Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. | Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. The collaboration introduces more competition and more options for healthcare teams looking to innovate using different approaches or to get more tactical with their AI strategy, one health IT expert said.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The application, previously called DAX Express, drafts summaries of patient conversations “in seconds,” according to Microsoft-owned Nuance.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite the challenging funding market, startups focused on women's health and menopause care continue to attract investors who see an untapped market. | The startup, which launched about a year ago, focuses exclusively on women navigating midlife hormonal transition. Midi offers evidence-based interventions ranging from lifestyle coaching and supplements to prescription medications, all covered by major insurance providers.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The insurer has been struggling with headwinds from Medicaid redeterminations and MA star ratings. The layoffs follow similar workforce reductions at CVS Health earlier this summer.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. For health systems, hospitals and medical groups, competition for the shrinking pool of nurses and doctors will intensify, according to a new analysis.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

CVS, UnitedHealth and Humana expanded their MA footprints 13%, 4% and 2% respectively for next year, according to an analyst analysis of the CMS data.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The state is the latest to propose “safe staffing” legislation in a push to address nurse recruitment and retention.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Structural racism encompassing groups, not bigotry targeting individuals, drives much of the healthcare inequity in the U.S., according to a study in Health Affairs. | The residual effects of a 1930s racist mortgage program are still being felt. The expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act helped address the problem to some extent, but not all states elected to take advantage of that opportunity.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Employed women have as much as $15.4 billion more a year than men in out-of-pocket healthcare expenses, despite largely buying the same health insurance products, according to new findings published this week by Deloitte.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

St. Louis-based health insurer Centene is laying off approximately 2,000 workers, or about 3% of its total workforce. | Health insurer Centene is laying off 3% of its workforce, but gave sparse details on the decision.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A group of investment firms — including JP Morgan’s health ventures arm — are joining forces for the transaction, which aims to create an integrated platform for employer-sponsored health benefits.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A U.S. | The case was a test of whether a state's Certificate of Public Advantage exempted a health system from submitting to federal regulatory review.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

By P.F. Anderson and LaTeesa James PubMed special queries are master search strategies on common, important, but challenging health topics, which are usually peer-reviewed. Disability certainly qualifies as a common, important health topic that is challenging to search – and yet, no PubMed special query exists for it. This oversight is concerning. Put simply, it’s important that disability as a topic is easily identifiable in the scholarly record.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Microsoft and Mercy are the latest big tech-health system pairing to explore generative AI, cloud technology and other tools that could lighten the load on employees. | "Immediate" generative AI use cases Mercy plans to implement will assist with patient communications and employees' HR-related searches, the organizations said.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s been a monumental year for the home health giant LHC Group, which was officially acquired by UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum in February. The same can be said for Keith Myers, LHC Group’s longtime leader. In his position, Myers — now CEO Emeritus of LHC Group and a special advisor to Optum — has seen the evolution of a company and an industry.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this conversation, Tarek Rabah, President and CEO of Otsuka North America Pharmaceutical Business is interviewed for Mental Illness Awareness Week. | While the road to equity is complex, Otsuka’s commitment is to see a world where every mind is valued.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The immigrant workforce could be one of the keys to mitigating staffing woes in home-based care. That is one of the main takeaways from a new PHI report that outlines the importance of building up – and supporting – the immigrant workforce in home care. “Immigrants are an important labor pool for the home care workforce,” Robert Espinoza, executive vice president of policy at PHI, told Home Health Care News in an email.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In U.S. health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. “Report” is one word for this nearly 150-page compendium of health care data that is a treasure trove for health service researchers, marketers, strategists, journalists, and those keen to explore questions about the current state of health care in America.

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Meditech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whenever a new innovation is introduced, it follows a fairly predictable route from having its proof of concept tested to entering the market to maturing into a more refined solution that meets user needs and integrates smoothly within existing workflows.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What You Should Know: , a French-American pioneer in collaborative robotics, today announced that Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Florida) performed the first clinical procedures in the United States using the Maestro System. Three surgeons who practice at Baptist Health hospitals used the Maestro System over a week to perform sleeve gastrectomies – the most common bariatric (weight loss) surgery.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There are significant differences in home-based medical care utilization between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare beneficiaries. Specifically, having exactly one home-based medical care visit was 31 times as likely for MA beneficiaries, at 18.6%, compared to traditional Medicare beneficiaries at 0.6%. That’s likely, in part, due to incentives in the MA program to code all accurate diagnoses, according to a new study published in Health Affairs this month.

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Advanced Data Systems

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the way physicians communicate complex and sensitive patient information has undergone a significant transformation, especially with the rise of the Internet. Traditional practices, rooted in the era before digitalization, have started giving way to more efficient and patient-friendly approaches. One such evolution is in how we handle prescriptions, where the shift from paper-based to electronic methods has become increasingly vital.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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Healthy Debate

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Period Priority Project aims to breakdown the nuances of colonial period shame and start new conversations about reproductive justice.

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The Rand Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

China and North Korea have a history of friction, despite being seen as allies. As Russia, China, and North Korea move toward a closer trilateral partnership, the United States and its allies need to recognize that there are seams in the relationships that can be used to undermine it.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What You Should Know: Holon Solutions , the leading human-centric healthcare technology company, and HealtHIE Nevada , the nonprofit health information exchange (HIE) that provides electronic connection among Nevada physicians, hospitals, labs and other health care organizations, today announced a collaboration to radically improve open information sharing across the healthcare sector.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Vijay Kedar, the co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow Health, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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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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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Kristofer Smith, MD, MPP is the Chief Medical Officer of Landmark Heath, where he oversees efforts to establish a high-quality and clinically effective home-based medical care model for patients with serious illness. We sat down with Dr. Smith to discuss his experience caring for patients with serious illness and developing programs to provide health care at home, among other topics.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Virgin Pulse , a global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company announced its intent to merge with HealthComp , a next-generation benefits and analytics platform valued at $3B. The blockbuster merger will create a technology and data-powered health platform-as-a-service organization poised to tackle some of the industry’s biggest challenges.

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NCQA

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A lot of adults were vaccinated against COVID-19 during the pandemic: 95% of adults 65 and older—and 92% of adults 18 and older—got at least one shot. That’s a remarkable achievement, especially considering low vaccination rates for other recommended vaccinations for adults. The 2018 National Health Interview Survey reports the following coverage estimates: 31% of adult 19 and older reported receiving the Td/Tdap vaccine. 46% of adults 19 and older reported receiving the influenza vaccine. 24% o

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What You Should Know: Atropos Health , a pioneer in evidence-based healthcare known for its Green Button Clinical Informatics Consult Service, today announced an agreement with Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen) , a Johnson & Johnson company, to help accelerate clinical development with real-world data analysis. Building upon an existing collaboration, under the new agreement, Atropos and Janssen data scientists will utilize Atropos’s software platform to interrogate Janssen’s

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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.