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Period tracker Flo launches anonymous mode amid post-Roe privacy concerns

Health Care Dive

The company, which has a dominant market share with 48 million monthly users and has faced regulatory scrutiny over privacy in the past, originally pledged to release the mode shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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YouTube, KFF partnering on health equity streaming content

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5 Tips for Hiring and Retaining Medical Practice Staff

HIT Consultant

John V. Guiliana, DPM, MS, Medical Director of Podiatry at ModMed. Finding the right employees for your medical practice and keeping them happy can be challenging enough during normal times. Add in the realities related to the COVID pandemic, including staffing shortages and “the great resignation,” and busy physicians can be at a loss to keep their practices fully staffed with qualified people.

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Home Health Referrals Skyrocketed, Patients Became More Complex During Pandemic

Home Health Care

As predicted by many at the onset of the pandemic, home health providers gained a larger share of post-acute referrals in recent years than they did prior to COVID-19. At the same time, data shows that patients coming to post-acute care are sicker and have more complicated care needs than before, all while staffing shortages continue to put a strain on home health agencies.

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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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Lloyd Nelson: The man who developed the concept of Special Cause Variation

Life Qi

In this article, part of our series of Improvement Heroes, we’re going to find out more about Lloyd Nelson, who developed the concept of Special Cause Variation. As with many of our Improvement Heroes, Nelson’s ideas stemmed from work done by Walter A. Shewhart and his invention of the 8 Nelson rules is still guiding and inspiring Quality Improvement (QI) to this day.

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Home Health Nurse Pleads Guilty To $100M Fraud And Kickback Scheme

Home Health Care

A home health nurse has pleaded guilty, in federal court in Boston, in relation to a $100 million home health care kickback scheme. Last week, Winnie Waruru pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud; one count of health care fraud; one count of conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks; two counts of making false statements; and one count of making a false statement in a health care matter.

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The Data Home Care Agencies Should Be Tracking To Foster Growth

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. As a self-described data junkie, Stephen Tweed has lived by many mantras throughout his career in home care. When talking with Home Health Care News this week about how home care agencies can use and leverage data in order to grow, one of those mantras came to mind. . Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.

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Physician adoption of digital

Healthcare ECONOMIST

An AMA report out this month surveys physicians regarding their perceptions of digital health. This year’s survey replicates similar surveys in 2016 and 2019. Some of the key findings are: There has been an increase in the percentage of physicians that feel there are advantages in leveraging digital health solutions. The percentage of physicians who feel digital health tools are an advantage for patient care grew from 85% in 2016 to 93% in 2022, and increases were measured across all physi

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Epic Integrates with Milliman MedInsight for its Value-Based Performance Management Module

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Epic forms strategic partnership with Milliman MedInsight to offer advanced analytics to Epic customers. – As part of the strategic partnership, Milliman MedInsight will integrate with Epic’s new Value-Based Performance Management module. – Epic customers will be able to leverage the unparalleled expertise of two leading healthcare technology companies to build the foundation for population health improvement strategies.

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170+ Phishing Statistics: Open Rates, Victims and Impact

Etactics

Social engineering often takes the form of phishing scams. This type of cyber attack is one of the most prevalent and dangerous types of cybercrime. Not only is it effective for hackers to gain sensitive information, but the majority of organizations around the world face attacks regularly. Here is our list of over 170 phishing statistics. The information will help illustrate the breadth, depth, and severity of cybercrime.

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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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Morning Headlines 9/15/22

HIStalk

Epic Launches Life Sciences Program, Unifying Clinical Research with Care.