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Supreme Court upholds HHS' vaccine requirement for healthcare workers, blocks OSHA's large employer mandate

Fierce Healthcare

Supreme Court upholds HHS' vaccine requirement for healthcare workers, blocks OSHA's large employer mandate. dmuoio. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 15:37.

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Medical cost growth trailed that of other industries in 2021

Health Care Dive

Prices for goods and services skyrocketed at the fastest pace in four decades, rising 7% between December 2020 and December 2021, according to new data. By comparison, prices for healthcare services rose roughly 2.5%.

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Express Scripts, Columbia study finds pharmacists taking greater role in patient care

Fierce Healthcare

Express Scripts, Columbia study finds pharmacists taking greater role in patient care. pminemyer. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 13:06.

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SCOTUS narrowly upholds health worker vaccine mandate

Health Care Dive

The court's liberal justices agree with the government that CMS has the authority to impose the requirement, just one of many healthcare organizations must comply with to be eligible for Medicare and Medicaid funding.

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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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JPM 2022: Talkspace faces securities fraud class-action suit as consumer revenue declines

Fierce Healthcare

JPM 2022: Talkspace faces securities fraud class-action suit as consumer revenue declines. rtorrence. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 12:55.

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Neurological devices, diagnostics dominate latest FDA breakthrough designations

Health Care Dive

The agency has granted breakthrough designations to several devices for neurological conditions, including an autism test and treatment as well as diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.

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Healthcare sharing ministry 'sham' faces suit for allegedly defrauding consumers in California

Health Care Dive

Aliera allegedly scammed thousands of people by collecting monthly payments but denying coverage of medical costs, a lawsuit claims.

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Avaneer Health banks $50M in seeding funding from Aetna, Anthem and Cleveland Clinic

Fierce Healthcare

Avaneer Health banks $50M in seeding funding from Aetna, Anthem and Cleveland Clinic. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 13:27.

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FDA seeks feedback on draft device shortage guidance

Health Care Dive

A new document poses a series of questions for industry on the overall design and operation of the policy, and is intended to help manufacturers provide timely information about supply disruptions during public health emergencies.

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ACA signups blow past 14M as Saturday deadline for open enrollment looms

Fierce Healthcare

ACA signups blow past 14M as Saturday deadline for open enrollment looms. rking. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:32.

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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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Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse

The Rand Blog

A statement that NATO has no intention to offer Ukraine membership at present should only be made in return for a tangible drawdown of Russian forces on the border. It concedes nothing to declare that NATO is not planning to do something it has no intention of doing anyway.

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Sanofi Taps BrightInsight for Development of Software as a Medical Device

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sanofi, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health has inked a strategic partnership with BrightInsight, Inc., provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solution to bring to market a next-generation digital companion application for one of Sanofi’s products. – The BrightInsight® Platform has been selected to serve as the underlying infrastructure to accelerate continuous development of one of

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Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?

The Rand Blog

Relations with Cambodia and Laos have fallen victim to the U.S. administration's foreign policy priority of shared values over shared interests. This approach has failed to make headway in Cambodia and Laos, isolates the United States in a region where few countries are true democracies, and unnecessarily cedes ground to Beijing.

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GSK Launches Accelerated Clinical Trial with Tempus

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Tempus and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced an accelerated phase II study evaluating the efficacy and safety of niraparib, an oral, once daily PARP inhibitor, for patients with breast and pancreatic cancers. The study, titled “Niraparib in the Treatment of Patients With Advanced PALB2 Mutated Tumors” (the PAVO study, NCT05169437) is sponsored by Tempus and opened for enrollment on January 7, 2022. – This trial’s data-driven design and site selection were comple

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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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Webinar: Building a Continuum of Care for People with Serious Illness: State Strategies to Support Patient Engagement

NASHP

Webinar: Building a Continuum of Care for People with Serious Illness: State Strategies to Support Patient Engagement. 1-2 PM EST, Friday, February 25. REGISTER NOW. The continuum of care for people with serious or chronic illness starts with meaningful and systematic patient engagement. People who are more engaged in their care have better outcomes, use fewer resources, and report more satisfaction with the care they receive.

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Improvements in Data Quality Could Yield Up to $42.1M for Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – InterSystems and Sage Growth Partners announced research that reveals just how much healthcare organizations could save from investing in higher quality data – including up to $42.1 million over the course of three years. Report Background. According to the respondents from 100 C-level leaders from top healthcare organizations, hospitals, and healthcare systems are using inefficient practices that can impose a significant financial burden.

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New Legal Mapping Method Highlights Recent Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders

Bill Of Health

By Katie Moran-McCabe. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators in almost every state have introduced bills that would limit state executive authority to respond to the current pandemic or future public health emergencies. Between January 1, 2021, and November 5, 2021, one or more of these bills were enacted into law and became effective in 19 states.

