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Morehouse School of Medicine launches pain equity course focused on racial healthcare disparities

Fierce Healthcare

One of the first pain equity courses for medical students is launching at the Morehouse School of Medicine this fall. | The course offers insights into fostering safe, trustworthy, transparent and empathetic patient-provider interactions. It also emphasizes how to address the unique preferences and needs of Black patients in pain.

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Senators introduce bill to set healthcare cybersecurity standards

Health Care Dive

The legislation, sponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Warner, would direct the HHS to develop minimum cybersecurity standards for providers, health plans, claims clearinghouses and business associates.

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Komodo Health rolls out new gen AI tools to sift through healthcare data, speed up analysis

Fierce Healthcare

Komodo Health continues to invest in generative AI capabilities, seeing the potential to use AI-powered conversational language to make it easier for health research teams to parse through troves o | Komodo Health continues to invest in generative AI capabilities, seeing the potential to use AI-powered conversational language to make it easier for health research teams to parse through troves of data.

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Korea's largest hospital bags APAC's first Stage 6 of new INFRAM

Healthcare It News

Seoul-based Asan Medical Center (AMC) has been validated for Stage 6 of the new HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM). The new INFRAM, introduced in March , assesses an organisation's infrastructure maturity based on cybersecurity, adoption, sustainability, performance, and outcomes. The previous framework evaluated healthcare organisations in the areas of mobility, security, collaboration, transport and data centres.

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Fertility Benefits Playbook: How HR Leaders Are Delivering Value in 2025

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Fertility benefits have become a crucial component of employee well-being and retention strategies. In today’s competitive landscape, creating a fertility benefits program that aligns with both employee needs and organizational goals can be more complex than it seems. From cycle-based to flat-dollar and telehealth models, each solution offers unique advantages and challenges that directly affect employee satisfaction and financial well-being.

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Insurers not covering 12-month contraception supply as required: study

Fierce Healthcare

State laws mandate insurers cover a 12-month supply of contraception but this requirement is rarely followed by insurers, a JAMA Health Forum study reviewing Medicaid plans in nearly a dozen states | Insurance plans are supposed to cover a 12-month supply of birth control pills, but a recent study found that requirement is rarely followed.

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Florida, Georgia hospitals prep for Hurricane Helene—transfers, generators and staffing contingencies

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals are finalizing contingency plans and transferring patients ahead of Hurricane Helene, which is set to make landfall in northwestern Florida late this evening as at least a Category 3 hurr | “Although Florida has had some experience with this, [Hurricane Helene] seems to be on a scale that the state hasn’t seen in a very long time,” said Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association.

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‘Seconds matter’: Canopy CEO Shan Sinha on healthcare violence and protecting workers

Health Care Dive

Shan Sinha, CEO and founder of wearable safety company Canopy, discusses healthcare workplace violence and technology’s potential to help protect workers.

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WTW: Employers seeking to avoid cost-shifting even as expenses continue to rise

Fierce Healthcare

As employers face rising costs, many are looking to rethink plan designs rather than emphasize shifting expenses to workers, according to a new WTW report. | As employers face rising costs, many are looking to rethink plan designs rather than emphasize shifting expenses to workers, according to a new WTW report.

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WellSpan Health Launches First Patient-Facing GenAI Healthcare Agent

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – WellSpan Health , a leading integrated healthcare provider known for its innovation, is partnering with Hippocratic AI , a pioneer in healthcare-focused large language models, to introduce a groundbreaking clinical GenAI healthcare agent. – The conversational AI-powered service will directly interact with patients, enhancing healthcare access, equity, and outcomes.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Advocates urge FTC to block McKesson, Cardinal Health's big-ticket oncology acquisitions

Fierce Healthcare

Citing fears of vertical integration and reduced competition, anti-monopoly advocacy group American Economic Liberties Project and a small cadre of other advocacy organizations are urging federal r | Anti-monopoly group American Economic Liberties Project and others say the vertical integration deals will stamp out competition in already concentrated markets, ultimately harming patients.

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Cloud Development Environments: A New Frontline in Healthcare Cybersecurity

HIT Consultant

Tim Quinlan, Sr. Technical Manager at Coder It’s no surprise that one of healthcare leaders’ biggest fears is having customer data stolen, leaked or exposed. As large healthcare breaches hit record highs, hacks are affecting more individual records than ever – 136 million in 2023, more than double the previous year. This has triggered a wave of class action lawsuits , disruptions in billing cycles , and major service impacts at healthcare institutions.

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Providers and payers ramp up investments in cybersecurity, AI in 2024

Fierce Healthcare

Providers and payers are investing more in IT infrastructure in response to the Change Healthcare cyberattack earlier this year, and organizations seem willing to experiment with AI and n | A new report by KLAS Research and Bain & Company found that the majority of providers and payers are investing more money than ever into healthcare technology to improve cybersecurity, operations and customer engagement.

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How GenAI Solves for Challenges in the Healthcare Front Office

HIT Consultant

Sohail Djariri, Chief Growth Officer, Sagility Kevin Terrell, Cofounder and CEO, BirchAI, a Sagility company While in recent years healthcare has made significant strides toward optimizing the customer experience, the industry is now at an inflection point with the adoption of generative AI (GenAI). With its highly trained and expensive talent and mountains of unstructured data, healthcare is uniquely suited to leverage GenAI to drive productivity and an improved consumer and employee experience

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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CommonSpirit Health trims operating losses to $875M in fiscal 2024

Fierce Healthcare

CommonSpirit Health cut its operating losses by nearly $400 million and notched a bottom-line gain of about half a billion dollars during its fiscal year ended June 30, the Catholic giant reported | The improvement reflects an uptick in patient volumes, checked labor costs and shorter stays due to tighter discharges to post-acute settings, the nonprofit said.

