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MetroHealth and MUSC Health make for a patient engagement powerhouse

Healthcare It News

Like most health systems, Ohio's MetroHealth has over the years made substantial investments in health IT, from telemedicine to healthcare education to, of course, an electronic health record. THE CHALLENGE While all these tools are important for care teams and patients, MetroHealth has not had a good way to connect them in a manner that is coordinated and tailored to the unique needs of each person IT staff serves.

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Vaccine makers face fresh uncertainty after firing of CDC panel

Health Care Dive

The abrupt termination of the 17 panelists guiding the CDC’s vaccine recommendations could yield a new committee more aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s skeptical views, analysts warned.

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Sentara enters health plan partnership with WellTheory

Healthcare It News

WellTheory announced this week that, in its first deal with a payer, the company will provide Sentara Health Plans' nearly one million members in Virginia and Florida with access to a dedicated care team providing 12 months of autoimmune care. WHY IT MATTERS Once members join WellTheory's platform, they would start their virtual care journey with root cause assessments that can uncover what's driving their autoimmune symptoms.

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Medical groups, public health leaders and lawmakers were quick to condemn Monday's announcement that all 17 sitting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices are being removed.

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How to Turn “Check-the-Box” Compliance Trainings Into Real Learning

Speaker: Brian Richardson, Brian Richardson, Founder and CEO of Richardson Consulting Group

Let’s face it—most ethics and compliance training programs aren’t winning awards for engagement. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective, captivating, and maybe even enjoyable! Join learning design expert Brian Richardson for a dynamic session on how to breathe new life into your ethics and compliance training. We'll explore innovative strategies to bring traditionally dry topics to life, making them resonate with learners and drive tangible change.

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Embracing AI Organization-Wide: Insights from Theragenics

Healthcare Success

How can an established healthcare leader harness AI to drive innovation, growth, and lasting competitive advantage? In this episode, Stewart Gandolf sits down with Michael Krachon , President of Theragenics , to discuss how Theragenics is transforming its operations through enterprise-wide AI adoption. This includes everything from enhancing marketing and customer service operations to streamlining clinical and regulatory functions.

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PBM lobby sues Arkansas over law requiring drug middlemen to sell pharmacies

Health Care Dive

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association is following in the footsteps of two of its largest members — Cigna’s Express Scripts and CVS’ Caremark — that have also sued Arkansas over its controversial law.

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The Department of Health and Human Services has removed all 17 sitting members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

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Nurse Burnout Capitals: New Report Reveals Top 10 States for Burnout Risk

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new study from Nursa has identified the U.S. states where nurses are most likely to experience burnout, with Colorado topping the list. The analysis reveals surprising insights into how factors like compensation, job satisfaction, patient load, and cost of living intersect to impact nurses across the country. – With nearly a third (31.5%) of U.S. registered nurses leaving the profession due to burnout, experts at Nursa developed a comprehensive burnout score

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Building An At-Home Care Employee Referral Program To Boost Conversions, Cut Costs

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers are always innovating new ways to recruit and retain care staff, but companies are still getting the most mileage out of internal word-of-mouth referrals. Companies that heavily invest in employee referral programs, including creating social media groups, physical materials employees can hand out and email campaigns with current and former employees, have been able to improve retention rates.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Public health scholars ask HHS to reject Georgia Medicaid work requirement extension

Health Care Dive

The American Public Health Association and dozens of other experts had harsh words for Georgia’s request to continue its controversial “Pathways to Coverage,” saying it enrolls fewer beneficiaries at a higher cost.

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Artificial intelligence startup OpenEvidence inked a multi-year content agreement with the JAMA Network to use content from 13 medical journals to inform answers on its platform.

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Healthcare IT Dangerously Overconfident in Email Security, New Report Finds

HIT Consultant

Source Credit: Paulbox 2025 Healthcare Email Security Report What You Should Know: – A new 2025 report from Paubox reveals a critical disconnect between the perceived security readiness and actual email vulnerability within healthcare organizations. While 92% of healthcare IT leaders express confidence in their ability to prevent email-based data breaches, 8 out of 10 admit to worrying about their HIPAA compliance status, highlighting a dangerous overconfidence that leaves patient data exp

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How Texting Is a Lifeline for Health Access and Equity – Time to Address the TCPA is “Now”

Health Populi

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was put into law in 1991. The first smartphone was launched by IBM the following year in 1992 known as the IBM Simon. Then Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007. Now in 2025, smartphones are ubiquitous, landlines more cut than connected, and texting is the way people communicate. But for many patients, caregivers, health plan members, and health citizens, whichever persona we are in our individual health care journeys at a point in time, the TCPA rem

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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VA Chief AI Officer: Technology is secondary to human problem-solving

Healthcare It News

Editor's Note: This is the eighth in our series on Chief AI Officers in Healthcare. Other recent CAIO profiles include Dennis Chornenky at UC Davis Health , Dr. Karandeep Singh at UC San Diego Health , Alda Mizaku at Children's National Hospital , Dr. Zafar Chaudry at Seattle Children's , Mouneer Odeh at Cedars-Sinai , Sameer Sethi at Hackensack Meridian Health , and Rajiv Kolagani at Lurie Children's Hospital.

