Thu.May 11, 2023

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Industry Voices—Where we go from here: Community pharmacy in a post-pandemic world

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Where we go from here: Community pharmacy in a post-pandemic world pminemyer Thu, 05/11/2023 - 14:47

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Google adds image analysis capabilities to generative AI model, enabling dialogues with doctors

Health Care Dive

The company’s medical large language model has the ability to review X-rays and mammograms, write reports about images and respond to follow-up questions from caregivers.

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Payers uniquely positioned to enhance health equity, United Hospital Fund report says

Fierce Healthcare

Payers uniquely positioned to enhance health equity, United Hospital Fund report says agliadkovskaya Thu, 05/11/2023 - 10:07

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Babylon Health to be taken private under restructuring deal

Health Care Dive

Babylon will receive $34.5 million in interim funding as part of a deal with investment manager AlbaCore Capital Group and its affiliates.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Humana partners with 2 durable medical equipment companies for home care

Fierce Healthcare

Humana partners with 2 durable medical equipment companies for home care pminemyer Thu, 05/11/2023 - 14:19

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Cano divesting non-core assets to bolster cash flow, CEO says

Health Care Dive

The primary care provider, which has been embroiled in a boardroom fight, is focused on improving profitability in its core Medicare Advantage business.

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FDA advisers back over-the-counter use of birth control pill

Health Care Dive

The committee members urged the agency to move quickly to improve access to Perrigo’s contraception pill.

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Ochsner Health cutting 770 jobs to reverse 2022's nine-figures losses

Fierce Healthcare

Ochsner Health cutting 770 jobs to reverse 2022's nine-figures losses dmuoio Thu, 05/11/2023 - 10:39

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Osteoporosis vs. Osteoarthritis

Healthcare Associates

Osteoporosis vs. Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis and osteoarthritis may sound very much alike, but they are two completely different health conditions. Although these conditions are not the same, they do share some characteristics — such as, they both tend to affect older adults and the musculoskeletal system. Understanding the differences and similarities between osteoarthritis vs. osteoporosis can help determine your next steps for treating and managing your condition.

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Senate panel advances bill that would ban spread pricing

Fierce Healthcare

Senate panel advances bill that would ban spread pricing pminemyer Thu, 05/11/2023 - 12:40

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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FWA Is Increasing. Healthcare Costs Are Spiraling. Now There’s A New Generation Of AI Technology To Take Back Control

HIT Consultant

Theja Birur, Chief Technology Officer & Founder, 4L Data Intelligence In 2020, the Department of Justice estimated that fraudulent, wasteful, and abusive (FWA) billing practices account for more than $100 billion of the nation’s healthcare expenditures. 1 Today, the National Healthcare Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) conservatively estimates that healthcare FWA costs the nation about $68 billion annually, representing 3% of the nation’s $2.26 trillion in healthcare spending. 2 FWA estim

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CDC offers updated advice for healthcare facilities' masking policies post-public health emergency

Fierce Healthcare

CDC offers updated advice for healthcare facilities' masking policies post-public health emergency dmuoio Thu, 05/11/2023 - 16:35

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Amino Health Secures $80M for Healthcare Guidance Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Amino Health, the leading digital healthcare guidance company, today announced $80 million in both equity and debt financing led by Transformation Capital and Oxford Finance LLC, respectively. In the face of declining digital health investment, this funding underscores the success of Amino Health’s proven model and enables the company to scale its technology and continue its strong growth trajectory.

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CVS adds mental health screenings to its Project Health program

Fierce Healthcare

CVS adds mental health screenings to its Project Health program pminemyer Thu, 05/11/2023 - 17:18

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Analysis: Sharecare Poised for Re-Acceleration, 1Q Results

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: On 5/10/23, BMO , Sharecare (SHCR) delivered what appear to be, good 1Q results. Revenue of $116.3M + 15.5% y/y, compares to BTIG / FactSet consensus of $111M / $110.9M and adjusted EBITDA of $2.1M compares to BTIG /consensus of $1.2M / $1.2M. 1Q revenue exceeded the guidance range of $111M- $113M. Given the top-line beat we are optimistic that revenue guidance is conservative.

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The public health emergency has ended. What's next in a post-PHE world?

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The public health emergency has ended. What's next in a post-PHE world?

