Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare still playing catch-up when it comes to cybersecurity preparedness aburky Tue, 04/25/2023 - 12:35

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2023

The marketing push comes as lawmakers take a harder look at pharmacy benefit managers, drug purchasing middlemen that are often owned by health insurance companies.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2023

A new 6,000-square-foot hospital operations center at Children's Mercy Kansas City uses artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and real-time information to optimize care coordination from the time of patient's admission until discharge. WHY IT MATTERS Children's Mercy said the center – modeled after NASA's mission control – will localize team members to break down bottlenecks, identify potential barriers and increase patient satisfaction as they advance through

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2023

LCMC Health and regulators have filed dueling court requests over whether state acquisition approval preempts federal antitrust review in LCMC’s acquisition of three facilities from HCA.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2023

Universal Health Services boasts $163M profit in Q1 driven by acute, behavioral volume increases dmuoio Tue, 04/25/2023 - 16:52

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2023

The payer beat Wall Street expectations in the first quarter on both earnings and revenue, which reached $39 billion.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2023

Surgical cases at the operator’s ambulatory unit climbed 8% year over year, leading to a surge in ambulatory operating revenue.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2023

Centene CEO offers look at progress around Medicaid redeterminations pminemyer Tue, 04/25/2023 - 06:43

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Bill Of Health

APRIL 25, 2023

This excerpt from the new book titled “ We Want Them Infected ” is printed with permission from Jonathan Howard, MD and Redhawk Publications. By Jonathan Howard On June 29, 2021, Dr. Harriet Hall penned an essay on the website Science Based Medicine titled “A New COVID-19 Myth?” in which she wrote: A correspondent suggested I should have known that the pandemic was over months ago.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2023

DocGo aims to bring kidney care the final mile by partnering with Fresenius Medical Care aburky Tue, 04/25/2023 - 16:53

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

About 180,000 deaths are attributable to burns each year, according to the World Health Organization. Non-fatal burns are a leading cause of morbidity. The good news is that burns are preventable, and we learn several terrific strategies for doing so from The Family Oops and Burns First Aid. This mighty little book, all of 28 pages and measuring 5.5 x 5.5″ square, packs a huge amount of self-care knowledge about burn prevention and treatment for home and workplace — the two sites whe

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2023

Former hospital employees plead guilty in conspiracy to sell car crash patients' info to injury attorneys, chiropractors dmuoio Tue, 04/25/2023 - 16:09

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Meditech

APRIL 25, 2023

Anyone else still reeling from HIMSS? Wow, it’s amazing to be surrounded by so many impassioned HIT people! But with the week behind us, there is much to reflect on with clarity. Think back to the booths and sessions and people you met at lunch and networking events. What impressed you?

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2023

Tenet Healthcare raises FY2023 guidance as volume gains suggest 'a post-pandemic environment is taking shape' dmuoio Tue, 04/25/2023 - 13:01

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Healthy Debate

APRIL 25, 2023

The post The future of human care: Why family doctors are more relevant than ever appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2023

'Podnosis': Progress for the opioid crisis, and why we need antimicrobial stewardship programs tcarey Tue, 04/25/2023 - 15:56

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2023

Innovive Health has entered a new state. The in-home care provider, which specifically serves complex behavioral health patients, has opened up shop in Colorado. The company already completes more than 20,000 patient visits per week in Massachusetts. And while it sees Colorado – and Colorado Springs, specifically – as an area with a high need for its services, Innovive CEO Joe McDonough believes the need is high nearly everywhere in the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2023

AmerisourceBergen, TPG to acquire specialty practice network OneOncology in $2.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2023

The history of the family-owned ProHealth Home Health & Hospice tracks with the history of U.S. health care. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, ProHealth is specifically on its third generation of family ownership. Its CEO, David Lester, joined the company in 2015, over 50 years after his grandparents bought their first nursing home in the ‘60s. For a long time, nursing homes were the focus of the business.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2023

What You Should Know: PathAI, a provider of AI-powered pathology, and ConcertAI , an AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology and real-world evidence (RWE) solutions for life sciences and healthcare, today announced a strategic partnership to launch a first-in-class quantitative histopathology and curated clinical real-world data (RWD) solution. The solution combines PathAI’s PathExplore™ tumor microenvironment panel with ConcertAI’s Patient360™ and RWD360™ products.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership More home-based care agencies are turning to family members and loved ones to fill staffing needs. This is the case with both seniors and children being cared for in the home. Even the White House has recently been supportive of the paid family caregiver model. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2023

U.S. healthcare companies must comply with the data security and privacy standards defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The purpose of the legislation is to safeguard the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI) and electronic protected health information (ePHI). Failure to comply with HIPAA regulations can result in serious financial fines and reputational damage.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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HIStalk

APRIL 25, 2023

Top News Tegria acquires Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions, which offers.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2023

What You Should Know: – Know Labs, Inc. , an emerging developer of non-invasive medical diagnostic technology, today announced the results of a proof-of-principle study titled, “Detecting Unique Analyte-Specific Radio Frequency Spectral Responses in Liquid Solutions – Implications for Non-Invasive Physiologic Monitoring,” conducted in collaboration with Mayo Clinic. – The study demonstrates the accuracy of Know Labs’ proprietary Bio-RFID™ sensor in quantifying different analytes in v

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 25, 2023

In 2020, spending on specialty drugs was $265 billion ; this constituted 49.6% of total prescription drug expenditure. To combat rising costs, payers have turned to white, brown and clear bagging as well as approaches to restrict the site of care where patients receive specialty drugs. What are these “bagging” policies, what are the pros and cons, and what legislation has or is considered being passed to restrict payers ability to implement these programs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

In the U.S. in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category.

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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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The Rand Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

The prevalence of Parkinson's disease has doubled over the last 25 years, and over 8.5 million people are living with the disease worldwide, but treatment options are limited. The development of new clinical outcome assessments could lead to new treatments for the disease.

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HKLaw

APRIL 25, 2023

Joshua I. Bosin, Bess Hinson, Miriam McKendall, Ashley L. Thomas, John C.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 25, 2023

A commentary from Sheehy et al. (2023) argues that the hospital readmissions reduction program has been a disappointment. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”—a quote featured prominently on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Measures Management website. 3 But like any initiative intended to improve quality, evaluation, and iteration is key to assessing and improving delivery.

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Etactics

APRIL 25, 2023

Business owners who don't have cyber risk insurance usually say that the price of such insurance is the main deterrent. The cost of cybercrime globally was $8.44 trillion in 2022. By 2026, experts estimate that cybercrime costs worldwide will exceed $20 trillion, an increase of almost 150% compared to 2022. Clearly, companies can’t afford not having cyber coverage.

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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.