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Teladoc plans to take on risk in primary care, expand program to hospital clients

Health Care Dive

It's unlikely the vendor will step into fully capitated contracts right away, but its CEO said there are degrees of risk Teladoc will take on: moving from clinical measures of care, to risk corridors and ultimately into capitation.

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Alexa is finding a voice in healthcare. Cedars-Sinai, Boston Children's sign on for new Amazon smart hospital service

Fierce Healthcare

Alexa is finding a voice in healthcare. Cedars-Sinai, Boston Children's sign on for new Amazon smart hospital service. hlandi. Sun, 10/24/2021 - 21:46.

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RPM helps lower A1c below 9% for 84% of patients at Leon Medical Centers

Healthcare It News

Leon Medical Centers serves Medicare patients in South Florida. The center also is the only HIMSS Stage 7 Outpatient Medical Care Institution in Miami-Dade County. The healthcare organization drives toward a standard of care that focuses on personalized patient-physician relationships and quality-driven medical care. (HIMSS is the parent organization of Healthcare IT News.).

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The Great Resignation: American Workers Suffering a Crisis of Meaning

The Rand Blog

Americans are quitting their jobs in record numbers, creating significant shortages of workers for businesses. To understand and address this issue, policymakers might need to pay attention to noneconomic factors in addition to economic ones.

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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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Regulatory burdens strapped medical practices over the past year, MGMA finds

Health Care Dive

Prior authorization requirements were the most frequently cited hurdle, while requirements for Medicare's Quality Payment Program and COVID-19 workplace mandates tied for second, a survey by the medical practices group found.

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Healthcare is in an era of 'hyper-innovation' as executives look to ramp up digital tech: survey

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare is in an era of 'hyper-innovation' as executives look to ramp up digital tech: survey. rtorrence. Thu, 10/28/2021 - 16:57.

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OSHA Cracking Down on Workplace Violence Against Home-Based Care Workers

Home Health Care

Due to the nature of the job, home-based care workers face the risk of experiencing workplace violence. It’s paramount for providers to enact measures that will protect these workers and avoid liability for negligence, legal experts caution. Workplace violence is defined as an act or threat of violence. This ranges from verbal abuse to physical assaults directed toward a person at work or on duty.

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GE Healthcare supply chain woes: Like 'Whac-A-Mole,' to last into 2022

Health Care Dive

"I'm not sure we're yet in a place where we would say that things are stable," GE CEO Larry Culp told investors Tuesday. The healthcare unit took the biggest hit among the conglomerate's business lines due to delays.

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Hinge Health bags $600M investment from Coatue, Tiger Global, boosting valuation to $6.2B

Fierce Healthcare

Hinge Health bags $600M investment from Coatue, Tiger Global, boosting valuation to $6.2B. hlandi. Thu, 10/28/2021 - 11:00.

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Digital pharmacies on the rise. But who is going to pay?

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now

Bill Of Health

By MartĂ­n Hevia and Ximena Benavides. Acknowledging what went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial to any pandemic lawmaking efforts. Chief among these concerns should be the centrality of human rights to global health security. Health systems that lack universality and inclusivity will always fall short on disease surveillance, detection, and response during health emergencies, at the risk of not reaching all populations.

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A look at Teladoc's primary care strategy from its head of US group health

Health Care Dive

In an interview, Kelly Bliss teased upcoming clients for a new virtual-first primary care product and parsed out Teladoc's growth strategies for 2022 and beyond.

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Google taps Headspace executive to lead tech-driven mental health efforts

Fierce Healthcare

Google taps Headspace executive to lead tech-driven mental health efforts. hlandi. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 11:58.

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What's new in EMRAM 2022

Healthcare It News

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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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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

“Americans remain in limbo between lives once lived and whatever the post-pandemic future holds,” the American Psychological Association observes in their latest read into S tress in America 2021, with this phase of the perennial study focused on Stress and Decision-Making During the Pandemic. The top-line: people face a daily web of risk assessment, up-ended routines, and endless news about the coronavirus locally and globally.

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UHS profit down in Q3 as behavioral health segment struggles

Health Care Dive

The chain posted higher acute care revenues that helped offset lower volumes at its behavioral health facilities during the third quarter, though labor shortages remain a key challenge.

