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Diagnostics company Binx Health banks $65M to drive growth of point-of-care testing

Fierce Healthcare

Binx Health is a health technology company aiming to speed up the time between diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections with a point-of-care diagnostic solution. | Binx Health is a health technology company aiming to speed up the time between diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections with a point-of-care diagnostic soultion.

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Change cyberattack serves as wake-up call for healthcare cybersecurity

Health Care Dive

The outage shows why health systems need to plan for inevitable cyberattacks, evaluating risks and putting operational backups in place, experts say.

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Marshfield Clinic Health System laying off hundreds of furloughed employees

Fierce Healthcare

Months after furloughing hundreds of its employees, Marshfield Clinic Health System has informed many of those workers that they will be terminated “in early May,” a spokesperson of the 11-hospital | Though more than five dozen of the employees furloughed in January have found new positions in the organization, hundreds of others will be eliminated "in early May.

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Walmart decelerates health center expansion plans

Health Care Dive

The retailer previously planned to have more than 75 health centers operational this year. Now, Walmart plans to reach that goal in 2025.

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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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AI can unlock supply to meet demand, says Johns Hopkins physician IT leader

Healthcare It News

Dr. Brian Hasselfeld has a little Wall Street in his background and likes to talk about the potential benefits of artificial intelligence to healthcare in economic terms – the law of supply and demand. Everyone knows how healthcare works. A patient sees their primary care physician, who then issues a referral. That physician then issues a subspecialty referral, which may finally reveal the right answer.

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Telehealth groups urge DEA to release controlled substance prescribing proposal

Health Care Dive

Advocacy groups, providers and virtual care companies said clinicians and pharmacies need time to comment on the rule and prepare for implementation.

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Patients have unique care journeys, and call center agents should understand

Healthcare It News

Talkdesk can integrate AI with EHRs so patients don't have to repeat information and agents can express empathy in their calls, explains Patty Hayward, the company's healthcare and life sciences GM.

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Philips Foundation, March of Dimes to deploy tele-ultrasound tech at mobile maternity care clinics

Fierce Healthcare

The Philips Foundation is teaming up with March of Dimes to equip mobile maternity care clinics with telehealth-enabled ultrasound technology. | The Philips Foundation is teaming up with March of Dimes to equip mobile maternity care clinics with Philips ultrasound technology with telehealth capabilities.

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WHO offers genAI health assistant with enhanced empathetic response

Healthcare It News

The World Health Organization said it has expanded its generative artificial intelligence assistant, first launched during the COVID-19 pandemic as Florence, to help people everywhere live healthier lives. S.A.R.A.H, or Sarah, was created using an AI training approach based on modeling interactive human systems to deliver more personalized and engaging messages.

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NationsBenefits teams with Instacart on home grocery delivery

Fierce Healthcare

Supplemental benefits are a critical tool for insurers to stand out in a crowded market — particularly Medicare Advantage — and a new partnership aims to make it simpler for plans to integrate a gr | Supplemental benefits are a critical tool for insurers to stand out in a crowded market — particular Medicare Advantage — and a new partnership aims to make it simpler for plans to integrate a grocery delivery offering into their packages.

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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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How State Palliative Care Advisory Councils Are Advancing Serious Illness Policy

NASHP

Almost half (24) of the states have a palliative care advisory council, coalition, or task force created through state legislation or regulation to guide work to support and expand care for those with serious illness. The councils in Maine, Maryland, and Texas have guided their states in making significant progress in palliative care, though they differ in their structures and paths to progress.

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Walmart Health set to open first Houston location, delays clinic openings in Phoenix to early 2025

Fierce Healthcare

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Augmedix & SADA Partner to Deliver Advanced AI-Powered Medical Documentation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Augmedix , a leader in AI-powered medical documentation, and SADA , a prominent cloud technology consultancy, announce a strategic partnership to transform healthcare data capture and analysis. – The collaboration with SADA will allow Augmedix to work closely with Google Cloud on reference architecture development.

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Centene plans to file protest over Texas state Medicaid scoring

Fierce Healthcare

Centene appears to be crying foul to Texas over the state's scoring of its Medicaid proposal. | Centene feels they have received unfair treatment from the state of Texas over how the state scored its Medicaid bid.

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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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What Chinese Navy Planners Are Learning from Ukraine's Use of Unmanned Surface Vessels

The Rand Blog

The continued success of Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel (USV) attacks on Russian naval facilities and warships has kept USVs in the defense analytical spotlight and naval analysts around the world, particularly those in China, are taking note.

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Oakland Athletics playing ball at Sutter Health Park in 2025-2027, a new milestone for health system sports deals

Fierce Healthcare

Sacramento, California-based Sutter Health is getting called up to the big leagues next summer when the Oakland Athletics take up residence at a minor league park bearing its name. | The Major League Baseball team will play under the lights of a minor league stadium bearing Sutter Health's name, marking the first time a health system stadium partnership has reached one of the Big Four professional sports leagues.

