OIG warns of telehealth fraud risks in wake of DOJ crackdown
Health Care Dive
JULY 25, 2022
The special alert to healthcare providers describes how fraudsters recruit and reward practitioners in schemes to exploit the growth of telemedicine.
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Positive Thinking – The Right Choice?
Healthcare Leadership
JULY 25, 2022
Blog by Joe Babaian. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ~Omar Khayyam. For some, the only way to live is to be relentlessly positive; for others, the drive to see things as they are manifests itself in a running commentary that includes all storm clouds. Is there a benefit to choosing one dogma over the other? Seems simple! How can business get done if working with people who are not empowered to say yes ?
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St. Luke's University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care
Healthcare It News
JULY 5, 2022
St. Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St.
[Podcast] COVID Disruption & Its Indelible Mark on Healthcare Marketing
Healthcare Success
JULY 25, 2022
The COVID pandemic accelerated a longstanding issue within the healthcare industry: balancing labor shortages with increasing patient volume. While market disruptors such as Telehealth and other retail clinics provide communities with more care options, they also drive higher staffing demands on an already small pool of candidates. Not only that, but many doctors and nurses are choosing to retire early or leave their professions altogether.
How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp
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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical
Health Populi
JULY 26, 2022
Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. Welcome to Day 2 of The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S., my week-long update of the American retail health/care ecosystem weaving the latest updates from the market and implications and import for health care consumers.
New Evidence on Dementia, Identity, and Decision-Making
Bill Of Health
JULY 18, 2022
By James Toomey. In my paper Narrative Capacity (recently published in the North Carolina Law Review ), I argue, among other things, that the legal system’s recognition of personal decision-making should be a function of personal identity, not (as it currently is) of an individual’s momentary cognitive functioning. One of the arguments on this score is as follows.
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Might Russia Turn to Terror Bombing Civilians in Ukraine?
The Rand Blog
JULY 29, 2022
Recent Russian missile attacks against civilian targets in cities far away from the front lines have killed scores of Ukrainians, leading to widespread outrage. These events raise the question of whether the war in Ukraine is entering a new phase in which terror attacks might become common.
Delivering accurate data for decision support
Healthcare It News
JULY 18, 2022
While interoperability and price transparency rules are supporting a movement toward better access to data, the industry is still struggling to transition from sharing information to shared decision-making. Unfortunately, without accurate information embedded in their workflows, providers can’t have meaningful conversations with patients about care costs or covered options, which negatively impacts a patient’s ability to access care.
Getting Started With Google Analytics 4 for Healthcare Brands
Healthcare Success
JULY 11, 2022
Google Analytics is an extremely powerful tool for healthcare businesses. According to BuiltWith, more than 28 million websites use Google Analytics to better understand how users engage with their web properties—including more than 66% of the top 100,000 websites worldwide. The development and subsequent launch of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) in October 2020 was spurred by a 2018 ruling of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , the strictest data privacy and security law in the world.
State Caps on Respite Waiver Services Vary Greatly
NASHP
JULY 21, 2022
State Caps on Respite Waiver Services Vary Greatly. Respite care is a valuable service for family caregivers that provides a break from the demands of caregiving. Most states cover respite services through Medicaid waivers that provide a range of home and community-based services, but many cap the amount of respite care covered. Many states put a numeric limit on respite care (set limit of hours or days per service year), but caps vary widely from waiver to waiver.
5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist
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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
Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index
Health Populi
JULY 14, 2022
People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. states since 2008. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.
Amazon will see you now: reading between the lines of the One Medical acquisition
Health Care Dive
JULY 25, 2022
The deal’s near-term ramifications are unlikely to be monumental. But what it represents should be concerning for One Medical’s primary care competitors and larger entities looking to capture a greater slice of the healthcare market.
The Economic Returns of Foreign Language Learning
The Rand Blog
JULY 7, 2022
If just 10 percent more students in the United Kingdom mastered Arabic, Mandarin, French, or Spanish, the economic returns could be measured in billions of British pounds. Removing the language barrier reduces trade costs.
The key relationship between health equity and telemedicine
Healthcare It News
JULY 12, 2022
Health inequity is the result of the behavior of people. It is not the result of anything natural. It involves structural inequalities in the delivery of care – inequalities that are avoidable. Trying to correct health inequity is part of the job for Toni Land, head of clinical healthcare experience at Medallia, a patient and customer experience management company.
A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address
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Seniors Want to Age in Place, But They Still May Not Know What That Means
Home Health Care
JULY 26, 2022
While home-based care is a space booming with opportunities and potential tailwinds, much of it remains theoretical for the time being. Yes, more seniors are coming to be. And the vast majority want to remain at home as they age, according to a new study from Cross Country Workforce Solutions Group, which is a division of Cross Country Healthcare (Nasdaq: CCRN).
Engaging Tribal Populations to Improve Oral Health Care Access in Arizona
NASHP
JULY 29, 2022
Engaging Tribal Populations to Improve Oral Health Care Access in Arizona July 29, 2022/by Ella Roth and Allie Atkeson. Improving access to oral health care is important for Indigenous populations who face stark inequities in care and outcomes. A 2021 report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “ Oral Health In America: Advances and Challenges ,” explains that American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations face the following barriers to dental care: Geographic isolation.
