Health Care Quality Digest

Veterans Health Administration employs far less administrative staff than private health sector, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 23, 2024

The healthcare system’s private sector could learn a thing or two about efficiency from the government’s Veterans Health Administration, which employs about 30% less administrative staff across cli | The government health program's simplified payment system helps keep its payroll lean, as opposed to a private sector that employs hundreds of thousands (..)

Healthcare

Allina Health clinicians to form largest group of unionized physicians in US private sector

Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Hundreds of Allina Health physicians have voted in favor of unionizing, creating what their representation believes to be the largest collection of unionized private-sector physicians in the countr | Primary and urgent care clinicians' 325-200 vote was announced late last week and follows another in-favor unionization push by Allina Health inpatient (..)

Urgent Care

Nonprofit hospital sector to stabilize in 2024 amid rising reimbursement, volumes, Moody's predicts

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Moody’s Investor Services is forecasting stronger financials across the nonprofit hospital sector in 2024 thanks to upticks in reimbursement rates and volumes that will outpace continued labor expe | The ratings agency said it anticipates a 10% to 20% increase in nonprofit providers' median operating cash flow during the coming year.

Hospitals

Healthcare sector adds jobs through fall but still faces elevated quit rates: Fitch Ratings

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Healthcare sector adds jobs through fall but still faces elevated quit rates: Fitch Ratings. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 13:07.

Healthcare

Inaugural EY health equity survey finds eagerness for cross-sector collaboration, but gaps in strategy

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 9, 2023

Inaugural EY health equity survey finds eagerness for cross-sector collaboration, but gaps in strategy. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 13:32.

HHS releases voluntary cybersecurity goals for the healthcare sector

Health Care Dive

JANUARY 25, 2024

The voluntary resources serve as a “step forward” as the agency looks to propose enforceable standards, HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm said in a statement.

Healthcare

Critical digital systems yet to be implemented across Australia's residential aged care sector: survey

Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2022

The Aged Care Technology Consortium in Australia has noted the dearth of critical digital system implementations across the residential aged care sector in a recent nationwide survey. THE LARGER TREND.

Home Care

Home Care Nursing

Antitrust regulators aim to revamp merger guidelines, signaling threat to health sector deals

Health Care Dive

JANUARY 19, 2022

The news sparked headlines about an attempt by regulators to target big tech, but it could have serious implications for the healthcare sector for years to come.

Regulations

Regulations Healthcare

Report: Nursing homes shed 221K jobs since start of pandemic while other sectors have recovered

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Report: Nursing homes shed 221K jobs since start of pandemic while other sectors have recovered. Wed, 11/10/2021 - 16:20.

Nursing

Report: Home Health Sector Improving Turnover Rate, Continues Increasing Compensation

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In order to combat shortfalls, providers have upped the ante for sign-on bonuses in the sector. The post Report: Home Health Sector Improving Turnover Rate, Continues Increasing Compensation appeared first on Home Health Care News.

Home Care

Home Care Nursing Hospitals Healthcare

Elation adds medical biller Lightning MD with plans to be the sector's first all-in-one technology solution

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Elation adds medical biller Lightning MD with plans to be the sector's first all-in-one technology solution aburky Thu, 02/16/2023 - 12:52

'Podnosis': What can be done about errors in health records, and the postpandemic telepsychiatry sector

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Podnosis': What can be done about errors in health records, and the postpandemic telepsychiatry sector tcarey Tue, 02/14/2023 - 15:09

Improving Healthcare Cybersecurity Is a Priority for National Security: U.S. HHS Issues Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity Concept Paper Signaling Forthcoming Cybersecurity Framework

Triage Health Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Protecting the healthcare sector from the ever-increasing cyber threat is a matter of national security. Undoubtedly, the healthcare sector is central to the nation’s critical infrastructure, and it remains vulnerable to increasing cybersecurity risks.

Healthcare

Healthcare Hospitals Regulations Accountability

Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons Are Not Enough: Productivity in the UK's Public Sector

The Rand Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

Productivity improvement across the UK public sector has stalled in recent years. There are two main ways to address this productivity puzzle: Reducing costs, and innovative system change focussed on delivering more value with the same inputs.

Healthcare sector added 45K jobs in November as pandemic recovery continues

Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Ambulatory healthcare services and hospitals have gained jobs consistently, adding about 300,000 and 130,000 jobs, respectively, since last November.

