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Sen. Bernie Sanders to target high healthcare costs as leader of influential committee

Health Care Dive

The longtime Congressman and “Medicare for All” proponent will soon assume leadership of the Senate HELP committee, giving him sway in one of the nation’s most broadly influential health policy platforms.

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CVS, Cigna back kidney care coordination, tech startup Monogram Health's latest $375M raise

Fierce Healthcare

CVS, Cigna back kidney care coordination, tech startup Monogram Health's latest $375M raise. dmuoio. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 12:24.

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Rise of telehealth during pandemic boosted mental health treatment rates

Health Care Dive

The number of patients who received virtual care early in the pandemic surpassed those who dropped in-person mental health treatment in a new Rand study.

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These socioeconomic factors may be indicators of long COVID risk, study says

Fierce Healthcare

These socioeconomic factors may be indicators of long COVID risk, study says. fdiamond. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 16:48.

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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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How to keep hospital shipping on track despite labor strains

Health Care Dive

Learn how healthcare organizations can address labor challenges by leveraging efficiencies to streamline and automate shipping.

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Inaugural EY health equity survey finds eagerness for cross-sector collaboration, but gaps in strategy

Fierce Healthcare

Inaugural EY health equity survey finds eagerness for cross-sector collaboration, but gaps in strategy. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 13:32.

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JPM23: Centene gears up for Medicaid redeterminations to begin this spring

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: Centene gears up for Medicaid redeterminations to begin this spring. pminemyer. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 14:19.

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Eisai, in pricing new Alzheimer’s drug, tries to sidestep controversy

Health Care Dive

The pharma set the average annual cost of it and Biogen’s newly approved medicine Leqembi to $26,500, below the cost of the companies’ earlier drug Aduhelm but above one estimate of cost effectiveness.

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JPM23: CommonSpirit to limit expansion in bid for positive cash flow after recent struggles

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: CommonSpirit to limit expansion in bid for positive cash flow after recent struggles. rking. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 14:13.

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Could Taiwan Defend with Uncrewed Surface Vessels?

The Rand Blog

Ukraine has demonstrated the ability of explosive uncrewed surface vessels to target ships. These weapons could play a role in preventing Chinese forces from successfully invading Taiwan in potential future scenarios.

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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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JPM23: Carbon Health nabs $100M, CVS Health partnership to pilot primary care in retail stores

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: Carbon Health nabs $100M, CVS Health partnership to pilot primary care in retail stores. hlandi. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 17:28.

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How to be world champions: a new approach to the UK’s health system

Health Care Leader News

Imagine you’re watching a 100-metre sprint between two equally talented athletes. When the starting pistol fires, the first athlete bolts out of the blocks, giving it everything they can muster. The second takes a more measured approach, holding back some energy. Yet they still manage to win the race. This is the so-called 85% rule. By operating slightly below capacity, the second runner had space to focus on other factors such as their form, pace, and environment.

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Kaufman Hall purchases Gist Healthcare to bolster advisory services, media reach

Fierce Healthcare

Kaufman Hall purchases Gist Healthcare to bolster advisory services, media reach. dmuoio. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 16:42.

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In-Home Kidney Care Company Monogram Raises $375M with CVS, Humana Backing

Home Health Care

The in-home kidney care provider Monogram Health has closed on $375 million in funding, led by major health care players such as CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Cigna Ventures, Humana (NYSE: HUM), Memorial Hermann Health System and SCAN Group. The Nashville-based Monogram Health has been growing rapidly over the past two years. The kidney care management company provides at-home care and data-driven solutions for patients living with chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease.

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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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JPM23: Humana bounces back from poor MA enrollment showing in 2022, boosts guidance on membership growth

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: Humana bounces back from poor MA enrollment showing in 2022, boosts guidance on membership growth. pminemyer. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 20:14.

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Monogram Health Secures $375M to Expand In-Home Kidney Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Monogram Health , a Nashville, TN-based kidney disease benefit management and care delivery company announced a $375M growth funding round that will drive the company’s continued rapid expansion as the leading solution for high-quality, in-home care for polychronic patients living with chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease in the U.S. – Investors in the round include CVS Health, Cigna, Humana, Memorial Hermann Health System, SCAN, TPG Capital, Frist Cres

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JPM23: Teladoc revises its Q4 to sunnier projections while shining a light on BetterHelp and digital "whole person approach"

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: Teladoc revises its Q4 to sunnier projections while shining a light on BetterHelp and digital "whole person approach". aburky. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 17:14.

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6 Executive Health Data Predictions to Watch in 2023

HIT Consultant

Kevin Agatstein, CEO at Kaid Health. In 2023 I predict that unstructured medical data, which makes up the majority of a patient’s chart, will become too valuable to ignore by both providers and payers. Driven in part by the growth of Medicare Advantage and oncology, both of which require the data within medical notes rather than just claims and labs data, organizations will start to use their unstructured EMR data in entirely new ways.

