Sat.Nov 06, 2021 - Fri.Nov 12, 2021

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Health centers raise alarm about rolling back Medicaid coverage post-public health emergency

Health Care Dive

The clinics are worried about people with Medicaid coverage being deemed ineligible and losing insurance once states revert back to pre-pandemic Medicaid policies and eligibility, a new survey found.

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Rapid telehealth rollout was beneficial for nursing homes, but had downsides too

Healthcare It News

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. A University of Missouri study published this past week found that the turn to virtual care reduced stress for residents and helped increase access to services. At the same time, however, relying on telemedicine had drawbacks, especially from a social perspective.

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10 rural states launch lawsuit against CMS' COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

Fierce Healthcare

10 rural states launch lawsuit against CMS' COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. dmuoio. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 12:57.

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Why Becoming ACO Improves Your Quality Payment Reporting?

p3care

Overview. ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Ultimately, these add up to clinician’s MIPS reporting services, ACO reporting, or Quality Payment Program.

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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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Oak Street faces DOJ inquiry into third-party marketing, transportation relationships

Health Care Dive

Analysts said the inquiry, while in early stages, could pressure the company's stock. "This creates a new potential risk factor that we are unlikely to get clarity on for some time," SVB Leerink analyst Whit Mayo said.

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Dignity Health integrates asthma and COPD data, sees 54% drop in ER visits

Healthcare It News

Formed in 2019 through the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health, CommonSpirit Health is one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S. It has more than 1,000 care sites serving 20 million patients in 21 states. At CommonSpirit, the acceleration of new mediums of care delivery enables patients to live healthier via virtual asynchronous care and evidence-based, digital-enabled therapies.

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Why Becoming ACO Improves Your Quality Payment Reporting?

p3care

Overview. ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Ultimately, these add up to clinician’s MIPS reporting services, ACO reporting, or Quality Payment Program.

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Kaiser's operating margin dwindles as COVID-19 expenses, labor costs rise

Health Care Dive

Along with ongoing pandemic stresses, the California nonprofit is facing rising expenses amid intense workforce pressure as it faces the start of a major strike next week.

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RPM brings patients' blood pressure under control at Kentucky Cardiology

Healthcare It News

Kentucky Cardiology in Lexington was finding it difficult to monitor the blood pressure of patients at home and feel comfortable it was getting accurate numbers. Staff would ask a patient if they had a way to take their blood pressure at home, and they would say yes. Staff then would provide the patient a blood pressure log (a paper form) and request they take their blood pressure two times a day.

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Industry Voices—Why primary care is the future of sustainable healthcare in the U.S.

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Why primary care is the future of sustainable healthcare in the U.S. hlandi. Sat, 11/06/2021 - 21:45.

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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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Taiwan Is Safe Until at Least 2027, but with One Big Caveat

The Rand Blog

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping clearly seeks to bring Taiwan to heel, and by force if necessary, he also continues to promote “peaceful reunification” as Beijing's preferred means. Xi likely would have toughened up his language by now if he thought war was a real possibility.

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1 in 3 patients defer healthcare due to existing medical debt, TransUnion finds

Health Care Dive

The credit bureau's healthcare data analytics unit also reported seeing a 55% rise in financial assistance transactions from September 2020 to September 2021.

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Aged care provider Apollo Care adopts Rauland's nurse call solutions

Healthcare It News

Australian aged care provider Apollo Care has tapped Rauland Australia to deliver nurse call solutions at its Queensland sites. Rauland's Responder nurse call solutions will be adopted in three Apollo sites in Maryborough and Rockhampton, according to a media release. WHY IT MATTERS. Apollo intends to increase the mobility of its care team when responding to residents, liaising with other staff and accessing documentation.

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How this telehealth startup aims to address mental illness with ketamine therapy

Fierce Healthcare

How this telehealth startup aims to address mental illness with ketamine therapy. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 13:17.

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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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Is Remote Monitoring an Intrusion?

Healthcare Leadership

One of the things I get to do is mentor and coach healthcare entrepreneurs. I really enjoy it. Plus it allows me to keep up-to-date on the latest innovations. Lately, I have seen a lot of companies building technology to help people stay safe and recover at home. It’s definitely full-steam ahead for the care-at-home movement. Care at Home is Better.

