Sat.Dec 24, 2022 - Fri.Dec 30, 2022

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Healing the Burdens of the Healthcare Staffing Shortage

Advanced Data Systems

How to Ease Staffing Burdens for Healthcare Professionals. It’s no secret that many talented individuals are leaving or have already quit their jobs during the “Great Resignation” in the aftermath of the global coronavirus pandemic. According to a report from Forbes , the healthcare industry has lost approximately 20% of its workers. Yet, the demand for healthcare services with an emphasis on patient safety, disease control, and public health has never been greater.

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2021 US National Health Expenditures

Healthcare ECONOMIST

A paper in Health Affairs by Martin, Hartman, Benson, Catlin, and The National Health Expenditure Accounts Team (2022) finds that national health expenditures (NHE) rose but declined as a share of gross domestic product (GDP). Health care spending in the US grew 2.7 percent to reach $4.3 trillion in 2021, a much slower rate than the increase of 10.3 percent seen in 2020.

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Mental health services can be improved with AI and biomarkers

Healthcare It News

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A Guide to Cardiology Billing Services

p3care

How Does Cardiology Medical Billing Work? Cardiology billing services is to collect the patient charges and document them in the medical record. This is the automated billing process by making sure that all the fees are established electronically and can easily be accessed by the healthcare professionals and physicians who need them. Cardiology billing services are a bit complex as it involves a few steps.

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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

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Why Speech Therapy is an Effective Treatment to Counter the Health Challenge of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH)

HIT Consultant

Avivit Ben-Aharon, M.S.Ed., M.A. CCC SLP, Founder and Clinical Director, Great Speech. Over recent years, the virtual speech therapy delivery model has intersected with a host of healthcare disruptions — value-based care delivery, the COVID-19 pandemic and the influence of social determinants of health (SDoH) have reshaped healthcare delivery.

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XBB COVID variant presents a unique threat: study

Fierce Healthcare

XBB COVID variant presents a unique threat: study. fdiamond. Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:11.

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What Does China's Arctic Presence Mean to the United States?

The Rand Blog

China has engaged in economic, scientific, cultural, diplomatic, and military activities in the Arctic region. The United States sees China as a potentially destabilizing force. But there are opportunities to cooperate, for example, on climate change.

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Webinar: 5 ways healthcare organizations can generate more revenue

CHQ Healthcare

When faced with financial pressures, healthcare organizations often react by focusing on reducing expenses via cost-cutting or halting discretionary spending. However, this approach can delay financial improvement because it overlooks revenue-generating opportunities. In a Jan. 26 webinar, sponsored by CHG Healthcare and hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review , four industry experts discussed strategies to ensure providers aren’t leaving money on the table.

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ACA exchange enrollment continues at record pace, nears 11.5M through mid-December

Fierce Healthcare

ACA exchange enrollment continues at record pace, nears 11.5M through mid-December. pminemyer. Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:48.

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Telehealth helps stop suicidal ideation for many patients, study finds

Healthcare It News

Recently, the Journal of Medical Internet Research published some significant data highlighting the efficacy of psychiatric care delivered through telehealth: Those in the treatment group were 4.3 times more likely to have suicidal ideation remission. This is noteworthy because telehealth has not traditionally been equipped to treat those with the most severe symptoms of mental health due to the oversight necessary to actually provide safe, effective treatment, said Dr.

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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

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Digital Health Products Miss a Massive and Crucial Piece of a Person's Health

The Rand Blog

Our health is heavily influenced by our surroundings—including the health of the people around us. For digital health companies to credibly claim to improve people's health, their next step could be an increased willingness to look beyond an individualized notion of health and to work with public health agencies.

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Grief Treatment Plans

Icanotes

Grief Treatment Plans. Grief is a normal, inevitable part of life. At some point, nearly every person in the world will experience a significant loss that leaves them feeling mournful and sorrowful. Despite this, many people who experience intense, ongoing grief do not seek professional mental health services. While grief is a natural response to loss, and its symptoms often decrease over time, everyone deals with it differently.

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Are You and Your Vendor on the Same Page?

Fierce Healthcare

Are You and Your Vendor on the Same Page? mteefey. Tue, 12/27/2022 - 17:38.

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Leveraging data to promote self-care in Singapore

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

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.

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CMS Proposes to Amend Overpayment Rule, Remove Potential Overpayment and False Claims Act Liability for Mere Negligence

Sheppard Health Law

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued a proposed rule which would amend the existing regulations for reporting and returning identified overpayments (the “Proposed Rule”). Specifically, with respect to the meaning of “identification” of overpayment, CMS proposes to eliminate the “reasonable diligence” (or traditional negligence) standard and replace it with the False Claims Act’s (“FCA’s”) standard of “knowing” and “knowingly” ( i.e. , reckless disregard or deliberate

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Finish Strong: Ways to End the Year on a High Note

GoMoHealth

As a small business, we at GoMo Health understand the value of closing out the year strong! We’ve compiled a list of tips that can help guide the process and ideas to take it up a notch for you and your team this year and beyond! . Wrap Up Your To-Do List. We can all be guilty of procrastination, especially at the end of the year when our thoughts are preoccupied by the whirlwind of the holidays.

