Health Care Dive
MAY 11, 2022
Searches for surgeries like orthopaedics, general surgery and cardiovascular procedures are above pre-pandemic levels, providing another data point to indicate that demand is recovering, according to a Needham report.
Healthcare It News
MAY 11, 2022
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Health Care Dive
MAY 11, 2022
Leaving Arkansas and Colorado won't have a material effect on the company's income, and should reduce the insurtech's overhead in areas like compliance work and statutory reporting, executives said.
Healthcare It News
MAY 11, 2022
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Health Care Dive
MAY 11, 2022
The combination brings together two separate regional health systems, one with operations in the Midwest and the other with a four-state reach in the South.
Bill Of Health
MAY 11, 2022
By April Dinwoodie. I took a long, slow, deep breath when I heard Amy Coney Barrett, the adoptive mother of Black children, describe adoption as a “frictionless alternative to abortion.” As a Black/bi-racial transracially adopted person in mid-life, adoption has been and continues to be many things, but “frictionless” isn’t one of them. . On the contrary, being adopted into a white family and raised in a majority white community has been filled with the tension between the realities of what I w
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Bill Of Health
MAY 11, 2022
By Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander. In the United States, the practices of adoption are rarely oriented towards the goals of anti-racism, child-centeredness, and reproductive justice. In this article, I present a model that strives to fulfill these goals. At Pact, an Adoption Alliance , the non-profit organization where I work as agency and clinical director, our mission is to serve adopted youth of color, and our approach to domestic infant adoption emerges from 30 years of serving Black, Latinx,
HIT Consultant
MAY 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – Hyundai Motor Group (the Group), the global scale mobility provider including Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation has partnered with tech-powered pharmacy NowRx on a pilot project to explore autonomous vehicles for medication delivery. – The pilot project will test and develop automated dispatch, fleet management, and other last-mile optimization technologies for same-day prescription delivery, with the possibility of testing autonomous vehicle technolog
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MAY 11, 2022
In the past months, many hospitals and other health care providers have noted the steep rise in the cost of hiring nurses. Many providers saw double digit year-on-year growth of nurse wages. For instance, some health systems in Louisiana saw a 16% rise in labor costs between 2021 and 2020. In large part, much of the additional cost was due to the rise of travelling nurses.
HIT Consultant
MAY 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) today announced the launch of Accrete Health Partners , a digital holding company, that will function to further expand the organization’s digital health services as well as new and ongoing programs and partnerships. – New digital holding company will coalesce a continuum of leading solutions and services to connect the technology, data and people needed to streamline healthcare and ultimately help improve outcomes.
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Home Health Care
MAY 11, 2022
The average age of an Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) patient is about 78. The current age of the oldest baby boomer is about 77, which suggests that a whole new population could be entering its census in the near-term future. On top of that, elective procedures are returning to pre-pandemic levels, representing about 8% of the company’s home health admissions.
HIT Consultant
MAY 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – The Health Management Academy (The Academy) has partnered with Nuance , a Microsoft company, to launch The AI Collaborative, which brings together senior leaders from the nation’s Leading Health Systems (LHS) who are deploying these technologies in the clinical and operational settings, as well as planning for future use-cases. – The collaborative brings together physician executives from leading hospital systems and other key stakeholders across the healthcar
GoMoHealth
MAY 11, 2022
Guest blog by Erica Piancone. After two years of navigating through a pandemic, its variants and its ever-changing restrictions, many companies have decided that it’s time to have their staff return to the office as cases decrease and life starts to return to its previous state. For many this can be quite scary! It’s one thing to leave your established safe zone to quickly run an errand.
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 11, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. TMF Networks has posted 2 Claims-Based QM Tip Sheets: Percentage of Short-Stay Residents Who Have Had an Outpatient Emergency Department Visit. This claims-based measure tip sheet provides an overview of the measure, including questions to ask, monitoring ideas and resource links.
