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OCTOBER 30, 2020

CMS (The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) released the proposed rule for QPP MIPS 2021 via the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). In this article, we dissect changes that are expected to appear in MIPS 2021. However, keep in mind that the changes are just proposed until now and are not final yet. Each year, CMS proposes various guidelines to facilitate physicians with their payments.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For a worker in the U.S. who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The first chart illustrates the growth of the premium shares split by employer and employee contributions. Over ten years, the premium dollars grew from $13,770 in 2010 to $21K in 2020.

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Pro CRNA

OCTOBER 31, 2020

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. Follow @procrnatom on twitter. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” — Elvis Duran. Halloween is exciting and full of surprises; however, it is no surprise that the festive event also contains several lessons which will enhance team collaboration, staff engagement and the overall effectiveness of the designated leader.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The key to creating a comprehensive hospital security program is to avoid the desire to find a “one size fits all” solution. With so many aspects to cover, you’re unlikely to find a “does it all” system that meets your needs. Your hospital security system should include a focus on these three functions: Ensuring only […].

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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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KHN

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Podiatrist Dr. Mark Lewis greets his first patient of the morning in his suburban Seattle exam room and points to a tiny video camera mounted on the right rim of his glasses. “This is my scribe, Jacqueline,” he says. “She can see us and hear us.” Jacqueline is watching the appointment on her computer screen after the sun has set, 8,000 miles away in Mysore, a southern Indian city known for its palaces and jasmine flowers.

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Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health care in America, and as of this writing, is still raging on. The 31 multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems that are part of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), their 85,000 physicians, and hundreds of thousands of staff are at the forefront of the battle for their patients’ lives.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Financial health is part of peoples’ overall health. As Americans approach November 3, 2020, the day of the real-time U.S. Presidential and down-ballot elections, personal home economics are front-of-mind. Twenty-seven days before the 2020 elections, 7 in 10 Americans say their financial health will influence their votes this year, according to the doxoINSIGHTS survey which shows personal financial health as a key voter consideration in the Presidential election.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

We are only two days away from this year’s APHA Annual Meeting & Expo! The APHA 2020 Annual Meeting & Expo will occur virtually on Oct. 24-28. And Get Ready will be there! Although this year will be different, APHA has created an incredible virtual experience for you through all of the virtual booths, scientific sessions, poster sessions, networking and engagement opportunities and so much more.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The basis of every visitor management system is the desire to keep a site and its personnel safe from harm. While it’s true that there are common threads between site safety at all kinds of workplaces, there are unique aspects of healthcare facilities that make the need for hospital Visitor Management more pressing. It’s important […].

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Osf Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Looking for more activities? > Find resources The temperatures are beginning to cool. Leaves are turning bright shades of red, orange and yellow. And front porches are filling up with pumpkins, mums and bundles of hay. It must be fall. Of course, this is no ordinary fall.

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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 Beryl Institute

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Like many of you, I have witnessed the changing environment of healthcare during these challenging times. In recent days, with two teenagers who are back in school, I have started to catch up on scheduling their doctors’ visits, dentist checkups and orthodontist appointments that have been suspended these last few months. I realize that we are not unique in this, delaying in-person visits to lessen our exposure to COVID-19.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides trusted and integrated capabilities that deliver automation and efficiency on high-value workflows as well as deep data analysis functionality for both structured and unstructured data, that enable customers to turn insight into action.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. But as the report’s title asserts, most telehealth users experienced obstacles to accessing and using virtual care platforms that drove less positive consumer experiences.

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Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Council of Accountable Physician Practices Speakers Share Insights and Innovations for the Future of Healthcare. Washington, DC — Oct. 15, 2020 — The shift to virtual care during the pandemic is here to stay, and employers and providers are coming together to address their mutual problems with America’s fragmented health care system. This news, delivered by board members of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) during two presentations at the 2020 Self-Insurance Institute of Amer

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A hospital’s visitor management system is an essential piece of hospital security. While you don’t want to add unnecessary obstacles to a visitors’ path toward seeing their loved ones, it’s important for healthcare facilities to screen all guests, for both staff and patient safety. In short, your visitor management solution should maintain high security standards […].

