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Why You Need an ADA Compliant Healthcare Website—and How to Get One

Healthcare Success

Just like your brick-and-mortar business has to be ADA compliant, your healthcare website must also be accessible to people with disabilities. The problem? The ADA doesn’t offer clear regulations for a compliant website. The bigger problem? ADA accessibility lawsuits are on the rise. If your website isn’t accessible to people with disabilities, you could risk lawsuits, financial liabilities, and damage to your brand reputation.

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House lawmakers press Biden admin to change latest surprise billing rule

Fierce Healthcare

House lawmakers press Biden admin to change latest surprise billing rule. rking. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 17:18.

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UnitedHealth-Change deal approval faces appeal from DOJ, states

Health Care Dive

Antitrust experts said it’s surprising regulators took this long to file an appeal, while UnitedHealth slammed the move as “entirely without merit.

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DOJ to appeal UnitedHealth-Change Healthcare merger challenge

Fierce Healthcare

DOJ to appeal UnitedHealth-Change Healthcare merger challenge. pminemyer. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 07:37.

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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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Mayo Clinic income slumps as expenses climb in Q3

Health Care Dive

Expenses outpaced revenue growth as the Minnesota-based health system became the latest provider to report a recent drop in operating income.

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Walmart healthcare exec Pegus departs for Morgan Health

Fierce Healthcare

Walmart healthcare exec Pegus departs for Morgan Health. pminemyer. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 16:17.

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4 ways Medicaid could manage high-price drugs

Fierce Healthcare

4 ways Medicaid could manage high-price drugs. fdiamond. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 15:09.

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Morgan Health nabs Walmart executive to accelerate strategy around population health

Health Care Dive

Cheryl Pegus is leaving Walmart’s health division to work as a managing director for JPMorgan’s venture attempting to lower employer health costs.

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HC9 Ventures closes $83M fund, builds community of investors to grow early-stage healthcare startups

Fierce Healthcare

HC9 Ventures closes $83M fund, builds community of investors to grow early-stage healthcare startups. hlandi. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 07:10.

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Health tech companies weigh options to stem cash burn as IPO market sags

Health Care Dive

Healthcare technology companies are delaying initial share sales as public market stocks and valuations plunge across the sector. Where will they turn in the meantime?

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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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Wisconsin's Bellin Health, Gundersen Health System to close 11-hospital merger on Nov. 30

Fierce Healthcare

Wisconsin's Bellin Health, Gundersen Health System to close 11-hospital merger on Nov. 30. dmuoio. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 16:13.

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Epic ensnared in Texas probe of parental access to teen medical records

Health Care Dive

The state is at the forefront of an intensifying legal battle over the rights of transgender and non-binary children to gender-affirming healthcare.

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The ‘Res Nullius’ Construction of Human Genomic Data

Bill Of Health

By Donrich Thaldar. No one domain of the law holds exclusive sway over human genomic data. Instead, genomic data have a multidimensional legal nature , meaning that multiple legal domains — including property law, privacy law, contract law, and intellectual property law — are all applicable. This opens the door for different persons to have rights originating in different legal domains with respect to the same genomic data.

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Lifespan brings on Mass General Brigham executive as new CEO

Health Care Dive

John Fernandez will assume the role early next year, replacing Timothy Babineau, who held the position for more than a decade.

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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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What is the Role of a Clearinghouse in Medical Billing?

p3care

Medical Billing and claim processing are very complicated for any healthcare facility. Different facilities utilize a variety of medical billing software to generate their claims. Then, they forward them to the insurance carriers for claim reimbursement. We know that every state and even every insurance carrier within a state has its own rules and regulations.

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What More PE Involvement Could Mean In Personal Home Care

Home Health Care

Home care executives are expecting a few separate things to shake up the market in the coming years. Among those are an increase in franchising, more private equity involvement and innovation to keep pace with higher costs. Consolidation in home care has lagged compared to home health care. One of the reasons why is that PE involvement in personal home care has also lagged.

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7 Reasons Your Knee Hurts When You Bend It

Healthcare Associates

7 Reasons Your Knee Hurts When You Bend It. The knee is a hinge joint responsible for your mobility and flexibility. Your knees are constantly moving from sitting, walking, bending, and high-impact physical activities such as running, sports, or work-related duties. It is the most common joint that can become inflamed. Your daily activities can be interrupted when it hurts when you bend your knee.

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care.ai Secures $27M for AI-Powered Smart Patient Rooms

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: care.ai , a Orlando, FL-based first and only AI-powered ambient monitoring platform in healthcare raises $27M in funding from Crescent Cove Advisors. – The company plans to use the funding to accelerate growth and scale deployments of the industry’s first smart care facility platform throughout the U.S. AI-Powered Smart Patient Rooms. care.ai ’s Smart Care Facility Platform™ transforms healthcare settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes, into responsive car

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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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Is Seabed Mining an Opportunity to Break China's Stranglehold on Critical Minerals Supply Chains?

