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3 key labor trends for hospitals in 2022

Healthcare Dive

Hospitals are still grappling with rising turnover, widespread burnout and numerous staff calling in sick nearly two years after the pandemic began. It's unclear when it might get better — or how much worse it could get.

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Fortified Health Security Releases 2022 Horizon Report

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Fortified Health Security released the 2022 Horizon Report. The report reveals how, as the industry continues to recover from a tumultuous 2020, cybercriminals continued to relentlessly target and attack providers, health plans and their business associates. […].

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HCA to build 5 new hospitals in Texas

Healthcare Dive

The news comes on the heels of HCA's plans to build three new hospitals in Florida, another core market for the Nashville-based health system.

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Filling the gap in behavioral healthcare

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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ACA open enrollment period drove record number of sign-ups

Healthcare Dive

Expanded tax credits through the American Rescue Plan made coverage more affordable and greater outreach efforts helped accelerate enrollment, health officials said.

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MDLive rolls out virtual-first health monitoring program for chronic conditions

Fierce Healthcare

MDLive rolls out virtual-first health monitoring program for chronic conditions. rtorrence. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 10:59.

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Chutes & Ladders—North Carolina HHS head joins Aledade; Uber Health adds first-ever chief medical officer

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—North Carolina HHS head joins Aledade; Uber Health adds first-ever chief medical officer. dmuoio. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 16:27.

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Moderna follows Pfizer in starting trial of omicron vaccine

Healthcare Dive

The study will test a version of the biotech's COVID-19 shot that's tailored to the infectious variant. New data, meanwhile, help affirm the benefit of a third dose of Moderna's current vaccine.

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Tips for Leveraging Technology to Deal with Staffing Shortages

MedTrainer

Almost every healthcare group we talk to mentions staffing as an area of concern right now. With so many people moving, switching careers, or generally ready for a change, turnover is higher than ever for… The post Tips for Leveraging Technology to Deal with Staffing Shortages appeared first on MedTrainer.

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FDA finalizes guidance on including patient perspectives in medtech clinical trials

Healthcare Dive

The documents elaborate on how to engage patients to improve trial design and use patient-reported outcomes.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Talkiatry Lands $37M to Expand In-Network Psychiatric Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Talkiatry , a leading provider of in-network psychiatric care raised an additional $17M from Left Lane Capital , which totals their current funding to $37M in Series A funding. The completion of this round will support Talkiatry in responsibly scaling mental health services across the United States with national insurance contracts. – The company also appointed Samson Walla as its Vice President of Operations.

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GAO calls for major reforms at HHS to better prepare for future health emergencies

Fierce Healthcare

GAO calls for major reforms at HHS to better prepare for future health emergencies. rking. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 16:39.

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Alto Pharmacy Raises $200M to Expand Full-Service Pharmacy Delivery

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Alto Pharmacy (“Alto”), the leader in America’s rapidly expanding digital pharmacy market, raised approximately $200 million in an oversubscribed series E financing round led by returning investor Softbank Vision Fund. Free hand-delivery to your door. Despite the pandemic, the retail pharmacy industry has been one of the slowest to use technology to improve the customer experience.

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What Hinders Clinicians From Using Technology for Coordinated Care?

Healthcare IT Today

What Hinders Clinicians From Using Technology for Coordinated Care? Lumeon, a digital health firm that helps healthcare companies automate their workflows, is circulating a draft of an eight-stage “Digital Transformation Maturity Model” (Figure 1) for discussion. The model traces the use of technology—especially artificial intelligence—to improve patient engagement.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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In KLAS Report, DeliverHealth’s Patient Engagement Solution Earns Top Satisfaction Scores For Digital Front Door

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. DeliverHealth, a global provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices, announced today that its mobile-first patient engagement software has earned top customer satisfaction scores in a KLAS Emerging Technology Spotlight report. […].

