Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Big-box retailer Costco is expanding its reach into healthcare services with a new weight loss program for members. | Big-box retailer Costco is expanding its reach into healthcare services with a new weight loss program for members.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 2, 2024
Threats of fines, procedural errors and 19 million Americans disenrolled: Here are the major headlines from the past year of states unwinding Medicaid.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Virtual care navigation platform Pager Health has built three new enterprise tools using Google Cloud generative AI technology to better support its payer partners. | Pager Health revealed three new tools for payers powered by Google on Wednesday. The shift toward automating administrative tasks with AI represents a shift in how healthcare is conducted.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 2, 2024
The ratings agency doesn’t anticipate a credit impact to nonprofits as long as providers can return to normal operations soon and maintain a large enough cash cushion during the outage.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health has closed its acquisition of Geisinger Health, notching the first step on its ambitious plan to form a multisystem, multiregional value-based care organization.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 2, 2024
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The Rand Blog
APRIL 2, 2024
In an atmosphere of deepening mutual suspicion, trying to engage with China on military uses of artificial intelligence may seem pointless. But if negotiations go somewhere, U.S. security might be palpably improved. It they fail, there is little downside.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Primary and urgent care providers within HCA Healthcare’s network now have the option to refer their patients to Talkiatry’s full-time psychiatrists from within their electronic health record thank | The integration, which is live across the "vast majority" of HCA's systems, allows primary and urgent care physicians to quickly refer a patient for a virtual psychiatric visit.
Home Health Care
APRIL 2, 2024
There are decades-old home health providers that have not yet gone through the Medicare Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) process. But all home health leaders should familiarize themselves with the review process and its potential outcomes, as well as its challenges. That’s one key takeaway from a recent Home Health Care News webinar that was sponsored and presented by MatrixCare.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Yet another congressional inquiry is seeking information on private equity’s role in care delivery, this time on whether their investments in emergency physician staffing firms are leaving hospital | Staffing reductions and other cost reduction moves in the emergency department can have "homeland security implications," Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, wrote in inquiry letters to three private equity firms and the distressed physician staffing companies they control.
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Meditech
APRIL 2, 2024
At last month’s 2024 Home Care Symposium , my team and I virtually welcomed attendees to our hospital-based home health and hospice agency. In our session, “Agency Profile: Logan Health,” we were excited to share our personal success addressing common industry challenges such as staffing, training, integration with hospital EHR, and IT programs. During the hour-long session, we focused on two key areas that strengthened our staff retention efforts: a robust onboarding model and dedicated IT supp
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Three-year-old AI precision medicine company Zephyr AI brought on board a scientist and executive with deep biotech and pharma experience to lead its strategic and commercial efforts. | Three-year-old AI precision medicine company Zephyr AI is bringing on board a scientist and executive with deep biotech and pharma experience to lead its strategic and commercial efforts.
Lexis Nexis
APRIL 2, 2024
In the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, digital experience has become a priority. After COVID, consumers have come to expect an easy digital experience and access to the information they need. An estimated 88% of consumers with a bad digital experience won’t return to a website. 1 In addition, healthcare organizations are tasked with keeping healthcare data secure.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Why must organizations stay agile? How can healthcare leaders operate proactively instead of reactively in a changing landscape? What are the ingredients to building resilience? | Mary Jo Williamson, Chief Administrative Officer at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, shares tips on how to stay agile and resilient, including setting expectations for change, scenario planning, embracing new information and fostering a culture of optimism.
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PDC Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Every year the ISBT 128 publishes labeling standards for essential items that hospital lab professionals use, including blood bags. The ISBT 128 is the “global standard for the terminology, identification, coding and labeling of medical products of human origin (including blood, cell, tissue, milk, and organ products). It is used on six continents in disparate […] The post Meet ISBT 128 Blood Bag Labeling Standards with PDCs Blood Bag Labels appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blo
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 2, 2024
The Digital Therapeutics Alliance defines a digital therapeutic (DTx) as “evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are driven by high-quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease.” One key question is what factors do US payers take into account when evaluating DTx and how does that differ from standard pharmaceuticals.