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Putin's Embrace of Kim Jong-un Has Its Limits

The Rand Blog

The current trajectory of North Korea–Russia relations is certainly unfavorable for the United States and its allies because it essentially gives the two nations greater wiggle room to continue their bad behavior. But all is not necessarily lost. The strategic partnership between Russia and North Korea is unlikely to be decisive for either side.

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Pick-and-choose employee benefits platform Beanstalk Benefits launches with $7.5M

Fierce Healthcare

Pick-and-choose employee benefits platform Beanstalk Benefits launches with $7.

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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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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 4/4/24

HIStalk

As usual, Epic put smiles on peoples’ faces with.

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NeueHealth is in desperate need of capital. That didn't stop the insurtech from giving its CEO a $2M bonus

Fierce Healthcare

NeueHealth is in desperate need of capital.

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Supporting Behavioral Health Quality for CCBHCs

NCQA

NCQA is launching a program for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) in July 2024. This program will provide a streamlined solution for CCBHCs to demonstrate their adherence to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) standards. It will also reduce the burden on these clinics by providing a standardized blueprint for success.

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How The Pennant Group Became An Example Of Prosperity, Progress In Home Health Care

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Over the last five years, the home health public market has been extremely volatile. Companies have entered and exited, stock prices have soared and sunk. The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG) hasn’t been completely immune to that unsteady market, but has been on an under-the-radar, upward trajectory as a home health leader over the last couple of years.

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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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Culmination Bio, BillionToOne Partner to Validate Cancer Diagnostics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Culmination Bio, a data and technology company combining clinical and biospecimen data, announced a partnership with BillionToOne, Inc., a next-generation molecular diagnostics company with a mission to create powerful and accurate tests that are accessible to all. Culmination Bio and BillionToOne are working together to leverage their respective strengths in order to facilitate the development and validation of robust and impactful oncology diagnostics.

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HomeWell Reaches 2 Landmarks: 100 Locations, $100 Million In Annual Revenue

Home Health Care

HomeWell Franchising Inc. reached two impressive milestones this week by opening its 100th franchise location and securing $100 million in annual system revenue. “Our commitment to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability has been instrumental in our journey leading up to this pivotal point,” HomeWell Franchising CEO Crystal Franz told Home Health Care News in an email.

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Maternal Health: Philips & March of Dimes Offers Ultrasound Screenings at Mobile Clinics in Phoenix, Tuscon & DC

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Philips Foundation, with its mission to provide access to quality healthcare for 100 million people a year in underserved communities by 2030, is facilitating access to prenatal care through March of Dimes Mom & Baby Mobile Health Centers® in Phoenix, Tucson and Washington, DC. Through the partnership, Philips will provide point-of-care ultrasound technology with telehealth capabilities in three mobile health centers as well as support staffing and operational needs and

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Revenue Cycle Management in Behavioral Health: An Ultimate Guide

Etactics

Over 50 million Americans report having some sort of mental illness betwe 0 576k 0 4096 0 0 6304 0 0:01:33 --:--:-- 0:01:33 6301en 2019 and 2020. However, as a society, we’re fighting against the stigma of mental illness. And this means that thankfully, we’re seeing more people feeling empowered to get help. This is why the behavioral health sector of the healthcare system is so important.

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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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How to automatically audit your medical bills. Interview with HealthLock’s Scott Speranza

Health Business Group

Medical bills are full of mistakes. And fraud and abuse are far too common. What’s the solution? In this episode, HealthLock CEO Scott Speranza shares how his company performs automated audits of medical bills by seamlessly connecting with the patient's health plan portal. We also discuss an exciting new partnership with MasterCard that gives many cardholders (including me) free access.

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Kyruus Health & Google Cloud Partner to Simplify Access to Care for Millions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Kyruus Health , a healthcare access platform, announces a collaboration with Google Cloud, bringing its Kyruus Connect for Payers solutions to Google Cloud Marketplace. – The Google Cloud integration empowers health plans to simplify provider search, enhance member engagement, and guide patients towards cost-effective, high-quality care options.

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News 4/5/24

HIStalk

Top News The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is reviewing a.

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myTomorrows Partners with brainstrust to Support Brain Cancer Patients in Accessing Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: myTomorrows , a global health technology company connecting patients with all possible treatment options, today announced a new partnership with brainstrust, a UK-based charity that helps people living with a brain tumor reach their potential and thrive. Under the new partnership, people with brain tumors will be equipped with the means to bolster their knowledge of relevant treatment options, potentially extending to participation in clinical trials and access to pre-appro

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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.