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Teladoc unveils new app integrating services for primary care and mental health, expands Spanish language offerings

Fierce Healthcare

Teladoc unveils new app integrating services for primary care and mental health, expands Spanish language offerings. hlandi. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 16:07.

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Report confirms racial disparities in patient access to their health data

Healthcare It News

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT examined the National Cancer Institute's latest annual health information trends survey to identify racial and ethnic disparities in patient portal offers, access and use. WHY IT MATTERS. Since 2003 the NCI's Health Information National Trends Survey has collected nationally representative data about the American public’s knowledge of, attitudes toward and use of health-related information in an effort to create more effective he

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Commonwealth Fund: Medicare inpatient spending concentrated among 2 systems in most regions

Fierce Healthcare

Commonwealth Fund: Medicare inpatient spending concentrated among 2 systems in most regions. rking. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 15:07.

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Patient sues CommonSpirit over ransomware attack

Health Care Dive

A Washington state man alleged his personal health information is now in the hands of cybercriminals and is seeking to bring a class action suit against the health system.

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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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How mental health made the 'remarkable transition' to virtual: study

Fierce Healthcare

How mental health made the 'remarkable transition' to virtual: study. fdiamond. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 15:21.

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Hospital margins improve modestly in November as expenses dip

Health Care Dive

The monthly upturn in operating margins, identified in a new report from Kaufman Hall, is a bright spot in an otherwise difficult year for the nation’s hospitals.

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Teladoc rolling out new integrated health app this year

Health Care Dive

The app is available to a select number of Teladoc’s existing clients this month, with full market availability expected later this year.

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Northern Light Health inks strategic collaboration with Optum

Fierce Healthcare

Northern Light Health inks strategic collaboration with Optum. pminemyer. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 15:55.

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Walgreens raises healthcare segment outlook on Summit acquisition

Health Care Dive

The company now expects the segment to bring in between $14.5 billion and $16 billion in sales in 2025.

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Walgreens posts $3.7B loss in Q1 on opioid settlement but boosts sales outlook in 2023

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens posts $3.7B loss in Q1 on opioid settlement but boosts sales outlook in 2023. hlandi. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 12:02.

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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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GE’s new healthcare spinoff nabs Amazon executive as CTO

Health Care Dive

On the heels of its market launch, medical device maker GE HealthCare has announced that longtime AWS executive Taha Kass-Hout will join the company.

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Chutes & Ladders—Health Information Technology Advisory Committee gets new appointees

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Health Information Technology Advisory Committee gets new appointees. aburky. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 17:12.

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Lifespan names new CFO

Health Care Dive

Peter Markell will assume his new role Jan. 30 and will work alongside Lifespan’s newly appointed president and CEO John Fernandez.

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The Calls for More Progress on Space Governance Are Growing Louder

The Rand Blog

Space may seem infinite, but the narrow band that hugs the Earth, where satellites and space stations operate, is not. Existing space treaties won't be enough to keep satellites safe, to prevent crowding and collisions, and to preserve the promise of outer space.

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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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Longitudinal Care and Technology’s Role

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by KanTime. This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022 during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. Home Health Care News: Sundar, tell me a little bit about yourself what KanTime does, and just a synopsis of you in the business.

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What Might Space Look Like in 2050?

The Rand Blog

It would not take huge technological breakthroughs to make space and space travel a much bigger part of everyday life. Instead, it would take a steady progression of incremental advances—and one development in particular could provide the tipping point.

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6 New Year’s Resolutions for Seniors for Healthy Aging

Healthcare Associates

6 New Year’s Resolutions for Seniors for Healthy Aging. The new year has arrived and, with it, a chance for new beginnings when it comes to healthy aging habits. While it might seem trite, setting a New Year’s resolution is an effective way to help you stick with your plans this year to take care of your health. 1. Hit the Track. No—this doesn’t mean the racetrack.

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M&A: Rendever Acquires AARP’s Alcove Virtual Reality Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rendever , the company pioneering the future of aging through VR acquires AARP’s Alcove , a popular consumer VR platform publicly available to families at home through their own VR headsets. – The Rendever team has been co-developing Alcove with AARP since 2020. By bringing Alcove in-house, Rendever is amplifying its reach through an integrated ecosystem of products that enable a better aging experience for seniors worldwide, regardless of where they live.

