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Florida health system sues bill-sharing ministry for non-payment

Health Care Dive

Orlando Health accuses Liberty HealthShare, a faith-based medical cost-sharing organization, of telling patients to conceal their membership in the group to get charity rates for medical services.

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Primary care reimagined: A virtual front door to healthcare

Healthcare It News

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. The situation results in increased ER and urgent care usage, undiagnosed chronic conditions, unmet mental health needs, and other problems, they add.

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FTC hits UnitedHealth, LHC with another request for information on $5.4B buy

Health Care Dive

Marrying LHC, which manages a sizable share of the home health market, with Optum, one of the biggest physician groups in the country, has raised regulators’ eyebrows.

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Getting patients more engaged in their healthcare via technology

Healthcare It News

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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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Despite rosier trust fund outlook, time running out to stabilize Medicare funding, researchers warn

Health Care Dive

Though it’s tempting to interpret the recent Medicare trustees report as good news, academics are arguing lawmakers can’t wait until hospital trust fund insolvency is imminent before taking action to bolster the program.

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill Of Health

By Leah Pierson. I recently argued that we need to evaluate medical school ethics curricula. Here, I explore how ethics courses became a key component of medical education and what we do know about them. The rise of ethics education. Although ethics had been a recognized component of medical practice since Hippocrates’ time , ethics education is a more recent innovation.

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Aetna Finds Value in Home-Based Care Providers Willing, Able to Share Data

Home Health Care

Aetna is one of the most influential health care companies in the country. It’s also heavily invested in home-based care. Aman Gill, Aetna’s director of product strategy and innovation, told Home Health Care News last month that a home health acquisition was “on the table” for the company. This past week, at HHCN’s VALUE event, Aetna CMO Kyu Rhee reiterated the company’s commitment to the home as a setting of care, and explained how care delivery has changed over the course of the last few years

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States Have Leading Role to Play in Preventing Mass Shootings

The Rand Blog

As the United States grapples with how to prevent mass shootings, state governments might be best positioned to take the lead on long-term, sustainable efforts that prevent targeted violence.

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Study: Caseload, Telehealth Focus Drives Quality for Home Health Agencies

Home Health Care

With over 400,000 data points, a new study from LeadingAge could give home-based care providers a new roadmap on how to optimize performance. The yearlong study that collected information from over 1,000 agency sites found that home health agencies with registered nurse case manager caseloads under 25 have the highest star ratings for quality of care and patient satisfaction.

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Is making mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases profitable?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

COVID-19 vaccines have had a huge beneficial impact on patient health. One study found that between December 2020 and June 2021, COVID-19 vaccines saved 240,000 lives ( Vilches et al. 2022 ). The figure below shows that as the Delta and Omicron variants spread in the fall of 2021, COVID-19 vaccines prevented significant number of deaths according to Vox.

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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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‘It’s About Being in the Home’: Signify Moves Away from Telehealth

Home Health Care

As home-based care providers struggle to gather quality and reliable data across their platforms, Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) feels like it is positioned to keep growing because of the data-driven insights it does have. These data points should not only help Signify grow, but will improve outcomes for its patients, Steve Senneff, Signify’s president and CFO, said this week at the William Blair 42nd Annual Growth Stock Conference.

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Call the ‘brown doctor’: A case for language-sensitive delivery of health care

Healthy Debate

The post Call the ‘brown doctor’: A case for language-sensitive delivery of health care appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Why Home-Based Care Providers See Value in International Footprints

Home Health Care

While the majority of their services and energy is concentrated in U.S. markets, a number of home-based care providers are continuing to see the value in participating in international markets. By providing services to countries around the world — whether directly or through franchisees — several U.S.-based companies have taken advantage of demand overseas by implementing what already works at home, integrating services efficiently while expanding their brands.

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5 Traits of Successful Health Care Leaders

Healthcare Council

5 Traits of Successful Health Care Leaders How Emerging Leaders Can Cultivate Success What traits make exceptional leaders? Why are these qualities so valuable? And how can aspiring health care leaders cultivate these characteristics? I’ve had the pleasure of learning how various exceptional leaders operate over the years in my role as the senior director.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Enhabit Home Health & Hospice Finally on the Brink of Fruition

Home Health Care

The vision of Enhabit Home Health & Hospice – the soon-to-be standalone company after a spinoff from Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) – is becoming clearer by the day. Over the past two weeks, Encompass Health has given the public a look-in at its organized thoughts regarding Enhabit, which has been a long time coming at this point. In fact, Encompass Health locations have been being transitioned into Enhabit locations since February.

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Morning Headlines 6/14/22

HIStalk

Oracle’s Cloud Business Shows Momentum, Sending Shares Higher Oracle’s Q4.

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11 Marketing Strategies that Support Personalized Healthcare

Healthcare Success

More companies are making high-quality healthcare easier to access and more affordable by embracing data and technology. While healthcare has historically been among the slowest to accept new technologies, the pandemic has sped adoption. Healthcare businesses must offer leading-edge services and build patient-centric marketing strategies to differentiate themselves from competitors, boost retention and recruitment, and build meaningful relationships.

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Readers Write: Real-World Data Connects the Patient’s Past, Present, and Future: A Systems-Level Approach to Effective, Holistic Cancer Care

HIStalk

Real-World Data Connects the Patient’s Past, Present, and Future: A.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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NASHP Announces RFP to Support PDAB States — Due July 26, 2022

NASHP

NASHP Announces RFP to Support PDAB States – Due July 26, 2022 June 14, 2022 / by Jennifer Reck. The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), a non-profit, nonpartisan forum of policymakers, is issuing this request for proposal (RFP) to identify a consultant who can serve as a centralized resource, including providing educational materials, data sources and analyses, and related support, to states that have created prescription drug affordability boards (PDAB).

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 6/13/22

HIStalk

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Healthcare access, racial disparities, guns and climate – U.S. doctors are worried about some big social issues

Health Populi

Doctors heads and hearts are jammed with concerns beyond curing patients’ medical conditions: U.S. physicians are worried about big social issues, according to a Medscape survey report, Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues 2022. Topping physicians’ list of their top-five most important social issues, far above all others ranked healthcare access.

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