May, 2022

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Telemedicine reached disadvantaged communities during pandemic, study finds

Health Care Dive

The results surprised Johns Hopkins University researchers, who said it contrasted with earlier findings showing an inverse link between socioeconomic status and use of telemedicine in the pandemic.

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Antidote Health debuts telemedicine-based mental health clinic

Healthcare It News

Telehealth company Antidote Health is extending its virtual care offerings to include a service focused on mental health issues. Called the Mental Health Clinic, it will offer medication management, as well as treatment for depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, PTSD, OCD and insomnia disorder. Antidote Health and its clinicians will use an approach called enhanced, evidence-based care.

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8 Ways to Enhance the Patient Experience & Drive Leads with QR Codes

Healthcare Success

We know that today’s healthcare consumers want instant and accessible services. . The QR code allows hospitals and healthcare providers to satisfy this need with immediate physician-patient interaction and engagement – all through smartphones and tablets. . Placed strategically, the QR code does wonders for marketing. And today more than ever, they are considered the green, hygienic, and convenient alternative to printed or shared materials. .

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Learn MIPS 2022 Measures for the Allergy and Immunology Category

p3care

Each performance category accounts for a particular percentage of the overall score, which determines how much payment adjustment a clinician will receive for the following MIPS year’s performance. The rules and regulations relating to each category also change or are updated every year. So today, we will be discussing the MIPS Quality Measures linked to Allergy and Immunology.

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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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How to Avoid Extremism on Social Media

The Rand Blog

Extremist groups have been trolling the internet for decades, and they have learned to temper their words and disguise their intentions. A new scorecard can help users—or parents, or advertisers, or the social media companies themselves—understand when they might be interacting with extremist content.

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Flipping the Script: Adoption and Reproductive Justice

Bill Of Health

By Kimberly McKee. Adoption is a reproductive justice issue. Pretending otherwise ignores how adoption is used as a red herring in anti-abortion arguments. A recent invocation of this faulty logic occurred in Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s questions during the November 2021 oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Coney Barrett’s statements implied that the option to relinquish infants vis-à-vis adoption rendered abortion availability unnecessary.

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The great digital health reset – and how IT leaders should plan for what’s next

Healthcare It News

Cloud Computing Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Workforce As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts. Paddy Padmanabhan Back in 2020, in the immediate wake of the pandemic, we were celebrating the coming of age of digital health – the 25X to 50X increase in telehealth visits, the explosion in VC funding for digital health s

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14 Ways to Reduce Long Patient Wait Times

Healthcare Success

The pandemic fast-tracked the growing notion of healthcare consumerism , spurring several changes in the healthcare industry. These changes include modernizing business processes and focusing on improvements that positively impact patient wait times and appointment times. . It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care.

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How Honor, Home Instead’s Initial Sit-Down Led to More Than an Acquisition

Home Health Care

Honor CEO and Co-founder Seth Sternberg has wanted to launch a platform like “Honor Expert” for the last eight years. But the idea of being a liaison to seniors and their families for a wide variety of services – Honor Expert’s goal – wasn’t feasible without some serious scale, which Honor didn’t have in 2014 when it was founded. Fast forward seven years.

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The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don't

The Rand Blog

Are certain gun laws and regulations likely to improve or worsen public safety? At a time when many Americans are searching for solutions to our country's intolerably high rates of gun violence, social scientists can help provide answers.

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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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The False Choice: Adoptee Voices in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom 

Bill Of Health

By Michele Merritt. As legal scholars have predicted since the current composition of the United States Supreme Court became apparent, abortion restrictions are increasing; if Roe v. Wade is overturned with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this coming June, over half of the states in the country will likely ban abortion entirely. .

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Hospital labor expenses up 37% from pre-pandemic levels in March

Health Care Dive

Hospitals spent nearly $5,500 in labor expenses per adjusted discharge in March compared to about $4,000 roughly three years ago, according to a report from Kaufman Hall.

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AI and IoT device connects with concierge platform for RPM

Healthcare It News

Healthcare workflow technology company Braidio has partnered with health IT vendor BlueSemi with the aim of creating a preventive home-health and telehealth ecosystem. BlueSemi's primary product is a handheld device called EYVA, which measures six vitals, including blood glucose, without requiring a pinprick for blood. By integrating the device with Braidio's My Health Concierge platform, the companies will be attempting to encourage positive behavioral change.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. Adults 50-Plus from AARP. Two years after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, one-half of U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. In early 2022, over half of those over 50 (the AARP core membership base) told the Association they would likely use telehealth in the future.

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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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Aging-in-Place Company Homethrive Raises $20M, Plans ‘Aggressive Expansion’ in Payer Marketplace

Home Health Care

Aging-in-place enabler Homethrive has raised an additional $20 million in Series B funding. For Homethrive, the funding round – led by Human Capital, with participation from Allianz, 7wireVentures and Pitango HealthTech – will go toward its “aggressive expansion” plans and further technology investments. And for similar senior-focused startups, the infusion of capital shows that VC interest in the space has far from cooled, despite a recent investment slowdown.

