Healthcare It News
MAY 8, 2023
The New York City-based Urban Health Plan used artificial intelligence to improve operational efficiency and patient care and got a handle on its annually high patient no-show rates with cost-effective patient interventions. Higher-than-average missed appointments No-shows are due to multiple factors, including social determinants of health like transportation.
Health Care Dive
MAY 8, 2023
The first-quarter report comes weeks after the operator announced its plans to acquire Geisinger Health and form a new nonprofit with the purpose of acquiring and operating other nonprofit systems.
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Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
UnitedHealth extends its hot streak as the most profitable payer in Q1 pminemyer Mon, 05/08/2023 - 13:28
Health Care Dive
MAY 8, 2023
Violence prevents nurses, doctors and other professionals from providing uninterrupted, quality patient care, argues Andrew Thum, the director of nursing workforce operations at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia.
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Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
Digital health companies making a long-term play for the $100B weight loss drug market hlandi Mon, 05/08/2023 - 06:53
Health Care Dive
MAY 8, 2023
The medical associations said preventive health services are essential to increase longevity and quality of life, and that medical evidence should dictate preventive care recommendations rather than political considerations.
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Health Care Dive
MAY 8, 2023
The medical credit card industry has expanded in recent years as healthcare providers promoted the cards to patients, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a report.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
WIth judge's ruling, some employers may cut off no-cost preventive care: survey fdiamond Mon, 05/08/2023 - 12:49
The Rand Blog
MAY 8, 2023
From anticipating the Space Age in the 1940s to studying gun policy and COVID-19 responses in the 2020s, RAND is celebrating 75 years of research that has made a difference.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
HHS' proposed HTI-1 rule draws criticism for what's excluded—electronic prior authorization aburky Mon, 05/08/2023 - 16:18
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The Rand Blog
MAY 8, 2023
We asked RAND experts to reflect on the past three years: What were the effects on the United States and around the world, what has changed, what are the most important takeaways, what was done right, and what was done wrong? At the same time, they looked ahead to what might be done to mitigate the health and geopolitical impacts of future pandemics.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
SCOTUS wants to revisit executive agency authority. What does that mean for healthcare?
HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
What You Should Know: A new report released by TytoCare , a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, revealed insights into how health plans and organizations can drive virtual care engagement. While key elements that patients value in virtual care offerings include cost and time savings, and the ability to reduce Emergency Department (ED) or urgent care visits, people want to see doctors they trust or and are more likely to adopt virtual care when recommend
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
Kaiser Permanente bounces back with $1.2B gain, 0.
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HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
What You Should Know: Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that applying machine learning models to data collected passively from wearable devices can identify a patient’s degree of resilience and well-being. The study, published in JAMIA Open , supports the use of wearable devices, such as the Apple Watch, to monitor and assess psychological states remotely.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
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HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
What You Should Know: Today, Samsung announced today its Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification feature of the Samsung Health Monitor App has been cleared by the FDA. With this new feature, Galaxy Watch users can be alerted when heart rhythms suggestive of atrial fibrillation (AFib) – a type of arrhythmia – are detected. The Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification works with the app’s existing on-demand Electrocardiogram function to proactively monitor heart rhythms suggestive of AFib, and will be intr
Home Health Care
MAY 8, 2023
Court Square Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in New York, has made a strategic capital investment in Team Select Home Care, the two companies announced Monday. The announcement comes less than a year after Tenex Capital began shopping Team Select to other potential investors. Based in Phoenix, Team Select is a home-based care provider that serves the medically complex pediatric population as well as seniors.
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HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
Ophir Ronen, CEO of CalmWave, Inc. What You Should Know: Healthcare providers face the difficult challenge of coping with an ever-increasing workload while still providing high-quality patient care and trying to retain their staff. As the CEO of CalmWave, Inc., Ophir Ronen is an expert in both patient outcomes and staff retention who understands the importance of leveraging AI technologies to reduce alarm fatigue and deliver more efficient quiet care.
Bill Of Health
MAY 8, 2023
By Chloe Reichel and Seema Mohapatra Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF) face an uncertain future as anti-abortion policymakers and advocates work to restrict access to reproductive care post- Dobbs. Until last summer, modern ART had been performed in the United States with the Constitutional protection for abortion care in the background.
HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
Trent Sanders, VP, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Kyndryl US The U.S. healthcare industry has hit an important inflection point. The global pandemic highlighted an increased need to deliver quality patient care. However, outdated, legacy technology is straining many health systems, and in some cases, exaggerating existing problems such as rising operational costs and high rates of attrition.
The Rand Blog
MAY 8, 2023
In a world with Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, there is a growing need for modernized data literacy. Developers need to be more transparent about their algorithms and data sources so that people can assess the inherent sources of bias or problems with the approach.
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Home Health Care
MAY 8, 2023
More patients that can be categorized as clinically complex are being referred to home-based care providers. As a response, providers are making moves to ensure that they’re in a position to deliver appropriate care to these patients. Broadly, this trend has been visible to most home health providers for years. It was exacerbated, however, by the pandemic and a reduction in the availability of acute care.
Health Populi
MAY 8, 2023
Using the Internet and mobile health apps are as mainstream as swiping left for a date and researching features in a new car, based on the Digital 2023 Global Overview Report from Meltwater. The broad coverage of this kind of research can’t be accomplished by just one entity, and Meltwater acknowledges the partners who brought them to this research-party: these included data.ai, GSMA Intelligence, GWI, Locowise, Ookla, PPRO, SemRush, Similarweb, Skai, and Statista.
Healthy Debate
MAY 8, 2023
The post Beyond stigma: Treating opioid use disorder appeared first on Healthy Debate.
Health IT Analytics
MAY 8, 2023
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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.
NASHP
MAY 8, 2023
State health policymakers are prioritizing strategies to understand and mitigate differences in health outcomes. To support state officials ’ efforts, NASHP has developed H ealthy People, Healthy States: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities , a resource guide that describes state innovations to reduce health disparities. Healthy People, Healthy States: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities explores three key levers for addressing health disparities: Data-driven approa
HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
Kenyon Crowley, Ph.D., Health Analytics Lead, Accenture Federal Services The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need to modernize the nation’s public health system. Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. public health infectious disease data collection and analysis methods which are critical for identifying behavioral risk factors and preventive actions.
Home Health Care
MAY 8, 2023
Dr. Steve Landers to leave VNA Health Group A very well known face in home health care is leaving the industry for a new leadership position. Dr. Steve Landers, the CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group, is taking the helm at Hebrew SeniorLife, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated senior living provider that is also a research and educational organization.
NASHP
MAY 8, 2023
This report is one section of of Healthy People, Healthy States: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities. See the full resource guide. “Moving at the speed of trust.” - AK State Official Successful approaches to address health disparities rely on state agency collaboration and partnership with communities to identify and align resources and efforts toward common goals.
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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