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Digital health funding holds steady in Q1 after year of decline

Health Care Dive

The digital health sector defied trends seen in the larger venture capital environment, where funding continues to fall. But digital health investment is still at its lowest level seen in years.

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Startup Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health to build out telehealth services

Fierce Healthcare

Startup Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health to build out telehealth services hlandi Wed, 05/24/2023 - 06:15

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US projected to hit record-low uninsurance rate this year, before rates tick upward

Health Care Dive

As federal aid expires, lower-income Americans — who saw the largest recent gains in uninsurance trends — will likely be affected the most, according to experts.

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LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr helps fight a COVID-related decrease in STI testing

Fierce Healthcare

LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr helps fight a COVID-related decrease in STI testing aburky Wed, 05/24/2023 - 20:08

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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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Abbott cuts jobs amid dwindling demand for COVID tests

Health Care Dive

The layoffs at Abbott’s manufacturing plant come after the COVID-19 public health emergency expired this month, and the company forecasts decreasing demand for the tests this year.

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PCMA slams lawmakers for lack of PBM voices at hearing on industry

Fierce Healthcare

PCMA slams lawmakers for lack of PBM voices at hearing on industry pminemyer Wed, 05/24/2023 - 16:35

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With Medicaid redeterminations underway, many are unaware of the process: KFF

Fierce Healthcare

With Medicaid redeterminations underway, many are unaware of the process: KFF pminemyer Wed, 05/24/2023 - 16:07

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Health tech startup Florence buys Zipnosis from Bright Health

Health Care Dive

Bright Health, which recently said it's looking to exit the insurance business, purchased telehealth company Zipnosis in 2021.

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Epic is going all in on generative AI in healthcare. Here's why a handful of health systems are eager to test-drive it

Fierce Healthcare

Epic is going all in on generative AI in healthcare.

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Health equity can be improved with CDS

Healthcare It News

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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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Healthcare 'flying blind': Medication nonadherence and how remote therapeutic monitoring can help

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare 'flying blind': Medication nonadherence and how remote therapeutic monitoring can help agliadkovskaya Wed, 05/24/2023 - 10:35

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H1 Partners with Michael J. Fox Foundation on Parkinson’s Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: H1, the connecting force for global healthcare provider, clinical, science, and research information, today announced the world’s largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s research, The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), has selected its Trial Landscape solution to improve and transform its education and research initiatives.

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Medicaid work requirements become sticking point in debt ceiling negotiations

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid work requirements become sticking point in debt ceiling negotiations pminemyer Wed, 05/24/2023 - 12:34

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Food prescriptions – a short-sighted response to food insecurity

Healthy Debate

The post Food prescriptions – a short-sighted response to food insecurity appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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'Do we really want it just to pass?': Study finds ChatGPT fails gastroenterology training exam

Fierce Healthcare

'Do we really want it just to pass?

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ComForCare Partners With Connected Home Living To Roll Out RPM Service Nationally

Home Health Care

ComForCare has established a partnership with Connected Home Living to launch Connected Care, its remote patient monitoring (RPM) program for seniors. “This is a transformative step for our business as we think about delivering comprehensive and compassionate care to our clients,” Best Life Brands CEO J.J. Sorrenti told Home Health Care News. “This technology is proactive care.

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M&A: Florence Acquires Virtual Care Solution Zipnosis

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Florence, an innovator in healthcare enablement software, announced today its acquisition of Zipnosis, an asynchronous-first virtual care solution that creates efficiency for clinicians while making quality care more accessible and affordable for patients. Through this acquisition, Florence will broaden its product offerings with synchronous and asynchronous virtual care and further their mission to create a consumer-centric interface that engages patients at every stage of

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After 3-Year Dip, Home Care Turnover Soars To 77%

Home Health Care

The industry’s turnover rate was one of the biggest topics of conversation in home care in 2019. And that was for good reason. The median rate had skyrocketed all the way to 81.6%, according to data collected by the research and education company HCP. But since that point, it had significantly improved. From 2019 to 2021, the median turnover rate floated marginally from 64.3% to 65.2%.

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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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Does Alzheimer’s Cure Matter if We Don’t Fix the Economic Infrastructure of the Disease?

