Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) has published voluntary cybersecurity performance goals tailored for healthcare organizations, the first move in the administration’s
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 24, 2024
The payer curbed the worst of medical cost growth last year, and expects to do the same in 2024 — an assumption one analyst called “aggressive” given persistent higher utilization among seniors.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
Grocery delivery company Instacart notched another partnership with a care provider as it extends its reach into healthcare. | The company will work with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to enable providers to prescribe food interventions, much like traditional medications, right to patients' homes.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 24, 2024
The head of the Senate Finance Committee sent letters to several health insurance exchanges on Tuesday, as part of an inquiry into allegedly predatory Medicare Advantage marketing to seniors.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
Walgreens is exploring a potential sale of its specialty pharmacy business Shields Health Solutions, just two-and-half years after it bought a majority stake in the business. | Walgreens is exploring a potential sale of its specialty pharmacy business Shields Health Solutions, just two-and-half years after it bought a majority stake in the business, according to a Bloomberg report.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 24, 2024
The health insurer’s stock plunged Thursday morning following its 2023 results, which fell startlingly short of Wall Street’s expectations.
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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 24, 2024
Lawmakers demanded the operator detail how it will "ensure the communities Steward’s hospitals serve are not abandoned" amid financial troubles.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
More than 21.3 million people will be enrolled in an Affordable Care Act during this year's open enrollment period, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today. | Affordable Care Act enrollment has hit an all-time high, prompting federal officials to recognize its importance to the insurance marketplace today.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 24, 2024
The specialty pharmacy could be valued at more than $4 billion in a sale, but a deal might slow the healthcare segment’s drive toward profitability.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
Cleveland Clinic CEO and President Tom Mihaljevic, M.D., is promising his team a year of workforce development, physical security initiatives and sustainable growth amid an industry rife with risin | Despite 2023's tight 0.4% operating margin, CEO Tom Mihaljevic, M.D., told employees that the nonprofit system is prioritizing continued workforce investments and worldwide expansion.
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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 24, 2024
The announcement comes weeks after the financially troubled health system called off merger discussions with Duluth, Minnesota-based Essentia Health.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
A Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts policy that was set to begin Jan. | The health plan said its delaying implementation of its new monitored anesthesia care policy, just one month after we reported on patient advocacy groups' concerns over the policy.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JANUARY 24, 2024
That is the title of a recent paper by Hernandez and Hung (2024). The article provides an excellent review of how drugs get reimbursed in the US and who the key players are. I provide an abbreviated summary below, but do read the full article. The players Manufacturers research, develop, and bring new drug products to market. Wholesalers act as distributors of drug products.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
WellTheory, a virtual care platform focused on autoimmune diseases, announced its first employer partnership with Maven Clinic. | WellTheory’s enterprise offering aims to help employers and payers address disease that keeps employees sick and costs high. Maven employees now have free access to WellTheory’s platform that offers evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle coaching to reduce autoimmune symptoms.
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Home Health Care
JANUARY 24, 2024
Generally, staffing has taken the cake as the No. 1 issue home-based care providers are facing heading into any year. But, in 2024, changing payment dynamics have become a formidable rival to recruiting and retention concerns. When home-based care professionals were tasked with providing the “greatest challenge” facing them in the new year, 58% responded staffing.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
Elevance Health beat the Street on both earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023, reporting $856 million in profit. | Elevance Health beat the Street on both earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023, reporting $856 million in profit.
Health Populi
JANUARY 24, 2024
For health care, AI can benefit diagnosis and clinical care, address paperwork and bureaucratic duplication and waste, accelerate scientific research, and personalize health care direct-to-patients and -caregivers. On the downside, risks of AI in health care can involve incomplete or false diagnoses, inaccuracies and errors in cleaning up paperwork, exacerbate differential access to scientific knowledge, and exacerbate health disparities, explained in the World Health Organization’s (WHO)
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 24, 2024
Dr. Nitu Kashyap, MD, FAMIA, Chief Health Informatics Officer at Emory Healthcare What You Should Know: Emory Healthcare has announced the appointment of Dr. Nitu Kashyap, MD, FAMIA, as its Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO), effective from February 5, 2024. In her new role, Dr. Kashyap will be responsible for overseeing technology projects spanning clinical disciplines to ensure alignment with Emory’s strategic goals in patient experience, care, teaching, and research.
