Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 30, 2020

10 indicted in $1.4B rural hospital fraudulent billing scheme: DOJ. pminemyer. Tue, 06/30/2020 - 10:14.

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p3care

DECEMBER 10, 2020

MACRA MIPS (The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 – Merit-based Incentive Payment System) is a program that caters to physician finances under Medicare. Not only that, but it determines the quality of care within hospitals, practices, and clinics should meet certain standards. The program is now in its fifth year (started back in 2017) and it would be right to say that it facilitates the whole physician reimbursement process.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving. In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates.

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CiscoHealth

APRIL 14, 2020

The New World of Healthcare. “By enabling an innovative telehealth program, Cisco collaboration is helping us positively impact the health of our community and state.” NYC Health + Hospitals. At its core, healthcare is about people taking care of people. When the transmission of the disease is a concern, the meaning of caring for each other and staying close means keeping our distance.

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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

Patient Experience

Pro CRNA

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. In 2004, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) announced a bold recommendation that the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) be established as the gateway for entry to practice degree for all advanced practice nurses. Several years later in 2007 the Board of Directors for the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists affirmed the AACN proposal by recommending that all nurse anesthesia programs be at the Doctorate level by 2025.

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Health Recovery

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The beginning of the holiday season is just days away and, as we think about gratitude, it is certainly different from years past. No doubt the pandemic has affected each of us and will be etched in our memories forever. There are so many sad and heartbreaking stories - too many. And the full cost is not yet known. But still so much to be grateful for.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The key to creating a comprehensive hospital security program is to avoid the desire to find a “one size fits all” solution. With so many aspects to cover, you’re unlikely to find a “does it all” system that meets your needs. Your hospital security system should include a focus on these three functions: Ensuring only […].

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Health Advances

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

… And a Conversation with HKEX’s SVP & Head of China Issuer Services Silvia Chen. By Daniel Huang, Analyst ; Andrew Briggs, Engagement Manager ; Gary Cheng, Vice President. Executive Summary. Today, Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) is the second-largest market for biotech IPOs only after New York’s NASDAQ, and it has successfully established itself as a first choice IPO destination for China-based biotechs.

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Isabel Healthcare Blog

JULY 10, 2020

What turned out to be my last business trip just before the COVID-19 pandemic took off, was actually one of the most profound in my 30+ years of business travel. We had just partnered with Global Response Management (GRM), a Non-governmental organization to provide access to the Isabel differential tool for their clinicians.

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Turner Healthcare Quality

AUGUST 3, 2020

How might a dramatic shift in the culture of health care in the United States make us better off?

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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

KHN

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The recent rollout of two newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines is a bright ray of hope at the pandemic’s darkest hour. We now have a path that can lead us to happier times — even as we watch and suffer from the horrible onslaught of new infections, hospitalizations and deaths that mark the end of this regrettable year. Health care workers and nursing home residents have already begun to get shots in the first phase of the rollout.

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p3care

OCTOBER 30, 2020

CMS (The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) released the proposed rule for QPP MIPS 2021 via the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). In this article, we dissect changes that are expected to appear in MIPS 2021. However, keep in mind that the changes are just proposed until now and are not final yet. Each year, CMS proposes various guidelines to facilitate physicians with their payments.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For a worker in the U.S. who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The first chart illustrates the growth of the premium shares split by employer and employee contributions. Over ten years, the premium dollars grew from $13,770 in 2010 to $21K in 2020.

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CiscoHealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Follow along with our blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll address healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . In the past few months, we’ve seen huge shifts in how people are working. This naturally extends to the healthcare industry, where care delivery continues to be a priority, even amidst social distancing and shifts in the workplace.

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Pro CRNA

OCTOBER 31, 2020

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. Follow @procrnatom on twitter. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” — Elvis Duran. Halloween is exciting and full of surprises; however, it is no surprise that the festive event also contains several lessons which will enhance team collaboration, staff engagement and the overall effectiveness of the designated leader.

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Michele Late

AUGUST 13, 2020

APHA intern Sakshi Handa is a student of public health, and like many people in the U.S., she also works a retail job. After closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the store where she works reopened recently. Sakshi shared the experience of heading back to work here. As stores start to open and we start to adjust to our new normal, I want to share my new before and after work routine.

