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CVS, Microsoft ink alliance to develop digital health, personalized products

Health Care Dive

CVS is looking to weave together its virtual and physical assets to capture a greater slice of patients' healthcare journeys — and the corresponding revenue.

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Zoom announces new integration with Cerner EHR

Healthcare It News

Zoom announced this week that it had launched an integration option with Cerner's electronic health record platform. The initiative, which is currently available to beta customers , is aimed at facilitating easier access to telehealth from within Cerner's EHR. "With virtual care here to stay, providers must focus on delivering a seamless experience for telehealth visits – one that’s easy, intuitive, and frictionless for patients, and secure, trusted and simple from a cli

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After court-ordered injunctions, Cleveland Clinic, HCA and other providers hit pause on workforce vaccine mandates

Fierce Healthcare

After court-ordered injunctions, Cleveland Clinic, HCA and other providers hit pause on workforce vaccine mandates. dmuoio. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 16:30.

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Report: Caregiver Support Can Lower the Risk of a Prolonged Nursing Home Stay

Home Health Care

For the majority of seniors living alone, recovering from an acute illness at home is preferable to doing so in a long-term care facility. That’s according to a recent study by researchers at UC San Francisco. The study examined data from 4,772 adults who were part of the Health and Retirement Study, which tracked health changes in those transitioning from working to retirement.

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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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3 healthcare CIOs share top industry challenges

Health Care Dive

Healthcare CIOs help companies maintain the quality of care, balance costs, keep critical IT infrastructure up and running and attract enough talent to meet innovation goals.

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Digital health apps in Germany - An update on the DiGA journey

Healthcare It News

Digital therapeutics, or Digital Health Applications (DiGA), are apps for the detection, monitoring, treatment, or alleviation of medical conditions. The DiGA initiative is part of the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) that sets the legal framework for doctors to prescribe DiGAs to the 73 million citizens insured with a statutory health insurer that reimburses their use, and has been recognised as a pioneering approach globally.

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The Surprising Shape of COVID Fraud

Bill Of Health

By James Toomey. When the world went into lockdown in March 2020, many commentators noticed that social isolation could offer scammers an unprecedented opportunity to take advantage of people’s fear and loneliness. But they didn’t anticipate that fraud would generally affect a range of age groups. Indeed, much like the virus itself, the risks of frauds and scams related to the COVID pandemic were thought primarily to affect older adults.

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Patient willingness for telehealth high, but in-person care perceived as more valuable, research suggests

Health Care Dive

Patients who leaned toward in-person care were more willing to pay for it, while those who preferred video visits were more sensitive to out-of-pocket costs, a survey conducted by Rand found.

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City of Hope advances cancer care with hybrid telehealth and in-person visits

Healthcare It News

City of Hope, based near Los Angeles, is a research and treatment organization for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. Part of that strategic direction was working with technology companies to ensure that City of Hope leveraged telehealth in a high-quality, patient-centric way while easing the burden of travel times for patients undergoing treatment.

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Carbon Health launches new program with continuous glucose monitors to assess diabetes risk

Fierce Healthcare

Carbon Health launches new program with continuous glucose monitors to assess diabetes risk. rtorrence. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 17:47.

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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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Humana Finds That 20% of Medicare Advantage Expenditures Can Be Addressed Via Home Care Services

Home Health Care

Home care has become a crucial part of care plans for primary care providers (PCPs), according to a new value-based care report conducted by Humana (NYSE: HUM). The report tracked physician progress and patient outcomes based on 2020 data and highlighted how value-based PCPs were able to leverage home care to improve some of those outcomes. “Home-based care can be a partner and support system to help PCPs and other physicians take the best care of their patients,” Andrew Lynch, the vice presiden

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HHS appeals block on vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

Health Care Dive

State and federal lawmakers are battling over the fate of a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers that will soon be decided in court. At least two major health systems have paused their vaccination requirements as a result of the pending litigation.

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How data intelligence will drive precision healthcare in the NHS

Healthcare It News

As the NHS evolves, many trusts are developing into digitally mature systems, shifting away from the paper-dominated organisations they once were. With the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), it has become possible to deliver deeper insights into patient illness status, often in real time. This, in turn, facilitates prediction and prevention of diseases; as well as development of patient-specific care pathways, enabling a move from a disease-oriented approach to care to a more pa

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HHS: Telehealth use in Medicare increased 63-fold last year with behavioral health increasing the most

Fierce Healthcare

HHS: Telehealth use in Medicare increased 63-fold last year with behavioral health increasing the most. rking. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 16:14.