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Healthcare Leadership
MAY 11, 2022
The following is a guest post from Dr. Lonn Myronuk – the Clinical Documentation Physician Informatics Lead at Island Health. He is also a Consulting Psychiatrist at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (since 1998), a Peer Mentor for the Practice Support Program since 2013 and a Clinical Instructor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Practice since 2014.
Home Health Care
MAY 11, 2022
The highly fragmented home health industry has turned providers into commodities, at least in the eyes of Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations. Because there are so many providers looking to make managed care inroads, the rates home health operators receive from MA sources are typically far below what they get from fee-for-service Medicare. That sense of parity exists for small and large home health providers alike as well.
HIT Consultant
MAY 11, 2022
Carina Edwards, CEO of Quil Health. Even as we (hopefully) approach the tail-end of the latest COVID-19 wave, one growing healthcare challenge continues to worsen: clinician burnout. Nurses, physicians, schedulers, and other members of care-provider teams continue to post rising rates of burnout. They’re feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated due to factors such as hectic workplaces and schedules, extended workloads, and excessive administrative tasks.
NASHP
MAY 11, 2022
State-Based Marketplace Leadership. NASHP operates the State Health Exchange Leadership Network, a consortium of the state leaders and staff operating the State-based Marketplaces. California. Jessica Altman. Executive Director. Covered California. Colorado. Kevin Patterson. Chief Executive Officer. Connect for Health Colorado. Connecticut. James Michel.
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Briggs Healthcare
MAY 11, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The World Health Organization (WHO) posted its first ever Global Report on Infection Prevention and Control – Executive Summary on May 6, 2022. This is a 30-page document. “This document provides a detailed summary of the content of the WHO global report on infection prevention and control (IPC).
HIT Consultant
MAY 11, 2022
David Blumenthal, M.D. What You Should Know: – David Blumenthal, M.D., will step down as president of the Commonwealth Fund at the end of 2022, after 10 years as head of the health care policy foundation. – Under his leadership, the Commonwealth Fund has implemented several new initiatives, including a major effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare practice, policy, and outcomes and an expansion of work in healthcare coverage and access and international health
HIStalk
MAY 11, 2022
Health Catalyst Acquires ARMUS; Bolsters Clinical Quality Offering and Outsourced.
Home Health Care
MAY 11, 2022
The electronic visit verification (EVV) implementation process could hit a significant roadblock this summer if a Congressional bill that eliminates the use of GPS is passed by federal lawmakers. The next iteration of the landmark 21st Century Cures Act would not allow EVV systems to use GPS in order to protect privacy. If the bill passes as written, millions of dollars already invested by home health providers and state governments is at risk of being wasted.
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HIStalk
MAY 11, 2022
Kevin Coloton, MBA, MPT is founder and CEO of Curation.
HIT Consultant
MAY 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – Turquoise Health , an end-to-end healthcare pricing platform, today announced a $20M Series A investment led by existing investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Bessemer, Box Group , and new investor Tiger Global. – Turquoise Health will use the funding to continue making transparent pricing ubiquitous for all healthcare stakeholders: payers, providers, and patients.
Health Populi
MAY 11, 2022
We’ve hit a great “healthcare trust” recession around the world, translating into lower multiple points of medical ‘facts’ and pseudoscience, lower adherence to therapeutic regimens, and clinician burnout that has compromised medicine as the team sport it ideally should be. And that’s just one of five inconvenient truths unearthed in The Truth About Our Relationships with Health , the first in a series of papers that MRM is developing to, in their words, ̶
HIT Consultant
MAY 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – SimpliFed , the telehealth platform dedicated to democratizing access to baby feeding services, announced it has closed $6M in its seed round, led by Morningside Ventures and The Venture Collective , with participation from NY Ventures, Elizabeth Street Ventures , Waterline Ventures , and 3CC. – SimpliFed provides virtual breastfeeding and baby feeding support fully covered by your health plan from pregnancy to weaning.
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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.
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