Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Older adults are adopting digital health tools at a higher rate than ever before. | At Elevance Health, we are seeing an increasing acceptance of virtual care and technology by older adults to help manage their health.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 27, 2023
On average, organizations were shut down or unavailable to provide services for 14 days to due to ransomware attacks from 2016 through mid-October this year, according to cybersecurity research firm Comparitech.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The federal government is rolling back a pandemic-era waiver that lowered the bar for 340B hospitals to dispense discounted drugs across additional outpatient sites, a decision hospitals said will | HRSA is giving hospitals 90 days to bring any off-site, outpatient facilities using 340B drugs into compliance with requirements that had been waived during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 27, 2023
By creating food and nutrition insecurity screening within Tufts Medicine’s Epic electronic health record and patient engagement system, the new Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute in Boston and its team of medical, science, technology and health policy collaborators hope to further food is medicine science. They also aim to figure out how to address food and nutrition accessibility within the healthcare system.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Bright Health Group and Friday Health Plans are both unable to pay their dues into the 2022 Affordable Care Act risk adjustment pool, costing their peers more than $1 billion, according to a notice | Bright Health Group and Friday Health Plans are both unable to pay their dues into the 2022 Affordable Care Act risk adjustment pool, CMS said.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The Health Resources and Services Administration is once again requiring hospitals to register outpatient clinics and list them on Medicare cost reports, setting a higher bar for eligibility in the drug discount program.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Lynn Carroll, COO of HSBlox, discusses enterprise-level capabilities required for critical inputs into SDOH and other core processes, and the role of AI and machine learning to target the most vulnerable individuals.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed charges against a former HealthSun Health Plans executive as part of an alleged multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme. | The Department of Justice has filed charges against a former HealthSun Health Plans executive as part of an alleged multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Health plans can begin by collecting data on race and ethnicity from their members, says Leah Dewey, VP of clinical and consumer engagement operations at Cotiviti.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
A federal appeals court has upheld Blues' insurers nearly $2.7 billion antitrust settlement. | A federal appeals court has upheld Blues' insurers nearly $2.7 billion antitrust settlement.
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Home Health Care
OCTOBER 27, 2023
When it comes to long-term care services and home-based care, some states are much further ahead than others. But one thing most of those states agree on is that there’s still room to improve. Last month, when AARP released its long-term services and supports state scorecard report , Minnesota came out on top, ranking number one on the list. That means the state scored high when it comes to factors such as affordability and access, choices of settings and providers, safety and quality, and more.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The Biden administration has proposed a new rule refining several aspects of the healthcare services billing process in response to criticisms levied from all sides of the industry. | A proposed rule would bring new filing and notification requirements, fee changes and other adjustments federal departments say will increase efficiency and accessibility.
NASHP
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Almost half of the over 14 million children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) in the U.S. are covered by Medicaid , and all of them have health care needs beyond that required by children, generally. In the past, states typically served children and adults with disabilities in Medicaid fee-for-service arrangements, but that trend has changed significantly in the last decade.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Chutes & Ladders—Mass General Brigham picks chief academic officer; Centene unveils chief growth officer ntong Fri, 10/27/2023 - 15:44
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Health IT Analytics
OCTOBER 27, 2023
NYU Langone researchers found that a natural language processing tool could identify pandemic-related markers of psychological distress in healthcare workers.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 27, 2023
What You Should Know: – The U.S. has seen a consistent decline in primary care clinicians since 2014 due to fewer clinicians entering the workforce, increased rates of burnout and decreased direct patient care, according to the latest evidence report from the Primary Care Collaborative and Robert Graham Center. – The report, Health is Primary : Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability reveals the United States has seen a consistent decrease in the number of primary care clinicians sinc
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 27, 2023
In the first six years of the Home Health Value‐Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model demonstration, the nine participating states saved Medicare $1.38 billion, a 1.9% decline relative to the 41 non‐HHVBP states. That’s according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that evaluated the first six years of HHVBP before the national expansion at the beginning of 2023.
Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 27, 2023
By Adithi Iyer In my last piece , I discussed the hypothetical successor of 23andme — a tissue-based direct-to-consumer testing service I’ve called yourtissueandyou — and the promise and perils that it might bring in consumer health information and privacy. Now, as promised, a closer look at the “who” and “how” of protecting the consumer at the heart of direct-to-consumer precision medicine.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Cato approach to health reform. Water quality in rural America. Benefits of vaccinating pregnant mothers. The real cost of weight loss drugs. Health care worker burnout.
Meditech
OCTOBER 27, 2023
2023 has been a big year for MEDITECH on the interoperability front. We’ve seen the MEDITECH Alliance grow, forging new partnerships to accelerate innovation and fostering interoperable solutions using proven standards; we expanded our use cases within our API infrastructure to support additional real-time APIs; we made Argonaut FHIR SCH APIs available to all Expanse customers to support patient self-scheduling and centralized scheduling; and we launched our new MEDITECH Interoperability and Dat
Icanotes
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Understanding Intersectionality in Behavioral Health: A Comprehensive Overview Intersectionality is an acknowledgment that individuals and groups who share an identity experience additional intragroup differences based on diverse identity markers. The goal of this framework is to better understand and eliminate the inequalities minority groups face.
Etactics
OCTOBER 27, 2023
In 2022, 707 healthcare breaches affected 52 million patients. When you think of a data breach, your mind might go to credit card fraud or identity theft in general. These are both huge risks when it comes to the security of personal information. But, unfortunately, the risks don’t end there. Medical identity theft, although not as common, proves to be a dangerous reality when it comes to healthcare data breaches.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The National Health System has an innovation problem. The problem is not that the system lacks an appetite for innovation; rather, it is that successive efforts to create an enabling environment for innovation have been met with only limited success. But why?
Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
CDC has toolkits and resources for a variety of audiences to help prepare for the fall and winter respiratory virus season. Toolkits are tailored toward older adults, pregnant people, parents, people with disabilities, and many more. The healthcare provider toolkit is the newest resource, which includes materials on how to talk with patients about flu, COVID-19, and RSV vaccines.
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The NHS has an innovation problem. The problem is not that the system lacks an appetite for innovation; rather, it is that successive efforts to create an enabling environment for innovation have been met with only limited success. But why?
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Resilient Healthcare has gone through a major transformation as a company. It has essentially gone from being a home health provider to a technology company that enables health systems and hospitals to deliver higher-acuity care in the home. One thing that hasn’t changed is Resilient’s focus on increasing access to care. Most recently, the company teamed up with Community Hospital Consulting in order to tackle care disparities in rural communities.
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.
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2023
This weekly recap focuses on the Israel-Hamas war, the convergence of machine learning and gene editing, regulating social media while protecting free speech, and more.
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