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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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4 Big Questions For Home Health, Home Care In 2023

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Home health and home care operators grappled with numerous challenges in 2022 that impacted their businesses, from COVID-19 cases spiking due to the Omicron variant in the first quarter to labor pressures persisting throughout the year. For many providers, those headwinds turned their attention to maintaining growth, fine-tuning existing operations and avoiding loss, with service-line diversification, technology innovation and other forward-lookin

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C2i Genomics & AstraZeneca Partner to Advance Cancer Therapy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – C2i Genomics , a cancer intelligence company, today announced a strategic collaboration with AstraZeneca , a global life sciences and pharmaceutical leader. – The two companies have collaborated to evaluate the potential of whole-genome minimal residual disease (MRD) testing across solid cancers. – Expanding on a completion of AstraZeneca’s accelerator BeyondBio SCALE program for start-ups and a successful technology validation, C2i Genomics and AstraZen

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Ukraine and the New Two War Construct

The Rand Blog

The United States might look at its support of Ukraine as a potential model for future defense strategy. It would require a substantial expansion of the defense industrial base, but it might offer a plausible way to keep American objectives and resources in line without sacrificing too much in either.

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Liver Cancer Awareness – Here’s What You Need to Know in 2023

HIT Consultant

Justin Chen Li, CEO of Helio Genomics. By the end of 2022, nearly 42,00 new cases of primary liver cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. In fact, liver cancer incidence rates have more than tripled since 1980, marking an increased need for better detection and diagnosis. We might not talk about liver cancer as much as we do breast or lung cancer, but it’s a real threat to millions of Americans – and we need to continue spreading awareness.

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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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Behind the scenes: The increasingly complex – and common – radiation treatment for cancer

Healthy Debate

The post Behind the scenes: The increasingly complex – and common – radiation treatment for cancer appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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NuraLogix Unveils Telehealth Platform Performing Continuous Health/Vital Signs During Video Calls

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NuraLogix , global pioneers of contactless health monitoring whose technology can take over 30 medical-grade health vitals using any video-enabled device, unveils Anura™ Telehealth, a platform that performs continuous health and vital sign measurements while on a video call. – This is the latest addition to its AnuraTM platform that uses conventional video cameras to extract facial blood flow information to accurately calculate a host of medical vitals and hea

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The Biggest Challenges Facing Practices Heading Into 2023

Solution Reach

When talking to a medical practice manager recently, the person told me that the past couple years have been some of the hardest years they have ever experienced in healthcare. No doubt much of this was due to COVID and the aftermath of COVID. However, now that the pandemic has reached some sort of homeostasis in the world, there are a number of other forces at play that are making life painful for healthcare practices.

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Home Care Referral Service Raises Over $86M

Home Health Care

A company led by a post-acute care veteran has raised over $86 million. Its mission is to help seniors find home care services. In an SEC filing , CareSave Technologies Inc. — led by former ShiftMed CEO Todd Walrath — has disclosed $86.6 million in capital funding, with expectations to raise significantly more. CareSave Technologies, which does business as HomeCare.com, will essentially serve as a facilitator by providing technology and tools to help families and caregivers connect with each oth

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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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MEDITECH’s top 5 blogs of 2022

Meditech

As we reflect on 2022, I invite you to look at the stories that resonated most with our blog readers. Whether it's a celebration of International Women’s Day, a collaborative event to lead change, or a new design system to champion the user experience, the health IT community has worked tirelessly to propel healthcare forward. To help celebrate our collective successes, I am excited to share MEDITECH’s top 5 blogs of the year.

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Lessons in Health Data Privacy from the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

Bill Of Health

By Katie Gu. The past may hold important lessons for our uncertain future of health privacy for patients, physicians, and hospitals in the face of abortion subpoenas post- Dobbs. . In returning the legality of abortion back to states, the Supreme Court’s decision has paved the path towards greater surveillance of sensitive health data contained in patient medical records.

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What was the impact of regulating markups for US health insurance?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Part of the Affordable Care Act mandated a medical loss ratio (MLR) for health plans in the individual and small group markets. What this means is that if the MLR is 80% and insurers charge $100 in premiums, plan enrollees must receive $80 in services on average. If they do not (say they only receive $75 of services on average), then they would get a premium rebate ($5 in this example).

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Exec Hires: GE HealthCare Names Taha Kass-Hout First Chief Technology Officer

HIT Consultant

Taha Kass-Hout MD, MS, CTO at GE HealthCare. What You Should Know: GE HealthCare announced today that Taha Kass-Hout MD, MS has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company’s new science and technology organization. – Reporting to GE HealthCare President & CEO Peter Arduini, Dr. Kass-Hout will help drive GE HealthCare’s D3 precision care strategy, a framework and digital products that emphasize the company’s smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digit

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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.