Thu.Oct 05, 2023

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Hospitals and digital health companies: making an emulsion from oil and water

Health Care Dive

Andreessen Horowitz partner Julie Yoo and Bassett Healthcare executive Paul Uhrig share their playbook for digital health entrepreneurs looking to partner with health systems.

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Industry Voices—The 'care-ification' of retail is here

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare providers have promised that timely, convenient and affordable care built with the patient in mind is just around the corner. | Retailers are placing big bets on their customers’ willingness to trust them with their healthcare needs. Consumer trust in our healthcare system is at an all-time low, largely due to stubborn barriers like the lack of price transparency and equal access to care.

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Generative AI roundup: IBM, Wolters Kluwer and others offer new products and services

Healthcare It News

Each day, more companies add generative artificial intelligence assistants to their products and services. This week, some of the biggest names in software announced integrations and implementations they say are safe and transparent uses of AI while a healthcare IT industry research organization published guidance on automation, ethics and trust. IBM introduces Watsonx legal protections To ease customer apprehensions about use of generative AI, IBM announced that it would indemnify its clients a

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UnitedHealthcare reports high satisfaction, improved outcomes in consumer-centric Surest plans

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare's Surest, which axes deductibles and provides upfront pricing data to members, is the fastest growing product among its commercial plan lineup. | UnitedHealthcare's Surest, which axes deductibles and provides upfront pricing data to members, is the fastest growing product among its commercial plan lineup. And a new analysis offers a look as to why.

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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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Amwell, Nestlé partner on digital nutrition programs

Health Care Dive

The initial offering, which focuses on surgical nutrition, is the first of several initiatives that the telehealth company is working on with Nestlé, according to Amwell.

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2 in 5 Native Americans visit ER due to diabetes complications, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

Some 42% of Native Americans have visited the ER because of a Type 2 diabetes complication, a new survey showed. | Some 42% of Native Americans have visited the ER because of a Type 2 diabetes complication, according to the survey.

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Froedtert Health to buy out Ascension's stake in jointly owned Wisconsin health plan

Fierce Healthcare

Froedtert Health is buying out Ascension’s 50% stake in a Wisconsin health plan jointly run by the nonprofit health systems, the former announced this week. | The deal, which is pending review, would give Froedtert Health full ownership of a commercial and Medicare payer with 117,000 members.

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Rite Aid faces NYSE delisting

Health Care Dive

News of the company's possible removal from the New York Stock Exchange follows talks of a possible bankruptcy filing.

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Here's how New York Medicaid plans to bring social care networks and revamp its value-based payment program

Fierce Healthcare

Pending final approval, New York plans to introduce social care networks to serve regional Medicaid-enrolled organizations in the state. | Details from New York Medicaid's COO came during a recent value-based care conference, during which panelists discussed integrative care services, generative AI and more.

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Expectation vs. Reality: Improving the Patient Payment Experience

HIT Consultant

Ryne Natzke, Chief Revenue Officer, TrustCommerce, a Sphere Company If you’ve ever worked behind the scenes at a provider organization, you likely gained a deep understanding of what makes medical practices tick, giving you the ability to make fairly accurate assumptions about how patients will probably behave in different scenarios. However, when it comes to the patient payment experience, inevitably some patients respond differently than expected.

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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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Atropos Health unveils AI chatbot to accelerate real-world data-based evidence generation for docs

Fierce Healthcare

Atropos Health, maker of a real-world data platform, has launched a new operating system and a chatbot interface to help generate observational studies rapidly and at scale. | Leveraging generative AI, the system helps non-technical users query real-world clinical data and get publication-grade results in minutes.

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Enhabit Investor Calls Sale ‘Only Acceptable Outcome’ Of Strategic Review

Home Health Care

Earlier this week, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) stock tumbled after the company entered into a limited waiver agreement with Wells Fargo Bank (NYSE: WFC). “As we work with our advisors and prospective strategic partners as part of our strategic review, out of an abundance of caution we chose to proactively reach out to our bank group to ensure we remain in compliance with our financial covenants,” Enhabit CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer said in a statement Tuesday, explaining the move.

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Expert: Surescripts settlement didn't go far enough

Fierce Healthcare

When Surescripts settled its case with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July, regulators praised the ruling and the effect it would have limiting Surescripts' monopolistic power. | Surescripts is still enjoying an unfair advantage over its rivals despite a recent settlement with the FTC, one expert believes.

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How reproducible are real-world studies using clinical practice data?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the question posed by a paper by Wang, Sreedhara and Schneeweiss (2022). The authors replicate the findings from n=250 real-world data studies. The studies were replicated using 3 datasets: (i) Optum Clinformatics claims data, (ii) IBM MarketScan Research Database claims data, Medicare fee-for-service claims data, and (iii) CPRD electronic health records.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

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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Samsung partners with Brigham and Women's, Tulane University and MIT on digital health research

Fierce Healthcare

Samsung has unveiled a slew of digital health and wellness projects it’s conducting alongside Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tulane University School of Medicine and others. | The tech company shared new research partnerships that will use smart watches, clinical algorithms and other tools to explore health and wellness.

