Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The approval of Leqembi by the Food and Drug Administration marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. | The approval of Leqembi by the FDA marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. There are big questions around costs, access, risk and efficacy in certain populations. The most urgent, overarching question is: How can we find patients who will benefit from the drug before their condition progresses outside of the treatment window?

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Artificial intelligence and virtual care technologies are increasingly being adopted by hospitals to ease resource strain, but managing new tools adds “a heavy operational burden” for IT teams.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to c | Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to company CEO Shivdev Rao, M.D.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Numerous studies have outlined how high medical costs affect uninsured individuals, but healthcare prices are straining household budgets regardless of insurance type, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Insurance coverage often fails to help Americans avoid medical debt, a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed. | Even with health insurance, people are feeling the effects of high medical costs, often cutting back on necessities or delaying care. A new survey shows half of Americans struggle to avoid their healthcare.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Despite cost containment efforts, CHS reported a net loss for the third consecutive quarter this week.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Interoperability agreements between public health systems, along with centralized consent management for sharing healthcare and other data, are must-haves for advancing health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Despite reporting slightly worse physical and mental health, Americans are feeling more optimistic about their vitality, according to a new analysis from the Cigna Group, which concludes that emplo | Despite reporting slightly worse physical and mental health, Americans are feeling more optimistic about their vitality, according to a new analysis from the Cigna Group, which concludes that employers can play a key role in addressing these challenges.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Socially at-risk patients need equity in their care. The HEI is to incentivize contracts for plans to perform better for these patients, says Christie Teigland, vice president of research science and advanced analytics at Inovalon.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

More patients are accessing their medical records online via patient portals or apps and are doing so more often than in years past, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health I | From 2020 to 2022, the portion of U.S. adults who were offered and gained access to their online medical records jumped by 50%, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The for-profit hospital operator grew revenue in the third quarter despite challenges in payer relations and Medicaid redeterminations.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2023

By Kayum Ahmed, Julia Bleckner, and Kyle Knight In mid-May, the World Health Organization officially declared the “emergency” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic over. However, the deep wounds of the pandemic remain, compelling those concerned about this pandemic and future health emergencies to account for catastrophic failures by those in power. These reflections suggest that the public health crisis could have been addressed differently, both reducing COVID-19’s unprecedented magnitude of illne

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

But the California insurer’s forecast of $38 billion in premium revenue next year remained unchanged, thanks to new contract wins.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

OCTOBER 26, 2023

If you guessed manufacturers, you would be incorrect. At least that is according to a new study by Mattingly et al. (2023) in JAMA Health Forum. Using a sample of the 45 generic drugs with >$100m in Part D and used by >1m beneficiaries, the authors found that: …Medicare Part D spent $11.8 billion for 690 million claims (mean, $22.50 per claim; 95% CI, $18.28-$26.72 per claim), representing 5.5% of all Part D spending ($216 billion) in 2021.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What You Should Know: – CipherHealth , a provider of patient-centered engagement launches a new strategic initiative to leverage Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to revolutionize hospital operations and patient care. – CipherHealth is building, training, deploying, and managing machine learning and AI models across products and across the spectrum of care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Dealmaking remained relatively quiet in home health, home care and hospice in the third quarter. A variety of trends – both micro and macro – contributed to that. Overall, there were 25 total deals reported, according to data from the M&A firm The Braff Group. That quarterly number is in line with the first and second quarters. It’s down significantly from 2021 highs, which is expected, but also below pre-pandemic levels.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What You Should Know: – Found , a medically-assisted weight loss program launches Found Assistant, a generative AI guide within the Found app that offers members the ability to ask questions and discover instant and relevant information on nutrition, movement, health habits, and more. – Found Assistant is available 24/7 to provide personalized guidance throughout members’ journeys and further support them in reaching their weight and health goals.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Staffing is a universal pain point for home health providers. Specifically, that pain point is about recruiting and retaining talent, and most provider leaders argue that retention is the area their organizations need to focus on. Break retention down even further, though, and you find a main culprit for turnover: scheduling.

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The Rand Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As Chinese political and military leaders envision conquering Taiwan, their predecessors' earlier seizure of the island is likely to inform their thoughts. Deriving lessons from the prior conquest of Taiwan can contribute to anticipation of possible threats and effective responses to them.

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HIStalk

OCTOBER 26, 2023

From Jimmy the Greek: “Re: clickbait healthcare headlines, try this.

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The Rand Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As Chinese political and military leaders envision conquering Taiwan, their predecessors' earlier seizure of the island is likely to inform their thoughts. Deriving lessons from the prior conquest of Taiwan can contribute to anticipation of possible threats and effective responses to them.

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Nordic

OCTOBER 26, 2023

There’s been a lot of chatter lately about human-centered design, inspired by the launch of my colleague’s book, Designing for Health : The Human- Centered Approach. In it, the authors, Craig Joseph, MD, and Jerome Pagani, PhD, identify four pivotal forces that are reshaping the U.S. healthcare landscape: technological evolution, the ubiquity of platform health information systems (HIS), social attitudes, and the redefinition of health.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For home-based care provider leaders, the biggest long-term issues are sometimes pushed off to deal with short-term issues. Recruitment and retention efforts, for instance, consistently fall down the priority totem pole. “For years, we’ve heard organizations saying workforce is our biggest challenge,” Eric Scharber, managing principal at SimiTree, said during a webinar Thursday.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What You Should Know: – Autonomous coding enjoys a high level of trust among healthcare finance professionals who use or plan to use the technology, according to new survey from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) on behalf of AGS Health. – The survey reveals 45 percent of healthcare financial professionals indicate autonomous coding often works well and 16 percent place their complete trust in it.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Episode Introduction Josh explains why telehealth is still stuck in 2020, how technology can strip the humanity from healthcare, and why the missing element in telehealth today is social determinants of health. He also explains how Emerest is going above and beyond virtual communities to make real patient connections, and why true leadership is always allowing others to shine.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What You Should Know: – Abridge , a company leading the way in generative AI for healthcare raises $30M in Series B funding led by Spark Capital, along with several leading healthcare innovators, including Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente Ventures , CVS Health Ventures , UC Investments , Lifepoint Health , SCAN Health Plan , and the American College of Cardiology. – Abridge’s generative AI scribe automatically converts a patient-clinician conversation into a structured clinical note dr

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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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NCQA

OCTOBER 26, 2023

On October 23, 2023, NCQA President Peggy O’Kane welcomed 1,500 quality advocates from 50 states, Puerto Rico, Denmark, Canada and India to Orlando, Florida, for NCQA’s largest event ever, the Health Innovation Summit 2023. Read her opening remarks to know where NCQA is headed: Thank you all for being here. We are so excited. When we started NCQA 33 years ago, we could only dream of a gathering like this—so many people who actually get the job done to improve quality, together in one place.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What You Should Know: – Georgiamune , a privately held, clinical stage biotechnology company, and Verily , an Alphabet precision health technology company forms a strategic partnership to advance novel therapeutics for patients with cancer. – Through this partnership, Verily and Georgimune will focus on identifying the patient population that could potentially benefit the most from Georgiamune’s GIM-122, a first-in-class dual-functioning antibody that has the potential to help patien

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NCQA

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In September, NCQA was awarded an $18 million contract from the CMS Office of Minority Health for a project to reduce disparities in health care and increase health equity for disadvantaged populations. The project will run up to 5 years. A Shared Vision for Health Equity High-quality care is equitable care. To put it another way, there can be no quality without equity.

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HIStalk

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Top News Abridge, whose software converts patient-clinician conversations into clinical.

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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.