Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Nine in 10 polled medical practices say their regulatory burden has increased over the past year with prior authorization, audits and appeals, the Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) and require | The latest annual poll of practices' regulatory burden outlined prior authorization, audits and appeals, Medicare QPP and other leading pain points that physicians say are weighing down theor staff and ability to deliver care.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As was the case with many healthcare organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a significant increase in telehealth visits for Phoenix Children’s Hospital – especially in outpatient clinics. THE PROBLEM For a children’s hospital, this meant that often for the first time, parents and/or extended family could attend a doctor’s visit virtually and take a more active role in the care of their children.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Financial challenges at rural hospitals — driven by reimbursement problems — are leading facilities to shutter labor and delivery wards, according to a new report.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

CommonSpirit Health's Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is teaming up with Amazon One Medical to provide specialty care to the online retailer's primary care patients. | CommonSpirit Health's Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is teaming up with Amazon One Medical to provide specialty care to the online retailer's primary care patients.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The rules, which would require facilities to develop response plans and hire a chief information security officer, aim to safeguard hospitals from growing threats and keep them operating during an attack.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Care and treatment options for patients living with Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson’s are often fragmented and limited and many primary care physicians feel unprepared to meet increased patient | Harmonic Health launched to bridge gaps in care for dementia patients by bringing together advanced technology and an expert care team to partner with PCPs, neurologists, healthcare systems and accountable care organizations.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When first stepping into the top executive role at Intermountain Health almost a year ago, President and CEO Rob Allen said that “a lot of folks” advised him to be careful and attentive to what he | Intermountain Health's Rob Allen greeted the president and CEO position last November with a six-month internal listening tour with employees. Here's what he heard from clinicians and employees as well as how the 33-hospital system is tackling labor and supply cost challenges.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Trends across technology, talent, care and operations are forcing healthcare leaders to take stock and anticipate where to focus their attention over the next three to five years.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Humana has set ambitious growth goals around its CenterWell business, and the company's latest expansion brings its clinics to the Indianapolis market. | Humana has set ambitious growth goals around its CenterWell business, and the company's latest expansion brings its clinics to the Indianapolis market.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The buyouts come after the Boston-based nonprofit health system faced scrutiny from state regulators over spending.

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Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Two major healthcare deals closed last week on the heels of a relatively quiet year for healthcare M&A deals. | Virgin Pulse, digital-first health, wellbeing and navigation company, completed its $3 billion merger with third-party health benefits administrator HealthComp.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When discussing the gap between the status quo and safe, high-quality health care, many organizations realize that improving health equity is a moral and economic imperative as the business case for equity is well-documented.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

[ Note: P3 Care, as a MIPS-qualified registry, presents your series of blogs on MIPS final rule updates for CY 2023. So, this is the ‘ Part II ’ of our CY 2024 MIPS policy changes.] The PFS final rule for MIPS reporting is the provider’s compass for navigating safely. So, we have the MIPS 2024 final rule, and providers need to understand everything in it.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: STAT Health emerges from stealth to introduce a 24/7 in-ear wearable that measures blood flow to the head to better understand symptoms such as dizziness, brain fog, headaches, fainting, and fatigue that occur upon standing. These are common symptoms for illnesses like long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and other orthostatic (caused by standing) syndromes that affect more than 13 milli

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A chain of command can deliver guidance to staff and enhance the culture of safety.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Bob Farrell, CEO, mPulse Mobile Over the last several years there’s been significant investment in digital healthcare startups and growth-stage organizations, particularly those showing technical innovation that delivers improved health outcomes and more efficient care delivery models. Digital health organizations that translate investment dollars into quality outcomes will emerge as leaders by focusing on core challenges faced by major players across the healthcare industry.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In any segment of health care, constant moving parts can cause a headache for both workers and patients. What makes matters even worse is when there is no solid communication between workers within a care team. Andre Gomez, the executive vice president of Bedrock Healthcare at Home, said he learned that the hard way during his first job in home health care almost 20 years ago.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Dr. Ravindra Patil, Sr. Director of Data Science at Tredence Clinician stress rose significantly during the pandemic but has remained high even as COVID-19-related patient volumes and illness severity have subsided. In 2021, 62.8% of U.S. physicians exhibited burnout; this year, it is 62%. Contributing factors include heavy patient loads, too many administrative tasks, and rising clinician shortages.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

