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Kaiser healthcare workers to go on strike

Health Care Dive

The work stoppage could pose a significant challenge to operations in Kaiser's southern California market, where the unions poised to strike represent about 37% of the system's workforce in the region.

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RPM will be the new standard of care, a new study says

Healthcare It News

Sixty percent of healthcare C-suite and clinical leaders see remote patient monitoring becoming a new standard of care over the next two years, according to a new study released today by WebCareHealth , a company that delivers solutions to remotely monitor patients managing chronic illnesses. Further, 66% of survey respondents at provider organizations say RPM helps identify gaps in care for 10% of patients.

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Adults support major changes to US healthcare system amid rising costs, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Those surveyed showed the widest support for policy changes that could lower drug costs, followed by measures limiting what both hospitals and doctors can charge for services, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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CMS: Healthcare workers must receive their first COVID vaccine by Dec. 5 to continue Medicare, Medicaid participation

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: Healthcare workers must receive their first COVID vaccine by Dec. 5 to continue Medicare, Medicaid participation. dmuoio. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 09:51.

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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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Women in the healthcare C-suite on what they've learned

Health Care Dive

Teladoc CFO Mala Murthy and Mount Sinai Health System President Margaret Pastuszko told Healthcare Dive what struggles they have faced as women in leadership roles and what advice they give to others.

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Levine: Hospitals, health systems must do part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Fierce Healthcare

Levine: Hospitals, health systems must do part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. rking. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 15:08.

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All About MIPS 2021 Eligibility, Participation, and Special Status

p3care

Medical Practitioners Eligible for MIPS 2021. The clinicians who qualify for participation based on the billing for Medicare part B or Critical Access Hospital Method II payments assigned to CAH and meet the Low-Volume Threshold (LVT) are: Physicians (DDS, DPM, DDM, MD/DO, Chiropractors, and Optometrists). Physician Assistants. Audiologists. Speech and Language Therapists.

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Controversial UnitedHealth-Change tie-up gets new deadline for DOJ review

Health Care Dive

Consummation of UnitedHealth's $13 billion Change acquisition is now teed up for February at the earliest, though the deal could close even sooner if the DOJ unexpectedly drops its investigation — or later, if the agency challenges.

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UnitedHealth-Change Healthcare deal could close in late February

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth-Change Healthcare deal could close in late February. pminemyer. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 15:24.

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Iora boosts One Medical's 50% revenue growth, but medical costs ding Q3 bottom line

Health Care Dive

Currently, at-risk membership makes up less than 5% of One Medical's overall membership base. But Medicare revenue in the quarter made up more than a fifth of the primary care chain's topline.

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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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One Medical raises full-year guidance with surge in membership, confronts high medical loss ratio in Q3

Fierce Healthcare

One Medical raises full-year guidance with surge in membership, confronts high medical loss ratio in Q3. rtorrence. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 11:11.

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Cigna reports special enrollment period led to bump in medical claims, still posts $1.6B profit

Health Care Dive

Analysts characterized the third quarter results as mixed, even as the payer hiked its forecast for the remainder of the year.

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New bill aims to clamp down on hospital anti-competition tactics like 'all-or-nothing' contracts

Fierce Healthcare

New bill aims to clamp down on hospital anti-competition tactics like 'all-or-nothing' contracts. rking. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 13:03.

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Designing care solutions along the patient journey

Healthcare It News

Lisa Johnson, managing director, Tegria, and Srini Surendranath, Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Andor Health, discuss how understanding the patient journey is vital for developing workflows that incorporate both virtual and in-person care.

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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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Chutes & Ladders—Walmart taps Ochsner exec to lead omnichannel health push; Slavitt steps in at Cityblock Health

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Walmart taps Ochsner exec to lead omnichannel health push; Slavitt steps in at Cityblock Health. dmuoio. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 15:14.

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All About MIPS 2021 Eligibility, Participation, and Special Status

p3care

Medical Practitioners Eligible for MIPS 2021. There is a list of clinicians who can participate in the MIPS 2021. However, the clinicians, who qualify for participation based on the billing for Medicare part B or Critical Access Hospital Method II payments assigned to CAH and meet the Low-Volume Threshold (LVT) are: Physicians (DDS, DPM, DDM, MD/DO, Chiropractors, and Optometrists).

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Cigna beats the Street with $1.6B in Q3 profit

Fierce Healthcare

Cigna beats the Street with $1.6B in Q3 profit. pminemyer. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 07:27.

