The proposed sweep rate reduction is poised to dramatically change the home health industry, leading leaders are finding ways to protect quality of care and access. Through an improved virtual case management model that maintains staff of home health workers ready to practice at the top of the license, or by linking workers to “why” we can help providers who increase efficiency in the face of the proposed 2026 home health rate reduction. Still, opposing the proposed 2026 Medicare home health rate reduction is important to ensure providers maintain a strong workforce. “This is a false policy,” Dr. Steven Landers,…
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When it comes to cyberattacks, healthcare remains one of the most targeted and vulnerable sectors. In fact, a Recent violations A leading medical analytics company, publishing data on 5.4 million U.S. patients, making it one of the most important violations reported to federal regulators this year. While legal protections for private health information have been expanding, the scale of recent incidents is staggering. It has affected over 31 million people in 2025 alone ( HIPAA Guide H1 2025). Why Healthcare is the main goal of cyberattacks Healthcare organizations manage sensitive data, operate within highly complex digital ecosystems, and often fight…
Social care nurses must be given equal recognition and support to NHS workers to properly prepare for the next pandemic, an ex-care home nurse has told a public inquiry into Covid-19. Claire Sutton, head of independent health and social care at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), appeared at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Tuesday, 19 July. “Social care often feels like a second-class citizen, a poor relative” Claire Sutton The inquiry recently launched its sixth module of ten, which focuses on social care, after the conclusion of evidence on topics including the impact of the pandemic on health systems,…
With IQM's integrated care team message with best-in-class data of Data 360, brands can map nurses to relevant doctors. new york, July 29, 2025 / prnewswire/ – IQM Advertising Corporationthe global media purchasing platform that empowers the most regulated term advertisers to use and enhance their data to enhance the many most regulated ads, today announced the launch of Integrated Care Team Messaging, the industry's first targeting feature that will enable healthcare advertisers to not only reach the doctors who treat patients, but also reach the nurses who spend a majority on them. Today's healthcare environment relies heavily on team-based…
Please listen to the article 4 minutes This audio is automatically generated. Please let us know if you have any feedback. Diving briefs: Venture capital investment across the healthcare sector slowed down in the first half of the year, but health technology fundraising was a bright spot, according to a report released Tuesday by Silicon Valley Bank. Although overall healthcare investments and trading numbers have declined, US and European health technology startups raised $8.2 billion in 358 deals, the highest recorded first half in the segment since early 2022. Performance was driven by increased funding for businesses using AI, particularly…
The number of registered nurses being recruited into adult social care is now exceeding pre-pandemic levels, but instability in the wider workforce remains, a new report has found. The government arms’-length body Skills for Care has today published its latest report into the “size and structure” of the adult social care sector and workforce in England. “A truly community-centred model demands a stronger, more sustainable domestic pipeline” Donna O’Boyle The report details recruitment, retention and vacancies across the sector, based on the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set, which is contributed to by 21,100 care providers, representing 728,000 staff. It…
To preempt this, CISOs need continuous and broad visibility, accurate and timely risk scoring/prioritization, and automatic repair. The Axonious, Nucleus Security, and ServiceNow tools are useful here. Get the arm around the data. Healthcare organizations already create, process and store a lot of data, which will increase dramatically as a new technology mushroom. This means data security is a top priority. In addition to governance, CISOs should focus on data discovery, classification, encryption, access control, continuous monitoring and logging, and regulatory compliance. An immutable backup with regular testing is an absolute requirement. CISOS needs to expand its definition of data…
Health Plans seek the best solutions that aim to implement terminology data, promote personalization and help mitigate risk. A payer trend topic that we have often covered is the importance of a clean, evidence-based data strategy to address team challenges and enhance industry alignment. The data influenced many debates that dominated the AHIP 2025 conference in Las Vegas. This has convened health insurance leadership and thought leaders to discover new ideas for achieving business and care management goals. Many recurring and enormous themes and phrases at the event were “data-rich and insightful,” and not only their data, but their mission…
An organisation that represents the nursing profession globally has called on world governments to do their part to ensure food aid enters Gaza – as reports suggest malnutrition-related deaths are soaring there. A spike in deaths related to a lack of food and water, as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), has sparked the calls from the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and other humanitarian observers. “Alarming reports of widespread severe malnutrition, preventable deaths, and impending famine risks demand urgent action” ICN A statement was issued by the ICN on Friday, prior to airdrops over the weekend and military…
The Scottish Government has officially announced the appointment of Professor Aisha Holloway as the new chief nursing officer for Scotland, as exclusively revealed by Nursing Times last week. Professor Holloway is currently chair of nursing studies at the University of Edinburgh and co-director of the Edinburgh Global Nursing Initiative. “It’s a huge privilege to be appointed as the new chief nursing officer for Scotland” Aisha Holloway She is also programme director for the Nursing Now Challenge global initiative and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in the US. The Scottish Government said in a statement today that Professor…