Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM. Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It's the third healthcare buy for the Minneapolis-based consumer electronics giant, as the company looks to capitalize on trends like the aging population and rising demand for lower-cost care.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Best Buy ramps up focus on home health care by acquiring Current Health. hlandi. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 10:17.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The British drugmaker could soon become the first with both a marketed vaccine and treatment for COVID-19, a notable achievement. Yet competition has blunted the potential impact of each of them.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

GV, Andreessen Horowitz invest in Sprinter Health to scale up at-home lab, testing services. hlandi. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 18:52.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The deal for a stake in ASCs in Florida, North Carolina and Texas builds on the hospital operator's long-term strategy of expanding that portfolio.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

AmeriHealth Caritas to enter ACA exchanges in North Carolina with new product offering. pminemyer. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 12:30.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With enrollment up and more plans launching each year, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations have had to figure out how to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive field. For many, MA differentiation has meant embracing in-home care and actually acquiring, or investing in, provider partners. The latest example of this trend took place Tuesday, with Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Lifespark announcing a new strategic investment from UCare.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Acquisitions can save failing hospitals and fuel new services, AHA argues with new report. dmuoio. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 17:38.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Jennifer Jones-McMeans, Ph.D., Divisional VP of Global Clinical Affairs at Abbott’s Vascular Business. I have dedicated my career to clinical research and making strides to advance modern medicine. In the work I do as a clinical researcher, we are addressing racial and gender biases that exist today in clinical trials. For example, in cardiovascular disease—my area of study—we know that women’s symptoms present differently than men and yet their symptoms have often gone undiagnosed or dismissed

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Physician groups warn nearly 10% in Medicare cuts could stall shift to value-based care, force staff cuts. rking. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 16:49.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Oshi Health , a virtual specialty care company transforming gastrointestinal (GI) health outcomes and economics, today announced it has secured $23M in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Flare Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures with a strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Southern states have low insurance coverage, high costs, new report finds. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 16:33.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Anthem Blue Cross and Providence St. Joseph Health are accelerating value-based care by using a new technology partner, Vim. The partnership enables the organizations to scale their tech solutions for better payer-provider collaboration to ultimately improve healthcare performance in California. – Vim offers an EHR-integrated application suite that includes Digital Scheduling, Care Gaps, and Referral Guidance solutions, and more.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Biden admin allows Colorado to make gender-affirming care an essential health benefit. pminemyer. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 13:33.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Babyscripts , a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, today announced a strategic partnership with Nuvo Group, a femtech startup commercializing INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared, remote fetal monitoring and management platform. InVU by Nuvo features a user-friendly wearable sensor band that gives physicians an inside look into the womb, remotely to drive critical diagnostic decisions wherever the patient is. – By integrating Nuvo’s INVU technology into B

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Urban Institute: Making enhanced ACA subsidies permanent could extend coverage to nearly 1M. rking. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 14:59.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – During the opening keynote at Cerner Health Conference , Cerner’s new President and CEO, David Feinberg, M.D., expressed the need to improve the usability of health records to help patients avoid unnecessary tests and medications, enable nurses and doctors to eliminate errors and predict what’s to come to improve the health of communities around the world. – “Healthcare technology needs to be reliable, understandable, complementary – we all must work to addres

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

CommonSpirit Health CEO Dean announces plans to retire in 2022. dmuoio. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 14:06.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has signed an agreement to acquire the home-focused technology platform Current Health in an effort “to help make home the center of health,” according to the company. Along with the likes of Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Best Buy has been one of the retail giants that has steadily increased its interests in both health care and the home over the last few years.

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Meditech

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Providers at Val Verde Regional Medical Center (Del Rio, TX) recognized that getting to and from medical appointments could be a burden for older adults and those managing chronic conditions. And once the COVID-19 pandemic forced more people to stay in their homes, reaching these patients in safe and convenient ways became the priority.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health and hospice care. To see this year’s future leaders, visit [link]. Linda Chow, senior consultant of outsourced agency management at Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente, has been named a 2021 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Bookzurman

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Congratulations to BZ's Chief Innovation Officer, Ioana Singureanu , on her upcoming recognition for outstanding leadership in the federal consulting space. The 4th Annual Leading for Impact: Women in Leadership Conference and Award Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. This event recognizes women creating impact, leading organizations and mission-focused strategic programs across the Federal Civilian, Federal Health and Military Health, Technology, and Consulting communities.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 12, 2021

By Mark A. Hall and I. Glenn Cohen. A few years ago, to highlight the growth and maturity of the health law field we undertook to measure and rank the scholarly impact of health law professors according to the frequency their work is cited. Our principal ranking followed the methods Gregory Sisk and Brian Leiter have used for many years to rank professors in other fields of law.

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Healthy Debate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The post Vaccines aren’t even the half of it appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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Healthcare Highways

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Each year in the United States, about 255,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women. Men are not immune, either—there are about 2,300 cases diagnosed in men each year. Similar to women, male breast cancer risk increases with age, and there are also risk factors such as radiation exposure, family history of breast cancer and obesity.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Following the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) announcement of 2020 data detailing the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) , Medicare’s largest alternative payment model, Bamboo Health , formerly Appriss Health and PatientPing, announced its national network of ACOs generated over $1 billion in total shared savings. – Bamboo Health’s ACO partners succeed under value-based care programs like the MSSP by utilizing their Ping

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Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The ALL Together newsletter will provide updates details and information about Assisted Living for providers, residents, family members and the public regarding the Assisted Living Licensure. The Minnesota Department of Health’s Health Regulation Division (HRD) will work to provide information, news, updates and links to resources for Assisted Living providers and resident families to help residents and loved ones live their

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced a partnership with Nemours Children’s Health, one of the nation’s largest clinically integrated pediatric health systems, to create a unified data platform designed to accelerate Nemours’ mission to transform children’s health through a holistic care model. – The partnership will integrate and activate clinical and claims data from across the health system to enable intelligent point-of-care analytics that c

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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.