Fri.Sep 23, 2022

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Violence against emergency room physicians is on the rise, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Two-thirds of physicians working in emergency departments reported being assaulted in the past year alone, according to a survey.

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To help reduce maternal mortality, everyone has a role to play

Healthcare It News

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Will the healthcare labor shortage fuel more consolidation?

Health Care Dive

J.P. Morgan’s head of healthcare corporate client banking lays out trends to consider as private equity firms snap up physician groups.

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Health is Everywhere, and Telehealth Is Health – And It’s Personal

Health Populi

If health is nurtured and made where we live, work, play pray, learn, and shop, the healthcare should be everywhere. That’s the promise, increasingly a reality, of telehealth. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth.

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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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Texas Medical Association files another lawsuit over surprise billing ban

Health Care Dive

“We are, once again, asking for the law to be followed as Congress intended, and for the challenged provisions to be invalidated,” TMA’s president said.

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Synthetic Cannabinoids and the Lack of Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Carceral Settings

Bill Of Health

By Aaron Steinberg, Ada Lin, Alice Bukhman, LaToya Whiteside, and Elizabeth Matos. The inability of prisons and jails to address the drivers of and treat substance use disorders, especially during the pandemic, is leading to underexplored health ramifications for prisoners, and particularly for prisoners who identify as Black, Indigenous, or other people of color (BIPOC), who already had comparatively poorer health outcomes.

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AWS Distributes $14M to 90 Organizations Through Health Equity Initiative

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it has awarded $14 million in cloud services and technical expertise to help nearly 90 organizations around the world, ranging from startups and nonprofits to large enterprises, to address health equity challenges through the Health Equity Initiative. – AWS also introduced a new pillar of the program today to improve global equity in access to diagnostics.

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Home-Based Care Agencies, HHS Agree: Family Caregivers Need More Support

Home Health Care

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduced this week its first ever national strategy plan to support family caregivers. The comprehensive plan — officially called the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers — lays out nearly 350 actions the federal government needs to take in order to make the lives of family caregivers easier as more adults choose to age at home.

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Geneial Receives $2.3M NIH Grant for Decentralized Biomedical Data Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Digital health company Geneial announces a $2.3M grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to fund the development of their secure, decentralized platform. – Geneial will use $2.3M NIH award to build private, decentralized data platform facilitating research of genetic diseases. Geneial’s platform will connect researchers of rare genetic diseases with relevant data while preserving patient privacy.

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CenterWell Home Health President Susan Benoit Discusses Value-Based Care, Partnership Strategies

Home Health Care

The home health leader of one of the nation’s largest health insurers believes the industry will need to be ready to move toward value-based care. Meanwhile, critics of Medicare Advantage (MA) should start to spend time with payers to understand what their needs are and what is driving up their costs. In turn, home health providers can form a clearer picture of where they fit in as a solution.

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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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American Diabetes Association Launches Amputation Prevention Alliance

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The American Diabetes Association® announced a new initiative designed to address the urgent public health challenge of preventable amputation called the Amputation Prevention Alliance. Over 135,000 amputations occur every year in the United States, with the majority of those procedures being preventable, but due to challenges in accessing quality care, patients are forced into unnecessary amputations and even death. – The Amputation Prevention Alliance’s work

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Transactions: Trinity Health Makes MercyOne Deal Official; Canyon Home Care & Hospice Expands Reach

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. TrinityHealth officially acquires MercyOne. TrinityHealth, a faith-based nonprofit health system, has completed its acquisition of MercyOne Health. The Michigan-based health system agreed to purchase MercyOne in April from CommonSpirit Health, a joint operating agreement between Trinity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives. .

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How MEDITECH is redefining the gender balance in organizational leadership

Meditech

It is no secret that historically, women have been underrepresented in corporate leadership positions and decision-making processes. This is despite the fact that companies that boast a higher representation of women on their leadership team and boards are shown to outperform organizations that do not. At MEDITECH, women fill the roles of CEO, COO, CFO and legal counsel, and the company has three female vice presidents.

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How Home Care Providers Can Avoid Live-In Care Legal Landmines

Home Health Care

Home care companies that shy away from offering live-in caregiver services are often trying to avoid the potential legal risk it may bring to their doorsteps. However, when providers do want to offer this service, it’s important to be informed about how to deliver it correctly in order to avoid legal landmines. “My view on live-in and extended shift … is that the issue you have is setting it up the right way,” Angelo Spinola, home health, home care and hospice chair at the law firm Polsine

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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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SNF QRP FAQs for FY 2023

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. An update to the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document is now available. This document has been updated to reflect the finalized policies for the SNF QRP in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 and includes other useful resources available to providers.

