Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Last month, the American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution to protect access to gender-affirming care, committing to opposing criminal and legal penalties against patients, their famili | Approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the law imposes restrictions on adult access to gender-affirming care. Some providers have been forced to stop serving new or existing patients in some capacity.

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JULY 27, 2023

AWS’ Tehsin Syed shared what differentiates HealthScribe from other AI-based medical scribes and how Amazon is approaching tricky questions of accuracy and responsibility around generative AI in healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday a new AI-powered service for healthcare software providers that will help clinicians with paperwork. | AWS HealthScribe uses generative AI and speech recognition to help doctors transcribe and analyze their conversations with patients and drafts clinical notes.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 27, 2023

Despite concerns about high early levels of disenrollments, the payer lost 93,000 Medicaid members during the second quarter — well within forecasts, CEO Joe Zubretsky said.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Editor's note: This story was updated with executive comments from Thursday morning's earnings call. | Executives said that volumes, revenue payer mix and labor improvements were consistent across nearly all of its service lines and divisions, prompting an upward adjustment to 2023 guidance.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 27, 2023

The hospital chain's second quarter earnings beat Wall Street’s expectations on Thursday, as revenue rose off of increased utilization of inpatient and outpatient services.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 27, 2023

The hub, which the companies are calling “The Blue Shield Experience Cube,” will create an integrated digital health record as its first use case.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Researchers found that once joining Medicare, patients are 50% more likely to get health screenings for breast cancer and colorectal cancer. | A study analyzing more than 20 million patients found that breast cancer and colorectal cancer screening rates increasing by 50% once joining Medicare coverage.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 27, 2023

State regulators will liquidate the failing insurtech, leaving about 3,000 enrollees to look for new coverage.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Surescripts have reached a settlement over the regulator’s claims that the health tech company was excluding competitors from certain e-prescribing markets an | The regulator highlighted new restrictions that would be imposed on the health tech company's e-prescribing business. Surescripts celebrated the settlement's lack of monetary penalties and maintained that the FTC had mischaracterized its business.

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Triage Health Law

JULY 27, 2023

On May 10, 2023, the Center for Medicare & Medicare Services (“CMS”) issued guidance to clarify the definition of “marketing” for Medicare Advantage Plans (“MA Plans”) and Prescription Drug Plans (“PDPs”). [1] The new definition expands “marketing” to include activities intended to draw a consumer’s attention to an MA Plan or PDP, influence a consumer’s decision-making process, or influence a consumer’s decision to stay enrolled in an MA Plan or PDP.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Hello Alpha, a virtual primary care platform, has launched a weight management program for employers that supports sustained weight loss through the lens of whole-person primary care. | The program, Ahead with Alpha, aims to support sustained weight loss through the lens of whole-person primary care. The program treats and screens for health needs by combining weight loss support with care for more than 100 other medical conditions.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB, VP of Quality at Relias Despite the recent end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency, its effects linger. This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. About 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic, with over 600,000 reporting their intention to leave by 2027, citing stress and burnout as primary reasons.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

London-based events firm Informa is exploring a deal to buy one of the largest health IT conferences as competition in the healthcare events market heats up. | London-based events company Informa announced exclusivity to acquire the massive HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: PocketHealth today launched Appointment Reminders, a new product integrated within its image sharing platform that enables healthcare providers to reduce the number of missed appointments through personalized, automated patient-communications. With Appointment Reminders, imaging centers and hospitals can seamlessly send automated, customized prep instructions and scheduling reminders to patients via email or text messages, ensuring continuity of care and operational efficie

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Home Health Care

JULY 27, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care dealmaking trends generally give a good idea of what’s going on in the space at large. They show you where the money is headed, and where it’s not. They show you where the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) stroke of the pen has impacted investment or transaction activity.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2023

“Brick-and-mortar pharmacies forge meaningful connections with customers” through conversations between pharmacists and patients, “on a first-name basis.” This quote comes from Christopher Lis, managing director of global healthcare intelligence at J.D. Power who released the company’s annual 2023 U.S. Pharmacy Study today, the 15th year the research has been conducted.