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GoMoHealth
JANUARY 24, 2024
At GoMo Health, a core principle we uphold is the continuous improvement of personalized digital health management initiatives that actively address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). This is exemplified by our recent recognition as a 2023 MarCom Gold Award winner in the Advertising/Marketing category for our 2023 campaign: Wellness Rising: Accelerating Healthcare Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
HIStalk
JANUARY 24, 2024
News WHO publishes recommendations for governments on using AI for.
GoMoHealth
JANUARY 24, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 24, 2024 GoMo Health Shelley Schoenfeld, Chief Marketing Officer E-mail: sschoenfeld@gomohealth.com Phone: 732-484-9144 GoMo Health Wellness Rising Campaign Named 2023 MARCOM Gold Award Winner The award-winning healthcare engagement company beat out thousands of applicants for a Gold award in the “Marketing Campaign” category Asbury Park, NJ, January 24, 2024: GoMo Health, leader in digitally delivered patient engagement programs, is thrilled to announce receipt of
Home Health Care
JANUARY 24, 2024
For home-based care providers, investing in technology is complicated, cumbersome and necessary. One of the most difficult issues for leaders is sifting through all of the solutions out there and choosing the ones that fit their businesses. That’s why, before considering what technology to invest in, providers should map out their overarching strategies.
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.
Triage Health Law
JANUARY 24, 2024
On Tuesday January 30, we hope you will join a seasoned team of former Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors for what will certainly be a robust a discussion on “the most consequential anti-foreign-bribery law passed in almost 50 years”: the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA). Passed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), FEPA allows the DOJ to prosecute foreign officials who demand or accept a bribe from a U.S. citizen or company.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 24, 2024
Eric Prugh, Chief Product Officer at Authenticx Healthcare leaders should champion human-AI collaboration by having people work with AI to validate insights and develop engagement strategies. Organizations can — and should — implement conversational AI because it allows leaders to identify actionable areas of change and protects individuals’ privacy and identities.
Patient Safety Movement
JANUARY 24, 2024
Over the past decade, surgery and anaesthesia have begun to take centre stage in the discussions around global health and solutions to the ever-increasing surgical burden of disease around the world are beginning to receive long overdue attention. The 68th World Health Assembly in 2015 recognized the importance of strengthening essential and emergency and surgical and anaesthesia care as a component of universal health coverage.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 24, 2024
Elevance Health Inc. (NYSE: ELV) is going all-in on Carelon Services — the company’s provider services arm — as a future growth driver. “Carelon has, and will continue to add, attractive capabilities that we can scale rapidly and sustainably over the long term,” Elevance CEO Gail Boudreaux said during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call on Wednesday.
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.
Healthcare Associates
JANUARY 24, 2024
Many people experience a slump in energy after a meal, and some may even become sleepy. But when is sleepiness after eating a cause for concern? When tiredness gets in the way of daily activities, it could point to a more serious medical condition. Explore how sleepiness can be linked to diabetes, what other symptoms to look for, and what else can cause someone to be tired after eating.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 24, 2024
What You Should Know: Coral Care , a digital health platform dedicated to enhancing access to pediatric developmental specialty care, has successfully secured $1.3 million in its latest funding round. With participation from Reach Capital, Greymatter Capital, Purpose Built Ventures, Hustle Fund, and various angel investors, the funding will support Coral Care’s expansion efforts across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and additional markets in late 2024.
HKLaw
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule recently.
Bill Of Health
JANUARY 24, 2024
By Adithi Iyer The legal world is atwitter with the developing artificial intelligence (“AI”) copyright cage match between The New York Times and OpenAI. The Times filed its complaint in Manhattan Federal District Court on December 27 accusing OpenAI of unlawfully using its (copyrighted and paywalled) articles to train ChatGPT. OpenAI, in turn, published a sharply-worded response on January 8, claiming that its incorporation of the material for training purposes squarely constitutes fair use.
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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