Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 26, 2023
UnitedHealth Group has once again flexed its muscles and outbid a competitor to pick up another home health asset. | Amedisys on Monday agreed to be acquired by UnitedHealth's Optum unit in an all-cash deal while also scraping a previous all-stock deal offer from previous suitor Option Care Health.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 26, 2023
“Our performance in the third quarter did not meet our overall expectations,” Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer told investors Tuesday morning.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 26, 2023
Employers give themselves poor marks in terms of providing mental health services to their employees but high scores for supporting initiatives to improve diversity, equity and inclusion among thei | Employers recognize the importance of mental health benefits but feel that they might be falling short in providing them, according to a new survey.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 26, 2023
The deal is likely to face antitrust scrutiny despite minimal geographic overlap between Amedisys and existing UnitedHealth home health business LHC Group, analysts said.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 26, 2023
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 26, 2023
The relief organization is on the lookout for innovative technologies to help its mission of saving lives and improving quality of life for populations in need, says Carolina Nelson, Project HOPE's LAC regional deputy director.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 26, 2023
Liver enzyme elevations in early- and mid-stage testing have led the drugmaker to discontinue development of a medicine known as lotiglipron, dealing a blow to its hopes of catching rivals Lilly and Novo Nordisk.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 26, 2023
Recent study findings suggest that hospital consolidation is associated with a reduction of inpatient pediatric services during subsequent years—a new data point for policymakers weighing whether a | A recent study found a significant association between hospitals joining a health system and a reduction of inpatient pediatric services within five years.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 26, 2023
The take-private proposal from AlbaCore Capital comes after the company has fared poorly on the stock market.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 26, 2023
Improving workforce and leadership diversity is a key priority for many healthcare organizations, particularly at the executive levels. | We are putting out the call for nominations to honor minority leaders across the healthcare industry—from physicians to CEOs to researchers and tech company execs—who are shaping the way healthcare of the future will be delivered.
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Home Health Care
JUNE 26, 2023
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) and Optum – the diversified health care services arm of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) – have agreed to combine. Under terms of the deal, announced early Monday, Optum will acquire the home health and hospice giant Amedisys in an all-cash transaction for $101 per share. Optum previously made a bid to buy Amedisys in an all-cash transaction for $100 per share.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 26, 2023
Humana has major growth ambitions for its CenterWell primary care business, and the company has unveiled its latest expansion. | Humana has major growth ambitions for its CenterWell primary care business, and the company has unveiled its latest expansion.
Healthy Debate
JUNE 26, 2023
The post Canada’s first publicly funded ‘dementia village’ is set to open next year. So, what is it? appeared first on Healthy Debate.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 26, 2023
China and the United States appear to be barreling towards a path that risks further ratcheting up the ongoing economic war. More-evolved strategies are needed beyond simple retaliatory spirals, to find peaceful equilibria and ensure technoeconomic competition does not spill over into military conflict.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 26, 2023
Rotem Shor, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Medisafe We are at an interesting crossroads when it comes to pharma and digital health. Several years after the first iteration of digital patient solutions was initially launched, many pharma companies are taking a step back to strategically evaluate how they have performed in practice and the impact they have had on both patient and business outcomes.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 26, 2023
In their new book, Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker argue that America has entered an age of danger that may come to rival anything in its history. They explain why the national security system needs an overhaul as we face a growing array of threats, from cyber attacks to climate change.
Home Health Care
JUNE 26, 2023
WellBe Senior Medical has expanded its services to, now reaching more than 75,000 patients. The Chicago-based WellBe offers home-based medical care services, including integrated mobile urgent care, in six states: Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The organization partners directly with health plans, health systems, and provider groups to work with their patients — typically the top 10% of seniors that have complex conditions. “90 to 95% of what can be done in a clin
Health IT Analytics
JUNE 26, 2023
Researchers have demonstrated ChatGPT’s potential in aiding clinical decision-making for breast cancer screening and breast pain imaging tests.
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Bill Of Health
JUNE 26, 2023
By Aparajita Lath For over 100 years, policy makers and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the U.S. have debated whether the government should produce drugs and biologics. Until now, private industry has largely won– but that may be changing, due to a recent California initiative. At the turn of the 20 th century, the unregulated U.S. biologics industry saw a series of tetanus contamination incidents.
Health Populi
JUNE 26, 2023
People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. And those burdens impact even more people who are unwell than healthier folks. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).
Baird Group
JUNE 26, 2023
Great leaders understand that their team members are their most valuable asset, and they prioritize building strong relationships based on trust, respect, and genuine care. But showing up every day and handing out a few words of platitude isn’t going to engage your team. It isn’t leading with heart. Truly demonstrating that you care in a way that others feel needed and valued takes practice.
NASHP
JUNE 26, 2023
This webinar will offer an opportunity to talk with NASHP staff about any questions regarding the application for the NASHP Learning Lab: Healthy People, Healthy States — Addressing Health Disparities. NASHP will be holding two informational webinars on this technical assistance opportunity. Register for the July 17 webinar. If you have any questions or any trouble registering, please email Josh Rohrer.
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.
Briggs Healthcare
JUNE 26, 2023
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultants – Briggs Healthcare The June update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts.
NASHP
JUNE 26, 2023
This webinar will offer an opportunity to talk with NASHP staff about any questions regarding the application for the NASHP Learning Lab: Healthy People, Healthy States — Addressing Health Disparities. NASHP will be holding two informational webinars on this technical assistance opportunity. Register for the July 24 webinar. If you have any questions or any trouble registering, please email Josh Rohrer.
Nordic
JUNE 26, 2023
The healthcare industry is in an era of what Nordic calls the “Big Squeeze:” the confluence of market inflation, high labor expenses, and declining operating margins. KaufmanHall’s Operating Margin Index (Figure 1) highlights the financial crisis hospitals are in today and how these razor thin margins are becoming the new norm in a post-pandemic environment.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 26, 2023
What You Should Know: American Diabetes Association ® (ADA) and Abbott announced a collaboration a new collaboration on a pilot therapeutic nutrition program to help people living with Type 2 diabetes. The collaboration aims to understand how diabetes technology like continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems can help people living with diabetes make informed decisions about their food and activity.
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.
HIStalk
JUNE 26, 2023
The clinical informatics community is buzzing with the news that.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 26, 2023
What You Should Know: Advantus Health Partners announced a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Medline’s products will support the improvement of quality patient care and operating performance of Advantus’s growing client base of more than 200 hospitals, 1,700 sites of care and 600+ clinics in 46 states.
HIStalk
JUNE 26, 2023
Bart Howe, MBA is CEO of HealthMark Group of Dallas,
HIT Consultant
JUNE 26, 2023
What You Should Know: U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Governor Albert Bryan Jr. signed a Letter of Intent with CRISP Shared Services to participate in a health data interoperability pilot program that will lay the foundation for OHIT’s Health Information Exchange in the Territory. The pilot establishes the initial phase of the Territory’s Health Information Exchange (HIE), which will enable the instant sharing of health information among doctors’ offices, hospitals, federally qualified health centers
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.
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