Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
A whistleblower and the DOJ allege that UPMC’s longtime head of cardiothoracic surgery, James Luketich, regularly performed as many as three complex surgeries at the same time and didn’t participate in critical portions of his procedures.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
With the Veris Cancer Care Platform, cancer care teams at the New Jersey Cancer Care, PA can now review patients' physiologic and clinical data in real time and deliver personalized care. WHY IT MATTERS Today, NJCC and Veris Health, a subsidiary of New York-based PAVmed Digital Health, announced that the cloud-based clinician portal was successfully integrated into the oncology practice's information technology systems.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The health system said contract labor increased 37% compared to the prior year as admissions declined year over year, due to capacity constraints and longer patient stays.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Hospitals' margins ticked downward in January but are still better off than much of 2022 dmuoio Tue, 02/28/2023 - 15:07
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
COVID-19 activity declined significantly through the year, allowing the hospital operator to reduce labor vacancies and stop capping bed capacities at behavioral health hospitals, executives said.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Experts push to remove barriers for physician-owned hospitals fdiamond Tue, 02/28/2023 - 14:42
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Digital health startup aims to gamify medication adherence to tackle heart disease aburky Tue, 02/28/2023 - 12:44
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Today, many hospitals rely on Wi-Fi and public cellular for connectivity even though the limits of current Wi-Fi solutions are being reached. The mandates of improving quality of care and lowering costs mean that hospital IT directors should consider deploying new, private 5G networks. Healthcare facilities can create their own private cellular networks to help achieve HIPAA compliance, provide high availability for healthcare’s critical applications and create control and prioritization f
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
'Podnosis': The financial trends revealed in Q4 earnings, and refocusing on patient safety in a post-COVID era tcarey Tue, 02/28/2023 - 14:54
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Brian Setzer has been at Walmart since 2021 serving as Walmart Health’s chief financial officer. He joined Walmart after seven years at Highmark Health, where he worked a variety of operating and financial management positions.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Aledade notches another acquisition, adds 450 practices to growing network as the primary care market heats up hlandi Tue, 02/28/2023 - 11:14
CDC
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
This blog is a part of a series that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched to highlight the importance of patient safety by providing educational information and simple ways to help people stay informed on public safety topics. Read the blog below, authored by Orlaith and Ciaran Staunton, to learn more about sepsis and the importance of voicing your concerns as a patient.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Insurers seeing highest margins in Medicare Advantage: KFF study pminemyer Tue, 02/28/2023 - 16:03
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
RAND President and CEO Jason Matheny appeared on February 28, 2023, before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. His remarks covered advances in synthetic biology and artificial intelligence and their potential impact on national security.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Community Health Systems sells two North Carolina hospitals to Novant Health for $320M dmuoio Tue, 02/28/2023 - 16:51
Healthcare Associates
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
22 Must-Haves for Your Emergency First-Aid Kit You sliced your finger chopping veggies for a taco salad. Hubs got a nasty sunburn fishing on the lake. Tommy caught a shiner covering first base. Your mother-in-law started having chest pains during the family BBQ. And somehow your whole family got into poison oak on your weekend campout. You don’t have to be a Boy Scout to know their “Be Prepared” motto makes a lot of sense.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Insurance Companies’ QZ Anesthesia Reimbursement Policies Shifts Costs to Hospitals jpiatt Tue, 02/28/2023 - 12:15
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
What You Should Know: – Today, Walmart announced a three-year agreement with the nonprofit organization, CareSource to address cardiometabolic conditions and maternal health in under-resourced and underserved communities. – The partnership expands the work Walmart and CareSource are doing to help improve care around maternal and child health in Georgia – the two launched a pilot in Georgia earlier this year to help Black maternal health across the state.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Proof is in the HCAHPS Scores: Here’s How Health Ed Improves Patient Experience mteefey Tue, 02/28/2023 - 16:09
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Anne Kim, Co-Founder and CEO of Secure AI Labs (SAIL) Clinical research is only as good and thorough as the data that’s available — and we need to do a better job of making that data accessible for researchers. Unfortunately, the majority of clinical data is based on the same clinical sites and makes conclusions off a limited range of data points. Clinical trials often exclude minorities, rare disease subtypes and other underrepresented populations.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Experts call for CMS to go further on RADV audits despite latest final rule rking Tue, 02/28/2023 - 14:15
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
What You Should Know: – Today, the AI-powered genetic testing and precision medicine company Tempus announced that it has signed a significant strategic agreement with Pfizer to more precisely gather insights that will inform novel drug discovery and development in oncology. – Through this collaboration, Pfizer has access to Tempus’ AI-enabled platform and its library of de-identified, multimodal data to uncover insights that will power therapeutic development in oncology. – Pf
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Bicycle Health partners with Bureau of Prisons to provide opioid use disorder treatment at reentry centers agliadkovskaya Tue, 02/28/2023 - 14:26
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
What You Should Know: – Today, Unite Us — a software company enabling collaboration across sectors to improve the health and well-being of communities — announced a partnership with Metro Mommy Agency , a full-spectrum doula service provider to improve the quality of maternity care for Black women in Miami-Dade County. – Black women in Miami-Dade face maternal and infant mortality rates 168% higher than white and Hispanic women in the county.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Clover Health slims losses in Q4 as it puts focus on profitability pminemyer Tue, 02/28/2023 - 07:39
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
What You Should Know: – New KeyCare survey finds nearly 7 in 10 (68%) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their regular physicians or affiliated members of their physicians’ care teams, outpacing all other care-delivery options. – Results are based on a survey of 400 consumers who have previously scheduled and completed telehealth visits and have a commercial health insurance plan.
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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.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The state-by-state nationwide rollout of Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) – mandated by the Cures Act – hasn’t been straightforward. Time and money has been invested into EVV in the home-based care world, and yet, in 2023, persistent confusion remains. Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
What You Should Know: – Stratasys Ltd. today announced they have signed another agreement with RICOH USA to provide on-demand 3D-printed anatomic models for clinical settings. – The demand for additive manufacturing within the healthcare industry is continuously growing, and according to Grandview Research, the global healthcare additive manufacturing market size was valued at USD 1.6 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 22.6% from 2022 to 203
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) wants to continue to grow its personal care and home health segments, the former of which being its largest segment and the latter being its smallest. That has been its plan for some time now, but the surrounding factors around those goals continue to change. For instance, after the CY2023 payment rule was finalized for 2023 last fall, Addus believed there would be more opportunity to acquire in home health care.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Nobel laureate William Nordhaus claimed that climate change is “the ultimate challenge for economics.” One could say that climate change poses a serious challenge for the health economist as well. Climate change could have negative impact on health across a variety of dimensions including: Increased pollution has negative impacts on respiratory diseaes The increased increased intensity of natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires) increase death Some pathogens may spread easier
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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.
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