Fri.Jan 20, 2023

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Healthcare worker pay satisfaction lowest across all industries, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Just half of healthcare employees surveyed by management firm Qualtrics said they believe they’re paid fairly for the work they do, the lowest score across 27 industries analyzed.

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Dollar General pilots mobile clinics as it targets a bigger presence in healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

Dollar General pilots mobile clinics as it targets a bigger presence in healthcare hlandi Fri, 01/20/2023 - 18:25

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Nonprofit hospitals may evade noncompete ban enforcement, experts say

Health Care Dive

There is still ambiguity over whether the noncompete clause ban would apply to nonprofit systems, which make up about half of all the hospitals in the U.S.

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Employers should carefully weigh benefits of high-deductible health plans: study

Fierce Healthcare

Employers should carefully weigh benefits of high-deductible health plans: study fdiamond Fri, 01/20/2023 - 07:19

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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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Whole person care gets a boost from value-based contracts

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Iterative Health, Gastro Health partner over AI-enabled GI care and precision medicine R&D

Fierce Healthcare

Iterative Health, Gastro Health partner over AI-enabled GI care and precision medicine R&D aburky Fri, 01/20/2023 - 13:55

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New Blues network spinout Lucet aims to simplify mental health benefits for payers

Fierce Healthcare

New Blues network spinout Lucet aims to simplify mental health benefits for payers pminemyer Fri, 01/20/2023 - 15:28

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Elimination Of Non-Competes Would Have ‘Major’ Effect On Home-Based Care World

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In early January, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a ban on non-compete agreements nationwide. The rule is likely to be finalized. When and if it does, it is also likely to have a massive effect on the home health and home care industries. Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.

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268K people who died from COVID-19 in first 2 years of pandemic not included in official tally: study

Fierce Healthcare

268K people who died from COVID-19 in first 2 years of pandemic not included in official tally: study fdiamond Fri, 01/20/2023 - 14:35

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How Diversifying Service Lines Could Be Key To Long-term Success In Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

More than half of home-based care providers said that diversifying service lines of care would enable them to develop strategic partnerships with referral sources and see it as an opportunity to increase revenue. At the same time, 30% of providers say that their organization is not considering diversifying service lines. That’s according to a new survey from Axxess and SimiTree that includes responses from thousands of home-based care providers.

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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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Aledade, Mark Cuban's drug company and a handful of others are public benefit corporations. Could it be the Rx to improve healthcare?

Fierce Healthcare

Aledade, Mark Cuban's drug company and a handful of others are public benefit corporations. Could it be the Rx to improve healthcare?

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VCU Health Brings Hospital-At-Home Program To Central Virginia

Home Health Care

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health has rolled out a hospital-at-home program — the first in central Virginia. Richmond, Virginia-based VCU Health is an academic medical center in the Piedmont region. VCU Health at Home’s service lines includes home-based primary care, primary and specialty telehealth appointments, remote patient monitoring as well as skilled home health and hospice care.

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Increased Cyber Budget Calls for Healthcare to Invest in Digital Identity

Fierce Healthcare

Increased Cyber Budget Calls for Healthcare to Invest in Digital Identity jpiatt Fri, 01/20/2023 - 14:38

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Regulating Space, Threats to Critical Infrastructure, Psychedelics: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on the need for governance in outer space, why the recent FAA system failure was a wake-up call, the changing policy landscape around psychedelic therapies, and more.

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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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Health system CEO turnover rose in 2022 as more executives feel the strain from burnout

Fierce Healthcare

Health system CEO turnover rose in 2022 as more executives feel the strain from burnout dmuoio Fri, 01/20/2023 - 14:19

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Friday Links

Healthcare ECONOMIST

HESG Winter 2023. Use AI to search books …with source material! Is ChatGPT left or right-wing ? Dr. Smartphone. UK ‘Netflix’ payment model for antibacterials. Managed Care Year-End Recap.

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6 Leaders Talk Hybrid Care in 2022 & Share What's Forecasted for 2023

Fierce Healthcare

6 Leaders Talk Hybrid Care in 2022 & Share What's Forecasted for 2023 mteefey Fri, 01/20/2023 - 09:40

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Reducing CHF Hospital Readmission Rates with Remote Monitoring

Health Recovery

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic and progressive condition affecting more than 6.2 million Americans, and that number continues to grow. CHF can lead to hospitalization and death. It is one of the leading causes of mortality in the United States.

