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Medicaid redeterminations losses exceeding predicted levels in some states

Health Care Dive

As of November, eight states had blown past their projected disenrollment of adults, while 12 states exceeded their projected disenrollment of children, according to new research from the Urban Institute.

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Medicare hospital trust fund extended by five years to 2036

Fierce Healthcare

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money as quickly as expected. Here's how federal officials are reacting.

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Antitrust agencies are relying on consumers to report anticompetitive behavior. That trust might be misplaced.

Health Care Dive

Regulators want consumers to flag business practices harming market health in the healthcare sector, which could result in a tsunami of new tips — for good and ill, according to experts.

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The IT strategy behind a groundbreaking new $2B pediatric hospital

Healthcare It News

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It was built from the ground up with the very latest healthcare information technology. It is one of the largest and most advanced pediatric hospitals in the world. It cost more than $2 billion. It is 19 stories tall, with nearly two million square feet.

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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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More than just shortages, the nursing workforce risks a crisis of experience

Health Care Dive

Building a sustainable nursing workforce requires more than just filling vacancies. How can we prepare and support new nurse graduates to develop a competent and resilient nursing workforce?

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Milken Institute: How employers can change the paradigm for obesity care

Fierce Healthcare

Employers are in a strong position to lead the charge in changing the conversation around obesity care, according to a new report from the Milken Institute. | Employers are in a strong position to lead the charge in changing the conversation around obesity care, according to a new report from the Milken Institute.

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Struggling Steward Health Care files for bankruptcy

Fierce Healthcare

Embattled health system Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a move it says is critical to continue to treat patients as it navigates its financial issues. | Embattled health system Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a move it says is critical to continue to treat patients as it navigates its financial issues.

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More than a third of nurses extremely likely to change jobs in 2024: survey

Health Care Dive

The results suggest job dissatisfaction is still high among nurses, and turnover is likely to remain elevated.

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Moniker magic: The adventurous world of naming a startup

Fierce Healthcare

As a proud Colombian, Maria Artunduaga, M.D., wanted her startup to have a Spanish name that could easily be pronounced in English. | Every founder has a different story to tell about naming a startup. Two main approaches exist: do it yourself or outsource help. It all comes down to what they can afford.

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Steward Health Care files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Health Care Dive

The filing marks the largest provider bankruptcy in decades, according to experts.

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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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Suki secures Premier sticker of approval — and thousands of potential hospital customers

Fierce Healthcare

Suki, a voice-assistive AI and scribe tool, inked a national group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc. The deal could skyrocket Suki to the top of the healthcare AI assistant market. | A new group purchasing agreement between Premier, Inc. and Suki AI will encourage adoption by Premier's thousands of hospital and health system members.

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Recommendations to support clinician well-being

Health Care Dive

Consider these recommendations to best combat clinician burnout and protect your team.

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Amwell bullish on strong growth from defense contract in 2024 despite declining revenue in Q1

Fierce Healthcare

Telehealth company Amwell continues to struggle with falling stock price and both its bottom and top line results in the first quarter missed Wall Street analysts estimates. | The virtual care giant is plotting accelerated revenue growth and a path to EBITDA profitability in 2026, boosted by a major contract with the Defense Health Agency.

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How AI Is Bringing Patient Experience Back to the Forefront for the Medical Community

HIT Consultant

Michael Zacharski, CEO of Brand Engagement Network (BEN) When it comes to the patient experience, time isn’t on our side. U.S. adults spend the equivalent of an entire workday each month coordinating care for themselves and/or their family, according to a Harris poll. The same poll found that 56% of American adults wait more than a week for an appointment, while many others skip healthcare altogether, with 30% saying they don’t have the time and 25% saying it takes too long to get an appointment

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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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Precision medicine tool predicts breast cancer immunotherapy response

Health IT Analytics

New InteractPrint tool analyzes how breast cancer epithelial cells impact cancer-immune interactions, enabling prediction of immune checkpoint inhibition response.

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OM1 Unveils AI-Powered Phenotyping Platform for Personalized Medicine

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – OM1 introduces three new products: OM1 Orion, OM1 Lyra, and OM1 Polaris powered by PhenOMTM – an artificial intelligence-powered digital phenotyping platform for personalized medicine and clinical research. – OM1 is the leader in providing Real-World Evidence (RWE) insights from bench to bedside, leveraging advanced predictive and generative AI platforms coupled with deep clinical data to empower healthcare stakeholders.

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How Personal Care In Acute Care Settings Could Become Popularized, Benefiting Patients And Providers

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a request from one state to allow more personal care service delivery within acute care facilities. Though not yet widespread, the amendment could open doors for providers and patients needing personal care in alternative settings in the future.

