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More than 80% of healthcare executives say recruiting talent is a top business risk, report finds

Health Care Dive

Healthcare executives are more likely than those in other industries to label staffing shortages a business risk, according to a report from business services firm PwC.

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From Reluctance to Resilience: Embracing Cloud Adoption in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Doug McMillian, Healthcare Strategist at CDW While digital transformation has been on the rise across industries, results can be difficult to see and adoption can take time. Adopting digital solutions is innately important but doing so successfully requires identifying needs and adopting the right approach. Through all the technology transformation that drives innovation in the healthcare industry, the one that underpins it all is cloud adoption.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Replicate The Human Touch in Healthcare Provision?

HIT Consultant

Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell Anyone who recalls the ‘turbo’ trend of the 1980s will have a foreboding sense of déjà vu about the sudden ubiquity of artificial intelligence in every aspect of our lives. What began with the Swedish motor manufacturer, Saab, unveiling its 99 Turbo Coupé in 1977, suddenly had manufacturers scrambling for their own version of the latest technological buzzword in everything from alarm clocks to hairdryers.

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The business case for a healthcare cloud integration platform

Health Care Dive

Understand the financial and operational benefits of adopting a cloud-based healthcare data integration engine.

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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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3 Significant Types of Denials in the Medical Billing: How to deal with them?

p3care

The healthcare landscape is very complex—more than one can expect. Different components collectively contribute to maintaining the overall operability of a facility. A little distortion from one component of a facility often invites big disasters if left unnoticed. For instance, consider claim denials resulting from myriad errors caused by medical billing services.

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Info blocking enforcement for health IT entities begins Sept. 1, brings fines of up to $1M per violation

Fierce Healthcare

Enforcement of information blocking penalties for health IT entities is slated to go into effect on Friday, opening the door to penalties of up to $1 million per violation. | The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said it expects to receive more complaints than it can investigate and so will be prioritizing those meeting certain criteria.

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Employers should focus on provider quality to cut low-value care in plans, report finds

Health Care Dive

In the employer-sponsored insurer market, employers play a “critical” role when it comes to quality and outcomes, according to a report by Morgan Health and Embold Health.

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How to Report the Quality Category in MIPS 2023 with Ease?

p3care

MIPS 2023 is ongoing, and we’re almost in the middle of the performance year. It’s high time for the providers when they have to keep an eye on everything. It’s quite true that MIPS participants revise their reporting strategies at the start of the year. Anyhow, this is not sufficient since the CMS keeps modifying things with time. Also, things usually go a little differently from how we planned them.

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Humana launches in-home primary care through CenterWell

Fierce Healthcare

Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes. | Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes.

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Digital streaming is a boost for patient education programs

Healthcare It News

Anjali Kataria, Mytonomy CEO and cofounder, says that content streaming and AI can empower patients at home and help hospitals and health systems improve their patient education materials as they reduce the time nurses spend answering questions.

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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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Humana launches in-home senior care program through CenterWell in Georgia, Louisiana

Health Care Dive

The program builds on Humana’s acquisition of home-based primary care provider Heal earlier this year, and could eventually expand to 10 additional southern and southwestern states.

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A Four-Day School Week? Here Are the Costs and Benefits

The Rand Blog

Hundreds of small school districts across America have cut one day a week from their calendars. A shorter school week helps them compete for teachers and reduce costs. Teachers and parents love it. But is it really in the best interests of students?

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CMS suspects auto-renewal process at fault for wrongful Medicaid disenrollments

Fierce Healthcare

In a letter sent to all states (PDF), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( | As more Medicaid beneficiaries are wrongly kicked off the program, CMS is requiring states to reevaluate its eligibility systems and auto-renewal process.

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Intuition Robotics scores $25M to scale AI care companion for seniors

Healthcare It News

The company will use the funds to meet the growing demand for ElliQ, its conversational AI-powered robot that acts as a companion to seniors.

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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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Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer steps down, to be replaced by executive with ‘deep healthcare experience’

Health Care Dive

The departure of Brewer, a veteran of retailers Starbucks and Walmart, comes as Walgreens looks to beef up its leadership roster with healthcare executives.

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Rural Emergency Hospitals: Model Legislation and Considerations for States  

NASHP

To view the model act, visit Model Rural Emergency Hospital Act. Congress established a Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) Designation as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 for certain hospitals that meet requirements set out in 42 U.S.C. § 1395x(kkk)(2). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) promulgated final regulations for REHs at 87 Fed.Reg. 71748 (November 3, 2022) and 88 Fed.Reg. 58640 (August 28, 2023).