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Apps, devices not enough to manage chronic care without patient-doc relationships, Omada Health research finds

Fierce Healthcare

Apps, devices not enough to manage chronic care without patient-doc relationships, Omada Health research finds. rtorrence. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 10:21.

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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN COVID-19 Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the latest nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending October 17, 2021 : This latest data set shows these changes from the October 10 th data set: Resident vaccination increased 0.1% from the previous week Staff vaccination increased 0.6% from the previous week Resident confirmed cases increased 3,404 from the previous week Staff confirmed cases increased 3,797 from the previous week An additional 302 resi

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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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Army Enlistment Waivers in the Age of Legal Marijuana

The Rand Blog

Army recruits with a history of marijuana use can ask for a waiver like those who have diabetes or insomnia. They are just as likely as others to complete their first term and make sergeant, and are less likely to leave the Army for health or performance reasons.

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LifePoint, Kindred spinning off new 79-hospital entity at acquisition's close

Health Care Dive

The deal announced earlier this year would have left LifePoint with some 200 acute, long-term and rehab hospitals, but the private-equity backed companies are electing to spin a number of facilities off into a separate business.

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Clover Health: Open networks encourage patient choice, promote health equity

Fierce Healthcare

Clover Health: Open networks encourage patient choice, promote health equity. rtorrence. Wed, 10/27/2021 - 14:48.

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Join Us for an Upcoming LTC Webinar – November 17, 2021

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This is no time for standing still: Learn the best ways to move forward in clinical care. The years 2020 and 2021 have been extremely challenging for the LTC/PAC workforce thanks to COVID and the ongoing PHE. We continue to learn many lessons from standing firm on the front lines of this historical event — and it’s not done with us yet!

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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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Why Kaiser Permanente Wants to Be Known for Home Care

Home Health Care

Kaiser Permanente is one of the largest health systems and health plans in the entire U.S. And while home-based care has always been a part of the system’s integrated model, it now has its own division, “Care at Home,” underneath the massive brand’s umbrella. Angel Vargas has been enlisted to lead the budding enterprise. He believes that home-based care will be the reason why people are choosing Kaiser in the future.

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Delta surge weighs on Molina's Q3 earnings, but membership up 20%

Health Care Dive

Despite pandemic pressure, the insurer largely beat Wall Street expectations, and Jefferies analysts said the company delivered "solid overall results.

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How Optum's HouseCalls pivoted to virtual when houses couldn't be visited during the pandemic

Fierce Healthcare

How Optum's HouseCalls pivoted to virtual when houses couldn't be visited during the pandemic. rking. Wed, 10/27/2021 - 16:33.

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Gravitate Health working to improve patient outcomes

Healthcare It News

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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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Nearing a Public Spinoff in 2022, Encompass Health Scrambles to Fix Home Health Staffing Issues

Home Health Care

Two days after Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) filed a lawsuit against its former home health and hospice segment CEO for allegedly violating her non-compete agreement, the company gave a little more insight into what was next for the business. “We’re taking a step further today in saying that we now believe that separating [the home health and hospice segment] into a separate independent public company makes the most sense,” Encompass Health CFO Doug Colthrap said on a Q3 earnings call Thurs

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CHS profit, revenue in Q3 mirrors prior year as patient volumes improve

Health Care Dive

Labor costs are a sticking point this earnings season. But unlike its peers, CHS' expenses actually dropped slightly during the period.

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Aetna exec: Retail-based programs connect Medicare members to health resources they trust

Fierce Healthcare

Aetna exec: Retail-based programs connect Medicare members to health resources they trust. dmuoio. Wed, 10/27/2021 - 16:11.

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How Safe Are Vaccines? | FDA Vaccine Approval Process

Healthcare Associates

How Safe Are Vaccines? | FDA Vaccine Approval Process. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that children, adolescents, and adults alike receive several vaccines throughout their lifetimes to prevent the development and spread of infectious diseases. Depending on your state, children may even be required to get certain vaccinations, such as vaccines for tetanus, diphtheria, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, and polio.

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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.