Mon.Dec 06, 2021

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Nurses burned out, dissatisfied with careers consider leaving the field, survey finds

Health Care Dive

New staffing approaches would make the profession more manageable, as would higher wages, nurses told staffing firm Cross Country Healthcare and Florida Atlantic University's College of Nursing.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare It News

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, faced several challenges in rolling out an effective telemedicine strategy, many of which were unrelated to COVID-19. If anything, COVID-19 served as an accelerant to solving many of the challenges, since the organization had no alternative but to move forward. THE PROBLEM. "First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated

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Medicare telehealth visits increased 63-fold from 2019 to 2020, new government data shows

Health Care Dive

Virtual visits for Medicare beneficiaries went from hundreds of thousands pre-pandemic to tens of millions in 2020, with many beneficiaries using telehealth for the first time.

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Providers still skeptical about wearable accuracy, integration abilities

Fierce Healthcare

Providers still skeptical about wearable accuracy, integration abilities. rtorrence. Mon, 12/06/2021 - 14:10.

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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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Congress passes on delay to Medicare rate cuts for lab tests, for now

Health Care Dive

The American Clinical Laboratory Association wants lawmakers to stave off Jan. 1 cuts for nearly 600 lab tests. A stopgap bill late last week did not include a reprieve, but Cowen analysts are optimistic a legislative fix will be found.

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Reveleer raises $65M for payer-focused data analytics platform, eyes acquisitions in interoperability, NLP tools

Fierce Healthcare

Reveleer raises $65M for payer-focused data analytics platform, eyes acquisitions in interoperability, NLP tools. rtorrence. Mon, 12/06/2021 - 16:45.

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Provider groups urge feds to change dispute process, good faith estimates in surprise billing rule

Fierce Healthcare

Provider groups urge feds to change dispute process, good faith estimates in surprise billing rule. rking. Mon, 12/06/2021 - 16:37.

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Help keep people healthy by streamlining the data supply chain

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Trinity Health's Gateway Health Plan divesture bolstered operating income, margin for Q1 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Trinity Health's Gateway Health Plan divesture bolstered operating income, margin for Q1 2022. dmuoio. Mon, 12/06/2021 - 12:04.

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Hospitals in crisis: Emergency personnel in southwestern Ontario sounding the alarm

Healthy Debate

The post Hospitals in crisis: Emergency personnel in southwestern Ontario sounding the alarm appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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Green Light for Cannabis Legalisation in Germany Is Not a Clear-Cut Decision

The Rand Blog

The new “traffic light” coalition in Germany recently agreed to regulate the sale of cannabis to adults for recreational purposes in licensed shops. International experience has shown that great care is needed in how cannabis policy is shaped.

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Using Clearwave to Support Your Staff During the Holidays

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 2 minutes As your practice celebrates this holiday season and is getting ready for the new year, your practice staff is looking forward to some well-deserved time off to spend with family and friends. How can your practice best maintain operations during the busy holiday season, continuing to care for your patients ? The answer is simple.

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Surescripts and Diameter Health Partner to Enhance Clinical Intelligence

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Surescripts and Diameter Health are partnering to simplify specialty prescribing by incorporating powerful clinical intelligence and standardizing patient data to communicate comprehensive patient histories. Surescripts has simplified the specialty prescribing and fulfillment process to help specialty pharmacies and physician practices realize decreased phone calls, increased dispense rates and improvements in time to therapy.

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LHC Group Puts Price Tag on Labor Challenges, Announces $250M Repurchasing Program

Home Health Care

Home health providers have felt the full force of the U.S. nursing shortage this year. But it’s important to remember that some of those pressures are short term in nature and tied to the public health emergency, LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) President and COO Joshua Proffitt said Monday. That’s especially true in regard to labor costs. “When you’ve got upwards of 3% or 4% of your entire front-line workforce on quarantine, you’re now having to supplement that with contract labor and

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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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The Counterintuitive Sensibility of Taiwan's New Defense Strategy

The Rand Blog

As the United States prepares to deter China from attacking Taiwan and defend it from an attack, are the Taiwanese themselves doing everything they can to defend their territory?

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4 Programmatic Tactics for Healthcare Marketing in 2021 & Beyond

HIT Consultant

Ned Dimitrov, VP of Data Science, StackAdapt. Healthcare is an ever-growing market that is increasingly reliant on digital channels. According to Pew Research, 47% of internet users search for information about doctors or other health professionals online, and 1 in 20 Google searches are related to healthcare. In this digital landscape, remaining compliant while winning new patients is a unique challenge healthcare marketers face.

