Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

With the release of ChatGPT, what had long been science fiction became a reality, leaving healthcare wondering where medicine meets machine. | This week, Stanford Medicine and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) launched Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health (RAISE-Health) with the goal of addressing critical ethical and safety issues regarding the technology.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 16, 2023

The group that advises Congress on Medicare policy also suggested more closely setting payment rates across outpatient facilities for some services, which hospital lobbyists oppose.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

Luma Health, a platform automating the patient journey, has launched a new digital call deflection service to reduce inbound call volume for provider staff. | Calls are redirected to self-service text messaging, which the company argues helps short-staffed providers get patients to the next step in their care quickly.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 16, 2023

Pent-up demand for healthcare delayed during COVID-19 is making a reappearance, pressuring medical costs for health insurers that had a financial windfall during the pandemic.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

A pair of key panels advising Congress on Medicare and Medicaid policy recommended lawmakers adopt contentious site-neutral payment for certain ambulatory services and amend the Social Security Act | The congressional advisory panels backed site-neutral payments for certain ambulatory services and called for amendments to secure uncompensated care payments during economic downturns.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 16, 2023

Penn State Health announced this week that a subscription-based virtual care service, currently in beta with employers and educational institutions in central Pennsylvania, will expand access to patients statewide later in the year. WHY IT MATTERS Through the new service, called COMMpanion, members can call or message two physicians, three nurse practitioners and a team of nurses and health navigators to get their questions answered and access health coaching and care navigation.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 16, 2023

The company is bringing medication price transparency to the provider at the point of care, says its CMIO, Dr. Andrew Mellin, who explains how that can offer patients big savings on their prescriptions.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

Thirty years ago, Highmark enrolled the first Pennsylvania child in the Children's Health Insurance Program. | One of the country's largest Blues plans is looking to get the word out about how critical CHIP could be as flexibilities introduced under the public health emergency unwind.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 16, 2023

By Minsoo Kwon The legalization of cannabis has raised ethical, regulatory, and scientific questions. Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. This article highlights key points made during the conversation. First, Stephanie Tabashneck, Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience at the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center, began by

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

The sheer size of the country's largest health plans positions them well for a "stable" business outlook, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings. | The sheer size of the country's largest health plans positions them well for a "stable" business outlook, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JUNE 16, 2023

No surprise, but it’s high. Chandra, Coile and Mommaerts (2023) write: The average cost of AD [Alzheimer’s Disease] drug development is estimated (based on a host of assumptions) to be $5.6 billion, largely due to high preclinical and phase 3 trial costs ( Cummings, Reiber, and Kumar 2018 ). This number greatly exceeds R&D costs for other drugs, for which the median cost of development is estimated to be $2.5 billion ( DiMasi, Grabowski, and Hansen 2016 ).

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Home Health Care

JUNE 16, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Whether its food, fashion or transportation, startups are known for playing the role of disruptor in whatever sector they’re operating in. While disruption can lead to innovation and efficiency, it’s also important for startups operating in senior care and home-based care to have a sound business model, healthy funding, strong backers, a clear value-add, advantageous partnerships and proper wherewithal to fully integrate into the space.

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Health IT Analytics

JUNE 16, 2023

Researchers demonstrated that ChatGPT-4 selected the correct diagnosis as its top diagnosis in 39% of challenging cases and in its differential for 64% of cases.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 16, 2023

Lynette Walbom, the new CFO of The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG), is a newcomer to the health care space. As she gets her feet underneath her, there’s a few key areas she’ll be focused on. Those areas are all in line with Pennant’s strategy in recent years: labor, acquisitions and enabling local leaders. “This as an opportunity for me to continue to learn and grow in my own career,” Walbom told Home Health Care News.

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Triage Health Law

JUNE 16, 2023

The increase in bankruptcy filings that restructuring professionals have been expecting is now arriving. With rising inflation, increased interest rates, tightening credit markets, labor shortages and supply chain disruptions, we are starting to see a dramatic increase in filings. Last week the American Bankruptcy Institute noted that commercial Chapter 11 filings increased 105% in May 2023 as compared to May 2022 and across the board filings are on the rise as well.

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Etactics

JUNE 16, 2023

Did you know that 97% of Americans report that safety at work is one of the most important things they look for? It doesn’t matter what industry you work in, employers have a responsibility to ensure healthy and safe conditions. And what better way to do that than by adhering to guidelines set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

What You Should Know: Redox , a provider of healthcare interoperability – recently partnered with Sage Growth Partners to survey executives and technology decision-makers from over 100 large academic medical centers and multi-hospital health systems. The survey uncovered strategic cloud investment priorities for large healthcare organizations, including current and future use cases and desired business outcomes for cloud technology, as well as roadblocks to realizing those outcomes at scale.

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Icanotes

JUNE 16, 2023

Dealing With Clinician Imposter Syndrome Have you ever felt like your experience, skills, and knowledge as a therapist weren't enough? Do you ever find yourself feeling worried you're not qualified to support your patient's mental health? Imposter syndrome is something many people experience in their personal or professional lives, which can make it challenging to accomplish your goals and feel confident in your abilities.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

This weekly recap focuses on reconstructing Ukraine, what to do about wildfires, virtual mental health care services, and more.

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HIStalk

JUNE 16, 2023

Oracle Cerner cuts more jobs, focusing on roles with VA,

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Home Health Care

JUNE 16, 2023

Following the implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) – and during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic – home health providers struggled significantly with Low-Utilization Payment Adjustments (LUPAs). Since then, some providers have found ways to mitigate them, and others haven’t. Broadly, LUPAs occur in fee-for-service Medicare when a provider does not meet a certain threshold of visits during a care episode.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 16, 2023

A surgeon and assistant professor argues that the CMS and providers must collaborate to enhance access to non-opioid pain alternatives.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

What You Should Know: Walgreens and Freenome form a multi-year relationship to advance clinical studies of Freenome’s blood-based tests for the early detection of cancer. Walgreens will combine its national footprint, patient insights, compliant recruitment technology and local infrastructure to engage diverse patient populations in Freenome’s multi-cancer research program.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments. care.ai can deliver an elevated experience for both clinicians and patients by offering health systems integrated solutions combining care.ai’s Smart Care Facility Platform with Samsung’s healthcare-grade

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