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Nearly 11M would become uninsured under GOP reconciliation bill: CBO

Health Care Dive

The analysis from the nonpartisan budget scorekeeper found 7.8 million would lose coverage due to Medicaid cuts.

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Brooklyn Health aims to modernize mental health measurement and scoring in central nervous system drug development. The startup's platform uses AI and digital phenotyping methods it developed to evaluate the quality and scoring of clinical interviews in real time.

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2025 State of Nursing: AI, Burnout, Compensation, Staffing, Politics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Incredible Health today announced the release of its sixth annual State of U.S. Nursing & Technicians Report , the largest of its kind with insights from over 1 million nurses and, for the first time, technicians, reveals a healthcare workforce under immense pressure. – The 2025 findings show that while the nursing shortage persists, an even more severe crisis is unfolding among technicians.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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‘It’s Going To Be The Expectation’: Alternative Care Models Reshape Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

At-home care providers are looking to the future. This means seriously investing in alternative home-based care models, such as hospital-at-home and Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). DispatchHealth, Contessa Health and Alivia Care are some of the organizations that have jumped headfirst into alternative home-based care models, enabling the creation of more comprehensive care delivery models.

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'You've got to play different roles in different circumstances,' says Epic Emeritus CMIO

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Dr. Robert W. Warren is an Epic Emeritus CMIO and holds a doctorate in cellular immunology. Among other positions, he previously was chief medical information officer at Charleston, South Carolina-based MUSC Health. The key focus of Epic's emeritus program is working with healthcare organizations to use informatics to improve care. While some activities are Epic-specific – like at-the-elbow support for providers and leaders during their Epic go-lives – other activities are more g

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HHS watchdog accuses CVS Medicare Advantage plan of upcoding

Health Care Dive

The vast majority of diagnoses codes that CVS subsidiary Coventry submitted to the CMS between 2018 and 2019 weren’t supported by patient documentation, the HHS Office of the Inspector General found.

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The team at Omada Health took a victory lap Friday after the company's successful Nasdaq debut, according to company president Wei-Li Shao. But the work doesn't stop as the digital health company focuses on expanding its virtual chronic condition services to more individuals.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Humata Health’s AI-Powered Prior Authorization Platform Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Humata Health , a provider of AI-powered touchless prior authorizations, today announced the availability of its platform in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace , an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. – The integration allows healthcare payers and providers seeking to automate prior authorization to leverage the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

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Reducing claims denials: Healthcare leaders weigh in on the future of revenue cycle management

Meditech

Reducing claims denials is a top priority for healthcare providers across care settings. From a 10-bed skilled nursing facility to a multi-site hospital system, small and large providers alike are at risk of revenue loss, cash flow delays, and a negative resident/patient experience due to poor denial management.

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Spotting opportunities to accelerate Malaysia's digital health transformation

Healthcare It News

Emphasising the important regulatory function of governments can help push the agenda to further digitalise health systems. Jeremy Lim, co-founder and CEO of Singapore-based microbiome insights company AMILI , has always advocated this. He is set to share his experience in bridging public-private partnerships for national-scale digital health transformation and exploring opportunities to accelerate this at the upcoming HIMSS25 Asia-Pacific (APAC) Conference next month, July.

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Charity care policies can vary wildly between hospitals: report

Health Care Dive

A new report from the Lown Institute finds that variability in policies means two nearly identical patients can receive wildly different bills — sometimes within a few blocks of one another.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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Nurses flagged staffing, clinician biases, technologies addressing language barriers and more as key factors affecting hospital care for socially disadvantaged patients.

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From Raw Records to Real-Time Insights: Climbing Pharma’s Real-World Data Maturity Curve

HIT Consultant

Viraj Narayanan, CEO at Cornerstone AI D aniel Lane, Head of RWD Strategy & Operations at Bristol Myers Squibb Real-world data (RWD) has become the pharmaceutical industry’s most promising yet challenging frontier. While companies have long recognized its potential to complement clinical trials and deepen patient outcome insights, many still struggle to fully realize its value.

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Psychiatrist Medical Billing: Best Practices for Reducing Claim Denials

Advanced Data Systems

Claim denials are more than just an administrative hassle for psychiatrists—they impact cash flow, patient care continuity, and your ability to sustainably grow your practice. With insurance payers becoming increasingly complex and regulatory requirements tightening, it's never been more important to approach psychiatric medical billing with a strategic, streamlined mindset.

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Pooling IT resources can help rural hospitals keep doors open, stay secure

Healthcare It News

Small and rural healthcare organizations have to grapple seriously with many challenges that their larger counterparts are often better able to navigate. Not to do so could risk closure. Uncompensated care is a big one, of course. Combined with ever-higher operational costs, declining reimbursements mean many rural health systems and hospitals skate on thin financial ice and fear finding themselves at the brink of closure.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.