Health Care Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
Mayo Clinic, a longstanding collaborator with Google, will be an early adopter of a Google Cloud tool that allows organizations to create chatbots and other search applications using generative AI.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
Years of rising operating profits and cash reserves did not translate to greater charity care across the nation’s nonprofit hospitals, according to a study published this week in Health Affairs.
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Health Care Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
Rather than suggesting problems with individual hospitals, the data points to a “systemic issue impacting the quality of care for Black and Hispanic patients and those with public insurance plans,” according to a new Leapfrog report.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
SCAN Group and CareOregon have issued grants to RIP Medical Debt that will wipe out millions in patients' medical debt. | SCAN Group and CareOregon have issued grants to RIP Medical Debt that will wipe out millions in patients' medical debt.
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Health Care Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
The bill’s sponsor previously told local media that it could give the nonprofit, state-owned system the chance to save struggling rural hospitals.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
Six-year-old Cityblock Health, a startup that has raised nearly $900 million to date, has restructured its business as it focuses on ramping up payer partnerships and accelerating its path to profi | Six-year-old Cityblock Health, a startup that has raised nearly $900 million to date, has restructured its business as it focuses on ramping up payer partnerships and accelerating its path to profitability.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
As buzzwords like “holistic care” and “patient-centric” have solidified into value-based care models and total capitation contracts, providers and payers still face a lot of friction to align incen | Syntax Health launched a new platform designed to smooth out the value-based care contracting process using analytics, infrastructure and a collaborative virtual workspace.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 7, 2023
Will Cantrell, director of product solutions at InteliChart, sees the need to tie all the pieces of the healthcare journey into one seamless interaction. By making it easier for patients to stay engaged, he says, better outcomes will result.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
Provider cost pressures are weighing on the nation's largest insurers, with contract negotiations possibly forcing premiums higher over the next few years, according to Fitch Ratings.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
Healthcare insurers in the long-term care market over the decades found themselves in a bind because they could not pay claims with prices that had been agreed upon years earlier and that inflation | When many long-term care policies were first drawn up, insurance companies had no historical data to help them predict the financial future. The companies and older Americans are now paying the price, according to a new report.
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p3care
JUNE 7, 2023
Every healthcare practice has its unique necessities to meet to function properly. It is mainly medical professionals like physicians, nurses, etc. who handle the front office tasks. But apart from clinical duties, the practice also depends on administrative affairs. Usually, the back office staff, such as medical billing teams, etc., take on the responsibility to manage them.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
A federal judge has granted Cigna a preliminary injunction against former executive Amy Bricker, barring her from joining rival CVS Health as a noncompete case is resolved by the courts. | A federal judge has granted Cigna a preliminary injunction against former executive Amy Bricker, barring her from joining rival CVS Health as a noncompete case is resolved by the courts.
Healthy Debate
JUNE 7, 2023
The new U.S. guidance on breast-cancer screening shouldn’t be a controversial issue in Canada. It should serve as a model for the change we need.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
Measurable differences in patient safety across race, ethnicities and insurance coverage persist even among hospitals rated at the top of their class, according to a new analysis of Leapfrog Hospit | New findings from a Leapfrog Group and Urban Institute analysis suggest that patient safety disparities are not driven by individual hospitals, but are a systemic issue negatively affecting patients who are Black, Hispanic or are enrolled in public insurance plans.
