Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the Nursing Home COVID-19 data for the week ending August 7, 2022. Comparing the August 7 th data to the July 24 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased by 0.4% from 2 weeks prior Residents with booster doses increased 0.5% from 2 weeks prior Staff primary vaccination completion rate remained the same (same as previous 7 weeks) Staff with booster doses increased 0.6%

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The Rand Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

The concept of ontological security could help explain Putin's war on Ukraine and his regime's reasoning. It's about maintaining a continuous sense of self, and in this case, of state identity. Putin may have deemed the invasion necessary to maintain a sense of continuity and order, where order is Russia's continued adversarial relationship with the West.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. These items have been added to the OIG work plan this month (August): “Understanding skilled nursing facilities’ (SNFs’) costs is crucial to understanding the factors that contribute to nursing home performance and how nursing homes deliver care to beneficiaries. The cost of services, facilities, and supplies furnished to a provider by an organization related to the provider by common ownership or control may be i

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 19, 2022

What You Should Know: – EchoNous , a company delivering AI-enabled handheld ultrasound capable of producing diagnostic-quality images, forms an alliance with Samsung that enables its Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Kosmos platform run on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Pro tablets (models 12.0 and higher). – Made possible through the EchoNous/Samsung alliance, this new compatibility will lower the overall price point of the Kosmos platform, which already costs tens of thousands of dollar

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2022

For the most part, the home care industry tends to have a “the customer is always right” attitude toward clients. . Even so, some instances arise where agencies have to take the drastic step of firing a client. And when this happens, agencies must navigate the process carefully. It’s important for home care agencies to be able to recognize the difference between a client that is merely challenging and one they need to discontinue services with. .

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 19, 2022

What You Should Know: – Arine , a San Francisco-based next-generation medication intelligence company raises $29M in a Series B round funding composed of equity and debt financing led by 111° West Capital , with participation from new investors MBX Capital and New Leaf Ventures , and continued support from Katalyst Ventures. – Founded in 2017, Arine helps health plans substantially decrease the cost of care and improve patient outcomes by reducing medication errors, avoiding complica

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2022

Workers are steadily rejoining the home health care field, new data confirms. Their return comes after many retired or switched to other jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest labor brief from health care research and consulting firm Altarum, upwards of 1.57 million workers were employed in home health care in July 2022. Altarum’s analysis is based on U.S.

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The Rand Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

This weekly recap focuses on breaking the cycle of incarceration and homelessness, Russia’s ongoing military struggles, NATO expansion, and more.

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Meditech

AUGUST 19, 2022

Immunizations are widely known to be the most cost-effective and successful preventative measure against illness and disease, making it vital for patients to stay up to date on their vaccinations. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and with the approaching cold and flu season, vaccinations are especially crucial. Limited not only to COVID-19, a wide range of diseases that used to kill infants, children, and adults can now be easily and safely prevented with routine immunizations.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2022

Integrated Home Care Services hires new CEO. Integrated Home Care Services Inc. has named Christopher Bradbury as the company’s new CEO. Bradbury succeeds Jorge Pereda, who has served as CEO since the company’s inception. Pereda will now serve as chairman of the board. “After building successful companies throughout the last 30 years, I am excited to use my experience in a fully strategic capacity within IHCS,” Pereda said in a press statement.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Attention : MDS Coordinators, Reimbursement Specialists, Facility Owners and Management Teams. This is a news release you need to read. Falsifying MDS assessments has very serious consequences as does falsifying staffing records! “Five individuals and two for-profit skilled nursing facilities in Southwestern Pennsylvania have been indicted by federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United Stat

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NASHP

AUGUST 19, 2022

Emerging State Innovations in Developing a Medicaid Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit August 19, 2022 / by Salom Teshale and Wendy Fox-Grage. Providing access to palliative care can promote positive outcomes, and avoid costly, unnecessary, and often unwanted treatment, for people with serious illness—many of whom may be dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 19, 2022

What You Should Know: – Lyniate , a healthcare data interoperability announced MedAllies , a multimodality connectivity services company, has chosen Lyniate Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) by NextGate to better serve its healthcare clients and partners. – This integration will bolster MedAllies’ identity data management capabilities to increase the accuracy of the data it exchanges for the benefit of all.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Yesterday, I blogged on the ONC Interoperability Survey of SNFs. This survey is extremely important and you participation is needed! The US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has contracted with a data analytics and research firm to survey nursing facilities on the current state of health information technology (health IT) adoption and use

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 19, 2022

Lora Hefton, Executive Vice President, Harris Data Integrity Solutions. Maintaining patient data integrity is more complicated than ever; cybersecurity threats loom, patients are taking more ownership of their care (self-registration, for example) and health system merger activity is on the rise. It can make the quest for the ever-elusive 1% maximum duplicate rate seem, at times, unattainable.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted a blog with the same title as this blog on Thursday, August 18, 2022. The authors of the blog are Jonathan Blum, Chief Operating Officer and Principal Deputy Administrator; Carol Blackford, Director Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group; and Jean Moody-Williams, Deputy Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality – folks we have seen on past National NH Stakeholder Calls.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2022

OpenNotes and The Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have launched the Coalition for Care Partners to strengthen healthcare's capacity to systematically identify, engage and support care partners effectively through existing patient portals. WHY IT MATTERS. Care partners often take the reins of patient medical journeys, organizing medical appointments, refilling prescriptions and encouraging doctors' orders, but they d

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 19, 2022

Additional doses come amid rising demand, especially in hard-hit areas like New York where legislators are urging the Biden administration to invoke the Defense Production Act to produce more shots.

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