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Pharma giant Bayer moves deeper into digital health with new business unit

Fierce Healthcare

Pharma giant Bayer is launching a precision health unit as it ramps up its investment in consumer-facing digital health tools. | Pharma giant Bayer is launching a precision health unit as it ramps up its investment in consumer-facing digital health tools.

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UnitedHealth rolls back gastroenterology prior authorization plan amid backlash

Health Care Dive

The American Hospital Association said it thinks the new advance notification process is a better approach than prior authorization, but other medical groups took a harsher stance against the refocused policy.

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Healthcare Dealmakers—CVS Health closes $10.6B Oak Street Health deal; Bright Health's telehealth divesture and more

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, health tech companies, payers and other industry players look to expand their businesses and gain a competitive edge. | Missouri's $10 billion health system merger, HCA Healthcare's urgent care pickups and more merger and acquisition news from the month of May.

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Tenet to pay over $29M to settle kickback allegations at Detroit Medical Center

Health Care Dive

The Department of Justice alleged two DMC hospitals offered the services of mid-level practitioners to physicians in exchange for Medicare patient referrals.

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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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Penn Medicine uses AI chatbot 'Penny' to improve cancer care

Healthcare It News

Over the past 25 years, the field of oncology has witnessed a dramatic shift in cancer care delivery with the development of new therapeutics, a desire to shift care from inpatient and clinic settings to the home and widespread implementation of electronic health records. THE PROBLEM One area of innovation has been the development of oral anti-cancer drugs, including cytotoxic chemotherapies that patients can self-administer at home.

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MIPS 2023 Reporting FAQs: Your Essential Guide for Success

p3care

Whether you’re a healthcare professional or just interested in learning more about MIPS, we’ve got you covered. MIPS may appear to be a labyrinth of laws, measures, and deadlines, but fear not! We’ll provide you with concise responses to the most commonly asked questions in this blog. You may feel confident with our guide to MIPS 2023 reporting.

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How insurtech Friday’s shutting down might impact other health plans, policyholders

Fierce Healthcare

Insolvency and a refusal of investors to throw more money at a failing business model forced troubled insurtech Friday Health Plans to shut down, the company confirmed

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How to Ask for Patient Reviews to Grow Your Online Reputation

Healthcare Success

Online reviews play a significant role in the success of any healthcare organization. In fact, patient reviews of doctors come in third as the most influential driver in consumers’ decisions 1 (after insurance acceptance and location). Today, virtually everyone should use reputation management software (RMS) to solicit, manage, and respond to reviews.

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A look at the early days of Medicaid redeterminations: KFF

Fierce Healthcare

The cracks in Medicaid that some experts feared eligible be | The cracks in Medicaid that some experts feared eligible beneficiaries could slip through during the disenrollment process appear to forming, according to a new KFF survey.

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Eversense E3 CGM for Diabetes Now Covered by UnitedHealthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: UnitedHealthcare , the largest health insurance company in the United States, will begin providing coverage for the Eversense E3 , a Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System effective July 1, 2023 for people with type 1 and insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes. Eversense, brought to people with diabetes by Ascensia Diabetes Care, is a CGM System indicated for continually measuring glucose levels in persons age 18 years and older with diabetes for up to 6 months.

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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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Carrum Health clinches $45M to expand cancer care offerings for employers as health costs soar

Fierce Healthcare

Employers are facing soaring healthcare costs while the quality of the patient experience and health outcomes are not necessarily rising at the same pace. | Carrum Health's unique value-based program addresses acute care scenarios, such as orthopedic surgery and cancer treatment, which accounts for nearly half of total employer spend.

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HCP Marketing in the Pharma Industry: A Comprehensive Strategy for Engaging Healthcare Professionals

HIT Consultant

HCP marketing, also known as healthcare professional marketing, plays a vital role in the pharmaceutical industry. It focuses on engaging and informing healthcare professionals about pharmaceutical products, treatments, and services. In this article, we will explore the meaning of HCP marketing , its elements, and its significance in the digital era.

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Machine Learning Accurately Triages Respiratory Symptoms in Primary Care

Health IT Analytics

A machine learning tool can effectively categorize patients with respiratory symptoms into risk groups prior to a primary care visit, which may improve triage.