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Providers were protected from pay cuts, layoffs as volumes fell during pandemic, survey finds

Health Care Dive

"You saw how groups tightened their belts and there was some learning from this that you're not going to let go of," Elizabeth Siemsen, one of the report's authors, said.

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VA watchdog: New EHR scheduling system needs work

Healthcare It News

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Inspector General released a report this week examining whether the VA's new scheduling system, implemented as part of its electronic health record modernization contract with Cerner, had been effectively deployed. The watchdog acknowledged that the new system has the potential to transform scheduling at the Veterans Health Administration.

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Report ranks 10 most cost-efficient hospitals in the U.S., identifies $8B in potential Medicare savings

Fierce Healthcare

Report ranks 10 most cost-efficient hospitals in the U.S., identifies $8B in potential Medicare savings. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 18:03.

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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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Top 5 Digital Transformation Priorities for Healthcare Leaders

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, released the 2021 edition of “ The Science of Digital Transformation in Healthcare and Why It’s Vital for Payer-Provider Collaboration.”. – The survey report assessed more than 4,000 survey responses from healthcare professionals over the first six months of 2021 for their insights into healthcare organizations’ progress toward digital transformation.

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Family premiums rise as employers boost virtual, mental health benefits, KFF finds

Health Care Dive

About half of employers with at least 200 workers reported healthcare utilization among their plan enrollees was in line with expectations for the most recent quarter, while 32% said it was below estimates.

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In Academia, Innovators Receive Unfair Compensation for Their Discoveries

Bill Of Health

By Matt Bauer. In academia, many of the scientists who are recognized as inventors on patents see little economic gain from these agreements. Instead, royalties are primarily assigned toward their home institutions. The scientists who drive discoveries within the walls of academia are not receiving an equitable share of the benefits of their innovations.

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Healthcare industry will face higher medication errors, declining patient trust in 2022: Forrester

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare industry will face higher medication errors, declining patient trust in 2022: Forrester. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 11/09/2021 - 19:23.

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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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Healthcare will have to keep pace with majority minority population change

Healthcare It News

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Siemens software vulnerabilities potentially put millions of medical devices at risk

Health Care Dive

A U.S. cybersecurity agency issued an alert about the weaknesses, one of which was scored 9.8 on a 10-point risk scale, which could allow hackers to disrupt the operation of anesthesia machines and bedside monitors.

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Advances in Care for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injuries or PTSD

The Rand Blog

A new standard of care proposed by RAND researchers aims to redefine high-quality care for veterans with a traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder. But it also could serve as a template for making health care more effective, more consistent, and more responsive for more patients.

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Infrastructure bill includes record increase of 4,000 Medicare-supported GME slots to combat looming shortage

Fierce Healthcare

Infrastructure bill includes record increase of 4,000 Medicare-supported GME slots to combat looming shortage. rking. Tue, 11/09/2021 - 15:13.

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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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‘Nurses Are Horrified’: Hospital-at-Home Programs Taking Flak, But Model’s Long-Term Growth Is Undeniable

Home Health Care

“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.” The quote, a line from American horror author Stephen King, perfectly describes the situation in which hospital-at-home programs find themselves. As of Nov. 11, 83 health systems and 187 hospitals in 34 states were participating in the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative rolled out by the U.S.

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GE unveils plan to spin off healthcare business

Health Care Dive

The independent company, expected to be completed in early 2023, is being positioned as having more flexibility to pursue acquisitions as it sharpens its focus on precision health and struggles with supply chain shortages.

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Safety Tips for 13 Essential Oils | Part 1

American College of Healthcare Sciences

By ACHS Founding President Dorene Petersen, BA, Dip.NT, Dip.Acu, RH (AHG). In this blog post, ACHS Founding President Dorene Petersen shares her expertise with valuable safety tips for six essential oils. In part 2 next week, she will share tips for seven more essential oils. 1. Essential Oil of Lavender. Lavandula officinalis (Chaix.), L. vera (DC.), L. angustifolia (Mill.), or Lavandula vera (DC.) are considered a source of the essential oil.

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Nearly 60% of health systems aim to become 'payviders' in 2022, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

Nearly 60% of health systems aim to become 'payviders' in 2022, survey finds. rking. Tue, 11/09/2021 - 13:51.

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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.