How do we attract good nurses? More importantly: How do we keep them?
Those questions have reverberated throughout hospitals and health systems nationwide lately—but they’re not new. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, industry analysts warned of significant nurse shortages. The pandemic only added more stress and exhaustion to the nursing experience, prompting the largest exodus of nurses from the profession in 40 years.
Unfortunately, the nurse shortage is
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How Urgent Care Can Address Its Degrading Scope of Practice
Over the past several years, urgent care centers nationwide have opened their doors to millions of patients in need of COVID-19 testing and treatment, driving an increase in daily patient visit volumes and new, challenging patient care demands. To accommodate this rapid influx, urgent care centers developed new workflows that prioritized efficiency and transitioned to a reimbursement model that rewards providers for the number of patients treated per day. As a result, urgent care centers across
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5 Executives Weigh in on VBC Impact on Kaiser/Geisinger Deal
We recently asked five digital health executives to share their insights on the recent Kaiser's recent acquisition of Geisinger Health and it's impact to accelerate value-based care.
Andy Flanagan, CEO of Iris Telehealth
This acquisition presents a significant upside for the industry's move to improve access to quality, affordable care. Kaiser and Geisinger are two of the premier organizations in our country driving towards value-based care at scale for their communities. The creation
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Mastercard, HealthLock Partner to Protect Against Medical Fraud
What You Should Know:
Mastercard and HealthLock have partnered to offer millions of Americans help in protecting themselves against medical bill fraud, claim errors and overcharges. HealthLock’s platform helps consumers audit every single medical insurance claim and keep them organized through a user-friendly dashboard.The partnership will initially open HealthLock’s analytics-backed healthcare services to millions of US-issued HSA and FSA Mastercard cards, with plans to expand to other
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BVP Forge Invests in Quality Management Platform, Medisolv
What You Should Know:
Private equity firm BVP Forge has completed a strategic investment in Medisolv, a healthcare quality data measurement and reporting solution, to accelerate its growth. BVP Forge will also provide Medisolv access to the growth IP, talent network, and resources of Bessemer Venture Partners.Medisolv was founded in 1999 with the idea that software can unlock the intelligence buried in the chaos of healthcare data. Medisolv will benefit from ForgeEdge™, BVP Forge’s
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Improving Healthcare With Systems of Engagement
It’s been nearly 15 years since the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and its requirements for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). As expected, virtually all hospitals have implemented some form of EHR. In fact, the American Hospital Association (AHA) reported usage by 96% of non-federally run acute care hospitals and almost 80% of office-based physicians in 2021.
Have healthcare providers realized the promised
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KLAS: Epic, MatrixCare, WellSky Leads Hospice Vendors
What You Should Know:
Resource-strapped hospice leaders are looking for tools that alleviate clinician burnout by streamlining workflows and building additional point-of-care functionality. Slow vendor development on this front has led to an overall decline in customer satisfaction.A new KLAS report dives into how well hospice vendors meet provider organizations’ needs, including delivery of value, development progress, and support for when patients go through a transition of
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Digital Health Executive Hires & Departures: Ed Marx Departure, Particle Health CEO, Rhapsody CFO, Others
Health IT veteran Ed Marx announces his departure as CEO at Divurgent to launch his advisory company, Marx Advisory focused on helping healthcare executives & organizations achieve objectives and key results.
Particle Health appointed Jason Prestinario as its next CEO, effective today. Troy Bannister, founder and current CEO, will continue with Particle as Chief Strategy Officer, where he will spearhead product innovation.
Rhapsody names Jeff Chiumiento as the company’s new
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Roundups: Tampa General, Henry Ford, PatientsLikeMe, Other Digital Health Partnerships
Tampa General Hospital Teams Up with Navina
Tampa General Hospital (TGH) partners with AI-powered platform Navina to bring its transformative AI the health system's primary care clinicians. Navina's AI takes large amounts of patient data, including information from labs, consult notes, imaging and more to help create a concise picture of a patient's health status that is instantly understandable and actionable. Clinicians using Navina's platform can quickly assess diagnoses and
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How Health Payment Accounts Improve Health Equity
In 2022, 38 percent of Americans reported delaying medical care—a 20-year high. But as with many things, the burden of paying for healthcare doesn’t affect all Americans equally.
Lower-income communities, for example, tend to have higher incidences of disease and therefore a greater need for healthcare. And in a vicious catch-22, those with lower incomes, Black and Hispanic adults, and women often have health benefits mis-sized to their income, which contributes to higher incidences of
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