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Ginger's mental health app now available in Spanish with full rollout to all 25M users by early 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Ginger's mental health app now available in Spanish with full rollout to all 25M users by early 2022. hlandi. Fri, 09/10/2021 - 16:46.

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Researchers say 'essential questions remain' about telehealth's diagnostic viability

Healthcare It News

Researchers from the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine released an issue brief this week aimed at exploring the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and future prospects of telehealth. By combining literature reviews and interviews with a wide variety of stakeholders, the team sought to identify the most pressing research questions on how to maximize telediagnosis opportunities – while avoiding possible problem areas.

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AHA concerned federal vaccine mandate could exacerbate severe worker shortage

Fierce Healthcare

AHA concerned federal vaccine mandate could exacerbate severe worker shortage. rking. Fri, 09/10/2021 - 16:09.

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Biden, industry groups mandate COVID-19 vaccines for most healthcare workers

Health Care Dive

CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are requiring that all provider facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs vaccinate their workers, according to a Thursday release.

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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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House lawmakers clash over impact of adding dental, vision and hearing benefits to Medicare

Fierce Healthcare

House lawmakers clash over impact of adding dental, vision and hearing benefits to Medicare. rking. Fri, 09/10/2021 - 15:52.

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Hospital execs see delta pressure dragging into early fourth quarter: Jefferies poll

Health Care Dive

The variant is expected to peak late in the third quarter or early in the fourth, according to a survey of 40 hospital CEOs and CFOs conducted by the bank.

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Georgia's COVID-19 vaccination efforts boosted by scalable reg and booking tools

Healthcare It News

The Community Organized Relief Effort in Georgia, better known as CORE, had a major operational challenge to coordinate all the logistical issues of setting up mobile vaccinations for COVID-19 across an entire state and managing dozens of field teams at more than 100 different locations. THE PROBLEM. Prior to the pandemic there were no platforms designed for mass patient registration, complex scheduling and communication, let alone platforms that managed all the specific information required for

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Health systems' consumerism efforts stalled since early COVID even as competition from Amazon, CVS intensifies

Fierce Healthcare

Health systems' consumerism efforts stalled since early COVID even as competition from Amazon, CVS intensifies. dmuoio. Fri, 09/10/2021 - 16:03.

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Biogen offered a window into what's holding up Aduhelm. Investors didn't like what they saw.

Health Care Dive

At Morgan Stanley’s healthcare conference, executives detailed how the launch of their Alzheimer’s drug has been slower than expected, due in large part to lingering questions about clinical trial data and insurance coverage.

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COVID-19 relief fund distribution fell short for hospitals treating Hispanic, underinsured communities

Fierce Healthcare

COVID-19 relief fund distribution fell short for hospitals treating Hispanic, underinsured communities. dmuoio. Fri, 09/10/2021 - 12:42.

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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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Executives have yet to fully commit to digital, consumer-centric care, Kaufman Hall finds

Healthcare It News

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Healthcare Desserts: 80% of U.S. Lacks Adequate Access to Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Over 80 percent of the country lacks adequate healthcare infrastructure in some shape or form, according to recent report findings from GoodRx Research. The research finds that over a third of the U.S. population lives in a county where there is less than adequate access to pharmacies, primary care providers, hospitals, trauma centers, and/or low-cost health centers. – The report offers an in-depth look at the uneven distribution of healthcare across the U.S.

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How to Lose Weight with Hypothyroidism

Healthcare Associates

How to Lose Weight with Hypothyroidism. Unexplained weight gain is a common sign of hypothyroidism, especially if you start gaining weight without making any major changes to your diet or activity level. Weight gain increases the risk for a wide range of serious health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. If you are diagnosed with hypothyroidism, managing your condition and losing excess weight is essential to reducing your risk for related complications and heal

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Monoclonal Antibodies Bamlanivimab and Etesevimab May Be Less Effective for Treating Cases of COVID-19 Caused by Variants

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This morning (September 10, 2021), COCA issued this informational statement: Genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 have been emerging and circulating around the world throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Viral mutations and variants in the United States are routinely monitored through sequence-based surveillance, laboratory studies, and epidemiological investigations.

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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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Chatbots in Healthcare: A More Humanized, Patient-Oriented Approach

HIT Consultant

Bent Philipson, Founder of Philosophy Care. The adoption of chatbots and virtual assistants, coupled with the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, has revolutionized the healthcare industry. In many ways, chatbots have become ubiquitous, providing a more optimized user experience through digital means. The healthcare industry has already benefited immensely from this technology, namely through greater access to valuable services and information, more accuracy i

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The Compounding Effects of Racism: Q&A with James Anderson, Rachel Perera, and Heather Gomez-Bendaña

The Rand Blog

RAND's James Anderson, Rachel Perera, and Heather Gomez-Bendaña are working to create an interactive tool that illustrates how the effects of bias compound over time. Their aim is to improve understanding of how seemingly small disparities can add up to create significant inequality.