The Old Gays Working with Walgreens on TikTok: Breaking Down Stereotypes and Having Fun with Health
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2022
How much do I love this media campaign from Walgreens , collaborating with the foursome The Old Gays who have a growing multi-million person fan base on TikTok? How much? A whole lot! Kudos to Walgreens for creating engaging, informative, and fun! content to learn about how people can benefit from using the company’s app … for, Ordering prescriptions (90-day supply).
Amazon to buy One Medical for $3.9B
Health Care Dive
JULY 21, 2022
The all-cash deal for San Francisco-based One Medical comes after months of speculation about a potential acquisition, but Amazon as the buyer comes as a surprise.
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.
Another 'Hotline' with China Isn't the Answer
The Rand Blog
JULY 27, 2022
While well-intentioned, another U.S.-PRC hotline would give false hope that the two countries would resolve disputes more rapidly during a crisis. The United States is better off changing its expectations, understanding how the PRC views crisis communications, and shifting the focus to the internal, inter-agency process by which U.S. policymakers would coordinate in a crisis with Beijing.
HIMSSCast: What does the future of AI in healthcare look like?
Healthcare It News
JULY 15, 2022
The avenues of artificial intelligence and machine learning research are expanding widely and rapidly. Meta says it plans to tailor its AI explorations by analyzing the structures and networks of the human brain , hoping to map better deep learning algorithms by patterning them on the neural activities of real human cells. Over at Google, meanwhile, one of its top engineers says he's convinced a chatbot he worked with has achieved human-like sentience.
The Key Problems with Medicare’s Home Health Benefit
Home Health Care
JULY 14, 2022
Home-based care services are a crucial element of medical care. Despite this fact, issues surrounding accessibility have hindered the Medicare home health benefit’s ability to be effective, a new report published in Health Affairs Thursday suggests. The report was authored by Henry J. Kaiser’s President Barbara Lyons, as well as Diane Rowland, the former executive vice president of and emerita of the foundation.
State Medicaid Approaches to Doula Service Benefits
NASHP
JULY 6, 2022
State Medicaid Approaches to Doula Service Benefits Updated July 6, 2022 / by Anoosha Hasan. Maternal mortality rates continue to increase in the United States, with significant racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in birth outcomes. States are using a variety of approaches to provide doula services within their Medicaid programs to address inequities.
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.
The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5
Health Populi
JULY 25, 2022
I’ve returned to the U.S. for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. home base, reunite with friends and family, and re-join life and living this side of the Atlantic.
Academic health center pays $875K fine in data breach
Health Care Dive
JULY 18, 2022
HHS cited Oklahoma State University Center for Health Services for multiple HIPAA violations, including failure to disclose in a timely manner that patient data had been compromised.
Yoon Suk-yeol Is Biden's Perfect South Korea Partner
The Rand Blog
JULY 5, 2022
Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea's conservative new president, has shown that he is in lockstep with U.S. President Joe Biden on foreign policy. During Biden's Indo-Pacific trip last month, their conversations in the security domain suggest Yoon's overlapping tenure with Biden heralds a golden era in the U.S.-South Korea alliance.
OCR fines 11 healthcare orgs for HIPAA right of access cases
Healthcare It News
JULY 18, 2022
The HHS Office for Civil Rights on Friday said it has settled nearly a dozen investigations of allegations of HIPAA Right of Access Initiative violations. WHY IT MATTERS. OCR's enforcement actions, which include some substantial monetary penalties for the following healthcare providers, and compelled them to furnish patients with timely copies of their health records: Peoria and Canton, Illinois-based ACPM Podiatry , failed to provide a former patient with his requested medical records, acco
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.
Fall Risk Continues To Be An Aging-In-Place Barrier, Government Watchdog Reports
Home Health Care
JULY 29, 2022
There is a significant need for federal programs that aim to prevent older adults from falling to work together and share information. Doing so, government watchdogs say, will make the home a safer place to age in place. That was one of the key takeaways from a recent report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) , which took a closer look at fall prevention and home modification programs on the federal level.
Expanded Federal Investment in Home and Community-Based Services: State Approaches to Serve Children and Youth
NASHP
JULY 22, 2022
Expanded Federal Investment in Home and Community-Based Services: State Approaches to Serve Children and Youth July 22, 2022 / by Zack Gould and Kate Honsberger. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated long-standing challenges for states in providing access to high-quality home and community-based services (HCBS).[1] Under the American Rescue Plan Act, the federal government expanded funding to states’ Medicaid HCBS programs, including a one-year, 10-percentage-point increase in federa
In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves
Health Populi
JULY 15, 2022
Supply chain challenges, inflation, and plummeting consumer economic sentiment are setting the stage for a decline in consumer electronics revenues for 2022. However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S.
Tracking state abortion bans in the US
Health Care Dive
JULY 12, 2022
On Tuesday, abortion became temporarily legal again in Louisiana after a Baton Rouge judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking the state’s trigger ban law.
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