Wed.Mar 16, 2022

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Third of nurses plan to quit their jobs by end of 2022, survey shows

Health Care Dive

Nurses cited burnout and high-stress work environments as the No. 1 reason for leaving their jobs, followed by pay and benefits, according to a survey from staffing firm Incredible Health.

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Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Glooko , a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT , a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can improve health outcomes. – DIABNEXT’s mobile app complements Glooko’s product portfolio and tracks diabetes data so that physici

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Pandemic hastens shift away from hospital inpatient care, Moody's reports

Health Care Dive

The transition to more treatment in the home and in lower-cost outpatient settings will persist, aided by reimbursement changes and advances in medical technology, the ratings agency said.

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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration

HIT Consultant

Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity. Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France. Glooko , a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can improve hea

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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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New app, streamlined EHR: how Athenahealth is tackling 2022, according to its chief product officer

Health Care Dive

Athenahealth plans to release "a bunch" of new products this year, CPO Paul Brient said, including a new patient-facing app focused on engagement and care management.

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Proscia and Siemens Healthineers Expands Global Reach of Digital Pathology

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Proscia® , a digital and computational pathology solution announced a multi-year OEM agreement with Siemens Healthineers. – Under the agreement, Siemens Healthineers will enter the market by combining its Syngo Carbon enterprise imaging solution with Proscia’s Concentriq Dx digital pathology platform.

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GE Healthcare & AliveCor Integrate Data from ECGs Into Clinical Workflow

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AliveCor and GE Healthcare announced they are partnering to integrate data from AliveCor’s KardiaMobile 6L electrocardiogram (ECG) device directly into GE Healthcare’s MUSE Cardiac Management System (MUSE). – Today, cardiologists often rely on real-time data from personal electrocardiogram (ECG) devices to help manage patients with cardiac conditions like atrial fibrillation (AFib).

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From HIMSS 3/16/22

HIStalk

It was quieter and cooler in the exhibit hall today,

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Jvion Brings AI-Powered Clinical Insights to NTT DATA’s Nucleus for Healthcare Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NTT Data and Jvion have just announced a new partnership, which will bring Jvion’s prescriptive intelligence solution, the Jvion CORE to NTT Data’s popular Nucleus for Healthcare platform. – The integration will bring clinical AI to NTT Data’s streamlined digital health accelerator – allowing users to more readily identify and assess risks, evaluate modifiable patients, and adjust patients’ health trajectories toward improved outcomes.

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Pennant Group Still Values All Service Lines, But Home Health Momentum Hard to Ignore

Home Health Care

As a provider of home health, hospice and senior living, the Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) still sees value in all of the settings it manages. But Derek Bunker, its chief investment officer, had a different tune when touching on the company’s home health footprint versus its senior living communities at the Oppenheimer Healthcare Conference Wednesday.

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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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What happened after the implementation of Medicare Part D coverage gap reform?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Since its inception in 2006, Medicare Part D beneficiaries had to contend with the dreaded “doughnut hole” The “doughnut hole” is a coverage gap during which patients were required to pay 100% of treatment cost. To help defray some of these costs, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) implemented provisions to reduce the coinsurance rate in the gap from 100% in 2011 to 25% by 2022.

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‘We’re Starting on Third Base’: Encompass Health CFO Shares Spinoff Rationale

Home Health Care

Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) publicly appears to be moving forward with its plan to separate its $1.1 billion home health and hospice segment into a standalone business. Speaking at the Barclays Global Healthcare Conference, CFO Doug Coltharp offered a new level of transparency and rationale behind that spinoff plan on Wednesday. The update came just over a week after a report surfaced claiming the Birmingham, Alabama-based company was receiving newfound acquisition interest from a g

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From HIMSS with Dr. Jayne 3/15/22

HIStalk

Day 1 is in the books, and let me tell.

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Nuance Integrates DAX Tech with Cerner EHR to Optimize Clinician & Patient Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Nuance and Cerner announced that they have expanded their collaboration to integrate the Nuance® Dragon® Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) system into the Cerner Millennium EHR. – The collaboration deepens the existing integration of Nuance and Cerner technologies and is expected to help manage administrative workloads that lead to clinician burnout, expand access to care for patients, and enhance healthcare outcomes with clinical documentation that writes itself.

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And Now You Know: Rayna Hetlage hears from health care providers

Center for Health Progress

Rayna Hetlage, Senior Policy Manager at Center for Health Progress, speaks with Irene Jaw, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, and Dr. Aline Hansen-Guzman, about how HB22-1289, Cover All Coloradans , would benefit many of their patients, as well as their role in advocating for health care as a human right. If you’re a health care professional who’d like to get involved, please reach out to our Health Care Organizer, Carly Weisenberg, at Carly.Weisenberg@ centerforhealthprogress.

