Sat.Apr 16, 2022 - Fri.Apr 22, 2022

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Bright Health exits 6 states amid financial, operational woes

Health Care Dive

Bright, which went public in June last year, wants to refocus on growth in markets where it can have a bigger impact. The seven-year-old startup lost almost $1.2 billion in 2021.

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Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

Healthcare It News

At this point, it's not a surprise to say that data is power – particularly when it comes to advancing clinical research, furthering innovation and improving patient care. Tools such as wearables can provide a holistic view of a patient's care journey beyond information gathered in a clinical visit. Still, experts say that network-wide availability of patient-generated health data is still lacking.

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Stay out of Jail; Avoid billing fraud

Pro CRNA

Stay out of jail; Avoid billing fraud. By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. Nobody goes through the rigors of professional education and certification intending to end up in jail, but that is exactly where you could spend time if convicted of billing fraud. Whether you plot, plan, and intentionally defraud the payor or you are unintentionally complicit with a scheme, you could face incarceration and a hefty fine.

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Rebuilding Ukraine

The Rand Blog

By leveraging better investment conditions and reforms and broad international support, Ukraine could carry out a well-executed reconstruction program. It might repair much of the war damage and help Ukraine move into the ranks of faster-growing European economies.

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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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End of Medicaid continuous coverage may leave millions of children uninsured, analysis finds

Health Care Dive

Children are at highest risk in Texas, Florida and Georgia when states resume checking Medicaid eligibility after the public health emergency expires, Georgetown University researchers found.

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Chatbots and related automation can ease staffing shortages, triage patients

Healthcare It News

Automation has a major role in transforming the healthcare experience. For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. One type of automation is chatbots and related technology that can automate the triage and symptom intake process, along with surfacing education and discharge materials.

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Preparing for a Cyberattack Starts at the Local Level

The Rand Blog

The ongoing Russian war in Ukraine has highlighted the need for federal, state, and local level emergency managers to prepare to respond to a cyberattack with widespread impacts that significantly disrupt critical infrastructure.

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Supreme Court throws out Medicaid work requirement cases

Health Care Dive

On Monday, the high court said the requirements were now moot given the Biden administration's dismissal of the policies, and sent them back to the trial court with instructions to dismiss prior judgments.

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At Baptist Health, Epic-linked asynchronous telehealth boosts provider and patient experience

Healthcare It News

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM. Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care deli

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The Color of Care – Oprah and The Smithsonian Channel Partner on Health Equity

Health Populi

A new documentary and educational campaign on health equity will be launched on May 1st, 2022, from Oprah’s Harpo Productions studio partnering with The Smithsonian Channel. The Color of Care documents stories of people who have lost loved ones in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as expert interviews with frontline workers and public health experts and researchers sharing data on systemic racism in health care that has underpinned racial health disparities since slavery was instituted in Ame

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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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Where Home Health Providers Fit into the Evolving Kidney Care Landscape

Home Health Care

Over the years, there have been federal efforts in the U.S. to shift dialysis for kidney care patients into the home. Meanwhile, home-focused kidney care companies have cemented their spot as part of the broader health care landscape. In this environment, the question that lingers is if there’s a place for home health providers in the home-based kidney care space.

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Surprise billing arbitration portal opens to payers, providers after delay

Health Care Dive

As a last resort, the No Surprises Act allows payers and providers to resolve payment disputes using arbitration. The online site that initiates the process is now open.

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Can tech help patients only have to tell their story once?

Healthcare It News

78% of consumers say they want a choice of how they interact with providers, according to a survey by IT vendor Talkdesk. In part, that means they don't always want to have to call and sit on hold to get a healthcare issue resolved. If a patient can only get so far in a healthcare interaction before hitting a wall and having to make that dreaded call, then the healthcare organization has failed them, contends Patty Hayward, vice president of industry strategy for healthcare and life sciences

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Most Recent CMS, CDC and NHSN Nursing Home Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted nursing home data for the week ending April 10, 2022. Comparing the April 10 th data to the previous April 3 rd data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate remained unchanged from the previous week (same as past 4 weeks) Residents with booster doses increased by 0.5% this past week Staff vaccination rate remained the same as previous week Staff with booster doses increased by 0.9% this past week An add

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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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Risk-Based, At-Home Pilot Program Saves $6 Million Looking After Just 93 Patients

Home Health Care

The tech-enabled, home-focused Presidium Health recently reduced hospitalizations within a specific patient population by 53%, saving $6 million on the way. To do so, it worked with some of the most high-need patients in the U.S. health care system. Presidium Health performed the pilot program with San Diego’s largest nonprofit health plan — Community Health Group.

