Open enrollment season is here, and the stakes are high for organizations delivering employer benefit programs, especially as this year’s open enrollment period comes amidst the Great Reshuffle – a time when employees are transitioning jobs in large numbers. The Great Reshuffle has created a fiercely competitive labor market in which companies have to figure out new ways to attract and retain talent. This opens up a huge opportunity to rethink engaging talent-hungry employers.
Employees now
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Billions in Federal Provider Relief Funds Have Been Distributed. Now Come Auditing and Compliance.
Of the $175 billion in federal Provider Relief Funds (PRF) allocated to healthcare providers, $125 billion has been accepted by hospitals and healthcare providers. The cash infusion was designed to cover costs related to COVID-19 related care. These targeted payments were earmarked for preventing, preparing for, and responding to the Coronavirus, solely for reimbursement of healthcare-related expenses or lost revenue directly attributable to COVID-19.
Early on, providers who received PRF
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Virtual Engagement During COVID Pushes Paradigm Shift for Physician Training and Patient Care
The dominant presence of COVID-19 has not meant the absence of cancer, ear infections, heart attacks, chronic pain, or other illnesses that need attention and care. Physicians have continued treatment for all types of maladies, and physician training has continued as well. But this treatment and this training look much different these days. Despite the challenges that came with major COVID shutdowns and changing requirements, the healthcare system and patients have been both creative and
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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Fitbit Launches Ready for Work Program to Help Employers Manage Workplace Health During COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Fitbit launches new Ready for Work program to help
organizations with the unprecedented challenge of returning to the workplace
during the COVID-19 health crisis.
- The program combines key health biometrics from Fitbit devices along with symptom and temperature tracking into an easy-to-use daily check-in that provides employees with a recommendation on whether to go to work or stay home and seek medical care.
- Early research shows that resting heart rate data
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Top 10 Challenges, Issues and Opportunities Healthcare Executives Will Face in 2020
- The HealthCare Executive Group unveils its annual 2020 HCEG top 10 critical challenges, issues and opportunities healthcare executives expect to face in 2020.
- Over 100 C-Suite and director level executives were presented with a list of over 25 topics. Initially compiled from webinars, roundtables and the 2019 Industry Pulse Survey.
After 2.5 days of facilitated interactive discussions during
this week’s HCEG Annual Forum in
Boston, over 100 healthcare c-suite and director level
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AHIMA, AHCA Partner to Train Skilled Nursing Facilities in ICD-10 Coding to Prepare for New Patient Driven Payment Model
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has announced a collaboration with the American Health Care Association (AHCA) to provide in-depth coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) training programs. The goal of the collaboration is to help professionals in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) prepare for the upcoming payment reimbursement change.New, Value-based Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) Beginning October 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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Practices: Focus More on Patient Relationships and Less on Management
Patient relationship management (PRM) software is taking center stage in the battle to improve the patient experience. Essentially, PRM is customer relationship management (CRM) for healthcare. It helps practices more effectively communicate with and engage patients and tracks those interactions. For example, if a practice needs to improve reminders and recall, PRM can automate sending messages via text, email, and/or phone by pulling data from the practice management or EHR system.Even though
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Change Healthcare Launches Automated Analytics Solution for Payers to Support Diagnosis Coding Accuracy
Change Healthcare today introduced Dx Gap Advisor, a new automated analytics solution on the company’s Intelligent Healthcare Network that helps health plans and their providers ensure complete, accurate, and compliant risk adjustment data capture. Dx Gap Advisor automatically identifies possible undocumented diagnosis codes and alerts providers to appropriately address the identified risk adjustment gaps. As a result, health plans can avoid manual chart reviews, ensure accurate and complete
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Webinar: On the Heels of Stage 1 Meaningful Use: The Hospital Perspective
On this Friday, October 28, 2011 at 12 p.m. ET, NeHC University will continue its Industry Leader Briefing series on meaningful use. Following Dr. Steven Waldren and the provider perspective last week, Chantal Worzala, Director of Policy for the American Hospital Association, will present the hospital perspective on meeting Stage 1 requirements and preparing for Stage 2. She will speak on the current progress being made by hospitals that have qualified for the first wave of meaningful use
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