Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The startup signed a memorandum of understanding with Siloam Hospitals Group to automate and scale patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) across its hospital chain by powering Siloam's WhatsApp with the Bot MD Care AI chatbot. There are also plans to progressively roll out the AI service across other hospitals later.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership To strategically grow, home care companies need to build out robust sales and business development teams. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. As demand for home care rises, sales teams are on the front lines of a very competitive private-pay marketplace.

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The Rand Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Russian oligarch turned warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is in exile in Belarus, but what will become of the tens of thousands of fighters who signed up to risk their lives for a paycheck or a ticket out of jail? It seems likely they will continue fighting, mostly because they have few better options.

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p3care

DECEMBER 17, 2023

After the exclusion of the CMS web interface, participants can submit data using one of the following ways: With the help of MIPS qualified registries like P3 Care By EHR vendors Via Qualified Clinical Data Registries There are three simple steps for doing so: Navigate to the Quality Payment Program sign-in page. Yes, it is quite possible.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“Across all of our health care reports, we’re seeing that the combination of considerable rate increases — which far exceeded the routine increases of 2-4% seen prior to 2020 — along with the utilization of sign-on bonuses are having a positive effect on increasing retention rates and helping attract new talent.”

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The municipality of Chiang Mai and NEC Thailand recently signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of smart city solutions, including smart hospital technologies to support its provision of elderly care.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2024

Just six of 49 CMMI payment demonstrations have produced savings, with HHVBP standing out in a major way. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. HHVBP is expected to save hundreds of millions of Medicare dollars on a yearly basis moving forward. Get Membership Already a member?

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

HOW IT WORKS The free service, which is available to individuals aged 15 and over with a GP referral, provides patients with a monitoring kit that will allow them to measure their vital signs, including blood pressure, oxygen levels, pulse rate and temperature, at home.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its CY 2024 final payment rule , the ins and outs of it have become more apparent. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. And there’s more to delve into than just blanket rate cuts. Aside from the headline-grabbing 0.8%

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership At the beginning of each year, publications and experts like to lay out predictions for the next 12 months. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Home Health Care News also plays prognosticator. Get Membership Already a member?

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Many organizations are signing on to different pledges, to different commitments to responsibly using AI. If I have generative AI that is writing a prior authorization letter for me or writing a work note for a patient who had been out sick, that's fairly low risk from a patient outcome perspective.

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Home Health Care

JULY 21, 2023

But another driver is providers reaching out to – and seeking out – capital partners. providers seeking out these capital partners. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Login The post What PE Firms Want Out Of Their Next Home-Based Care Targets appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Login The post For Home Health Providers, Clinician Scheduling Stands Out As Turnover Culprit appeared first on Home Health Care News. Break retention down even further, though, and you find a main culprit for turnover: scheduling. Get Membership Already a member?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

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Home Health Care

JULY 25, 2023

Last month, the antitrust agency rolled out a proposed rule that would force merging companies to disclose information regarding minority investors, supplier agreements, subsidies from foreign entities, past acquisitions and workforce data. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Get Membership Already a member?

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. It features an AI-powered patient monitoring system that can continuously monitor patients' conditions and detect early signs of deterioration.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Manipal Hospitals will use the Isansys PSE devices to continuously track the conditions of critical patients out of the ICU. The Stasis Monitor compromises a bedside monitor that tracks six vital signs, a tablet, and a cloud-connected app that enables remote monitoring across devices. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare Associates

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Keep reading to find out how long it may take for your new vitamin to work. Fat-soluble vitamins are more easily digested and stored in our body fat on absorption, while water-soluble vitamins are not stored in our bodies and can be “washed out” easily and, therefore, need to be replenished more often.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

you’re burned out, tapped out, stressed out, timed out. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act. Providers are burned out, in clinical shortage situations, and many contemplating retiring earlier than planned. Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S.,

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the midst of the first full performance year for the expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model, providers are figuring out where they are succeeding and where there is room for improvement. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 3, 2023

