HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. About 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic, with over 600,000 reporting their intention to leave by 2027, citing stress and burnout as primary reasons. Engage your clinical workforce Ask nurses for their input.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Phase one testing was conducted by leading physicians and nurses (< 50) to ensure the agent completes all critical checklist items with the patient for a given use case. Phase two testing required testing to be completed by 1000+ licensed US nurses, and 100+ US licensed physicians talking to the AI while acting as a patient.

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C&M Health Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

On July 21, 2023, the Department of Health Care Access and Information of the California Health and Human Services Agency released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) with regulations that would implement new financial and ownership transparency requirements for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) in California.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2022

Kaiser and Mayo have been supporters of the acute care at home model amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with both health systems putting a combined $100 million toward Medically Home in May 2021. But not everyone has been pleased: Nurse unions criticized the strategy, saying it undermined their role and potentially endangering patients.

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Patient Satisfaction COVID-19 Hospitals Public Health 245

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2023

What You Should Know: Nursa, a nationwide platform that exists to put a nurse at the bedside of every patient in need, today announced the completion of its executive leadership team following an $80 million Series B funding raise led by Drive Capital and joined by existing partners Pelion and Kickstart. million by the end of the year.

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Nurses Hospitals 52

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS. Much of the growth is being driven by large health systems like Allina Health.

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Hospitals Nurses Medicare Medicare 290

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

– Vivalink has announced a new study of cardiac rehabilitation clinicians that reveals the current landscape of remote patient monitoring technology (RPM) in their field, with some pretty incredible results, including: – 65% of cardiac rehab clinicians started using RPM within the last 1-2 years. Did it work well for them?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble. The nursing industry is being torn apart by the convergence of several major currents: 1. million to 1.35

Nursing Homes 98

Nursing Homes Nurses COVID-19 Medicaid 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

More than 100 physician groups, led by the American Medical Association, told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in no uncertain terms this past week that, while they supported temporary regulatory relaxations in response to COVID-19, they were strongly opposed to certain rules changes being made permanent. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 11, 2023

On August 7, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a final rule (“Final Rule”) that updated Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (“SNF PPS”) for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2023

This is particularly true for doctors and nurses that may be using a mobile device or cart on wheels. Color Touchscreen Display – Programmable Icons Thumbnail Preview USB, Wireless and Lan Document CapturePro Software 3 Year Limited Warranty with Free Next Business Day Shipping Learn more about the Epson DS-790WN.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 30, 2023

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but education and awareness should not be limited to just one month of the year. This includes a 20-year career at Epic, a global healthcare systems provider. Thomas was instrumental in growing the company from under 100 employees with little market recognition to over 10,000 employees.

Nurses 106

Nurses 106

Hall Render

MAY 30, 2023

On April 4, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (“SNF PPS”) for fiscal year 2024.

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Nurses COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Medicare 40

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

ShowdMe , the premier compliance training partner for home care agencies and skilled nursing facilities, announces today a Series A investment led by Spring Mountain Capital and Blue Heron Capital. The funding will drive expansion for the Company, allowing for the hiring of new employees and continued growth of its products and services.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

– With responses from nearly 100 cancer center leaders, hailing from hospitals and health systems across the country, the survey focuses on the operational challenges that infusion centers face more than two years into the pandemic, and how technology can help. . Nearly 100 cancer center leaders answered this survey.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2023

However, the most nuanced and valuable data is unstructured and hard to understand, often inaccessible without a team of nurses and data scientists. Our AI platform will supercharge the organization’s nurse abstraction team during chart review, enabling them to quickly and effectively find and submit data to clinical registries.

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Nurses 99

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Success Stories & ROI Having gained some hard-won wisdom about the dos and don'ts of information technology investments in recent years, healthcare providers are getting bolder in their digital transformation spending. million medication instructions without.

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Nurses Telemedicine Hospitals Medicare 101

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What You Should Know: Bridges Health Partners LLC (Bridges) , a Clinically Integrated Network, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Highmark) entered into a multi-year Value-Based Agreement for Highmark’s Commercial membership in Western Pennsylvania. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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Nursing Homes Licensing Hospitals Nurses 52

HIPAA Journal

JULY 19, 2023

From January 1, 2024, employers with 100 or more employees in high-hazard industries must submit work-related injury and illness data and their injury and illness report once a year. The publication of safety and health information is expected to help reduce injuries and illnesses in the workplace.

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Hospitals HIPAA Nurses Compliance 81

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

In those 35 smaller hospitals, there are significant challenges in medical workforce coverage and nursing. At the time, they worked with Sony to develop over bed cameras and infrastructure that allowed critical care doctors and nurses to be able to provide advice in some of the most remote regions.

