Mon.Jan 31, 2022

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Healthcare trends of 2022

Health Care Dive

Providers face staffing shortages and continued pressure on margins while payers are challenged by people who continue to put off care, resulting in a member base that is sicker and has more complex conditions.

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WVU Medicine uses $781K grant to greatly boost telehealth to rural patients

Healthcare It News

West Virginia is the third most rural state in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The state is 24,320 square miles and is the only state located entirely in the area known as Appalachia, which faces gaps in educational achievement, employment and income as well as a variety of negative health consequences compared with the rest of the country.

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Cleveland Clinic reports COVID-spurred financial windfall in 2021

Health Care Dive

The nonprofit has yet to publicly issue a comprehensive financial statement, but some initial figures illustrate how Cleveland Clinic — like some other major hospital chains — has actually prospered financially during the pandemic.

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RPM tech provider Athelas hits unicorn status with $132M raised for chronic care management

Fierce Healthcare

RPM tech provider Athelas hits unicorn status with $132M raised for chronic care management. rtorrence. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 10:10.

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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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Payers, researchers warn CMS proposal could cut funds to insurers enrolling high-risk consumers

Health Care Dive

Insurers are flagging concerns about changes to a CMS model aimed at encouraging more healthy consumers to sign up for coverage, while new research finds the proposal could backfire.

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Kaufman Hall: Hospital financials fared better across 2021 but still lag pre-pandemic numbers

Fierce Healthcare

Kaufman Hall: Hospital financials fared better across 2021 but still lag pre-pandemic numbers. dmuoio. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 12:06.

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Oncologists worry they may have to reduce staff or enhanced care after payment model ends in June: survey

Fierce Healthcare

Oncologists worry they may have to reduce staff or enhanced care after payment model ends in June: survey. rking. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 12:40.

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Successfully operationalizing population health

Healthcare It News

Population health has been a healthcare industry buzzword for over ten years now and organizations have sought to try to transform their structure and organization to achieve the promise of population health. While some have been successful, others have not. Jonas Varnum, Vice President of Population Health at Health Catalyst, discusses how to successfully operationalize population health and missteps to avoid.

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Oncologists worry they may have to reduce staff or enhanced care after payment model ends in June: survey

Fierce Healthcare

Oncologists worry they may have to reduce staff or enhanced care after payment model ends in June: survey. rking. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 12:13.

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Leveraging the value of virtual care data

Health Care Dive

Healthcare organizations need data-driven dashboards to empower providers with successful insights.

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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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RPM tech provider Athelas hits unicorn status with $132M raised for chronic care management

Fierce Healthcare

RPM tech provider Athelas hits unicorn status with $132M raised for chronic care management. rtorrence. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 10:12.

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Implementing value-based care to drive success for life sciences companies

Health Care Dive

Value-focused solutions can help life sciences groups make the switch to value-based contracting.

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Kaufman Hall: Hospital financials fared better across 2021 but still lag pre-pandemic numbers

Fierce Healthcare

Kaufman Hall: Hospital financials fared better across 2021 but still lag pre-pandemic numbers. dmuoio. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 11:58.

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Current CMS, NHSN and CDC Nursing Home COVID-19 Data Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending January 16, 2022. Comparing the January 16th data to the January 9th data shows these differences : • Resident vaccination rate decreased 0.1% from previous week • Staff vaccination increased 0.5% from previous week • Resident confirmed cases increased 53,884 • Staff confirmed cases increased 81,794 • An additional 2,577 resident deaths this week • An adjustmen

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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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Laguna Health adds new role to build out custom patient engagement platform

Fierce Healthcare

Laguna Health adds new role to build out custom patient engagement platform. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 12:31.

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Two Choices in Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Facing existential risk, Ukraine may consider unprecedented steps. Urgent measures might help it protect against a Russian invasion. And if the immediate threat were to ebb, Ukraine might use the time gained to prepare for potential future threats.

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Laguna Health adds new role to build out custom patient engagement platform

Fierce Healthcare

Laguna Health adds new role to build out custom patient engagement platform. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 12:23.

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Walmart, Health at Scale Launch Personalized Provider Recommendations to Employees, Families

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Walmart and healthcare machine intelligence company Health at Scale announced a collaboration to provide personalized provider recommendations to Walmart employees and their families. – The U.S. healthcare system drives life-determining decisions, like doctor referrals, based on reputation rankings and star ratings on Google.

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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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Komodo Health notches another major partnership as it gears up to go public

Fierce Healthcare

Komodo Health notches another major partnership as it gears up to go public. hlandi. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 09:14.

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#JHMChat Recap: Mastering the Art of Building Trust

Hospital Medicine

Despite the scheduling snafu during the College Football Championship, so many rock star hospitalists, medical students, residents, and guests helped make the first #JHMChat of 2022 incredible! Whether you were lurking (ahem, we see you, Dr. Lauren Mazzurco) or a top tweeter (most of you averaged 9 tweets/person!), it was great to “see” so many [.].

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Editor's Corner: Fierce Healthcare gets a fierce makeover

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's Corner: Fierce Healthcare gets a fierce makeover. hlandi. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 10:47.

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5 Trends Bringing Effective Intelligence into Revenue Cycle in 2022

HIT Consultant

Matt Seefeld, Executive Vice President, MedEvolve. 5 revenue cycle management trends that will drive adoption of automation, data-first processes, employee effectiveness and virtualization. Many physician practices are facing a harsh reality as they enter 2022: The revenue cycle processes and technology that have traditionally produced an acceptable bottom line are no longer delivering. .

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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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Cigna taps new exec to lead its US Government Business

Fierce Healthcare

Cigna taps new exec to lead its US Government Business. pminemyer. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 10:53.

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Glooko Acquires German Medical AI Company xbird – M&A

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Glooko , a provider of remote patient monitoring and digital health solutions for diabetes and other chronic conditions, today announced it has acquired xbird , a German-based health AI company developing JITAI ( Just In Time Adaptive Intervention) technologies to support patients and their providers in predicting behavior and managing diabetes. – The addition of xbird expands Glooko’s advanced analytics capabilities and tools, further broadening Glooko’s plat

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Cigna taps new exec to lead its US Government Business

Fierce Healthcare

Cigna taps new exec to lead its US Government Business. pminemyer. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 10:56.

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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill Of Health

By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah. Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Over the past few months, we have seen the arrival and wider availability of treatments such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), and more recently, of novel oral antiviral drugs like Paxlovid and molnupiravir. The recent Delta and Omicron surges have made these therapies scarce.

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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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Healthcare’s Imperative for Long-Game Leadership

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare’s Imperative for Long-Game Leadership. mwen. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 14:00.

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5 Tips for Exercising Outdoors in the Winter

Voyage Healthcare

This is the time of year when cabin fever starts setting in for many Minnesotans. We are on the home stretch of winter, and even though the air is still chilly, you don’t have to put your exercise routine on hold until the snow melts. If you are itching to be outside and get a little exercise, we’d love to share some tips to help you do so safely!

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Optum: 3 (more) drugs in the pipeline payers should be watching

Fierce Healthcare

Optum: 3 (more) drugs in the pipeline payers should be watching. pminemyer. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 10:37.

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Health Insurance Market Officials Raise Questions as They Look toward the Future of Telehealth

NASHP

Among the many changes spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans made significant changes in how they use and access healthcare. Notably, new flexibilities to allow for telehealth visits accelerated an already growing trend of telehealth utilization across the country. As we all grapple with the evolving pandemic, which includes new variants and infection surges, telehealth continues to play an important role in providing access to health services.

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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.