Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2024

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. billion in accelerated payments as of April 26, the company reported. UHG has provided $6.5

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

CEO Chris Michalak spoke with Fierce Healthcare in an exclusive interview about the company's go-forward strategy.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2024

During virtual visits, providers can not only address patients' immediate concerns but also share information about additional resources and services available to them, such as primary care, specialty care or online wellness programs. What kinds of innovation are you talking about? How do they boost patient engagement?

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Value-based healthcare with two-sided risk led to a savings of about $14 million over two years, according to the Florida-based insurance plan and national primary care provider company that overse | The collaborative effort by Florida Blue and Aledade not only led to $14 million in savings, but also a reduction in hospitalizations and emergency department (..)

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

In addition to comparing details about third-party recipients of collected user data, user rights and potential uses, the study also looked at the readability of the policies available. The researchers also reported that 56.3% The researchers also reported that 56.3% Marketers and advertisers – 27 policies or 38.0%

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There is a lot of buzz about the use of artificial intelligence to help with clinical documentation and administrative tasks. Centerstone, a large nonprofit mental health system, is working with tech company Lyssn to leverage its AI-powered platform to train its team of more than 3,000 clinicians in the latest evidence-based practices.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 11, 2023

While major payers issued warnings to investors ahead of second-quarter earnings about rising utilization rates, patients returning to deferred services did not prevent these companies from turning | While major payers issued warnings to investors ahead of second-quarter earnings about rising utilization rates, patients returning to deferred services (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2024

billion in revenue and a net income of $533 million for 2023, the company announced during its fourth-quarter results Monday. billion in revenue during its year-end earnings, but the company faced questions about recent layoffs and Change Healthcare cyberattack impacts. Highmark Health recorded $27.1

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

Digital mental health company Headspace secured $105 million in new debt financing as it eyes opportunities to expand its business with employers and health plans.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

Among them is one company that's been coming to the global conference about as long as any other in the exhibit hall: athenahealth. "About 94% of [physicians] agreed that getting the right data at the right time is one of their top priorities. "We know that this is important to our customers."

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 16, 2024

While all eyes were on UnitedHealth Group on Tuesday for an update on the cyberattack that's continuing to disrupt the industry, the healthcare giant also offered an update on multiple critical tre | UnitedHealth is a bellwether for the insurance industry, and was the first to sound the alarm last year about a spike in utilization among seniors (..)

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 1, 2023

billion buy of primary care company One Medical closed last week without a challenge from the FTC, even as consumer protection groups and regulators aired worries about the tie-up. The ecommerce giant's $3.9

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 10, 2024

A growing number of companies are introducing diverse voices to their virtual assistants or speech synthesis systems: Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Polly, Meta’s Voicebox. | A growing number of companies are introducing diverse voices to their virtual assistants or speech synthesis systems: Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Polly, Meta’s Voicebox.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

"The companies and startups that are solving challenges for healthcare customers ultimately improve the ecosystem in a meaningful way by making it easy to buy, implement and use technology," said Sally Frank, worldwide lead of health and life science at Microsoft for Startups. So, point solutions are not ideal."

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p3care

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Medical billing companies in USA have strong competition for the services they sell. We can’t trust blindly one when many companies claim to be the best in their medical billing services. As one of the professional medical billing companies in USA, you have to make yourself different.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 29, 2024

With the Einstein service edition platform, email exchanges between a caseworker and a client would be automatically extracted and saved in Salesforce, the company said in a statement. About 90% of those who receive the test kits complete the tests, Travis Rush, Reperio CEO and co-founder said in the story.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Humana tapped data automation company Veda to improve the accuracy of its provider information and ensure that seniors have real-time details about in-network providers.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 14, 2023

But hospital CIOs who use Cerner continue to have reservations about the future of the EHR company, citing the lack of a concrete road map. . | Cerner brought in $1.5 billion in revenue in the latest quarter, boosting strong growth for enterprise software giant Oracle.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2024

Known as Augmedix Go, the ambient documentation tool for EDs leverages automatic speech recognition and natural language processing and was developed in partnership with physicians at four HCA Healthcare hospitals, the company said Wednesday in announcing its general availability.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

