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Johns Hopkins develops Epic-embedded tool to better support telehealth patients

Healthcare It News

Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a tool aimed at automatically identifying patients likely to need telehealth technical assistance. According to an editorial in the Harvard Business Review by four members of the Johns Hopkins team, the tool is embedded in the health system's Epic electronic health record. "The tool can be used by either a central IT support team or by frontline clinical and front desk staff, so they can proactively reach out to patients in need of assistance,"

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Biden administration invests $19M to bolster rural telehealth

Health Care Dive

The investments will provide funding to train primary care providers, aid groups delivering virtual care, pilot new telehealth services and research the efficacy of digitally delivered care in rural geographies.

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Google says health projects will continue even as it unwinds dedicated health division

Fierce Healthcare

Google says health projects will continue even as it unwinds dedicated health division. hlandi. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 19:08.

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State Efforts to Ban or Enforce COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Passports

NASHP

State Efforts to Ban or Enforce COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Passports Updated August 20, 2021. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that employers could require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as long as they did not violate the Americans with Disabilities and the Civil Rights acts. The federal guidance prompted a number of states to prohibit businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of work.

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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 transformation holds promise for chronic disease management

Healthcare It News

Among the challenges of chronic disease management is the lack of interoperability between different medical records and inability to communicate effectively between patients and their physicians and social workers. In a recent HIMSS21 Digital session, Frank Cutitta, CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab led a panel comprising of Karen Murphy, chief innovation officer at Geisinger, and Tony Farah, chief medical and clinical transformation officer at Highmark Health, who noted innovations in cardiac an

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Burnout, delta variant boost demand for traveling nurses again

Health Care Dive

Hospitals are probably paying 10% to 20% more than they were during previous COVID-19 waves for travel nurses, Kathy Kohnke, senior vice president of client relations at Fastaff, said.

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Collapse in Afghanistan: Early Insights from RAND Researchers

The Rand Blog

The sudden end to America's longest war came Sunday as the Taliban rolled into Kabul and the government collapsed. RAND researchers share their thoughts on how to help displaced Afghans, whether the country could again become a safe haven for terrorists, and the geopolitical implications of the collapse.

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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Healthcare It News

Health authorities in Rome have repurposed a COVID-19 telemonitoring tool to monitor people at risk from heat-related illness. In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. These telemonitoring systems allow healthcare to contact elderly and vulnerable people to provide heatwave advice such as adapting their medication or drinking more w

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HHS OIG backs nixing capital cost exemption for new hospitals

Health Care Dive

Currently, new facilities help pay for their capital costs through a special exemption. An HHS watchdog says Medicare could see significant cost savings if regulators did away with the carveout.

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Biden administration to invest $19M to expand telehealth in rural, underserved areas

Fierce Healthcare

Biden administration to invest $19M to expand telehealth in rural, underserved areas. hlandi. Wed, 08/18/2021 - 08:15.

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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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States Address Students’ Transition Back to School

NASHP

States Address Students’ Transition Back to School Updated August 17, 2021. As of August 6, 2021, the CDC has recommended that all children 12 years and older get vaccinated against COVID-19 and that all students wear masks in schools regardless of vaccination status. As states develop their back-to-school planning efforts, a number of states are addressing vaccines, masks and mental health.

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Verizon's BlueJeans Telehealth integrates with Apple Health

Healthcare It News

The Verizon virtual care product BlueJeans Telehealth announced this past week that it had enabled integration with the Apple Health app with the aim of allowing patients to share data with clinicians during telemedicine visits. The integration will allow patients to share data such as heart rate, sleep and falls with their provider, said BlueJeans Chief Innovator and Strategist Krish Ramakrishnan in a blog post.

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FDA warns of BlackBerry cyber vulnerability in medical devices

Health Care Dive

The operating system is often deployed in devices such as cardiac and patient monitors, drug infusion pumps, imaging and surgical robots, according to Nick Yuran, CEO of security consultancy Harbor Labs.

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Maven Clinic nabs $110M funding round and a boost from Oprah to reach unicorn status

Fierce Healthcare

Maven Clinic nabs $110M funding round and a boost from Oprah to reach unicorn status. hlandi. Tue, 08/17/2021 - 12:50.

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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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What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’?

