Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 9, 2022

The attack, disclosed by Shields Health Care Group earlier this week, is the largest so far this year, according to HHS’ data breach portal.

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Healthcare Success

JUNE 6, 2022

If you’re in business, you have competitors. . Whether you represent a hospital, health system, or multilocation practice, competing healthcare businesses are developing innovative business models—right now—and they’re targeting your market. What’s more, your highest revenue service lines are likely already facing stiff competition from all angles. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

“I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter.

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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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The Rand Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Russia's war in Ukraine has benefited India as great powers are competing more vigorously for New Delhi's affection, particularly the United States and China. India has also prevented its Russia policy from spoiling partnerships with key European and Indo-Pacific partners. These trends, if sustained, will contribute to India's rise to great-power status and in turn, shift the global system toward even greater multipolarity.

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Meditech

JUNE 28, 2022

AI can suggest the newest movies for you to watch or navigate you to your destination with a single click — if AI helps people in their everyday lives, why shouldn’t healthcare utilize this technology too? On the latest MEDITECH Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jayson Marwaha, MD, MSc, a general surgery resident and postdoctoral fellow in surgical AI at Harvard Medical School , to learn more about how AI is helping shape the future of healthcare.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 22, 2022

Spending due to inequities that drive late diagnoses and comorbidities is only expected to rise over the next few decades without intervention, according to research from Deloitte.

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Healthcare Success

JUNE 13, 2022

More companies are making high-quality healthcare easier to access and more affordable by embracing data and technology. While healthcare has historically been among the slowest to accept new technologies, the pandemic has sped adoption. Healthcare businesses must offer leading-edge services and build patient-centric marketing strategies to differentiate themselves from competitors, boost retention and recruitment, and build meaningful relationships.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics. They comprise only 3% of all U.S. healthcare spending. But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America. U.S. Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 7, 2022

By Gwendolynne Reid, Cherice Escobar Jones, and Mya Poe. Biases in scholarly citations against scholars of color promote racial inequality, stifle intellectual analysis, and can harm patients and communities. While the lack of citations to scholars of color in medical journals may be due to carelessness, ignorance , or structural impediments , in some cases it is due to reckless neglect.

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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

The Rand Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Should the United States humiliate Russia—and Russian President Vladimir Putin specifically—over the Russo-Ukrainian War? It could lead to escalation and new wars, but the United States and NATO may need to think twice before offering concessions.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. THE PROBLEM. Some patients were not getting the medical care they needed, when they needed, because of a variety of issues. These patients could be bed-bound, homebound, have little to no support structure, have an inability to access transportation to medical appointments, have infirmities, have high fall risks or more.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 6, 2022

The complaint accuses the company, along with CEO Jason Gorevic and CFO Mala Murphy, of downplaying competition in the telehealth sector that stifled growth in mental health and chronic care businesses.

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Meditech

JUNE 7, 2022

When we decided to switch our EHR vendor at our rural 25-bed hospital, our executives and clinical staff sought value, sophistication, and flexibility, knowing that those qualities would improve care and enhance the patient experience.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2022

While inflation and financial stress is depressing consumer demand for many purchases the “legacy of COVID-19” is having lost-lasting impacts on how people see their homes — especially as sites for health and wellness. GfK highlights the growing interest in wellbeing and device demand in The State of Consumer Technology and Durables 2002 insights from GfK.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 13, 2022

By Leah Pierson. I recently argued that we need to evaluate medical school ethics curricula. Here, I explore how ethics courses became a key component of medical education and what we do know about them. The rise of ethics education. Although ethics had been a recognized component of medical practice since Hippocrates’ time , ethics education is a more recent innovation.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

As Russia has been blockading ports around Odesa, Ukrainian grain exports in May were more than 60 percent lower than a year ago. Global hunger has hit a new high while 22 million tons of grain in Ukraine could rot if not exported soon.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

A shocking statistic was revealed at the session on ' Climate Crisis: Healthcare’s Responsibility to Our Planet' at the HIMSS22 European Conference on Thursday (16 June ). According to a report from the NGO, Healthcare without Harm , around 4.4% of the world’s net greenhouse gas emissions come from the healthcare sector – double those from the airline industry.

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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.

Health Care Dive

JUNE 9, 2022

The contested provision in the No Surprises Act requires certain providers to assemble a comprehensive cost estimate for patients, including costs from other providers that could step in to provide care.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Advocates of the hospital-at-home model are continuing to make a strong push for the extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. Specifically, hospitals that have taken advantage of the waiver are saying it needs to stick around because it is actively driving both patient and provider satisfaction. “One of the focuses of [the Mayo Clinic’s] 2030 plan is ‘the patient will see you now,’” Dr.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. But these purchases will be made with greater attention to budget and value consumer mindsets firmly focused on (and stressed by) inflation. The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to m

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Meditech

JUNE 21, 2022

Cost is a major determining factor for patients when they are deciding whether or not to pick up their prescriptions from the pharmacy. When medications are too expensive, patients may abandon them, regardless of how important they are to their health.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 22, 2022

By David Gindler & Jasper L. Tran. Has the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines been impacted by patent rights? David Gindler , head of IP at Milbank LA, and Jasper L. Tran , senior associate at Milbank LA, argue that the story is much more complicated — making vaccines involves much more than waiving patents, they explain. The following article, which is adapted from the authors’ conversation with Vanderbilt Law Review podcast editor Jacob Goodman on Hot Topics in Intellectual Proper

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

As the healthcare industry emerges from the pandemic, its leaders are embarking on a major reboot of their priorities in order to improve the delivery of patient care. That is one of the big findings of the Future Health Index 2022 report, entitled "Healthcare hits reset: Priorities shift as healthcare leaders navigate a changed world." This seventh annual edition of the report from global technology vendor Philips analyzes feedback from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 15 countr

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 10, 2022

“There’s a healthy skepticism that they’ll have the magic bullet to overcome any of the existing barriers to interoperability,” one data sharing expert said.

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Healthy Debate

JUNE 19, 2022

The post Gender segregation, pay inequity. Understanding the ‘pink-collar’ tier in medicine appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. “As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers continue to battle escalating clinical issues, including delayed care for chronic conditions, postponed preventive screenings, and the exponential increase in demand for behavioral health services,” the Chief Medical Officer for Castlight Hea

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

With over 400,000 data points, a new study from LeadingAge could give home-based care providers a new roadmap on how to optimize performance. The yearlong study that collected information from over 1,000 agency sites found that home health agencies with registered nurse case manager caseloads under 25 have the highest star ratings for quality of care and patient satisfaction.

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NASHP

JUNE 29, 2022

Using Research, Data, and Evidence-Informed Practices to Support Family Caregivers Section 5 of the RAISE Act State Policy Roadmap for Family Caregivers. States value family caregiving as a key element of supporting care recipients living in the community. Data is central to states’ abilities to support caregivers in providing care. Data enables the state to understand the demographics and needs of its caregivers and how they utilize supports.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

Data management is critical as marketing teams move into a future without cookies. Improving your data management systems and finding new ways to leverage that data should be a top priority. Getting there is difficult because many marketers are reporting that dealing with disparate data sources is a top concern. But creating a unified data system isn’t an impossible feat.

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