Epic's plan for the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition next month is to showcase all the ways the company is helping health systems and other care providers, says Erika Koch, project manager on the company's events team. "They'll be able to have those conversations in depth with an expert.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 12, 2023

Private sector data companies like Komodo Health work with healthcare stakeholders, including governments, to help identify gaps in care, inequities and then interventions to improve outcomes. This week on "Podnosis," we talk about how big data can inform policy. Also under discussion is the role of AI in healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs, Mynd Immersive – a technology company that specializes in extended reality therapies for aging adults – will collaborate with VA Immersive, part of the VA's Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning, to address the psychological wellbeing of Vietnam veterans.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 3, 2024

This week on “Podnosis,” Paige Minemyer from Fierce Healthcare interviews Morgan Health Partner Dan Hartman about the company's investment strategy and how to make a memorable pitch.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 19, 2023

Carrying out the restructuring will result in a charge of about $7 million to $9 million in the first half of 2023, the company reported.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The plaintiff alleged that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was using its Pixel tracking technology to access patient information from websites and portals of hospitals and health systems for targeted marketing. District Court for the Northern District of California. On October 20, U.S.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

" According to the company's announcement Tuesday, the partnerships enable more coordinated and personalized patient experiences and simplify healthcare for employers, providers and patients. "To be clear, we’re not talking about the lowest costs. "It’s not an either/or; it’s both."

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 14, 2023

The company has also unified home health workflows. WHY IT MATTERS Salesforce says with the array of new features announced Thursday, the company is focusing on powering patient-centric experiences and addressing healthcare's need to improve operational efficiencies, according to the announcement.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Each day, more companies add generative artificial intelligence assistants to their products and services. IBM introduces Watsonx legal protections To ease customer apprehensions about use of generative AI, IBM announced that it would indemnify its clients against intellectual property claims against IBM-developed watsonx models.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 9, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership At a time when home care providers are constantly trying to bring new caregivers to keep up with the increased demand for care services, some companies have gained a reputation for having a highly selective hiring process. The company only hires about 2% of applicants, he shared.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 4, 2024

The company published a Medium post on Tuesday to explain how it designs its biological AI with sensory, motor, attention and perception to create digital workforce solutions. " The goal for healthcare AI tools like Sarah is to fill healthcare's gaps, not replace its "heroes," the company said in the blog.

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Home Health Care

MAY 1, 2024

Amid those headwinds, however, there are companies like New Day Healthcare and VitalCaring that are banking on big-time growth in 2024 and 2025, largely driven by acquisition. As growing providers, each company has picked up what they believe to be the right assets, at the right time, over the last couple of years. “It

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

Leaders at companies like Choice Health at Home and The LTM Group have found themselves in this exact position. Choice Health at Home is a company that hasn’t shied away from building upon its core services. Choice Health at Home is a company that hasn’t shied away from building upon its core services.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2024

The company reported its first-quarter earnings late Wednesday, which showed a 10% increase in total same store admissions in home health care and a 23% year-over-year jump in higher-acuity care admissions. Overall, the company brought in $571.4 Overall, the company brought in $571.4 million in the quarter, a 2.7%

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KHN

DECEMBER 21, 2023

relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream. CBS News co-reported and aired TV stories about the hip and dental devices. More than 800 complaints weren’t investigated at all, according to the FDA, which sharply criticized the company in a December 2021 warning letter.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Franchise owners at companies like Always Best Care, Right at Home and Griswold Home Care are doing this by offering services that fall outside of the norm. The company has leaned into educating people about what to expect with a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. The site also includes video content.

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KHN

APRIL 16, 2024

The delayed action raises questions for some safety advocates about how and when issues with approved medical devices should be reported. The company said in the letter that it is working on “a design solution” to prevent the blockages. The devices are not currently being removed from the market.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

English noted that prior to the start of the pandemic, Accurate Home Care had about 350 nurses. The company currently employs roughly 220. One of Accurate Home Care’s biggest strategies for combating the nursing shortage is positioning the company as the employer of choice and focusing on culture. “We

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