Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2022

Forrester: Here are 4 key frontiers for healthcare innovation over the next decade. pminemyer. Thu, 01/06/2022 - 12:54.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

The beginning of a new year is usually a time for optimism. But for a U.S. health system stretched thin by wave after wave of COVID-19 variants, that hope may be hard to come by. The healthcare workforce is depleted, exhausted and demoralized. Care quality is often degraded, and patient accessibility is still lacking. Data is everywhere, but not always available or decipherable to help manage myriad challenges.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 6, 2022

"The grave danger that led to issuance of the emergency temporary standard not only remains, but has dramatically increased with the omicron variant and current surge in infections and hospitalizations," National Nurses United said.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. Last night, Steve discussed these trends for media attendees, of which I am one (gratefully) participating in #CES2022 virtually from the hygienic comfort and safety of my home health hub (more on that later in this post).

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

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 7, 2022

CMS issued over 300 warnings, but no fines, to hospitals falling short on price transparency last year. dmuoio. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 17:39.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 5, 2022

As the omicron variant spreads across Europe, leaders are tightening COVID restrictions and bringing in new rules to increase vaccination uptake. In December the European Commission reduced the validity period of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) to nine months to encourage people to have boosters, based on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s recommendation that the third jab should be given within six months.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Good citizen science brings a community together and helps it prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. A RAND guide takes non-expert investigators from the early stages of defining their questions and setting their goals, through building their teams, to planning for action.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 5, 2022

Magellan Healthcare, NeuroFlow team up on digital mental health program for members. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 01/05/2022 - 18:58.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 7, 2022

ThedaCare is a seven-hospital health system in Wisconsin with 180 locations and 7,000 employees. To succeed in its mission, ThedaCare is on a path to population health – aiming to go above and beyond treating a particular condition to make care easy and accessible to help achieve better health for life. The health system's goals include providing high-quality care, access for everyone in the community, a great patient experience and affordable care.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 6, 2022

The multibillion-dollar buy is medtech's first major deal of 2022, following a spending spree in the sector last year. Stryker's stock price was slightly down Thursday, but Vocera's rose by nearly 27%.

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Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 6, 2022

By Jorge L. Contreras. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently embroiled in a dispute over the ownership of patent rights to Moderna’s flagship mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273). The NIH, which funded much of Moderna’s research on the COVID-19 vaccine, should be assertive in exerting control over the results of this taxpayer-funded research.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hackers hit Broward Health network, potentially exposing data on 1.3M patients, staff. hlandi. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 17:14.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 4, 2022

The deal includes some staffing improvements that were top priorities for nurses, including limits on how many patients can be assigned in certain hospital units, along with wage increases, the union said.

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HIStalk

JANUARY 6, 2022

Top News Vera Whole Health, which offers healthcare navigation, care.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 7, 2022

Justices appear likely to narrowly uphold CMS vaccine mandate on hold in half of US. rking. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 15:44.

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Healthy Debate

JANUARY 6, 2022

The post Shortage of physicians, support systems puts health care in northern Ontario in jeopardy appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 7, 2022

Competition for members was "very aggressive" as Humana's competitors came in with lower-priced plans and spent more on marketing to attract customers away, CEO Bruce Broussard said.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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HIStalk

JANUARY 4, 2022

Top News After seven days of deliberation, a jury finds.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 7, 2022

Healthcare smashed venture funding records in 2021 despite poor market performance. rtorrence. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 11:34.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. There are many signposts pointing to the various flavors of mental and behavioral health challenges, from younger peoples’ greater risk of depression and suicide ideation to increased deaths of despair due to overdose among middle-aged people.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 6, 2022

The union gives NorthShore a footprint in the region's western suburbs with the addition of two general acute hospitals and one focused on behavioral health.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

The title of RAND's 1955 classic, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, doesn't exactly dance off the page. But Paul Dunham, a sound artist in New Zealand, thought the work could make its own kind of music.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2022

Study examines differences in coverage denials for traditional Medicare, MA. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 01/06/2022 - 17:00.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

With the collective pandemic-era pivot of people working from home, remote schooling at home, repurposing our homes for entertainment and fitness, and showing off home-baked goods on Instagram, has consumers’ comfort with new technologies accelerated? Morning Consult assessed this question in a poll timed to coincide with CES 2022, the annual conference dedicated to innovations in consumer electronics. “Is the public ready for the innovations coming out of the 2022 Consumer Electroni

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 5, 2022

Expenses outpaced revenue growth as hospitals continued grappling with nationwide staffing shortages in November, according to Kaufman Hall.

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HIStalk

JANUARY 7, 2022

Weekly News Recap Stryker announces that it will acquire.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here are the hospitals postponing elective surgeries amid the omicron surge. agliadkovskaya. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 15:49.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted the following message on January 4, 2022: The MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0 and accompanying Risk Adjustment Appendix File for MDS 3.0 Quality Measure User’s Manual V15 have been posted. The MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0 contains detailed specifications for the MDS 3.0 quality measures and includes a Notable Changes section that summarizes the major changes from MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V14.0.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 4, 2022

Following concerns from hospitals regarding an apparent change to its ER coverage policy, the payer clarified no changes were made — or will be made — to how it approves or denies its members' emergency claims.

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