Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major blind spot for many Americans, a new survey suggests. | Though many respondents used the internet for medical information and had a regular doctor and blood work done once or twice a year, 58% of respondents were unfamiliar with the illness.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The nonprofit reported continued cost pressures in the first half of the year, including an increase in labor and supply expenses.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
YouTube announced two programs Thursday that the Google-owned video platform said will give healthcare content creators new opportunities to educate diverse audiences. | The two new initiatives leverage cultural representation and targeted messaging to reach audiences impacted by health inequity, Google's Garth Graham, M.D., said.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The acquisition comes after the EHR vendor agreed to pay millions to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Unite Us, tech company focused on social determinants of health, lays off employees amid profitability struggles agliadkovskaya Wed, 09/06/2023 - 14:25
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
When Amazon Clinic spread out into all 50 states, SteadyMD was right there with it – or you might say within it. SteadyMD, which offers a B2B telehealth platform and nationwide clinician workforce, has been an important part of Amazon Clinic’s journey. The telehealth company worked with Amazon for months helping develop Amazon Clinic and was one of the first participating providers on the service when it launched in November 2022.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. This follows the recent nationwide expansion of a similar programme for its partner hospitals, aiming to build the largest connected healthcare ecosystem in the country. WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press statement, Apollo's Comprehensive Connected Care service provides a real-time view of the patient from several care touchpoints along the patient journey
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Research shows that Medicare spending has leveled off for the past decade, morphing from something that experts worried might break the federal budget to an unexpected bright spot. | Medicare had once been seen as something that would one day break the budget. However, Medicare spending in the last decade slowed greatly. But why?
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Favorable selection of healthier beneficiaries led to overpayments in counties with high Medicare Advantage penetration, but benchmark changes could mitigate the impact, according to a study published in Health Affairs.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, the legislation set forth requirements for insurers to cover lactation services for mothers, a stark contrast from expecting families to pay o | The Affordable Care Act says insurance companies must front the cost for lactation care. Many are still not doing so, forcing other providers to step up.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Regulators' latest effort to nudge the U.S. away from fee-for-service takes a page from how Maryland pays its hospitals.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Former UnitedHealthcare executive Roger Rodriguez said that during his tenure with the insurance giant, he endeavored to view payer issues through a provider lens. | Former UnitedHealthcare executive Roger Rodriguez said that during his tenure with the insurance giant, he endeavored to view payer issues through a provider lens.
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The full impact of the deadly Maui fires on food resilience strategies remains to be seen. But the disaster highlights an urgent need for a systems-based approach to address both food security and wildfire prevention.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
If there’s one thing we know about rare diseases, it’s that their prevalence is not so rare. | The rare disease journey can be long and difficult. rWGS could offer newborns a greater chance of successful diagnosis and intervention at birth.
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The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
For people in the intelligence community, the risk of experiencing a variety of traumas is very real. Agencies should look more closely at their workforces to better understand the traumas their analysts face and what they can do to help.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Ambulatory technology company NextGen Healthcare agreed to be acquired in a take-private deal with private equity firm Thoma Bravo. | Ambulatory technology company NextGen Healthcare agreed to be acquired in a take-private deal with private equity firm Thoma Bravo. The deal is valued at $1.61 billion, according to media reports.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Mike Hines, Principal Evangelist at Resolute Software In recent years, cloud computing has become the go-to solution for healthcare institutions seeking flexibility and scalability. However, as the digital and legislative landscapes evolve, a growing number of organizations are reevaluating their cloud strategies. Are you best served by doubling down on your cloud-based strategy, or by backing off a bit and bringing some of your services out of the cloud and back down to earth?
Healthy Debate
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
At the end of life, we risk of losing our sense of self because of an illness. This is the time when the preservation of “me” is so important.
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HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Andre Esteva, Founder and CEO of ArteraAI In recent years, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has created a wave of excitement and anticipation within the healthcare industry. AI has the potential to revolutionize patient care, improve diagnostic and prognostic accuracy, enhance treatment planning, and streamline administrative tasks.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a new state-focused demonstration model Tuesday. One of the model’s primary objectives is to shift health care spending and utilization more toward primary and community-based care. The States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model (AHEAD Model) will aim to better address chronic disease, behavioral health and other medical conditions, according to CMS.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare and Mass General Brigham form a strategic collaboration on the co-development of an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that will help increase scheduling operations effectiveness and productivity. – The first innovative AI app from the collaboration is the schedule predictions dashboard of Radiology Operations Module (ROM), a digital imaging tool that helps optimize scheduling, reduce cost, and free providers from administrative burden, allow
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) – despite looming cuts and potential clawbacks from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – still sees Medicare Advantage (MA) as a major growth opportunity. “What we’ve seen, and the way we’ve structured our benefits, is to really try to understand what the top benefits are, and not alter those as much … so we continue to have a strong view that this will be another good growth year for MA because of the value proposition,” Humana CEO Bruce Broussard sai
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: UPMC announced it is replacing Oracle Cerner with Epic’s enterprise EHR platform to create a unified platform across its health system, representing more than six million patient records. UPMC previously deployed Epic in its outpatient space, Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports. UPMC cites lowering operational costs, optimizing security, and improving patient engagement as reasons for the EHR replacement.
Sheppard Health Law
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
On September 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a long-awaited proposal to establish new federal minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities. [1] If the proposed rule is finalized, CMS estimates that approximately 75% of all nursing homes would have to “strengthen staffing in their facilities” in order to meet the new requirements. [2] Proposed Minimum Staffing Requirements As proposed, nursing homes will be required to provide: A Registered Nurse
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Aileen Killen, Ph.D., RN, CPPS, Director of Perioperative Operational Excellence, LiveData In the dynamic world of healthcare, preference cards serve as crucial tools that capture a surgeon’s specific needs and preferences for each type of surgical procedure they perform. These cards typically outline the equipment, instruments, and supplies required for a particular procedure, providing a personalized roadmap for surgical teams to follow.
Advanced Data Systems
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Finding the perfect financial and practice management (PM) software can be a game changer since it should not only ease administrative burdens but also boost patient care and overall efficiency.
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.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: – Augmedix announced today the expansion of the company’s ambient medical documentation products to the behavioral healthcare market. Augmedix currently supports behavioral healthcare entities with its Augmedix Live and Augmedix Notes products and will supplement those with its newest product, Augmedix Go , later this year.
Health Recovery
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Did you know that the first ever phone transmission was a telemedicine call of sorts? When Alexander Graham Bell said “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you,” he’d spilled acid on his leg and needed assistance! A few years later, in 1879, The Lancet reported the case of a mother who, in the middle of the night, was told by her doctor to have her child cough into the telephone.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Erkin Otles – AI Practice Lead – HTD Health What You Should Know: – HTD Health , a New York-based company specializing in virtually-enabled care, EMR integration, and Software as Medical Device (SaMD) design and development, is launching a healthcare AI practice with partner Erkin Ötleş to meet the changing needs of the industry. – The firm works with healthcare organizations across the sector to plan, design, and build software systems to improve patient engagement, clin
Health IT Analytics
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Stanford researchers have developed a public pathology dataset and a foundation AI model based on diagnostic images and comments from medical Twitter.
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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