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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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Healthcare Website Negative SEO: How to Protect Your Site

Sequence Health

Negative SEO is a real threat to any business, but it can be especially damaging to businesses in the healthcare industry. If you run a website that provides information on healthcare topics or sells products related to healthcare, then you need to protect your site from negative SEO attacks. It can affect your practice’s reputation and, even worse, cost you money in lost customers and revenue opportunities.

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Datavant Partners with Socially Determined to Optimize Social Risk on Patient Outcomes

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Socially Determined , the social risk analytics and data company partners with Datavant , a company helping organizations securely connect health data. – The strategic partnership enables Socially Determined to provide curated, de-identified and linkable social risk data on the patient-level. This capability will empower life sciences organizations to comprehensively assess and systematically address the impact of social risk on health outcomes.

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More Than a Thousand Nursing Homes Reached Infection Rates of 75% or More in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Better Protections Are Needed for Future Emergencies

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare You read that correctly. On January 19, 2023, the OIG posted this 40-page report. Almost every American has been affected in some way by the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of 2020, COVID-19 had spread throughout the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly devastating for Medicare beneficiaries in nursing homes, which is why OIG embarked on a three-part series of evaluations focusing exclusively on the nurs

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Selux Receives FDA Clearance for its Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Test (AST) System

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Selux Diagnostics has been granted 510(k) clearance from the US FDA for its Next Generation Phenotyping (NGP) System — a rapid antibiotic susceptibility (AST) testing platform able to determine a bacteria’s susceptibility to a specific panel of antimicrobial agents. – In vitro antimicrobial resistance test enables clinical labs to deliver targeted therapeutic results days faster than the current standard of care, clearing the path for personalized antibiotic t

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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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Most Recent CMS, CDC and NHSN COVID-19 Nursing Home Data  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending January 8, 2023. Comparing the January 8, 2023 data to the January 1, 2023 data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased another 0.1% this past week; Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.5% during this past week; Staff primary vaccination completion rate remained the same – no change in past 3 weeks; Staff up to date w

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CMS Augments “In Lieu Of Services” Medicaid Guidance to Support State Medicaid Managed Care Efforts to Address Social Determinants of Health

Sheppard Health Law

Social determinants of health (“SDOH”) consider the non-clinical factors that can profoundly impact an individual’s well-being. They are extensive and often overlap, including housing instability, food insecurity, the inability to afford and obtain medications and more. Research has indicated that healthcare systems that connect patients to basic resources have observed improvements in population health metrics, fostered trust with their patient base, and experienced reduced hospitalization cost

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Provider and Supplier Compliance Education Through Quality in Focus (QIF) Trainings

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted QSO-23-06-ALL on January 19, 2023. CMS performs over 100,000 compliance surveys of Medicare and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers, each year. To increase compliance with CMS’ health and safety regulations, CMS has used the findings from those surveys to inform a series of short (10–15 minutes) Quality in Focus interactive training videos tailored for specific provider types.

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Disrupt Podcast #65: Dr. Stephen Parodi, EVP External Affairs, Communications and Brand, Kaiser Permanente

Home Health Care

The 65th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with Dr. Stephen Parodi, an expert in hospital-at-home programs. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn about: – The data behind hospital-at-home models, both at Kaiser and elsewhere – How home health and home care providers can fit into the emerging model – The challenges and opportunities for hospital-at-home care over the next couple of years, now that the Acute Hospital

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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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Remote Patient Monitoring for CHF Patients: A Quick Guide

Health Recovery

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic and progressive condition affecting more than 6.2 million Americans, and that number continues to grow. CHF can lead to hospitalization and death. It is one of the leading causes of mortality in the United States.

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Anxiety Assessment Tools

Icanotes

Psychiatrists, counselors, primary care physicians and many other health professionals conduct anxiety assessments to better understand a patient's mental state and make diagnoses and treatment plans. Like other types of behavioral health assessments, anxiety assessments include collecting and evaluating many types of data. The process can include a range of tools, like informal interviews and formal questionnaires, that help shed light on the situation.

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Quotation of the Day: On thinking

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Nobody in this world can tell me what to think, but I think everybody has a lesson to teach me. Lex Fridman.

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Partnership to Improve Specialty Care for Heart Failure Patients

Health IT Analytics

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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.