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Healthcare employers must urgently address burnout, surgeon general warns

Health Care Dive

Systems should address burnout systemically, and a priority is seeking and responding better to feedback from front-line workers, according to a Monday advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

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AI and IoT device connects with concierge platform for RPM

Healthcare It News

Healthcare workflow technology company Braidio has partnered with health IT vendor BlueSemi with the aim of creating a preventive home-health and telehealth ecosystem. BlueSemi's primary product is a handheld device called EYVA, which measures six vitals, including blood glucose, without requiring a pinprick for blood. By integrating the device with Braidio's My Health Concierge platform, the companies will be attempting to encourage positive behavioral change.

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The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don't

The Rand Blog

Are certain gun laws and regulations likely to improve or worsen public safety? At a time when many Americans are searching for solutions to our country's intolerably high rates of gun violence, social scientists can help provide answers.

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Aging-in-Place Company Homethrive Raises $20M, Plans ‘Aggressive Expansion’ in Payer Marketplace

Home Health Care

Aging-in-place enabler Homethrive has raised an additional $20 million in Series B funding. For Homethrive, the funding round – led by Human Capital, with participation from Allianz, 7wireVentures and Pitango HealthTech – will go toward its “aggressive expansion” plans and further technology investments. And for similar senior-focused startups, the infusion of capital shows that VC interest in the space has far from cooled, despite a recent investment slowdown.

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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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Millions of people counting on Congress to protect telehealth access

Health Care Dive

Patients in communities across the nation who have come to rely on telehealth have been left waiting and wondering if they will be able to receive the virtual care they need once the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended.

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New York State Office for the Aging deploys AI robots as companions for older adults

Healthcare It News

Building on its effort to battle social isolation and support aging-in-place, the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) is delivering voice-operated smart technology into the homes of more than 800 older adults. NYSOFA is working with local offices for the aging and partners to identify older adults who would most benefit from the technology: ElliQ by Intuition Robotics, which is described by the company as a proactive and empathetic care companion.

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The Case for Centering Hospital-at-Home Programs Around Home-Based Care Providers

Home Health Care

Though it’s by definition the delivery of high acuity care in the home setting, hospital-at-home programs tend to be operated by, and centered around, hospitals. But there are cost benefits to building these programs around home-based care providers, a Health Affairs article published on Tuesday suggests. The research came about as authors from Milliman Inc. and AccentCare tried to consider some different options for addressing the logistical challenges of implementing hospital-at-home pro

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Employees cause more cyber breaches in healthcare than other industries, report finds

Health Care Dive

Employees were responsible for 39% of healthcare breaches last year. That's compared to 18% across all industries, according to new Verizon research.

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Study: Teletherapy program reduces OCD symptoms

Healthcare It News

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How Long Do Hemorrhoids Last?

Healthcare Associates

How Long Do Hemorrhoids Last? Hemorrhoids can be extremely difficult to deal with, especially when they cause pain and discomfort. When you develop hemorrhoids, you want them to go away as quickly as possible so you can experience relief from your symptoms. Here’s how long it usually takes for hemorrhoids to go away and what you can do in the meantime to feel better.

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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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Best Buy CEO: At-Home Care Focus is ‘Resonating with Health Care Industry’

Home Health Care

Best Buy’s (NYSE: BBY) at-home health care focus has become a regularly mentioned topic for the company. After purchasing Current Health – a well-known home-based remote patient monitoring platform (RPM) – for $400 million last year, the company has established itself among the likes of other top retailers that have become heavily engaged in the home-based care marketplace.

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Healthcare spending could drop $11.4B next year if ACA premium subsidies expire, research finds

Health Care Dive

The looming coverage cliff would also hit providers financially, according to a new report. President Joe Biden has pushed Congress to extend the more generous financial aid provided by the American Rescue Plan.

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Digital transformation helps healthcare organizations confront big challenges

Healthcare It News

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COVID-19 Vaccine Preventable Deaths Analysis 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “Vaccines have proven to be spectacularly effective in preventing death from Covid-19, but the U.S. continues to struggle with keeping Americans up to date on vaccinations. (The Brown School of Public Health) Vaccine Preventable Deaths Dashboard shows that since vaccines became widely available, every second Covid-19 death could have been prevented by vaccines.”.

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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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SCAN Group Acquires The Residentialist Group to Further Build Its Home-Based Care ‘Thesis’

Home Health Care

The SCAN Group announced on Thursday that it has acquired The Residentialist Group (TRG), an organization that provides chronic disease management, palliative care and home-based care to seniors. The deal is noteworthy because it marks the first time the organization has acquired an outside company. SCAN declined to disclose financial terms of the deal.