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Cloud Blogs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Today marks the start of RSNA 2020, the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. I participated in my first RSNA 35 years ago and I am super excitedas I am every yearto reconnect with my rad iology colleagues and fr iends and learn about the latest medical and scien tific advances in our field. Of course, RSNA will be very different this year.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The basis of every visitor management system is the desire to keep a site and its personnel safe from harm. While it’s true that there are common threads between site safety at all kinds of workplaces, there are unique aspects of healthcare facilities that make the need for hospital Visitor Management more pressing. It’s important […].

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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 Advances

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

By Steven Chang, Ph.D., Senior Analyst ; Y inzi Liu, Ph.D., Engagement Manager ; Doug Mullen, Ph.D., Director ; and Wyatt Gotbetter, Partner. While U.S. states and countries are in the process of reopening their economies and managing resurgence of cases, the long-term challenge of COVID-19 on our healthcare system is just beginning. Recent studies now indicate that patients recovering from COVID-19 can suffer from long-term complications that could last far beyond the acute phase of the infe

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Isabel Healthcare Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infection caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1]. An outbreak of a pneumonia of unknown cause was identified in Wuhun City, Hubei Province, China at the end of December 2019 [2]. China shared the genetic sequence of COVID-19 in January 2020 and the World Health Organization (WHO) also reported a limited number of cases of human-to-human transmission [3].

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Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health care in America, and as of this writing, is still raging on. The 31 multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems that are part of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), their 85,000 physicians, and hundreds of thousands of staff are at the forefront of the battle for their patients’ lives.

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KHN

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Podiatrist Dr. Mark Lewis greets his first patient of the morning in his suburban Seattle exam room and points to a tiny video camera mounted on the right rim of his glasses. “This is my scribe, Jacqueline,” he says. “She can see us and hear us.” Jacqueline is watching the appointment on her computer screen after the sun has set, 8,000 miles away in Mysore, a southern Indian city known for its palaces and jasmine flowers.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the last quarter of 2020, CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) announced the performance scores for clinicians of QPP MIPS 2019 on its official site. Clinicians who participated may review their MIPS 2019 scores via a secure portal allotted to them. That along with your participation in MIPS 2020 reporting is going to add up to your revenue.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020.

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CiscoHealth

MAY 6, 2020

Follow along with our new blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll addresses healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . In the last few months we have witnessed an unprecedented acceleration in the adoption of telehealth. To keep providers and patients safe, hospitals are shedding their initial he sitation to adopt virtual care , and are using video consultations for everything from routine visits to vir

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Health Care Leader News

JULY 15, 2020

This month marks not only the 72 nd birthday of the NHS but also the one-year anniversary of primary care networks (PCNs), which were established last July to stabilise general practice, dissolve the historic divide between primary and community healthcare, and provide a broader range of services for patients closer to their own homes. This seems a fitting time to assess how well they are performing so far.

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Healthy Debate

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! Today we are back with a throwback to our interview with Dr. Robbie Goldstein early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in April, we interviewed Dr. Robbie Goldstein to find out how Mass General Hospital (MGH) in Boston has prepared, and adapted, to a massive influx of patients with COVID-19. Dr. Goldstein is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Infectious Disease physician at MGH.

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The Healthcare Leadership

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A Baptism of Fire – Reflections of a Class of Corona Doctor. by Chris Grieco. I would like to share my account and some reflections of what it was like to start work during a pandemic, to have my studies cut short and elective cancelled. Date: Friday 13th (I know…) March 2020. I’m not a particularly superstitious person, but it is a widely held superstition that Friday 13th is an unlucky day – when bad things just seem to happen.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A hospital’s visitor management system is an essential piece of hospital security. While you don’t want to add unnecessary obstacles to a visitors’ path toward seeing their loved ones, it’s important for healthcare facilities to screen all guests, for both staff and patient safety. In short, your visitor management solution should maintain high security standards […].

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Health Advances

AUGUST 26, 2020

Download the full eBook here. COVID-19 has proven to be a devastating and unprecedented global health crisis. The pandemic is especially complex for biopharma. The industry has been called upon to rapidly find therapeutics and vaccines that can treat, cure, or prevent the disease. Regulators are facilitating frenzied development efforts with new emergency approval programs.

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