Sat.Mar 05, 2022 - Fri.Mar 11, 2022

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5 can't-miss HIMSS22 panels

Health Care Dive

For those with boots on the ground in Orlando next week, here are panels you won't want to miss, touching on some of the hottest topics in healthcare today from health equity to cybersecurity.

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Effective digital transformation needs careful strategizing

Healthcare It News

Health systems have "been investing in a lot of digital health solutions over the last few years," Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting, said with a bit of understatement. But it's not always readily apparent whether those investments are the right ones, or were done at the right time, or were implemented optimally to work in tandem with other digital technologies.

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Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply

Bill Of Health

By Katherine Macfarlane. Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was common for workplaces to require masks, at least in shared spaces. Two years later, though the pandemic is still ongoing, mask requirements are now far less prevalent as a result of the politicization of masks, so-called mask fatigue, and new guidance from the U.S.

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Celebrating women, breaking the bias

Meditech

March 8 is International Women’s Day , celebrating the accomplishments of women across the globe, in all areas of life. It’s a time to appreciate those women who have inspired us and paved the way for so many leaders today.

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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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Threats, obscenities, homicide: Healthcare workers stressed by pandemic face elevated violence

Health Care Dive

Millions of healthcare workers across the country are becoming inured to workplace violence, which can range from verbal abuse and threats to physical attacks and even homicide.

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Aster DM Healthcare signs with Siemens Healthineers to drive digital transformation

Healthcare It News

A leading healthcare provider in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has teamed up with Siemens Healthineers to accelerate its technological and digital transformation. Aster DM Healthcare Group – which operates 27 hospitals, 118 medical clinics, 66 labs and patient experience centres, and 323 pharmacies in the Gulf region, plus India – has signed a seven-year partnership with the German company to upgrade its systems, develop further digital offerings, and support in training and cap

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What the Media Might Have Missed About South Korea's Elections

The Rand Blog

The toxicity of the anti-feminist discourse in South Korea does not accurately reflect the gender-related tensions and problems that most Koreans currently face. The obstacles to improving gender equity are more mundane and more ubiquitous than the hyperbole of anti-feminism suggests.

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Telehealth use increased amid omicron as 2021 drew to a close

Health Care Dive

Telehealth swelled from 4.4% of all medical claims in November to 4.9% in December, with the bump evident in every U.S. census region, according to new Fair Health data.

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Amwell, LG Electronics team up on connected health tools

Healthcare It News

Amwell and LG Electronics announced this week that they are partnering to develop device-based tools that make it easier for patients to access at-home or in-hospital care. The collaboration, said the vendors, will first focus on in-hospital services in the United States, building off LG's existing foothold providing smart TVs for patient rooms.

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Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases

Bill Of Health

By Wendy E. Parmet. In October 2020, Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya issued what they called the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). In it, they argued that “The most compassionate approach [to the pandemic] … is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while protecting those who are at highest risk.

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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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After Reopening Their Doors, Adult Day Providers Are ‘Starting From Scratch’

Home Health Care

Last year, adult day centers across the U.S. were attempting to safely reopen after COVID-19 forced them to shut their doors. Now, up and running again, the sector still faces challenges while trying to solidify a more prominent role in the senior care space. “In general, two-thirds of states had some sort of temporary restrictions with suspended service,” William Zagorski, board chair of the National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA), told Home Health Care News.

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Akili plans to go public as it prepares to market video game treatment

Health Care Dive

"We've proven that foundation and now it's time to run and scale," CEO Eddie Martucci said. The company is going public through a $1 billion SPAC, rather than a traditional IPO, expected to close in mid-2022.

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Digital fitness works for the senior market

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Is Putin Irrational? What Nuclear Strategic Theory Says About Deterrence of Potentially Irrational Opponents

The Rand Blog

Increasingly isolated and desperate, Putin might try to suddenly escalate the Ukraine conflict rather than back down in the face of international opposition. The United States and its allies must account for the possibility that even in the face of credible deterrent threats Putin might double down and lash out.

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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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Latest CMS, CDC and NHSN Nursing Home COVID-19 Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted COVID-19 Nursing Home data for the week ending February 27, 2022. Comparing the February 27 th data to the February 20 th data shows these differences: Resident vaccination rate rose 0.1% from the previous week Residents with booster doses ( new the week of 2/6 ) increased by 1.2% this past week Staff vaccination rate increased 0.5% this week Staff with booster doses ( new the week of 2/6 ) increased by 1.6% t

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Amwell partners with electronics giant LG to develop digital health tools

Health Care Dive

The new partnership may be a bid to rejuvenate Amwell's hospital revenue, which saw tepid growth last year as major health systems have delayed new hardware deployments during COVID-19.