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New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops

Health Populi

Rising costs, generational shifts, digital transformation, and fast-growing investments in new health care models and technologies are forcing change in the legacy health care, noted in the State of Consumerism in Healthcare 2021: Regaining Momentum , from Kaufman, Hall & Associates. As the title of Kaufman Hall’s sixth annual report suggests, health care consumers are evolving — even if the traditional healthcare system hasn’t uniformly responded in lock step with more dem

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HHS Releases $25.5B in Provider Relief Funds, Promises Increased Audits Around M&A Activity

Home Health Care

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday that it is releasing another $25.5 billion under the Provider Relief Fund (PRF). Since a first round of $46 billion was sent to over 320,000 Medicare providers in April 2020, HHS has released tens of billions of follow-on dollars through a mix of general and targeted disbursement rounds.

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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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OSHA and CMS to Require Employers to Mandate Vaccines or Weekly Negative Tests

Triage Health Law

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, are preparing to issue new requirements that will have a major impact on healthcare employers, as well as other employers across the U.S. On Thursday, the executive branch announced its plans to have OSHA require employers to ensure that employees either (a) become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or (b) test negative for COVID-19 on a weekly basis.

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Boosting Vaccine Acceptance, Afghanistan's Refugee Crisis, Environmental Racism: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on addressing vaccine hesitancy, preventing an even-bigger humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, and how to develop antiracist environmental policies.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

Biden drug price reform plan. PhRMA response. Vax or tax mandate : CEO response. Cost differences for infused drugs. COVID-19: Should you attend a football game? The beer police.

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Steps for Creating Your Patient Portal Software

Sequence Health

Medical patient portals are quickly becoming the new standard for hospitals and healthcare practices. However, a lot of the solutions advertised online are expensive—and still require you to handle a lot of the setup and maintenance on your own. You may be wondering: Can I create patient portal software on my own? Let’s put it this way: Can you? Yes.

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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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Food insecurity among health care workers

Healthcare ECONOMIST

When you think of health care workers, many think of physicians, nurses and hospital administrators, who often make an above average salary. Not all health care workers, however, are well-paid and many even suffer from food insecurity according to a study by Srinivasan et al. (2021) : Using nationally representative data from the period 2013–18, this study is the first to our knowledge to investigate the prevalence of food insecurity for the health care workforce, an industry that ranges from lo

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How Remote Patient Monitoring Can Reduce Healthcare Inequities

Twistle

Addressing healthcare inequities is no simple task. The causes are complex , from environmental to socioeconomic factors, and aren’t easy to address. There are opportunities, though, to bridge gaps in healthcare by leveraging patient engagement technology. . Leveraging RPM Technologies to Reach More Patients. Remote patient monitoring – staying connected with patients outside of the medical setting – has the potential to deliver several important benefits for disadvantaged communitie

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Latest CMS, CDC & NHSN COVID-19 Data Posted

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted NH data for week ending August 29, 2021. Comparing numbers posted for the week ending August 29, 2021, to the week ending August 22, 2021: Staff vaccination increased this latest reporting week by 0.9% Resident vaccination increased this latest reporting week by 0.3% Staff cases increased this latest reporting week by 7,080 Resident cases increased this latest reporting week by 5,376 Staff deaths increased this

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Weekender 9/10/21

HIStalk

Weekly News Recap Intelerad acquires Insignia. Sanford Health (SD).

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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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Estimates of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Among NH Residents Not Reported in Federal Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. JAMA Network Open posted the results of this original Public Health investigation on September 9, 2021. [NOTE: you will see 2 Download PDF icons on this landing page that will allow you to download the PDF version of this report.] Additionally, Invited Commentary on this investigation by Elizabeth M.

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Price Transparency in Hospitals – Is Hospital Pricing Data a Protected Trade Secret?

HKLaw

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MLN Matters: Medicare FFS Response to the PHE on COVID-19 (Revised)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS issued this revised SE20011 (19 pages) on September 8, 2021. SNF Qualifying Hospital Stay (QHS) and Benefit Period Waivers – Provider Information. CMS recognizes that disruptions arising from a PHE can affect coverage under the SNF benefit: Prevent a patient from having the 3-day inpatient QHS Disrupt the process of ending the patient’s current benefit period and renewing their benefits.

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Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to Transformation

Bill Of Health

By Aysha Pamukcu and Angela P. Harris. Using health justice to reframe and reshape the criminal legal system. The demand to “defund the police,” circulated by the Movement for Black Lives and allies after the brutal 2020 murder of George Floyd, was a departure from the usual discourse of police reform. The demand garnered backlash as being both politically unrealistic and potentially dangerous.

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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.