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Long-term health of patients, hospitals at stake as care delays continue

Health Care Dive

As federal relief funds dwindle and volumes remain stagnant, concerns are mounting about the stability of many providers' operations, especially those lacking robust outpatient services.

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Hackensack Meridian Health shows the benefits of telepsychiatry

Healthcare It News

Addressing the increasing need for behavioral health services is a nationwide challenge. With a shortage of physicians to address the growing need for care, a lack of providers who accept Medicaid, and access issues due to transportation or office hour challenges, healthcare organizations are looking to technology to help bridge the gap. "Without the utilization of telehealth, patients arriving at an emergency department often have long wait times before meeting with an available physician,

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Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic

Health Care Dive

Hospitals overhauled their operations in COVID-19's early days. Now, two years into the pandemic, they are looking ahead at the future of their business, including revenue diversification and workforce stability.

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Google to launch appointment scheduling in search, submits new Fitbit feature to FDA

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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US health spending growth decelerated in pandemic's second year

Health Care Dive

According to new numbers from the CMS, national health spending grew 4.2% last year to almost $4.3 trillion, a significant slowdown from the 9.7% growth rate in 2020.

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Why the ROI of Telehealth Is Worth it, No Matter the Reimbursement

Home Health Care

The future of telehealth is confusing for home health care providers. And it’s left many scratching their heads, wondering how much they should invest into virtual care models. On one hand, telehealth usage skyrocketed over the last two years. And no matter how much that usage stabilizes post-pandemic, it will likely never return to where it was in 2019.

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UnitedHealth Group Agrees to Buy LHC Group for Over $5 Billion

Home Health Care

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has agreed to buy LHC Group (Nasdaq: LHCG). The deal is reportedly values LHC Group at “more than” $5.5 billion. The plan is to pair LHC Group – one of the largest home health providers in the U.S. – with Optum Health, which is already integrated into UnitedHealth’s network. “Since our founding in 1994, ‘It’s all about helping people’ has been the core of our mission, and as part of the Optum team and its value-based capabilities, we will be able to expand our pati

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Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens

Bill Of Health

By Xochitl L. Mendez. The coronavirus pandemic changed the world in countless ways, and for a moment it challenged the pre-pandemic separation of — in Hannah Arendt’s terms — the Private and the Public. To Arendt , the Public is defined as the sole realm where a human can live in full, as a person integral and part of a community as an equal. Being human is only fully procurable by the presence that a person achieves when acting among others.

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The Ukrainian Military Has Defied Expectations. Here Is How U.S. Security Aid Contributed

The Rand Blog

Ukraine's military was unprepared and largely ineffective when Russia's military seized Crimea in 2014. By 2022, Ukraine appears to have overcome at least some of the earlier challenges. Did U.S. security assistance make the Ukrainian military more effective?

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Amid ‘Hyper-Competitive’ M&A Market, Trinity Health at Home Focuses on Private-Duty Expansion

Home Health Care

Trinity Health at Home – one of the largest home health providers in the country – plans to expand its private-duty footprint and be more aggressive in a “hyper-competitive” acquisition marketplace this year. Private-duty home care is not something that the Livonia, Michigan-based Trinity Health at Home currently offers at most of its ministries or locations, President and CEO Mark McPherson told Home Health Care News.

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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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Brightside Health Raises $50M for Personalized Anxiety & Depression Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Brightside Health announced it raised a $50M Series B, led by ACME Capital and Mousse Partners, bringing its total funding to $75M to date. – The funding will help Brightside expand access to high-quality mental healthcare to more people across the country, enhance the platform, forge new partnerships, and grow as a team, from about 57 now to an expected 175 later this year. .

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Truth Decay Is a Threat to Democracy. Here’s What You Can Do to Help Stop It

The Rand Blog

Truth Decay, the diminishing role of facts in American public life, isn't a problem that any one person can fix. But there are simple steps that individuals can take to help counter it.

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LCMC Health Delivers Remote Pregnancy Care to More Than 1,200 Mothers Through Babyscripts

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Babyscripts , a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced a one-year partnership with LCMC Health , a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system. – The partnership has provided more than 1,200 mothers with equitable access to care through the Babyscripts virtual maternity care platform and has been shown to increase patient compliance to important maternal care guidelines.

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The Will to Fight, Lessons from Ukraine

The Rand Blog

In Ukraine, ferocious defense has stalled the invaders. Even if Kyiv falls, continued resistance seems likely. Ukraine has reminded the world that national unity in the face of existential threats, self-reliance strengthened by collective defense, and courage coupled with compassion can help underdog populations resist the mightiest military forces.

