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Medicaid redeterminations losses exceeding predicted levels in some states

Health Care Dive

As of November, eight states had blown past their projected disenrollment of adults, while 12 states exceeded their projected disenrollment of children, according to new research from the Urban Institute.

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Medicare hospital trust fund extended by five years to 2036

Fierce Healthcare

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money as quickly as expected. Here's how federal officials are reacting.

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The IT strategy behind a groundbreaking new $2B pediatric hospital

Healthcare It News

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It was built from the ground up with the very latest healthcare information technology. It is one of the largest and most advanced pediatric hospitals in the world. It cost more than $2 billion. It is 19 stories tall, with nearly two million square feet.

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How AI Is Bringing Patient Experience Back to the Forefront for the Medical Community

HIT Consultant

Michael Zacharski, CEO of Brand Engagement Network (BEN) When it comes to the patient experience, time isn’t on our side. U.S. adults spend the equivalent of an entire workday each month coordinating care for themselves and/or their family, according to a Harris poll. The same poll found that 56% of American adults wait more than a week for an appointment, while many others skip healthcare altogether, with 30% saying they don’t have the time and 25% saying it takes too long to get an appointment

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Antitrust agencies are relying on consumers to report anticompetitive behavior. That trust might be misplaced.

Health Care Dive

Regulators want consumers to flag business practices harming market health in the healthcare sector, which could result in a tsunami of new tips — for good and ill, according to experts.

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Suki secures Premier sticker of approval — and thousands of potential hospital customers

Fierce Healthcare

Suki, a voice-assistive AI and scribe tool, inked a national group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc. The deal could skyrocket Suki to the top of the healthcare AI assistant market. | A new group purchasing agreement between Premier, Inc. and Suki AI will encourage adoption by Premier's thousands of hospital and health system members.

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Despite Current Concerns, AI in Healthcare Has A Long History

HIT Consultant

Matt Hollingsworth, co-founder of Carta Healthcare Andrew Shin, MD, Executive Medical Director, Innovations & Clinical Effectiveness and Medical Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research for Stanford Children’s Health Though AI has successfully been utilized in healthcare for decades, a Pew Research Center survey revealed that 60% are uncomfortable with their provider relying on AI for their own healthcare.

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Steward Health Care files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Health Care Dive

The filing marks the largest provider bankruptcy in decades, according to experts.

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Moniker magic: The adventurous world of naming a startup

Fierce Healthcare

As a proud Colombian, Maria Artunduaga, M.D., wanted her startup to have a Spanish name that could easily be pronounced in English. | Every founder has a different story to tell about naming a startup. Two main approaches exist: do it yourself or outsource help. It all comes down to what they can afford.

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Precision medicine tool predicts breast cancer immunotherapy response

Health IT Analytics

New InteractPrint tool analyzes how breast cancer epithelial cells impact cancer-immune interactions, enabling prediction of immune checkpoint inhibition response.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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OM1 Unveils AI-Powered Phenotyping Platform for Personalized Medicine

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – OM1 introduces three new products: OM1 Orion, OM1 Lyra, and OM1 Polaris powered by PhenOMTM – an artificial intelligence-powered digital phenotyping platform for personalized medicine and clinical research. – OM1 is the leader in providing Real-World Evidence (RWE) insights from bench to bedside, leveraging advanced predictive and generative AI platforms coupled with deep clinical data to empower healthcare stakeholders.

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More than just shortages, the nursing workforce risks a crisis of experience

Health Care Dive

Building a sustainable nursing workforce requires more than just filling vacancies. How can we prepare and support new nurse graduates to develop a competent and resilient nursing workforce?

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Struggling Steward Health Care files for bankruptcy

Fierce Healthcare

Embattled health system Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a move it says is critical to continue to treat patients as it navigates its financial issues. | Embattled health system Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a move it says is critical to continue to treat patients as it navigates its financial issues.

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Using innovative technology to drive quality improvement efforts

Meditech

Engaging in quality improvement efforts is a critical part of providing the best possible care to patients. Ensuring care teams have the tools they need for clinical decision-making makes it easier to turn discrete data into relevant information. By utilizing innovative technology and solutions, healthcare providers can streamline processes, reduce errors, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Opmed.ai Secures $15M to Bring AI Optimization to Healthcare Operations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Opmed.ai, the AI optimization platform for healthcare, announced today the successful raise of $15M in series A funding. – The round was co-led by NFX and Grove Ventures , with Secret Chord Ventures , the Impact investor Sir Ronald Cohen, and Unbox Ventures also participating Revolutionizing Healthcare Efficiency: Opmed.ai’s AI-Powered OR Optimization Solutions The funding announcement arrives amidst a critical shortage in healthcare labor, with projecti

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More than a third of nurses extremely likely to change jobs in 2024: survey

Health Care Dive

The results suggest job dissatisfaction is still high among nurses, and turnover is likely to remain elevated.