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4 Key Questions Surrounding The Amedisys-Option Care Health Merger

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Another one of the largest home health companies is likely to lose its independence soon. And the potential combination of Option Care Health (Nasdaq: OPCH) and Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) – announced in early May – is fascinating, especially if you read and write about home-based health care every day. It’s time to question, though, what the deal will mean for the rest of the home health care industry.

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Digital health company Babylon Health plans to go private as losses grow

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Digital health company Babylon Health plans to go private as losses grow hlandi Thu, 05/11/2023 - 08:22

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Aveanna Finding Success In Working With More Of Its ‘Preferred Payers’

Home Health Care

The leaders at Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) believe that the demand for home- and community-based care has never been higher. “As a reminder, we do not have a demand problem,” Aveanna CEO Jeff Shaner said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call on Thursday. With this in mind, Aveanna is focused on the labor environment. “[It] represents the primary challenge that we are aggressively addressing in 2023, to see Aveanna resume the growth trajectory that we believe our co

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Chutes & Ladders—UPS Healthcare taps new head as Wes Wheeler retires; UNOS names next CEO

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Chutes & Ladders—UPS Healthcare taps new head as Wes Wheeler retires; UNOS names next CEO aburky Thu, 05/11/2023 - 18:47

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Bringing medical imaging AI models directly into clinical settings at scale 

Cloud Blogs

Medical imaging is a critical aspect of modern healthcare. Radiologists, physicians, and other healthcare professionals rely on imaging data to diagnose and treat various diseases and conditions. With the increasing volume of medical imaging data being generated every day, the need for automated tools to help analyze and interpret this data has become more pressing.

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Revolutionizing Hospital Care through Innovative Collaborations and In-Home Services

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Revolutionizing Hospital Care through Innovative Collaborations and In-Home Services jpiatt Thu, 05/11/2023 - 10:02

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

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.

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The Unintended Consequences Of CMS’ Proposed HCBS Medicaid Rule

Home Health Care

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recent proposed rule for Medicaid may cap business for certain providers , but industry experts believe the government agency is likely foreshadowing its intentions for the final rule. The new rule would force 80% of payment to go to workers in home- and community-based services (HCBS). There is still plenty of time for providers and advocates to submit public comment to CMS about desired changes to the proposed rule.

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Where Geisinger, Security Health Plan execs see promise in AI

Fierce Healthcare

Where Geisinger, Security Health Plan execs see promise in AI fdiamond Thu, 05/11/2023 - 15:44

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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 5/11/23

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I’ve been in Wisconsin this week attending the first.

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Quotations of the Day: ISPOR Edition

Healthcare ECONOMIST

As heard at ISPOR 2023 in Boston: On high US drug prices: “My hope as a European is that US never gets its health system in order.” And his Yoda-like pronouncement: “Affordability is important; but value is critical” Michael Drummond HT: Peter Neumann. See also Dr.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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Bringing medical imaging AI models directly into clinical settings at scale 

Cloud Blogs

Medical imaging is a critical aspect of modern healthcare. Radiologists, physicians, and other healthcare professionals rely on imaging data to diagnose and treat various diseases and conditions. With the increasing volume of medical imaging data being generated every day, the need for automated tools to help analyze and interpret this data has become more pressing.

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Healthcare Economist on Marketplace

Healthcare ECONOMIST

What are the economic consequences of the updated USPSTF recommendations to move the age for annual breast cancer screening to age 40 ? I was interviewed at NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report today (May 11, 2023) to help answer the question. You can list to the episode here (the segment on breast cancer screening starts at 5:32 ). My comments are below: If you detect people with breast cancer earlier, the cost of treating people at early stage breast cancer compared to later is much cheaper.

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Interview with Lightship co-founder Sam Eells

Health Business Group

Gain insights on improving access to clinical trials with guest, Sam Eells , co-founder of Lightship. We dive deep into her inspiring journey from her early interests in science and healthcare, to her work in public health that led to the founding of Lightship. Learn how Sam's experiences at UCLA shaped her passion for creating better patient experiences and addressing health disparities in clinical trials.

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The Importance Of A CRM That Is HIPAA Compliant

Sequence Health

The healthcare industry is constantly going through changes. Technology is a fantastic tool that helps you streamline your health services for patients. However, it also comes with its downsides. One of the benefits of having a CRM in the healthcare industry is ensuring that it complies with HIPAA regulations. That way, you can have peace of mind while conducting your medical services and handling patient information.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.