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How telehealth can help inpatient care, and what a hybrid future looks like

Healthcare It News

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends.

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Inequities in healthcare cost nearly $320B annually, new research shows

Health Care Dive

Spending due to inequities that drive late diagnoses and comorbidities is only expected to rise over the next few decades without intervention, according to research from Deloitte.

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Outsourcing Medical Billing Services? Ask Them a Few Questions First

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For doctors, clinicians, and other healthcare service providers, the choice to avail of outsourcing medical billing services is based on the cost and revenue cycle management. You can’t trust an unprofessional medical billing company that doesn’t have a good reputation or practices to support its claims. Many options are available to you. And you must have some doubts, but we are here to help you in this regard.

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Should Ukraine Settle with Russia?

The Rand Blog

Should the United States humiliate Russia—and Russian President Vladimir Putin specifically—over the Russo-Ukrainian War? It could lead to escalation and new wars, but the United States and NATO may need to think twice before offering concessions.

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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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HIMSS22 Europe: ‘We need to develop eco-friendly digital health’

Healthcare It News

A shocking statistic was revealed at the session on ' Climate Crisis: Healthcare’s Responsibility to Our Planet' at the HIMSS22 European Conference on Thursday (16 June ). According to a report from the NGO, Healthcare without Harm , around 4.4% of the world’s net greenhouse gas emissions come from the healthcare sector – double those from the airline industry.

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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional right to abortion

Health Care Dive

As it currently stands, 26 states are deemed certain or likely to end abortion rights, making abortion effectively illegal in half of the country, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

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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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Telehealth with a technician in the home reduces spend by 22% for Scottsdale Physician Group

Healthcare It News

In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. THE PROBLEM. Some patients were not getting the medical care they needed, when they needed, because of a variety of issues. These patients could be bed-bound, homebound, have little to no support structure, have an inability to access transportation to medical appointments, have infirmities, have high fall risks or more.

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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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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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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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Gender segregation, pay inequity. Understanding the ‘pink-collar’ tier in medicine

Healthy Debate

The post Gender segregation, pay inequity. Understanding the ‘pink-collar’ tier in medicine appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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HIMSS22 EUROPE: “We need to co-create and work together with patients.”

Healthcare It News

“I want to convince you in the next few minutes that I’m part of the solution, not necessarily just a problem,” Graham Prestwich, public and patient engagement lead, Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network, told delegates at the HIMSS22 European Conference. He was representing the voice of patients in the session ‘From Patient Engagement to Patient Empowerment’ in which a panel of experts discussed how citizens could be more included in digital health t

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Colorado first state to launch public option via federal waiver

Health Care Dive

Through the waiver granted by the CMS on Thursday, Colorado can use federal funds to set up a government-run health plan, a long-held progressive healthcare goal.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

Health Populi

The best U.S. states to live in for health and health care are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland… Those are the top health system rankings in the new 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance annual report from the Commonwealth Fund. If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded.

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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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Why DispatchHealth’s New Leader Wants to Make the Company More Like Starbucks

Home Health Care

Providing quality care to people in need runs in the family for Reza Alavi. Alavi was raised by two physicians in Philadelphia. His mom and dad instilled lessons in him while they took care of underserved communities, which he is inspired by today as he takes on a new role with DispatchHealth, leading the company’s Advanced Care division. “I remember from as early as 12 years old thinking about things like large-scale health care,” Alavi told Home Health Care News.

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Remote patient monitoring in an app boosts quality at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Healthcare It News

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. The evidence from the organization's classic behavioral interventions shows that the more often staff engage patients, the better the patients do.

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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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We Are Stuck On Band-Aids, Hygiene, and Self-Care: Morning Consult’s Most Trusted Brands 2022

Health Populi

We are stuck on Band-Aids and hooked on hygiene and self-care according to the Most Trusted Brands 2022 study from Morning Consult. In 2022, the most trusted brands in the United States were. Band-Aid. Lysol. Clorox. UPS. CVS Health (pharmacy). VISA. Cheerios. The Weather Channel. Colgate, and. Home Depot. These products and companies sustain t rends I tracked in Years 1 and 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic when several of these were most-trusted, bolstering peoples’ lives living in, working fro

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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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Current COVID-19 Nursing Home Data Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the COVID-19 Nursing Home data for the week ending June 12, 2022. Comparing the June 12 th data to the previous June 5 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate decreased 0.1% Residents with booster doses increased 0.4% Staff vaccination rate decreased 0.1% Staff with booster doses increased 0.2% An additional 8,808 resident cases were confirmed/reported this week An additional 244 resident deaths

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Change Healthcare unveils new patient engagement tools

Healthcare It News

Designed in collaboration with Luma Health, the new technologies aim to improve the care experience and boost satisfaction for patients – and help providers increase appointment-based revenue. Change Healthcare on Wednesday introduced its new Patient Engagement suite, showcasing new tools, developed with Luma Health, to help patients better navigate the care continuum and improve revenue cycle management for providers.

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The doctor's visit of the future will be like having coffee with a friend. Here's why

Health Care Dive

Solv Health CMO Robert Rohatsch contends that digital healthcare transformation will help GPs finally get back to what most of us really want to do in the first place — keep patients healthy.

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COVID-19, Patents, and Trade Secrets

Bill Of Health

By David Gindler & Jasper L. Tran. Has the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines been impacted by patent rights? David Gindler , head of IP at Milbank LA, and Jasper L. Tran , senior associate at Milbank LA, argue that the story is much more complicated — making vaccines involves much more than waiving patents, they explain. The following article, which is adapted from the authors’ conversation with Vanderbilt Law Review podcast editor Jacob Goodman on Hot Topics in Intellectual Proper

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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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What if Russia's Army Fails in Ukraine?

The Rand Blog

Fighting in Ukraine will likely continue. But battlefield advantages could continue to ebb and flow, too. The West should prudently prepare for Ukrainian success as well as a less favorable outcome.

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HIMSSCast: Toward a more human-centered approach to hospital stays

Healthcare It News

Rebecca Pinn, director of innovation strategy at EPAM Continuum, specializes in creative thinking about experience design. She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some thinking about some ways patient-facing technologies could be tailored to enable a much more humane and comfortable experience for inpatients and the clinicians who care for them.

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The cultural and mental health skills that medical and health science students need in today's world

Health Care Dive

From memorizing facts about illnesses to learning how to perform procedures, every medical and health science university offers curricula and opportunities to ensure that its students hone their hard skills.

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Home Health Stakeholders Weigh In On Industry ‘Tailspin’ Following Proposed Payment Rule

Home Health Care

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a fairly negative proposed payment rule for the home health industry on Friday. Specifically, the proposal includes a 4.2% decrease to payment rates that, if finalized, dumps cold water on an industry that’s just starting to heat up again. Though CMS’ unveiling of the proposed payment rule is less than a week old, it has already been met with a flurry of strong criticism from home health industry stakeholders.

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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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The Metaverse: What It Is and Is Not

The Rand Blog

The metaverse is quickly expanding, but its meaning remains unclear. Until an agreement on a definition of “metaverse” is reached, efforts to manage the technology development and related public policy could be muddled at best.

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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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SCOTUS rejects UnitedHealth appeal of Medicare Advantage overpayment rule

Health Care Dive

The justices declined to take up the case, leaving intact a lower court ruling that backed the 2014 CMS regulation requiring swift return of overpayments.

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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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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.