Mon.Nov 28, 2022

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Bernie Sanders poised to lead Senate health committee

Health Care Dive

The longtime proponent of universal healthcare is set to become chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is in line to be the committee’s ranking member.

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More vaccinated than unvaccinated died from COVID-19 in August: analysis

Fierce Healthcare

More vaccinated than unvaccinated died from COVID-19 in August: analysis. fdiamond. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 16:34.

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How to address healthcare’s unique cybersecurity challenges

Health Care Dive

Although the U.S. is entering a post-COVID era, many factors straining the healthcare industry will continue and more risk factors will kick in, argues Syed Kaptan of cybersecurity intelligence company ThreatQuotient.

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Google Health strikes deal with iCAD to commercialize mammography AI

Fierce Healthcare

Google Health strikes deal with iCAD to commercialize mammography AI. hlandi. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 12:49.

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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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Amwell in talks to acquire Talkspace: report

Health Care Dive

The reported $200 million transaction reflects Talkspace's declining value since the therapy company went public last summer at a $1.4 billion valuation.

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In face of 'tripledemic,' masking mandates might make a comeback

Fierce Healthcare

In face of 'tripledemic,' masking mandates might make a comeback. fdiamond. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 14:46.

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As booster rates continue to lag, a collaborative government effort pushes for more jabs by year-end

Fierce Healthcare

As booster rates continue to lag, a collaborative government effort pushes for more jabs by year-end. aburky. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 12:46.

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Google Health inks first licensing agreement for mammography AI tech

Health Care Dive

Under the agreement, medtech company iCAD will work to validate and incorporate Google’s mammography AI — which Google has been building and testing for several years — into its products for use in clinical practices.

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Providers in Direct Contracting Model saved Medicare $70M in 2021, CMS reports

Fierce Healthcare

Providers in Direct Contracting Model saved Medicare $70M in 2021, CMS reports. hlandi. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 19:20.

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Cerebral sues ousted CEO over unpaid $50M loan

Health Care Dive

Cerebral alleges the company loaned Kyle Robertson $49.8 million in January so he could purchase more than 1 million shares in Cerebral.

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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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Post-ACA hospital readmission gains evaporate when accounting for observation stays, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Post-ACA hospital readmission gains evaporate when accounting for observation stays, study finds. dmuoio. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 14:46.

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What is Black Hat SEO? & How to Prevent Harming Your SEO Campaign

Healthcare Success

Google despises black hat SEO techniques. Whether performed intentionally or unintentionally, black hat techniques involve tricking users and search engines to gain rankings. If any site incorporates these practices, Google eventually finds out and penalizes the site accordingly. These penalties can be as minor as gaining a lower SERP position or as severe as being completely removed from the Google index.

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Amwell exploring $200M buyout of online therapy provider Talkspace: media report

Fierce Healthcare

Amwell exploring $200M buyout of online therapy provider Talkspace: media report. hlandi. Mon, 11/28/2022 - 22:27.

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Pharmacology vs Pharmacy: Which One is Better?

p3care

Just like medical billing and coding fields, we can see tough competition when considering pharmacology vs pharmacy. Drugs and their administration are the main focus of both of these professions. Both fields seem connected but there is a huge difference between them. Anyone thinking of pursuing any of these professions will not like to shoot a gun in the blind.

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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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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN COVID-19 Nursing Home Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted the latest COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending November 13, 2022. Comparing the November 13 th data to the November 6 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate remained the same as the previous 2 weeks. Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.8% from the previous week.

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How to Classify Treatment Encounters in ICD-10-CM?

p3care

The World Health Organization has provided the International Classification of Disease to avoid the complexities in medical billing. This classification assists all healthcare professionals in patients’ data storage and retrieval. However, physicians, coders, health information managers, nurses, and other staff have benefited from ICD-9-CM. It is the 9th version of the clinical modification, effected up to 1999.

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Falling Revenue Means Pharmacies in Italy Aren’t Keeping up with Other EU Countries

Bill Of Health

By Gianluca Ceci and Sarah Gabriele. In 2021, the total revenue of Italian pharmacies dropped by 4% compared to 2015, despite Italy being the fifth largest country in the EU for pharmaceutical expenditures. The main reasons: the reabsorption of demand and small pharmacy size, as well as the failure to innovate the current business model. Contrary to what one might expect, given the pandemic, the health emergency, and the rush to ensure health supplies, in 2021 the total revenue of Italian pharma

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The No Surprises Act is Full of Surprises