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Decentralized Clinical Trials Can Achieve Net Financial Benefits of 5X to 14X

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – New data from Tufts and Medable reveal on average, decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) are associated with reduced clinical trial timelines and can achieve net financial benefits ranging from five to 14 times for Phase II and Phase III trials, respectively. . – The findings are based on financial modeling and analysis of trial data from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), Tufts University School of Medicine, and more than 150 clinical t

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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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Amedisys Gearing Up for the Rest of 2022 Following CEO Transition News

Home Health Care

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) is gearing up to execute on its 2022 strategy while positioning itself for 2023, which it sees as a year of major upside. The company detailed those plans Wednesday at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, just days after its announcement that current CEO Paul Kusserow will retire from the role in April. “I think this is very good news for investors,” Kusserow said at the conference.

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Supreme court blocks broad COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Trends in geographic variation in Medicare spending. ACA and marriage. Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in ? Ethnic disparities in ED wait times.

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Wolters Kluwer Launches Workflow Solution to Support Evidence-Based Practice

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wolters Kluwer Health announced the launch of Ovid® Synthesis , a suite of applications to power evidence-based workflows in hospitals and health systems. – The first application is called Clinical Evidence Manager, developed in collaboration with Duke Health, WVU Medicine and other healthcare organizations, to provide a holistic view of all quality improvement research projects across an institution.

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10+ Phishing Awareness Emails to Send to Employees

Etactics

Have you ever received a suspicious email that you ended up ignoring or immediately deleting? If I had to guess, most of you would probably say yes, at least to the part about receiving a suspicious email. And hopefully , you also answered yes to ignoring or deleting it. Why do I hope that? Because chances are that these were phishing attempts. In 2020, these emails were the most common tactic by cybercriminals to steal data, so a majority of people probably received one.

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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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iSpecimen Expands COVID-19 Research with Sequences Specimens to Detect Variants

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – iSpecimen , the developer of an online marketplace that connects human biospecimen with researchers, announced that is has expanded its supplier capabilities in support of COVID-19 researchers. – Through a new partnership with a reference lab in New York, researchers looking to validate their own COVID variant identification assays can obtain sequenced and unsequenced COVID-19 positive and negative swabs in a variety of media types through iSpecimen.

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Fulcrum Equity Partners Invests $11M in HomeFirst Home Healthcare

Home Health Care

A young but rapidly growing in-home care business headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, has secured millions of dollars to further fuel its expansion. The Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners announced Thursday the investment of $11 million into HomeFirst Home Healthcare, a home-based care platform company formed in September 2020 by a team of home health veterans.

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3 Ways Real-Time ADT Notifications Will Benefit Payers’ Businesses

HIT Consultant

Bevey Miner, Chief Marketing Officer, Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. Payers and providers share goals around emerging healthcare delivery models such as value-based care and accountable care organizations (ACOs). But inadequacies in current payer/provider communication often disrupt the flow of timely care and lead to unnecessary hospital readmissions and poor outcomes.

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Healthcare Predictions | Ep.29

Vie Healthcare

In Episode 29 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa is joined by Lisa Larter from The Lisa Larter Group to discuss predictions for healthcare in 2022. As Lisa observes: ‘’.the protection is going to be around measuring and monitoring, capturing opportunities in real-time. No longer looking back and saying, “Oh, wow, we missed that opportunity 12 months ago…and we’ve had this year of overspending. we need to do things in real-time. that has to be a must.’’.

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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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Atlantic Health System Expands Online Scheduling to Patients Via Kyruus

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Atlantic Health System , a leading non-profit health system in New Jersey, has expanded its use of the Kyruus ProviderMatch® platform to offer consumers convenient online scheduling on its website. The health system has seen rapid adoption from both new and existing patients with thousands of appointments booked online in the first five months. – The organization has already leveraged Kyruus’ provider directory platform for five years and through this expansio

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Planning Your Health System’s Pipeline of Cost Savings Opportunities

Vie Healthcare

In these audiograms, taken from Episode 20 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa Miller is joined by her producer, Lisa Larter, and Rich Dormer and Bryan Covert from the VIE Healthcare team. Together they discuss planning your health system’s pipeline of cost savings opportunities for 2022. Have a Pipeline of Cost Savings Opportunities Versus Having a Strategy.

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Clearwave Names Saji Rajasekharan as Chief Technology Officer

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 2 minutes IT veteran appointed to elevate technology operations and innovation. driving next stage of healthtech leader’s growth. ATLANTA, January 12, 2022 – Clearwave , a healthcare technology industry leader in digital patient engagement solutions, today announced the appointment of Saji Rajasekharan as Chief Technology Officer. Saji comes to Clearwave from Premier Inc. , where he served as CTO, Cost Management and Supply Chain.

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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA Webinars!

Healthcare Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA webinars: All webinars are 11:00 a.m. CST - 12:00 p.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. February 9, 2022: How to Conduct a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis. 1.2 CCB CEUs. The HIPAA Security Risk Analysis is required by law. It’s also one of the top areas of OCR enforcement: we often see settlements with covered entities and business associates who either failed to conduct a comprehensive HIPAA Security Risk Analysis – or did con

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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.