Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Enrollment in individual market plans continues to grow, with a record high of 21.3 million people signing up for plans during the most recent open enrollment period. | CEO Mark Bertolini told investors that Oscar “closed out 2023 with another strong quarter, driving financial performance for the full year.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Lawmakers considered how to prevent artificial intelligence technologies from worsening bias or improperly denying insurance coverage at a hearing on Thursday.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Everside Health and Marathon Health announced the closing of their merger to enhance access to advanced primary care in a value-based model. | The two companies serve employer and union-sponsored clients with primary care, mental health, occupational health, musculoskeletal and pharmacy services. Their combined reach is 2.5 million eligible patients through more than 680 health centers across 41 states and virtually in all 50 states.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Mary Langowski, who previously worked on CVS' healthcare services strategy, will replace John Driscoll as president of Walgreens’ U.S. Healthcare segment.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Digital metabolic health company Calibrate tapped Rob MacNaughton, a healthcare technology executive, as its new CEO as it pivots to grow its enterprise business. | Digital metabolic health company Calibrate tapped Rob MacNaughton, a healthcare technology executive, as its new CEO as it pivots to grow its enterprise business.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
As for Medicare Advantage, the insurer said it expects proposed 2025 rates other payers have slammed as a cut would actually boost its benchmark rate.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The Dallas-based provider told investors on Thursday that ambulatory surgeries would drive a greater portion of its profits moving forward.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Dirk McMahon, chief operating officer at UnitedHealth Group, will retire on April 1, the company disclosed in a financial filing.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Forced into testifying by Senate HELP chair Bernie Sanders, the heads of Bristol Myers Squibb, J&J and Merck largely avoided major missteps.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Tenet Healthcare’s push to flesh out acute care hospitals with higher acuity services and in-market support has yielded a secondary benefit for the company—nonprofit health systems willing to pay t | Riding the high of an "exceptional" Q4 and full-year earnings report, CEO Saum Sutaria, M.D., explained to investors Thursday how Tenet was able to secure high bids from its nonprofit peers for hospitals and other assets in South Carolina and California.
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Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers avoiding the shift to value-based care are running out of time and excuses. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants 100% of traditional Medicare beneficiaries and the “vast majority of Medicaid beneficiaries” in accountable care relationships by 2030. Home health providers are already under the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model, which is, by definition, a value-based care model.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Mary Langowski, Chairman of the Board at Solera Health What You Should Know: – Solera Health , a leading platform connecting people with effective health solutions, announced today that Mary Langowski, is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer and transitioning to the role of Chairman of the Board. An interim CEO will be named soon. -The Board expressed its deep appreciation to Langowski for her transformative leadership.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
As a way to improve the quality of infection testing and to achieve better patient outcomes, Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) is now offering advanced molecular testing across its care centers nationwide. To do this, the company has partnered with Patient Choice Laboratories to better identify respiratory issues, wound infections and other ailments for its at-home patients.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
What You Should Know: – Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribes show early promise in reducing clinicians’ burden, according to a recent The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) pilot. – Published in NEJM Catalyst, TPMG recently implemented ambient AI scribes for 10,000 physicians and staff. Ambient AI Scribes Ambient AI scribes represent a cutting-edge technological solution designed to mitigate the documentation workload faced by physicians.
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Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
After finding that one in five Americans saw a notable decline in an aging family member’s well-being during the holidays, Home Instead has announced that it’s looking to hire 30,000 care professionals nationwide. It is common for Home Instead to see a spike in care service inquiries soon after the holidays, according to Lakelyn Hogan Eichenberger, gerontologist and caregiver advocate for Home Instead.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Clinicians experience the immediate impact of this AI-powered solution in improving workflow What You Should Know: – Mile Bluff Medical Center has taken a major step towards reducing clinician burden and improving patient care by implementing MEDITECH’s new AI-powered Expanse search and summarization capabilities powered by Google Health. – The new functionality leverages natural language processing (NLP) to seamlessly pull information from both structured and unstructured data
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
McMahon is leaving after two decades at the massive healthcare company.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Dr. Ed Lee, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at Nabla What You Should Know: – Nabla , the leading ambient AI assistant for healthcare professionals, announced the appointment of Dr. Ed Lee, MD, MPH , as Chief Medical Officer. – As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lee will shape Nabla’s clinical strategy and product roadmap. He will contribute to feature enhancements, advocate for Nabla at industry events, and provide valuable insights on clinical informatics trends.