Healthcare

Healthcare Hospitals

Health sector causes 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, report finds

Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The congressional report also found a majority of health systems surveyed had been affected by an extreme weather event.

Cybersecurity is Patient Safety: Policy Options in the Health Care Sector

Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

45 MILLION people were affected by attacks on the health care sector in 2021. Over the past decade, the American public has witnessed increasingly brazen and disruptive attacks on its health care sector that jeopardize sensitive personal information, delay treatment, and ultimately lead to increased suffering and death.

Patient Safety

Patient Safety Healthcare Providers Hospitals Healthcare

Cross-Sector Collaboration: New Research and Recommendations

NCQA

MARCH 20, 2024

The post Cross-Sector Collaboration: New Research and Recommendations appeared first on NCQA. By increasing awareness and fostering collaboration, we can work to build a world where everyone can be healthy and thrive. NCQA thanks Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., for sponsoring this integrated, instructive work.

Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals Accountability Integration Hospitals

Singapore Updates Data Privacy Rules for Healthcare Sector

Triage Health Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Nine years after its initial inception, Singapore’s data protection authority (Commission) published in September 2023 an updated set of advisory guidelines for the healthcare sector (Revised Guidelines). It attracts more than 500,000 medical tourists annually, accounting for approximately US$ 1 billion in tourism spending.

Medical Tourism

Medical Tourism Healthcare Quality Assurance Accountability

Fall of SVB hits healthcare sector as federal regulators step in

Health Care Dive

MARCH 13, 2023

The major healthcare and life sciences lender closed Friday in the culmination of a rapid four-day nosedive that left some healthcare companies temporarily locked out of funds.

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Regulations Healthcare

Hospital finance metrics stumble in March but remain strong through Q1

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 2, 2024

Hospitals’ margins and revenues took a slight dip in March, though it wasn’t enough to sour what has been a strong quarter for the sector. Sectorwide reports and recent earnings suggest that the sector is still well ahead of 2023.

Hospitals

The Continuing Rise of AI in the Healthcare Sector in 2023

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2023

The announcement in September 2022 that the health tech company Iodine Software was entering into a partnership with the software platform TruCode “to upend clinical administration using artificial intelligence” serves as one of the more recent reminders of AI’s considerable impact on the healthcare sector.

Healthcare

Healthcare Doctors

August's improving operating margins outline a stabilizing hospital sector, Kaufman Hall reports

Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Hospitals nationwide saw their operating margins inch upward in August thanks to an uptick in revenue and a dip in contract labor utilization, according to the latest monthly check-in from Kaufman | Hospitals logged an 8% month-over-month jump in daily net operating revenue while total expense per adjusted discharge dropped by 5%, according to the (..)

Hospitals

Hospitals Healthcare

There's a big market for healthcare data analytics. Here's how Trilliant Health is making moves to stand out

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

The $4 trillion healthcare industry is a data-rich sector, and every healthcare player is trying to find a way to use information to drive better decisions, whether in the clinic or the boardroom.<

Healthcare

Health and Housing: Introduction to Cross-Sector Collaboration

NASHP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Health and Housing: Introduction to Cross-Sector Collaboration December 20, 2021 / by Marcella Maguire, Allie Atkeson, Sandra Wilkniss. For the past decade or more, state leaders have worked across health and housing sectors to strengthen comprehensive services for individuals experiencing homelessness and housing instability.

Medicaid

Medicaid Prevention Integration Population Health

The Role of Intellectual Property in the Biopharmaceutical Sector

Healthcare ECONOMIST

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In the context of this fast-moving political debate, FTI Consulting supported INTERPAT, a non-profit biopharmaceutical consortium, and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) in developing a White Paper and peer-reviewed article on the role of IP in the biopharmaceutical sector.

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals Medical Technology Regulations

Home Health Sector Remains Area of Focus For Fraud Watchdogs

Home Health Care

JULY 13, 2022

In general, the home health sector has been an area of focus for the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC). The post Home Health Sector Remains Area of Focus For Fraud Watchdogs appeared first on Home Health Care News. Additionally, a residential care company and its owner agreed to pay $2.9

Medicaid

Medicaid Medicare

The Commercial Determinants of Health – How the Private Sector Shapes Public and Peoples’ Health

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Solving the Big Problems and drivers that underpin health and well-being require collaboration across public and private sectors, and siloes across the health/care ecosystem. And learn what Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield is doing with washers and dryers tied to community health.

