Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
The pandemic has given hospitals (and especially their boards, which decide salary) the chance to rethink how they compensate CEOs. Researchers suggest hospitals look into aligning CEO salary with the value they create.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
By Matthew Bauer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, science has moved quickly, and the pace of disseminating research findings also has sped up. When science (and the media) moves this quickly, all involved — including scientists, journalists, and the general public — should exercise a greater degree of caution when interpreting research. Peer review vs.
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Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
By John J. Janas III, MD, Medical Director, Twistle by Health Catalyst. Approximately half of all adults in the United States have hypertension, or higher-than-normal blood pressure, costing the nation an estimated $131 billion annually. With its human and economic impact, controlling hypertension is a healthcare and community imperative. Individuals with hypertension have a systolic blood pressure above or equal to 130 mmHg, a diastolic blood pressure above or equal to 80 mmHg, or take medicati
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare continues to change and evolve as time goes on. It’s essential that with the advancements in technology that doctors, hospitals, and medical practices alike keep up. Your top priority as a provider should be […]. The article 4 Ways To Optimize The Digital Patient Experience In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
In a recent quarterly report, Moody's Investors Service called out hospital labor shortages as having a potential material impact on procedures in 2022, even as the omicron surge begins to decline.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
By Fatima Khan. When news broke last week that Pfizer-BioNTech was submitting for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) a two-dose COVID vaccine regimen for children under 5 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), many parents felt a glimmer of hope after a long time. Up until a few days before, the public was expecting approval to possibly drag into summer.
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Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The threat of coronavirus has posed a number of issues in the healthcare system. But the biggest benefit was that it triggered a major expansion in health technology, such as telemedicine and at-home lab tests. […]. The article How Will Drones Shape the Future of Healthcare?
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
The report said only two of 361 combined hospitals at three of the largest hospitals systems — HCA Healthcare, CommonSpirit Health and Ascension — were estimated to be in compliance with the federal standard.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
By Stephen Wood. The provision of scarce resources such as intensive care unit (ICU) beds, antivirals, and ventilators during this pandemic has been an ongoing topic of discussion. Repeatedly, states and hospital systems have considered implementing crisis standards of care, which establish triage protocols for scarce resources. Though crisis standards of care are meant to provide an ethics-based approach to the complex process of allocating scarce health care resources, in reality, they fall sh
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Just over 1 in 4 people over 50 in the U.S. use at least one mobile health app, and 56% of older people have never used one. Among seven mhealth tools, the most commonly-used is to track exercise. Among older people who do not use health apps, half say it is because of their lack of interest, we learn from the research in Mobile Health App Use Among Older Adults from the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging, sponsored by AARP.
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Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As payers step up efforts to identify and recoup improper payments, hospitals and health systems require innovative solutions to mitigate the potential threat these reviews pose to the bottom line. To meet this need, Hayes, a leading […]. The article Hayes External Audit Workflow Tool Streamlines Audit Management appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Along with virtual health services now being available for employers across the U.S., Amazon Care is expanding its in-person benefit to 20 more cities this year, the e-commerce giant said Tuesday.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
By John Tingle. The clinical negligence system reform debate in England is proceeding at some pace now with the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee recently receiving expert oral evidence. The evidence has produced some excellent and controversial food for thought along with creating an important change agenda. One area of controversy: whether clinical negligence lawyers are thwarting reform because of their financial interest in the status quo.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. The legislation, which is supported by several industry representatives including athenahealth, Epic, IBM and Teladoc Health, would establish a commission tasked with providing recommendations to Congress about updates to health information privacy laws.
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Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
The omicron variant is posing new challenges as staff call in sick or quit their jobs entirely for higher-paying traveling nurse positions. That's leaving hospitals in a bind as they treat higher acuity COVID-19 patients.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell. Originally, the Great Resignation was an idea, proposed by Anthony Klotz, a professor at Texas A&M University, that predicted a large number of […]. The article The Significance and Severity of the Healthcare Labor Shortage appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Labcorp announced this week that it had partnered with Ascension to manage the health system's hospital-based laboratories in 10 states. It will also purchase some assets of Ascension's outreach lab business. Through the partnership, Ascension’s clinicians and patients will have access to Labcorp’s diagnostics and at-home test collection services.
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Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Under the terms of the deal, Labcorp will manage Ascension's hospital-based laboratories in 10 states, and acquire select assets of the St. Louis-based system's outreach laboratory business.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As more companies adopt tech and IT in their operations, technology and IT professions gather momentum. Companies also try to attract top tech talent to support their digital transformations as the tech playing fields are […]. The article Top 6 In-Demand Healthcare Tech Jobs For 2022 and Beyond appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. Therapists are located at either a central clinical location or their home office and are able to securely deliver care using real-time audio and video through various platforms.
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Health Populi
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Trust, or really lack thereof, is a killer app for people’s coronavirus health outcomes. That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19. The Lancet study, published on 1 February 2022, was funded by the Gates Foundation in partnership with The Bloomberg Philanthropies et al.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The hospital operator plans to buy 30 more centers from SurgCenter Development in 2022, in addition to the 16 it's already acquired this year, executives said on a earnings call Tuesday.
Compliance Now
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
By : Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. On February 4, 2022, additional guidance was issued on the federal mandate requiring health plans to provide over-the-counter (OTC) COVID-19 tests at no cost to participants. As we have previously shared, plans are allowed to limit the total amount reimbursable to participants for out-of-network tests to $12/test—but, only if the plans meet the requirements of the “direct coverage program” safe harbor.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Epic, Nordic, Galen Healthcare and Chartis Group won big in the 2022 Best in KLAS Awards, the research and insights firm announced Tuesday. "The 2022 Best in KLAS report covers over 1,000 solutions. And the technology itself has advanced by leaps and bounds," said Adam Gale, CEO of KLAS Research, in the 2022 Best in KLAS Software and Services report.
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Kaiser Health News
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. The penalties — a 1% reduction in Medicare payments over 12 months — are based on the experiences of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital between July 2018 and the end of 2019, before the pandemic began in earnest.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
People flocked to get booster shots as the omicron variant drove a sharp increase in testing, boosting revenue for CVS' drugstore segment. Meanwhile, its payer arm reported lower-than-expected COVID-19 treatment costs.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Hospitals and clinics constantly face new challenges that require time, money, and energy to figure out the best solutions. As the need for increasing the value and use cases for expanding technology in healthcare becomes […]. The article Benefits of Integrating Your Visitor Management and Access Control System For Hospitals and Clinics appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care. While virtual care's widespread adoption will certainly help providers offer more proactive care in lower cost settings and decrease the need for regular in-person visits, i
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