Healthy Debate

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The post Turning back the tide: The challenge of antimicrobial resistance and its impact on our health appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: CalmiGo, a developer of the first and only drug-free device that empowers people suffering from anxiety, PTSD, and panic attacks with immediate relief, announces that the company donated 1200 portable exhalers to the victims of the terrorist attacks in Israel to help calm anxiety and alleviate symptoms of PTSD. The donations were made possible due to the help of the non-profit organization, Reim , that provides urgent medical aid to Israel, as well as other generous donors.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Enough time has passed since the CY 2024 home health payment rule was finalized for providers to dive into its details, mull them over and respond. Though the rule is more favorable than the proposal the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first introduced in June, home health providers are not pleased with the final outcome.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: – Bamboo Health has announced a new solution called Discharge Summaries , which is an enhancement to its existing Pings platform. – Discharge Summaries is designed to address the challenges of patient discharge communication by providing care coordinators with easy access to real-time discharge information, including medication lists, follow-up appointments, and other vital details.

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Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, patient outcomes have been encouraging. Of the 11,159 patients who received care from November 2021 to March 2023, only 7.2% of patients that were being treated in the home were transferred to the hospital, according to a recent study published by JAMA.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Derrick Johns – CEO of DiFusion Technologies The last time we saw any meaningful advance in the development of biomaterial technology used in orthopedic implants, particularly in spinal implantation, was before Bill Clinton’s presidency. Since the 1990s, this field has remained relatively stagnant, with titanium and PEEK (polyetheretherketone) being the basis for virtually all spinal implants.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As anticipated, unwinding the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement in place throughout the COVID-19 public health emergency is a massive undertaking. Although states are quickly working to ensure compliance with federal ex parte rules , remedy system glitches, and re-enroll individuals who have been procedurally disenrolled, challenges remain. The resumption to normal Medicaid eligibility determination and disenrollment processes includes addressing many factors that may affect individua

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: – Classiq , NVIDIA , and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center have established a new initiative, the Quantum Computing for Life Sciences & Healthcare Center, to develop and implement quantum algorithms and applications in these domains. – The center will focus on areas such as drug discovery, molecular analysis, and bespoke medical treatment strategies.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Different health technology assessment bodies use different discount rates. ICER uses 3%. NICE uses 3.5% , but allows for a 1.5% discount rate as an alternative approach in certain circumstances. What does the US’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) use? A OMB press release from last week recommends that government agencies use: …2.0% for effects in 2023 to 2079, to 1.1% for effects in 2164 to 2172 How do they justify this discount rate?

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The National Academy for State Policy (NASHP), in collaboration with Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and Mathematica Policy Research, with support from Arnold Ventures, will launch an update to the interactive Hospital Cost Tool in December 2023. The tool provides information on a range of financial and operating measures for nearly 5,000 individual hospitals from 2011 to 2021 (soon through 2022).

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Starting January 1, 2024, healthcare facilities and provider organizations engaging in certain transactions in Illinois, such as mergers and acquisitions, will have new reporting requirements. Illinois recently joined a growing number of states, including California and New York , in requiring expanded oversight and transparency of transactions involving healthcare facilities and provider organizations.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: – Millar , a provider of OEM solutions and a leader in pressure sensor-enabled medical devices for over 54 years, acquires Sentron , a pressure and pH sensor manufacturing company headquartered in Leek, The Netherlands, currently owned by Wellinq. – The acquisition includes sensor development and fabrication facilities, significantly broadening Millar’s capabilities.

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Speaker: Sean Raible

Picture a workplace where physiological safety is not just an aim but a reality, driven by thoughtful employee benefits that prioritize mental health, wellbeing, and DEI. 🤔 ✨ Achieving this vision requires more than just occasional training sessions and employee assistance programs. Moving beyond the basics, this vision calls for a holistic approach that integrates these elements into your company culture as well as your HR and benefits strategy.

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