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Medical Technology Hospitals

National Home Health Spending Dips to $129.1 Billion as Health Care Sector Normalizes

Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

From 2025 onward, we expect economic and demographic factors to reemerge as the most influential drivers of health sector spending trends.”. Billion as Health Care Sector Normalizes appeared first on Home Health Care News. Overall, U.S. health care spending grew by 4.2% in 2021 to nearly $4.3 to above $4.1 to above $4.1

Medicare

Medicare Medicaid Accountability Nursing

Webinar: Building a Modernized and Connected Public Health System through Multi-Sector Partnerships

NASHP

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

ET Register The post Webinar: Building a Modernized and Connected Public Health System through Multi-Sector Partnerships appeared first on NASHP. Natasha Bagdasarian , Chief Medical Executive, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services Tuesday, November 14, 12–1 p.m.

Healthcare sector on alert for cyber threats in wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

AHA is especially concerned that some hospitals were collateral damage after Russia targeted Ukraine in a 2017 cyberattack that quickly spilled worldwide.

Healthcare

Healthcare Hospitals

Antitrust agencies are relying on consumers to report anticompetitive behavior. That trust might be misplaced.

Health Care Dive

MAY 6, 2024

Regulators want consumers to flag business practices harming market health in the healthcare sector, which could result in a tsunami of new tips — for good and ill, according to experts.

Regulations

Regulations Healthcare

As Labor Competition Heats Up In Health Care, Home Health Sector Left Behind

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The competition for available and qualified talent between health care sectors also continues to escalate, at a time when home health providers are having trouble keeping up. There’s always been competition among the different health care sectors, but that is also intensifying,” Cunningham said. “If

Medicare

Medicare Medicaid Hospitals Healthcare

Home Health Providers Should Prepare For Increased Scrutiny Due to Nursing Home Sector Reforms

Home Health Care

MAY 2, 2022

The proposed reforms include establishing minimum staffing requirements, examining the growing role of private equity in the nursing home sector, promoting single occupancy, strengthening the skilled-nursing facility (SNF) value-based purchasing program and initiatives related to reducing unnecessary treatments and medications.

Nursing

Nursing Accountability Quality of Care Medicaid

Home Health, Hospice Sectors Still Among M&A Leaders In 2022

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

15, the average multiple across health services sub-sectors was 14.4x, down from 15.9x Multiples dropped in four of the seven sub-sectors whose multiples we track, led by outsourcing (down from 19.2x The post Home Health, Hospice Sectors Still Among M&A Leaders In 2022 appeared first on Home Health Care News. to 14.2).”.

Primary Care

Kroger eyes opportunities in senior-focused primary care, rolls out service in Atlanta clinics

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Kroger is piloting value-based primary care clinics as it joins a growing list of retailers looking to cash in on the booming sector of senior-focused medical care. Kroger is piloting value-based primary care clinics as it joins a growing list of retailers looking to cash in on the booming sector of senior-focused medical care.

Primary Care

Innovaccer Expands into Public Sector to Accelerate Public Health Transformation

HIT Consultant

JULY 13, 2022

What You Should Know: – Health cloud company Innovaccer Inc , today announced it is expanding into the public sector to improve collaboration between agencies, optimize case management, manage increasingly complex alternative payment models, and improve the individual’s experience through technology. Outdated Public Sector Systems.

Population Health

Population Health Medicaid Private Healthcare Quality of Care

Study: Chronic worker shortages in nursing homes must be addressed to help lessen patient risk

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for increased oversight of the sector, according to | The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for (..)

Nursing

Brain and Machine Confluence Requires Multi-Sectoral Regulation To Maximize Gains

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As the commercialization of brain-computer interface technology expands, it would be prudent for international policymakers to consider how this technology should be regulated, in order to reap its benefits and minimize its risks.

Regulations

Biden admin suspends Georgia plan to let private sector run ACA marketplace

Health Care Dive

MAY 2, 2022

CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said the controversial plan would provide coverage to fewer people and no longer complies with federal law and other policies.

Cybersecurity takes center stage at AHA annual meeting

Health Care Dive

APRIL 16, 2024

Change will not be the last sector-wide attack, they warned. In the wake of the Change Healthcare attack, experts advised hospital leaders to increase their cyber defenses.