HIT Consultant

The No Surprises Act (NSA) was meant to relieve the financial burden from consumers and help prevent unexpected, and sometimes massive, healthcare bills – a goal that providers, payors and the industry at large can get behind. But a recent survey from Morning Consult found that one in five patients will still receive a surprise bill. Couple this with the scope of changes and many surprises the NSA contains for payors, and providers – and it seems this bill will take some time to live up to its n

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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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22 States Request Repeal of COVID-19 HC Worker Staff Vaccination Mandate

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Attorneys General of 22 states have signed a 39-page petition to the HHS Secretary and the CMS Administrator as of November 17, 2022. “The undersigned Attorneys General submit the attached petition under 5 U.S.C. § 553(e) to request that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) promptly repeal Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Omnibus COVID-19 Health Ca

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RNSA22: CloudWave Acquires Sensato Cybersecurity

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CloudWave , the expert in healthcare data security today at RNSA22 announced it has acquired Sensato Cybersecurity , a managed cybersecurity services company focused on protecting healthcare providers from ransomware events and other cybersecurity threats. – The Sensato Cybersecurity suite is a natural fit with CloudWave’s OpSus Cloud Services.

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BrightSpring Health Services No Longer Plans To Go Public

Home Health Care

BrightSpring Health Services – a large home- and community-based services provider – is not going through with its planned IPO, according to an S-1 filing. Backed by the PE firm KKR and Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA), the company had initially filed the paperwork for an IPO that was expected to raise close to $800 million in October of 2021.

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RNSA22: Flywheel Builds Data Platform for Unbiased Breast Imaging AI

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, at RSNA, Flywheel , a leading data management platform for biomedical research and collaboration announces the creation of a federated data platform for the development of unbiased breast imaging AI. – Funded in part by the NIH, the federated network will support breast imaging AI research and collaboration—on a scale not previously possible.

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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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Future Leader: David Chandler, Senior Director of Strategic Programs, Senior Helpers

Home Health Care

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. David Chandler, senior director of strategic programs at the Towson, Maryland-based Senior Helpers, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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RNSA22: NVIDIA Partners With NHS Trusts to Deploy AI Platform in UK Hospitals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A consortium of 10 National Health Service Trusts — the publicly funded healthcare system in England — is now deploying the MONAI-based AIDE platform across four of its hospitals, providing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled disease-detection tools to healthcare professionals serving 5 million patients a year. – AIDE, short for AI Deployment Engine, is expected to be rolled out next year across 11 NHS hospitals serving 18 million patients, bringing AI capabi

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‘Please don’t come back’: Using virtual care to prevent readmissions

Healthy Debate

The post ‘Please don’t come back’: Using virtual care to prevent readmissions appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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7 ways CHG employees gave back to their communities in 2022

CHQ Healthcare

At CHG, our mission is to make a difference — to our people, our customers, and our communities. So, it’s no surprise our people go above and beyond to give back to those in need. And we empower them to make a difference by giving employees paid volunteer time off (VTO) each year to volunteer with an organization or cause they’re passionate about. Here are just a few of the ways our people made a difference this year!

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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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How to Empower Patients With Price Transparency

HIT Consultant

Kyle Kiser, CEO, Arrive Health. The evolution of e-commerce – led by Amazon – has created an intensely savvy consumer population. Amazon’s platform allows users to easily compare products from different vendors to get the best price. People travel to retail stores to try on clothes and shoes, only to purchase them online for less. Even the longest running game show in television history awards points for knowing how much consumer products cost.

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Infection Prevention Learning Journey 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This accredited continuing education activity is intended primarily for healthcare workers and teams which may include but are not limited to, medical and nursing staff, administration, education/training leadership, and infection control leadership. Staff specializing in emergency management, communications, specialized clinical areas, laboratory, facilities management and environmental services are also welcome.

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Nuance Announces Strategic Collaborations at RNSA22

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Nuance Communications announced a series of strategic partnership announcements at RNSA 2022. – Nuance announces that Kentucky-based Baptist Health and Pennsylvania-based Einstein Healthcare have joined the Nuance Precision Imaging Network (PIN). The addition of these healthcare systems will empower collaborative care teams with AI-powered insights from diagnostic imaging at the point-of-care. – Perspectum , a global medical technology company, will ente

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The Importance of Timely Use of COVID-19 Therapeutics

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS issued QSO-23-03-All on November 22, 2022 – same title as this blog. Some excerpts from this 2-page Memorandum: “The purpose of this memo is to highlight the importance of providing timely access to available COVID-19 therapeutics to patients who test positive for the virus. Treatments, including both monoclonal antibodies and oral antiviral drugs, can prevent serious illness and save the lives of high-risk individuals wh

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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.