Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
Over 80% of respondents see device security as a competitive advantage and almost every company budgeted more money for it this year. However, 80% view the issue as a "necessary evil" imposed by regulators.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2022
Automation has a major role in transforming the healthcare experience. For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. One type of automation is chatbots and related technology that can automate the triage and symptom intake process, along with surfacing education and discharge materials.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
Defendants — including doctors, medical business executives and fake vaccination card manufacturers — caused nearly $150 million in false billings to federal programs, the DOJ alleged.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2022
WELL Health and OSIS announced this week that they had partnered to provide community health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers more seamless access to patient communications technology. WELL Health, a communications vendor, says it will offer community health centers in the OSIS network discounted access to its technology platform via the OSIS Partner Program.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
The Hive group practices double extortion — demanding payment to free data it has encrypted while also threatening to release the unencrypted data publicly.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2022
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Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Home Health Care
APRIL 21, 2022
Home health operators should dig in even further ahead of the Medicare reimbursement battle coming later this year. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2023 proposed payment rule for the nursing home industry earlier this month. In it, the agency called for a 3.9% increase to Medicare payments for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) – with a 4.6% cut to the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM).
Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
Inpatient payment rates for fiscal 2023 released earlier this week also wouldn't adequately cover rising costs, according to the group purchasing organization.
The Rand Blog
APRIL 21, 2022
The United States recently committed not to conduct destructive, direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing. This sets an important example others might follow and takes an important first step towards a binding, international ban.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
The decision comes 24 years after Trinity and Catholic Health Initiatives first agreed to jointly operate the health system that provides services in Iowa.
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
What You Should Know: – Seven Bridges , a bioinformatics ecosystem provider, announced it is collaborating with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Google Cloud, as well as the Associação Genomas Brasil (Brazil Genome Association), to assist the DNA do Brasil (DNABr) project in building a reference genome that represents the genetic diversity of the Brazilian population. – The joint effort will advance unbiased precision medicine for underrepresented populations in Brazil through t
Home Health Care
APRIL 21, 2022
An overwhelming majority of home-based care professionals say that the hiring environment is not improving at the start of 2022. In a LinkedIn survey conducted by Home Health Care News, 62% of 377 total respondents said the hiring environment is not getting better, while only 21% said it was getting was. About 16% said they were not sure. Staffing continues to be the most hot-button issue in both home health and home care.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
What You Should Know: Today, NexHealth announced its $125M Series C funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $1B for its patient experience platform. – The funding will support the company in advancing its mission to create a more streamlined doctor and patient experience while building the seamless technological infrastructure needed for future health tech entrepreneurs to innovate upon. .
Meditech
APRIL 21, 2022
After kicking off a busy event season at HIMSS and ViVE, I had a chance to catch up with Bill Russell on his This Week in Health Newsday podcast. We agreed that it was great to see people in person for these conferences, even though it’s clear that our industry and the world in general is a changed place since the pandemic arrived.
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
What You Should Know: – Reify Health , a leading provider of solutions that empower the clinical trial ecosystem, announced a $220M Series D funding round dedicated to improving diversity in clinical research. The investment comes less than a year after its Series C and brings the company’s valuation to $4.8B. – The Series C found was co-led by Altimeter Capital and Coatue , joined by Dragoneer Investment Group and existing investors ICONIQ Growth , Adams Street, and Battery Ve
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2022
As health care industry stakeholders and policymakers have begun to recognize and address the underlying drivers of peoples’ health, there’s another acronym that is taking hold in health care beyond SDoH: that is ESG, standing for. E nvironment. S ocial, and. G overnance pillars of responsibility and activity. To mark this Earth Day 2022, I’ve written a brief primer on ESG for the health care community published today in the Medecision Liberate Health blog.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. For this refresh, Home Health (HH) Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) will be based on the standard number of quarters. This refresh resumes the reporting of all claims-based measures for the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (QRP). Due to the COVID-19 reporting exceptions, the claims-based measures have been calculated excluding Q1 and Q2 2020 data from measure calculations.
