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Amae Health picks up $15M to scale in-person clinics providing care for severe mental illness

Fierce Healthcare

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.

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Kaiser exposed up to 13.4M plan member records to third parties

Health Care Dive

The largest data breach reported so far this year comes as regulators reconsider healthcare’s use of tracking technologies.

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FTC votes to ban noncompetes, with far-reaching effects on doctors

Health Care Dive

The FTC estimates the final rule would lower healthcare costs by $194 billion over the next decade, while freeing up physicians to more easily move between employers.

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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

Healthcare It News

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and thro

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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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Generative AI and the path to personalized medicine with Microsoft Azure

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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.

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Home Care Industry Slams Finalized 80-20 Rule, Warns Agency Closures Are Coming

Home Health Care

The “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule has been finalized. Most importantly, the bemoaned “80-20” provision has gone through as proposed, meaning providers will eventually be forced to direct 80% of reimbursement for home- and community-based services (HCBS) to caregiver wages. First proposed by CMS in April of 2023 , the goal of the rule is to enhance access to HCBS for Medicaid beneficiaries.

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Nurse staffing rule slammed by both industry and advocacy groups

Health Care Dive

The rule places more stringent staffing requirements on nursing homes than those initially proposed and offers exemptions for certain providers. Still, interest groups on all sides slammed the rule, calling it either too stringent or lax.

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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

Healthcare It News

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. In other countries such as Belgium and Spain, patients can access regional portals.

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ONC Releases Common Agreement V2.0, Paving the Way for TEFCA Exchange via FHIR

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), along with The Sequoia Project, Inc., a Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), has released Common Agreement Version 2.0 (CA v2.0). What is the Common Agreement? The Common Agreement establishes a set of common rules and technical standards for secure health information exchange across different health information networks (HINs) and their users.

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The Iran-Israel War Is Just Getting Started

The Rand Blog

While the war between Israel and Iran has been mostly covert for years, it has come out of the shadows since Hamas's October 7th attacks. If the United States and Europe want to prevent a regional war from breaking out in the Middle East they will need to convince Iran to rein in its proxies and to do something about its nuclear program. Otherwise, the conflict will continue to spiral.

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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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Joint Commission launches new telehealth stamp of approval for virtual healthcare providers

Fierce Healthcare

The Joint Commission announced Tuesday a new set of accreditation standards for telehealth and remote patient monitoring companies. | A third-party healthcare accrediting organization will offer a new program for telehealth and remote monitoring platforms to build patient trust and ensure high-quality virtual healthcare.

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California, Oregon eye universal health coverage

Health Care Dive

The states' proposals, which resemble Medicare for All, need approval from the federal government and face pushback from major health systems and insurers.

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IHH Healthcare migrates Malaysia, S'pore database systems to cloud

Healthcare It News

Private healthcare group IHH Healthcare has moved several on-premise database systems of its hospitals across Malaysia and Singapore to the cloud. IHH Singapore's core application workloads, including the electronic medical record (EMR), enterprise data warehouse, and laboratory information systems (LIS), have been migrated to Oracle Exadata Database Service on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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The Future of Human Health May Require Unlocking Access to Our Health Data

HIT Consultant

Cambron Carter, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pearl The synergy of artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging has opened new horizons for healthcare. AI-mediated computer vision has been in use in oncology for more than 20 years; however, its arrival in other medical fields, notably dentistry, is more recent. Dentistry is particularly notable here, because while relatively few people have seen an oncologist, almost everyone sees a dentist at least every few years.

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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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BrightStar Care Dives Further Into Hospital-At-Home Care, Expands Partnership With Medically Home

Home Health Care

BrightStar Care has built a reputation as one of the home care industry’s innovators. Past examples of the home care franchise company’s pioneering spirit include its investment in small-home senior living residences and its educational partnership with Chamberlain University. On Tuesday, the Gurnee, Illinois-based BrightStar announced its latest innovation effort, which will include an expansion of its clinical capabilities.

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Walgreens expands specialty pharmacy business to gene and cell therapy services

Fierce Healthcare

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.

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Oracle plans to move headquarters to healthcare hub Nashville

Health Care Dive

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.

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ONC pubs Common Agreement v2.0, with regs for FHIR exchange

Healthcare It News

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Sequoia Project on Monday announced the launch of Common Agreement Version 2.0, an update to the document most recently released this past November. ONC also published new Participant and Subparticipant Terms of Participation, which set forth the requirements that participants must agree to and comply with to exchange data under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

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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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Medical Informatics Engineering Secures Growth Investment to Bolster Enterprise Health Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) , a leader in occupational health IT solutions, today announced a significant investment from Serent Capital , a growth-focused private equity firm. – The strategic investment fuels MIE’s continued innovation and strengthens the company’s position in the occupational health software market.

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FTC Bans Non-Competes: Takeaways and Action Items for Healthcare Provider CEOs and Investors

HKLaw

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.

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Simple HealthKit partners with Amazon to increase access to at-home diagnostics and chronic care

Fierce Healthcare

Simple HealthKit is bringing chronic condition diagnostics to front porches across the country via a new partnership with Amazon. | Consumers can now buy Simple HealthKit’s at-home tests for diabetes (HbA1c), respiratory wellness and sexual wellness and have it shipped to their door through Amazon.

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HCA deploys AI from Augmedix for acute care documentation in EDs

Healthcare It News

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

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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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UnitedHealth Group Shutters Optum Virtual Care Business

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UnitedHealth Group , the parent company of the Optum health services division, announced the closure of its Optum Virtual Care business , Endpoints News first reports. Optum Virtual Care offered 24/7 access to virtual consultations with board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners across all 50 states. – On April 18th, Optum Virtual Care employees were informed of the shutdown, with some reportedly having last days in July according to a Seeking Alpha ar

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Healthcare Strategy with Cole Lyons | E.109

Vie Healthcare

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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CMS sets Medicaid payments to home care workers at 80%

Fierce Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hoping to improve Medicaid enrollees’ access to care through a final rule that better compensates caregiving roles. | CMS released a series of final rules Monday, including Medicaid access regulations that some groups worry will cause providers to close.

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UnitedHealth confirms ransom, compromised health data from Change attack

Health Care Dive

More than 20 screenshots of potentially stolen patient data were posted on the dark web for about a week, the insurer said Monday.

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Care problems become technology systems via nurse informaticists

Healthcare It News

The role of nurse informaticists has expanded to include deciding which technologies can best support evolving care delivery models, says MaryAnn Connor, senior director of nursing informatics, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Interoperability: How Hospitals Share Healthcare Data Can Cost Lives, We Can All Do Better

HIT Consultant

Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies Patient data interoperability sounds like industry jargon, but it’s a vital piece of providing timely and accurate patient care. Since 1996, when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law, there have been good advances in patient data interoperability, but as a whole, the industry has not embraced them.

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With Medicaid Access Rule Finalized, Home Care Providers Enter ‘Wait-And-See’ Mode

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership On Tuesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials vehemently backed the thought process behind the “80-20” wage mandate in home- and community-based services (HCBS). Providers and advocates, on the other hand, continued to argue that the policy could be disastrous. During a press call Tuesday, CMS stuck with the theme that, in general, the status quo in Medicaid needed to be disrupted.

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Biden admin releases final rule to shield reproductive health information from law enforcement

Fierce Healthcare

Under a new rule, patients and healthcare providers will be further protected from investigations and liability relating to reproductive healthcare services when they were legally obtained and prov | HHS' Office for Civil Rights released a final rule on Monday prohibiting covered healthcare organizations from using or disclosing reproductive healthcare information when it was legally obtained.

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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.