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Economic Certainty: Creating Revenue Cycles that Can Weather Any Storm

HIT Consultant

Branden Barkema, SVP & Chief Revenue Cycle Officer at MedEvolve. Staffing shortages, inflation and operational margin—it’s what keep financial leaders in today’s physician practices up at night. And while there is a perfect storm of challenges brewing that has the potential to wreak havoc on bottom-line performance, the reality is that provider organizations don’t have to settle for a posture of defense. .

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Five tips for ensuring a safe setup for remote working

Health Care Leader News

We still haven’t learned how best to organise our work equipment in a way that promotes healthy homeworking, says GP Dr Michael Poplawski. He explains the basics of what GPs and practice staff need to do. Despite it being more than two years into the pandemic, too many of us have still not adapted our home environments to be a workplace AND place of work.

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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.

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Japanese 'Counterstrike' May Be Good for ROK Security

The Rand Blog

Fully coordinated, the South Korean Kill Chain and Japanese counterstrike capability could be more effective in stopping North Korea from causing damage. And they could be more likely to deter Kim Jong-un, as Pyongyang recognizes that its efforts to militarily dominate the ROK are unlikely to succeed.

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What’s Next For Signify Health After CVS Health Deal

Home Health Care

Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) is a home-focused organization. Therefore, CVS Health’s (NYSE: CVS) $8 billion pending purchase of it means the company is part of the largest home-based care deal of the year. . That deal is also one of the few this past year that have proven the ethos of home-based care. After all, the largest companies in the country – of which CVS Health is one – are investing heavily in it. .

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Why The Future of Lateral Flow Testing is Digital

HIT Consultant

Christa Schnider, Business Development Director, Jabil Healthcare. Lateral flow immunoassay tests (or LFTs, for short) have been in use for decades, becoming an indispensable tool within diagnostics’ (Dx) practice, as well as a growing range of applications outside healthcare. LFT’s capacity for delivering fast turnaround—rapid detection in less than 20 minutes—from sample to result has made LFTs central to the shift moving triage and primary care closer to the patient at point-of-care (PO

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The Role of Intellectual Property in the Biopharmaceutical Sector

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the title of an FTI White Paper published this year where I was a co-author alongside Antoine Mialhe, Sabiha Quddus, Anne-Sophie Deman, Suhail Thahir and Agnes Sipiczki. The role of Intellectual property (IP) in the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics became a central tenant in discussions on how to ensure access to medical countermeasures globally.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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In 2023, We Are All Health Consumers in Search of Value

Health Populi

Every health/care industry stakeholder will be in search of value in 2023, I explain in my latest post written on behalf of Medecision. In this essay, I forecast what’s ahead for hospitals, digital health innovators and investors, employers, pharma, and patients-as-consumers — all firmly focused on value in the new year. “Inflation may make consumers and the healthcare system sicker,” Deloitte expects , signaling a sort of “unrest” for the healthcare ecosystem

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OCR Joins Chorus of Regulators Warning About Health Data Tracking Technology

Triage Health Law

Key Takeaway : Organizations must conduct a fact-based analysis to determine whether health data collection and tracking technology deployed on their websites and mobile apps complies with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and other applicable laws and guidance. Cookies, web beacons, and similar technology are used to collect and analyze data about how users, browsers and devices interact with websites and mobile apps across the Internet (“Tracking Techno

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Real-World Study Uses AI to Identify Undiagnosed Dementia in Primary Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rising to meet the formidable challenge of the timely diagnosis of dementia, research scientists from Regenstrief Institute , IUPUI and the medical schools of Indiana University and the University of Miami are conducting the Digital Detection of Dementia study, a real-world evaluation of the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool they developed for early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in primary care, the setting where most adults r

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

Nursing home administrators opinions on COVID-19 Home births on the rise. Physician work-life balance : 2001-2021 Cross country comparison: Health financing and health outcomes Top scientific advances of 2022.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

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.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill Of Health

By  Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , and   Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of November.

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I-80 Trailblazer Challenge: Discharge team

Osf Healthcare

OSF Innovation is developing hospital-based Innovation Hubs where anyone across the Ministry can learn to engage in improvement, creative thinking and executing solutions. This week, we highlight an idea that came from two nurses that addresses the discharge process for patients.

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Patient Engagement Survey Reveals Current Patient Preferences for Access and Convenience  

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Stericycle Communication Solutions, an industry leader in patient engagement technology and solutions and a service of Stericycle, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRCL), recently announced the findings of its third annual U.S. Consumer Trends in Patient Engagement Survey , conducted by Ipsos, which surveyed 1,004 U.S. adults aged 18 and older. – The survey examined patients’ current preferences when engaging with their medical providers, highlighting new trends related to non-t

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2022 Books of the Year

Healthcare ECONOMIST

These are the favorite books I have read this year. They may or may not have been published this year. Relative to other years, I read a fair number of good, but not great books and thus my list is fairly short. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang. This book, while a bit dated, is extremely interesting.

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.