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Teladoc hit with class-action suit alleging it misled investors

Health Care Dive

The complaint accuses the company, along with CEO Jason Gorevic and CFO Mala Murphy, of downplaying competition in the telehealth sector that stifled growth in mental health and chronic care businesses.

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How U.S. healthcare leaders are shifting course to navigate a changed world

Healthcare It News

As the healthcare industry emerges from the pandemic, its leaders are embarking on a major reboot of their priorities in order to improve the delivery of patient care. That is one of the big findings of the Future Health Index 2022 report, entitled "Healthcare hits reset: Priorities shift as healthcare leaders navigate a changed world." This seventh annual edition of the report from global technology vendor Philips analyzes feedback from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 15 countr

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

“I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter.

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Develop leaders on your team

Pro CRNA

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. Leaders don’t create followers, they create leaders. ~Ralph Nader. Having the right leader in the right position is a key to success for any organization regardless of the type of business or industry that they represent; but where do leaders come from? Recruiting and hiring leaders is time consuming, expensive and a bit risky because you never know that the person is a good fit until he/she is on the job.

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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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Hospital lobby urges CMS to delay enforcement of price estimate requirement

Health Care Dive

The contested provision in the No Surprises Act requires certain providers to assemble a comprehensive cost estimate for patients, including costs from other providers that could step in to provide care.

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Customizing healthcare consumer experiences

Healthcare It News

Data management is critical as marketing teams move into a future without cookies. Improving your data management systems and finding new ways to leverage that data should be a top priority. Getting there is difficult because many marketers are reporting that dealing with disparate data sources is a top concern. But creating a unified data system isn’t an impossible feat.

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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

Health Populi

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics. They comprise only 3% of all U.S. healthcare spending. But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America. U.S. Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way

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Oracle announces plans to create national health record database on heels of Cerner deal

Health Care Dive

“There’s a healthy skepticism that they’ll have the magic bullet to overcome any of the existing barriers to interoperability,” one data sharing expert said.

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For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Healthcare It News

El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is located near Silicon Valley, home to self-driving cars and robots that deliver food. So there is an expectation for tech-enabled healthcare. THE PROBLEM. Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system.

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Modi's Multipolar Moment Has Arrived

The Rand Blog

Russia's war in Ukraine has benefited India as great powers are competing more vigorously for New Delhi's affection, particularly the United States and China. India has also prevented its Russia policy from spoiling partnerships with key European and Indo-Pacific partners. These trends, if sustained, will contribute to India's rise to great-power status and in turn, shift the global system toward even greater multipolarity.

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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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Citational Racism: How Leading Medical Journals Reproduce Segregation in American Medical Knowledge

Bill Of Health

By Gwendolynne Reid, Cherice Escobar Jones, and Mya Poe. Biases in scholarly citations against scholars of color promote racial inequality, stifle intellectual analysis, and can harm patients and communities. While the lack of citations to scholars of color in medical journals may be due to carelessness, ignorance , or structural impediments , in some cases it is due to reckless neglect.

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2 million patients' data exposed in cyberattack on New England health services provider

Health Care Dive

The attack, disclosed by Shields Health Care Group earlier this week, is the largest so far this year, according to HHS’ data breach portal.

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Ascension Illinois uses real-time patient data with programmatic data to improve care

Healthcare It News

Care management is fed by information, much of it electronic. Clinicians rely on electronic health records and other healthcare information systems to give them the data they need to make informed decisions to optimally manage care. But what if optimal could become more optimal? What if clinicians could have access to real-time patient information in the mix with EHRs and other HIT?

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How Henry County transformed care with MEDITECH’s cloud-based solutions

Meditech

When we decided to switch our EHR vendor at our rural 25-bed hospital, our executives and clinical staff sought value, sophistication, and flexibility, knowing that those qualities would improve care and enhance the patient experience.

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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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CMS Updates LTC Survey Process Materials

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted an update to the LTC Survey Process on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The Revision History for LTC Survey Process Documents and Files is found here. CMS corrected the version of Appendix PP back to the 2017 (2018 revision was a typo) for the May 2022 update. The Survey Resources with Staff Vaccine Documents folder (it’s a.zip file) is found here.

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Reconciling fatigue to transform the future of medical education

Health Care Dive

Telemedicine. Virtual learning experiences. Remediation gaps. Born out of the pandemic, these innovations present opportunities for a medical education community currently faced with obstacles.