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As PACE Model Reaches New Heights, ConcertoCare Launches First In-Person Center

Home Health Care

With its outlook already strong for 2022, the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model continues to gain momentum. ConcertoCare, a value-based care provider that offers an array of home-based care services, announced Thursday the opening of its first in-person PACE center. The center — Cherry Blossom PACE, located in Alexandria, Virginia — will offer ConcertoCare’s interdisciplinary care delivery model to ensure the health, independence and dignity of seniors by helping them re

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Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations

Bill Of Health

By Jacob Madden. Long COVID has left an estimated 1.6 million Americans unable to work. Those experiencing Long COVID face long-term neurological issues, heart problems, lung damage, and myriad other complications following an initial bout with COVID-19. Though some who are incapacitated by Long COVID will eventually be able to return to work, others may never work again.

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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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Latest NH COVID-19 Data – CMS, CDC and NHSN

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending February 20, 2022. [NOTE: On this landing page, you’ll also find resources and ways to explore and visualize the data and links to the left, as well as the buttons at the top of the page.]. Comparing the February 20 th data to the February 13 th data shows these differences: Resident vaccination rate down 0.1% from the previous week Residents with booster doses ( n

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Medical groups say prior authorization burdens persisted during pandemic

Health Care Dive

A new survey of doctor practices from the Medical Group Management Association found 98% of respondents wrestled with an increased or steady level of prior authorization requirements over the past year.

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Bill Aiming to Significantly Extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver Introduced

Home Health Care

A bill that would extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver has finally been introduced. Dubbed the “Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act,” the bill is sponsored by Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), as well as Reps. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.). The bill would extend the waivers that have made hospital-level care at home viable during the pandemic by two years, “beyond the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).

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7 Causes of Burning Knee Pain

Healthcare Associates

7 Causes of Burning Knee Pain. Burning pain in the knee can be an incredibly unpleasant experience. It often feels like the joint is on fire or as if there’s something sharp sticking into the joint or poking it. When there’s a constant burning sensation in the knee, walking, relaxing, or even sleeping can be difficult. And, when we’re tired, pain seems to feel a whole lot worse.

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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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Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees

Bill Of Health

By Arlene S. Kanter. While the COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the nation, it has also opened an unprecedented opportunity to transform our workplaces and offer greater flexibility for employees with and without disabilities. This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past, even with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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6 major regional health systems form alliance to share staffing resources

Health Care Dive

Advent Health, Atrium Health, Henry Ford Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Northwell Health and OhioHealth will participate in reciprocal staffing arrangements.

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Why Post-Acute Care Is Health Care’s New ‘Apex Predator’

Home Health Care

A large post-acute care company with a deep presence in America’s rural areas, Intrepid USA Healthcare Services has been in the market for a new private equity partner. Intrepid is a Texas-based provider of home health, hospice and personal care services. The company has more than 60 locations spanning 17 states. CEO John Kunysz likes to say the company has a tremendous footprint in “the hills, hollers, bayous, backwoods, barrier islands, deserts and prairies of the United States.”.

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#JHMChat Recap: EHR Documentation–What Makes a Good Note?

Hospital Medicine

Could being on Twitter make you a better note-writer? We certainly think so! That was one of the many hot takes from February’s #JHMChat, with special guests Drs. Blair Golden, Robert Centor, and Andrew Olson. We explored the most fundamental question in the electronic health record (EHR): what makes a good note? Honest question, has [.]. The post #JHMChat Recap: EHR Documentation–What Makes a Good Note?

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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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Balancing humanity and technology in the future of healthcare

Nordic

As some nations declare an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and begin to retreat from their emergency policies and restrictions, it’s a reminder of the dramatic impact healthcare systems have weathered over the past two years. Yet in reality, the pandemic is not over for the healthcare sector, which must now figure out the best way forward.

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FDA warns of cyber vulnerabilities in medical device software components

Health Care Dive

An agency alert warned that flaws in PTC's Axeda agent and desktop server, used in devices from several manufacturers, could allow an unauthorized attacker to take full control of the host operating system.

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Between a Rock and Hard Place: Recommendations for Balancing Patient Safety and Pandemic Response

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Arlington, Va., March 8, 2022 – As the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is issuing an urgent call-to-action to shore up the nation’s infection prevention and control (IPC) infrastructure.

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Government Watchdogs Looking to Ding Home-Based Care Providers

Home Health Care

With the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel finally visible, home-based care agencies will now have to worry about checking their peripherals once they reach the other side. Government watchdog agencies are expected to come hard for providers in 2022 and beyond. The Biden administration released a 68-page report Monday pertaining to the “state of labor market competition,” for instance.

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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.