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Hospitals are hiding prices from patients, advocacy report says

Health Care Dive

Patient Rights Advocate concluded that some hospitals owned by Ascension and HCA Healthcare are omitting rates for medical services from files made public under new federal rules.

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8 ways to reduce alarm fatigue in hospitals

Spok Inc

The alarm fatigue epidemic needs to be resolved: Here are eight ways to help diminish the din of alarms throughout your hospital, improve patient safety, and boost clinician satisfaction. The post 8 ways to reduce alarm fatigue in hospitals appeared first on Spok Inc.

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Physicians are experiencing delayed COVID-19 burnout

Health Care Dive

Physician burnout has risen during the most recent phase of the pandemic, resulting in exacerbated retention challenges among healthcare workers, an MGMA survey and other recent reports have found.

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CommonSpirit still working to restore EHR systems after ransomware attack confirmed

Healthcare It News

A major ransomware attack at CommonSpirit Health has been disrupting medical operations across several states for nearly two weeks , leaving the Chicago-based health system scrambling to maintain patient care while it conducts a forensics investigation and works to bring its electronic health record systems back online. WHY IT MATTERS. After several days of cancellations and outage reports at CommonSpirit hospitals and medical facilities across several states, the country's biggest Catholic

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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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Create an empowering workplace

Pro CRNA

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. The times they are a changing. Not long ago, applicants who lined up to compete for healthcare jobs hoped to be the lucky winner of the coveted position. Now, due to many factors including COVID burnout, healthcare organizations are competing to attract candidates to fill the void created by open positions. More than ever, employers are seeking ways to retain current workers while creating a positive reputation that will attract additional qualified people.

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Could K-Pop Help Deter Kim Jong-un's Provocations?

The Rand Blog

The United States and Republic of Korea could be more specific and creative in seeking to deter Kim Jong-un. The global popularity of K-pop could be part of the strategy.

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Telemedicine boosts access, decreases inequities in Montana

Healthcare It News

Montana has unique challenges in providing healthcare to its widely dispersed population of just over 1 million people. THE PROBLEM. Out of 56 counties in Montana, 55 are designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), limiting access to both urgent and routine medical visits. The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care.

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Tort Liability is a Potentially Powerful Tool for Pandemic Response

Bill Of Health

By Timothy D. Lytton. When pandemic response efforts are hampered by inadequate enforcement resources and political polarization, tort liability could, potentially, be a powerful public health tool. However, starting in the initial stages of the pandemic, tort reform advocates quickly secured for businesses sweeping immunity from negligence, thereby sidelining the tort system.

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Xi Jinping Is Weaker Than You Think

The Rand Blog

Although Xi wields significant influence over Chinese domestic politics—certainly more than his most recent predecessors—he still needs support from the Party elite. And on that front, some cracks are showing.

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LCMC Health to acquire 3 HCA hospitals in partnership with Tulane University

Health Care Dive

Together, the two plan to expand academic medicine across Southeast Louisiana. The deal will leave HCA with one remaining hospital in the state.

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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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Microsoft releases data-driven updates for healthcare cloud

Healthcare It News

Microsoft this week unveiled new capabilities to help solve some common roadblocks to enhancing patient engagement and effective health team collaboration, and to help support healthcare organizations more easily leveraging their enterprise data warehousing to fuel clinical and operational analytics. WHY IT MATTERS. The new Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare tools have been designed to address provider burdens and facilitate proactive patient care, according to an October 12 Microsoft Health blog po

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State Respite Care and Adult Day Services Policies

NASHP

State Respite Care and Adult Day Services Policies October 12, 2022 / by Kimberly Hodges and Wendy Fox-Grage. Family caregivers across the nation have emphasized to the RAISE Act Family Caregiving Council that what they often need is respite care –-that is, services that provide caregivers time off to attend to their own needs and obtain relief from the ongoing demands of care work.

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5 Home Health CEOs Tease Plans, Priorities For 2023

Home Health Care

The end of the year tends to light a fire under those looking to bring their organization’s goals to fruition. Thus is the case for some of home health’s top leaders during the last three months of the year. In the remaining months of 2022, leaders across home health care are focusing on addressing the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) pending payment rule, rolling out new programs to enhance care delivery, staff continuity and more.

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CommonSpirit Health confirms it was hit by ransomware attack

Health Care Dive

The health system is still grappling with the cyberattack more than a week after it first disclosed it was dealing with an unspecified “IT security incident.” The hospital chain said it is working to bring systems back online as quickly as possible.