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GE HealthCare Unveils Head-Only MRI Scanner for Advanced Neuroscience Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare announced the unveiling of SIGNA MAGNUS , a revolutionary head-only magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. – This FDA 510(k) pending technology holds immense promise for unlocking new frontiers in neuroscience research, a field previously limited by the capabilities of conventional whole-body MRI systems.

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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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New York’s 2025 Budget Makes Big Changes To The State’s Consumer-Directed Program

Home Health Care

Last month, the New York state budget for 2025 passed. It will bring on sweeping changes for home care stakeholders and recipients in the state. The budget makes major changes to New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP). Under New York’s CDPAP, individuals seeking care are allowed to hire a caregiver of their own choosing. This often means informal caregivers.

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Exploring The Impact of AR in Surgical Training and Simulation

HIT Consultant

Image by JAFAR AHMED on Unsplash Human surgery training has used the classical approach of dissections of bodies and presence in live surgery for a long time. These means offer truly priceless opportunities to learn but multiple problems lie in accessibility, interactivity, and safety. AR has started a new era in surgical training through its affordability, interactivity, and safety.

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Keeping Your Hands Clean and Healthy

CDC

As a healthcare worker, clean hands count. Clean hands prevent the spread of illness in healthcare facilities. Unfortunately, the frequent handwashing and sanitizing needed to achieve this all too often results in painful, cracking, or broken skin on the hands. This raises an important question: what can we do to ensure our hands are clean to protect ourselves and patients, and still have healthy and beautiful hands?

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Opmed.ai Secures $15M to Bring AI Optimization to Healthcare Operations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Opmed.ai, the AI optimization platform for healthcare, announced today the successful raise of $15M in series A funding. – The round was co-led by NFX and Grove Ventures , with Secret Chord Ventures , the Impact investor Sir Ronald Cohen, and Unbox Ventures also participating Revolutionizing Healthcare Efficiency: Opmed.ai’s AI-Powered OR Optimization Solutions The funding announcement arrives amidst a critical shortage in healthcare labor, with projecti

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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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The world is relying on the United States to get value-based drug pricing right

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the title of my article with Melanie Whittington and Louis Garrison in STAT News. An excerpt is below: The changing landscape of drug pricing policy in the U.S. has implications for the global pace and direction of innovation. Drug policy changes are being influenced by perceptions of the value of novel medicines relative to their budgetary impacts, with some believing that many medicines may not be worth their cost, creating an important role for health technology assessments (HTA).

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Want ROI From Training? – Leaders Must Do These 4 Things

Baird Group

When healthcare leaders set out to train staff, it’s important to have a plan to get a return on investment, or ROI from Training Customer service training only sticks when the training event is seen as the beginning and not the end. For over 25 years, I have been helping healthcare organizations to create and sustain consistently positive patient experiences.

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 5/6/24

HIStalk

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Protecting healthcare revenue flow: the power of a business continuity plan

Nordic

Financial health is essential to ensure that healthcare organizations can effectively serve individuals and communities. Natural disasters, cyberattacks , power outages, infectious disease outbreaks, and other emergencies can threaten the critical flow of revenue, putting patient care, clinician satisfaction, and the long-term sustainability of hospitals and health systems at risk.

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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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Holland & Knight Health Dose: May 7, 2024

HKLaw

Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector.

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NeuroFlow Launches Maternal Mental Health ’Pathways’ for Improved Risk-Detection and Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NeuroFlow , a behavioral health technology and analytics company helping to measure and manage population risk, has launched a suite of perinatal and postpartum pathways to support behavioral health throughout and after pregnancy. – These programs are a manifestation of NeuroFlow’s commitment to improving identification and timely support for behavioral health comorbidities, overcoming systemic barriers to care for populations that lack the resources the

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Top 2 Trends Gastroenterology Practices Are Using to Boost Profits

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 5 minutes As we navigate through 2024, gastroenterology practices find themselves at a critical juncture. The healthcare landscape is evolving rapidly, and patients’ expectations are higher than ever before. To remain competitive and provide the best possible care, practices must adapt to the changing needs of their patients. Keep reading to learn two top trends that gastroenterology practices are focusing on: the urgent push for modern clinical intake procedures and the stea

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Otsuka Precision Health Launches: Personalized Care Powered by AI and Digital Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Otsuka America, Inc. (OAI) today announced the formation of Otsuka Precision Health (OPH), a new subsidiary dedicated to transforming patient care through innovative digital solutions and a data-driven approach. – OPH will leverage cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence (AI) and digital therapeutics, to personalize patient care journeys across various conditions, from mental health to nephrology.

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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.