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How has the Affordable Care Act Transformed Healthcare Billing Services?

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The Affordable Care Act marks a significant movement in US healthcare history. First appearing as a comprehensive reform, the act was signed into law later. The great president of America, President Barack Obama, did so in March 2010, so we call it ‘Obamacare’ as well. Now what does the law do? Well, this law encloses a list of healthcare policies to be expanded in the coming future.

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The Critical Role of Clinical Research in Patient Care with Todd Nicklas | E. 84

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Todd explains the history of clinical research through Paul Offit’s You Bet Your Life , asks the big question of ‘’replacement or supplement’’, and explains why patients are always their own biggest advocates. He also explains the need for monitoring the ‘’gray line’’, and why the key focus in all clinical trials is failing early.

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Balancing Innovation and the Ethical Adoption of AI in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Andre Esteva, Founder and CEO of ArteraAI In recent years, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has created a wave of excitement and anticipation within the healthcare industry. AI has the potential to revolutionize patient care, improve diagnostic and prognostic accuracy, enhance treatment planning, and streamline administrative tasks.

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Intermountain, UPMC switching from Oracle's Cerner EHR to Epic enterprisewide

Fierce Healthcare

Intermountain Healthcare, a health system that operates 33 hospitals across seven western states, is transitioning from Oracle Health's Cerner electronic health record to rival Epic, citing higher | Intermountain Healthcare, a health system that operates 33 hospitals across seven western states, is transitioning from Oracle Health's Cerner EHR to its rival Epic, citing higher physician satisfaction scores as one key factor.

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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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‘Revolving door’ between HHS and industry could influence regulation, study says

Health Care Dive

Thirty-two percent of people appointed to positions at the HHS between 2004 and 2020 exited to the private sector, raising concerns about objectivity, according to new research.

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The future of technology can make your hospital a model of care and efficiency

Healthcare It News

By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Yet, healthcare organizations face workforce and security challenges – ones that must be met while also appeasing the growing demands from patients. Although pay increases and recruitment investments help, it’s not enough to stave off immediate and future problems.

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More than half of Americans are unfamiliar with chronic kidney disease, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major blind spot for many Americans, a new survey suggests. | Though many respondents used the internet for medical information and had a regular doctor and blood work done once or twice a year, 58% of respondents were unfamiliar with the illness.

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Unionized nursing homes more likely to report workplace injuries and accidents

Health Care Dive

Only 40% of nursing homes nationwide complied with reporting requirements between 2016 and 2021, despite nursing homes being among the most dangerous workplaces in America, according to the Health Affairs study.

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5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC

Healthcare It News

HIMSS23 APAC is happening in two weeks. For the second year in a row, the event is taking place in Indonesia – and if you haven't heard, there’s a little bit of a digital revolution happening in the country's healthcare sector. And with healthcare organisations mandated to have an EMR implemented by the end of the year, it's an exciting time to be in health IT in Indonesia.

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After Maui Fires, Food Security Is a Major Concern and Opportunity

The Rand Blog

The full impact of the deadly Maui fires on food resilience strategies remains to be seen. But the disaster highlights an urgent need for a systems-based approach to address both food security and wildfire prevention.

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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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YouTube expanding health videos to more diverse audiences with new content creator, AI dubbing programs

Fierce Healthcare

YouTube announced two programs Thursday that the Google-owned video platform said will give healthcare content creators new opportunities to educate diverse audiences. | The two new initiatives leverage cultural representation and targeted messaging to reach audiences impacted by health inequity, Google's Garth Graham, M.D., said.

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MA enrollment in rural areas nearly quadrupled since 2010, KFF finds

Health Care Dive

More rural seniors are turning to MA, but the plans can offer limited provider networks. That could prove an additional challenge for rural beneficiaries who already have to travel further distances for care.

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Roundup: Princess Alexandra Hospital joins medication harm research and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Princess Alexandra Hospital offers data for medication harm research A research project from the University of Queensland School of Pharmacy has started collaborating with the Princess Alexandra Hospital to use digital technologies in reducing rehospitalisation cases due to medication harm. Researcher Dr Nazanin Ghahreman-Falconer noted that in Queensland alone, up to a quarter of adult patients are being re-admitted to hospital within 28 days, further placing a burden on an already overwhelmed

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Trauma Takes a Toll in the U.S. Intelligence Community

The Rand Blog

For people in the intelligence community, the risk of experiencing a variety of traumas is very real. Agencies should look more closely at their workforces to better understand the traumas their analysts face and what they can do to help.

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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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Unite Us, tech company focused on social determinants of health, lays off employees amid profitability struggles

Fierce Healthcare

Unite Us, tech company focused on social determinants of health, lays off employees amid profitability struggles agliadkovskaya Wed, 09/06/2023 - 14:25

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Humana sues HHS over Medicare Advantage audits

Health Care Dive

The payer, which brings in the bulk of its revenue from Medicare, is fighting back against a rule finalized earlier this year to claw back overpayments in the increasingly popular MA program.