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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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5 Most Important Healthcare Marketing Trends in 2022

Health Care Success

A large part of how we plan our marketing strategies involves taking into account predicted trends for the upcoming year. . Looking back at my predictions for 2020 , I’m intrigued by the speed at which some of these projections materialized. . As we look forward to a new year in marketing, I know the competition will be fierce and that only those health and wellness brands with solid marketing strategies will survive, let alone thrive in 2022. .

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Vaccine makers move quickly to confront omicron threat

Health Care Dive

Several companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, are already at work adapting their coronavirus shots to the newly identified variant, which experts worry could more readily evade vaccine protection.

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CareCloud CEO predicts what's around the corner for telehealth

Healthcare It News

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. We also know that utilization has gradually tapered off as patients have become somewhat more comfortable seeking in-person care – but that many individuals, having experienced the convenience of virtual services, are unwilling to give them up again.

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AMA: Medicare physician fee schedule spending dropped nearly $14B last year due to COVID-19

Fierce Healthcare

AMA: Medicare physician fee schedule spending dropped nearly $14B last year due to COVID-19. rking. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 12:25.

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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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Federal Judge Halts Health Care Worker Vaccine Mandate Nationwide

Home Health Care

The health care worker vaccine mandate is now on ice. A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction to stop the start of the national vaccine mandate for all providers covered by the Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation (CoPs), a group that includes home health agencies. The move comes just one day after a federal court in Missouri said the health care worker vaccine mandate was “an unlawful promulgation of regulations,” halting its pending implementation in 10 largely

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VA to resume Cerner medical record implementation early next year with new leadership

Health Care Dive

Officials have released an updated deployment schedule for the beleaguered $16 billion EHR modernization project.

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How Essen Health Care used an AI virtual care assistant to make thousands of patient calls in just days

Healthcare It News

The New York State Health Home program is designed for the neediest Medicaid patients and aims to reduce overall healthcare costs by decreasing inpatient costs (and utilization) by addressing social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and food. THE PROBLEM. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major SDOH crisis in New York, resulting in an increased demand for Health Home care-coordination services – not only for current patients but for a new pool of patients who need the

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CVS inks tech partnership with Microsoft to accelerate its 'digital-first' strategy

Fierce Healthcare

CVS inks tech partnership with Microsoft to accelerate its 'digital-first' strategy. hlandi. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 06:26.

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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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CMS Vaccine Mandate Blocked in 10 States

Home Health Care

First it was the COVID-19 vaccination mandate from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Now, it’s the one from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Since OSHA and CMS released their interim emergency regulations requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for certain individuals, each has been challenged in court. On Monday, a federal judge in Missouri issued an order partially blocking the Biden administration from implementing the CMS mandate in 10 states.

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Federal judge blocks healthcare worker vaccine mandate in 10 states

Health Care Dive

A key argument in the suit brought by 10 state attorneys general is how a mandate could exacerbate worsening labor strains as health systems grapple with widespread burnout and turnover, especially in rural areas.

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Feds ding five providers in HIPAA Right of Access enforcement actions

Healthcare It News

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights announced this week that it had brought HIPAA-related enforcement actions against five healthcare providers. The actions brought the total number of enforcements carried out under the agency's HIPAA Right of Access Initiative to 25. "Timely access to your health records is a powerful tool in staying healthy, patient privacy and it is your right under law," said OCR Director Lisa J.

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Hack targets Planned Parenthood, exposing personal information of 400K patients

Fierce Healthcare

Hack targets Planned Parenthood, exposing personal information of 400K patients. rtorrence. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 10:13.

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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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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN COVID-19 Data Available; Also, Flu Data

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 November 14, 2021. This latest data set shows these changes from the November 7 th data set: Resident vaccination rate increased 0.2% from the previous week (same as week before) Staff vaccination increased 0.8% from the previous week Resident confirmed cases increased 3,546 from the previous week Staff confirmed cases increased 3,582 from the previous week An

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Jury finds UnitedHealthcare guilty of underpaying TeamHealth subsidiary in Nevada

Health Care Dive

The litigation is a case study into the perennial push and pull between provider groups and insurers over bills, a fight that often leaves patients caught in the middle.

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At Premier Family Physicians, patient self-check-in tech reduces FTEs at one location from 14 to 8

Healthcare It News

Premier Family Physicians, a nine-location group practice based in Austin, Texas, seeks to ensure its providers have the tools they need and processes in place to support patient care and get through each day as productively as possible. To that end, enhancing patient self-management and automating screeners and paper processes is a key goal. THE PROBLEM.

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Federal judge halts CMS' COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in 10 rural states

Fierce Healthcare

Federal judge halts CMS' COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in 10 rural states. dmuoio. Mon, 11/29/2021 - 15:30.

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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.