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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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Amedisys CEO Paul Kusserow: If Conveners Don’t Change, Their Day Is Coming To An End

Home Health Care

Home health providers have been directing ire at Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for some time over what they consider unfair rates for their services. However, especially over the last year, there’s a new target – and that’s conveners. Broadly, conveners are the middlemen between home-based care providers and MA plans. At their best, they make it easier for providers to conduct business with these plans, and make it easier for plans to work with a wider network of those providers.

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Omada Health, Intermountain, Castell to Establish Integrated, Virtual Care Option for Diabetes Management and Prevention

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Omada Health and Castell , an Intermountain value-based care subsidiary, announced a first-of-its kind partnership – creating a new, integrated virtual care model to reach and help more at-risk patients through proven prevention and Diabetes programs. The new virtual care model expands the access of Omada’s Diabetes Prevention Program and Diabetes Program to patients and caregivers receiving care from Intermountain Healthcare’s primary care providers within its Utah

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Voices: Dr. Michele Carr, McKesson Clinical Support Manager

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by McKesson. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Dr. Michele Carr, McKesson Clinical Support Manager, to talk about how the current staffing challenge is impacting wound care in the home-based care industry. She shares some best practices for building a wound care management program in today’s operating environment, and she also discusses the key ways in which providers can cut costs without sacrificing quality of care.

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Caris Life Sciences and ConcertAI Partner to Accelerate Drug Development and Novel Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Caris Life Sciences ®(Caris), a molecular science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, and ConcertAI , an oncology real-world evidence data and AI technology company, announced a unique partnership to align the two companies’ oncology capabilities. – The strategic partnership will create one of the largest translational and clinical devel

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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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Hackathon Focuses on Making Policing More Equitable

The Rand Blog

Hackathons bring new ideas and perspectives to hard policy problems and introduce college students to the field of policy analysis. The latest hackathon, hosted by Pardee RAND and RAND NextGen, explored ways to make the criminal justice system more equitable and more effective.

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Exec Hires: Former CVS Health Leader Joins Virgin Pulse as Chief Medical Officer

HIT Consultant

Jeffrey Jacques, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Virgin Pulse. What You Should Know: – Virgin Pulse , a global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company, announced that Jeffrey Jacques, MD, has joined the company as Chief Medical Officer. – As chief medical officer at Virgin Pulse, Dr. Jacques will advance the company’s clinical strategy, providing insight and guidance to product and commercial teams.

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Digital Health Funding Updates from FINN + Galen and Silicon Valley Bank – Context for JPM2023

Health Populi

As we enter the week’s brainstorms and deal-making prospects this week at the annual JP Morgan meet-up for healthcare, I’m kicking off Health Populi’s posts this week by diving into two major reports published in sync with this meeting that’s so pivotal and important for the digital health community: the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) 2022 Annual Report on Healthcare Investments and Exits and the 2022 Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth.

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Backed by CVS Health, Array Behavioral Care Raises $25M for Virtual Psychiatry/Therapy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Array Behavioral Care , the nation’s leading virtual psychiatry and therapy practice, announced today the closing of its latest $25M equity round to further scale modern behavioral healthcare across the continuum, with CVS Health leading the round. Existing investors also joined the round and contributed additional capital. – The financing builds upon a long history between Array and CVS Health and opens doors to new levels of collaboration to expand access to

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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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How to be world champions: a new approach to the UK’s health system

Health Care Leader News

Imagine you’re watching a 100-metre sprint between two equally talented athletes. When the starting pistol fires, the first athlete bolts out of the blocks, giving it everything they can muster. The second takes a more measured approach, holding back some energy. Yet they still manage to win the race. This is the so-called 85% rule. By operating slightly below capacity, the second runner had space to focus on other factors such as their form, pace, and environment.

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KeyCare Completes $27M Round to Expand Epic-based Virtual Care Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – KeyCare, Inc., the nation’s only virtual-first care platform built with Epic, announced the completion of its Series A funding round following new investments from Ziegler and two additional health systems. This expanded backing brings KeyCare’s total Series A raise to over $27 million. – These investors join 8VC , LRVHealth , Bold Capital , and Spectrum Health Ventures in support of KeyCare’s mission to improve patient access, expand provider capa

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NASHP Aging Policy Academy: Request for Applications

NASHP

To apply to NASHP’s Aging Policy Academy, please complete this online application. Summary. The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), in partnership with West Health and the Milbank Memorial Fund (Milbank), invites state applications to participate in its 2023 Aging Policy Academy. This policy academy will engage up to five teams of state leaders to strengthen policies for an aging population and the direct care workforce that supports them.

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Highest French Administrative Court Lifts the Ban on CBD Flowers and Leaves

Triage Health Law

On December 29, 2022 the French Conseil d’Etat ( the highest French administrative court) rendered a decision that was eagerly awaited by all those involved in the CBD industry which lifted the ban on the sale of CBD flowers and leaves to consumers. Terminology. For those who are not familiar with these products, Cannabis is the Latin name of the plant whose common name is hemp.

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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.