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Amazon Clinic-affiliated telehealth leader: There's a role for DTC with trad providers

Healthcare It News

When Amazon Clinic spread out into all 50 states, SteadyMD was right there with it – or you might say within it. SteadyMD, which offers a B2B telehealth platform and nationwide clinician workforce, has been an important part of Amazon Clinic’s journey. The telehealth company worked with Amazon for months helping develop Amazon Clinic and was one of the first participating providers on the service when it launched in November 2022.

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What’s Old is New Again: 3 Benefits of Moving Some Servers Out of the Cloud for Providers

HIT Consultant

Mike Hines, Principal Evangelist at Resolute Software In recent years, cloud computing has become the go-to solution for healthcare institutions seeking flexibility and scalability. However, as the digital and legislative landscapes evolve, a growing number of organizations are reevaluating their cloud strategies. Are you best served by doubling down on your cloud-based strategy, or by backing off a bit and bringing some of your services out of the cloud and back down to earth?

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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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Florida Blue, Aledade tout $14M in savings from their value-based collaboration

Fierce Healthcare

Value-based healthcare with two-sided risk led to a savings of about $14 million over two years, according to the Florida-based insurance plan and national primary care provider company that overse | The collaborative effort by Florida Blue and Aledade not only led to $14 million in savings, but also a reduction in hospitalizations and emergency department visits, according to the companies.

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Behavioral health patients lack choice on telehealth vs. in-person care, study finds

Health Care Dive

The study from nonprofit Rand found that 45% of behavioral health patients did not believe their clinicians considered their preferences for virtual or in-person care. The findings come after telehealth use skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Apollo flexes connected care capability throughout India

Healthcare It News

Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. This follows the recent nationwide expansion of a similar programme for its partner hospitals, aiming to build the largest connected healthcare ecosystem in the country. WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press statement, Apollo's Comprehensive Connected Care service provides a real-time view of the patient from several care touchpoints along the patient journey

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Half of Doctors/Nurses Eager to Adopt Generative AI Tools

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Elsevier Health , a global leader in information and data analytics, released its Clinician of the Future 2023 report , which serves as the global health ecosystem’s most recent pulse on what doctors and nurses think about the changes and challenges in healthcare, including the rapid rise of generative AI products and platforms.

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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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House committees introduce new healthcare price transparency legislation

Fierce Healthcare

A trio of House committees unveiled new legislation (PDF) Friday to lower costs and increase transpar | Several house committees dropped new legislation Friday meant to improve price transparency for patients and employers. Here's what they're proposing.

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Patients ‘steered’ toward health systems, more costly treatment after vertical consolidation, study finds

Health Care Dive

Consolidation between primary care physicians and large health systems led to increased costs per patient, according to a new study published in JAMA.

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Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare It News

HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare thought leaders, disruptors, and changemakers across Asia-Pacific will convene once again in Indonesia – this time in the country's capital, Jakarta – from 18 to 21 September 2023. Our reporters will be on the ground to cover the exciting discussions on healthcare analytics, new models of care, and more. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Misconceptions That Could Be Keeping Home-Based Care Providers From Further COVID-19 Relief

Home Health Care

Many home-based care providers are still feeling the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and misconceptions around eligibility status has led to many agencies not engaging with a potentially key resource. Specifically, they may be leaving money on the table by not taking full advantage — or completely opting out — of the employee retention tax credit (ERC), an unrestricted cash refund from the IRS.

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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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Hospitals push FTC to withdraw 'largely unnecessary' updates to pre-merger regulatory filings

Fierce Healthcare

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is among those pushing back against the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC's) plans to update pre-merger notification requirements, calling the proposal “a subs | "There is no need to subject hospitals to burdensome rules aimed at other sectors of the economy,” the AHA wrote of amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Form proposed in June.

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Astellas withdraws lawsuit challenging Medicare drug price program

Health Care Dive

Contrary to the drugmaker’s expectations, its top-selling cancer medicine Xtandi wasn’t picked as one of the first 10 drugs to face price negotiations.

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Texas Children's Hospital's innovation includes tech platforms embedded at bedsides

Healthcare It News

HIMSS Davies Award winner Texas Children's Hospital’s assistant VPs Tarra Kerr and Ashok Kurian discuss their patient-centered coordinated care, enabled by a partnership between quality and safety departments, clinical operations and IT systems.

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The Benefits of a Stand-Alone Care-Management Program

HIT Consultant

Mary Bacaj, Ph.D., President of Value-Based Care at Conifer Health Solutions Poorly managed chronic conditions—most of which are related to lifestyle—cost employers $36.4 billion each year in the form of absenteeism and poor productivity. Add in coverage-related and other costs, and that number skyrockets to $575 billion. Coverage costs alone have increased by 47% over the previous ten years.

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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.