Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 27, 2023
Microsoft and Nuance Communications are building on their long-standing partnerships with Epic to broaden the availability of generative AI tools for medical note-taking. | Microsoft-owned Nuance Communications is building on its long-standing partnership with Epic to broaden the availability of generative AI tools for medical note-taking.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 27, 2023
Although industry analysts have focused on staffing shortages following the coronavirus pandemic, the program aims to address a gap in business skills for healthcare executives.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 27, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries given home-delivered meals in the four weeks after being discharged from a hospital were not only less likely to be readmitted within 30 days, they were also l | Kaiser Permanente Southern California found that a meal delivery program for Medicare Ad-vantage beneficiaries cut mortality rates, and improved outcomes overall, according to a study in JAMA Health Forum.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 27, 2023
The vote approving Politan Capital’s nominees is “a clear mandate from shareholders that significant change is needed at Masimo,” said newly elected director Quentin Koffey.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 27, 2023
Drugstore chain Walgreens reported third-quarter sales were up nearly 9% to reach $35.4 million, but the company slashed its profit outlook for the year as it faces lower consumer spending and a dr | Drugstore chain Walgreens reported third-quarter sales were up nearly 9% to reach $35.4 million, but the company slashed its profit outlook for the year as it faces lower consumer spending and a drop in COVID-19 tests and vaccines.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 27, 2023
Site-neutral payments ignore key differences between hospital outpatient departments and physician offices, the hospital lobby argued this week in a new report and briefing on Capitol Hill.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 27, 2023
What You Should Know: Augmedics , a Chicago-based provider of augmented reality (AR) surgical navigation raises $82.5M in Series D funding led by CPMG and adds Evidity Health Capital as a syndicate partner, with participation from current investors H.I.G. Capital, Revival Healthcare Capital, Almeda Ventures and others. The company’s revolutionary xvision Spine System® allows surgeons to see patients’ anatomy as if they have “x-ray vision” and accurately navigate instruments and implants during s
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 27, 2023
Dr. Ramon Jacobs-Shaw is chief clinical officer at Belong Health. | This week on "Podnosis," we talk about the role commercial insurers play in Medicaid eligibility determinations. Also under discussion is healthcare for the LGBTQ+ community.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 27, 2023
What You Should Know: During the ADA’s annual scientific sessions in San Diego on Saturday, Abbott and Weight Watchers unveils its new new connected app experience for people living with Type 2 diabetes. The connected app experience, which is available now for people living with Type 2 diabetes, syncs key glucose data from Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 2 continuous glucose monitoring system within the WeightWatchers app, allowing people to learn how food and activity impact their glucose levels.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 27, 2023
Nationwide hospital operating margins inched upward again in May thanks to a combination of reduced labor expenses and higher revenues, particularly in outpatient settings, according to the latest | Nationwide hospital margins benefited from reduced per-patient expenses and increases in both inpatient and outpatient revenues, consulting firm Kaufman Hall found.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 27, 2023
Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Chief Medical Officer with Glytec As health systems look to heal from two years of pandemic-related struggles and skyrocketing costs, new data reveals an even more troubling issue – disturbing levels of burnout across the entire healthcare ecosystem. New research from Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that 63% of physicians report at least one symptom of burnout, a drastic increase from 46% in 2011.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 27, 2023
Pharmacy benefit managers and their role in the drug supply chain have been under the microscope, and a new playbook aims to arm employers with strategies to strengthen their negotiating power. | Pharmacy benefit managers and their role in the drug supply chain have been under the microscope, and a new playbook aims to arm employers with strategies to strengthen their negotiating power.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 27, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin may remain in office for now, but his power—and Russia's—are ebbing. The West might take advantage of new opportunities.
Home Health Care
JUNE 27, 2023
Last year, when Margaret Haynes was announced as Right at Home’s next CEO, it meant that her former role – chief operating officer – was left vacant. That changed this month, when Right at Home named Rod Roberts as its new COO. Roberts is an industry veteran that has been working with seniors and franchise owners for 20 years. Before joining Right at Home, he held various roles as Home Instead Senior Care.
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The Rand Blog
JUNE 27, 2023
Should China mount an invasion, Taiwan's political leadership and degree of social cohesion will be the most important factors in its defense.