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Avive Raises $22M for Connected AED Platform for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Avive Solutions, Inc. , developer of an intelligent AED and connected response platform for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) emergencies, today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A round of financing co-led by Questa Capital, Catalyst Health Ventures and repeat investor Laerdal Million Lives Fund. – This funding will be used to advance a new technology-enabled approach for improving OHCA survival rates.

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2022 Remote Patient Monitoring CPT Codes: Cheat Sheet

Health Recovery

Healthcare organizations—and patients—are recognizing telehealth as an effective way of delivering care, especially in response to the digital surge caused by COVID-19. As telehealth becomes a mainstay of patient-centered care, it’s important for healthcare providers to make sure they are getting reimbursed accurately to keep their bottom line in check.

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RevSpring Expands Integrations with Cerner

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – RevSpring expands patient engagement and payment solution integrations with Cerner, broadening RevSpring’s platform of omnichannel and payment solutions to boost payment performance and patient satisfaction. – Now more than 1,500 Cerner customers can access several of RevSpring’s solutions without friction – including customers such as Ohio-based Fisher-Titus, a leading rural hospital, that signed an agreement to implement two RevSpring products to coordinate

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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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Guide to interoperability for healthcare leaders

Nordic

Healthcare leaders contend with many challenges. Controlling costs, responding to consumerism in the marketplace, staying ahead of changes and upgrades in healthcare technologies, and maintaining regulatory compliance are some of the concerns that keep leaders awake at night. Interoperability is a central element of all of these challenges.

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2022 NHSN Q1 Newsletter Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The 2022 Q1 newsletter is now available on the NHSN website at [link]. Inside this issue – Patient Safety updates and Training Announcement, Healthcare Personnel Safety Module information, Quarterly Data Checks for NHSN Dialysis Event, first quarter General NHSN information, and more.

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Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work

Bill Of Health

By Andrew Milne. The future of work will largely be the future of care work. Health care is rapidly becoming the largest employer in the U.S., expanding to serve the fastest growing demographic, aging seniors. As a lawyer for seniors in need of free legal services, I see my clients struggle to access care made scarce by the for-profit care industry’s understaffing and underpaying of workers attempting to meet the growing need.

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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance Webinars!

Healthcare Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance webinars: All webinars are 11:00 a.m. CST - 12:00 p.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. April 6, 2022: Compliance Lessons from Ted Lasso. 1.2 CCB CEUs. “Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn’t it?”. "You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It's a goldfish. You know why?

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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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Contactless Payment Technologies: A Business's Guide to Simple Payment Options

Etactics

Of the top five items that people lose, wallets make the list. A survey from MoneyTips found that 62% of people either lost their wallets or had them stolen. You might not lose your whole wallet either, but rather just a specific card out of it. Maybe you left it at the last place you swiped it, such as on the restaurant table after your server returned it to you. via Chipolo.

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Volume, Value-Based Care Key Growth Levers for Addus in 2022

Home Health Care

Even though it has been hit hard by labor pressures, Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS), believes it may have found ways to at least combat recruitment struggles. In turn, the company is optimistic about its organic, volume-based growth in 2022. The top three executives from the Frisco, Texas-based home health, hospice and personal care services provider previewed the year ahead in a conference call as part of the Oppenheimer 32nd Annual Healthcare Conference Tuesday morning.

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Attention Home Health Providers: Review Your HHA Provider Preview Reports

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS identified an iQIES system nuance that may affect your HHA’s Services Provided values that are displayed on the HHA Provider Preview reports for the April 2022 refresh. These reports were distributed in iQIES on 02/23/2022. CMS is asking each HHA to carefully review the Services Provided values that display on these reports.

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Morning Headlines 3/17/22

HIStalk

House Rx Secures $30 Million in Financing to Improve the.

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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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MedPAC Releases March 2022 Report on Medicare Payment Policy

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Washington, DC, March 15, 2022—Today, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) releases its March 2022 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy. The report includes MedPAC’s analyses of payment adequacy in traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare and reviews the status of Medicare Advantage (MA) and the prescription drug benefit (Part D).

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Pfizer, BioNTech seek FDA clearance of 4th shot amid worries over next COVID wave

Health Care Dive

The companies are forging ahead with plans to provide a second booster to people over 65, citing evidence, largely from observational studies in Israel, that diminishing protection may be restored with an additional shot.

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Improving Care for Rural Communities with Digital Health Tools

Twistle

Sound healthcare requires reliable networks that include primary physicians and specialists. However, rural America tends to lack these networks. Medical providers serving rural populations often work alone, sometimes without even basic resources like a hospital, medical support staff, and some medications. As a result, clinicians can’t always deliver appropriate care, resulting in illness and death rates increase that disproportionate to the rest of the country. .

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Verily & Lumea Partner to Leverage AI in Prostate Cancer Diagnoses

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Verily and Lumea today announced a strategic partnership to develop products that can diagnose, prognose, and guide prostate cancer therapy selection with improved objectivity and efficiency. – Lumea’s integrated digital pathology solution will validate Verily’s AI method for improving cancer detection and grading in partnership with Google Health.

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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.