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How VillageMD Went from Startup to One of Walgreens’ Most Important Partners

Home Health Care

In 2020, Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) announced that it would be investing $1 billion in a relatively new primary care company: VillageMD. Since that point, the home- and community-focused VillageMD has thrived in the partnership with the behemoth retailer, so much so that Walgreens invested another $5.2 billion in the company this October.

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LG and Lenovo Partner to Drive Innovation in Radiology and Imaging

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – LG Business Solutions and Lenovo partner to enhance medical imaging solutions for the radiology community. – The collaboration will result in diagnostic and clinical solutions in key imaging areas through the combination of Lenovo ThinkStation workstations and LG Medical Monitors. LG Business Solutions and Lenovo are working together to advance new medical imaging solutions for the radiology community.

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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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Best of 2021: 14 Insights from Healthcare Marketing Experts

Health Care Success

As 2021 comes to a close, we have a gift for you — a roundup of the best advice on our blog from this past year. It’s been a pleasure working with and interviewing so many experienced marketing professionals. Whether colleagues or team members, these experts are the people who bring this blog to life with tips and insight you can’t find anywhere else. .

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Aflac Finds Health Care and Financial Stress will “Dampen 2021 Holiday Magic” in U.S. Households

Health Populi

Most U.S. householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S. adults in September 2021 to gauge Americans’ financial health perspectives approaching the end of Year 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic in America.

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AI Predicts Long-Term Patient Survival After Cardiac Surgery

Health IT Analytics

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Policy Associate – Coverage, Cost and Value Team

NASHP

The Coverage, Cost and Value team at the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) seeks an experienced Policy Associate to support its comprehensive portfolio of work focused on state policy responses to rising prescription drug prices. Prior experience in state government is preferred, as is knowledge of Medicaid policy and payment for prescription drugs, and the prescription drug supply chain.

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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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Humana Navigating Home Health ‘Tension’ Between FFS, Medicare Advantage

Home Health Care

Despite Humana Inc.’s (NYSE: HUM) dedication to value-based care models in its own network, it still finds a lot of value from a business perspective in the fee-for-service (FFS) model for home health care. Now that the Louisville-based company is integrating Kindred at Home, it’s putting on a balancing act between what makes it money and where health care is going.

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How much more money do male physicians earn vs. female physicians?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Do male physicians earn more than females? And if so, by how much? This is the question posed by a recent paper by Whaley et al. (2021). The authors use data from Doximity , an online professional network for physicians. Doximity includes information for more than 70% of US physicians, including data partnerships with National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), National Provider Identifier (NPI) registry, American Board of Medical Specialties, state licensing boards, specialty societi

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How COVID-19 May Affect Your Pregnancy and Delivery

Voyage Healthcare

COVID-19 has disrupted our worlds, and many who may have been considering pregnancy decided to wait until the pandemic was over. With COVID-19 lingering on, you may decide it is time to start your pregnancy journey. Likely, you still have questions regarding COVID-19 and how it affects pregnancy and delivery. Recently, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) published new information regarding pregnancy and COVID-19 that we are happy to share.

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State Health System Cost Laws: 2020-2021

NASHP

State Health System Cost Laws: 2020-2021 December 6, 2021. Find state laws enacted since 2017 addressing health system costs below. Use the category buttons to search by type of legislation, and view summaries of each law in the chart below. For the status of all state health system cost legislation considered since 2020, click here.

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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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New Podcast Episode Released – Supporting a Team’s Emotional Resiliency: Gina Kangas, LCSW

Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

Many of us are doing our best to support the emotional resiliency of our teams over the last couple years, but not all leaders have the experience and tools to effectively manage through an ongoing crisis. Today, we get some help from Gina Kangas , a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who serves as the Mental Health Outpatient Manager and back-up Employee Assistance Coordinator at the Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee.

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Events and Communications Associate

NASHP

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) seeks an experienced Events and Communications Associate to support its flagship event, The Annual State Health Policy Conference, other policy meetings and events, fundraising efforts, and general communications activities. A successful candidate will have strong project management and communication skills, and impeccable attention to detail.

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Limiting Human Rights During Pandemics: Recommendations for Closing Reporting Gaps and Increasing International Oversight

Bill Of Health

This post was originally published on the Verfassungsblog as part of our joint symposium on international pandemic lawmaking. By Cassandra Emmons. Sovereign governments have the prerogative to declare states of emergency when sudden, unanticipated events threaten the lives of the nation and its people. In so doing, government decrees sometimes must contradict other international human rights commitments, balancing the individual versus the collective.

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Research Analyst – Coverage, Cost and Value Policy Team

NASHP

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is seeking an individual to join the Coverage, Cost and Value team as a Research Analyst. The Research Analyst will assist team-based initiatives designed to support state policymakers to address high health care costs, including rising prescription drug prices, to provide affordable, accessible health insurance across public and private markets.

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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.