Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
It's the latest sprint in an ongoing race among drugstore chains to build out nationwide medical clinics, as consumers increasingly look for low-cost, convenient care options close to the home after two years of the pandemic.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
The World Health Organization released a policy brief this past week aimed at combating age-related bias in health-related artificial intelligence tools. The brief , "Ageism in artificial intelligence for health," proposes a wide range of measures to ensure older people are effectively engaged in the processes, technologies and services affecting them.
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Health Populi
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
While love can’t solve all of the world’s problems, it is absolutely a basic human need and a positive force for health and well-being. For today’s Health Populi blog, I have curated a big hug-full of posts I’ve written over the years building the evidence base of love as a determinant of health. As a sidebar, the graphic you see here — my “WiFi Heart” — was purposefully commissioned to my web designer to incorporate elements of love and connectivi
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
With Russia now having enough troops and equipment in place to invade Ukraine if diplomacy fails, one fallout of such an invasion could be a massive refugee or migration crisis. If that happened, there would be significant humanitarian, political, and economic implications for both the Ukrainians who flee and for the European nations they go to.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Regulators allege a union between Lifespan and Care New England would increase prices and diminish quality as the combined system would control at least 70% of the state's hospital market.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
A systematic review of 28 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week found that telehealth-delivered interventions for patients of color were mostly effective when it came to treating and managing many conditions. However, technological difficulties were the main barriers to effective telehealth consultation.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Meditech
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Those who know me well know that I am driven by a sense of optimism — looking to the future with a sense of all that will be possible, even during unpredictable times. I am filled with a tremendous sense of pride to see how our industry has responded to recent challenges none of us would have anticipated. We have done so with a sense of fluidity and the specific intention of making a positive difference.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The agency's commissioners will weigh Thursday whether to investigate PBMs and their relationship to drug prices and "practices that may disadvantage independent or specialty pharmacies," according to the meeting agenda.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
At Bumrungrad International Hospital, chief digital MarTech officer Wisut Ua-Anant has led the development of a comprehensive digital health application that brings the benefits of transformation directly to its Thai and international patients. One of the major impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was a significant reduction in the hospital’s international business and a need to refocus strategically on the needs of domestic patients during the crisis, as Ua-Anant explains.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
It felt super appropriate that I met up with Abner Mason, Founder of SameSky Health, on Valentine’s Day 2022. While we conversed via Zoom, Abner’s positive energy vibrated over the 5,600 miles between him in LA County and me in Brussels, Belgium – nine hours apart, but in the proverbial same room in the conversation. My initial ask of Abner was to discuss the re-branding of ConsejoSano to SameSky Health , but I first wanted to hear the man’s origin story.
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Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The vast majority of home-based care organizations are dealing with capacity constraints, rising levels of staff burnout, recruitment roadblocks and other operational challenges. While many of the current hurdles are due to macro-level forces that are largely outside of an operator’s control, some can be cleared with the help of smart scheduling, strategic incentives and impactful training programs.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Among today's leaders in healthcare, few health system executives have the fortitude and patience to stand by a long-term investment until it pays dividends. CommonSpirit Health CEO Lloyd Dean, who announced that he is retiring in 2022, is someone whom we should all aspire to model. While.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Because of COVID-19, many primary care physicians have seen declines in well-child visits and vaccinations. The trend has put children at risk for developmental delays, and children and adults at risk for infectious diseases. The declines have significantly impacted operations. In the summer of 2020, healthcare data and software company Arcadia started offering provider-organization clients analytics to create educational outreach campaigns designed to cut through conflicting information and enc
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. It’s easy to lose sight that we’re in flu season when we’re up to our eyeballs battling COVID-19. It is indeed flu season and here’s the current stats : We’ve seen worse maps for the past 23 months – lots of red on the COVID-19 maps. Still, we can’t let our guard nor surveillance lapse on preventing severe illness and death from the flu.
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Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Sprinter Health – an on-demand mobile health startup – has raised a lot of money since it was founded at the beginning of last year. The company, which partners with home-based care agencies, has taken a slow-and-steady approach to spending that money as it figures out what works in the home and what doesn’t. Of the nearly $38 million it has raised, it hasn’t spent more than $5 million of it.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Numerous pharmacists urged commissioners to probe the practices of PBMs, which they allege harm their independent pharmacies and threaten to drive them out of business.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
COVID-19 has created another health crisis in this country – a massive increase in depression and other mental health issues associated with being isolated. Further, the opioid crisis has worsened with an increase in addiction. THE PROBLEM. For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Friday, February 18 th is just around the corner. This blog is to give you the heads-up regarding this important day. No, it’s not a Federal or state holiday nor a Hallmark moment but a day to honor caregivers who silently and selflessly give of themselves every day. “There are different types of caregivers who are not just limited to the health sector.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
What You Should Know: – EarliTec Dx , a digital health company developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic products for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and early childhood vulnerabilities, today announced a $19.5 million financing led by Bernie Marcus, with participation from the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA). – This round of financing will be used to support filing with the U.S.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The decision vacates a violation letter HHS sent to the drugmaker that argued it was illegally restricting discounts on drugs providers delivered through contract pharmacies.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Mercy Hospital, a tertiary surgical hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand, has deployed a bedside terminal platform by Rauland Australia. The Concierge platform combines Rauland's software and services with Siemens HiMed bedside terminal. It supports patient engagement through features including telehealth, on-demand patient education, patient information, electronic meal ordering, patient communications and entertainment.
Healthcare Associates
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
When To Worry About a Headache. Headaches are a common symptom of many different health conditions. The burden of severe headache and migraine is high in the United States, where it affects one in six Americans at least once during a three-month period, reports the journal Headache. Headaches can be caused by a wide range of problems, some of which are more serious than others.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health , today announced the launch of Chronic Care Complete, a first-of-its-kind chronic condition management solution to help individuals improve their health outcomes while living with multiple chronic conditions. – The solution provides members with a unified, comprehensive experience that leverages connected health monitoring devices, access to health coaches and support from physicians and mental health specialists.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
An election to decertify the Massachusetts Nurses Association from representing nurses at the hospital could threaten gains achieved in a new contract agreement following a 10-month strike last year.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Royal Melbourne Hospital introduces remote heart device interrogation amid lockdowns. The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), a public hospital in Victoria has turned to remote interrogations of cardiac implanted electronic devices (CIED) to continue checking up on patients amid COVID-19 lockdowns. Remote device interrogation kiosks have been set up at local pharmacies where patients can show up and connect their devices.
Health Advances
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
By Masha Dumanis, Senior Director. After decades lagging behind in funding, and as a result – innovation, women’s health is finally having a moment. The intersection of women’s health, digital health, medical devices and diagnostic tools, sometimes referred to as FemTech (though we are not fans of this particular terminology), brought in over $1B in VC funding for the first time in 2021, according to Rock Health.
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.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The February 10, 2022 Federal Register includes the announcement of the opening of a docket to obtain comment on the proposed clinical practice guideline, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids—United States, 2022. “The clinical practice guideline updates and expands the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain— United States, 2016, and provides evidence-based recommendations for clinicians who
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
One of the nation's largest nonprofit health systems also disclosed an agreement to acquire a pair of hospitals in the central U.S. for $135 million.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
What You Should Know: H1 , a global healthcare professional data ecosystem to enable life sciences, academic medical institutions, health systems, and payors acquires London-based Faculty Opinions Ltd , formerly known as Faculty of 1000 and F1000 Prime. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – A close partner of H1, Faculty Opinions fuses the comments and opinions of thousands of top researchers in the Life and Medical Sciences to highlight and validate the most exciting
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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.
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