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Learn how technology and mental health meet in the future

Cloud Blogs

During Mental Health Awareness Month, I can't help but reflect on the impact COVID-19 has had on mental health and frontline worker burnout. Each year millions of people around the world face the reality of living with a mental illness, but during COVID-19 we saw many people overwhelmed by loneliness due to extreme isolation, grief over the loss of loved ones, and anxiety due to COVID-19 related factors.

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A Birthmother Reflects: The Perpetuation of Adoption Myths

Bill Of Health

By Angie Swanson-Kyriaco. During opening remarks for Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on December 1, 2021, Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated that the “obligations of motherhood that flow from pregnancy” and the “burden” of parenting are eliminated through adoption. It is no surprise that a conservative, anti-abortion, adoptive parent would have an over-simplified opinion about adoption, expectant parents, and birth parents.

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Rising Google searches for procedures suggest recovering demand, analysts say

Health Care Dive

Searches for surgeries like orthopaedics, general surgery and cardiovascular procedures are above pre-pandemic levels, providing another data point to indicate that demand is recovering, according to a Needham report.

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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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What can Europe to do bridge the digital health divide?

Healthcare It News

Policy-makers in the EU are promoting an array of digital health programs, such as the European Health Data Space unveiled earlier this month. But lack of awareness and knowledge could stymy their impact. Kristine Sørensen, a digital health literacy expert based in Denmark says digital health literacy varies across countries, regions — even within families.

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The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has re-shaped consumers across many life- and work-flows. When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023.

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Home Care Workforce Action Alliance Formed as Providers Hit All-Time Case-Decline Highs

Home Health Care

It is often said that storytelling can be a powerful tool for change. This is what the members of the newly formed Home Care Workforce Action Alliance are banking on with the announcement of the Voices for Care at Home campaign. The Home Care Workforce Action Alliance is the byproduct of some of the biggest industry stakeholders on the trade association side.

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In support of addiction and mental health patients in emergency departments

Healthy Debate

The post In support of addiction and mental health patients in emergency departments appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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Organizing and Activism of Adopted and Displaced People

Bill Of Health

By Lina Vanegas. I am a transracial and transnational displaced person. I was separated from my country, language, and culture and taken to Michigan, which has no connection to me or my ancestors. I was taken there to create a family for strangers who had the privilege and resources to buy me. I had family in Colombia and I was far from being a true orphan.

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Millions of people counting on Congress to protect telehealth access

Health Care Dive

Patients in communities across the nation who have come to rely on telehealth have been left waiting and wondering if they will be able to receive the virtual care they need once the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended.

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Telehealth can play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions

Healthcare It News

Telehealth's potential to bridge the services gap for people without ready transportation access has been well-documented. Less explored, however, is virtual care's possible role in reducing carbon emissions, specifically by allowing patients to connect with providers without relying on a car. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center built a dashboard to estimate the environmental impact of the medical facility's telehealth offerings.

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How Long Do Hemorrhoids Last?

Healthcare Associates

How Long Do Hemorrhoids Last? Hemorrhoids can be extremely difficult to deal with, especially when they cause pain and discomfort. When you develop hemorrhoids, you want them to go away as quickly as possible so you can experience relief from your symptoms. Here’s how long it usually takes for hemorrhoids to go away and what you can do in the meantime to feel better.

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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.

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How EMS Workers Can Supplement the Home-Based Care Workforce

Home Health Care

When Medically Home announced that it had received another round of funding money in January , the $110 million in the form of a strategic investment was led by a diverse group of companies. Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic were again partakers after they had already made significant investments into Medically Home in the past. But the newcomers in the strategic investment piqued interest.

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

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted COVID-19 data for the week ending May 15, 2022. Comparing the May 15 th data to the previous May 8 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate again remained the same as the 3 previous weeks Residents with booster doses increased by 0.5% this past week Staff vaccination rate remained unchanged from the previous week Staff with booster doses increased by 0.4% again this past week An additional 6,321 r

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Understanding Transracial Adoption: Life-long Transformations, Not Frictionless Transactions 

Bill Of Health

By April Dinwoodie. I took a long, slow, deep breath when I heard Amy Coney Barrett, the adoptive mother of Black children, describe adoption as a “frictionless alternative to abortion.” As a Black/bi-racial transracially adopted person in mid-life, adoption has been and continues to be many things, but “frictionless” isn’t one of them. . On the contrary, being adopted into a white family and raised in a majority white community has been filled with the tension between the realities of what I w

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FTC likely to examine insurer overlap in Advocate Aurora, Atrium merger

Health Care Dive

Mergers with geographic overlap often face challenges. This deal doesn't "raise the same red flags, but it doesn't mean that it gets waved through," said Leemore Dafny, former deputy director of healthcare and antitrust at the FTC.

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