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Monkeypox declared federal public health emergency

Health Care Dive

“We're prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday.

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Can We Reach Health 4.0 in the Next 3-5 Years?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – According to a new report from Allison + Partners , 57% of respondents said it will be possible to achieve “Health 4.0” in the next 3-5 years. – The report illustrates that the biggest hurdles include legislative and regulatory policy, lack of tech talent, and little understanding of health technologies and that the opportunities outweigh the challenges.

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How health IT can advance health equity for transgender and nonbinary patients

Healthcare It News

The Biden Administration recently issued an executive order advancing LGBTQ+ health equity. Health IT experts contend that technology can advance health equity for the transgender patient population, as this group has traditionally been marginalized by the healthcare industry. In fact, evidence shows transgender people experience much higher rates of chronic health conditions compared with the general population – and discrimination and stigma impacts their physical and mental health.

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'The Future Could Be Brilliant': RAND's CEO Is an 'Apocaloptimist'

The Rand Blog

Jason Matheny, RAND's new president and CEO, explains why he's cautiously optimistic about the future of humanity, the importance of public service, and RAND's role in shaping policy solutions.

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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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No ‘slam dunk fix’ in HIPAA privacy law to protect abortion patients

Health Care Dive

In an increasingly murky legal environment, providers should focus on minimizing and protecting the data they collect, while keeping abreast of shifting abortion legality in their state, experts said.

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

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending July 24, 2022. Comparing the July 24 th data to the previous July 17 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate remains same as the previous week Residents with booster doses increased 0.4% from previous week Staff primary vaccination completion rate remained the same (same as previous 5 weeks) Staff with booster doses increased 0

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What Amazon’s $3.9B One Medical Acquisition Means for In-Home Senior Care

Home Health Care

Retail and technology giant Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) last month announced plans to acquire primary care innovator One Medical for an astounding $3.9 billion. The transaction doesn’t immediately affect senior-focused in-home care providers, but it’s another major stepping stone on the path toward disrupting the current U.S. health care system. What’s more, the deal reflects the ongoing consumerization of health care and steady emergence of nontraditional players, many of which have already revealed

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Hospitals have low level of accountability for connected device breaches

Health Care Dive

Of the 43% of organizations that reported a data breach in the past two years, 88% said at least one connected device was a contributing factor to the breach, according to a new report.

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HQRP Quarterly Update for 2nd Quarter of 2022 is Available 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Hospice Quarterly Update for the second quarter of 2022 is now available. This update includes Hospice Quality Reporting Program highlights from April 2022 to June 2022, events and engagement opportunities for the third quarter of 2022 (July – September 2022), and selected questions and answers from the Hospice Quality Help Desk.

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AI-powered telehealth improves PT care at Essen Health Care

Healthcare It News

Essen Health Care, a medical group in New York City, has a Center of Excellence for Pain with physical therapy, pain specialists, neurology and orthopedic specialists. It serves patients with acute and chronic issues in need of physical therapy. In addition, it serves many elderly house call patients, due to pandemic restrictions, who have functionally deteriorated due to a lack of physical activity.

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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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The Next Frontier In Home-Based Care Recruiting: Gen Z And Millennial Workers

Home Health Care

There are a number of potential avenues to take to address the staffing needs in home-based care over the next decade. But one that will absolutely have to be taken is the one that leads to more millennial and Generation Z workers entering the space. To do that, home-based care providers are doing a few things, including: establishing transparent lines of communication to these generations, offering competitive benefits and recruiting through non-traditional channels.

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DOJ sues Idaho over near-total abortion ban in first post-Roe challenge

Health Care Dive

In a suit filed in Idaho’s southern district, the Department of Justice claimed that Idaho’s “near-absolute” abortion ban blocks clinicians from providing necessary care in medical emergencies as required by federal law.

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An Ob/Gyn Reflects on Dobbs: ‘The Time Has Passed for Neutrality’

Bill Of Health

By Samantha DeAndrade. Last week, in response to a petition written by myself and colleagues, the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ABOG), which is headquartered in Texas, reversed its decision to pursue in-person board certification exams. In light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health , my colleagues and I held grave concerns about traveling to Dallas, Texas for this credentialing exam.

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One Medical posts revenue, membership gains as it preps for Amazon acquisition

Healthcare It News

One Medical announced is 2nd quarter financial results this week, showing growth in both net revenue and membership. Year-over-year, compared to the three months ending June 30, 2021, the technology-enabled primary care provider posted the following numbers: Net revenue was $255.8 million YOY, compared to $120.4 million in 2021 – a 112% increase.