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Providers can now see patients' insurance coverage in GoodRx's cost comparison tool

Fierce Healthcare

GoodRx has launched a new feature to allow healthcare professionals to see the cost of a patient’s prescription with their insurance. | The feature, embedded in GoodRx's provider solution, surfaces a patient’s coverage and benefits at the point of care with the goal of increasing price transparency and access to drugs.

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A blueprint is essential to accelerate digital transformation and improve patient outcomes

Healthcare It News

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs broke records by achieving HIMSS stage 7 in four models concurrently. Raed Alhamze explores the impact on patient outcomes.

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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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Prisma Health files suit against UnitedHealthcare, alleging ‘bad faith’ contract negotiation tactics

Health Care Dive

The South Carolina-based health system alleges that the insurer broke its contract and gave "false and misleading" statements to the press about Prisma’s proposed rates for 2024.

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Is bothsidesism killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters)

Healthy Debate

Our information ecosystem has become a massive false-balance machine. We need to correct bothsideism and misinformation.

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How behavioral health app BeMe is aiming to connect with teens

Fierce Healthcare

In order to address deteriorating adolescent mental health, interventional behavioral health app BeMe Health moved to meet teens where they’re at—online. | In order to address deteriorating adolescent mental health, interventional behavioral health app BeMe Health moved to meet teens where they’re at—online. Amd according to new research, this methodology is proving successful.

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Health tracking ring company Oura partners with teletherapy platform Talkspace

Healthcare It News

Users of Oura's ring will be able to share a report showing their sleep and movement data with Talkspace therapists.

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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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Google expands generative AI model Med-PaLM to more health customers

Health Care Dive

A limited group of Google Cloud clients, including systems HCA and Mayo Clinic, have been testing the large language model since April in a variety of use cases.

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The Medical Library: A Hospital’s Most Underappreciated Asset

HIT Consultant

Hilton M Hudson, MD, FACS, CEO at HPC International The impact of medical librarians is well-documented. In one experiment , a group of primary care providers had the opportunity to send clinical questions to a rapid-response medical librarian. They received their replies in an average of 14 minutes, and 86 percent were described as having a positive impact on care.

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Headspace, Intermountain's Castell team up to expand behavioral health access

Fierce Healthcare

Digital mental health company Headspace is teaming up with Castell, Intermountain Healthcare’s value-based care subsidiary, to expand access to virtual mental health services. | The partnership will provide members of select insurance plans in Utah access to Headspace’s self-guided content, behavioral health coaching and therapy in an outcomes-based payment model.

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Humana’s CenterWell Launches At-Home Primary Care Program

Home Health Care

CenterWell Senior Primary Care – a part of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) – is expanding into the home. It announced Wednesday that, in select Georgia and Louisiana locations, patients would be able to receive at-home primary care services under its “CenterWell Primary Care Anywhere” program. CenterWell is Humana’s senior care services arm. It includes pharmacy, primary care and home health services.

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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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GoodRx adds patient insurance information to drug cost platform for providers

Health Care Dive

The addition of insurance pricing is a key differentiator for GoodRx’s medication comparison platform, an executive said. It should also increase the company’s revenue opportunities.

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Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer Steps Down, Interim CEO Appointed

HIT Consultant

Rosalind Brewer What You Should Know: – Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) CEO Rosalind Brewer is stepping down as CEO and a member of the board after only two years, as of August 31, 2023. Roz Brewer served as Chief Executive Officer of WBA since March 2021. – The Board of Directors has appointed Ginger Graham, current Lead Independent Director of WBA, as the Company’s interim CEO.

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Google Cloud, HCA team up to deploy AI in the emergency department

Fierce Healthcare

Earlier this year, HCA Healthcare launched a pilot program that equipped 75 emergency room physicians at four hospitals with Google’s AI technology, utilizing an ongoing partnership with Google Clo | HCA Healthcare wants to spread generative AI tools beyond four hospitals in an initial pilot program, as well as incorporate Google's medical LLM.

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Home Care Leaders Are Banking On Data Tracking To Be Their Next Best Bet

Home Health Care

A lot of personal home care providers have been conducting business the same way for decades. For them to continue to flourish, however, they may have to bring new ideas into the fold. “One of the biggest opportunities out there is collaboration with your competitors in your local market,” HomeWell Care Services CEO Crystal Franz said during Home Health Care News’ FUTURE event in Nashville.

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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.