Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Legislators in some states are even looking to cap the rate hospitals can pay agencies for temporary nurses as worker shortages persist across the U.S.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
As of today, there are around 43.8 million people around the world who are within five years of a cancer diagnosis, reports the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Yet data shows that less than 30% of low-income countries have access to the right cancer treatment services – compared to 90% in high-income countries. In fact, an estimated 70% of deaths caused by cancer occur in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs).
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Telehealth use rose in every census region in November as patients again avoided medical settings and some became infected with the newest coronavirus variant, according to data from Fair Health.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
[ Click here for Part 1]. PART 2. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Cowen analysts said the rate increase "should support another year of benefit enhancements & strong enrollment growth," and noted that in recent years the final rate has been higher than what was first proposed.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
An issue brief released this week from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation found that although telehealth use increased dramatically during the pandemic, not all patients appeared to have equal access to virtual services. The report , which analyzed data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey from April to October 2021, found that about one in four respondents said they'd used telehealth over the p
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Meditation app Calm buys Ripple Health Group to build out mental healthcare offerings. rtorrence. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 15:04.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
"We should be addressing this in a more serious fashion than we are," Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said Wednesday.
Kaiser Health News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Under programs set up by the Affordable Care Act, the federal government cuts payments to hospitals that have high rates of readmissions and those with the highest numbers of infections and patient injuries. For the readmission penalties , Medicare cuts as much as 3 percent for each patient, although the average is generally much lower. The patient safety penalties cost hospitals 1 percent of Medicare payments over the federal fiscal year, which runs from October through September.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Medical device companies likely will face the same challenges this year that they have been dealing with since the pandemic's start, such as procedure volatility and hospital staffing shortages.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Butterfly Network, Ambra Health team up to streamline medical imaging integration. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 16:18.
MedTrainer
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
We love being able to spread the word about how MedTrainer helps organizations make compliance easy, but we think our customers do the best job. If you’re looking for an example of digital compliance success,… The post How The Sault Tribe Health Division Embraced Digital Compliance appeared first on MedTrainer.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
From Amazon to New Balance, consumer brand execs bring 'outsider' perspective to healthcare. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 15:26.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
What You Should Know: – Science 37 , a leader in agile clinical trials, and physIQ Inc, a leader in digital medicine, announced their alliance to help researchers use remote biosensors and machine learning to build more robust data sets. – The partnership will help boost the number of digital biomarkers and generate insights from continuous data streams to indicate the safety and efficacy of new clinical treatments more quickly and objectively.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
In a preview of their HIMSS22 session, Kasey Claborn of the University of Texas and Andrea L. Daugherty from the Dell Medical School explain how better overdose surveillance could improve response and outreach.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
What You Should Know: – Hackensack Meridian Health , New Jersey’s largest and most integrated health network launches of Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, a program that delivers high-quality acute care in the home of a Medicare patient and may ultimately be scalable to the larger patient population. The program was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals struggling with bed capacity.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Former CVS Health exec gets $25M for cancer care navigation platform Jasper Health. rtorrence. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 11:31.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Carl D’Halluin, CTO, Datadobi. Stethoscopes, needles, tourniquets, and blood pressure cuffs are what typically come to someone’s mind when thinking of items used to assess, diagnose, and treat patients in a healthcare setting. While these physical tools within a hospital or private practice are important, unstructured data also plays a critical, yet often understated, role in the overall care experience of a patient.
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FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Chutes & Ladders—Cleveland Clinic taps chief digital officer for 'fresh perspective'; Cigna hires Berg to lead MA expansion. dmuoio. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 16:42.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
When my colleague John Lynn sent the following report over to me, he seemed quite taken aback by the results, calling the number of organizations reporting a large breach “crazy.” After a year like 2021, it’s hard to argue with his assessment. This volume and ferocity of cybersecurity attacks on healthcare organizations have been brutal. […].
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Bipartisan bill aims to extend program that helps rural docs participate in Quality Payment Program. rking. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 14:02.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Also: Digital therapeutics company Big Health hires Gabriela Perez as chief commercial officer and chronic-care startup Lyn Health adds Tracy J. Edmonds to its board of advisors.
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Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
The following is a guest article by Debi Taylor, MSN, RN, SCRN, Director of Clinical Learning and Development at RapidAI. Whether a patient is suffering from a stroke or another acute life-threatening condition, outcomes are often closely connected with time to treatment. Although there are many inefficiencies that can arise before a patient even enters […].
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Medicare to cover at-home COVID-19 tests this spring after backlash from lawmakers. rking. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 10:10.
Healthicity
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Integrative Health: A New Frontier. The Mayo Clinic describes Integrative Health as.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Insurers offer initial praise of CMS' Medicare Advantage, Part D notice. pminemyer. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 14:28.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Californian startup Lover recently landed $2 million for their module-based sexual health offering.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
ConcertoCare orchestrates $105M in series B funding to expand value-based, at-home care for seniors. hlandi. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 06:15.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. The individuals have each been charged with felony criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York. It is alleged that the mother who is employed as a nurse at the New York nursing home, and her two daughters who are both applicants for nursing assistant
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Also: Getlabs rakes in $20 million and Formus announces a $5 million funding round.
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