Advanced Data Systems
APRIL 2, 2024
Pain is a ubiquitous symptom stemming from a diverse array of disorders, conditions, diseases, and injuries, affecting virtually everyone at some point in their lives—whether enduring it briefly (acute pain) or persisting for extended periods (chronic pain). Consequently, effective pain management billing services stand as a crucial pillar of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM).
Health IT Analytics
APRIL 2, 2024
New machine learning tool uses data on individualized molecular interactions to predict how a patient’s immune system will respond to foreign cells.
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Sequence Health
APRIL 2, 2024
In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, understanding cost per contact is crucial for managing and optimizing operations in a medical call center. Cost per contact is a key metric that represents the total operational costs divided by the number of contacts handled by the center. This figure includes all forms of communication, such as calls, emails, and other digital interactions.
PDC Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Every year the ISBT 128 publishes labeling standards for essential items that hospital lab professionals use, including blood bags. The ISBT 128 is the “global standard for the terminology, identification, coding and labeling of medical products of human origin (including blood, cell, tissue, milk, and organ products). It is used on six continents in disparate […] The post Meet ISBT 128 Blood Bag Labeling Standards with PDC Blood Bag Labels appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog
Icanotes
APRIL 2, 2024
From Burnout to Balance: Using Nutrition to Cope with Stress as a Behavioral Health Provider Do you often feel like your days are jam-packed? A full case load paired with demands outside of work can leave you feeling stressed and overwhelmed. We often forget that our food choices impact our overall stress and perhaps more importantly, how our body adapts and recovers from stress.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2024
What You Should Know: Viome , a leading innovator of health technology and personalized health solutions, is partnering with Henry Schein to provide better access to Viome’s Oral Health Pro™ With CancerDetect™. Viome’s laboratory-developed test helps detect early biomarkers of oral and throat cancers, enhancing practitioners’ ability to effectively harness the power of preventive care and improve patient outcomes.
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.
Nordic
APRIL 2, 2024
In the landscape of healthcare technology, understanding user needs and problem solving are paramount. Addressing the pain points of all technology users, from physicians to administrative staff, requires not only technical expertise, but also empathy, curiosity, and patience. By adopting an iterative approach to change management as well as being ready to take feedback and help users become experts in new workflows, organizations can address resistance and facilitate smoother transitions.
Home Health Care
APRIL 2, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule that will result in a 3.7% positive payment adjustment for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in 2025. According to an analysis done by the private investment banking company Stephens, rates are expected to remain virtually unchanged, with a slight decrease of 0.16%. This marks the second consecutive year of a cut to real “core” MA rates.
Icanotes
APRIL 2, 2024
From Burnout to Balance: Using Nutrition to Cope with Stress as a Behavioral Health Provider Do you often feel like your days are jam-packed? A full case load paired with demands outside of work can leave you feeling stressed and overwhelmed. We often forget that our food choices impact our overall stress and perhaps more importantly, how our body adapts and recovers from stress.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2024
What You Should Know: – Eko Health , a provider of AI-powered heart and lung disease detection today announced FDA clearance for its Low EF detection AI. – Built in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, the AI allows U.S. healthcare providers to detect Low Ejection Fraction (LVEF), a crucial indicator of heart failure, in just 15 seconds using a standard Eko stethoscope during a routine physical exam.
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.
Home Health Care
APRIL 2, 2024
The Pharos Capital-backed home health provider Charter Healthcare recently filed for bankruptcy. A petition for Chapter 7 bankruptcy was filed in the Federal District Court of Delaware in late January, Home Health Care News’ sister site Hospice News first uncovered. Filings were found in eight different states, spanning the Rancho Cucamonga, California-based Charter’s former footprint.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2024
What You Should Know: Praia Health , a newly formed digital health company, today announced the closing of a $20 million oversubscribed Series A financing led by Frist Cressey Ventures and backed by SignalFire , Epsilon Health Investors and Providence Ventures. The funding will bolster the platform’s ability to revolutionize the delivery of individualized health solutions at scale, enabling digitally driven health system transformation.
HIStalk
APRIL 2, 2024
Top News Risant Health completes its acquisition of Geisinger, which.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 2, 2024
Despite heavy lobbying, insurers failed to see MA rates improve in the final rule, which codified a 0.16% decrease to benchmark funding.
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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