Healthcare It News

MAY 25, 2022

Building on its effort to battle social isolation and support aging-in-place, the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) is delivering voice-operated smart technology into the homes of more than 800 older adults. NYSOFA is working with local offices for the aging and partners to identify older adults who would most benefit from the technology: ElliQ by Intuition Robotics, which is described by the company as a proactive and empathetic care companion.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 25, 2022

The complaint alleges the nonprofit system used a number of anticompetitive practices to inflate healthcare prices at a cost to Wisconsin businesses.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

Srulik Dvorsky, TailorMed CEO and Founder. New patients at a cancer center in Michigan receive a 79-page handbook when their treatments commence. The handbook includes needed advice on what to eat and the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. One double-sided page features information about how to navigate the financial aspects of cancer treatment, including who to contact for help with medical bills.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 25, 2022

Civica, which was founded in 2018 by a group of hospitals to lower pharmaceutical prices, has tapped Ned McCoy to serve as its new president and chief executive officer, effective June 1.

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MAY 25, 2022

Kristy Berry (left) and Carly Stockdale (right). What You Should Know: – BestLife Holdings, a portfolio of personalized preventative healthcare and age management solutions, announces its formation with a combined equity round of over $50M. Notable investors have partnered with BestLife including PrimeTime Partners’ founders, Abby Levy, the co-founder of Thrive Global with Arianna Huffington, and Alan Patricof, founder of Greycroft Partners and Apax Partners, who also joined the board as a

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Health Care Dive

MAY 25, 2022

One day after the U.S. began releasing supplies of an approved Bavarian Nordic shot, Moderna said it's beginning development of its own vaccine against the virus.

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MAY 25, 2022

A 2019 IRS notice expanded the list of medications and health services that some plans may cover pre-deductible, including those used to treat chronic conditions.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – This week at AWS Summit, Washington D.C., Deloitte discussed its use of AWS Private 5G and Wickr secure technology to enable the National Emergency Tele-Critical Care Network (NETCCN) – a virtual rapid health assistance solution that allows defense teams to connect with medical teams remotely. NETCCN is managed by the US Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), which is an integral part of the U.S.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 25, 2022

As alluring as a calendar filled with three-day weekends may seem, research shows that short school weeks can have educational and health risks for students, but also benefits for them and for school districts that make the change. Do the benefits of the condensed week outweigh the costs?

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – BeeKeeperAI , a company powering AI-powered solutions that will help to redefine the future of healthcare today announced its expanded collaboration with Microsoft. – The collaboration will allow algorithm developers and healthcare data stewards to access BeeKeeperAI, operating in the Microsoft Azure confidential computing (ACC) environment, through the Azure Marketplace.

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Healthcare Leadership

MAY 25, 2022

On the next HCLDR Tweetchat we welcome special guest hosts: Children’s Healthcare Canada @ChildHealthCan and UNICEF Canada @UNICEFCanada They will be leading us in a fascinating discussion about the impact of climate change on children’s health. Lisa Wolff, Director of Policy and Research at UNICEF Canada along with Emily Gruenwoldt, President & CEO at Children’s Healthcare Canada have put together the following blog to provide background, context, and additional informatio

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Home Health Care

MAY 25, 2022

For a while now, home care giant BrightStar Care has gone above and beyond the standard franchise model. It introduced senior living communities into its network to assist seniors with their care transitions while maintaining those clients. Recently, it has launched its new “care homes,” a twist on those senior living communities. BrightStar has always had its medical staffing segment, too.

