Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 13, 2023
Legislators and policymakers have put payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans under the microscope, and new analysis highlights why. | Legislators and policymakers have put payments to Medicare Advantage plans under the microscope, and new analysis highlights why.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 13, 2023
Uber Health, which already provides non-emergency medical transportation and prescription delivery, has been expanding beyond medical transportation to care coordination across multiple benefits.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 13, 2023
Insurers find themselves in the position of needing to say "yes" or "no" to GLP-1 drugs as more people seek them for weight loss. | Ozempic, estimated to cost about $10,000 a year per person, and other GLP-1 drugs could put significant financial strain on payers as demand grows.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 13, 2023
In a letter to governors, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra urged states to adopt new flexibilities to limit coverage losses due to administrative barriers.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 13, 2023
The Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) preventive care mandate remains in effect as a federal appeals court mulls a legal challenge to the requirements. | The Affordable Care Act's preventive care mandate remains in effect as a federal appeals court mulls a legal challenge to the requirements.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 13, 2023
Between 2019 and 2022, fewer adults reported taking on medical debt or forgoing medical care due to cost, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 13, 2023
A new joint federal cybersecurity warning says that the Clop Ransomware Gang, also known as TA505, began exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability this past month in one of Progress Software's managed file transfer tools, known as MOVEit Transfer. WHY IT MATTERS Progress Software announced the discovery of the MOVEit vulnerability and issued guidance on known affected versions – from 2020.0.x and forward – along with software upgrades and patches.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 13, 2023
Dogs are our best friends. So how can we help them live longer? Biotech founder Celine Halioua is working on drugs to expand dogs' longevity. | 'Podnosis': Are canines the secret to anti-aging meds and the benefits and challenges of direct contracting and purchase alliances.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 13, 2023
Uber Health announced that payers and providers nationwide can soon use the same platform they may already use for non-emergency medical transportation and prescription delivery to order and deliver other covered items directly to patient homes. WHY IT MATTERS Food as medicine programs, designed for patients with complex health and social needs, may reduce avoidable hospitalizations and emergency room visits.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 13, 2023
Digital health company Thirty Madison scooped up assets, including 100,000 patient files and intellectual property, from The Pill Club in a deal valued at $32.3 million. | Patients from The Pill Club can transition to receiving care through Nurx to ensure continuity of care and support the medical adherence required for effective birth control.
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p3care
JUNE 13, 2023
MIPS represents a framework for providers’ accountability and their part in promoting standardized care. Every year, it gives them an open invitation to select their reporting measures and perform well. CMS then evaluates their performance and assigns a suitable score and corresponding payment adjustments. Right now, we have taken a jump start on MIPS 2023 with a strict set of reporting rules and requirements.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 13, 2023
Majority of senior health system execs say nursing shortage is critical, poll finds. What are they doing to address it?
Healthcare Associates
JUNE 13, 2023
Can Vaping Cause Lung Cancer? Vaping is a fairly new technology, meaning its effects on your body are not yet fully known. Decades of research show that cigarettes are harmful. Cigarettes produce more than 7,000 chemicals when burned — 69 of which are toxic and known to cause cancer. But does vaping cause cancer? Here’s a closer look at the effects of vaping on your lungs, and whether this practice can cause lung cancer.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 13, 2023
What You Should Know: Today, STAT Health emerges from stealth to introduce a 24/7 in-ear wearable that measures blood flow to the head to better understand symptoms such as dizziness, brain fog, headaches, fainting, and fatigue that occur upon standing. These are common symptoms for illnesses like long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and other orthostatic (caused by standing) syndromes that affect more than 1
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Healthy Debate
JUNE 13, 2023
The post The real cost of not adopting universal pharmacare is Canadian lives appeared first on Healthy Debate.
