwise, America risks missing an opportunity to excel internationally with a valuable and broadly applicable emerging technology.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 23, 2021
The rollout of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) has been anything but smooth. . The initiative implemented to reduce improper billing and fraud in select states has been plagued by issues like COVID-19-related delays and missteps by CMS and its contractors, among others. . Despite the flaws, the demo is still coming.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2021
What You Should Know: – Optellum , a lung-health medtech startup that is pioneering the use of AI to improve diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making announce a strategic collaboration with Johnson & Johnson’s Lung Cancer Initiative. This announcement accelerates Optellum’s market entry, building on its FDA clearance earlier this year and deployments underway at hospitals in the USA and ongoing clinical trials in the United Kingdom. – As part of the collaboration, Optellu
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Clearwave Inc
AUGUST 23, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes With all of the healthcare technology options available, patients expect to be able to reach a practice, hospital or health system and want access and autonomy around appointment scheduling. If a provider is short-staffed or managing new patient volume growth, they can lose existing or new patients to a better-prepared competitor.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2021
What You Should Know: – Dosis , the AI-powered precision dosing platform on a mission to transform healthcare, has announced the release of its Strategic Iron Advisor (SIA) tool, the first precision dosing tool on the market for intravenous iron. – SIA is a sub-module that works with Dosis’s existing anemia tool, Strategic Anemia Advisor (SAA), to personalize anemia management.
Health Populi
AUGUST 23, 2021
Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. The growth of high-deductible health plans as well as people paying more out-of-pocket exposes patients’ wallets in ways that implore the health care industry to serve up a better retail experience for patients.
Health Recovery
AUGUST 23, 2021
As has been seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic there are many advantages of remote patient monitoring and telehealth. From reducing COVID-19 spread to increasing patient-provider communication, reducing the cost of care, and improving access, there are many important benefits to consider.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Just announced FDA Press Release (August 23, 2021) : Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 23, 2021
Home Helpers Home Care announced Monday that it’s rolling out a new service offering to fill care gaps and reduce preventable hospital admissions. The private equity-backed franchiser’s rollout comes as more non-medical home care organizations boost their care capabilities to better serve potential payer and referral sources. Home Helper had spent much of the past two years testing and developing the new service offering, officially branded as “Cared-4,” CEO Emma Dickison told Home Health Care N
Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 23, 2021
In 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Present on Admission (HAC-POA) program. The goal of this program was to reduce the frequency of high-cost complications among Medicare beneficiaries. The mandatory program penalized hospitals as it would no longer reimburse them for treating of preventable complications that developed during a patient’s hospitalization.
NASHP
AUGUST 23, 2021
Oral health is central to overall health, yet 34 percent of Americans lack access to affordable dental care, a challenge exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic disrupted oral health care in several ways. Early on, dental providers faced office closures and lacked personal protective equipment (PPE). Similarly, school-based dental sealant programs were inaccessible with school closures, limiting preventive care for school-age children from low-income families.
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.
Health IT Analytics
AUGUST 23, 2021
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NASHP
AUGUST 23, 2021
High and rising health costs impact all purchasers of care, including state employee health plans (SEHPs) that are funded by both state residents’ taxpayer dollars and public employees who contribute to their coverage. Increasingly SEHP administrators must balance providing comprehensive coverage and access to care for state employees while striving to contain costs to ensure long term health plan sustainability.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2021
Tarun Bhasin, CEO of Kunai. While their staff grappled with the medical toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare provider’s financial struggles went largely uncovered. But a 2021 KaufmanHall report revealed that hospital operating margins lag well behind pre-outbreak levels—a gap even the CARES Act assistance couldn’t help bridge. To make matters worse, cash flow has been bogged down in bureaucracy, further highlighting the need for providers to ensure fiscal stability.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted an updated FY 2022 SNF VBP Program PSR User Guide on August 17, 2022. You can also find additional materials on the Confidential Feedback Reporting & Review and Corrections website: The updated User Guide is 13 pages in length. Here’s a look at the Table of Contents: More information on the SNF VBP Program, including the Program’s scoring methodology, confidential feedback reports, public reporting efforts, an
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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