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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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How Patient Engagement Can Increase Revenue and Improve Patient Outcomes

Advanced Data Systems

In today's market, having an internet basis is pretty standard practice in all industries. Having your patients engaged should be no different for the healthcare industry. Visibility into patient satisfaction allows your practice to stay at its highest performance ability and promote health literacy. The same type of marketing used by merchandise stores across the globe can be beneficial to your practice and can result in improved health outcomes.

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Finding Direction at HIMSS22: Observations on Trends

Meditech

Wear comfortable shoes. That's the advice everyone gave me before attending my first HIMSS conference. But what I didn’t hear was “make sure you know the bus stop of your hotel.” After a roundtrip ride from the conference center, past my hotel and back, and a 20 minute wait for that next bus, I certainly learned a valuable lesson.

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Resilience as a Leadership Discipline

Medi Leadership

The healthcare landscape continues to shift under our feet. Looking ahead, fulfilling your organization’s mission, serving your community well, and remaining financially strong all hinge largely on this oft-overlooked discipline: resilience. To be clear, we’re not just talking about your ability to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions, though that’s incredibly important.

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Are high-deductible plans the best choice?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

For many individuals with employer-provided health insurance, a recent paper by Liu and Sydnor (2022) find that this is indeed the case. The authors use data from the 2011-2016 Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Employer Health Benefits Survey ( EHBS ). The authors examine the maximum out-of-pocket cost (including both premiums and maximum cost-sharing) as well as whether the high-deductible health plans (HDHP) dominate more traditional insurance options.

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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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[ANSWERED] Is Apple Pay HIPAA Compliant?

Etactics

Out of all US mobile wallet transactions, 92% happen via Apple Pay. 80% of patients prefer to pay for their healthcare online. Those two statistics combined tell us two things. First, patients want to pay their medical bills over the internet. Second, they would likely want to use Apple Pay as a payment option. From your perspective as a healthcare provider, you want to make your patient payment options as convenient as possible.

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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance Webinars!

Healthcare Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance webinars: All webinars are 11:00 a.m. CST - 12:00 p.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. April 6, 2022: Compliance Lessons from Ted Lasso. 1.2 CCB CEUs. “Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn’t it?”. "You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It's a goldfish. You know why?

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News 3/30/22

HIStalk

Top News AmplifyMD, which connects hospitals to specialists via telemedicine,

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Revolutionary, chaotic or stagnating? The future of digital tech in health and care in the UK

Healthcare It News

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Despite significant investment and well over a decade of different transformation plans and initiatives, there’s still much to do before we can say the health and care system has truly gone through a digital revolution.

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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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Morning Headlines 3/30/22

HIStalk

Novant Health launches new business division to accelerate clinical, operational.

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ConcertAI Raises $150M at $1.9 Billion Valuation for RWD Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ConcertAI, LLC (ConcertAI), the leader in enterprise AI and real-world data (RWD) solutions for life sciences and healthcare, announced the close of its $150M in Series C led by Sixth Street at a $1.9B valuation. – From its startup just five years ago, ConcertAI has emerged as one of the fastest-growing companies providing high-value software-as-a-service (SaaS) and data solutions to life sciences and biopharma companies, leading healthcare providers, contract

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Aveanna Takes Stock of Medicaid ‘Rate Wins’

Home Health Care

For the first time in Tony Strange’s career, he has managed care plans, state Medicaid agencies and even the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reaching out and asking what can be done to increase access to home- and community-based services. Strange – the CEO of Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) and a home health industry veteran – discussed that paradigm shift on a fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday.

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Invitae Launches Genomics-Forward Digital Health Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Invitae launches a seamless digital platform to enhance patient and provider experiences and further bring genetics to mainstream medicine. – Offering seamless integrations with EHR solutions, Invitae Digital Health will provide healthcare systems with a customizable suite of tools in a single, intuitive platform.

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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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LetsGetChecked Acquires Veritas Genetics To Leverage Whole Genome Sequencing

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthcare solutions company LetsGetChecked , today announced the acquisition of genomics pioneer Veritas Genetics and Veritas Intercontinental. – Through these acquisitions, LetsGetChecked will leverage the power of whole-genome sequencing to launch a full lifecycle of personalized healthcare, delivering the most comprehensive health testing and care solution on the market.