The Rand Blog

China dominates global supply chains for nearly all critical mineral resources, including the rare earths that power decarbonization technologies. Seabed mining may be a way to diversify critical minerals supply chains and break China's stranglehold on supplies of some of the world's most important natural resources.

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Keeping Telehealth in Great (Security) Shape

HIT Consultant

Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist at Arelion. COVID-19 turned telehealth into a household term, transforming the services that healthcare providers can offer patients. Thanks to advancements in connectivity, global experts in rare procedures and conditions can connect virtually to share knowledge with local medical practitioners and surgeons – and can conduct remote consultations in the comfort and privacy of patients’ homes worldwide.

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Supreme Court Declines To Hear Case Against Home Health Certificate Of Need Laws

Home Health Care

A home health care company hoping to operate in Louisville, Kentucky has hit a road block in its fight against Certificate of Need (CON) laws. CON laws vary by state. Some have home health CON barriers, while others do not. That results in some states having far more home health agencies than others. Because Kentucky has CON laws in home health care, Dipendra Tiwari and Kishor Sapkota – two Nepalese immigrants – were met with resistance when they tried to open up an agency specifically tailored

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5 Proven Strategies to Increase Employee Retention And Reduce Operational Costs In Senior Living

HIT Consultant

Yamin Durrani, CEO of Kami Vision. Staffing turnover in senior care has reached an all-time high at an annual rate of 48.5% among all employees and 68.1% among resident assistants and personal care aides. At a sunk cost of roughly $2,200 per employee, staff turnover is expensive and results in lower resident satisfaction, quality of care and occupancy.

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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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Sprinter Health Continues To Capitalize Off Of In-Home, In-Person Capabilities

Home Health Care

Sprinter Health and Firefly Health, two companies dedicated to improving access to home-based care, are partnering to bring a new hybrid model of telehealth and at-home care to patients in the Boston area. The new partnership will aim to improve access to care by integrating Sprinter Health’s in-home clinical services into Firefly Health’s virtual primary care model.

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4th Annual UCSF Health Hub: Digital Health Awards Announced

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UCSF Health Hub and the Digital Health Awards team announces the ten Best in Class winning companies , 40 Rising Stars, three Rising Star Champions and two Hall of Fame inductees for the 2022 Digital Health Awards. – The winning companies were chosen from more than 1,200 submissions based on a rigorous judging criteria.

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HHCN FUTURE Conference: Value-Based Care, Analytics, and Patient Engagement

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by WellSky. This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Tim Ashe, Chief Clinical Officer, and Wes Little, Chief Analytics Officer at WellSky. The discussion took place on September 15, 2022, during the Home Health Care News FUTURE Conference in New York City. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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How to plan your PDSA cycle using Life QI (with examples)

Life Qi

Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles are a four-step improvement tool used by a wide range of industries to test small changes quickly and cost effectively. In this article we’ll look at the first, planning phase of the process. It’s the foundation of the whole PDSA cycle, so we highly recommend dedicating enough time to refine your idea and create a plan around it.

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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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Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Ask EDVa to Allow Cost-Sharing Under the AKS

Sheppard Health Law

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are challenging the breadth of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) in federal court, arguing that the government is harming the very vulnerable patients it aims to serve by prohibiting cost-sharing subsidies for life-saving oncology drugs. In October, we discussed the Office of Inspector General’s (“OIG”) Advisory Opinion No. 22-19 (the “Advisory Opinion”), which declared that a charitable organization funded by manufacturers would violate the AKS if it offered

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Prior Authorization Reforms Don’t Address the Real Problem. Here’s How AI Can Help.

HIT Consultant

Matthew Plack, VP for Innovation and New Solution Strategy, Apixio. After waiting weeks for an open appointment, John finally gets in to see the orthopedic surgeon to evaluate his acute knee pain. He’s already been off work for over two months and has barely been able to leave the house, popping anti-inflammatory and pain medicine to manage the pain every day.

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Serving Adults With Autism With Nathan Myers RN, BSN, CDDN | Episode 56

Vie Healthcare

In Episode 56 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Jim Cagliostro is joined by Nate Myers, Director of Health Services at Keystone Autism Services to discuss caring for people with intellectual disabilities. Episode Introduction. In this episode, Jim Cagliostro, VIE Healthcare’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert, interviewed Nate Myers to discuss his experience serving adults with autism.

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Oatmeal Health Brings AI-Powered Lung Cancer Screening to The Clinic in Oklahoma

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center FQHC (The Clinic) has selected Oatmeal Health , a veteran-owned Patient Success Service to bring tech-enabled lung cancer screenings to their patients. – As part of the partnership, Oatmeal Health will provide white-glove, concierge service, offering our support without FQHC’s shouldering the burden or cost.

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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.