HIT Consultant

David Moss, CFO of INmune Bio Our brain is an extraordinary organ. This three-pound structure is the central processing unit of our universe that controls intelligence, sense, movement, behavior and much more. When healthy, we take it for granted, and when diseased we carry a substantial burden. Astonishingly, the burden of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias is growing rapidly with an aging population.

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Payer perceptions of value frameworks

Healthcare ECONOMIST

A paper by Westrich et al. (2023) examines payer perceptions of five different value frameworks. Value frameworks of interest included: American Society of Clinical Oncology ( ASCO ) Value Framework, Drug Pricing Lab’ s Drug Abacus (formerly Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Drug Abacus), Institute for Clinical and Economic Review ( ICER ) value assessment framework and evidence reports The Innovation and Value Initiative ( IVI )’s Open-Source Value Project models, National Comprehe

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‘They’re David Without The Slingshot’: How Small Home Health Providers Can Gear Up For MA Negotiations

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Getting to the negotiating table with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and coming away with a good deal is tough enough for even the biggest players in home health care. For smaller providers, it’s an even more daunting and intimidating task. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Get Membership Already a member?

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Our Mental and Emotional Health Are Interwoven With What We Eat and Drink – Chewing On the IFIC 2023 Food and Health Survey

Health Populi

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC). For this year’s study, IFIC commissioned Greenwald Research to conduct 1,022 interviews with adults between 18 and 80 years of age in April 2023.

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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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Healthcare AI News 5/24/23

HIStalk

News Microsoft will integrate ChatGPT into Windows 11, where it.

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Appendix B – RAI Manual: May 2023 Update

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, CMS posted the May Update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual to convey the changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts.

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Beyond the 'Mine Shaft Gap': Navigating Threat Perceptions in the Sino-American Rivalry

The Rand Blog

In “Dr. Strangelove,” the “mine shaft gap” was an astute satirical concept that reflected the mindset that any perceived disadvantage between the United States and the Soviet Union posed an existential threat. Though fictional, this kind of calculation is not unheard of in real-life, modern-day thinking. Shrewd discernment could help avoid it as the United States pursues its national security objectives.

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Artelon Secures $20M to Advance Surgical Treatment of Joint Instability

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Artelon Inc. , a privately held medical device company raises $20M in Series B funding, led by Vensana Capital with expected additional participation from existing investors. Artelon’s Dynamic Matrix technology is a proprietary polymeric bio-textile for musculoskeletal soft tissue reconstruction designed to mimic the natural mechanical and biological properties of healing ligament tissue.

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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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Connecting with your Patient Population with Doug Pohl| E.71

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Doug explains why hospitals need to prioritize ‘’humanity’’ over the bottom line, how to become a two-way mirror to build patient relationships, and why Business 101 is all about listening. He also shares how his experience as a singer/songwriter helped him to understand the power of storytelling, and why true leadership is about helping people climb the ladder.

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Inside Health Care #106: Dr. Ben Kligler with Integrative Medicine through a Quality Lens

NCQA

On this episode of Inside Health Care, we talk about acupuncture, yoga and a host of other “alternative” therapies with a health leader in the U.S. government. After that, we explore a newly announced breakthrough in digitalization exploration with NCQA’s Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Benjamin Kligler Our first guest is one the foremost experts in the U.S. on integrative medicine.

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RedDress Raises $26M to Use Patients Own Blood to Heal Wounds

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: RedDress, a personalized and autologous wound management solution created from patients own blood, today announced that it has raised a $26 million Series D round with participation from ATHOS Biopharma GmbH , and other life science investors including Investors Group of HCS Capital and the Ragnar Crossover Fund. The new proceeds will support increased adoption of its product suite, establishment of global partnerships, and the expansion of RedDress’ proprietary blood-based

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How Dermatology Practices Increase Premium Service Profits Without Ad Spend

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 6 minutes By Chloe from Clearwave | May 24, 2023 Facing a low booking rate for Botox, laser hair removal, anti-aging and other premium dermatology services? A recent MGMA Stat poll found that 90% of medical practices report their costs are rising faster than their revenues. Driving premium services is an effective way to reverse this trend, and high-growth dermatology practices are figuring out how to execute without increasing ad spend or contributing to staff burnout.

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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.