Health IT Analytics
JUNE 13, 2023
New deep learning model identifies standardized surgical fields and provides automatic surgical skill assessment for endoscopic procedures using intraoperative videos.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 13, 2023
What You Should Know : Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced it will soon add grocery and over the counter (OTC) item delivery to its centralized HIPAA-enabled platform. Payers and providers nationwide will soon be able to use the same platform they already use for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) and prescription delivery to have groceries and OTC items delivered directly to patient homes, facilitated by Uber Eats.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JUNE 13, 2023
That is the title of an article by Cascaldi-Garcia et al. (2023) in the Journal of Economic Literature. I summarize some of the key findings below. Definitions : Risk : Applies to situations in which the outcome is unknown to decision makers, but the probability distribution governing the outcome is known” Volatility. Often used synonymously with risk, volatility is a statistical measure of the variation in observed outcomes Uncertainty.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 13, 2023
What You Should Know: AMN Healthcare Language Services , the leading provider of video remote language interpretation services for the healthcare industry, today announced it will offer clients data exchange integration with electronic health record (EHR) systems starting with Epic, a cloud-based EHR solution catering to a broad range of practices, from community hospitals and independent practices to multi-specialty hospital groups and hospice care providers.
Home Health Care
JUNE 13, 2023
Home-based care insiders are looking on as outsiders come in and sweep up top assets within their industry. There’s the payers, like UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Humana (NYSE: HUM), that are doing so. Then there’s the retailers, such as CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT).
Bill Of Health
JUNE 13, 2023
By Audrey Lebret In the medical field, artificial intelligence (AI) is of great operational and clinical use. It eases the administrative burden on doctors, helps in the allocation of healthcare resources, and improves the quality of diagnosis. It also raises numerous challenges and risks. Balancing competitiveness with the need for risk prevention, Europe aims to become a major digital player through its AI framework strategy, particularly in the field of digital health.
Home Health Care
JUNE 13, 2023
An investor in Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) is calling on the home health and hospice company to consider strategic alternatives to operating as a standalone business. And those alternatives, the investor argues, should include exploring a sale. The investor is New York-based hedge fund AREX Capital Management, which has been an Enhabit investor since its spinoff from Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) in July 2022.
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.
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2023
In 2023, U.S. consumers’ purchases of technology in their households will contract this year. Consumer-facing health-tech categories won’t be spared, we learn in the 2023 U.S. Consumer Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study , an annual update from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). On the upside, smartwatch market penetration held steady in 2023, as this favorite form of wearable technology is “providing consumers a personalized digital health and fitness das
Sequence Health
JUNE 13, 2023
SEO is incredibly important for online marketing. Of course, it’s also essential for the healthcare industry. Your potential patients may be in your local market or they may be looking up your healthcare facility from a different city. That’s why you need healthcare SEO services. In this article, let’s talk about SEO, the importance of voice search, and what that means for your healthcare practice Read More: The Ultimate Healthcare SEO Guide What Is SEO?
NASHP
JUNE 13, 2023
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is pleased that researchers at Rice University, state officials, employers, and many others are using the data from NASHP’s Hospital Cost Tool to further explore policy questions related to health care expenditures. Following the release of Rice University’s study on tax exempt hospitals’ investment in charity care, the American Hospital Association (AHA) made inaccurate statements about how NASHP’s tool calculates hospital profits, and we cor
Health Business Group
JUNE 13, 2023
In the latest HealthBiz Podcast, Garrett Walker, founder of Virb, shared his insights on revolutionizing clinical trial staffing and empowering careers through Virb’s innovative ecosystem. With a background in HR and talent development, Walker led teams at Verizon, IBM, and Quintiles before founding Virb, a people-centric clinical trial ecosystem that provides talent for pharma companies and clinical research organizations.
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.
Nordic
JUNE 13, 2023
Historically, IT has been treated like a commodity — a necessary but relatively simple function of the business that runs in the background and keeps the lights on. A handful of managed service providers handled IT services for a wide array of businesses across multiple industries. But with little data optimization, healthcare systems were leaving insights on the table.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 13, 2023
What You Should Know: Luna, the leading provider of in-home, in-person physical therapy, and MedStar Health , the largest healthcare system in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region, have today announced a partnership to improve access to in-person outpatient physical therapy across Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Northern Virginia, in collaboration with MedStar Health rehabilitation centers.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 13, 2023
What You Should Know: Nearly three-fourths of life sciences organizations surveyed have invested in digital pathology to advance drug research and development (R&D), according to new research commissioned by Proscia®. Over half of these organizations (53%) still center their operations around legacy software systems primarily for basic image viewing despite growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the introduction of breakthrough therapeutics.
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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