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Better Understanding the Patient and Caregiver Perspective with Effie Parks

Healthcare IT Today

At the HLTH conference last year, one of the most amazing people I met was a lady an awesome chick named Effie Parks. She was attending HLTH to receive a WEGO Health Award for her work on the Once Upon a Gene podcast. I learned so much from her and was so touched by her […].

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MDLIVE launches chronic condition monitoring program

Mobi Health News

The virtual care company plans to add devices that can transmit metrics like blood pressure or glucose levels to MDLIVE's patient portal later this year.

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HCA Healthcare's Q4 revenue dips under omicron's weight

Fierce Healthcare

HCA Healthcare's Q4 revenue dips under omicron's weight. dmuoio. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 11:41.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

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.

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How Better Patient Communication Leads to a Better Revenue Cycle

NCG Medical Blog

Every long-lasting relationship is built upon a solid foundation of communication; your medical practice’s relationship with your patients is no different! Patient communication is a tremendous component of your medical practice’s operations, starting with when a patient calls to schedule an appointment and leading up to collecting payment when all is said and done.

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Psychiatry startup Talkiatry completes $37M Series A

Mobi Health News

The company announced it had raised $20 million in July. Left Lane Capital provided an additional $17 million.

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What the Supreme Court's Ruling on the OSHA Temporary Emergency Standard Means for You

Healthicity

Most of us are aware of the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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Digital pharmacy Alto scores $200M from Softbank Vision Fund

Mobi Health News

This new funding round brings the company's total raise to more than $550 million.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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SoftBank leads Alto Pharmacy's $200M series E as prescription delivery unicorn doubles annual revenue

Fierce Healthcare

SoftBank leads Alto Pharmacy's $200M series E as prescription delivery unicorn doubles annual revenue. rtorrence. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 14:34.

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Jane Sarashon

Health is the cornerstone to our core needs, thereby the cornerstone to trust.” This was one lens on the latest 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer published earlier this month. But trust is in short supply when it comes to consumers openness to share their personal information we learn through a new study published in JAMA , Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses.

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Workers at California Hospital File Suit Against Their Employer for Chemical Exposure

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Five Environmental Services (EVS) workers from a California hospital filed a lawsuit against their employer for forcing them to use a corrosive cleaner to perform cleaning duties. The lawsuit states that multiple physicians warned the California hospital not force workers to use the corrosive disinfectant. The California hospital had a high rate of Clostridioides Difficile (C Diff).

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The Adventures of Ada: Combat Burnout With This Best of 2021 ICD-10 Cartoon Bundle

Healthicity

Finding and memorizing ICD-10 codes can feel a little monotonous.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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SeqOne Genomics closes €20M Series A round to accelerate genomic medicine platform rollout

Mobi Health News

The French startup targets leadership in personalised medicine with high-performance genomic analysis.

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Surprised Providers Seek Changes to Latest Provisions of the No Surprises Act

Health Law RX

Effective January 1, 2022, new billing protections went into effect that have the goal of providing greater protections for patients against surprise medical bills. As we discussed in our prior blog , the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management (collectively, the Departments) implemented these additional protections that are part of the No Surprises Act as an interim final rule with comment period ( Interim Rule ).

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: BPOC to Sell Cranial Technologies to Eurazeo

McGuire Wood

Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company (BPOC) has announced it will sell Cranial Technologies to Eurazeo. Cranial Technologies , based in Tempe, Ariz., is a developer, manufacturer and provider of custom cranial orthotics for treating infants with plagiocephaly. Founded in 1986, the company manufactures the DOC Band, a custom cranial orthotic. BPOC , based in Chicago, seeks control and minority equity investments in middle market companies exclusively within the healthcare industry.

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Pfizer, BioNTech Launches Clinical Trial for Omicron-Specific COVID-19 Vaccine

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced the initiation of a clinical trial study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of an Omicron-based vaccine candidate in healthy adults 18 through 55 years of age. – The study will have three cohorts examining different regimens of the current Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or an Omicron-based vaccine.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.