10 indicted in $1.4B rural hospital fraudulent billing scheme: DOJ
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 30, 2020
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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports
Health Populi
JUNE 3, 2020
As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned. There’s been a flurry of research into this question since the hockey-stick growth of telemedicine visits were evident in March 2020, just days after the
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Updates to Michigan Nursing Home COVID-19 Regulatory Requirements
Health Care Law Blog
JUNE 30, 2020
Through Executive Order 2020-136 , Governor Whitmer has extended the duration of restrictions on the entry of visitors into health care facilities and residential care facilities. These restrictions were originally imposed through Executive Order 2020-72 and extended through Executive Order 2020-108. Executive Order 2020-136 now extends the restrictions through July 24, 2020.
Ageism a barrier to healthcare for seniors
Healthy Debate
JUNE 24, 2020
Since American psychiatrist Robert N. Butler first coined the term in 1969, “ageism” has become one of the greatest impediments to modern medicine. Defined as the systematic stereotyping and discrimination against people because they are old, ageism is ubiquitous in Canadian healthcare.
From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience
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
Community support through greater access to mental health services
Cloud Blogs
JUNE 18, 2020
Mental health is a relevant topic now more than ever. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people is affected by a mental health condition at some point in their life. M ental health disorders are among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide. It's one of the most stigmatized and hidden disabilities, and 75 percent of the people suffering do not seek the help they need.
Hurricane season is here! Are you prepared?
Michele Late
JUNE 15, 2020
Hurricane season began June 1, and it could be a dangerous one. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted that there will be three to six major hurricane seasons this year. With the COVID-19 outbreak still going on, there are a few extra things to take into account during this year’s hurricane season. For example, you might have to shelter in a different place.
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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home
Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2020
What a difference 90 days makes. I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.
Updated Protections for COVID-19 Response Employees: The Differences Between the Prior Emergency Rules and Recent Executive Orders
Health Care Law Blog
JUNE 29, 2020
There have been nearly 70,000 confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases in Michigan. This figure includes over 6,150 deaths. While other areas of the country are experiencing significant increases in confirmed COVID-19 cases, Michigan appears to have flattened the curve for the time being. We are currently averaging around 250 new cases per day. Read More › Tags: COVID-19 and Workers' Compensation , Legislative Updates.
Pandemic exposes need to overhaul funding of hospice care
Healthy Debate
JUNE 23, 2020
The COVID-19 global pandemic has led to many paradigm shifts in the delivery of healthcare. Virtual care is probably the most visible and stark change. Overnight, Canadian healthcare transformed itself from a heavy reliance on face-to-face encounters to a majority of interactions occurring via secure videoconferencing or telephone support, accelerating a change that had been years, if not decades, in the making.
Effective Leadership Doesn’t Happen by Chance
The Beryl Institute
JUNE 8, 2020
Since the early weeks of March, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a leader as our world continues to navigate a global pandemic and now the racial and social unrest in our country. As I anxiously tuned in to the daily White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings, watched the news, read through various social media threads, links and articles or had conversations with many in our PX community, I found myself asking, “If I were in charge, what would I say?
How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide
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
Data shows financial impact of COVID-19
Osf Healthcare
JUNE 30, 2020
A new healthcare analytics tool helped OSF leaders make financial decisions for the future as COVID-19 cases started popping up in Illinois.
LHC Chair Spotlight: Jordan Kendig
Healthcare Council
JUNE 30, 2020
What led you to join LHC? In 2009, I was laid off during the height of the Great Recession. I had a master’s degree, three years of technology sales experience, a mountain of medical debt and school loans, and was interested in health care. At the time, Meaningful Use was on the horizon, and I. The post LHC Chair Spotlight: Jordan Kendig appeared first on Nashville Health Care Council.
Growing Evidence for eConsults – the Asynchronous, Clinician-to-Clinician Platform for Telehealth
Health Populi
JUNE 29, 2020
Health care providers stood up virtual health care services with lightning speed as the coronavirus pandemic emerged in the U.S. Telehealth and its various flavors enabled both patients and providers to manage the risk of contracting the virus, especially at a time when little was known about the nature of transmission, treatment and prevention — except for washing hands, covering one’s face, and isolating when showing symptoms.
A Focus on Men’s Health Week: Applying Population Health Management Strategies to Addressing Men’s Increased Risk for Severe Illness from COVID-19
Health Dialog
JUNE 22, 2020
This week, June 15 to 21, marks Men’s Health Week. Celebrated internationally, the purpose of this week is to raise the awareness of preventable health problems, and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. This year, Men’s Health Week offers an opportunity to shine a light on the urgent matter of preventing the spread of the coronavirus—which is hitting men particularly hard.
Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide
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Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.
Words matter. What’s ‘elective’ about invasive surgeries?
Healthy Debate
JUNE 22, 2020
As Canadian hospitals evolve with the COVID-19 pandemic and elective surgeries resume, it is a timely opportunity to reflect on the power of language in health care.An “elective” medical procedure is one relating to, being, or involving a nonemergency that is planned in advance and is not immediately essential to the survival of the patient.
