Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Pregnant women in Washington, D.C., without reliable access to transportation have been cashing in on a private, complimentary car ride to their many perinatal and postnatal appointments | With free Lyft rides, Babyscripts helped transportation-insecure women attend more perinatal and postnatal appointments. Clinical evidence shows when women attend more visits during their pregnancies, outcomes drastically improve.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Brian Thompson’s death on Wednesday set off a flood of darkly celebratory social media posts offset by solemn remembrances from his peers and other healthcare leaders.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 4, 2024

After both insurers challenged the agency in court, the CMS improved scores for 12 UnitedHealth contracts and seven Centene contracts.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Kasih Ibu Hospital Group's flagship hospital in Denpasar, capital of Bali, Indonesia, has been validated for Stage 6 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The eight-stage model measures an organisation's maturity in their EMR capabilities. WHY IT MATTERS Kasih Ibu Hospital Group started as a maternity hospital in Denpasar before becoming a general hospital four years after its founding in 1987.

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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

Patient Experience

p3care

DECEMBER 3, 2024

An Overview of the Patient Call Report Services Patient call reporting primarily refers to documenting patient details like the reason for the call, major symptoms, subsequent actions taken by healthcare providers, and the follow-up instructions given on the phone call. These details serve as a record to ensure continuity of care and quality improvement.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As a long-time fan and customer of IKEA, I receive daily Google Alerts about the company, from business finances to design trends. When I read this piece on IKEA’s work on a home designed for people who were homeless , I paid special attention to learn about the concept of trauma-informed design. Thanks to the publication Retail TouchPoints and the author of the story, Adan Blair, for covering this project.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The NYPD confirmed the shooting, which cut UnitedHealth’s investor conference short on Wednesday morning, though not Thompson’s identity. Thompson, 50, had been with UnitedHealth since 2004.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Enterprise Taxonomy: AI Population and Public Health Analytics Clinical and business intelligence Digital Health Care Data and Information Technology Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

LHC Group President and CEO Josh Proffitt on Wednesday shared a home-based, value-based vision for the company’s future. UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum acquired LHC Group last year for $5.4 billion. “Home Care remains deeply fragmented, disconnected and too difficult to navigate,” Proffitt said Wednesday. “It accounts for about $150 billion of the health sector today, and we expect this figure to climb substantially by the end of the decade.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Pravin Tiwari, Executive Vice President and Business Unit Head, FPT Software The promise of AI is greater efficiency in solving complex problems. But with that promise comes the responsibility of understanding and applying governance, ethical, and reliability principles. Therefore, developing a responsible approach to developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in a safe, trustworthy, and ethical fashion is essential.

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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

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Risks with AI-enabled health technologies topped the list of the ECRI Institute's annual ranking of health technology hazards. | A well-known safety group debuted its annual report that lays out the top 10 health technology risks for the upcoming year. The risks of AI perpetuating bias or hallucinating answers to medical questions tops the list of risks for 2025.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Enterprise Taxonomy: Operations Finance Financial management Revenue cycle management Strategic Planning Business Organizational Governance Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Artificial intelligence-powered documentation does not enhance clinician efficiency but may improve their work-life balance, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine conducted a study in mid-2023 comparing 112 primary care clinicians who used Nuance’s Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Copilot clinical documentation software with a control group of 103 cli

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Loren Larsen, Co-Founder, CEO at Videra Health The convergence of technology and behavioral health has seen rapid acceleration in recent years. Between the growing appeal of digital therapeutic apps, the evolution of clinical note-taking tools, and the growing ability of AI tools to meet patients’ and providers’ needs, many of these trends are already in motion.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With only 27 days to go before COVID-era telehealth flexibilities expire, a major health IT group along with 62 healthcare organizations are urgently calling on Congress, again, to take immediate a | With only 27 days to go before COVID-era telehealth flexibilities expire, a major health IT group along with 62 healthcare organizations are urgently calling on Congress, again, to take immediate action and grant a two-year extension.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Independent pharmacies were more likely to shut down, possibly because they’re more often excluded from pharmacy benefit managers’ networks, according to the research published in Health Affairs.

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HIStalk

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Top News The Drug Enforcement Administration says that criminals who.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This article is sponsored by AnewHealth. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Brian Adams, President, AnewHealth, to talk about how pharmacy has the power to transform health care and enhance quality of life. He explains how this impacts patients with complex, chronic care needs who want to remain in their homes as they age.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2024

What You Should Know: – ECRI , a non-profit organization focused on healthcare safety, has released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report for 2025. – This year, the report highlights the potential risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, emphasizing the need for careful assessment and management of AI-enabled technologies to ensure patient safety.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Bristol Myers Squibb became the latest large drugmaker to sue the federal government over a plan to change how it doles out drug discounts to hospitals. | Bristol Myers Squibb became the latest large drugmaker to sue the federal government over a plan to change how it doles out drug discounts to hospitals.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 4, 2024

More than half of survey respondents reported using an AI algorithm for at least one imaging use case, compared with just 17% in 2018.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Top News Apple CEO Tim Cook repeats his previous assertion.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The need for home-based care is drastically increasing. All the while, providers are dealing with an unabated staffing problem. Thats why, in order to succeed in the future, many provider leaders believe that the gap needs to be bridged by the right technology solutions. We know that most adults want to age in place at home, which is the right place as its proven to be better for overall health and well-being and more cost-effective than an institu

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Andrew Spier, Vice President of Advanced Cyber Solutions and Commercial Services at Core4ce Recent and high-profile cyber, ransomware and supply chain attacks on Kaiser Permanente, Ascension, and Change Healthcare have shown how the healthcare industry remains the number one target , and that no organization is immune. Last year, there were 249 healthcare related ransomware attacks reported to the FBI Crime Center alone, not counting those that slipped under the radar, and far more than any othe

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has successfully negotiated agreements with two drug manufacturers to participate in the newly created Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model. | The two drugs treat sickle cell disease, the stated first priority of the new CMS model set to begin in January.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The provider is rebounding from a sweeping cyberattack this spring that took its electronic health record offline for weeks and led to significant losses.

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HIStalk

DECEMBER 4, 2024

News Non-profit healthcare safety group ECRI names AI as its.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A federal judge in Delaware has ordered home health and hospice provider VitalCaring and its private equity backers to share future profits with Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC). The court ordered that 43% of VitalCaring’s future profits be placed in trust to benefit Encompass. The remaining 57% would go to VitalCaring’s private equity backers, the Vistria Group and Nautic Partners. “Encompass is entitled to one recovery,” a court opinion indicated. “That recovery takes the form of

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Ali Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at symplr As technological innovations, AI and challenges in healthcare continue to grow, it’s imperative for healthcare leaders – especially clinical ones – to be digitally competent and step into the forefront of change with skills and expertise to support a better future. Not only do they need to be efficient in use of existing technology to streamline operations and support frontline workers, but they also need to be open to new technologies in th

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Humana's chief financial officer Susan Diamond will step down in January, the insurer announced Tuesday. | Susan Diamond will exit the CFO role after three years and a total of eighteen across different positions at Humana, according to the company.

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Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.