Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The clinical digital assistant, which will be available in the next year, will automate notetaking and suggest next steps, like scheduling labs or follow-up appointments.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
NEW YORK CITY—Advances in technology innovation and artificial intelligence can help accelerate global sustainable development efforts to combat hunger, poverty and climate change and improve healt | Advances in technology innovation and artificial intelligence can help accelerate global sustainable development efforts to combat hunger, poverty and climate change and improve health outcomes, a United Nations official said Monday.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The study raises new questions about the dependability of hospital pricing, and builds on a mountain of research finding wide variance in pricing between different hospitals — and within the same facility.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Seniors are becoming increasingly overburdened by marketing efforts from private Medicare plans, and low-income beneficiaries are twice as likely to file complaints regarding fraudulent phone calls | Fraudulent marketing practices are affecting low-income seniors looking for Medicare plans more than higher-income seniors, a new study has found.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Public health officials and drugmakers are trying to raise awareness of RSV among at-risk older adults — and convince them to get an additional respiratory shot alongside those for COVID-19 and flu.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Recent survey data from The Physicians Foundation suggest residents and medical students are no strangers to the widespread burnout weighing down America’s physician workforce. | Medical students—and, in some cases, residents—more frequently reported mental health difficulties than practicing physicians, among whom feelings of burnout remain well above pre-pandemic rates.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Collaboration, communication and controlling costs: How one tool is modernizing the way the dental industry does business jpiatt Mon, 09/18/2023 - 15:52
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Health systems are rethinking how they engage with patients. Read on to break into innovation.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
New Orleans-based health system Ochsner Health is testing generative AI to draft message responses from healthcare workers to patients. | The pilot launching this month will draft simple messages to patients in the MyOchsner app portal. A small group of clinicians will participate in testing a new Epic feature that drafts responses to routine patient requests, which they will then review and edit.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Like other nonprofits, Ascension continued to feel the strain of inflationary pressures as expense growth outpaced modest gains in revenue.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Prime Therapeutics has tapped Inovalon and its cloud-based tech to enhance its Magellan Rx specialty pharmacy, the Blues-backed pharmacy benefit manager announced Monday. | Prime Therapeutics has tapped Inovalon and its cloud-based tech to enhance its Magellan Rx specialty pharmacy, the Blues-backed pharmacy benefit manager announced Monday.
p3care
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Every year, the Merit-based Incentives Payment System brings a fresh opportunity for providers. Following the value-based care model, the program intends to achieve a high standard of quality care. So, MIPS 2023 reporting has started, and providers are demonstrating their commitment to quality. Accepting new challenges, they are all striving to secure themselves while targeting a maximum score.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Trilliant Health, a healthcare analytics company, has made its national demand forecast publicly available. | The demand forecast supplies algorithms on the company’s all-payer claims data set to model how demand for care is likely to change over the coming decade. The national forecast is updated quarterly, with projections by service line and demographic segments.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The new lawsuit alleges the nonprofit health plan violated employees' religious rights by not granting them an exemption to its inoculation requirement.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The Joint Commission has announced a voluntary sustainability certification program for hospitals. | The program provides a framework to help organizations undertake decarbonization efforts and to receive public recognition. It was originally proposed as mandatory but changed to voluntary after industry pushback.
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
More certain than the outcome of the war is the need for an extensive post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. It is likely to be the largest post-war rebuilding effort since the one in Europe after World War Two. The United States and its allies and partners have an intense interest in the success of reconstruction.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
New Orleans stands as the U.S. city with the most racially segregated hospital market, according to a newly released Lown Institute analysis built on 2021 Medicare and Census data. | A new Lown Institute analysis found many of the country's most and least racially inclusive hospitals are in the same city, a trend that loosely follows those regions' differences in life expectancy by race.
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations tirelessly proclaims its centrality to the region, but its inability to develop a coherent response to Chinese aggression or the crisis in Myanmar has effectively killed that claim. ASEAN members will inevitably continue to seek out alternative paths.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Nurses, researchers and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathoge | A CDC advisory committee's June draft guidelines controversially concluded that N95 face masks are equivalent to surgical face masks in certain settings.
Healthcare Leadership
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
With Emily Gard Marshall Have you or a family member had to endure prolonged wait times to see a medical specialist? Have you gone through the anxiety and uncertainty associated with waiting to see a specialist and wondered whether you or your family member’s health condition is getting progressively worse while you wait? Turns out your primary care provider (PCP) shares similar concerns, and the wait time to see specialists impacts their patients as well as their practice.
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise to reshape our very understanding of research. But, as with all groundbreaking innovations, SDLs bring their own set of intriguing questions and potential challenges.
NASHP
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Wisconsin has a longstanding history of strong programs that provide support and services to caregivers in the state, and it has big plans for the future, as demonstrated in its 2023–2025 State Aging Plan. To learn more about Wisconsin’s caregiving initiatives, NASHP sat down with Lynn Gall. She is the manager of family caregiver support and lifespan respite programs at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ (DHS) Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources and Office on Aging and a newly swo
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.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Help at Home – one of the largest home- and community-based services (HCBS) providers in the country – is leaving the state of Alabama. The company will lay off nearly 800 employees in the state as of Nov. 4. Kristen Trenaman, the VP of public relations and marketing at Help at Home, told Home Health Care News that the state’s reimbursement and regulatory environment has made it tough to recruit, hire and retain caregivers.
NASHP
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
SupportCaregiving.org offers resources to help guide implementation of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers A coalition of groups including the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), the National Alliance for Caregiving, and The John A. Hartford Foundation is proud to announce the launch of SupportCaregiving.org , a new site that supports the implementation of the first-of-its-kind National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.
Advanced Data Systems
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently unveiled an ambitious new Model for improving state healthcare systems: the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model, or simply the AHEAD Model.
NASHP
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
NASHP, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has launched a multi-state learning lab with six participating states: Maine Maryland New Hampshire North Carolina Oklahoma Washington The six-month learning lab supports participating teams in developing and implementing state-specific data-driven policymaking approaches to address health disparities.
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.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Honor make four new additions to its leadership team Four new executives recently joined Honor’s leadership team. The new additions to the team include: Linn Free, who was named senior vice president of operations; Stefan Haney, who was named senior vice president of growth technology; Mark Privett, who was named vice president of design; and Tejas Saraiya, who was named vice president of platform sales.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Michael Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value-Based Care, Edifecs While the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) is definitely not new, 2023 marks the first year SDOH is codified into national and statewide value-based payment program mandates. These mandates are designed to hold Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) accountable.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The Vistria Group, a Chicago-based private equity firm, believes in home-based care’s value. Its investments back that up. Over the years, the company has built a diverse portfolio of home-based care assets that include home health and home care providers, vendors and a management services company. Specifically, those assets include Help at Home, Mission Healthcare, Medalogix, Tango, St.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
That is the title of an interesting review paper by Squires et al. 2023. The abstract is below: The effectiveness and cost of a public health intervention is dependent on complex human behaviors, yet health economic models typically make simplified assumptions about behavior, based on little theory or evidence. This paper reviews existing methods across disciplines for incorporating behavior within simulation models, to explore what methods could be used within health economic models and to high
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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