Health Care Dive
JANUARY 6, 2022
The multibillion-dollar buy is medtech's first major deal of 2022, following a spending spree in the sector last year. Stryker's stock price was slightly down Thursday, but Vocera's rose by nearly 27%.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 5, 2022
As the omicron variant spreads across Europe, leaders are tightening COVID restrictions and bringing in new rules to increase vaccination uptake. In December the European Commission reduced the validity period of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) to nine months to encourage people to have boosters, based on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s recommendation that the third jab should be given within six months.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 7, 2022
CMS issued over 300 warnings, but no fines, to hospitals falling short on price transparency last year. dmuoio. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 17:39.
Health Populi
JANUARY 4, 2022
The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. Last night, Steve discussed these trends for media attendees, of which I am one (gratefully) participating in #CES2022 virtually from the hygienic comfort and safety of my home health hub (more on that later in this post).
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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 7, 2022
Competition for members was "very aggressive" as Humana's competitors came in with lower-priced plans and spent more on marketing to attract customers away, CEO Bruce Broussard said.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 7, 2022
ThedaCare is a seven-hospital health system in Wisconsin with 180 locations and 7,000 employees. To succeed in its mission, ThedaCare is on a path to population health – aiming to go above and beyond treating a particular condition to make care easy and accessible to help achieve better health for life. The health system's goals include providing high-quality care, access for everyone in the community, a great patient experience and affordable care.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Bill Of Health
JANUARY 6, 2022
By Mason Marks. On Tuesday, Washington State legislators filed SB 5660 , a bill that would legalize the supported adult use of psilocybin by people 21 years of age and older. Sponsored by Senators Jesse Salomon and Liz Lovelett, the bill, known as the Washington Psilocybin Wellness and Opportunity Act, includes many innovative features including a Social Opportunity Program to help address harms caused by the war on drugs, support for small businesses, and accommodations for people with certain
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 6, 2022
"The grave danger that led to issuance of the emergency temporary standard not only remains, but has dramatically increased with the omicron variant and current surge in infections and hospitalizations," National Nurses United said.
The Rand Blog
JANUARY 4, 2022
Good citizen science brings a community together and helps it prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. A RAND guide takes non-expert investigators from the early stages of defining their questions and setting their goals, through building their teams, to planning for action.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 5, 2022
Magellan Healthcare, NeuroFlow team up on digital mental health program for members. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 01/05/2022 - 18:58.
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Bill Of Health
JANUARY 6, 2022
By Jorge L. Contreras. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently embroiled in a dispute over the ownership of patent rights to Moderna’s flagship mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273). The NIH, which funded much of Moderna’s research on the COVID-19 vaccine, should be assertive in exerting control over the results of this taxpayer-funded research.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 5, 2022
Inflation in 2021 may have offered drugmakers a catalyst for taking slightly bigger increases on a list price basis. But rebates to insurers are still keeping net price rises lower.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 6, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 4, 2022
Hackers hit Broward Health network, potentially exposing data on 1.3M patients, staff. hlandi. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 17:14.
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Health Populi
JANUARY 3, 2022
As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. There are many signposts pointing to the various flavors of mental and behavioral health challenges, from younger peoples’ greater risk of depression and suicide ideation to increased deaths of despair due to overdose among middle-aged people.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 4, 2022
The deal includes some staffing improvements that were top priorities for nurses, including limits on how many patients can be assigned in certain hospital units, along with wage increases, the union said.
The Rand Blog
JANUARY 5, 2022
The title of RAND's 1955 classic, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, doesn't exactly dance off the page. But Paul Dunham, a sound artist in New Zealand, thought the work could make its own kind of music.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 7, 2022
Healthcare smashed venture funding records in 2021 despite poor market performance. rtorrence. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 11:34.
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Health Populi
JANUARY 5, 2022
With the collective pandemic-era pivot of people working from home, remote schooling at home, repurposing our homes for entertainment and fitness, and showing off home-baked goods on Instagram, has consumers’ comfort with new technologies accelerated? Morning Consult assessed this question in a poll timed to coincide with CES 2022, the annual conference dedicated to innovations in consumer electronics. “Is the public ready for the innovations coming out of the 2022 Consumer Electroni
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 6, 2022
The union gives NorthShore a footprint in the region's western suburbs with the addition of two general acute hospitals and one focused on behavioral health.
Cloud Blogs
JANUARY 3, 2022
In every industry around the world, the past several months have seen organizations adjust to challenges, pursue new business opportunities, and accelerate their digital capabilities in the face of the pandemic that has reshaped our world. Disruption demands the capacity to turn challenge into opportunity. In today's world, this capacity is built on a strong digital foundation.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 7, 2022
Justices appear likely to narrowly uphold CMS vaccine mandate on hold in half of US. rking. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 15:44.
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Briggs Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted the following message on January 4, 2022: The MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0 and accompanying Risk Adjustment Appendix File for MDS 3.0 Quality Measure User’s Manual V15 have been posted. The MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0 contains detailed specifications for the MDS 3.0 quality measures and includes a Notable Changes section that summarizes the major changes from MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V14.0.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 7, 2022
The key question in both cases is whether the agencies enacting federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates — OSHA and CMS — had the authority to do so, or whether that power falls to the states.
Healthy Debate
JANUARY 6, 2022
The post Shortage of physicians, support systems puts health care in northern Ontario in jeopardy appeared first on Healthy Debate.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2022
Study examines differences in coverage denials for traditional Medicare, MA. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 01/06/2022 - 17:00.
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
JANUARY 4, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This 84-page document supplements improper payment information in the annual Department of Health & Human Services Agency Financial Report (HHS AFR). The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) requires improper payment reporting in the HHS AFR. The improper payment rate calculation complies with the requirements of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-123, Appendix C.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 4, 2022
Following concerns from hospitals regarding an apparent change to its ER coverage policy, the payer clarified no changes were made — or will be made — to how it approves or denies its members' emergency claims.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 6, 2022
Curtis Bauer, Chief Product Officer, Sphere. Digital wallets are a payment option that continues to gain traction among consumers due to their simplicity and ease. Many providers, however, may be unfamiliar with the technology and how it can benefit their practices and patients. At the most basic level, a digital wallet is a digital, mobile version of patients’ financial accounts that is easily accessible via a computer or smartphone, eliminating much of the need to carry an actual wallet.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2022
CMS proposes Part D price concessions be applied at point-of-sale, new requirements for MA plans. rking. Thu, 01/06/2022 - 17:05.
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.
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