Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 25, 2022
Signs point toward another historic year in VC investment, experts say, which will benefit the medical system as it evolves to encapsulate more digital services.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 26, 2022
By Sarah Wang. Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. As a first step to protecting incarcerated individuals’ right to health, Congress should repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP). The MIEP, established in 1965, prohibits Medicaid from covering incarcerated individuals, despite any prior eligibility.
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 24, 2022
One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. For physicians and researchers this means predicting more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease will work in particular groups of people.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 26, 2022
The United States is in the middle of a mental and behavioral healthcare crisis. There simply are not enough clinicians and therapists to go around as the pandemic and its stresses drag on. The problem is worsened by geography – in rural America, such providers are even harder to find. But technology has a huge role to play in lessening the crisis.
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Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 28, 2022
Health systems used financial incentives for quality and cost performance measures, but the percentage of total physician compensation based on quality and cost was just 9% for primary-care providers, according to the study.
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 26, 2022
Uber Health on Tuesday announced the hire of its first chief medical officer. WHY IT MATTERS. Dr. Michael Cantor, a board-certified geriatrician, has more than 20 years of leadership experience, having served as CMO at companies such as Intuition Robotics, Bright Health and CareCentrix. At Uber Health, he'll be in charge of building innovative tools for patients, clinicians and care coordinators.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 28, 2022
Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' and more. David Chou Since the arrival of the pandemic, healthcare organizations have faced a cultural shift. In the past, health leaders have naturally been risk-averse and have, of necessity, created systems that established a wide array of administrative roadblocks to change.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 27, 2022
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.
Compliance Now
JANUARY 25, 2022
by: Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. On January 25, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) announced that they are withdrawing the Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that was adopted in November 2021, effective immediately. However, OSHA specifically notes that they are exclusively withdrawing the policy as an “enforceable emergency temporary standard;” they are not withdrawing it as a proposed rule.
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 25, 2022
The Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or MOLST , program aims to improve care for seriously ill patients and tailor treatment to their end-of-life preferences. Based on communication between the patient and their physician or NP, the eight-step protocol guides treatment for palliative care and during advanced illness and in emergencies. In New York, a statewide MOLST registry guides care teams to help ensure end-of-life care and DNR/DNI orders are consistent with patient goals.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 26, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Evanguelidi, director, enterprise healthcare market, Redpoint Global. In a new survey of more than 1,000 U.S. healthcare consumers conducted by Dynata and commissioned by Redpoint Global, more than 80% of respondents said that […]. The article Healthcare Consumers Voice An Expectation for Personalized Experiences appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 27, 2022
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.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 28, 2022
By Jack Becker. A few years ago, a Bill of Health post titled Jelly Beans, Booze, and B-Vitamins proposed fortifying cheap wines, hard liquors, and malt liquors with thiamine (vitamin B1). The post suggested this as a public health measure to prevent Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) in the homeless alcoholic population. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a debilitating neurological disorder caused by thiamine deficiency.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 24, 2022
The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. ATA Action, which will be helmed by ATA Vice President of Public Policy Kyle Zebley, will also push for appropriate payment policies to safeguard access to virtual care.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 25, 2022
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Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 24, 2022
An overload of bureaucratic tasks, such as charting and paperwork, was doctors' No. 1 reason for burnout, affecting 60% of those polled by Medscape.
MRO Compliance
JANUARY 24, 2022
Patient Right of Access and the Path to Compliance. January 21, 2022. For The Record. HIM professionals play an increasingly critical role in privacy and security, release of information (ROI), protected health information (PHI), disclosure management, interoperability, patient access, and more. Those in the health care industry need to keep informed about issues surrounding patient access to records and the ongoing path to compliance.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 26, 2022
Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. URAC is an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization – and one of the most influential telehealth accreditors in the world. Dr. Shawn P. Griffin is the first physician to serve as president and CEO of URAC.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 25, 2022
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Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 24, 2022
Resuming the process of determining whether people are still eligible for Medicaid may sound easy, but stakeholders caution it's much more nuanced than flipping a switch, and poor planning risks massive enrollment losses.
Kaiser Health News
JANUARY 28, 2022
A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. The Jan. 25 ruling, which came in response to a 2011 class-action lawsuit eventually joined by 14 beneficiaries against the Department of Health and Human Services, will guarantee patients the right to appeal to Medicare for nursing hom
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Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 27, 2022
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. […].
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 24, 2022
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Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 27, 2022
Expanded tax credits through the American Rescue Plan made coverage more affordable and greater outreach efforts helped accelerate enrollment, health officials said.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 26, 2022
Even before COVID-19 placed a significant strain on hospitals in Singapore, health systems such as the National University Health System were looking at ways to move care away from the hospital and into a person's home or community. This shift would help the country better manage an ageing population and increasing demand for hospital beds. THE PROBLEM.
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