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Nurses Doctors Hospitals Governance 149

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Earlier this year, our health system broke ground on a 60,000 square-foot Virtual Care Center, which will feature dedicated clinician workspaces equipped with the latest telemedicine technology to offer on-demand urgent care, behavioral health care and primary care.

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Nurses Telemedicine Governance 184

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

million telehealth episodes in 2019 and expanded to 10,000 to 120,000 virtual visits per week during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic – will enables a co-located team of specially trained critical care physicians and nurses to remotely monitor patients in the ICU regardless of patient location. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Department of Veterans Affairs COVID-19 Health Outcomes Nurses 163

Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) analysis identified more than 100 Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) investigations where do-not-resuscitate (DNR) paperwork or practices were not properly followed in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and personal care homes in the past five years.

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Nursing Homes Nurses Licensing 59

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

About Our Growth Vytalize Health has grown its patient base over 100% year-over-year and is now partnered with over 1,000 providers across 36-states. About Our Growth Vytalize Health has grown its patient base over 100% year-over-year and is now partnered with over 1,000 providers across 36-states.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2022

What You Should Know: – Nurse-1-1 , the first conversational marketing company for healthcare raises $2.3M Nationwide Nurse Work. In 2021, Nurse-1-1 had over 10,000 patient consultations through its partnerships with digital health, at-home testing, and pharma companies. Medication adherence is a public health concern.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Even among the sickest patients, use of online health assessments is 18%; use of chronic disease management tools is 8%; use of online triage and nursing support is 10%; and remote monitoring 6%. Commercial Member Health Plan Study Background The U.S.

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Nurses 52

Provider Trust

MARCH 13, 2023

Between 2016 and 2021, over 7,600 fake diplomas were sold to nursing students who used the fraudulent degrees to qualify for the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX). Though the schools have now been shut down, they accrued more than $100 million from selling fake diplomas and transcripts.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2023

Skilled Nursing News published its forecast of top skilled nursing trends for 2023. Becker’s published a roundup of over 100 hospital and health system projects costing $100 million or more in 2022 , including 20 with a price tag north of $1 billion. Per ColoradoBiz , life science companies are searching for about 1.2

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 6, 2021

"A physician or other healthcare worker – hospice, pastoral care, diabetes educators, pharmacists, nurses, etc. "Those treatments can prevent disability and even death leading to avoidance of extremely sad outcomes that are avoidable with access to more advanced care," she said.

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COVID-19 Nurses Hospitals Doctors 134

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

THE PROBLEM The program was aimed at supporting the inpatient care team by discharging patients (ages 18 and up) from the medical center a few days earlier to help reduce length of stay and free up beds by providing virtual monitoring 24/7 through nurses, episodic monitoring kits, and daily virtual visits with an Augusta University Health provider.

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COVID-19 Nurses Hospitals Telemedicine 144

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

" For each market segment in its report, KLAS ranks eligible software and service tools by their overall performance score on a 100-point scale. Epic dominated the rankings, winning top overall software suite for the 12th year in a row. Scheduling: Nurse and Staff. A selection of additional winners is available below.

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Hospitals Nurses 142

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

health systems have learned a lot this past year-plus. Among some other lessons learned by IT execs during the past year and a half: the importance of IT teams partnering with clinical, financial and operational teams at a moment's notice, and the difficulty of hiring key staff during a crisis that needed all hands on deck.

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COVID-19 Ransomware Hospitals Telemedicine 187

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Glytec The modern-day hospital is grappling with an alarming trend. According to a new global study, the number of people with diabetes is growing at a troubling rate and is expected to double by 2050. The time for change is now.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Nurses Health Outcomes Medicaid 98

Hall Render

OCTOBER 7, 2022

HHS OIG issued a report finding “significantly reduced” improper payments to acute care hospitals, as compared with prior years. billion reduction in improper Medicare fee-for-service payments over the past 7 years. billion reduction in improper Medicare fee-for-service payments over the past 7 years. OIG found that $39.3

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Hospitals Nurses Medicare Medicare 40

MedTrainer

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s that time of the year to check your records for 2023 compliance deficiencies and set your organization up for success in 2024. The concept of “Springing in the New Year” starts with giving up those bad compliance habits that always put you behind and your organization at risk.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2023

and expert personnel (doctors, nurses, technicians, administrators). Patients requiring upper or lower gastrointestinal diagnostics normally have to present to a hospital or clinic for a tube-based endoscopy. The capacities for these procedures are constrained by infrastructure (rooms, endoscopes, etc.) THE PROBLEM.

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Hospitals Telemedicine Doctors Nurses 130