Basics of Health Care Quality: The Metrics of Quality
Turner Healthcare Quality
JUNE 18, 2020
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In the Pandemic, We’re All About Food
Health Populi
JUNE 11, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed people down Maslow’s hierarchy of needs toward our basic hunting-and-gathering survival mode: shopping for hygiene products for home and personal care, seeking out masks (both functional and fashionable), and building out our pandemic pantries with shelf-stable foods. In addition to the pure physiological need of food for survival, “Consumers have a greater focus on health and immunity.
An Airline, A Hospital and A Disinfectant Brand Walk Into A(n Airport) Bar–the New Health/Care Collaboration in the Age of COVID
Health Populi
JUNE 15, 2020
You’ve heard the one about three characters walking into a bar. A new collaboration between United Airlines, Cleveland Clinic and Clorox reminded me of that scenario, and that in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, collaboration can bolster our health. In the era of COVID-19, people — consumers. patients managing chronic conditions, and caregivers (whether for younger or older loved ones) — are concerned about contracting the virus.
Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth
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.
What Will Healthcare Costs Be After COVID? PwC Looks Behind the 2021 Numbers
Health Populi
JUNE 24, 2020
Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. The three cost scenarios are based on assumptions shown in the fine print on the first chart: The medium scenario, a sort of “return to normal” where medical trend could stay even at 6.0%, equal to the 2020 trend.
Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2020
The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality
Cancer in the Age of COVID: Delayed Care May Reverse Survival Gains Particular Among Black People
Health Populi
JUNE 2, 2020
There was great news published last week in An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): cancer mortality rates have declined by 26% over 20 years, between 1999 to 2018. The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.: still embattled with the coronavirus, the nation also continues to shed jobs with the
As Americans Start to Return-to-Work in the Summer of COVID, Mental Health is a Top Concern Among Employers
Health Populi
JUNE 17, 2020
Most U.S. employers worry about workers’ mental health and substance use as employees begin returning to work in the summer of 2020. About 4 in 5 U.S. companies are “very concerned” or “concerned” about employees’ chronic illnesses, acute illnesses, and injuries along with behavioral health issue, based on McKinsey’s annual employer survey which coincided this year with the COVID-19 pandemic.
How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp
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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2020
“Now” is the lowest point in history that most Americans can remember: 7 in 10 people in the U.S. feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. Furthermore, 4 in 5 people in the U.S. say the future of America is a significant source of stress, as discussed in Stress in the Time of COVID-19, Volume Two , a report covering a poll of U.S. adults sponsored by the American Psychological Association.
How Can Healthcare Bring Patients Back? A Preview of Our ATA Session, “Onward Together” in the COVID Era
Health Populi
JUNE 22, 2020
Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. ATA’s CEO Ann Mond Johnson and team turned on a dime over the past few months, migrating the already-planned live conference scheduled in early May to this week, all online. I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty.
Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020
Health Populi
JUNE 16, 2020
Some 6 in 10 people in the U.S. have been financially impacted by COVID-19. Those most negatively affected by the pandemic tend to be younger, Gen Z age group and African-American, 63% of whom felt financial pressure directly due from the virus and the national economic lockdown. By late May 2020, 34% of black Americans had lost their jobs compared with 21% in late April, compared with 18% of white consumers, reported in The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Financial Impact on U.S.
There is much more to public health than COVID-19
Healthy Debate
JUNE 15, 2020
Ironically, the prominence that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to public health may pose a threat if it leads people and politicians to believe public health is only about infectious disease.
5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist
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Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs
Compassionate care in a virtual world
Healthy Debate
JUNE 12, 2020
Compassion, which literally translates to being with the suffering of others, is other-oriented. It appeals to us to act in response to the needs and feelings of others. Digital compassion seeks to use virtual means to be present and to respond to the suffering of others.
First, do no harm: Trust is paramount in healthcare
Healthy Debate
JUNE 9, 2020
The essence of medicine lies in its ability to heal, rather than harm. Yet, in accessing treatment, many barriers exist. The World Health Organization refers to patient safety as the absence of preventable or unnecessary harm to an individual while seeking care. Globally, 2.6 million deaths occur each year due to adverse events.
Drug Shortages: The next crisis in the pandemic
Healthy Debate
JUNE 5, 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many systemic flaws in our healthcare system, the critical drug shortages that are starting to cripple patient care across North America have not received much attention yet.
Resilience and creativity in the face of COVID-19
Healthy Debate
JUNE 2, 2020
I was expecting to hear how COVID-19 has added to caregivers’ burdens when my placement with the Regional Geriatric Program of Toronto began in early April as part of my Canadian Frailty Network Fellowship.Since the goal of the placement is to develop resources for caregivers caring for older adults at home during the pandemic, the first thing to do was to talk to caregivers and identify their needs.
A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address
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This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!
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