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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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How Policies That Punish Pregnant Women Backfire

The Rand Blog

There is overwhelming evidence and consensus from the medical and public health communities that supportive approaches are what help pregnant women with substance use disorders. Unfortunately, the overturning of Roe v. Wade has opened the door for more policies that police and punish women rather than evidence-based solutions that we know can, do, and will save lives.

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Geisinger appoints first chief wellness officer

Health Care Dive

As the Pennsylvania regional health system’s first chief wellness officer, Susan Parisi will oversee the system’s mental health, professional fulfillment and well-being strategies.

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Another Legislative Attempt to Revive Gene Patenting

Bill Of Health

In its unanimous 2013 decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (569 U.S. 576) the U.S. Supreme Court held that naturally occurring genomic sequences are not eligible for patent protection. Not surprisingly, some representatives of the biotechnology industry, and many patent lawyers, reacted negatively to the decision, and have steadily lobbied Congress to restore patent protection for isolated and purified genomic sequences.

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Athenahealth adds automated patient engagement feature to help with medication adherence

Healthcare It News

Whether it’s due to high out-of-pocket costs, concerns about side effects, procrastination or other factors, 20-30% of patients don’t act on their new prescriptions, while others do not take medications as prescribed. WHY IT MATTERS. By partnering with Watertown, Massachusetts-based athenahealth, the system’s 145,000 providers can now access automated messaging within their established prescribing workflows to help drive better adherence to prescribed treatment plans.

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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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Headache Behind the Ears: Causes, Treatments, and More

Healthcare Associates

Headache Behind the Ears: Causes, Treatments, and More. You may have experienced a headache in your life. Headaches are a common and debilitating collection of nervous system disorders, affecting people of all ages, races, and socioeconomic circumstances. Women suffer more headaches than men. Debilitating headaches can have a significant impact on your quality of life.

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Abortion clinics go mobile, seeking flexibility amid patchwork state restrictions

Health Care Dive

Advocates are hoping the mobile clinic model will accelerate access to abortions, especially for those in states where the procedure is outlawed.

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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

David Chess, MD, Chief Health & Policy Officer & Chairman of the Board / Founder, Tapestry Health. A society defines itself by how it cares for its most vulnerable, and especially its seniors. As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career.

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EMR systems shift nurses’ attention away from patients

Healthcare It News

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has published a white paper on optimising the care pathway for better outcomes in hospitals. In the paper, we outline the current situation in digital health and map out a vision to free up time for patient care. The widespread implementation of EMRs has allowed collaboration between doctors, reduced medical errors, and created the data points required for analytics which will provide an in-road for artificial intelligence work in the future.

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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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OIG: Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied With Federal Requirements for Infection Prevention and Control and Emergency Preparedness  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “Selected nursing homes may not have complied with Federal requirements for infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness. Specifically, 28 of the 39 nursing homes had possible deficiencies. We found 48 instances at 25 nursing homes of possible noncompliance with infection prevention and control requirements and 18 instances at 18 nursing homes of possible noncompliance with emergency preparedness requirements

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Thousands of Kaiser mental health clinicians to strike in Northern California

Health Care Dive

Psychologists, therapists, chemical dependency counselors and social workers plan to strike. They say they’re stretched too thin and unable to provide adequate care to patients.

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Russia's Withdrawal from the ISS, Another Sign of Its Space Decline?

The Rand Blog

Russia's threatened exit from the International Space Station could simply be more bluster from Moscow at a time of heightened tension between Russia and the West over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But it also appears to be another signal that Russia's profile in space is in decline, a trend that is likely to continue and that the United States could be preparing for now.

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Stony Brook Medicine crafts a telehealth strategic plan that bears fruit

Healthcare It News

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 million people in Suffolk County, New York. It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote t

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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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CMS, OIG Disconnect Highlighted In Medicare Overpayments Report

Home Health Care

Federal watchdogs reported the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not collected the near-$500 million in Medicare overpayments that were found in audits over a two-year period beginning in 2014. The Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG-HHS) recently reviewed 148 Medicare audits it conducted for 30 months between 2014 and 2016 and could only verify that CMS collected $120 million of the $498 million in overpayments.

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Healthcare industry nearly recovered from early pandemic job losses

Health Care Dive

Hospitals added about 13,000 jobs in July compared to about 20,000 in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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After the al-Zawahiri Strike, the U.S. May Lack Capabilities in Afghanistan

The Rand Blog

The U.S. drone strike that killed Al Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan took out one of the last remaining key figures behind the 9/11 terror attacks. But it also highlighted how little the United States got out of its 2020 bargain with the Taliban, and raised questions about the U.S. ability to adequately monitor the developing threat from this quarter going forward.

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A transition to patient-centered care requires a mental shift

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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.