Health Care Dive
APRIL 5, 2022
National Nurses United argued before a federal appeals court on Monday that an existing temporary emergency standard isn't enough to protect healthcare workers from the ongoing threat of COVID-19.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 5, 2022
Advocate Aurora Enterprises on Tuesday announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, which develops remote monitoring technology and personal emergency response systems. WHY IT MATTERS. A subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, AAE invests in and sometimes buys consumer health and wellness companies to expand the Illinois health system's capabilities beyond traditional clinical care.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 5, 2022
The Florida locations will be the first Walmart Health centers to use a medical record built by health IT software giant Epic, as part of a partnership announced last year.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 5, 2022
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 5, 2022
Although the system has withdrawn a proposal for three suburban surgery centers, it did secure recommendations for conditional approval for two other large-scale projects.
NASHP
APRIL 5, 2022
Understanding Hospital Costs. As health care spending continues to rise — with the largest proportion of those expenditures on hospital services — states and other purchasers are seeking to better understand and address hospitals’ costs. To support these efforts, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) has developed an interactive Hospital Cost Tool and accompanying resources.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Bill Of Health
APRIL 5, 2022
By Sarah Hashkes. When we talk about microdosing psychedelics, it’s important we have a mutual understanding of its definition to be able to conduct accurate research, promote regulations, and educate the wider population. This article will look at three main questions and ambiguities regarding the term “microdosing psychedelics” and suggest a definition that would help promote coherence in the field. 1.
Home Health Care
APRIL 5, 2022
When Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) invested $1 billion into VillageMD , it was largely viewed as a way for Walgreens to enhance its primary care approach, especially in underserved communities. But in July of 2020, on the day the investment was announced, VillageMD CMO Dr. Clive Fields made it known that a large part of his company’s strategy involved the home as a setting of care – something Walgreens was more than aware of.
The Rand Blog
APRIL 5, 2022
Is college still the best path to the middle class? It's complicated. College credentials still do lead many to increased earnings, but the rapid increases in college costs, coupled with a strong labor market, have made the payoff for a college degree no longer a sure thing.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts. As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed digital tools to keep the worried well out of hospitals, to keep beds open for COVID-19 patients, and to support and manage conditions like pregnancy from the safety of patients’ homes.
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Healthcare Leadership
APRIL 5, 2022
Blog Post by Joe Babaian. During this time of global uncertainty, it’s easy to skip right past a lot of what matters – in times of crisis or otherwise. Let’s take some time to breathe and remind each other of the foundation we rest upon. Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Eleos Health has announced a $20 million Series A round, co-led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures, bringing their total raise to $28 million. – Eleos Health is a behavioral health application for voice AI, operating ambiently in the background of mental health clinician-patient conversations. It’s in production use with 20+ care providers and health plans, with a goal of unlocking up to 30% more mental health care provider capacity as the U.S. grappl
Home Health Care
APRIL 5, 2022
The future of home-based care will very likely be dominated by managed care, according to a 40-year veteran of the space. Mark Heaney, CEO and chairman of DTRT Health Acquisition Group (Nasdaq: DTRTU), also predicts that the consolidation efforts made by home-based care providers won’t slow down in 2022. Heaney covered these topics and more at Home Health Care News’ Capital+Strategy event in Washington, D.C., last week.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Rock Health report reveals Q1 2022 digital health funding closed with $6.0B across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M. – Q1 2022 digital health funding was significantly behind Q4 2021’s $7.3B and the trailing twelve month quarterly average of $7.1B. Digital health funding reached a total of $6B in Q1 2022 across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M, according to Rock Health , a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health.
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Home Health Care
APRIL 5, 2022
Amedisys completes a series of acquisitions. Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) recently completed a number of acquisitions. The company announced that it has completed its purchase of Evolution Health and certain home health assets from AssistedCare Home Health and AssistedCare of the Carolinas. . Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content. Individual Membership $400 per year.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This seminar will focus on the current staffing crisis in our nation’s nursing homes and its impact on worker health and resident quality of care and quality of life. The seminar will also address a number of proposed policy and practice recommendations designed to significantly improve working conditions for nursing home staff in the areas of training, wages, career ladders, and workplace safety.
NASHP
APRIL 5, 2022
Data will be critical to informing effective cost-containment policy options for states. Washington DC—Hospitals provide critical care for many consumers across the states. However, as health care spending continues to rise for consumers and payers—with the largest proportion of those expenditures on hospital services—states and other purchasers are seeking to better understand and address hospitals’ costs.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 5, 2022
The Public Health Service Act ( PHSA ) in 1992, created a program to allow hospitals providing care for underserved communities to be able to access discounted drugs. The program–known as the 340B Drug Pricing Program , has been described as follows: …[The] law requires pharmaceutical manufacturers participating in the Medicaid program to enter into a second agreement with the Secretary of HHS [Health and Human Services] — called a pharmaceutical pricing agreement (PPA) — under which
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Find guidance to protect you, your family and your community at COVID.gov , a new one-stop resource for the latest information on COVID-19. It’s a website/toolkit for the overall community in the county in which you live.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (Azalea Health or Azalea), a provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions, today launched Azalea Apps Marketplace, a one-stop app library of approved third-party vendors that are integrated with Azalea Health. – The Azalea Apps Marketplace allows users to search through a library of third-party applications that are connected with Azalea’s application suite.
Healthcare Performance
APRIL 5, 2022
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Clarify Health , a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, announced today that it secured $150 million in Series D financing. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round and was joined by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock and Memorial Hermann Health System , along with existing investors Insight Partners , Spark Capital , KKR , Aspenwood Ventures , Rivas Capital , and Sigmas Group. – This newest round of funding comes on the heels
NASHP
APRIL 5, 2022
The post Understanding NASHP’s Hospital Cost Tool: Commercial Breakeven appeared first on The National Academy for State Health Policy.
HIStalk
APRIL 5, 2022
Clarify Health Closes $150M Series D Funding to Unlock the.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Join (NETEC) Wednesday, April 6th, at 12 pm CST for the NETEC COVID-19 Webinar Series presentation, Respiratory Protection Regulation: Navigating Standards and Protecting Workers. Presenters Jennifer Kim and Lana Nieves from OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, join members of Nebraska Medicine’s Infection Control Assessment and Promotion (ICAP) Team, Rebecca Martinez, Josette McConville, and Sarah Stream
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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.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
Dr. George Busby, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Allelica. The promise of personalized medicine is a world in which interventions, screening, and therapeutics are targeted to those most likely to get the disease. Polygenic risk scores will help society reach this ambition by accurately assessing the contribution that one’s DNA makes to disease risk. .
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The new and modified sections of the IRF-PAI, effective October 1, 2023 proposed for the IRF QRP in the FY 2023 IRF PPS Proposed Rule (CMS-1767-P), can be found in the Downloads section on the IRF-PAI and IRF-PAI Manual webpage. The direct link to the draft 31-page IRF-PAI v4.1 (effective October 1, 2023) can be found here.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Cardiologs , a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) cardiology diagnostics, today announced the results of a new clinical study that showed Cardiologs’ deep learning AI dramatically reduces inconclusive results returned by the latest Apple Watch ECG companion app (Apple ECG 2.0) while maintaining performance (sensitivity and specificity). – The study included 101 patients in a typical tertiary care hospital who were assessed for atrial arrhythmia (AA).
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On Wednesday, March 30, 2022, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra hosted a roundtable with stakeholders to discuss the nursing home reforms President Biden announced on February 18 and reiterated during his State of the Union address. The roundtable discussed nursing home staffing requirements, ideas for workforce development and retention, and COVID-19 booster shots.
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.
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