Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
This is a developing story and will be updated with more information. | Walmart is shuttering all 51 health centers along with its virtual care services, the retail giant announced Tuesday morning.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
The unexpected closure of Walmart’s 51 health centers and virtual care business highlights the difficulty of providing healthcare at this moment in time.
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 29, 2024
Improvements in public health case administration, faster prior authorizations for specialty medications and rideshare delivery of lab kits for wellness are just a few interesting goals making vendor news in April. Salesforce for public health and other government agencies could integrate natural language processing to ease administrative burdens and generate richer case files.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
What You Should Know: – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized significant changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) , aiming to improve consumer protection in the digital age. – These updates clarify the rule’s application to modern technologies like health apps and expand the information healthcare providers must disclose in the event of a data breach.
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Cloud Blogs
APRIL 25, 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a futuristic vision: It’s a present reality. Azure OpenAI Service is transforming the way care is delivered and experienced by patients and providers alike. As healthcare providers and tech companies collaborate to harness the power of generative AI, they pave the way for more efficient, accessible, and personalized healthcare solutions that promise to redefine patient care for the better.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early COVID-19 pandemic. | Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity and other related data on a daily basis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then the reporting frequency shifted. The CDC said it still encourages hospitals to report their data on a "voluntary" basis and will soon begin displaying those data online.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 30, 2024
While some nurses recognize the potential of artificial intelligence to minimize documentation burden and improve patient monitoring – and see a future with broader AI-enabled nursing – others are concerned about AI replacing empathetic human assessment of patients, cutting nursing jobs, risking protected patient data to compromise and more.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
Jim Broome, President and CTO, DirectDefense It’s not a matter of if but when an organization will face a security incident. In 2023, the healthcare industry faced its toughest year, with over 124 million health records breached in a total of 725 hacking incidents, according to The HIPAA Journal. This trend shouldn’t come as a surprise given how hospitals and medical offices are relatively lucrative and easy targets for cyberattacks due to the combination of outsourced services and soluti
HKLaw
APRIL 25, 2024
Holland & Knight looks at how the FTC ban on non-compete agreements will impact the healthcare industry in areas ranging from access and quality of care to the cost to consumers.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is set to go before two congressional panels on Wednesday to answer lawmaker's questions about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that caused widespread disrup | UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is set to go before two congressional panels on Wednesday to answer lawmakers' questions about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that caused widespread disruption across healthcare.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 24, 2024
The states' proposals, which resemble Medicare for All, need approval from the federal government and face pushback from major health systems and insurers.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 29, 2024
A nurse by training, Tim Ashe, chief clinical officer at Wellsky, knows the challenges that burnout, staffing shortages and bed capacity have on clinicians and the health system.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
Becky Watkins, Senior VP of Client Solutions of ResultsCX When interacting with industries such as retail, hospitality, and finance, we’ve all become accustomed to quick, effective, and personalized customer service. It’s no surprise that when it comes to healthcare, consumers are now seeking a better customer experience on par with the quality of the clinical care they have come to expect.
Vie Healthcare
APRIL 24, 2024
Episode Introduction Cole explains why transfer of knowledge is a key goal of the Journal, why healthcare strategy can be described as moving from checkers to chess and emphasizes the importance of thinking before you speak. He also explains the importance of competition in healthcare and identifies humility as an essential leadership trait. Show Topics Redefining healthcare strategy A strategic alternative for nonprofits Breaking down silos in healthcare Join Cole’s community on LinkedIn Applyi
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
CVS has quietly acquired Hella Health, a startup Medicare Advantage broker based in New York City, according to a post on LinkedIn. | CVS has quietly acquired Hella Health, a startup Medicare Advantage broker based in New York City, according to a post on LinkedIn.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 24, 2024
Nashville is “the center of the industry we’re most concerned about, which is the healthcare industry,” Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said Tuesday.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 25, 2024
San Francisco-based Augmedix has launched what it says is the first fully-automated, generative AI-powered medical documentation software for emergency departments, and it's already in use at one of the biggest health systems in the country. 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 announcin
HIT Consultant
APRIL 30, 2024
Wyatt Oren, Director of Sales, Telehealth and EdTech, Agora Throughout history, new and emerging technologies have helped revolutionize and advance the field of medicine, allowing medical professionals to develop groundbreaking new procedures, work towards cures to previously incurable diseases, and much more. Healthcare practitioners are always looking for ways to use emerging technologies to transform their work, and today one of the top technologies available to revolutionize the healthcare s
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Home Health Care
APRIL 24, 2024
While waiting for UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) purchase of it to finalize, Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) continues to grow its home health segment – primarily through non-Medicare revenue – and its higher-acuity care segment. 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.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 25, 2024
Amae Health launched in January 2022 to improve care for individuals with severe mental illness through a community-based, integrated approach. | Amae Health, which opened its first outpatient clinic in Los Angeles 18 months ago, closed a $15 million series A round to fuel its growth as it plans to open new clinics in four markets.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 26, 2024
The nation's largest Medicaid insurer expects to return to normal operations this year, though redeterminations continue to dog Centene through a mismatch between rates and acuity.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 25, 2024
The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. The program, with an effective date of July 1, is designed to offer updated and more streamlined standards to help organizations offering telehealth services put structures and processes in place to help deliver safer and higher quality virtual care WHY IT MATTERS The new Telehealth Accreditation Program was developed, the commission says,
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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.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
What You Should Know: – CLEW , a provider of clinical intelligence and predictive surveillance, has announced the general availability of its FDA-cleared AI platform. – The FDA-cleared AI platform empowers healthcare providers with the ability to identify patients at risk of deterioration up to eight hours earlier than traditional methods.
Home Health Care
APRIL 25, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to finalize a new rule largely prohibiting employers from enforcing non-competes against workers. While the regulatory timeline on the non-compete ban is fairly immediate, the rule will face intense legal pressure from a variety of groups, mainly of which will come from health care.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 24, 2024
Walgreens is expanding its specialty pharmacy services to offer gene and cell therapy services, supported by a dedicated 18,000-square-foot center in Pittsburgh, the company announced Thursday. | Walgreens is expanding its specialty pharmacy services to offer gene and cell therapy services, supported by a dedicated 18,000-square-foot center in Pittsburgh, the company announced Thursday.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 26, 2024
The largest data breach reported so far this year comes as regulators reconsider healthcare’s use of tracking technologies.
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 30, 2024
Ellen Arigorat, nursing informatics program director at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, supports digital technology adoption in clinical workflows, with a focus on health equity.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 26, 2024
Epic’s sixth campus will include Underhill, an underground cafeteria with doors and windows built into a hill. It’s a nod to J. R. R. Tolkien’s hobbits, whose “love of food and first and second lunches made them a natural selection for the other worlds to visit at mealtimes.” CUNINGHAM What You Should Know: – Verona, Wisconsin-based EHR leader Epic Systems has begun construction on its sixth campus, aptly named “Other Worlds,” The Cap Times first reports. – Followi
Home Health Care
APRIL 26, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership ShiftMed — a staffing platform — has acquired CareerStaff Unlimited from Genesis HealthCare, a long-term care services provider. “The integration of CareerStaff with ShiftMed allows us to fulfill 100% of our clients’ On Demand needs through one workforce platform,” Todd Walrath, CEO of ShiftMed, said in a press statement.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 25, 2024
Evernorth's Accredo arm will make a Humira biosimilar available to patients with no out-of-pocket costs, the company announced Thursday. | Evernorth's Accredo arm will make a Humira biosimilar available to patients with no out-of-pocket costs, the company announced on Thursday.
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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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