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Health IT Analytics
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
New pharmacokinetic model recommends personalized treatment by analyzing differences among the signaling pathways in esophageal cancer.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
What You Should Know: – Persistent Systems , a leading digital engineering and enterprise modernization company, and Microsoft today announced the launch of an innovative Generative AI-powered Population Health Management (PHM) Solution. This collaborative effort aims to revolutionize healthcare delivery by identifying patients’ at risk and providing personalized care interventions, ultimately improving patient outcomes and reducing costs.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
That is the topic of a recent white paper from the Innovation and Value Initiative titled “ Valuing Rare Disease Treatments in Healthcare: Real Experience, Real Impact “ The report notes a number of challenges in assessing treatment value in rare disease (see my white paper “ Challenges in Preserving Access to Orphan Drugs Under an HTA Framework ” for a more detailed discussion of this topic).
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
What You Should Know: – Unlearn®, a leading AI company using digital twins to revolutionize clinical trials, announced today a $50M Series C funding round led by Altimeter Capital. This investment, bringing Unlearn’s total funding to over $130M, will fuel its mission to eliminate trial and error in medicine through faster, smaller, and more ethical clinical trials. – Unlearn collaborates with pharmaceutical companies, biotechs, and academic institutions to optimize and streamli
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The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The upcoming NATO Summit in Washington, D.C., offers an opportunity for the alliance to prioritize new and transformational capabilities. With them, NATO can continue to provide deterrence and defense for its member state populations into the future, just as it has done for the past seventy-five years.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Top News CMS approves the use of HIPAA-compliant secure texting.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Since entering office in 2021, one of the Biden administration's foreign-policy priorities has been a more effective Indo-Pacific strategy to compete with China, especially in Southeast Asia. Three years on, the administration's policy has bright spots, but still lacks a clear strategy for the region.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Larry Kaiser is chief marketing officer of Optimum Healthcare IT.
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.
Sequence Health
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
In today’s fast-paced healthcare landscape, the call center serves as the heartbeat of patient interaction. It’s where first impressions are made and lasting relationships are built. This interaction goes beyond mere conversation—it’s about creating a seamless, supportive, and understanding environment for every patient who reaches out. As healthcare providers, recognizing the essentials of a customer-centric call center is not just beneficial but imperative for fostering trust and ensuring pati
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
What You Should Know: – CentralReach , a leading provider of Autism and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) software, announced the acquisition of SILAS , a company specializing in social and emotional learning (SEL) and behavior solutions for PreK-12 education. – By combining SILAS’s expertise in SEL and behavior with CentralReach’s existing strengths in Autism and IDD support, the company is well-positioned to empower schools and educators in nurturing wel
NCQA
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Improving Accountability for Behavioral Health Care Access is our latest white paper summarizing savvy measurement of behavioral health networks. Developed in consultation with The Sozosei Foundation , the 26-page report is a handbook for assessing whether behavioral health networks are up to the challenge of tackling America’s mental health and substance abuse crises.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Rob MacNaughhton, CEO at Calibrate What You Should Know: – Calibrate , the leading clinician-guided and value-based obesity treatment program, today announced the appointment of Rob MacNaughton as its new Chief Executive Officer. – Calibrate’s strategic direction under MacNaughton’s leadership and the OptumRx partnership position the company for significant growth and a positive impact on both individual and corporate healthcare landscapes.
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.
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