Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Telehealth use rose in every census region in November as patients again avoided medical settings and some became infected with the newest coronavirus variant, according to data from Fair Health.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Meditation app Calm buys Ripple Health Group to build out mental healthcare offerings. rtorrence. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 15:04.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Legislators in some states are even looking to cap the rate hospitals can pay agencies for temporary nurses as worker shortages persist across the U.S.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Butterfly Network, Ambra Health team up to streamline medical imaging integration. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 16:18.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Cowen analysts said the rate increase "should support another year of benefit enhancements & strong enrollment growth," and noted that in recent years the final rate has been higher than what was first proposed.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
From Amazon to New Balance, consumer brand execs bring 'outsider' perspective to healthcare. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 15:26.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Former CVS Health exec gets $25M for cancer care navigation platform Jasper Health. rtorrence. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 11:31.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
"We should be addressing this in a more serious fashion than we are," Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said Wednesday.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Chutes & Ladders—Cleveland Clinic taps chief digital officer for 'fresh perspective'; Cigna hires Berg to lead MA expansion. dmuoio. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 16:42.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
[ Click here for Part 1]. PART 2. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Bipartisan bill aims to extend program that helps rural docs participate in Quality Payment Program. rking. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 14:02.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
As of today, there are around 43.8 million people around the world who are within five years of a cancer diagnosis, reports the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Yet data shows that less than 30% of low-income countries have access to the right cancer treatment services – compared to 90% in high-income countries. In fact, an estimated 70% of deaths caused by cancer occur in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs).
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Medicare to cover at-home COVID-19 tests this spring after backlash from lawmakers. rking. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 10:10.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Medical device companies likely will face the same challenges this year that they have been dealing with since the pandemic's start, such as procedure volatility and hospital staffing shortages.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Insurers offer initial praise of CMS' Medicare Advantage, Part D notice. pminemyer. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 14:28.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending January 23, 2022. Comparing the January 23 rd data to the January 16 th data shows these differences: • Resident vaccination rate increased 0.1% from previous week • Staff vaccination increased 0.5% from previous week (same as the week prior to that) • Resident confirmed cases increased 49,054 • Staff confirmed cases increased 63,763 • An additional 1,898 resident
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
ConcertoCare orchestrates $105M in series B funding to expand value-based, at-home care for seniors. hlandi. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 06:15.
NASHP
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Long-term care facilities surpass 200,000 reported COVID-19 deaths among residents, staff. dmuoio. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 12:52.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
What You Should Know: – Science 37 , a leader in agile clinical trials, and physIQ Inc, a leader in digital medicine, announced their alliance to help researchers use remote biosensors and machine learning to build more robust data sets. – The partnership will help boost the number of digital biomarkers and generate insights from continuous data streams to indicate the safety and efficacy of new clinical treatments more quickly and objectively.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Cigna beats the Street with $1.1B in profit for Q4. pminemyer. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 07:34.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The title of this blog is the same as the title of an article in today’s Kaiser Family Foundation Policy Watch. “The CDC’s latest update reporting data on nursing home deaths as of January 30 th pushes the reported number of deaths over this bleak milestone. This finding comes at a time when the national surge in cases due to the Omicron variant has started to subside, deaths are rising nationwide, and nursing homes have been
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
What You Should Know: – Hackensack Meridian Health , New Jersey’s largest and most integrated health network launches of Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, a program that delivers high-quality acute care in the home of a Medicare patient and may ultimately be scalable to the larger patient population. The program was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals struggling with bed capacity.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
After civilians are injured or killed, the U.S. Defense Department isn't doing enough to learn from its own failures. The Pentagon needs to devote resources and senior leader attention to an issue that has historically lacked both. Civilian protection should become the singular priority for a critical mass of people across the organization.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Carl D’Halluin, CTO, Datadobi. Stethoscopes, needles, tourniquets, and blood pressure cuffs are what typically come to someone’s mind when thinking of items used to assess, diagnose, and treat patients in a healthcare setting. While these physical tools within a hospital or private practice are important, unstructured data also plays a critical, yet often understated, role in the overall care experience of a patient.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Providing care in the home instead of in a nursing home could save the state of Florida $745 million in fiscal savings annually. That’s according to a recent report released from Florida TaxWatch, an independent research institute. The report is an analysis of the possible safety benefits, fiscal savings and quality outcomes from expanding home- and community-based services in Florida.
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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.
Health IT Analytics
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
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Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Earlier this week, Axios reported that Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is gearing up for a sale of Kindred at Home’s hospice business and seeking a multiple of 12 times EBITDA. Two days later, Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) reaffirmed its plan to spin off its home health and hospice segment into a new publicly traded entity. Add to that a decent-sized home health acquisition announced by Amedisys Inc.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Can cataract surgery stave off dementia ? Cancer statistics 2022. U.S. uninsured 8.9%. Economist: In defense of the consumer welfare standard. Kaiser and adverse selection in California?
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
What You Should Know: – ConcertoCare , a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The round also includes investments from Obvious Ventures , Vast Ventures , The Schusterman Family Foundation , SteelSky Ventures , Pennington Partners , and returning investor Deerfield Management.
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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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