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HIMSS Global Health Equity Week takes place October 24-28

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Centene’s string of settlements: $14M deal reached in Massachusetts

Health Care Dive

The multimillion-dollar deal is the settlement Centene has reached over allegations it overcharged for prescription drugs and services.

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77% of Healthcare Apps Contain Vulnerabilities, Report Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Veracode recently unveiled key findings on the healthcare sector’s cybersecurity efforts from its annual State of Software Security v12 report. The analysis of data from 20 million scans across half a million applications shows that healthcare is leading the way for fix rate of software security flaws, at 27%, which is higher than any other sectors, including financial services, retail, and government. – But there is still work to be done, as 77% of appl

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Alliance Homecare Rolling Out ‘Model That Doesn’t Exist’ With Private Nursing Arm Allia

Home Health Care

Over the years, Alliance Homecare has made a name for itself by serving the New York market with a unique set of care offerings. Now with a new CEO at helm, the company is ready to forge ahead to its next phase. Four months ago, Alliance announced that Nancy Gillette had been promoted to CEO and chief caregiver. Gregory Solometo, founder and former CEO, will now serve as chairman of the board.

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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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On this Orange Shirt Day: What has changed?

Healthy Debate

The post On this Orange Shirt Day: What has changed? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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ShiftMed Hopes Uber Health Partnership Will Help Home-Based Care Workers, Providers

Home Health Care

ShiftMed, the post-acute care staffing company based in McLean, Virginia, has partnered with Uber’s (NYSE: UBER) health care arm. The partnership will ideally ensure that its 100,000-plus contracted workers have dependable transportation. “I think everybody’s well aware that there’s a critical shortage of nurses and nursing aides, so we really wanted to enable the nurses to be able to serve more patients and improve the quality of work,” Jacob Laufer, ShiftMed’s chief operating offic

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Medical debt. Explaining Aaron Rodgers back-to-back MVPs ? Amazon and One Medical. Judge rules on 340B. 2/3 of MD are experiencing burnout.

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American Investment in Mideast to Stay Focused on Larger Economies Amid Ukraine War

The Rand Blog

China is often viewed as the economic powerhouse in the Middle East, but the United States has extensive trade, investment, and financial links. U.S. economic involvement in the Middle East is likely to stay focused on larger markets in line with economic growth, without dramatic shifts in location or magnitude.

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Proposed Amendments Would Make Foreign Investment in India’s Biological Resources Easier

Bill Of Health

By Aparajita Lath. Indian lawmakers are currently debating proposed amendments that would make it easier for foreign investors to research and develop products from native biological resources, such as plants. India is one of the 17 internationally recognized mega biodiversity countries , and hosts four of the 35 globally recognized biodiversity hotspots.

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Study Confirms mRNA Vaccines Protect Against COVID-19 During Pregnancy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The first large, real-world study of the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy found these vaccines, especially two initial doses followed by a booster, are effective in protecting against serious disease in expectant mothers whether the shots are administered before or during pregnancy. – Pregnant women were excluded from COVID-19 mRNA vaccine clinical trials, so this new study fills a significant knowledge gap, providing strong evidence th

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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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#JHMChat: Capturing Your Value Beyond RVUs

Hospital Medicine

If you were designing the perfect hospitalist job description, what would be the optimal workload to achieve high productivity? This was the crux of the discussion during September’s JHMChat. The conversation featured Drs. Marisha Burden, Moksha Patel, Mark Kissler, and Elizabeth Harry as well as researcher Angela Keniston, coauthors of “Measuring and driving hospitalist value: [.].

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Federal Failures to Protect Incarcerated People During Public Health Crises

Bill Of Health

By Rachel Kincaid. As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, and as we face the reality that future pandemics are coming (or have already begun ), it’s a fitting time for the United States to take stock of how the carceral system has exacerbated the harms of COVID-19, and for policymakers to seriously consider what can and should be done differently going forward.

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Civic Education, Twitter's Bot Problem, Police Reform: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses civic and citizenship education in America, addressing Twitter’s bot problem, why community engagement is key to police reform, and more.

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Patient communications IT increases self-pay collections for Hackensack Meridian

Healthcare It News

Hackensack Meridian Health believes the patient experience begins with the point of scheduling. Once services are rendered, staff want to ensure statements and other communications are clear and understood. Staff also want to give patients all available payment options and the ability to pay their bills 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, using online technology.

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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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Newsletter, September 2022

Patient Safety Movement

WORLD PATIENT SAFETY DAY September 17, 2022 The World Health Organization’s World Patient Safety Day calls for global unity and collaborative action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety. Each year, WHO highlights a theme to bring awareness to a specific area where urgent action is necessary to reduce preventable harm.

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Health Consumers Want More Support from Healthcare – At Retail Experience Levels

Health Populi

As consumers learn to appreciate and patronize retail touchpoints, entertainment, and financial management via omnichannel platforms, patients and health citizens are seeking more enchanting service levels for their health care. The latest view on patient preferences from Kaufman Hall is out in the firm’s annual 2022 State of the Healthcare Consumer Report.

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U.S. Congressional Committee Takes Aim at For-Profit Nursing Homes

Sheppard Health Law

On September 21, 2022, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held public hearings and issued a report assessing the performance of large, for-profit nursing home chains during the early phase of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Subcommittee’s ongoing investigation began in June 2020, and focused on five for-profit nursing home chains that collectively operated over 850 skilled nursing facilities, each of which had significant outbreaks across their facilities.

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