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 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 20, 2022

Today, healthcare brands have more photography and videography options than ever. For many situations, hiring professionals, such as a professional photographer, a production company, or a videographer, will be best. . In other instances, you and your team can utilize a high-quality smartphone camera, affordable software programs, and inexpensive starter equipment to quickly, cheaply, and easily create excellent photos and videos.

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JUNE 24, 2022

For doctors, clinicians, and other healthcare service providers, the choice to avail of outsourcing medical billing services is based on the cost and revenue cycle management. You can’t trust an unprofessional medical billing company that doesn’t have a good reputation or practices to support its claims. Many options are available to you. And you must have some doubts, but we are here to help you in this regard.

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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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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 23, 2022

“Nurses cannot provide the health care that they know they're capable of because of their working conditions,” said Robert Bruno, one of the report’s authors and a professor at the University of Illinois.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

When high-deductible health plans became part of health insurance design in America, they were lauded as giving patients “more skin in the game” of health care payments. The theory behind consumer-directed care was that patients-as-consumers would shop around for care, morph into rational consumers of medical services just as they would do purchasing autos or washing machines, and shift the cost-curve of American health care ever downward.

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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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Health Care Dive

JUNE 24, 2022

Through the waiver granted by the CMS on Thursday, Colorado can use federal funds to set up a government-run health plan, a long-held progressive healthcare goal.

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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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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

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

We are stuck on Band-Aids and hooked on hygiene and self-care according to the Most Trusted Brands 2022 study from Morning Consult. In 2022, the most trusted brands in the United States were. Band-Aid. Lysol. Clorox. UPS. CVS Health (pharmacy). VISA. Cheerios. The Weather Channel. Colgate, and. Home Depot. These products and companies sustain t rends I tracked in Years 1 and 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic when several of these were most-trusted, bolstering peoples’ lives living in, working fro

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. The evidence from the organization's classic behavioral interventions shows that the more often staff engage patients, the better the patients do.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 23, 2022

The lawsuit identified at least 644 hospital systems or “medical provider web properties” from which Facebook allegedly knowingly receives patient data to create targeted advertising both on and off Facebook’s website.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

“Inflation is the big story,” the economics team at Morning Consult told us yesterday in a call on “How to Think Like An Economist.” While I already thought I did that, Team @MorningConsult updated us on the current state of consumers and what’s weighing most heavily on their minds…inflation being #1. An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 22, 2022

Designed in collaboration with Luma Health, the new technologies aim to improve the care experience and boost satisfaction for patients – and help providers increase appointment-based revenue. Change Healthcare on Wednesday introduced its new Patient Engagement suite, showcasing new tools, developed with Luma Health, to help patients better navigate the care continuum and improve revenue cycle management for providers.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 22, 2022

Solv Health CMO Robert Rohatsch contends that digital healthcare transformation will help GPs finally get back to what most of us really want to do in the first place — keep patients healthy.

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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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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

JUNE 22, 2022

The best U.S. states to live in for health and health care are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland… Those are the top health system rankings in the new 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance annual report from the Commonwealth Fund. If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

Today, technology has revolutionized the member experience. It’s opened up completely new ways to deliver exceptional moments that build patient-insurer relationships. These innovations are in response to rising consumer expectations for frictionless, meaningful interactions across channels and devices – interactions that show understanding and attention to expectations at every touchpoint.* For today’s healthcare marketers, these changes have sparked a shift in strategy and pr

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 21, 2022

From memorizing facts about illnesses to learning how to perform procedures, every medical and health science university offers curricula and opportunities to ensure that its students hone their hard skills.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 23, 2022

The former U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Seema Verma, did not paint a rosy outlook for the home health industry this week in Chicago. In fact, hardly any of what she said evoked optimism among operators in the crowd. In regards to the economy, she said it would be her guess that a recession is around the corner, though she acknowledged it was not her job to forecast such things.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the COVID-19 Nursing Home data for the week ending June 12, 2022. Comparing the June 12 th data to the previous June 5 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate decreased 0.1% Residents with booster doses increased 0.4% Staff vaccination rate decreased 0.1% Staff with booster doses increased 0.2% An additional 8,808 resident cases were confirmed/reported this week An additional 244 resident deaths

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

Rebecca Pinn, director of innovation strategy at EPAM Continuum, specializes in creative thinking about experience design. She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some thinking about some ways patient-facing technologies could be tailored to enable a much more humane and comfortable experience for inpatients and the clinicians who care for them.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 22, 2022

The justices declined to take up the case, leaving intact a lower court ruling that backed the 2014 CMS regulation requiring swift return of overpayments.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 23, 2022

Providing quality care to people in need runs in the family for Reza Alavi. Alavi was raised by two physicians in Philadelphia. His mom and dad instilled lessons in him while they took care of underserved communities, which he is inspired by today as he takes on a new role with DispatchHealth, leading the company’s Advanced Care division. “I remember from as early as 12 years old thinking about things like large-scale health care,” Alavi told Home Health Care News.

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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.

The Rand Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

Fighting in Ukraine will likely continue. But battlefield advantages could continue to ebb and flow, too. The West should prudently prepare for Ukrainian success as well as a less favorable outcome.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 23, 2022

Throughout Denver Health's pandemic vaccination efforts, the struggle was getting people who did not already have patient records with the health system into the system efficiently without burdening the call centers. THE PROBLEM. As the safety net health system for Denver Metro, Denver Health vaccinated many people who were not regular patients.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 21, 2022

The ability to assess health disparities and improve care delivery in communities of color hinges on the quality of race and ethnicity data that is currently falling short, the report said.

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Healthcare Associates

JUNE 22, 2022

Can Gas Cause Pain In Chest? Gas pain is usually felt in your stomach and abdomen, but sometimes it can occur in the chest, too. If at any point you feel gas pain in your chest, it helps to know whether it’s really gas you’re experiencing or symptoms of a heart attack. Here’s more about gas-related chest pain and steps you can take to make it go away.

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