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Health Care Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

On October 6, 2020, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services ("MDHHS") issued an emergency order (the "MDHHS Order") that retains many of the same requirements that apply to residential care facilities under the previously issued executive orders. As noted in a prior blog post , the Michigan Supreme Court recently held that Governor Whitmer did not have authority after April 30, 2020 to issue or renew any executive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthy Debate

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Canada’s agreements with several companies to procure COVID-19 vaccines have been met with optimism. The wisdom of this is apparent as a deal to test China’s vaccine in a Canadian trials unraveled.

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Healthcare Council

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Leadership Health Care proudly presents a new virtual series “Meet the LHC Board.” This monthly series allows LHC members the opportunity to become more familiar, personally, with those who sit on the LHC Board. Gain direct insight from board members as they candidly speak about their careers, the new normal and much more. Videos from. The post Meet the LHC Board appeared first on Nashville Health Care Council.

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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 Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It is said that a picture tells a thousand words. T his picture tells an even quicker story that can save lives: “Masks work.” The backstory: Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued a mask mandate on July 2, 2020. The rationale: That was two days before Independence Day, the holiday weekend when she and state public health officials anticipated health citizens would abandon their personal efforts to physically distance and cover faces to avoid contracting or spreading the coronavirus.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Every company is a tech company, strategy consultants asserted over the past decade. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that every company is a health and wellness company now, at least in the eyes of consumers around the world. In The Wellness Gap , the health and wellness team at Ogilvy explores the mindsets of consumers in 14 countries to learn peoples’ perspectives on wellness brands and how COVID-19 has impacted consumers’ priorities.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In the pandemic, I’ve been weaving together data to better understand how people as consumers are being re-shaped in daily life across their Maslow Hierarchies of Needs. One of those basic needs has been digital connectivity. People of color have faced many disparities in the wake of the pandemic: the virus itself, exacting greater rates of mortality and morbidity being the most obvious, dramatic inequity.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The U.S. health care community is collectively embracing the concept of social determinants of health that have become so obvious in understanding the disparities of health outcomes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. Research from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health conducted with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR illustrates the fact that people who are at risk for one social determinant of health tend to be challenged by a bucket of them.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2020, most Black people, men and women alike, feel it is a bad time to be Black in America. More than twice as many Black men believe that in 2020 compared with 2006. More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2020

As humans in the Age of the Coronavirus focus on physiological needs, people have intensely focused on hunting-and-gathering food and hygiene products. We will remember memes about toilet tissue stockpiling and re-visiting canned and shelf-stable comfort foods from childhood long after the pandemic. Some people, though, haven’t had easy access to nutritious food in their communities or the ability to engage with ecommerce platforms to order food for delivery.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S. Ipsos conducted the survey research among 1,028 U.S. adults between 23 September and 5 October 2020 — giving consumers many months of living in the context of the coronavirus.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

An important aspect of a hospital’s security is making sure unwanted visitors are kept out of the facility. Integrating watch lists into the a hospital’s security system is an effective way to quickly identify these potential intruders to flag them for your security team prior to entry. What is a watch list? Watch lists are […]. The post When It Comes to Hospital Visitor Management, Watch Lists Are Essential appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the move toward a more modern approach to visitor management. Changes to visitor policies during the pandemic could serve as a catalyst for installing new and improved policies and security measures permanently. Now could be the perfect time to initiate a shift in your facility’s culture when it comes to […].

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

ABOUT Ideal Option With 65 clinics in 10 states, Ideal Option is one of the nation’s largest outpatient providers of medication-assisted treatment for addiction to opioids, alcohol, methamphetamines, and other substances. Founded in 2012 by two emergency medicine physicians, Ideal Option’s mission is to provide underserved populations with low-barrier access to evidence-based addiction treatment – […].

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A common dilemma hospital security personnel face is that they want to create a welcoming atmosphere for guests and visitors, but they also need to have robust security measures in place to keep their people safe. Security and welcoming guests don’t need to be mutually exclusive, so we’ve put together a few tips to help […]. The post The Hospital Dilemma: Balancing Security & A Welcoming Atmosphere appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog.

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Healthy Debate

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The people and financial resources invested in developing a vaccine against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 are staggering; the results to date unprecedented.

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