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Lehigh Valley Health Network focuses on patient communications

Healthcare It News

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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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SoftBank backs Papa's $150M series D to scale up 'family-on-demand' services

Fierce Healthcare

SoftBank backs Papa's $150M series D to scale up 'family-on-demand' services. hlandi. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 15:27.

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Embracing Telehealth: How to Engage Patients & Improve Outcomes

HIT Consultant

David Rambo, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Simplex Health. It’s no secret that when the COVID-19 pandemic hit over a year ago, healthcare was one of the most impacted industries in the world. As the founder of a startup that works with a number of large healthcare systems, our ability to see patients virtually (via telehealth ) is not only what kept us afloat, but the very thing that allowed us to expand our reach far outside of our providers’ service areas.

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Rite Aid to make vaccine sign-up site accessible after DOJ intervenes

Fierce Healthcare

Rite Aid to make vaccine sign-up site accessible after DOJ intervenes. rtorrence. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 15:29.

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Raydiant Oximetry Nabs $5M for Fetal Oximeter that Monitors Babies’ Oxygenation During Childbirth

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Fogarty Innovation , a nonprofit educational incubator for medical technology companies, announced today that its graduate, Raydiant Oximetry, Inc., has raised an oversubscribed round of $5M Series A2 financing led by Avestria Ventures, which invests in early-stage women’s health companies, and syndicated by KOFA Healthcare, V-Capital, Band of Angels, FemHealth Ventures, RHIA Ventures, SteelSky Ventures and Tri-Valley Ventures. – Raydiant Oximetry is a femtech

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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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‘This Helps Us’: LHC Group Discusses Vaccine Mandates, Staffing Trends

Home Health Care

LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) had to overcome challenges linked to Hurricane Ida and the COVID-19 pandemic during the third quarter, both of which somewhat depressed its financial performance. But the in-home care provider isn’t pushing the panic button just yet, as its leadership firmly believes in the long-term outlook for home-based care and pending legislation to help support it.

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Collective Medical, Nuance Launches PowerShare to Provide ED Physicians Real-Time Notifications

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Collective Medical , a PointClickCare Company, was chosen for a collaboration with Nuance with the launch of Naunce PowerShare Image Aware. – The collaboration will provide emergency department (ED) physicians with real-time notifications of a patient’s prior radiology studies within existing clinical workflows.

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How Healthcare Experience Ranks Versus Other Industries (Not So Great)

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic put health care at the top of peoples’ minds all over the world. As important as health became to humans at the base of our Hierachies of Needs , in the U.S., health care industries fell to their lowest consumer satisfaction scores in two decades, we learn in the latest evaluation by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index report.

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Senior Companion Platform Papa Raises $150M at $1.4B Valuation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Senior companion and support platform Papa , today announced a $150M in Series D funding to extend the reach and scale of Papa’s innovative solution. With a valuation of $1.4B, this funding round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and with participation from TCG , Tiger Global Management , Canaan , Initialized Capital and Seven Seven Six , brings Papa’s total funding to $240 million. – Since its 2017 founding, Papa and its Papa Pals have served members in all 50 s

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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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Access to Interim Final Rule for Emergency Regulation: COVID-19 Vaccination for HCWs

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. For some reason, the links in the CMS Press Release are not working at this time. The Interim Final Rule pre-publication pdf is here: [link] and the permalink is here: [link]. The IFR is scheduled to be published. The IFR is 214 pages in length and is effective November 5, 2021. The FAQ document is 11 pages in length and is currently a Word document.

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Artificial Intelligence Bolsters Colorectal Cancer Detection

Health IT Analytics

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OSHA Interim Final Rule: COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. In addition to the CMS Interim Final Rule on the same subject, OSHA has also issued Interim Final Rule 2021-23643. This 490-page IFR will be published in tomorrow’s (11/5/2021) Federal Register and is effective on that date. “The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is issuing an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect unvaccinated employees of large employers (100 or more employees) from the risk of co

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HouseWorks Enters the Medicaid Personal Care Sector with Connected Home Care Acquisition

Home Health Care

HouseWorks announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Connected Home Care, a home care provider that operates in Eastern Massachusetts. The Connected Home Care acquisition comes just one week after HouseWorks’ announced it purchased Atlantic Homelife Senior Care , a private home care provider that operates in Seacoast New Hampshire and Southern Maine.

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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.