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Bayer Launches Precision Health Unit to Develop New Products

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: The Consumer Health Division of Bayer announced this week it has launched a Precision Health business unit focused on developing new products across its range of everyday health categories. The new unit will consist of multiple business units and diverse leaders prioritize developing products that enable people to take greater control of their own personal health through digital solutions that facilitate more informed choices based on personal insights and novel delivery m

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Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Inbound Health Expands Into In-Home Post-Surgical Care For Elective Surgery

Home Health Care

Inbound Health — an enablement platform that helps health systems and health plans develop hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs — is expanding to include post-surgical care for general surgery. The company’s home hospital care program will now include orthopedics, bariatrics and hernia as part of this expansion. One of the main goals is to help solve a major pain point for hospitals, Inbound Health CEO Dave Kerwar told Home Health Care News.

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Deep-Learning Model Shows Promise in Measuring Joint Attention

Health IT Analytics

A new study described a deep-learning model that showed potential in measuring joint attention in children with autism spectrum disorder.

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Benefits from quality competition in health care ? Impact of debt ceiling deal on health programs. Signals that are so clear you don’t need statistics, and signals that are so weak that statistical analysis can’t help. Health equity impact of sickle cell gene therapy. Primer on drug development from Derek Lowe. Central Limit Theorem explained.

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Supreme Court Clarifies that Subjective (Not Objective) Knowledge of Falsity of Claim Dictates False Claims Act Liability

Sheppard Health Law

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision holding that the scienter element of the False Claims Act (“FCA”) is met if a defendant subjectively knew his or her claims were false and submitted them anyway. See United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc. and United States ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway. The Court’s ruling was narrow and avoided the more challenging—and common—issues raised during oral argument (which we previously discussed here ).

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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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Empowering Family Caregivers: Shara Cohen's Journey with Carallel

Health Business Group

The population is aging and that means more family caregivers are needed. One in five US adults are caregivers today, providing $600 billion in annual value to the healthcare system. Shara Cohen , CEO of Carallel , is dedicated to supporting and empowering family caregivers. In a recent episode of the HealthBiz podcast, Cohen shares her journey from a history major with a passion for volunteering to a leader in the healthcare industry.

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Arming Teachers, F-16s for Ukraine, Commercial Spaceflight: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on how teachers feel about arming teachers, what F-16s will (and won't) do for Ukraine, the need to regulate commercial spaceflight, and more.

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The Patient Safety Movement Foundation Concludes Its 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit

Patient Safety Movement

President Clinton calls for a culture of conversion to promote patient safety in healthcare. Irvine, Calif., June 2, 2023 — President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, headlined day two of the 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, presented by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF). As a long-time advocate of patient safety, President Clinton spoke of the need to develop what he termed a “culture of conversion,” where more people within health

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The Health Industry’s Progress Toward Equity and Eliminating Disparities: A Look at Healthcare Providers

Healthcare Leadership Council

In an earlier post, we provided a snapshot of some of the actions Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) members in the biopharmaceutical sector are taking to advance equity within our healthcare system and eliminate health disparities. This is a priority for HLC and its membership from all sectors of American healthcare. Our members are each committed to ensuring that the healthcare system works for all citizens and they are devoting energies and resources to initiatives aimed at making this happe

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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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The Patient Safety Movement Foundation Concludes Its 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit

Patient Safety Movement

President Clinton calls for a culture of conversion to promote patient safety in healthcare. Irvine, Calif., June 2, 2023 — President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, headlined day two of the 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, presented by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF). As a long-time advocate of patient safety, President Clinton spoke of the need to develop what he termed a “culture of conversion,” where more people within health

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Aligning Incentives: Jet Health’s New CEO Building Strategy Around Managed Care, At-Risk Provider Groups

Home Health Care

Larry Nabb wants to usher Jet Health into a new era. He’s already getting started, too, after being named CEO at the end of May. Jet Health is a Fort Worth, Texas-based post-acute care company that delivers home health, hospice and personal care services in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Idaho. The company is backed by private equity firms SV Health Investors and Health Enterprise Partners.

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Roundups: 10 Recent Digital Health Strategic Partnerships

HIT Consultant

Flatiron Health has signed a new partnership agreement with the London-based precision medicine software company Lifebit that will enable its researchers to securely access sensitive, real-world data on cancer patients – and hence speed up research and deliver global research improvements in treatments and care. Implementing Lifebit’s pioneering federated Trusted Research Environment technology will enable approved researchers to safely and securely access high-quality real-world data on c

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[ANSWERED] What is a CPT Code?

Etactics

In the United States, insurers process over 5 billion healthcare claims annually. To be able to process these claims , healthcare professionals must provide details on the services and procedures provided. All institutions must understand the information provided, such as private and government payers as well as any other parties involved. To ensure healthcare data is accurate, thus resulting in faster and more consistent revenue collection , a standardized coding system is essential.

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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.