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Oscar Health records first quarterly net profit, exceeds EPS expectations

Fierce Healthcare

Insurtech Oscar Health is standing by its full-year outlook after surpassing market expectations and beating year-over-year measures. | Oscar Health is in the green for the first time in company history, with nearly all financial metrics exceeding market expectations during the company's first quarter earnings call.

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Keeping Your Hands Clean and Healthy

CDC

As a healthcare worker, clean hands count. Clean hands prevent the spread of illness in healthcare facilities. Unfortunately, the frequent handwashing and sanitizing needed to achieve this all too often results in painful, cracking, or broken skin on the hands. This raises an important question: what can we do to ensure our hands are clean to protect ourselves and patients, and still have healthy and beautiful hands?

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Blackwell Security Raises $13M to Empower Healthcare Cybersecurity Operations

HIT Consultant

What You Should: – Blackwell Security , a leading provider of specialized cybersecurity solutions designed for the healthcare industry raises $13M in funding co-led by General Catalyst and Rally Ventures. – The funding will be strategically directed towards two key areas. Firstly, it will fuel the expansion of Blackwell’s Managed Healthcare Extended Detection and Response (MHXDR) offering.

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Change Healthcare cyberattack: 5 technical takeaways from UnitedHealth CEO’s testimony

Health Care Dive

Change Healthcare was running on legacy technology, which magnified the ransomware attack’s impact and hampered recovery efforts, Andrew Witty said.

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House Ways & Means committee unveils two-year telehealth extension bill, and tacks on PBM reforms

Fierce Healthcare

The House Committee on Ways & Means Monday night unveiled a first-of-its-kind piece of telehealth extension legislation to preserve Medicare telehealth flexibilities for two years. | Pandemic-era Medicare telehealth flexibilities which removed restrictions on how a Medicare beneficiary could access telehealth are set to expire at the end of 2024.

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Designing for Health: Interview with Farhan Ahmad and Jon Keevil, MD [Podcast]

Nordic

Emerging technologies have vast, expansive abilities within the healthcare landscape. However, a new asset can be needlessly complex and too overwhelming to gain wide adoption amongst clinicians. In order for wholesale implementation to take place, new software or technologies need to balance increased capabilities with the simplicity and accessibility for use in day-to-day clinical operations.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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BrightInsight, Google Cloud to Enhance Patient Experience with Generative AI

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – BrightInsight, Inc. , a provider of compliant digital health solutions, today announced its collaboration with Google Cloud to leverage cutting-edge generative AI (gen AI) technology. – The enhanced partnership aims to optimize BrightInsight’s research and development efforts and significantly enhance its Disease Management Solution for both patients and healthcare providers.

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Steward’s bankruptcy documents reveal sprawling debt, planned hospital fire sale

Health Care Dive

Since filing for bankruptcy Monday, Steward Health Care revealed it's carrying more than $1 billion in debt and said its entire hospital portfolio is for sale.

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Clover Health authorizes $20 million share buyback program

Fierce Healthcare

Clover Health is raising its full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance and announced a share repurchase program of up to $20 million over the next two years, the insurtech said ahead of its first quarter | Clover Health announced an improved year-over-year adjusted EBITDA, insurance revenue and MCR during its first quarter earnings call.

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How Personal Care In Acute Care Settings Could Become Popularized, Benefiting Patients And Providers

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a request from one state to allow more personal care service delivery within acute care facilities. Though not yet widespread, the amendment could open doors for providers and patients needing personal care in alternative settings in the future.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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GE HealthCare Unveils Head-Only MRI Scanner for Advanced Neuroscience Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare announced the unveiling of SIGNA MAGNUS , a revolutionary head-only magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. – This FDA 510(k) pending technology holds immense promise for unlocking new frontiers in neuroscience research, a field previously limited by the capabilities of conventional whole-body MRI systems.

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Medicare go-broke date extended to 2036, but warning bells continue ringing

Health Care Dive

The Medicare trustee’s new deadline for the trust fund’s insolvency is five years later than in last year’s report, but budget hawks warned action is still needed to shore up the insurance program’s finances.

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New bill aims to establish provider incentive program to combat drug shortages

Fierce Healthcare

A new draft bill from the Senate Finance Committee aims to establish a new provider incentive program to address drug shortages. | A new draft bill from the Senate Finance Committee aims to establish a new provider incentive program to address drug shortages.

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Protecting healthcare revenue flow: the power of a business continuity plan

Nordic

Financial health is essential to ensure that healthcare organizations can effectively serve individuals and communities. Natural disasters, cyberattacks , power outages, infectious disease outbreaks, and other emergencies can threaten the critical flow of revenue, putting patient care, clinician satisfaction, and the long-term sustainability of hospitals and health systems at risk.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.