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AHA urges DOJ to probe Medicare Advantage plans that deny care

Health Care Dive

The hospital lobby is pushing the Justice Department to go beyond the recommendations in a new report from the HHS OIG and punish Medicare Advantage organizations that routinely deny coverage to beneficiaries.

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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine May Harden U.S. Indo-Pacific Allies

The Rand Blog

The effects of Russia's war against Ukraine stretch worldwide as countries watch Ukraine's unfolding tragedy to glean possible lessons for their own security. Understanding how Australia and Japan are perceiving the conflict could be critical for allied strategy in the Indo-Pacific region.

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New Funding Opportunity to Strengthen Behavioral Health Services in Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Facilities

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. May 16, 2022 …The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing a funding opportunity of nearly $15 million for a three-year federal grant to establish a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) program that will strengthen the delivery of behavioral health care to residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.

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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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Where Home-Based Care Dealmaking Stands Among Other Subsectors

Home Health Care

While the appetite for home health and home care dealmaking remains strong, other health care subsectors are catching up. Coming off a record-breaking 2021 for M&A deals, the home-based sector saw a slightly down Q1 in 2022. However, experts have told Home Health Care News that M&A players are taking their time with deals, and even though the number of deals is lower, the valuations in those deals have not dipped.

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Advocate Aurora faces lawsuit over all-or-nothing contracting

Health Care Dive

The complaint alleges the nonprofit system used a number of anticompetitive practices to inflate healthcare prices at a cost to Wisconsin businesses.

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Buried Under Dirt or Under Debt: Can Patients Survive the Struggle of Getting Care?

HIT Consultant

Srulik Dvorsky, TailorMed CEO and Founder. New patients at a cancer center in Michigan receive a 79-page handbook when their treatments commence. The handbook includes needed advice on what to eat and the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. One double-sided page features information about how to navigate the financial aspects of cancer treatment, including who to contact for help with medical bills.

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National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria: Year 5 Report

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria 2015 – 2020 (2015 Plan) has guided the U.S. Government’s response to combating antibiotic-resistant infections since its establishment in 2015. The U.S. Government’s Interagency Task Force for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB) has produced four previous reports on progress toward the 2015 Plan.

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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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Home Care Provider BrightStar Care Ready to Align Itself with Larger Network

Home Health Care

For a while now, home care giant BrightStar Care has gone above and beyond the standard franchise model. It introduced senior living communities into its network to assist seniors with their care transitions while maintaining those clients. Recently, it has launched its new “care homes,” a twist on those senior living communities. BrightStar has always had its medical staffing segment, too.

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Medtech companies keep supply, staffing challenges in check even as recession risks loom, analysts say

Health Care Dive

Companies are coping with factors such as supply disruptions, staffing shortages, inflation and foreign-exchange hurdles, according to analysts at William Blair.

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AWS Launches New Healthcare Accelerator Focused on Health Equity

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. The Accelerator is open to startups with US operations and applications open today. – This is part of AWS’s efforts to help organizations use the power of the cloud to help tackle the health equity gap – other efforts include the $40 million AWS Health Equity Initiative , which AWS also provided an update on in today’s announ

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CMS Administrative Memo Revised: Transition Several Providers and Suppliers and Provide Additional Guidance and Updates to the Standard Operating Procedures 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS revised Admin Info: 22-02-ALL on May 19, 2022. To improve efficiency in the enrollment process for Medicare-participating certified providers and suppliers, CMS is transitioning certain certification-enrollment functions performed by the CMS Locations to CMS’ CPI/PEOG and the MACs.

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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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A Four Day Week: Is America Ready?

The Rand Blog

As alluring as a calendar filled with three-day weekends may seem, research shows that short school weeks can have educational and health risks for students, but also benefits for them and for school districts that make the change. Do the benefits of the condensed week outweigh the costs?

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Rollback of pandemic protections to test Medicaid managed care organizations

Health Care Dive

At question is whether insurers will be able to shift Medicaid members who lose coverage to subsidized marketplace plans.

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Reproducibility, Trust, and the Digital Laboratory

HIT Consultant

Kevin Vigilante MD, MPH EVP, Chief Medical Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton George Plopper, Sr. Lead Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton. Over the last decade, there has been an increasing recognition that results published in scientific journals often cannot be reproduced by other scientists. This has been called the “reproducibility crisis” and has been described in a number of studies.

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William Edwards Deming: The master of continual improvement of quality

Life Qi

Edwards William Deming (1900-1993) is considered by many to be the founder of the quality movement and a real reference in the field of statistics. Many in Japan also consider him to be one of the inspirations of the Japanese economic miracle, which occurred from 1950 to 1960. Japan grew from the ashes and became the second largest economy in the world, thanks to processes influenced by the ideas of Deming.

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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.