Home Health Care
JUNE 27, 2023
Another reorganization at Honor has resulted in layoffs. The job cuts affected 15% of the HQ staff, including many long-time Home Instead employees. Honor bought Home Instead – one of the largest home care brands in the world – in 2021. “Honor has made the decision to reorganize certain teams within HQ, which will result in the departure of approximately 15% of our corporate HQ employees,” Honor co-founder and CEO Seth Sternberg wrote in a memo to Home Instead’s franchisees.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 27, 2023
What You Should Know: Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) announce the launch of Racial Equity in Clinical Equations , a new initiative to examine the misuse of race in medical research. The foundation will provide $10M in new grants that will document the impact on patients of existing algorithms with potential race misuse, provide vital data to inform new guidelines, and ultimately enable the medical research community to identify a framework to reconsider and potentially revise the mathematical model
Meditech
JUNE 27, 2023
Working in a dynamic field means that healthcare professionals are always trying to keep up. Continued workforce shortages, declining reimbursement, sicker patients, and the rise in costs for drugs and medical supplies plague the industry and put endless pressure on healthcare leaders to always find solutions. But these are not burdens that individual industry leaders should carry alone.
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Health IT Analytics
JUNE 27, 2023
New research describes the capabilities of an AI model in distributing work evenly among care navigators working with cancer patients.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 27, 2023
What You Should Know: Hospital finances showed signs of stabilizing in May, amid slightly improving operating margins, declining expenses and notable increases in outpatient visits, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall. The National Hospital Flash Report draws on data from more than 1,300 hospitals from Syntellis Performance Solutions.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JUNE 27, 2023
Historically, physician administered specialty pharmaceuticals are covered by a patient’s medical benefit and oral medications are covered by the pharmacy benefit. Increasingly, however, specialty pharmaceuticals are being covered by pharmaceutical benefit. Does this make a difference? Does medical vs. pharmacy coverage of drugs impact patient access?
Home Health Care
JUNE 27, 2023
FirstLight Home Care expands franchise support center team, makes leadership changes FirstLight Home Care has made several leadership changes and additions to its franchise support team. The Cincinnati-based FirstLight Home Care has about 200 locations across the country. Mark Vanase, FirstLight’s former EVP of business development and field operations, has been named the company’s new COO.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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NCQA
JUNE 27, 2023
Two process improvements this summer to NCQA Accreditation and Certification programs affecting more than 1,700 customers are a preview of changes coming to other NCQA programs and 597 more customers in the next few years. The upgrades debuting this summer are to: File Review System: How NCQA manages accreditation and eCertification file review. Delegation: How organizations document the work they assign to their partners or contractors.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 27, 2023
What You Should Know: Epic and Nuance (a Microsoft company) expand their long-term strategic collaboration by integrating Nuance’s new Dragon Ambient eXperience Express (DAX Express), the first fully AI-automated clinical documentation application in healthcare, into Epic workflows. As part of the integration, DAX Express for Epic will deliver everything clinicians need in one place to create a comprehensive note quickly, decreasing cognitive load, increasing provider satisfaction, and improving
Etactics
JUNE 27, 2023
If you work within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), you’ve likely heard rumblings surrounding “CMMC”. What does that even mean? Well, let’s start by defining that CMMC stands for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. So, why have you heard of it? CMMC is an assessment standard designed to ensure that defense contractors comply with current cybersecurity requirements.
Sheppard Health Law
JUNE 27, 2023
On June 16, 2023, nearly half of the State Attorneys General [1] penned a letter (the “Letter”) to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) advocating for broader privacy protections surrounding reproductive health care information. Specifically, the Letter targeted the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) published by OCR in April of 2023, which proposed a number of revisions to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 19
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.
NCQA
JUNE 27, 2023
More states are contracting with managed care organizations (MCO) to provide Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS). How do we know if MCOs are delivering equitable, high-quality care to people receiving LTSS? LTSS Distinction, for MCOs, and Case-Management for LTSS (CM-LTSS), for community-based organizations (CBO)— increase oversight of care for this vulnerable population.
Nordic
JUNE 27, 2023
At this point, most U.S. health systems have adopted the use of electronic health records (EHRs). But there are still circumstances under which a health system might see a new implementation (or de-implementation). And even for the majority of health systems that utilize an EHR, they will inevitably eventually need an upgrade, and will always need to critically think about how they can be improving their workflows and the patient experience.
Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership
JUNE 27, 2023
ACHE-WI 2023-2024 Leadership Development Program (LDP) Cohort XIV kicked off their 2023 Site Visits in Green Bay, spending the morning at BayCare Clinic and then traveling to Prevea Health for the afternoon on June 21 st. Our early careerists met with senior leaders and learned about unique aspects of each organization. The group was privileged to participate in engaging discussions with key executives about leadership strategies and gained valuable insights and career advice along with some une
HIT Consultant
JUNE 27, 2023
What You Should Know: Flywheel , a Minneapolis-based medical imaging data and AI platform raises $54M in Series D funding, backed by tech giants including NVIDIA, Microsoft, and more. Flywheel helps organizations turn complex imaging data into analysis-ready datasets for accelerated research and AI development. Flywheel offers comprehensive solutions for pharma companies, providers, payers, system integrators, AI developers and academic medical centers to get optimum value out of their data asse
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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