Home Health Care
APRIL 21, 2022
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) has agreed to sell 60% of its hospice and personal care assets from Kindred at Home to the private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CDR). The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of this year. And its surrounding details are of interest for multiple reasons. The first is the the price tag: $2.8 billion for only part of Kindred’s hospice and personal care business.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 21, 2022
Operation Warp Speed for nasal COVID-19 vaccines ? End of the airplane mask mandate ? How should you think of copay coupons ? Does access to affordable housing reduce child abuse ? “Increased substance abuse accounts for between 9 and 26 percent of the decline in prime-age labor-force participation between February 2020 and June 2021”.
Home Health Care
APRIL 21, 2022
The 55th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News caught up with Susan Ponder-Stansel, the CEO of Alivia Care. During the conversation, Ponder-Stansel discussed entering the home health industry through its 2021 acquisition of Better Life Home Health, the moves her company is making to ensure success in the risk-based environment and the company’s work in the PACE sector. .
HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
What You Should Know: – Physicians would make a different therapy choice for 33% of patients if medication access was not a factor, and physicians had to change their treatment plan for 26% of patients due to medication access challenges, according to recent survey findings from OptimizeRX Corp. – The results of a survey of 102 specialist physicians highlight how inefficient access pathways negatively impact patient care.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has provided MLN4761491 – Medicare Modernization of Payment Software Fact Sheet (5-pages in length) for providers submitting institutional claims to Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). It’s primarily for software vendors and others who support you with claims processing systems.
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.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
What You Should Know: – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) payment adjustments did not adequately address hospitals increased costs for FY 2021, according to new data from Premier. – The data reveals this discrepancy has resulted in hospitals receiving only a 2.4 percent rate increase, compared to a 6.5 percent increase in hospital labor rates, which account for 76 percent of hospital costs. – The data CMS uses to account for real inflation in the cost of labor
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On April 21, 2022, CMS posted Change Request 12700 – Transmittal 11358 which is effective May 23, 2022. The purpose of this Change Request (CR) is to update various sections within Chapter 4 in Pub. 100-08. The primary updates in this CR include updating the Medicare Program Integrity Contractor investigative timeliness requirement and removing all references to the Incentive Rewards Program Tracking Database.
Bill Of Health
APRIL 21, 2022
By James R. Jolin. The United States is facing an organ donation crisis, with massive gaps between supply and demand. Per estimates from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), over 106,000 Americans are currently awaiting this life-saving medical treatment. Further, the burden of this shortage falls unequally: in 2020, while approximately 48% of white patients in need of transplants received an organ, only 27% of Black patients secured one.
Etactics
APRIL 21, 2022
If you watch the news consistently, it probably feels like a breach occurs every day. It often seems like hundreds of thousands of accounts become compromised regularly. The situation can seem so overwhelming that you may think to yourself, “Is cybersecurity even worth it?” Simply put…yes. Breaches occur all the time and they can seem inevitable. However, you should still do everything in your power to prevent one from happening to you.
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.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
It’s estimated that humans create a combined 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day – and that around 90% of all data to ever exist was created in just the last few years. As difficult as it is to ignore the massive impact that connected technologies and social media have had on the way we experience our world, it’s somehow even more challenging to fully grasp the scale of it.
HIStalk
APRIL 21, 2022
Telehealth company Amwell adds two new clinical programs to its.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. During this COCA Call, presenters will discuss post-COVID conditions (PCC), an umbrella term for the wide range of health consequences that are present four or more weeks after infection with SARS-CoV-2, which includes long COVID. Cognitive symptoms, often described by patients as “brain fog,” are frequently reported following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
HIStalk
APRIL 21, 2022
Top News Clinical trials solutions vendor Reify Health raises $220.
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.
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