Thirty-two out of 50 states had a significant increase of CLABSI, while 18 states had a significant increase of MRSA. Meanwhile, 11 out of 50 states saw a significant increase of CAUTI, with the biggest increase seen in New Mexico. While MRSA, CLABSI and CAUTI rates worsened, on average, one positive sign was that C.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2023

Queensland-based Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service will be trying out a remote pregnancy monitoring platform by ASX-listed HeraMED. Last year, the Western Australia government began rolling out an AI-powered foetal monitoring system called Infant Guardian System by K2 Medical Systems across all Country Health Service maternity sites.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After capturing their online IFC, a patient can choose to securely pay any out-of-hospital pocket costs, including credit card pre-authorisation for any incidentals they might incur during their admission. Since 2018, RACFs around the country have been trying out eNRMC-conformant products with the aim of making them available nationwide.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Microsoft and Epic expand cloud-boosted AI integrations Out of the combination of Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies and Epic’s clinical workflows and insights, the companies announced several conversational, ambient and generative AI technologies blossoming across the Epic electronic health record ecosystem.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Over the course of the pandemic, virtual care was implemented out of necessity to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 infection. The organization also purchased remote monitoring equipment that allows collection of vital signs from the patient's home, and the data is transmitted directly to the care team. Barriers to in-person care.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The actions brought the total number of enforcements carried out under the agency's HIPAA Right of Access Initiative to 25. OCR has been carrying out right of access enforcement actions since 2019, when it fined a Florida hospital $85,000 for failing to give a pregnant person access to their medical records. THE LARGER TREND.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The cost of out-of-pocket home care services in the U.S. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. has steadily risen. As a reaction to that, some providers are proactively relying less on their private-pay revenue streams. While costs have gone up, so has revenue.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 7, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership To solve some of home care’s more persistent challenges – such as retention – agencies have embraced out-of-the-box thinking. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Specifically, they’ve turned to engagement platforms – or the “gamification” of the retention process.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

Wait times for sleep therapists can exceed a year, and insurance coverage is often limited, leaving patients to shoulder the burden of potentially costly out-of-pocket sessions. To learn more, take a free sleep quiz and sign up for a one-week trial by visiting [link]. “I Poor sleep permeates every facet of your life.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2024

LaunchWell will emphasize continued learning, as opposed to live, long in-person sessions that HomeWell didn’t believe franchisees were getting a lot out of. We’ve had record year-over-year signings.” Staff training is also a part of the program. “We We also wanted to be able to scale and meet the needs of our growing system.

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To catch up more on Apple Pay, check out one of our other blog posts. Let’s find out for certain if Zelle is HIPAA compliant. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act originally came out way back in 1996. To be clear, Zelle isn’t HIPAA compliant because Zelle doesn't sign BAAs. Don’t close your tab yet!

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Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2023

Controlled via a tablet, this robot can carry out up to 16 rounds of medicine pick-up and delivery per day, freeing up almost two hours of time and four kilometres of walking to deliver medications per day for nurses.

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Home Health Care

MAY 18, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home health industry is never going to “figure out” staffing. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Most providers understand that.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

On the way, they are finding out how it can help them deliver better care more efficiently. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has arrived in home-based care. Providers, in an effort to stay ahead of the curve, are embracing the new technology. Get Membership Already a member?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians. Though patient portals were always important in the past, many more patients became aware and began signing up. They can also reach out to their physicians and communicate with them personally.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What You Should Know: – Out-of-network ground ambulance rides accounted for a larger percentage of ground ambulance claim lines 1 than in-network rides from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, out-of-network transport accounted for 59.4% In 2022, out-of-network transport accounted for 59.4% Out-of-network rides made up 63.7

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Home Health Care

MARCH 19, 2024

Kemp signs this legislation, Georgia will become the next state in the country to recognize the value that PACE brings to our elderly community by allowing them to live in their own homes, fully cared for, without needing to move into a nursing home,” Shawn Bloom, president and CEO of the National PACE Association, told Home Health Care News.

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