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Olympus puts telecollaboration and advanced content management on the digital health stage at HIMSS22 Europe

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the scale of the opportunity to leverage innovative digital tools that can optimise patient care with the help of enhanced connectivity and the improved sharing of information and expertise between stakeholders. Systems that enable collaboration also support hospitals as they manage the challenge of health care professionals’ burnout – a situation that has been worsened by the pandemic.

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Why Value-Based Care Begins with Quality Education

Home Health Care

Caregiver training is a valuable tool for employee retention and satisfaction. But it is also a critical factor in improving care delivery. This can lead to other positive outcomes such as increased client satisfaction and a strong reputation. Organizations that understand the connection between training and quality care will not only serve their staff, but will also see improvement in the quality of the care their patients and clients receive.

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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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Overdiagnosis: Good intentions gone bad

Healthy Debate

The post Overdiagnosis: Good intentions gone bad appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Physician residents reach deal with Los Angeles County, averting strike

Health Care Dive

The labor discord is one of several recent disputes in California, where unions representing healthcare workers have been especially active as more contracts expire and staff see an opportunity to negotiate working conditions.

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Checking in on FDB Vela, the nation's second e-prescribing network

Healthcare It News

FDB, formerly known as First Databank, which is owned by Hearst Health, announced at HIMSS22 in March the launch of the country's second e-prescribing network, FDB Vela. For more than 15 years, the country has been served by only one e-prescribing network, Surescripts (which this week appointed Frank Harvey as its new chief executive following the retirement of CEO Tom Skelton.).

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3 Keys to Better Training Economics

Home Health Care

Training can be a major differentiating factor to achieve greater retention among home-based care providers, particularly in the current staffing environment where even the smallest competitive advantage makes a difference. And while providers know there’s value in training, assigning a return on investment can be more challenging. To prove the worth of their training programs, providers often turn to “soft” ROI metrics to align value versus hard and fast returns.

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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 Chesa Boudin's Replacement Can Do About Open-Air Drug Dealing

The Rand Blog

Successfully addressing open-air drug dealing in San Francisco will require transparency about consequences that drug dealers face; a rethinking of how such crimes are prosecuted; and continued collaboration between prosecutors, police, and the community.

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CMS issues first price transparency fines to 2 Georgia hospitals

Health Care Dive

Regulators have been criticized for moving slowly to enforce the rules, which came into effect January last year amid fierce opposition from hospital groups.

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Roundup: The Royal Marsden NHS FT expands Hyland Healthcare suite, Clinical trial uses digital education platform to understand fatal genetic diseases in children, and more briefs

Healthcare It News

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust expands Hyland Healthcare suite. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has selected Hyland ’s PACSgear image capture solution to integrate with its existing OnBase content services platform and new Epic electronic patient record (EPR) system. The new digital health record (DHR) falls under the hospital’s digital transformation programme and began in August last year, with Epic going live across the trust from March 2023.

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Can You Walk On a Sprained Ankle?

Healthcare Associates

Can You Walk On a Sprained Ankle? A sprained ankle can cause lots of pain—especially when you try walking. Though staying off a sprained ankle can reduce your pain and help it heal, it can be nearly impossible to go about your usual daily activities without walking. Here’s what you need to know about walking with a sprained ankle, how to wrap up a sprained ankle, and treatment options.

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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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Home Care Training Tech: Scale Recruitment and Retention to Increase the Bottom Line

Home Health Care

Recruiting and retention are among the most challenging aspects of home-based care operations, particularly in the wake of COVID-19. According to industry research, employee churn increased significantly as a result of the pandemic and continues to present serious operational challenges. As a result, providers are working hard to get their teams back to pre-pandemic strength, and they are turning to technology for recruiting, retention and training solutions that align with their goals.

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FTC launches investigation into PBMs; CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna and more hit with requests for data

Health Care Dive

Pharmacy groups cheered the news, which reversed a vote earlier this year by FTC commissioners not to investigate PBMs' pricing and contractual practices.

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Personalizing patient engagement through data-driven omnichannel experiences

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Productive Edge Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Interoperability Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Personalizing patient engagement through data-driven omnichannel experiences Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential

HIT Consultant

Shawna Koch Mishael, Head of Healthcare and Biomedical, RN, MBA, SenecaGlobal. This year’s HIMSS Conference offered some exciting insights and a renewed focus on data-sharing and interoperability. While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today.

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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.