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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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Send Mammogram leverages cloud for data security

Healthcare It News

The mobile and web application that digitally shares breast images sought a managed cloud services provider to operationalize compliance and ensure patients’ private health data remains safe and secure. WHY IT MATTERS. Without past, difficult-to-transfer breast imaging data, patients may experience additional radiation exposure and unnecessary tests — a void Send Mammogram was launched to fill.

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White House Designates October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. President Biden designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month and encouraged the public and private sectors to take immediate action to protect against cyber threats in a White House press release. Cyberattacks affect our day-to-day lives, our economy, and our national security.

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The CHIPS Act Alone Won't Secure U.S. Semiconductor Supply Chains

The Rand Blog

The implementation of the CHIPS Act shows promise for revitalizing the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing industry via investments in research and development, workforce development, and incentives programs. But executing on these ambitions could take some time and may not resolve all semiconductor supply chain risks.

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CVS tags Optum exec to lead new healthcare delivery division

Health Care Dive

Effective Oct. 17, Amar Desai will lead the new CVS unit, and will work to link CVS’ portfolio to develop payer-agnostic products and services.

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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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Securing the edge: How Advantech and Microsoft are improving healthcare IoT security

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Advantech Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: Advantech.

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Walgreens’ Home-Focused Health Care Segment Set To ‘Rapidly Scale’ In 2023

Home Health Care

The fourth quarter loss reported by Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) on Thursday is not a good indication for fiscal year 2023 and beyond, according to the company’s chief financial officer. And, in fact, it’s banking on its home-based care investments as contributors. Among those are VillageMD, CareCentrix and Shields Health Solutions, which will drive high contributions to the company’s bottom line as they mature, CFO James Kehoe said during the company’s earnings call.

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Supporting Family Caregivers: A Roadmap for States

NASHP

Supporting Family Caregivers: A Roadmap for States. To inform the National Strategy, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) created the RAISE Act State Policy Roadmap for Family Caregivers. The roadmap helps states interested in expanding supports for family caregivers by offering the following policy strategies and promising practices.

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Walmart steps into clinical trials, joining rivals Walgreens, CVS

Health Care Dive

The new division could become a valuable stream of revenue for Walmart as drug companies look for potential participants in clinical trials and studies.

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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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Windows IoT for healthcare

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Advantech Primary topic: Privacy & Security Topic: Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: On Demand Webinars External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: Advantech.

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Six Reasons you Can’t Breathe Through Your Nose

Healthcare Associates

Six Reasons you Can’t Breathe Through Your Nose. Breathing is supposed to be easy, breezy. After all, it’s natural. Breathe in. Breathe out. The average person takes up to 22,000 breathes every day. You probably don’t even think about it — until you can’t breathe through your nose. From nasty viruses and allergies to anatomical anomalies, here’s six on-the-nose reasons you can struggle with a stuffed-up nose.

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Recruiter’s guide to choosing a staffing agency

CHQ Healthcare

For recruitment professionals who are new to hiring locum tenens providers, choosing and working with staffing agencies poses a steep learning curve. There are reputable agencies that will help you meet (and even exceed) your staffing goals. At the same time, you also need to be wary of less-than-stellar agencies that lack the ability or willingness to provide quality service.

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Beleaguered Bright slashes footprint, fully exiting ACA markets and restricting MA to 2 states

Health Care Dive

Bright is doubling down on its decision earlier this year to contract its business, halting the sale of ACA plans to focus on care delivery business NeueHealth as well as MA in higher-performing markets.

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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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How doctors can speed their work with software

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Q&A with the Experts: Puerto Rico

The Rand Blog

When Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico on September 18, electricity went out across the island. It was a reminder that recovery from 2017's Hurricane Maria is far from complete. RAND researchers discuss the difficulties Puerto Rico is still facing.

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First-Ever Medicare Advantage Plan for LGBTQ+ Older Adults Launches

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – SCAN Health Plan , a Medicare Advantage insurer known for its expertise in keeping older adults healthy and independent is launching SCAN Affirm partnered with Included LGBTQ+ Health (HMO), a first-of-its-kind Medicare Advantage plan developed exclusively for LGBTQ+ older adults, in collaboration with Included Health , the only integrated virtual care and navigation platform. – SCAN Health Plan will offer the SCAN Affirm plan to members in California’s Los Ang

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Omicron boosters from Pfizer, Moderna cleared by FDA for younger children

Health Care Dive

Pfizer's reformulated vaccine is now authorized for use in children at least 5 years of age, while Moderna's will be available for kids as young as 6.

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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.