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CDC
JUNE 7, 2023
Vietnam has adapted established infection prevention and control (IPC) measures for limited-resource settings to help stop the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), identified as an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat in CDC’s 2019 AR Threats Report. A CDC-supported initiative at The University Medical Center Ho Chi Minh City (UMC) in Vietnam that used IPC quality improvement (QI) strategies to reduce CRE colonization and infection in a general intensive care unit (ICU)
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
By: Kapil Parakh, MD PHD | Medical Lead, Fitbit Health Solutions | Physical activity advocates even go so far as to claim that “sitting is the new smoking” in order to highlight the severe consequences of a sedentary lifestyle. While there might be questions about that particular turn of phrase, there’s no question that more movement is good for health across a population.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 7, 2023
Tammi Jantzen, Co-founder, Astarte Medical Protocol Driven Care Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. Standardization reduces waste, makes treatment predictable and controllable, and defines clear responsibilities for all team members.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
Great news for those who enjoy walking: increasing daily step counts doesn’t just improve people’s fitness — it can also reduce their risk of chronic disease. | Great news for those who enjoy walking: increasing daily step counts doesn’t just improve people’s fitness — it can also reduce their risk of chronic disease. A new study from the All of Us Research Program, an initiative by the National Institutes of Health, reveals a direct connection between daily physical activity and lower rates of
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 7, 2023
What You Should Know: Researchers at NYU Langone Health, the academic medical center of New York University, have collaborated with NVIDIA experts to develop a large language model (LLM) that predicts a patient’s risk of 30-day readmission, as well as other clinical outcomes. The LLM was deployed in the healthcare system’s six inpatient facilities, the NYUTron model — featured today in the scientific journal Nature that will provide doctors with AI-driven insights that could help them identify p
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 7, 2023
Stemming the cost of cancer treatment tops the focus list of every payer. | Cancer costs top the list of concerns for payers and employers alike. This oncologist and Chief Medical Officer offers savings strategies from PA do’s and don’ts to ways to address end-of-life costs.
Home Health Care
JUNE 7, 2023
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership As in-home care providers try to keep up with the demand for services, companies that facilitate caregiver registries are hoping to fill a gap in an employee-needy marketplace. However, it’s been unclear how prominent caregiver registries will be in the space, as there’s been safety and regulatory concerns.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 7, 2023
What You Should Know: Wolters Kluwer Health today announced the acquisition of Invistics Corporation (Invistics), a U.S.-based provider of cloud-based, AI-enabled software for drug diversion detection and controlled substance compliance. Invistics will join the company’s Clinical Surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions unit, part of Clinical Solutions.
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Home Health Care
JUNE 7, 2023
Just before the beginning of an investor presentation on Wednesday afternoon, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer joked to the moderator at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference that the company may soon be the last pure home health player on the public market. Kindred at Home – now CenterWell Home Health – is a part of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM).
HIT Consultant
JUNE 7, 2023
What You Should Know: Know Labs, an emerging developer of non-invasive medical diagnostic technology, revealed the next stage in the development of its proprietary Bio-RFID™ technology – the Generation (Gen) 1 Device. Gen 1 incorporates Know Labs’ Bio-RFID sensor – which has been proven as technically feasible and stable in delivering repeatable results in measuring blood glucose when used in a lab environment – in a portable device.
Cloud Blogs
JUNE 7, 2023
In the post-COVID-19 environment, providers and other healthcare organizations face complex challenges. They contend with staffing shortages, employee burnout, rising costs, an evolving regulatory environment, new care delivery requirements, and shifting business models. Protecting data security in healthcare is also a pressing concern. In response, providers are increasingly embracing the cloud to speed digital transformation, boosting their agility, resiliency, and ability to deliver the best
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JUNE 7, 2023
According to a paper by Garrison and Towse (2023) in Health Affairs Forefront the answer is ‘no’ I agree with them. Here is the rationale: …this request for R&D cost information reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the economics of the regulated US and global pharmaceutical marketplace. Writing in this journal in 2004 on the pros and cons of alternative approaches for Medicare drug pricing, Professor Joseph P.
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.
Health IT Analytics
JUNE 7, 2023
Dartmouth’s new Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence aims to bolster the use of biomedical data and advanced technologies to improve care.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 7, 2023
What You Should Know: Today, Google Cloud announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to transform healthcare with generative AI, starting with enterprise search. Enterprise Search on Generative AI App Builder (Gen App Builder) is designed to improve the efficiency of clinical workflows, make it easier for clinicians and researchers to find the information they need, and ultimately to help improve patient outcomes.
Bill Of Health
JUNE 7, 2023
By Amalia Sweet At the end of last summer I stopped eating. It wasn’t that I wasn’t hungry — I was, constantly — but rather that pretty much everything I tried to put in my stomach triggered excruciating abdominal pain. While still in Chicago where I was working toward my master’s degree, I went to University Health Services. When tests revealed I was anemic but free of ulcers and Celiac disease, they suggested I work to reduce my stress and follow up with a gastroenterologist when I returned h
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JUNE 7, 2023
In politics: He who desires to attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.
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.
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