Rising Nursing Shortages are Causing a Nationwide Healthcare Crisis – How Using a Well-Designed Mobile Employment App Can Help
The following is a guest article by Suzanne Arroyo, Senior Content Strategist, and Christopher Ryan, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Avionté.
With large-scale nursing strikes happening across the nation, one thing is for certain: nurses feel overworked. The global pandemic has only amplified a growing problem – there aren’t enough RNs to care for a continuous rise in patients.
And the situation is intensifying. By 2030, one million nurses are expected to retire. The healthcare system will continue to be put under pressure by an aging nursing workforce, increased turnover, and a maturing baby boomer population ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Stress Avionté Burn Out Christopher Ryan Healthcare Hiring Healthcare HR Healthcare Staffing Healthcare Workforce Hiring Manag Source Type: blogs
Chartis Establishes the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions
Chartis and DES Health Consulting form the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions to support caregivers in increasingly tenuous work environments
Today, Chartis, a comprehensive healthcare advisory firm, announced it has established the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions in conjunction with welcoming DES Health Consulting to the firm. DES Health Consulting works with multi-hospital healthcare systems to reduce burnout and improve retention, safety, quality, and physician and nurse satisfaction.
“By establishing the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions, we will be able to help clients gather deep insights on their work...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Caregiver Burnout Chartis Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions DES Health Consulting Dr. Dan Shapiro Dr. Roger Ray EHR Consulting Harvard Medical School Health IT Acquisitions Health IT Consulting He Source Type: blogs
Aledade Adds More Than 450 New Practices for 2023, Making It the Largest Network of Independent Primary Care in the Country
Company Also Announces Its Second Acquisition – Value-Based Care Analytics Company Curia
Aledade, the nation’s largest network of independent primary care, today announced that it added more than 450 primary care practices, including nearly 60 health centers, to its nationwide network for 2023, the most of any value-based care practice network. The company continues to be the largest network of independent primary care in the country, with more than two million patients covered by more than 150 value-based contracts across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial payers. Aledade works with more than 1,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Aledade Artificial Intelligence CACP Comprehensive Advance Care Planning Curia Dr. Farzad Mostashari Foundry.ai Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jim Manzi Medicaid Medicare Source Type: blogs
AGS Acquires Offshore Patient Access BPO Unit from Availity
AGS Health strengthens its position as the leading provider of outsourced prior authorization services
AGS Health, a leading provider for tech-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions and strategic growth partner to healthcare providers across the U.S., announces the acquisition of the India-based patient access outsourcing business unit of the Florida-based healthcare technology company Availity.
With more than half of U.S. hospitals anticipating a year of negative margins, achieving full and accurate reimbursement for services has never been more critical. With this expansion, AGS Health is positioned to provide ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management AGS AI Platform AGS Health Availity Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Out Of Pocket Costs Patrice Wolfe Prior Auth Prior Authorization RCM Source Type: blogs
Spacelabs Healthcare Expands Clinical Informatics Capabilities with Acquisition of Predictive Analytics Company PeraHealth
Spacelabs Healthcare today announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company PeraHealth. Founded in 2010, PeraHealth develops predictive enterprise software based on the Rothman Index, a score to quantify patient acuity. PeraHealth’s solutions alert clinicians to patient deterioration, helping to reduce in-hospital mortality, unplanned transfers to the ICU, and to drive more timely palliative care consults. PeraHealth’s Rothman Index is the only FDA-cleared predictive analytics solution of its kind on the market today.
The Spacelabs team will continue the journey that the Rothman brothers and PeraHealth start...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT FDA Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Joseph Beals Patient Care Perahealth Predictive Analytics Rothman Index Shalabh Chandra Spacelabs Spacelabs Healthcare Source Type: blogs
A Nuke for a Nuke? Public Debate and Political Party Views on Nuclear Acquisition in South Korea
There is a high level of uncertainty and a lack of clarity surrounding the issue of South Korean nuclear acquisition. What political, security, and strategic factors are key to guiding this debate in Seoul? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Erik Mobrand Source Type: blogs
Elation Health Acquires Medical Billing Company Lightning MD
Elation Health continues to expand its primary care offerings. The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD, a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company. The acquisition adds revenue cycle capabilities to Elation’s clinical-first EHR and Best in KLAS, virtual care platform.
“Healthcare technology is rapidly evolving, particularly in the primary care sector where we have the greatest opportunity to improve patient outcomes and raise the standard of our healthcare system for everyone,” said Kyna Fong, co-founder and CEO of Elation Health in a press release. “...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Brian Esser Elation Health Kelly Schoenfeld Kyna Fong Lightning MD Medical Billing Primary Care Revenue Cycle Management Source Type: blogs
Clevermed and its BadgerNet Solution Join the System C Family
System C acquires leading health tech business, Clevermed
Edinburgh-based Clevermed, the pioneering health tech company, today confirmed its acquisition by System C, one of the UK’s leading providers of hospital-wide software for the NHS. The acquisition will unlock growth and investment for its flagship product, the mother and baby health system, BadgerNet.
