Thu.Jun 23, 2022

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Staffing laws, unionization can improve nurse retention, new research shows

Health Care Dive

“Nurses cannot provide the health care that they know they're capable of because of their working conditions,” said Robert Bruno, one of the report’s authors and a professor at the University of Illinois.

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Epic's Open Scheduling streamlines vaccinations, aids call center at Denver Health

Healthcare It News

Throughout Denver Health's pandemic vaccination efforts, the struggle was getting people who did not already have patient records with the health system into the system efficiently without burdening the call centers. THE PROBLEM. As the safety net health system for Denver Metro, Denver Health vaccinated many people who were not regular patients.

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Meta hit with class action suit alleging it mined providers' patient data

Health Care Dive

The lawsuit identified at least 644 hospital systems or “medical provider web properties” from which Facebook allegedly knowingly receives patient data to create targeted advertising both on and off Facebook’s website.

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Improving equity in virtual care access

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Kaiser nurses in Los Angeles wage 1-day strike

Health Care Dive

The health system has contingency plans in place and does not expect the strike to impact scheduled procedures and services, according to a statement.

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Inflation: Will Consumers’ Financial Stress Erode Their Health?

Health Populi

“Inflation is the big story,” the economics team at Morning Consult told us yesterday in a call on “How to Think Like An Economist.” While I already thought I did that, Team @MorningConsult updated us on the current state of consumers and what’s weighing most heavily on their minds…inflation being #1. An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders.

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AWS & MATTER Launches Incubator for EMEA Healthcare Startups Entering US Market

HIT Consultant

– Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MATTER , the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, announced the launched of a new incubation program called AWS Expand. – The program supports startups entering the US market from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) by providing expert guidance, mentorship, client connections, an extensive network within the healthcare industry, and more.

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Former CMS Administrator Predicts Dire Near-Term Outlook for Home Health Industry

Home Health Care

The former U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Seema Verma, did not paint a rosy outlook for the home health industry this week in Chicago. In fact, hardly any of what she said evoked optimism among operators in the crowd. In regards to the economy, she said it would be her guess that a recession is around the corner, though she acknowledged it was not her job to forecast such things.

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Taiichi Ohno: Hero of the Toyota Production System

Life Qi

Taiichi Ohno (1912 - 1990) was a leader in industrial engineering and is well known as the creator of the Toyota Production System, which in turn inspired the Lean theory and stemmed a wide range of Quality Improvement processes. We’re going to be looking into his inventions and how his thinking helped shape Quality Improvement in healthcare.

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‘A Declaration of War’: Inside the 2023 Home Health Proposed Payment Rule

Home Health Care

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) effectively went to war with home health providers when the agency unveiled its 2023 proposed payment rule on June 17. At the heart of the conflict is differing views on how the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) has impacted the industry. Ultimately, CMS estimates that its proposal would slash aggregate home health payments by 4.2%, or $810 million, next year.

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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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What is a “patient-centered core impact set”?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Patients want new treatments to improve their quality of life. However, do typical patient reported outcomes adequately capture new treatment’s impact on factors that patients care most about? A paper by Perfetto et al. (2022) argues that the answer is ‘no’ The article notes that not only do patients want improved functional status, but also fewer days in the hospital and avoiding cases where there is an “;inability to plan’ and disruptions to work/school.” Fu

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News 6/24/22

HIStalk

Top News MemorialCare’s innovation fund makes an unspecified investment in.

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91+ Raucous Statistics on Ransomware

Etactics

Only half of businesses have a rigorous cybersecurity plan as of 2022. An additional 30% of businesses admit that they do not currently have a cybersecurity plan, but intend to create one. The remaining 20% don’t have a plan and do not intend to create one in the near future. Why are all of these numbers significant? Since only half of businesses have a cybersecurity plan, the other half are at a high risk of experiencing a ransomware attack.

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Revenue cycle transformation: 3.4% increase in net revenue and still growing

Nordic

A transformative engagement with Nordic Consulting helps Lawrence General Hospital achieve revenue goals. Lawrence General Hospital (LGH) faced a series of challenges with their revenue cycle operations. The private, non-profit, community hospital , which serves patients in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts, went live with a new electronic health record (EHR) system in May 2019.

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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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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 6/23/22

HIStalk

I wrote recently about hospital shootings and the other unsafe.

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Personalize the Healthcare Experience for Improved Outcomes, Happier Patients

HIT Consultant

John Nash, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Redpoint Global. A consumer desire for a personalized experience is converging with the healthcare consumerism trend to alter patient expectations for their relationships with caregivers. Wearable devices, IoT data, and healthcare apps that track sleep, diet, and exercise give consumers more insight and control of their overall health, and they increasingly view PCPs and healthcare professionals (HPs) as simply part of an overall healthcare jour

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Morning Headlines 6/24/22

HIStalk

Asimily Announces Strategic Investment from MemorialCare Innovation Fund to Further.

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