Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 9, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) is pleased to announce the publication of a major update to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines. Key changes in this version of the Guidelines include: The Panel added a new section entitled Special Considerations in People Who Are Immunocompromised.
Healthcare Leadership
AUGUST 8, 2022
Blog post by Joe Babaian. “How did it get so late so soon?”. ? Dr. Seuss. Who doesn’t want it now? We live in the now; technology gives us the feeling, and often the reality, that everything is a click away – even health and wellness. The current state of “now” medicine is changing almost daily with telemedicine roaring to the forefront, urgent-care clinics and ERs promising to treat you immediately and get you on the road again, cancer centers creating satellite facilities down the street, Ly
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Nordic
AUGUST 10, 2022
Frozen thinking occurs when Princess Elsa of Arendelle uses her magical powers to control and create ice and snow, sometimes to the detriment of her younger sister, Anna. No, wait. That’s wrong. Actually, frozen thinking happens when one is locked into a set of assumptions that may have been true at one time but may no longer hold. Some examples of frozen thinking in healthcare are the concepts that patients must come to the office to see the physician, that the patients have to wait near the fr
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 9, 2022
Patients made greater use of virtual care visits for a second straight month during an upturn in coronavirus cases.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 11, 2022
Patient distraction therapy, long-used by UCHealth with virtual reality and other techniques, and joy are framing the Aurora, Colorado-based health system's first in-app augmented reality experience. Beginning this fall, a patient or visitor will be able to click a button in their UCHealth mobile app and be directed to open their device's camera on a trigger point that will make a dog virtually come alive through AR in the waiting room.
Health Populi
AUGUST 10, 2022
There is an image from my childhood, drawn by Lorraine Schneider, which reads “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” As I read through a paper published this week on climate change’s contribution to the burden of chronic disease, I couldn’t help but conjure up Lorraine’s observation from my little girl memory bank.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 9, 2022
All but two of the seven largest insurers saw profits climb in the second quarter as hospital operators continued to struggle with weak volumes and higher labor costs amid record-high inflation.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 8, 2022
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Healthcare Associates
AUGUST 12, 2022
Is Ice Cream Good for a Sore Throat? A variety of factors can cause sore throats. Maybe you just had throat surgery, or have a cold or flu, or perhaps it’s just peak allergy season causing your throat to become irritated. Eating ice cream might cheer you up regardless of the cause of your sore throat. But is ice cream good for sore throats? The answer is maybe, depending on the cause of your sore throat.
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 9, 2022
While the outcome of the war in Ukraine is by no means clear, the balance of materiel, manpower, and willpower all seem to make the case for cautious optimism. Although Ukraine is unlikely to throw Russia back to its borders any time soon, the war will likely trend in Ukraine's favor in the coming months. But only if the West does not blink first.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 12, 2022
Median base salaries for executives at healthcare companies increased by 4.5% in the past year, according to consulting firm SullivanCotter.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 12, 2022
WHY IT MATTERS. The EHR integration with the digital prescribing platform enables clinicians to send personalized therapeutic content to their patients throughout recovery. Within their workflows, clinicians can respond to and anticipate patient needs. They can access a central content repository and send patients reading materials, exercise plans, workshops and more.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 10, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. AHCA/NCAL has released this sobering Long-Term Care Jobs Report – July 2022 : “After two years of monthly job losses, nursing homes have begun to see modest job gains in recent months. If nursing homes continue to gain jobs at the current, modest pace (on average 4,600 jobs per month), a potential recovery to pre-pandemic staffing levels would not take place until 2026.”.
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
Finland and Sweden are poised to become full NATO members in the near future. The Nordic pair's entry into NATO means that alliance leaders and planners confront new challenges, and just as many opportunities.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 10, 2022
Hospitals pushed back on the Patient Rights Advocate report, which found that just 16% of hospitals were fully compliant with the price transparency law.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 11, 2022
MarinHealth this week said it will implement a new electronic health record system – a version of Epic developed at University of California San Francisco called APeX. WHY IT MATTERS. APeX stands for Advancing Patient-Centered Excellence – it's an Epic EHR system that was customized at UCSF as an integrated platform to help offer access to patient records across the care continuum, from MarinHealth Medical Network clinics to MarinHealth Medical Center.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 10, 2022
This month, the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (Colorado VNA) received a $2.3 million grant from the state to expand its CAPABLE program and to provide care for more Medicaid members. CAPABLE is an interdisciplinary program from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing that combines nursing care, occupational therapy and handyman services. It stands for “Community Aging in Place — Advancing Better Living for Elders” and aims to prove that with modest investments and short-term interventions, agi
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 10, 2022
Human security and NATO's role and responsibility to protect civilians during conflict saw new prioritization in the alliance's 2022 Strategic Concept. While much progress has been made, more could be done to ensure the alliance can deliver on these commitments.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 8, 2022
The Medical Group Management Association asked the HHS and the CMS to delay enforcement of parts of the statute until six months after any final rule is published.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 8, 2022
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 12, 2022
What You Should Know: – Avenda Health , an AI healthcare company creating the future of prostate cancer care, has received FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for its FocalPoint ablation system. The IDE will allow the technology, powered by iQuest, to be used in a randomized control trial to show superiority over the standard of care for the treatment of prostate cancer. . – FocalPoint is Avenda Health’s focal laser ablation system designed to treat localized prostate cancer i
Healthcare Associates
AUGUST 11, 2022
Is sleep apnea genetic, or is the disorder that makes 30 million people stop breathing for short periods while they sleep caused by something else? Is Sleep Apnea Genetic? Plenty of us have been scolded with a gentle shake and an annoyed “stop snoring” in the middle of the night. We may have even startled ourselves awake a time or two. Snoring, choking and gasping could be signs of sleep apnea.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 10, 2022
Hiring bias, which Cerner denies, resulted in a notable shortfall of Black and Asian hires for certain positions between 2015 and 2019, federal regulators allege.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 12, 2022
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – Ellipsis Health and Ceras Health today announced a partnership that will integrate Ellipsis Health’s breakthrough technology that uses the human voice as a biomarker for mental health and wellbeing into Ceras’ clinical monitoring platform. – This integration will combine Ellipsis Health’s AI and deep learning technology with Ceras Health’s clinical monitoring and health data analytics platform, enabling real-time severity scores for anx
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 9, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On July 27, 2022 the CDC increased access to testing via Operation Expanded Testing. Assisted living centers now have access to free COVID-19 testing for their staff and residents through December 31, 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Operation Expanded Testing (OpET) program expanded access to free testing nationwide to now include assisted living communities, which previously targeted schools, she
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.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 12, 2022
After six years at the helm, Harrison plans to leave his post as president and CEO of Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare this fall.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 10, 2022
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – FundamentalVR has raised an additional $20M to significantly accelerate medical skill-transfer and increase surgical proficiency through its world-leading medical simulation platform, Fundamental Surgery. – The funding was led by EQT Life Sciences investing from the LSP Health Economics Fund 2 and joined by prior investors Downing Ventures.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 10, 2022
Audits from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) can often catch home health agencies by surprise. And after a slower audit period during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts told Home Health Care News that providers should expect a ramp-up in audits over the next year. Battling that element of surprise will be key to getting through a successful audit process.
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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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