Bill Of Health

By Wendy E. Parmet. Social movements can play an important role in promoting population health and reducing health disparities. Yet, their impact need not be salutatory, as is evident by the worrying success that the anti-vaccination movement has had in stoking fears about COVID-19 vaccines. So, what makes a health-related social movement “healthy?” We need far more research about the complex dynamics and interactions between social movements and health, but the experience of a few health-relate

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Voice technology opens new avenues for at-home healthcare

Healthcare It News

The dynamic world of voice technology is impacting healthcare through a number of use cases, as technologies like natural language processing allow computers to understand what humans can say – and allowing computers to speak back. In a HIMSS21 Digital discussion between David Metcalf, director of UCF's institute for simulation and training, and Teri Fisher, physician and clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, Fisher pointed out voice allows providers to mu

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Hospital patient volumes match 2019 levels, will exceed them next year

Health Care Dive

Hospital executives surveyed by McKinsey also said they will focus on growing surgical volumes — which took a huge hit in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. — but will shift more of them to the outpatient setting.

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NextGen Healthcare founder Razin looks to shake up board to improve company's performance

Fierce Healthcare

NextGen Healthcare founder Razin looks to shake up board to improve company's performance. hlandi. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 12:58.

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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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Two-Thirds of States Have Reported Permanent Closures of HCBS Providers During the Pandemic

Home Health Care

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the need for home- and community-based services (HCBS), with that attention likely to lead to new funding and regulatory flexibilities moving forward. At the same time, however, the public health emergency (PHE) has disrupted the HCBS space more than anything in history. In fact, the amount of Medicaid HCBS providers has actually declined during the pandemic, with two-thirds of states reporting the permanent closure of at least one provider over the last y

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Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi adopts NASA EquiTest to treat chronic dizziness

Healthcare It News

A special balance test originally used by NASA in its space programmes has been adopted by an Abu Dhabi hospital to help determine the cause of prolonged or recurrent dizziness. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi – which is part of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the United States – has just launched a specialised multidisciplinary “Balance Clinic” which includes the EquiTest, known as the world’s first commercially available Computerised Dynamic Posturography (CDP) devi

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Payments to MA plans raised overall Medicare spend by $7B in 2019, analysis finds

Health Care Dive

The Kaiser Family Foundation chalked the higher spending up to how MA is paid, including how benchmarks for plan payments are set and the risk adjustment process.

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Insurers take cue from providers, begin requiring vaccines for employees

Fierce Healthcare

Insurers take cue from providers, begin requiring vaccines for employees. pminemyer. Thu, 08/19/2021 - 12:32.

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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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We Need to Open Up the AI Black Box

Geek Doctor

To convince physicians and nurses that deep learning algorithms are worth using in everyday practice, developers need to explain how they work in plain clinical English. Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, and John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. AI’s so-called black box refers to the fact that much of the underlying technology behind machine learning-enhanced algorithms is probability/statistics without a

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Rauland equips care hotel in Adelaide with safety monitoring, fall detection devices

Healthcare It News

ECH Dandelion, a care hotel operated by South Australia-based home care provider Enabling Confidence at Home, has been equipped with a technology platform for aged care communication and delivery from health IT provider Rauland Australia. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. Rauland's Concentric Care platform, which was launched last year, has been introduced in the newly opened ECH Dandelion in Walkerville, Adelaide.

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Providence posts H1 operating loss amid increased labor costs

Health Care Dive

As more patients returned for care, the Washington state-based system's expenses increased to meet demand and was further stressed by worker shortages.

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GoodRx reports spike in drug discount subscribers driving 43% revenue growth in Q2

Fierce Healthcare

GoodRx reports spike in drug discount subscribers driving 43% revenue growth in Q2. hlandi. Thu, 08/19/2021 - 12:39.

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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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Aging-In-Place Alternatives: How UpsideH?M, CarePods Are Disrupting Traditional Senior Care Models

Home Health Care

Seniors’ overwhelming preference to receive care and remain in their homes has opened the door for companies looking to disrupt the aging-in-place sector. One startup, UpsideH?M, is doing this with its tech-enabled co-living space for older adults. As part of its business model, the company creates co-living environments by partnering with existing apartment complexes and leasing individual units — or blocks of units.

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5 reasons to listen to MEDITECH podcasts

Meditech

Podcasts continue to grow in popularity across many industries — and healthcare is no exception. MEDITECH recently launched our own podcast series , focused on the intersection of technology and medicine and featuring unique perspectives from today’s thought leaders in healthcare.

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Many insurers are no longer waiving cost sharing for COVID-19 treatment

Health Care Dive

This may pose a new strain for providers as Americans are left to cover their out-of-pocket costs, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Survey: Nurses largely on board with COVID-19 vaccines but want more info on boosters, long-term safety

Fierce Healthcare

Survey: Nurses largely on board with COVID-19 vaccines but want more info on boosters, long-term safety. dmuoio. Wed, 08/18/2021 - 15:32.

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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.