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Confidence in Science/Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership

Blog post by Joe Babaian. It’s the kind of mistrust of science because science is viewed as authority. And there’s a lot of anti-authority feeling. I think that’s the kind of thing that drives the anti-vaxxers , the people who don’t believe the science of vaccination and don’t want to get their children vaccinated. It’s all part of that trend, which is very disturbing.

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77% of Healthcare Apps Contain Vulnerabilities, Report Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Veracode recently unveiled key findings on the healthcare sector’s cybersecurity efforts from its annual State of Software Security v12 report. The analysis of data from 20 million scans across half a million applications shows that healthcare is leading the way for fix rate of software security flaws, at 27%, which is higher than any other sectors, including financial services, retail, and government. – But there is still work to be done, as 77% of appl

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How to Tackle Inflation by Boosting Your Practice’s Revenue

Solution Reach

If you’ve done a double-take recently when eyeballing your grocery bill, gassing up your car, or pretty much buying anything, you’re far from being alone. Record inflation is a nasty bite out of everyone’s wallets and may have you creatively thinking of ways to curtail your expenses. Consumer prices increased an astounding 9.1 percent year-over-year in June 2022—and it looks like it may be a while before they come back down to planet Earth.

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Providers now required to share greater scope of patient data

Health Care Dive

As of Thursday, the amount of data that healthcare entities must share to comply with sweeping information blocking regulations has increased, despite providers saying they’re not ready for the change.

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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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Digital health cannot deliver on its promise without patient activation

Healthcare It News

When it comes to changing patients’ health behaviour, simply providing them with information is not enough. "There’s a big gap between knowledge and intention," said Dr Praveen Deorani, senior data scientist at the Singapore Ministry of Health in his session " Data-driven Approach for Patient Activation and Behaviour Change.

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How to Optimize Your Website for Google’s Helpful Content Update

Healthcare Success

Google Search is always updating its algorithm, especially when it comes to content. As an agency, we keep track of these updates and make sure our clients’ websites comply with the latest search engine standards. On August 25 of this year, the search giant rolled out yet another update, this time dubbed the “helpful content update.” The goal of this signal is to reward high-quality content while also penalizing websites with content created just for SEO.

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How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations

Health Care Dive

Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.

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EHNAC and CARIN Alliance launch new accreditation program

Healthcare It News

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission and The CARIN Alliance have partnered to bring both the CARIN Code of Conduct and EHNAC’s criteria review process to health plans, health systems, EHR vendors and others for reporting to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on their data practices and privacy protections. WHY IT MATTERS.

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An Overview of Connecticut’s Effort to Diversify Insurance Brokers

NASHP

An Overview of Connecticut’s Effort to Diversify Insurance Brokers October 7, 2022 / by Gia Gould. This year , Access Health CT , Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace, launched the Broker Academy, an innovative new program that creates a pathway for members of historically underserved and underinsured communities to become licensed health insurance brokers.

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A Moment of Strategic Clarity

The Rand Blog

With the Russian mobilization and declared annexation, whatever prospects there were for a negotiated peace seem to have all but vanished. Any result short of Ukrainian victory will be, in the long run, a worse outcome for the rules-based international order.

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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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SCOTUS won’t hear challenge to health worker vaccine mandate

Health Care Dive

In January, the high court upheld the CMS rule mandating that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 at medical facilities that receive federal funding.

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Digital engagement must put patients at the center of care

Healthcare It News

By Luciano Brustia, Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific for InterSystems. Digital engagement is part of life in almost every industry. Consumers expect to interact with their suppliers digitally, and healthcare is now catching up. But healthcare is different. The “customer” data we collect is far more complex and difficult to interpret.

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CVS Health Appoints Head Of Its Newly Formed Health Care Delivery Organization

Home Health Care

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has named Dr. Amar Desai the president of its newly formed Health Care Delivery organization. Desai’s appointment is effective Oct. 17. In recent years, the company has been in the spotlight due to a number of strategic moves that have signaled a deeper investment in health care services, including home-based care. Along these lines, this announcement is indicative of CVS Health’s continued efforts in this space.

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The U.S. Has a Microchip Problem. Safeguarding Taiwan Is the Solution

The Rand Blog

Taiwan manufactures about 92 percent of the world's advanced microchips, which are used in almost all electronics, from cars to coffeemakers to combine harvesters. A Chinese attack on the island would imperil the world's supply of microchips. Here's how to offset that threat.

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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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Telehealth use rose overall in July, report finds

Health Care Dive

Telehealth use increased in the West, Midwest and South in July while it fell in the Northeast, according to Fair Health’s monthly telehealth data out Monday.

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Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Healthcare It News

The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19,

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CMS Updates Long-Term Care Survey Process Documents

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted updates to the LTCSP on October 4, 2022. The direct link to each of these files/folders: Revision History for LTC Survey Process Documents and Files Updated 10/04/2022 (PDF). Survey Resources with Staff Vaccine Documents 10/04/2022 (ZIP). Appendix PP State Operations Manual (Revised 10/04/2022) (PDF).