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Mission Bio Launches First-of-its-kind Single-cell Genome Integrity Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Mission Bio , a leader in single-cell multiomics solutions for precision medicine, today announced the launch of its Tapestri® Genome Integrity CNV Solution. This new product is the only single-cell high-throughput solution for measuring genome-wide copy number variants (CNVs) on the market and is designed to fulfill important needs in the critical areas of therapeutic development oncology research.

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Rula Health, focused on measurement-based care, expands virtual therapy to all 50 states

Fierce Healthcare

Rula Health, a virtual behavioral health company, has expanded its therapy services to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. | Rula, established in 2019, aims to improve access to personalized, in-network mental healthcare by prioritizing the therapeutic relationship and by taking a measurement-based approach to care.

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The Home Health Nursing Problem That Isn’t Going Away

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home-based care staffing environment will always be a challenge for providers, but things look far better now than they did two years ago in the wake of the pandemic. However, one area that remains a lingering problem for providers is nurses, and specifically nurses who are leveraging a worker shortage to maximize earning power.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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Medidata Launches Patient Payments: Streamlining Clinical Trial Reimbursements

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes brand and leading provider of clinical trial solutions to the life sciences industry, today announced the launch of Medidata Patient Payments , a new solution that streamlines trial-related stipends and reimbursements for patients participating in clinical research. – This offering automates the payment lifecycle and addresses the longstanding challenge of compensating participants for their time, effort, and study-related expense

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U.S. Climate Policy Explained: What Americans Need to Know

The Rand Blog

To better understand the current state of U.S. climate policy and what to look for in the months and years ahead, we spoke to one of RAND's foremost climate policy experts.

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News 9/27/24

HIStalk

Top News Graybill, a California-based primary care group, will split.

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In What Could Be A Tailwind For HCBS Providers, MACPAC Pushes For Easier Medicaid Enrollment

Home Health Care

For seniors looking to gain access to home- and community-based services (HCBS), wait times can be a major roadblock. Policy aimed at reducing those wait times could also have a positive effect on providers. In a recent MACPAC meeting, Tamara Huson, a senior analyst and contracting officer at the organization, presented early findings on the use of presumptive eligibility and expedited eligibility, as a way to clear up those wait times.

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.

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What are the new CMS Star Ratings Measures for 2025?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

My FTI colleagues Mark Van Ert and Krunal Patel summarize some of the new quality measures that will be incorporated into the 2025 CMS Star Ratings that are used to evaluate Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The CMS Star Ratings are very important as CMS payments to MA plans is expected to increase by 3.7% or $16 billion between 2024 and 2025. Van Ert and Patel describe the CMS ratings cycle as follows: Star ratings are determined through a four-year process.

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The Levers Bayada, HomeWell Pull To Retain Home-Based Care Workers 

Home Health Care

Without a supportive organizational culture, home-based care providers run the risk of seeing their employees burnout and turnover. Organizational culture refers to the shared beliefs, values, attitudes, behaviors and practices that define an organization. It includes unwritten rules, norms and social patterns that influence the behavior and interactions of individuals within the organization.

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Dentists: Improve patient safety by optimizing antibiotic prescribing

CDC

How can a dental procedure impact a prosthetic joint? When you have a dental procedure, bacteria in your mouth can enter your bloodstream. This also happens during normal daily activities, such as brushing and flossing your teeth. For most people, the immune system kills the bacteria and prevents them from causing infection somewhere else in the body.

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Clearwave Named One of the Fastest-Growing Companies in Georgia

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 3 minutes 2024 Fast 40 Awards Recognize Patient Revenue Platform Provider ATLANTA – September 26, 2024 – Clearwave is proud to announce its recognition by the Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth® (ACG) as one of the top 40 fastest-growing companies in Georgia for 2024. This prestigious acknowledgment highlights Clearwave’s commitment to continuously evolving to meet client needs and patient demands in an ever-changing healthcare environment.

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Creating a Company Culture of Care: Integrating Mental Health, Wellbeing, and DEI in Benefits

Speaker: Sean Raible

Picture a workplace where physiological safety is not just an aim but a reality, driven by thoughtful employee benefits that prioritize mental health, wellbeing, and DEI. 🤔 ✨ Achieving this vision requires more than just occasional training sessions and employee assistance programs. Moving beyond the basics, this vision calls for a holistic approach that integrates these elements into your company culture as well as your HR and benefits strategy.

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Academy Health Conference

Health Policy News

Academy Health Conference Academy Health, an organization promoting health policy and health systems research, held its Annual Research Meeting (#ARM24) tin July in Baltimore.

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Clinical Data Registries: Essential, Yet Underutilized Due to Data Challenges

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A recent survey conducted by Carta Healthcare , a company dedicated to advancing healthcare through clinical data, has revealed a concerning reality: while clinical data registries are deemed crucial for improving care quality and population health management, their effectiveness is being hindered by challenges related to data accuracy, completeness, and inadequate sponsor tools. – The survey, conducted by Reaction Data in June 2024 among clinical data abstrac

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Health Policy News Conference Roundup 2024

Health Policy News

Health Policy News Conference Roundup 2024 The last couple of months have been busy with conferences across the country. In this round up, PCG staff shares key highlights from conferences.

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