Health Care Dive
APRIL 27, 2023
Political will appears to be rising to equalize Medicare payments to hospitals and doctor’s offices for certain low-acuity services, according to lawmaker comments during a Wednesday hearing.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
Amazon sunsets Halo fitness wearable in the face of competitive, crowded market hlandi Thu, 04/27/2023 - 10:28
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 27, 2023
Teladoc raised its 2023 outlook following the first quarter results, which analysts said represented a strong start to the year.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
Bipartisan bill revives efforts to expand FTC oversight to nonprofit hospitals aburky Thu, 04/27/2023 - 14:02
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 27, 2023
Redeterminations, which began earlier this month, are not expected to result in a “significant margin impact,” Molina’s CEO said, as the payer raised its full-year guidance.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
Chutes & Ladders—Kaiser snatches up chief digital officer, Allina names COO aburky Thu, 04/27/2023 - 16:54
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
Facing industry pushback, Joint Commission plans to introduce proposed sustainability measures as optional agliadkovskaya Thu, 04/27/2023 - 14:43
Healthcare It News
APRIL 27, 2023
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
EVisit acquires Bluestream Health to build out digital tools as hospitals double down on telehealth strategies hlandi Thu, 04/27/2023 - 12:03
Home Health Care
APRIL 27, 2023
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday announced a new proposed rule that would, among its provisions, establish a strict requirement for the amount of Medicaid payment going toward home care worker compensation. Specifically, the proposed rule from CMS would require that at least 80% of Medicaid payments for personal care, homemaker and home health aide services be spent on compensation for direct care workers.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
Senators introduce bipartisan bill to boost residency slots by 14,000 from 2025-2031 dmuoio Thu, 04/27/2023 - 13:35
The Rand Blog
APRIL 27, 2023
COVID-19 showed that the U.S. pandemic response plans of the past were no match for a protracted nationwide health emergency. What lessons were learned that could help the United States effectively protect its population and other vital national interests going forward?
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
Teladoc wagers on 'whole-person' virtual care strategy as telehealth market evolves hlandi Thu, 04/27/2023 - 06:25
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2023
Haystack Oncology was founded to dramatically improve patient outcomes with transformative precision oncology. What You Should Know: Quest Diagnostics has reached an agreement to acquire Haystack Oncology an early-stage oncology company focused on minimal residual disease (MRD) testing to aid in the early, accurate detection of residual or recurring cancer and better inform therapy decisions Under the terms of the agreement, Quest will pay $300 million in cash at closing, net of cash acquired, a
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
CMS' latest batch of Medicaid, CHIP proposals include maximum appointment wait times, greater pay transparency dmuoio Thu, 04/27/2023 - 15:55
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2023
What You Should Know: Sprinter Health , a mobile diagnostics company, and Story Health , a health technology and services company that provides scalable specialty care beyond the clinic, today announced their partnership to bring elevated healthcare into the homes of patients with heart disease. Heart disease is widespread and impacts nearly 50% of American adults.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2023
Vendor consolidation: 6 benefits for healthcare organizations mteefey Thu, 04/27/2023 - 17:26
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2023
Contract Logix white paper reveals the top 10 most important contract management KPIs and how to maximize their impact It’s critical for every healthcare organization to monitor and optimize its contracts and contracting processes using key performance indicators (KPIs). But how do you determine which KPIs are the most important to your business and how do you harness the data required to benchmark and track them?
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Home Health Care
APRIL 27, 2023
A group of lawmakers has introduced legislation that not only focuses on improving conditions for professional caregivers, but family caregivers as well. On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) — Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging — joined seven other senators in introducing the Supporting Our Direct Care Workforce and Family Caregivers Act.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2023
Nathalie Garcia, Founder of Practice Better What You Should Know: Practice Better , a leading, all-in-one practice management software platform for health and wellness professionals, announced today that it has raised a $27 million growth investment led by Five Elms Capital and follows a $1 million investment from Disruption Ventures in 2021. The investment will support the development of new integrations and strategic partnerships, as well as enhanced product features to help health professio
HIStalk
APRIL 27, 2023
Top News Virtual care platform vendor EVisit acquires Bluestream Health,
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2023
What You Should Know: Today, global holographic healthcare training providers, GigXR, announce a second Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to develop holographic simulation training for the 354th Medical Group United States Air Force (USAF). The contract signifies another step forward for XR as a means to deliver hyper-realistic, immersive training tools.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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Home Health Care
APRIL 27, 2023
About a dozen years ago when Will Putman took over the business development side of Continuous Home Care, his dad — the co-founder of the company — had an unofficial benchmark nicknamed “blackjack.” That term, according to Putman, pertained to new admissions. “We had a small pocket of referral sources back then and understood, to an extent, what home health was,” Putman told Home Health Care News.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2023
What You Should Know: Sprinter Health , a mobile diagnostics company, and Story Health , a health technology and services company that provides scalable specialty care beyond the clinic, today announced their partnership to bring elevated healthcare into the homes of patients with heart disease. Heart disease is widespread and impacts nearly 50% of American adults.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 27, 2023
Hospital admissions are typically paid largely based on DRGs. DRGs account for the type of admission (e.g., heart failure, hip fracture, COPD) and some measure of patient characteristics and disease severity. However, should hospital structural factures be incorporated into reimbursement? On the one hand, if the structural factor is a cause of less efficient care, it should not be incorporated in reimbursement.
HIStalk
APRIL 27, 2023
Lately, it seems like my travel is never uneventful. The.
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.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2023
Dave Bennett, CEO of pCare The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health technologie s across the healthcare industry. Digital transformation is now the top priority for many healthcare leaders as they seek to build resilient systems. At its core, this means implementing emerging digital technologies to modify essential operations, processes, and services to ease staff workload and withstand future challenges.
Patient Safety Movement
APRIL 27, 2023
Join Us for the 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, June 1-2, 2023 Join us in celebrating our 10th anniversary summit with world-renowned speakers and panelists discussing the latest challenges and solutions in patient safety. Learn more Letter from CEO The month of April is celebrated as organ donor month. Organ donation is a selfless gift to those with organ failure.
Health Advances
APRIL 27, 2023
By Michael Zhang, MD, and Brandon Wade Management of musculoskeletal (MSK) diseases has long been challenging. Simple fixes are short-lived leading to repeat intervention, high costs, and persistent unmet need. So, what can be done about it? Given the upcoming Digital Orthopedics Conference in San Francisco (DOCSF), this post will be a bit biased and focus on the potential, and hurdles, for digital orthopedics.
The Rand Blog
APRIL 27, 2023
When conflict did not end in Sudan after the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the international community fell into a familiar pattern of never-ending peace negotiations. But conflict resolution focused on signing peace agreements that split power between armed groups rarely leads to sustainable peace. The effects of such misbegotten efforts, in the wreckage in Khartoum, are plain to see.
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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