Health Care Dive
MAY 12, 2022
Hospitals spent nearly $5,500 in labor expenses per adjusted discharge in March compared to about $4,000 roughly three years ago, according to a report from Kaufman Hall.
Healthcare Success
MAY 9, 2022
We know that today’s healthcare consumers want instant and accessible services. . The QR code allows hospitals and healthcare providers to satisfy this need with immediate physician-patient interaction and engagement – all through smartphones and tablets. . Placed strategically, the QR code does wonders for marketing. And today more than ever, they are considered the green, hygienic, and convenient alternative to printed or shared materials. .
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Healthcare It News
MAY 10, 2022
Michigan's Henry Ford Health System and General Motors partnered to develop a narrow-network insurance product for GM employees called GM Connect Care. THE PROBLEM. Through this product, HFHS aimed to offer innovative care delivery options that would be convenient and cost-effective for GM's members. The initial ask from the employer was a full service clinic staffed on site at GM world headquarters in Warren, Michigan.
Bill Of Health
MAY 13, 2022
By Kimberly McKee. Adoption is a reproductive justice issue. Pretending otherwise ignores how adoption is used as a red herring in anti-abortion arguments. A recent invocation of this faulty logic occurred in Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s questions during the November 2021 oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Coney Barrett’s statements implied that the option to relinquish infants vis-à-vis adoption rendered abortion availability unnecessary.
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Health Care Dive
MAY 12, 2022
Mergers with geographic overlap often face challenges. This deal doesn't "raise the same red flags, but it doesn't mean that it gets waved through," said Leemore Dafny, former deputy director of healthcare and antitrust at the FTC.
Healthcare Success
MAY 9, 2022
We know that today's healthcare consumers want instant and accessible services. . The QR code allows hospitals and healthcare providers to satisfy this need with immediate physician-patient interaction and engagement – all through smartphones and tablets. . Placed strategically, the QR code does wonders for marketing. And today more than ever, they are considered the green, hygienic, and convenient alternative to printed or shared materials. .
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Bill Of Health
MAY 9, 2022
By Michele Merritt. As legal scholars have predicted since the current composition of the United States Supreme Court became apparent, abortion restrictions are increasing; if Roe v. Wade is overturned with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this coming June, over half of the states in the country will likely ban abortion entirely. .
Health Care Dive
MAY 11, 2022
Searches for surgeries like orthopaedics, general surgery and cardiovascular procedures are above pre-pandemic levels, providing another data point to indicate that demand is recovering, according to a Needham report.
Home Health Care
MAY 8, 2022
Honor CEO and Co-founder Seth Sternberg has wanted to launch a platform like “Honor Expert” for the last eight years. But the idea of being a liaison to seniors and their families for a wide variety of services – Honor Expert’s goal – wasn’t feasible without some serious scale, which Honor didn’t have in 2014 when it was founded. Fast forward seven years.
Healthcare It News
MAY 10, 2022
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Bill Of Health
MAY 11, 2022
By April Dinwoodie. I took a long, slow, deep breath when I heard Amy Coney Barrett, the adoptive mother of Black children, describe adoption as a “frictionless alternative to abortion.” As a Black/bi-racial transracially adopted person in mid-life, adoption has been and continues to be many things, but “frictionless” isn’t one of them. . On the contrary, being adopted into a white family and raised in a majority white community has been filled with the tension between the realities of what I w
Health Care Dive
MAY 13, 2022
Renewed efforts to pass federal requirements for healthcare employers come as some systems are implementing their own policies to keep workers safe.
Health Populi
MAY 10, 2022
“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. Adults 50-Plus from AARP. Two years after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, one-half of U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. In early 2022, over half of those over 50 (the AARP core membership base) told the Association they would likely use telehealth in the future.
Healthcare It News
MAY 11, 2022
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Bill Of Health
MAY 10, 2022
By Angie Swanson-Kyriaco. During opening remarks for Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on December 1, 2021, Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated that the “obligations of motherhood that flow from pregnancy” and the “burden” of parenting are eliminated through adoption. It is no surprise that a conservative, anti-abortion, adoptive parent would have an over-simplified opinion about adoption, expectant parents, and birth parents.