Currently, nearly all babies in neonatal units in the UK have their details in BadgerNet. In addition, by the end of 2023 it is estimated that 45% of UK pregnancies will be recorded on BadgerNet. Along with clinical access, every day the system supports over 40,000...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Badger Notes BadgerNet Clevermed Electronic Maternity Records Electronic Neonatal Records Health Boards and Trusts Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jane Stephenson Neonatal Care Neonatal Unit Source Type: blogs
Game Over or Game On?: Regulatory Scrutiny of Microsoft ’s Activision Acquisition and the Future of Gaming and Antitrust
Jennifer HuddlestonIn January 2022, Microsoft announced plans to acquire video game giant Activision Blizzard, the maker of popular video games includingCall of Duty. Over the course of the year that followed, this proposed acquisition faced scrutiny and challenges from competition regulators in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union.Just this week, theEuropean Commission held a hearing to air some of the concerns around this proposed acquisition. This is just the latest example of technology sector mergers or acquisitions facing challenges from competition regulators. But do attempts to block the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
CVS Health to Acquire Oak Street Health
Acquisition further advances CVS Health’s care delivery strategy for consumers
CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS) and Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH) have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6 billion.
Oak Street Health is a leading multi-payor, value-based primary care company helping older adults stay healthy and live life more fully. With an innovative care model and technology platform designed to deliver consistently superior outcomes and patient experiences, Oak Street Healt...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Centerview Partners Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC CVS CVS Health Dechert LLP Direct to Consumer Healthcare DTC Healthcare EBITDA EPs General Atlantic LLC Health Care Delivery Organi Source Type: blogs
DrFirst Acquires Diagnotes Secure Messaging and Care Coordination Platform
Expands Backline by DrFirst’s Capabilities for Clinical Communications in Health Systems and Beyond
Healthcare technology pioneer DrFirst today announced it has acquired select assets of Indianapolis-based Diagnotes. The acquisition will allow Backline by DrFirst to expand its capabilities to break through communication silos in healthcare at each stage of the patient care journey, promote positive patient outcomes, and enhance satisfaction for staff and patients.
Diagnotes provides a suite of team-based, patient-centered collaboration tools built specifically for the healthcare sector. The app increases clinicia...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Backline Backline by DrFirst Care Coordination Communication Silos Diagnotes G. Cameron Deemer Hancock Health Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Mayo Clinic Care Network Michael Fletcher M.D. Re Source Type: blogs
The Path Forward for Healthcare ’s People Matching Problem
The following is a guest article by Rachel Podczervinski MS, RHIA, Vice President of Professional Services at Harris Data Integrity Solutions.
Efforts to identify the right path forward for healthcare’s patient matching problem are gaining a foothold as stakeholders from across the spectrum come together to remove obstacles and implement effective solutions. Most notably, in 2022, efforts by industry organizations like Patient ID Now led to the temporary removal of Section 510 from the U.S. House and Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) appropriations bills. While it was ul...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Black Book Research EHR Electronic Health Records EMPI Enterprise Master Patient Ind Source Type: blogs
Tivity Health Acquires Industry Leading Digital Health and Wellness Platform Burnalong
Acquisition will accelerate digital transformation and enhance efforts to support diverse populations and address chronic disease
Tivity Health®, a leading provider of healthy life-changing solutions, today announced that it has acquired Burnalong®, a digital health, wellness and fitness platform. The acquisition will accelerate Tivity Health’s efforts to provide consumers with a robust digital platform and extensive health and wellness content, in addition to in-person opportunities through its network of fitness locations. Burnalong will also further enable Tivity Health to support diverse and at-risk populations...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Burnalong Chronic Disease Management Chronic Diseases Chronic Illness Daniel Freedman Digital Health Fitness and Wellness Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Mike Kott Richard Ashworth SilverSnea Source Type: blogs
Towards Ways to Sabotage the Immune Evasion of Senescent Cells in Aged Tissues
Senescent cells are created constantly throughout life, largely the result of somatic cells reaching the Hayflick limit on cellular replication. In youth, these cells are rapidly removed by the immune system, but this clearance falters in later life for reasons yet to be fully explored. Nonetheless, enough is understood to propose a variety of avenues by which the immune clearance of senescent cells can be improved.
Cellular senescence is a complex process involving a close-to-irreversible arrest of the cell cycle, the acquisition of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), as well as profound changes...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
On Adaptation
Erec SmithIn my “Communication in Professional Cultures” course, I tell my students that adaptation, the ability to readjust one’s disposition based on unforeseen situational changes, is one of—if notthe—most important skills one could have in a pluralistic, civil democracy. This country’s diversity of standpoints, values, interests, and conditions will, naturally, create a diversity of situations. Though these situations can overlap in a variety of ways, they offer enough distinction to warran t the efficacy of adaptation. The ability to roll with the punches, as it were, seems to be an obvious necessity in th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 9, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Erec Smith Source Type: blogs