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Home Health Care

JULY 27, 2023

Home-based care providers are focusing more on training programs as industry-wide staffing challenges persist. That’s according to the recent State of Home Care Training 2023 survey. The survey was conducted by Home Health Care News in partnership with CareAcademy, in order to find out how home-based care providers are utilizing technology to beef up their staffing efforts.

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HIStalk

JULY 27, 2023

Top News Informa Markets will acquire the HIMSS Global Health.

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Home Health Care

JULY 27, 2023

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) continues to grow its non-Medicare home health business while increasing its patient admissions and total volume. At the same time, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based provider is seeing its cost per visit figures rise. Those are just some of the main takeaways for Amedisys in the second quarter of 2023. The company released its Q2 financial results Wednesday, skipping the usual day-after earnings call due to its pending sale to United HealthGroup’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum.

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NASHP

JULY 27, 2023

This webinar will offer an opportunity for state officials to talk with NASHP staff about any questions regarding the application for NASHP’s Hospital and Health System Financial Data Learning Collaborative. If you have any questions or any trouble registering, please email Zoe Torrey. Please note : This learning collaborative and webinar is open to state officials only.

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HKLaw

JULY 27, 2023

This healthcare blog discusses the recent request for information released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to gather views about the regulatory pathway for hemp-derived CBD products.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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Health Recovery

JULY 27, 2023

Florence Kariuki RN MHA FHELA, Chief Clinical Officer at Health Recovery Solutions, recently spoke at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice's FMC2023 on the topic of “How Home-Based Programs Partner to Address Universe of Post-Acute Demands.” We caught up with Florence at the conference to get her perspective on the challenges home health and hospice providers currently face launching and scaling a telehealth program.

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Bill Of Health

JULY 27, 2023

By Michael R. Ulrich The Supreme Court’s ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis suggests a willingness to ignore the rights and health implications for minority populations under the guise of protecting against theoretical harms. The decision is a crucial blow to strides made in achieving gay rights, and may bolster other attacks on LGBTQ+ rights. As laws that restrict the rights of transgender people in the U.S. face challenges in court, the legal, public health, medical, and bioethics communitie

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: Verizon Business, in partnership with the VA Palo Alto Health Care System today announced the deployment of a full spectrum private 5G network. This announcement is a continuation of the broader partnership between the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and Verizon Business that started in 2020 with the announcement of VA Palo Alto Health Care System as VA’s first 5G-enabled healthcare facility.

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Health Business Group

JULY 27, 2023

Health Edge Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Jerry Sto. Tomas walks us through his transition from the poultry business to the field of information security. He credits his father for teaching him about leadership and his mother for instilling in him the value of hard work and discipline. Discover how he parlayed his business skills into IT and then cybersecurity.

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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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Nordic

JULY 27, 2023

The fragmented nature of care in the Canadian health system has a direct impact on the daily experiences of both patients and physicians. While this fragmentation has its origins in long-standing structural features of the healthcare ecosystem, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated its effects. Without burnout-inducing amounts of extra work, the result is a less complete and comprehensive clinical record than physicians need.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – RapidAI , a San Mateo, CA-based digital health company developing artificial intelligence (AI) and technology workflow solutions to combat life-threatening neurovascular, cardiac and vascular diseases, today announced $75 million in Series C funding led by Vista Credit Partners , a subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners and strategic financing partner focused on the enterprise software, data and technology markets. – The funding aims to drive platform innovation

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JULY 27, 2023

Depopulation in Japan : “there are now more gangsters in their 70s than in their 20” Expanding primary care in rural areas. “…underlying suicide-related behaviors among children, while alarmingly high, may not have risen as sharply as reported rates suggest” Returns from IRS tax audits across the income distribution Large language models for statisticians.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Google Cloud and CareCloud , today announced a strategic partnership that will bring the power of generative AI to small and medium-sized healthcare providers. – Utilizing Google Cloud’s generative AI, CareCloud will transform and enhance the operational efficiency of ambulatory practices in office settings, enabling physicians to make more informed treatment decisions and improving cost transparency between healthcare providers and patients.

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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.