Health Care Dive
MAY 10, 2022
Patients reported issues with hospital staff responsiveness and said their experiences with care transitions out of a hospital setting worsened considerably during the pandemic, according to the watchdog.
Home Health Care
MAY 12, 2022
The home health industry’s battle with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for fair rates has gone from a few stakeholders saying “the quiet part out loud” earlier this year to nearly every major provider in the country talking about the issue with regularity. My colleagues and I have covered the topic extensively. But we’ve moved beyond the question of how providers feel about MA rates for home health and moved onto the next: How can the problem be solved?
Healthcare It News
MAY 11, 2022
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Bill Of Health
MAY 13, 2022
By Lina Vanegas. I am a transracial and transnational displaced person. I was separated from my country, language, and culture and taken to Michigan, which has no connection to me or my ancestors. I was taken there to create a family for strangers who had the privilege and resources to buy me. I had family in Colombia and I was far from being a true orphan.
Health Care Dive
MAY 12, 2022
The multibillion-dollar Cerner implementation hasn't improved data exchange as well as some had hoped, as the departments "did not take all actions needed to achieve interoperability," the audit found.
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 13, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted nursing home data for the week ending May 1, 2022. Comparing the May 1 st data to the previous April 24 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate remained the same as the previous week Residents with booster doses increased by 0.2% this past week Staff vaccination rate remained the same as the previous week Staff with booster doses increased by 0.7% this past week An additional 4,991 resident cases wer
Healthcare It News
MAY 9, 2022
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Bill Of Health
MAY 12, 2022
By Kathryn E. Fort. On February 28, 2022, the Supreme Court accepted one of the most consequential federal Indian law cases in decades, a direct constitutional challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). This challenge, brought by three states and three foster families, intends to not just dismantle a gold standard law in child protection, but all of federal Indian law.
Health Care Dive
MAY 9, 2022
The results spurred payers to paint an improved financial outlook for the full year compared to earlier estimates for 2022.
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 9, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CDC updated the Long COVID or Post-COVID Conditions website on May 5, 2022. The website addresses: Symptoms Symptoms that are hard to explain and manage Health conditions People experiencing any severe illness may develop health problems People More Likely to Develop Long COVID Health Inequities May Affect Populations at Risk for Long COVID Preventing Long COVID Living with Long COVID Data for Long COVID Estimates of the pro
Home Health Care
MAY 12, 2022
Strong reimbursement rates for Aveanna’s services in nearly half the states the company operates in have been a welcome change so far this year for the company. Its turnover and retention rates have also been in line with company projections, despite ongoing labor issues. “Although we continue to face near-term caregiver supply constraints like many other health care providers, we have moved past the near-term impact from Omicron,” Aveanna’s CEO Tony Strange said on the company’s first quarter e
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.
Bill Of Health
MAY 12, 2022
By Lauren van Schilfgaarde. Adoption can be, and frequently is, a celebrated extension of kinship ties within Native communities. But we cannot ignore the historical context of adoption as a tool to empty tribal communities and delete tribal cultures. Nor can we ignore the historical context of the simultaneous deprivation and weaponization of reproductive health care, both of which deny Native women reproductive self-determination. .
Health Care Dive
MAY 11, 2022
The combination brings together two separate regional health systems, one with operations in the Midwest and the other with a four-state reach in the South.
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 10, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. May is National Mental Health Awareness month. OSHA provides today’s daily reminder. Suicide is a leading cause of death among working age adults in the United States. It deeply impacts workers, families, and communities. Fortunately, like other workplace fatalities, suicides can be prevented.
Home Health Care
MAY 10, 2022
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) recently floated the idea of home health acquisitions and partnerships. Mostly, it has repeatedly doubled down on the idea that it wants to get into the home. Of the driving forces of that is its own insurer, Aetna. What Aetna believes is best for its members and the health of its business naturally makes its way up to the top of the CVS ladder.
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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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