Healthcare It News

MAY 27, 2022

CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. WHY IT MATTERS. The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers. The tool enables patients to choose care in either retail or community-based settings, through at-home health services or virtually, according to CVS Health, which is selling the service to Aetna ful

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Health Care Dive

MAY 23, 2022

Systems should address burnout systemically, and a priority is seeking and responding better to feedback from front-line workers, according to a Monday advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 24, 2022

Healthcare consumerism has drastically changed the way healthcare professionals need to market and deliver their services. Today’s consumers expect a healthcare experience as innovative and digitally advanced as any other industry. Hospitals, health systems, and medical practices must evolve to meet these changing needs to remain competitive or risk falling behind.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Are certain gun laws and regulations likely to improve or worsen public safety? At a time when many Americans are searching for solutions to our country's intolerably high rates of gun violence, social scientists can help provide answers.

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

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Healthcare It News

MAY 24, 2022

Healthcare workflow technology company Braidio has partnered with health IT vendor BlueSemi with the aim of creating a preventive home-health and telehealth ecosystem. BlueSemi's primary product is a handheld device called EYVA, which measures six vitals, including blood glucose, without requiring a pinprick for blood. By integrating the device with Braidio's My Health Concierge platform, the companies will be attempting to encourage positive behavioral change.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 26, 2022

Patients in communities across the nation who have come to rely on telehealth have been left waiting and wondering if they will be able to receive the virtual care they need once the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 27, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted COVID-19 data for the week ending May 15, 2022. Comparing the May 15 th data to the previous May 8 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate again remained the same as the 3 previous weeks Residents with booster doses increased by 0.5% this past week Staff vaccination rate remained unchanged from the previous week Staff with booster doses increased by 0.4% again this past week An additional 6,321 r

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Healthcare It News

MAY 25, 2022

Building on its effort to battle social isolation and support aging-in-place, the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) is delivering voice-operated smart technology into the homes of more than 800 older adults. NYSOFA is working with local offices for the aging and partners to identify older adults who would most benefit from the technology: ElliQ by Intuition Robotics, which is described by the company as a proactive and empathetic care companion.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 24, 2022

Employees were responsible for 39% of healthcare breaches last year. That's compared to 18% across all industries, according to new Verizon research.

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Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2022

Though it’s by definition the delivery of high acuity care in the home setting, hospital-at-home programs tend to be operated by, and centered around, hospitals. But there are cost benefits to building these programs around home-based care providers, a Health Affairs article published on Tuesday suggests. The research came about as authors from Milliman Inc. and AccentCare tried to consider some different options for addressing the logistical challenges of implementing hospital-at-home pro

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Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

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Healthcare Associates

MAY 24, 2022

How Long Do Hemorrhoids Last? Hemorrhoids can be extremely difficult to deal with, especially when they cause pain and discomfort. When you develop hemorrhoids, you want them to go away as quickly as possible so you can experience relief from your symptoms. Here’s how long it usually takes for hemorrhoids to go away and what you can do in the meantime to feel better.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 25, 2022

Northwell Health, New York's largest health system, was frustrated with the limited capabilities of its existing occupational and employee health IT, and was forced to develop work-around processes to overcome technology deficits. THE PROBLEM. In order to manage both employee health and the provision of services to other employer clients, the health system was using a combination of different vendor and homegrown technologies.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 23, 2022

The hospital lobby is pushing the Justice Department to go beyond the recommendations in a new report from the HHS OIG and punish Medicare Advantage organizations that routinely deny coverage to beneficiaries.

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Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2022

Best Buy’s (NYSE: BBY) at-home health care focus has become a regularly mentioned topic for the company. After purchasing Current Health – a well-known home-based remote patient monitoring platform (RPM) – for $400 million last year, the company has established itself among the likes of other top retailers that have become heavily engaged in the home-based care marketplace.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 26, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “Vaccines have proven to be spectacularly effective in preventing death from Covid-19, but the U.S. continues to struggle with keeping Americans up to date on vaccinations. (The Brown School of Public Health) Vaccine Preventable Deaths Dashboard shows that since vaccines became widely available, every second Covid-19 death could have been prevented by vaccines.”.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 24, 2022

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Health Care Dive

MAY 25, 2022

The complaint alleges the nonprofit system used a number of anticompetitive practices to inflate healthcare prices at a cost to Wisconsin businesses.

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Meditech

MAY 26, 2022

Hospital patient experience surveys, such as the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), measure the quality of care given by a hospital, which influences patient satisfaction and retention. Patient experience scores directly correlate to profitability, determining reimbursements and bonuses that hospitals receive from insurers, commercial payers, and government programs like Medicare.

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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.

Home Health Care

MAY 26, 2022

The SCAN Group announced on Thursday that it has acquired The Residentialist Group (TRG), an organization that provides chronic disease management, palliative care and home-based care to seniors. The deal is noteworthy because it marks the first time the organization has acquired an outside company. SCAN declined to disclose financial terms of the deal.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 26, 2022

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Health Care Dive

MAY 24, 2022

Companies are coping with factors such as supply disruptions, staffing shortages, inflation and foreign-exchange hurdles, according to analysts at William Blair.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 26, 2022

The effects of Russia's war against Ukraine stretch worldwide as countries watch Ukraine's unfolding tragedy to glean possible lessons for their own security. Understanding how Australia and Japan are perceiving the conflict could be critical for allied strategy in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2022

While the appetite for home health and home care dealmaking remains strong, other health care subsectors are catching up. Coming off a record-breaking 2021 for M&A deals, the home-based sector saw a slightly down Q1 in 2022. However, experts have told Home Health Care News that M&A players are taking their time with deals, and even though the number of deals is lower, the valuations in those deals have not dipped.

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Life Qi

MAY 26, 2022

Edwards William Deming (1900-1993) is considered by many to be the founder of the quality movement and a real reference in the field of statistics. Many in Japan also consider him to be one of the inspirations of the Japanese economic miracle, which occurred from 1950 to 1960. Japan grew from the ashes and became the second largest economy in the world, thanks to processes influenced by the ideas of Deming.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 26, 2022

At question is whether insurers will be able to shift Medicaid members who lose coverage to subsidized marketplace plans.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 23, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria 2015 – 2020 (2015 Plan) has guided the U.S. Government’s response to combating antibiotic-resistant infections since its establishment in 2015. The U.S. Government’s Interagency Task Force for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB) has produced four previous reports on progress toward the 2015 Plan.

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Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

Srulik Dvorsky, TailorMed CEO and Founder. New patients at a cancer center in Michigan receive a 79-page handbook when their treatments commence. The handbook includes needed advice on what to eat and the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. One double-sided page features information about how to navigate the financial aspects of cancer treatment, including who to contact for help with medical bills.

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Home Health Care

MAY 23, 2022

When Margaret Haynes was appointed CEO of Right at Home in April , she had already established herself as a veteran within the company. Since 2014, she has served as chief operating officer. She first joined Right at Home in 2011. What many do not know is that Haynes has not only served as one of the company’s leaders, but she also had the unique perspective of being on the client side during her time with the company.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 23, 2022

Travel nursing continues to rise – how are you monitoring license verifications across state lines?

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The Rand Blog

MAY 25, 2022

As alluring as a calendar filled with three-day weekends may seem, research shows that short school weeks can have educational and health risks for students, but also benefits for them and for school districts that make the change. Do the benefits of the condensed week outweigh the costs?

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