Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2023
At least 18 states have introduced or advanced safe staffing bills this year in an effort to reduce nurse burnout and improve the quality of patient care, but hospital groups are resisting.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Newly proposed changes to the Federal Trade Commission’s pre-merger notification requirements would give regulators more information to review during a deal’s initial waiting period—likely giving t | The federal regulator said its proposed updates would enable more efficient review of pending deals during the initial 30-day waiting period. As is, the changes are estimated to add, on average, more than 100 hours to companies' paperwork burden per filing.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 28, 2023
Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S. say their healthcare providers currently use AI to help diagnose, treat or communicate with patients, but 66% expect AI to play a bigger role in healthcare in the next five years, the survey found.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have fewer inpatient hospital stays and emergency department visits than beneficiaries in traditional fee-for-service Medicare, according to a
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 28, 2023
Walmart opened 70 new HIV-focused specialty pharmacies in Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Florida in June and plans to expand the service's focus in 2024 to include autoimmune conditions. WHY IT MATTERS Walmart announced Tuesday it has added its Specialty Pharmacies of the Community inside select retail locations, because one in three people living with HIV in the United States does not receive regular HIV treatment.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Companies continue to ramp up investments in resources to support employees' mental health and wellbeing as workers grapple with work-related stress, burnout, depression and anxiety. | Digital mental health company Headspace is building on its partnership with Virgin Pulse to make it easier for employers and health plans to provide a range of mental health resources to their employees and plan members.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Menopause is having its moment. High-profile investments and startups with celebrity names attached have brought long-overdue attention to this once-taboo area of women's health. | Menopause is having its moment. High-profile investments and startups with celebrity names attached have brought long-overdue attention to this once-taboo area of women's health.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2023
Having a stick in place to enforce compliance three years after the original rule is expected to more firmly move the needle on interoperability in U.S. healthcare.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
UnitedHealthcare will nix out-of-pocket costs for its 24/7 Virtual Visits in some of its fully insured plans beginning July 1. | UnitedHealthcare will nix out-of-pocket costs for its 24/7 Virtual Visits in some of its fully insured plans beginning July 1.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2023
A new rule proposed by antitrust regulators would ask companies to provide additional information about planned mergers to help the Federal Trade Commission keep pace with increased deal volume and complexity.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Calm Health, the mental health offering of meditation app Calm, is tapping the Mayo Clinic to help design digital mental health programs to help cancer patients manage anxiety, depression and menta | The upcoming digital mental health program will be available to Calm Health customers and “will be designed for all adults with cancer,” according to the announcement.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2023
The Better Medicare Alliance-funded analysis compared beneficiaries with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes across MA and traditional Medicare and found that spending was “consistently higher” among FFS beneficiaries.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company has announced its latest move, with the firm stepping into the male fertility space in partnership with Posterity Health. | Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company has announced its latest move, with the firm stepping into the male fertility space in partnership with Posterity Health.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2023
Newly-elected Jesse Ehrenfeld is taking the reins at the American Medical Association at a time of pressing changes for doctors.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
The Joint Commission is kicking off a new advanced, voluntary certification for hospitals with processes in place to address healthcare disparities and promote equity among staff, the accreditation | Effective July 1, hospitals and critical access hospitals will be able to apply for an optional certification distinguishing those that make equity a strategic priority, the accreditation organization said.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 28, 2023
Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life—could weaken the U.S. military, costs America credibility with its allies, and calls into question the nation's ability to respond to the next big crisis. How can the United States guard against these risks?
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Author Health banked $115 million for its new platform offering care and treatment for Medicare Advantage members with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. | Author Health banks $115 million for its new platform offering care and treatment for Medicare Advantage members with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. Humana will be the first to launch the startup’s services in conjunction with CenterWell Senior Primary Care in South Florida.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 28, 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin led Wagner Group fighters in what appeared to be a direct challenge to the Russian military establishment. But it's unlikely that the Kremlin will dissolve Wagner's paramilitary enterprise. It is too significant to Russia's greater geostrategic aims and economic strength.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Stella, a behavioral health provider specializing in PTSD treatment, has acquired the U.S. assets of Field Trip Health, a psychedelic therapy provider. | The company will assume operations of Field Trip clinics in New York and Washington, D.C., and plans to open a new treatment center in Southern California. Earlier this year, Field Trip closed several centers across multiple states in an effort to reduce expenses and preserve capital.
NASHP
JUNE 28, 2023
NASHP, in partnership with the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center and with support from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, is collaborating on a four-year project to promote best practices and build state capacity for respite care. The goal of this project is to support and foster state and national efforts, including those of the RAISE Advisory Council, to increase access to respite for family caregivers by: Developing, testing, and scaling a respite workforce recruitm
Healthy Debate
JUNE 28, 2023
Political debates have muddied the water on policy options to address toxic drug deaths. But what do the experts have to say?
Home Health Care
JUNE 28, 2023
Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) began shifting focus to its U.S. Healthcare services segment over the last couple of years. Within in that segment is primary care, specialty care and home-based care capabilities. Thus far, the path to profitability for the segment hasn’t been easy. “We are experiencing a slower profit ramp for U.S. Healthcare,” Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer said on the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call Tuesday.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 28, 2023
What You Should Know: Virgin Pulse and Headspace expand their relationship to make it easier for employers and health plans to provide high-quality, affordable mental health resources. Organizations using the Virgin Pulse health and wellbeing platform have access to the full suite of Headspace offerings as part of Virgin Pulse’s partner ecosystem, including behavioral health coaching, therapy, psychiatry, and EAP services.
Health IT Analytics
JUNE 28, 2023
A risk evaluation model identified seven risk factors for early onset colorectal cancer in younger men, which could help enhance screening for those under 50.
Home Health Care
JUNE 28, 2023
The mission of all home health agencies is to improve patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes, at least in part. Some of those providers do not feel like the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) is helping in either of those areas. “With the extra burden that you have that comes with RCD, it really hasn’t changed or caught these fraudulent actors in our industry,” Janice Riggins, chief clinical officer at VitalCaring, told Home Health Care News.
Health Populi
JUNE 28, 2023
The technologies that will drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution have health baked into most of them, based on the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 , a flagship report from the World Economic Forum, Two of the ten technologies making up this forecast directly speak to health and health care” AI-facilitated healthcare, and The metaverse for mental health.
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.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JUNE 28, 2023
That is the finding from a paper by Geruso, Layton and Wallace (2023). They exploit the random assignment of approximately 70,000 Medicaid beneficiaries to Medicaid managed care (MMC) plans from 2008 to 2012 in New York City. In short, beneficiaries in New York who did not actively choose a plan within a designated choice period were randomly assigned to one (i.e., randomized auto-enrollment).
Bill Of Health
JUNE 28, 2023
By Donrich Thaldar On the issue of human genome editing (HGE), attitudes between bioethics scholars and the general public diverge, as highlighted by my team’s findings from a recent deliberative public engagement study. In the study, which assessed views on heritable HGE among South Africans, participants adopted a pragmatic risk-benefit approach to specific applications of heritable HGE.
Life Qi
JUNE 28, 2023
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) is replacing the current Serious Incident Framework (2015) for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The framework represents a significant shift in the way the NHS responds to patient safety incidents and is a major step towards establishing a safety management system across the NHS. It is a key part of the NHS patient safety strategy and something NHS organisations are increasingly asking us about in relation to how they use Life QI.
HKLaw
JUNE 28, 2023
This healthcare blog discusses new Florida legislation, Senate Bill 768 (2023), amending the Patient Self-Referral Act of 1992 (the Act), also known as the Florida "mini-Stark law.
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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