Health Care Dive

MAY 2, 2024

Walgreens’ decision to slash VillageMD’s clinical footprint has reverberated to the financial accounts of the primary care chain’s minority owner — Cigna.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 2, 2024

Hospitals’ margins and revenues took a slight dip in March, though it wasn’t enough to sour what has been a strong quarter for the sector. | Revenues, volumes and margins pulled back from February to March, with the strongest decline seen among outpatient settings. Sectorwide reports and recent earnings suggest that the sector is still well ahead of 2023.

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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.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2024

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. He acknowledged that the absence of multi-factor authentication on a legacy server provided the cybercriminals with their successful attack vector.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

While people in the U.S. perceive a dramatic rise in mental health conditions among fellow health citizens growing over the past five years, people note barriers of cost, insufficient supply of providers, and stigma as barriers to getting care in the latest Gallup and West Health poll on the subject. In West Health’s words , three-quarters of Americans feel that, “mental health takes a back seat to physical health” in the U.S.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 2, 2024

Legislators slammed Andrew Witty over the company’s lack of cybersecurity practices and the impact of the breach, which may have compromised the data of a third of Americans.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. Amanda Bury, chief commercial officer at Infermedica, a digital health company specializing in AI-powered systems for symptom analysis and patient triage, knows telehealth's potential to enhance and optimize patient experiences and outcomes while emphasizing convenience, affordability and empowerment – tying in responsible AI innovation and strategies for e

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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

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 30, 2024

In July 2018, FDA released the Biosimilars Action Plan (BAP), which outlined FDA’s approach for expanding access to biosimilars for the American public. The plan focused on 4 key areas: A recent FDA report reviews some of their accomplishments since then. Most of these efforts revolve around guidance documents, additional staff, education products and websites, public hearings and regulations (i.e., proposed/final rules).

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2024

The scale of UnitedHealth Group's sprawling empire was under the microscope on Wednesday as CEO Andrew Witty testified before a key Senate panel about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that's ha | The scale of UnitedHealth Group's sprawling empire was under the microscope on Wednesday as CEO Andrew Witty testified before a key Senate panel about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that's had ripple effects across healthcare.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2024

Steve Albert, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, R1 It’s a perfect storm of financial pressures facing healthcare provider organizations – from rising costs to labor shortages to constrained capacity – that stymies revenue growth. Growing challenges with payer payments only exacerbate these issues. According to a Kaufman Hall report , 73% of leaders surveyed said claims denials, which was the top revenue cycle issue in 2022, had increased in 2023.

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The Rand Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

Russia's President Vladimir Putin rants that the West seeks to “dismember and plunder” his country. By accusing the West of plotting against Russia, the Kremlin likely hopes to distract Russian citizens from its own flawed actions. But the true damage to Russia has been self-inflicted.

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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.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 1, 2024

Runaway inpatient spending in particular caused CVS’ insurance costs to snowball after returning “to patterns we have not seen since the start of the pandemic,” its CFO said.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2024

In addition to analyzing client ransomware incidents and other cyberattacks, the privacy and data security specialists at BakerHostetler compared incident response statistics across industries and looked at data breach regulatory response and lawsuits. Of all incidents Baker Hostetler analyzed, healthcare, biotech and pharma took the lion's share at 28%.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2024

What You Should Know: – Security researchers at Nozomi Networks Labs identified three vulnerabilities in the Merge DICOM Toolkit C/C++ SDK (versions prior to v5.18). – These vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to crash medical imaging systems through seemingly harmless actions like opening a DICOM file or processing network data.

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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.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2024

A newly formed group of women’s health companies aims to tackle gaps in care, with a focus on improving outcomes while reducing costs. | A newly formed group of women’s health companies aims to tackle gaps in care, with a focus on improving outcomes while reducing costs.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 30, 2024

Twenty percent of a typical healthcare organization’s sensitive data holdings are affected in a ransomware encryption event, compared with just 6% for an average organization.

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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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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.

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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.

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Health IT Analytics

APRIL 29, 2024

Image classification models perform more accurately in white patients than in Black patients, but foundation models may help close these health equity gaps.

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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 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.

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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.

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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 30, 2024

A new study found that post-acute patients and caregivers greatly prefer home-based care to facility-based care, although with some caveats. Published in JAMA, the study’s results came from an eight-question survey conducted in September 2022 of over 1,500 adults aged 45 and older. The survey dissected the participants’ willingness and preference to pay for certain services, such as skilled nursing facility (SNF) care versus home health care.

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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.