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The United States Isn't Ready for the New Age of AI-Fueled Disinformation

The Rand Blog

Generative AI offers China and other bad actors the potential to fulfill longstanding desires to shape the global conversation. It is vital that the U.S. government and social media platforms recognize this threat and work together to address it immediately.

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H1 Launches Gen AI Tool to Accelerate Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: H1 , the leading source of truth for global Healthcare Professional, clinical, scientific, and research information, today announced the launch of GenosAI, a new generative AI tool seamlessly embedded into its clinical trial intelligence platform, Trial Landscape, to analyze and respond to all types of complex inquiries. Trial Landscape allows sponsors to identify new sites, centers of excellence, and investigators with diverse patients; evaluate site and PI patient recruit

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How Adding Clinical Services Has Benefited Family Tree Private Care

Home Health Care

Family Tree Private Care wants to be more than just a home-based care agency — the company wants to be known as experts in aging. This means delivering on a multi-service line approach, Alex Bonetti, the founder and CEO of Family Tree, told Home Health Care News. “We still have some work to do to stand up that innovative model in the markets that we’re already in,” he said.

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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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Atropos Health Launches Gen AI App with Direct Chat-to-Database for Health Systems

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Atropos Health , leader in evidence generation for healthcare, today announced the launch of the Geneva OS (Generative Evidence Acceleration Operating System) and the ChatRWD (Real World Data) application, the first Generative AI application incorporating direct Chat-to-Database capability, to help healthcare and life science leaders advance and accelerate evidence generation.

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What’s On Amedisys, VitalCaring, Intrepid’s Payer-Relationship Wish Lists

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The discussion around home health provider-Medicare Advantage (MA) plan relationships has gotten tiring. But is it over the top? I don’t think so. Right when I think I’ve written about the topic too much, I’m reminded again by a home health provider just how important it is. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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Deer Meadows Receives CHAP Disease Program Certification Leveraging Remote Patient Monitoring

Health Recovery

HRS client Deer Meadows Home Health becomes the first home health provider in the United States to achieve CHAP's Disease Program Certification across four disease states

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Palliative Care: FAQs for State Policymakers

NASHP

Many state health policy leaders are interested in increasing access to palliative care so that people who are seriously ill can get needed care, including support for their caregivers, while avoiding costly, unwanted, or unnecessary care. Nearly half of the states have a palliative care taskforce or advisory council through state legislation. Just this year, six states — Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Ohio, Texas, and Washington — applied and were selected by NASHP to participate in a two-year lear

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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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News 10/6/23

HIStalk

Top News Workflow automation vendor Athelas acquires Commure and announces.

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Will Healthcare Let AI Fix The Slow-Motion Crisis of Physician Burnout?

HIT Consultant

Deepthi Bathina, CEO of RhythmX AI When I ask primary care physicians about their biggest problems today, they share the excruciating pain they experience as the American healthcare system pushes them towards administrative work rather than letting them focus on true patient care and clinical excellence. Some doctors described themselves as “square pegs in a round hole” for bridling under the system’s bureaucratic constraints.

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 10/5/23

HIStalk

Registration is open and agendas have been published for the.

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16th Annual Bellwether League Foundation inducted Charlie Miceli into the Healthcare Supply Chain Hall of Fame

Patient Safety Movement

Charlie Miceli, C.P.M., represents one of healthcare supply chain’s iconic first movers in creative thinking and action by way of conceiving and trying new concepts and processes as an unofficial beta tester before they are rolled out to industry. From early versions of logistically designed information technology and advanced distribution methods to pandemic preparation and executive mentoring, Miceli’s adventurous career has stretched from the frontline trenches to the C-suite, leaving ribbons

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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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Jury Convicts Duo In $93 Million Medicare Home Health Fraud Scam

Home Health Care

A man and woman in Florida were convicted for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud Medicare by billing over $93 million for home health therapy services that were never provided. The conviction was brought down by a federal jury in Miami this week. The two people convicted — Karel Felipe and Tamara Quicutis — submitted false bills to Medicare for three home health companies located in Michigan from October 2016 to May 2019.

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FemTech: Diana Health Secures $34M to Expand Maternity Care Model

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Women’s health startup Diana Health raises $34M in Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. – The company plans to use the funding to expand its collaborative maternity care model that is improving patient care outcomes and delivering clear ROI for hospitals and health systems who typically take a loss on their Labor & Delivery department.

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Interview with Cecelia Health CEO Mark Clermont

Health Business Group

Cecelia Health is pioneering the virtual specialty clinic, aiming to make specialized healthcare accessible nationwide. CEO Mark Clermont discusses how his team extends from the purely medical to health coaching and lifestyle management. Mark's dedication to holistic care, a philosophy he credits to his father's influence, is inspiring. Obesity treatment is a complex, multifaceted issue that Mark tackles head-on.

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The City of Pittsburgh's a Movie Star

The Rand Blog

Pennsylvania lawmakers and other stakeholders should consider updates to the film tax credit law and economic development strategy to improve the state's competitiveness, enhance the stability of the industry, and fill gaps in the current workforce.

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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.