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What Six Medicare Advantage Organizations Are Offering Seniors At Home In 2023

Home Health Care

With the annual enrollment period just around the corner, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are starting to tout what benefits they’re offering seniors for the upcoming year. MA is a form of Medicare that is administered by private insurers. Over recent years, plans have received more flexibility around what they can offer. That flexibility has allowed more plans to offer in-home care services as part of their benefits.

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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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Done deal: UnitedHealth completes $13B Change Healthcare buy

Health Care Dive

It does not appear the DOJ will challenge the deal in appellate court, although not appealing would be viewed as a major setback for the agency, antitrust legal experts told Healthcare Dive.

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DEI in patient education improves engagement, lowers costs

Healthcare It News

Incorporating diversity into channels and platforms like Emmi, Wolters Kluwer Health's patient-facing personalized education tool leveraged by providers, payers and partners, is about empowering and encouraging patients to be part of their healthcare decision-making, said Evan Heigert, brand and creative director overseeing patient engagement across Wolters Kluwer Health.

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Current COVID-19 Nursing Home Data: CMS-CDC-NHSN

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending September 25, 2022. Comparing the September 25 th data to the September 18 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate was unchanged from previous week. Residents with booster doses decreased 1.1% from previous 2 weeks.

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1,091 MA Plans To Offer In-Home Support Services In 2023, A Significant Increase

Home Health Care

Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are now allowed to tout the benefits they will be offering their members in 2023. Home-based care providers should be “delighted” at what the preliminary data shows. That’s according to Tyler Cromer, a principal at the Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy organization ATI Advisory. Specifically, in-home support services (IHSS) will be available in 1,091 MA plans in 2023, which accounts for almost one in every five plans.

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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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CommonSpirit Health says it experienced ‘IT security incident’ in multiple regions

Health Care Dive

Details are still emerging on the incident, which is impacting multiple divisions of the 140-hospital system and causing patient procedures to be rescheduled in some areas.

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MIT, MGH create VR system to advance physical therapy at home

Healthcare It News

MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers created a motion and muscle engagement monitoring system for unsupervised physical rehabilitation, which could help with injuries and better mobility for the elderly and athletes, they say. WHY IT MATTERS. Disability conditions benefit from physical rehabilitation, but there aren’t enough physical therapists to go around.

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Riding the Waves: Prepare Now for the Coming Changes to the MDS 3.0

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare . Yesterday’s (October 6, 2022) webinar (same title as this blog) is now available for on-demand viewing. Listen at a time and place that’s convenient for you, your team, your colleagues. It’s information for anyone/everyone that works with the MDS 3.0. Click on the Register button on the above website and complete registration.

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How Desert Oasis Healthcare Is Leveraging Google’s Tech To Improve Care Delivery

Home Health Care

Desert Oasis Healthcare will be piloting Google Health’s (Nasdaq: GOOGL) clinical software Care Studio. The Palm Springs, California-based Desert Oasis Healthcare is an integrated care delivery model comprising a medical group and an Independent Practitioner Association. The organization serves roughly 30,000 seniors, often in their homes. “In California, we’re delegated to take full risk for our members, which means we do everything from primary care and preventative care, all the way through h

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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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Details emerge on CommonSpirit’s ‘IT security incident’ as more regions report disruptions

Health Care Dive

Some CommonSpirit hospitals across the country have been cut off from their electronic health records, forcing them to revert to paper charts. Ambulances were diverted from facilities in Iowa for a short period on Monday.

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The importance of data for clinical decision-making

Healthcare It News

"If we're genuine about changing patient experience we have to make sure we collect data and make the clinical decisions as close to the data collection as possible," said AJ Missaghi, CTO of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Dell Technologies. During his session, " Healthcare Industrial Revolution," sponsored by Dell Technologies, Missaghi argued it was important that healthcare leaders use insights from data to bring new levels of efficiency to patient care.

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Does Ibruprofen Help With a Sore Throat?

Healthcare Associates

Does Ibruprofen Help With a Sore Throat? A sore throat can be uncomfortable and distracting. Feeling a surge of pain every time you talk or swallow makes it hard to concentrate on other activities. Also, a sore throat may be a sign that you’re coming down with an illness or infection. Other symptoms may follow quickly on the heels of a sore throat. You may want to reach for over-the-counter medicine to reduce the discomfort in your throat.

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‘Come Home To Roost’: Lawsuit Filed Against HHS Over Home Health Care Shortcomings

Home Health Care

A class action lawsuit against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is accusing the federal agency of failing to properly administer the Medicare home health benefit. Although the lawsuit may come as a surprise to some, it doesn’t for Bill Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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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.