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Medtech survey finds widespread cybersecurity noncompliance despite rising investment

Health Care Dive

Over 80% of respondents see device security as a competitive advantage and almost every company budgeted more money for it this year. However, 80% view the issue as a "necessary evil" imposed by regulators.

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WELL Health, OSIS bring communications tech to community health centers

Healthcare It News

WELL Health and OSIS announced this week that they had partnered to provide community health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers more seamless access to patient communications technology. WELL Health, a communications vendor, says it will offer community health centers in the OSIS network discounted access to its technology platform via the OSIS Partner Program.

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COVID-19 Mortality Preventable by Vaccines

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “This updated analysis estimates that nationally at least 234,000 deaths from COVID-19 between June 2021 and March 2022 could have been prevented with a primary series of vaccinations. These vaccine-preventable deaths represent 60% of all adult COVID-19 deaths since June 2021, when vaccines first became widely available to adults across the country, and a quarter (24%) of the nearly 1 million COVID-19 deaths since the pandemi

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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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Why Home Health Agencies Could See an Unfavorable Medicare Payment Landscape in 2023

Home Health Care

Home health operators should dig in even further ahead of the Medicare reimbursement battle coming later this year. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2023 proposed payment rule for the nursing home industry earlier this month. In it, the agency called for a 3.9% increase to Medicare payments for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) – with a 4.6% cut to the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM).

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Physician pay is climbing after early-pandemic slump

Health Care Dive

Doctors' financial compensation increased in the past year, resuming a longer-term trend though gender, racial and ethnic pay disparities persist.

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CIO Spotlight: Dr. CT Lin, UCHealth

Healthcare It News

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Long COVID and Physical Reductionism

Bill Of Health

By Leslie Francis and Michael Ashley Stein. Like plaintiffs with other conditions lacking definitive physiological markers, long COVID plaintiffs seeking disability anti-discrimination law protections have confronted courts suspicious of their reports of symptoms and insistent on medical evidence in order for them to qualify as “disabled” and entitled to statutory protection.

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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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High-Acuity Care Opportunities, Workforce Shortages Guide Amedisys’ M&A, JV Strategies

Home Health Care

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has been vocal about leaning into the opportunities that offering higher-acuity care in the home will bring. That has also had an influence on the company’s M&A and JV strategies. “Our acquisition of Contessa Health last year created the platform for us to directly offer those high-acuity services,” Kris Novak, vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Amedisys, told Home Health Care News.

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How health system leaders are navigating ongoing staffing shortages: survey

Health Care Dive

More than 90% of health system leaders have increased compensation to recruit and retain staff, while 81% said they are still filling gaps with agency labor, per a new Advis report.

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Merging informatics and empathy in nursing

Healthcare It News

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7 Ways To Improve Your Gut Health

Healthcare Associates

7 Ways To Improve Your Gut Health. A healthy gut can help you maintain good overall health, as your gut is linked to many important bodily functions. For instance, improving gut health can help you enjoy better digestion. Here’s more about why gut health is so important, along with seven ways to achieve better gut health. Why Is Gut Health Important?

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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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InHome Therapy Wants to be the Outsource Partner Home Health Agencies Need

Home Health Care

InHome Therapy wants to be the ultimate problem solver in home health care as the industry undergoes a number of regulatory and workforce-related challenges. The company recently acquired Contract Therapy Services Inc., a provider of physical, occupational and speech therapy, as well as registered dietitian services. The deal falls in line with InHome Therapy’s strategy: to grow its footprint through acquisitions.

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DOJ cracks down on 'largest and most wide-ranging' COVID-19 fraud

Health Care Dive

Defendants — including doctors, medical business executives and fake vaccination card manufacturers — caused nearly $150 million in false billings to federal programs, the DOJ alleged.

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D2C healthcare startups are ready to increase patient access

Healthcare It News

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10 practical ways to keep text messaging in your hospital safe and secure 

Spok Inc

Technology is only as effective as the security measures that support it What comes to mind when you think about. The post 10 practical ways to keep text messaging in your hospital safe and secure appeared first on Spok Inc.

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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.