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VOICES: Maxwell Healthcare’s Jennifer Maxwell on How to Prepare for 2023??

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by Maxwell Healthcare Associates. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Maxwell Healthcare Associates CEO and co-founder Jennifer Maxwell to learn how home-based care providers can automate and optimize their current technology to build momentum going into 2023. She stresses the importance of transparency and clarity as new processes are rolled out, and she explains how leadership can best prepare its staff for these kinds of transitions.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

Drug pull incentives and innovation. Symmetrical 4-set and 5-set Venn diagrams ICER white paper on rare disease. COVID-19, bullying and cyber-bullying. Rx provisions in the IRA.

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5 proven ways to attract top physicians to your community

CHQ Healthcare

Like virtually every healthcare organization today, Marshfield Clinic Health System is facing the challenge of how to attract and hire the physicians and advanced practice providers it needs. This can be even harder when recruiting for rural facilities. Marshfield’s system includes more than 60 locations throughout Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. “Every one of our locations is a rural location,” says Jennifer Waters-Plemon, CPRP, assistant manager of physician and APC recruitment and onboarding fo

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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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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN Nursing Home COVID-19 Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending September 11, 2022. Comparing the September 11 th data to the September 4 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate remained unchanged from previous week. Residents with booster doses decreased 0.5% from previous week.

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Caris Life Sciences Integrates with Flatiron Health for Molecular Testing

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Caris Life Sciences , the leading molecular science and technology company, announced their partnership with Flatiron Health to fully integrate Caris’ molecular testing portfolio with Flatiron’s OncoEMR ®, a cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) tool. – This partnership streamlines clinical workflows for physicians, delivering critical results directly at the point of care to help them make better treatment decisions for their patients.

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Important Updates on the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Swingtech sends informational messages to hospices related to the Quality Reporting Program (QRP) on a quarterly basis. Their latest outreach communication can be found on the HQRP Requirements and Best Practices webpage. If you want to receive Swingtech’s quarterly emails, then add or update the email addresses to which these messages are sent by sending an email to QRPHelp@swingtech.com.

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Kaufman Hall Acquires Claro Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC (Kaufman Hall) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire healthcare management consulting firm Claro Healthcare. – Claro Healthcare is the leading clinical documentation, hospital operations, and mid-revenue cycle improvement platform, blending technology, professional services, and domain expertise to deliver significant return on investment to providers across financial, quality, and compliance metrics. – As

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Lessons Learned for Digital Women’s Health: Rock Health Summit 2022

Health Advances

By Shweta Gohil, Senior Analyst. With a clinical practice and public health background I am passionate about improving population health, specifically women’s health, through digital innovations. I am pursuing this passion as part of the digital health practice within Health Advances. The Rock Health Summit piqued my interest because of discussions led by women’s health focused VCs and experts.

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Transparency Ecosystem in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Paul Ketchel, CEO of MDsave. Cost transparency is a driving force in the American market. Whether consumers are looking to purchase a latte, a plane ticket, or surgery, they increasingly expect to pay an “out-the-door” price– something that includes all labor and materials as well as the finished product or service. When polled, 66% of Americans indicated that they would shop for care if prices were publicly disclosed.

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Putin's Latest Threats, U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Disaster Recovery: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on Russia's troop mobilization and the ongoing war in Ukraine, U.S. policy in the Middle East, building a more diverse teacher workforce, and more.

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Bicycle Health Nabs $5M to Scale Its Virtual Opioid Use  Disorder Treatment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Bicycle Health, a Boston, MA-based provider of virtual opioid addiction treatment secures $5M from Cobalt Ventures to further accelerate the expansion of its telehealth opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. – The additional capital extends Bicycle Health’s Series B venture capital financing, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $88M.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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News 9/23/22

HIStalk

Top News VA Deputy Secretary Donald Remy tells Congress that.

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IRF QRP AIF Table for Reporting Assessment-Based QM and Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements and Data Collection and Final Submission Deadlines Affecting FY 2025

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. An update to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Annual Increase Factor (AIF) Table for Reporting Assessment-Based quality measures (QMs) and standardized patient assessment data elements to CMS is now available. This document has been updated to reflect the data elements that will be required to meet the AIF minimum data completion threshold for FY 2025.

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 9/22/22

HIStalk

Plenty of people have returned to a level of.

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Five-Star Preview Reports Available September 26, 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on (Monday) September 26, 2022. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the ‘Folders’ button, then select ‘My Inbox’ or the Inbox beginning with ‘LTC’ and the state abbreviation followed by a facility ID.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.