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Bill Of Health

MAY 25, 2022

By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research. As a federal program to serve meals to all U.S. public school students during the COVID-19 pandemic ends on June 30 , the consequences of unpaid school meal debt will resurface for the millions of students nationwide facing food insecurity. New data released on LawAtlas.org capture details of state unpaid school meal policies and reveals sparse and variable protections for students who cannot pay for meals at school.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 25, 2022

The post National licensure, better virtual-care needed to fix system ‘close to the precipice’: CMA president appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Home Health Care

MAY 25, 2022

Though staffing remains the top challenge for the home-based care industry, providers agree that there isn’t one universal panacea. . Instead, there are various approaches that have yielded results for different agencies across the country. One of these approaches is making sure that potential clinicians and caregivers know about the job opportunities that exist within home-based care, Mandy Tilton, chief nursing officer at Bayada Home Health Care, said during a panel discussion at Home Health C

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2022

With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Morning Consult conducted the poll for the APA in March and April 2022 among 2,210 U.S. adults.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MAY 25, 2022

Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in the US, just behind heart failure. Yet in recent years, we have seen that improved prevention, screening and treatment has helped to avert 3.5 million deaths in the US over the past 3 decades. Despite these gains, we do see that cancer death rates are highly uneven across racial and ethnic groups. A study by Lawrence et al. (2022) , did find that–consistent with trends in the broader population–mortality rates among Blacks have declined in

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2022

We’re all about food and cars and our technology, looking at the 2022 Axios Harris Poll 2022 Reputation Rankings published this week. I’ve curated the logos of the top 30 companies based on the Poll’s survey of 33,096 U.S. adults conducted in March and April 2022. The survey assessed peoples’ awareness of companies that either “excel or falter in society,” according to the study methodology.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

MAY 25, 2022

Recently, Health Affairs Forefront, published a post by Dan L. Crippen, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and currently a Healthcare Leaddership Council consultant, that should be a catalyst for discussion on a critical element of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s future direction. In his post, Dr. Crippen enters the debate over whether models being tested by CMMI should have mandatory or voluntary participation on the part of healthcare providers.

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Health Policy News

MAY 25, 2022

On December 26, 2017, Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught mistakenly injected a patient with a paralyzing drug instead of the anti-anxiety sedative Versed that was ordered by the provider. The patient.

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HIStalk

MAY 25, 2022

Ed Marx, MS is CEO of Divurgent of Virginia Beach,

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Healthcare Performance

MAY 25, 2022

HIPAA risks change constantly – and so must our response to them.

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HIStalk

MAY 25, 2022

How Automation Can Transform Healthcare DeliveryBy Lisa Weber, MSHA, MEA.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 25, 2022

Northwell Health, New York's largest health system, was frustrated with the limited capabilities of its existing occupational and employee health IT, and was forced to develop work-around processes to overcome technology deficits. THE PROBLEM. In order to manage both employee health and the provision of services to other employer clients, the health system was using a combination of different vendor and homegrown technologies.

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HIStalk

MAY 25, 2022

Drummond Group Launches New Program, Pilot Initiative for Pediatric Health.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 25, 2022

The proposal, signaling growing support for expansion among state lawmakers after years of opposition, would add 600,000 low-income adults to the safety net health insurance program.

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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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Home Health Care

MAY 25, 2022

More than two years after the implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), home health operators are still trying to make sense of its bottom-line impact. Initial deep dives into PDGM have suggested the overhaul contributed to home health spending being down as much as 21.6%. New data from consulting firm SimiTree further confirms that total home health reimbursement has gone down since the implementation of PDGM, according to Director of Data Christine Lang.

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Healthcare Performance

MAY 25, 2022

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Pleno , a multi-omics startup, is emerging out of stealth with a $15M Pre-Series A financing and Greg Lucier as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Founded by Pieter van Rooyen, a well-known biotech engineer who built and sold his last company, Edico Genome, to Illumina for $100M. Edico’s Dragen technology has become a staple in genetics research. – Pleno’s Hypercoding technology has the potential to revolutionize biological target detection for cl

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 25, 2022

Last month, in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. , the Supreme Court denied a petitioner’s right to emotional distress damages in a private action brought under federal anti-discrimination laws. The Petitioner, a woman who is both deaf and legally blind, alleged that when she requested an American Sign Language interpreter at Premier Rehab Keller (“Premier”), the clinic denied her request, resulting in her inability to receive treatment.

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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.