Hospitals

Hospitals Healthcare

High volume, high value hospital transactions kick off 2024

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 11, 2024

A flurry of merger and acquisition deals unveiled during Q1 2024 reflect a blend of novel and continuing strategic trends within the hospital sector, writes Kaufman Hall.

Hospitals

'Podnosis': What’s next for health tech investing in 2024?

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 22, 2024

The digital health and health tech sectors had a tough year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, navigating through a turbulent hype cycle.

Healthcare

PE-Backed First Docs Eyes National Expansion, Home Health As ‘Big Growth Sector’

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The 360 Community Medicine model describes what I believe is a sector of internal medicine that can be practiced in any community in the country, whereby you take all comers regardless of insurance so that we open up channels immediately to the underserved as well,” Bhatia told Home Health Care News’ sister site Hospice News.

Doctors

Doctors Nursing Primary Care Hospitals

Veterans Health Administration employs far less administrative staff than private health sector, study finds

Allina Health clinicians to form largest group of unionized physicians in US private sector

Trending Sources

Nonprofit hospital sector to stabilize in 2024 amid rising reimbursement, volumes, Moody's predicts

Healthcare sector adds jobs through fall but still faces elevated quit rates: Fitch Ratings

Inaugural EY health equity survey finds eagerness for cross-sector collaboration, but gaps in strategy

HHS releases voluntary cybersecurity goals for the healthcare sector

Critical digital systems yet to be implemented across Australia's residential aged care sector: survey

Antitrust regulators aim to revamp merger guidelines, signaling threat to health sector deals

Report: Nursing homes shed 221K jobs since start of pandemic while other sectors have recovered

Report: Home Health Sector Improving Turnover Rate, Continues Increasing Compensation

Elation adds medical biller Lightning MD with plans to be the sector's first all-in-one technology solution

'Podnosis': What can be done about errors in health records, and the postpandemic telepsychiatry sector

Improving Healthcare Cybersecurity Is a Priority for National Security: U.S. HHS Issues Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity Concept Paper Signaling Forthcoming Cybersecurity Framework

Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons Are Not Enough: Productivity in the UK's Public Sector

Healthcare sector added 45K jobs in November as pandemic recovery continues

Health sector causes 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, report finds

Cybersecurity is Patient Safety: Policy Options in the Health Care Sector

Cross-Sector Collaboration: New Research and Recommendations

Singapore Updates Data Privacy Rules for Healthcare Sector

Fall of SVB hits healthcare sector as federal regulators step in

Hospital finance metrics stumble in March but remain strong through Q1

The Continuing Rise of AI in the Healthcare Sector in 2023

August's improving operating margins outline a stabilizing hospital sector, Kaufman Hall reports

There's a big market for healthcare data analytics. Here's how Trilliant Health is making moves to stand out

Health and Housing: Introduction to Cross-Sector Collaboration

The Role of Intellectual Property in the Biopharmaceutical Sector

Home Health Sector Remains Area of Focus For Fraud Watchdogs

The Commercial Determinants of Health – How the Private Sector Shapes Public and Peoples’ Health

National Home Health Spending Dips to $129.1 Billion as Health Care Sector Normalizes

Webinar: Building a Modernized and Connected Public Health System through Multi-Sector Partnerships

Healthcare sector on alert for cyber threats in wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Antitrust agencies are relying on consumers to report anticompetitive behavior. That trust might be misplaced.

As Labor Competition Heats Up In Health Care, Home Health Sector Left Behind

Home Health Providers Should Prepare For Increased Scrutiny Due to Nursing Home Sector Reforms

Home Health, Hospice Sectors Still Among M&A Leaders In 2022

Kroger eyes opportunities in senior-focused primary care, rolls out service in Atlanta clinics

Innovaccer Expands into Public Sector to Accelerate Public Health Transformation

Study: Chronic worker shortages in nursing homes must be addressed to help lessen patient risk

Brain and Machine Confluence Requires Multi-Sectoral Regulation To Maximize Gains

Biden admin suspends Georgia plan to let private sector run ACA marketplace

Cybersecurity takes center stage at AHA annual meeting

High volume, high value hospital transactions kick off 2024

'Podnosis': What’s next for health tech investing in 2024?

PE-Backed First Docs Eyes National Expansion, Home Health As ‘Big Growth Sector’

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