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Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss. hlandi. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 09:18.

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Amazon launches virtual doctor marketplace in newest healthcare play

Health Care Dive

The company is doubling down on virtual care with its latest health business: a marketplace allowing customers to choose from a network of telehealth providers for a variety of common medical needs.

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HLTH22: Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI, analytics

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI, analytics. hlandi. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 02:42.

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General Catalyst adds 10 new health system partners, including UHS

Health Care Dive

The venture capital firm connects health systems to health tech startups, allowing partner hospitals to develop new technologies in exchange for the startups testing their products on the ground.

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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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Northwell Health's research arm studied 35,000 COVID patients for years. Using basic data, it built an AI tool to predict outcomes

Fierce Healthcare

Northwell Health's research arm studied 35,000 COVID patients for years. Using basic data, it built an AI tool to predict outcomes. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 16:23.

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Fitch downgrades TeamHealth as ER volumes, pricing face pressure

Health Care Dive

TeamHealth staffs healthcare facilities nationwide and is among the bigger players in the sector. ER staffing represents the majority of TeamHealth’s revenue from contracted physician services, according to Fitch.

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Maven raises $90M, fueling push into Medicaid, CMO says

Health Care Dive

Roadblocks for the startup inclulde shifting requirements state-by-state and historically low margins in Medicaid.

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'Podnosis': The crisis in pregnancy care, and Walmart's lessons since it stepped into healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': The crisis in pregnancy care, and Walmart's lessons since it stepped into healthcare. qanderson. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 16:04.

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Nearly 1 in 4 gig workers lacks health insurance, survey finds

Health Care Dive

A majority of those workers cited affordability as the main barrier to getting coverage, according to a poll from insurance broker Stride Health.

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Senate Dems press CMS for more consumer protections in Medicare Advantage

Fierce Healthcare

Senate Dems press CMS for more consumer protections in Medicare Advantage. rking. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 16:52.

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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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Included Health launches new virtual care, navigation product

Health Care Dive

By January, the new All-Included Health model will be live for six clients representing 700,000 members.

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HLTH22: Optum to add biosimilars to formulary to tackle the massive cost of Humira

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Optum to add biosimilars to formulary to tackle the massive cost of Humira. pminemyer. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 21:27.

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Medical group asks Congress to offset Medicare payment cuts

Health Care Dive

The Medical Group Management Association wants Congress to take action to help physician practices by the end of the year.

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Nomi Health launches fintech solution for real-time healthcare payments

Fierce Healthcare

Nomi Health launches fintech solution for real-time healthcare payments. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 15:40.

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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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Elevance plans to continue aggressive M&A, CEO says

Health Care Dive

CEO Gail Boudreaux said the insurer plans to grow "very aggressively" into adjacent care services.

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Walmart agrees to $3.1B multistate opioid settlement framework and will install new requirements

Fierce Healthcare

Walmart agrees to $3.1B multistate opioid settlement framework and will install new requirements. rking. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 11:01.

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Sanford Health inks merger deal after failed Intermountain bid

Health Care Dive

The deal, which is expected to close next year, will create a system with annual revenue of about $14 billion.

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HLTH22: Uber Health charts expansion into employer market

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Uber Health charts expansion into employer market. pminemyer. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 22:10.

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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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Life Expectancy with Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Disease (ACAD)

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The healthcare system is established to increase a patient’s life expectancy. The attending physicians when interacting with their patients, use every possible approach to cure the ailments. But life expectancy for a patient with threatening conditions, like cardiac issues, is lower. Here, a physician focuses on the survival chances the most and does the appropriate treatment accordingly.

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Providence posts $164M operating loss in Q3 after money woes in H1

Fierce Healthcare

Providence posts $164M operating loss in Q3 after money woes in H1. rking. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 15:38.

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Xi Likely Won't Be Attacking Taiwan Anytime Soon

The Rand Blog

Rather than start a war, Xi Jinping is more likely to intensify China's use of coercive measures against Taiwan, including diplomatic, economic, and military pressure coupled with cyber and psychological operations. If coercion fails, Beijing might turn to force as a last resort, but this still seems unlikely given the many complicating factors.

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HLTH22: SonderMind picks up neuroscience company Total Brain to build out data-driven mental healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: SonderMind picks up neuroscience company Total Brain to build out data-driven mental healthcare. aburky. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 14:10.

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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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Amazon Launches Its Next Health Care Venture ‘Amazon Clinic’

Home Health Care

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is launching its next health care venture. Dubbed Amazon Clinic, it will be a “virtual health service that delivers convenient, affordable care for common conditions.”. There is a not a direct home-based care angle, other than that products and services will be offered to consumers at their homes. However, it could create a runway for further health care use cases inside the home.

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Emerging Domestic Battery Supply Chain Should Be Wary of China's Information Ops

The Rand Blog

China has a huge stake in producing lithium-ion batteries, and is not above waging disinformation campaigns against U.S. firms involved in the battery supply chain. Extraction sector companies could work with cyber security experts and the U.S. intelligence community to educate their executives and local governments about any foreign disinformation risks.

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Why Making Nurses Part Of Decision-Making Processes Could Help Fill Workforce Gaps

Home Health Care

It’s no secret that the nursing crisis continues to become more dire, impacting health care as a whole – including home health care. But honing in on nurses, and former nurses, when addressing the many challenges the industry is facing may be a way forward. For context, by 2025 the health care industry will be short between 200,000 and 450,000 nurses.

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The $2.8M Medicine: How Data Can Help Insurers Pay for Life-Changing Therapies Without Breaking The Bank

HIT Consultant

Girisha Fernando, CEO and Founder of Lyfegen. Advanced medical research has brought us to the point where many serious conditions can potentially be treated and even cured – with people who have essentially faced a lifetime of being incapacitated finally able to conduct normal lives. Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag.

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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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Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day: Thursday, November 17, 2022

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) is proud to announce thatWorldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day is to be celebrated on Thursday, November 17, 2022. The objective of Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day is to increase awareness about pressure injury prevention and to educate the public on this topic.

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HLTH22: Amazon Launches Amazon Clinic Across 32 States

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Today, Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Clinic , a virtual health service that will operate across 32 states to support more than 20 common health conditions. Amazon Clinic will serve as a convenient virtual care option that offers up-front pricing, and treatment within hours, instead of days—helping customers achieve better health.

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How A Valuation Gap Between Buyers, Sellers In Home-Based Care Is Affecting M&A

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Rising staffing costs and unfavorable reimbursement dynamics in the home-based care space have created a seller-buyer pricing misalignment that has had ill effects on mergers and acquisitions. After a record-breaking 2021 for M&A in home-based care, the space has seen a sharp decline in deal activity.

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Exo Co-founder & Board Chair, Janusz Bryzek, Ph.D. Passes Away

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Exo , a medical imaging software and device company, today announces the death of its Co-Founder and Board Chairman, Janusz Bryzek, Ph.D. – Janusz passed away in his home on the morning of November 10, 2022, surrounded by his loving wife and three children. Dr. Janusz Bryzek Bio & Impact. Commonly referred to as the “Father of Sensors” and the “Trillion Sensor Man,” Janusz was a renowned pioneer in the development of micro-mechanical integrated systems (MEMS) tech

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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.