Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
In a recent quarterly report, Moody's Investors Service called out hospital labor shortages as having a potential material impact on procedures in 2022, even as the omicron surge begins to decline.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Just over 1 in 4 people over 50 in the U.S. use at least one mobile health app, and 56% of older people have never used one. Among seven mhealth tools, the most commonly-used is to track exercise. Among older people who do not use health apps, half say it is because of their lack of interest, we learn from the research in Mobile Health App Use Among Older Adults from the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging, sponsored by AARP.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Under the terms of the deal, Labcorp will manage Ascension's hospital-based laboratories in 10 states, and acquire select assets of the St. Louis-based system's outreach laboratory business.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Home-based care workers are generally underpaid. That’s something almost everyone in the industry can agree on. Getting them more money, however, is another issue. Regardless, the labor situation is worsening. A survey published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Wednesday found that Americans strongly support raised wages for direct care workers. Specifically, 73% of survey respondents believed that direct care workers were underpaid after they were given wage details.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
While a software bill of materials could improve supply chain security, users still download vulnerable versions of software.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
The COVID-19 emergency undoubtedly forced the health care sector to reimagine care delivery. In this environment, home-based care and senior care services began to receive more attention than ever from venture capitalists (VCs). In recent years, VC firms have poured over $2.5 billion into various senior care and home-based care startups, according to Crunchbase data.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
What You Should Know: – LifeOmic , a software company that leverages the cloud, machine learning and mobile devices to power precision health and wellness solutions announced it has acquired Bavard , a Utah-based conversational artificial intelligence (AI) company offering intelligent digital assistants and platforms. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – The acquisition comes as AI technology has experienced widespread adoption in the health care space, a trend
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Operating in the Arctic is inherently expensive. Despite this, it could be critical that the United States make the necessary investments to ensure a robust ability to operate in the Arctic to withstand Russian challenges there.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
What You Should Know: – Respira Labs , a Latina-led medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, today announces it has closed $2.8M to continue to develop and produce its clinical-grade respiratoryhealth wearable that uses acoustic resonance to assess lung function and identify changes in lung air volume, which is especially critical for COPD, COVID-19 and asthma patients. – Respira Labs raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Zentynel Frontier Investments with
NASHP
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
How States are Administering Opioid Settlement Funds. States are beginning to receive lump sums of money as the result of independent and multi-state settlement agreements with pharmaceutical companies and others involved in the distribution and sale of prescription opioids. With broad discretion as to how these funds may be used, state legislatures are acting to coordinate and direct the uses and disbursement of settlement dollars.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
What You Should Know: – Radial Analytics , a Concord, MA-based company optimizing patient care transitions with real-time decision-support solutions for payers and providers, today announced it has raised $3M in funding led by Initialized Capital. – The company plans to utilize the funds to grow our team and build on our growing customer traction with Medicare Advantage plans and hospital systems in value-based care delivery contracts.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released details on.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Signify Health Inc. (NYSE: SGFY) announced its first acquisition on Thursday. The company signed an agreement to acquire Caravan Health, an accountable care organization (ACO) manager, for the price tag of $250 million. “It doesn’t happen very often in this complex world of interests and companies, etcetera, that you find [an organization] that has such a great complementarity to what you do, virtually no overlap and then the ability to get going and work together from the close of the tra
Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
California indoor mask mandate to end next week. More government involvement in clinical trials ? SAFER electronic health records. Innovation and nails. Cost offset literature. Substance abuse and COVID-19.
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HIStalk
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Top News AndHealth — which offers app-based, employer-sponsored treatment, coaching,
Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Admin. February 10, 2022. Is it a wise decision to outsource medical billing services? The modern healthcare ecosystem in the US keeps physicians busy in providing quality care to patients. In the middle of a hectic routine, it is not an easy task to submit claims to the payers accurately. You may need to outsource medical billing services for your practice.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Signify Health announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Caravan Health , a leader in enabling accountable care organizations (ACOs) to succeed in value-based care payment. Together, the companies form one of the largest networks of at-risk providers in the U.S. – Together, Signify Health and Caravan Health will be better positioned to enable organizations to manage larger populations covered by value-based arrangements and to drive more coordina
Etactics
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
The CMMC Accreditation Body (AB) kicked off a new year of Town Hall events on January 25, 2022. Given the updated DoD guidance for CMMC 2.0, there was a key theme surrounding this town hall. How will their mandate move forward in 2022 with final rulemaking not expect for another 6 to 21 months? Before the meeting, the AB outlined and provided updates on six actions it’s currently taking to prepare the ecosystem… Installation of professional staff to handle day to day operations Training Certifie
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Vie Healthcare
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
In these audiograms, taken from Episode 13 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience , Lisa Miller is joined by Luis Martinez to discuss purchased services multi-year strategy. Contract Expiry Dates Didn’t Change Because Of The Pandemic. One of the biggest challenges hospitals face is that they put projects on hold during the pandemic. For instance, contract renewals.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Clay Ritchey, MBA is CEO of Verato of McLean, VA.
Etactics
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Between 2016 and 2021, the insurance industry in the United States received $185.6 billion in revenue. They saw $31.5 billion in profits over the same timeframe. This covers services such as… Surgeries Dental care Medication prescriptions Behavioral therapy Cancer treatment Transplants Physical therapy. via IBISWorld. It’s quite an extensive list. But for the sake of this blog, let’s focus on physical therapy.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Raghu Bukkapatnam, Chief Growth Officer at Q-Centrix. The past two years have been fraught with difficulties for the healthcare industry. Labor shortages have negatively impacted hospitals and health systems nationwide, intensifying the burden on healthcare workers already strained. In fact, the latest job report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown healthcare employment down by nearly half a million since February 2020.
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HIStalk
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Ideawake Closes Investment with HealthX Ventures to Democratize Innovation on.
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