What You Should Know:
- ONC and HRSA launches a new USCDI+ collaboration to support HRSA’s Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting through the UDS Modernization Initiative.
- Last October ONC announced USCDI+, an initiative to support the identification and establishment of domain or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing USCDI. In particular, ONC envisioned USCDI+ as a service that ONC would provide to federal partners who have a
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Hospital Finances Down As Funding Dries Up, Report Finds
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- Hospitals and health systems saw decreases in outpatient revenue and operating room time and increases in inpatient lengths of stay from June to July 2022, leading to a decline in financial performance after months of improvement, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall.
- The analysis reveals that U.S. hospitals and health systems are experiencing some of the worst margins since the beginning of the COVID-19
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How Faster Data Access Can Save Lives
Eleven months versus ten years. When you’re waiting for an answer to cure or prevent a disease, that difference can feel like forever. Scientists that developed the COVID vaccine in under a year represent a huge medical breakthrough compared to the standard decade-long vaccine process. The expedited research and development phase showed the world just how quickly the process could occur if given the right resources.
The key here was better data. Data collaborations quite literally
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New Report Reveals Behavioural Factors to Treatment Adherence
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- Fullscript, the leading care delivery platform for personalized treatment planning, ongoing wellness support and education, and high-quality supplements released a report about behavioral change in integrative medicine as part of its mission to change how health is prescribed and help people get better. The findings indicated that while behavior or lifestyle change is challenging,
- The findings indicated that while behavior or lifestyle change is challenging, there
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Digital Senior Care Navigator Fair Square Medicare Raises $15M
What You Should Know:
- Digital senior care navigator Fair Square Medicare raises 15M in series A funding led by Define Ventures. The company, which is a YCombinator alum, has raised $19M to date.
- With 10,000 people turning 65 every day, Fair Square Medicare helps seniors find the right Medicare coverage regardless of commission, and is building a full-service digital healthcare assistance platform for seniors.
Care Navigator for Seniors
Launched in 2020 out of YC, Fair Square
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Cardiology: Have We Reached A Tipping Point in Structured Reporting Adoption?
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- A new report from KLAS provides not only a much-needed update on the breadth of structured reporting adoption but also a first look at the depth of adoption since actual physician use is the only way to drive outcomes.
- While the market hasn’t reached the structured reporting tipping point yet, physician adoption is driving progress and generating value. This study also shares details on the hemodynamics experience (both overall satisfaction and important
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How Service Line Alignment Can Improve Cost Savings for Health Systems
Healthcare leaders continue to face new and complex challenges in a constantly evolving landscape, including staffing and capacity constraints, product shortages, and rising costs. These shifting demands change the expectations put on hospitals when it comes to both patient care and financial performance. As we’ve observed, this uncertainty was further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which shined a light on many opportunities for improved financial and clinical operations across the
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HealthTeam Advantage Integrates With Bamboo Health’s Pings Solution
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- Bamboo Health™ recently announced that HealthTeam Advantage (HTA), the business name of Care N’ Care Insurance Company of North Carolina, Inc., has integrated Bamboo Health’s Pings™ solution.
- The Pings rollout delivers real-time admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) e-notifications for HTA’s 15,000 North Carolina PPO and HMO Medicare Advantage plan members.
Using Real-Time E-Notifications to Lower Costs and Improving High Quality Care
Bamboo Health
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Glytec and CPS Integrate to Provide Evidence-Based Glycemic Management
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- Glytec recently announced that it has been selected by CPS Solutions, LLC (CPS), a leading provider of enterprise pharmacy solutions to hospitals and health systems, to serve as an insulin management technology resource for CPS’ more than 2,200 pharmacy professionals across 800-plus healthcare facilities nationwide.
- Through this collaboration, CPS client facilities may contract for Glytec’s eGlycemic Management System® (eGMS) and Glytec’s technical resources to be
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Why There’s Renewed Interest In The Cloud for Healthcare
From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. So, it’s no surprise that IT spending is set to increase by 12.3% for cloud computing, 9.7%, for digital transformation, and 9.7% for security software this year. Though healthcare organizations have historically been slower to adopt cloud, we’re now seeing renewed interest.
Has the pandemic caused a reaction among IT leaders to
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