Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the sharing of health information is a delicate balance, especially when it comes to teenagers. THE PROBLEM Patient portals facilitate efficient sharing of health information between patients, their families and healthcare providers. However, a unique challenge arises when it comes to teenagers. Certain state laws may allow minors to consent to specific types of sensitive care and give them the right to keep this information confidential from thei

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Patients were protected from more than 10 million surprise medical bills thanks to reforms in the No Surprises Act, according to a new survey. | Patients were protected from more than 10 million surprise medical bills thanks to reforms in the No Surprises Act, according to a new survey.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

The sector's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been slower than expected. In a new report, the credit agency said some hospitals may never reach traditional healthy operating margins.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Expect sickle cell disease to be the primary focus of the new Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Tuesday. | CMS gave an update to its Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model announced in February, opting to focus first on sickle cell disease.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

Insurers' MA earnings were 2% lower in 2022 than in 2019, signaling profits in the lucrative insurance program may be weakening.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

A new value-based care enabler focused on endocrinology has launched with a mission to shape the future of diabetes care. | Valendo Health uses a phased approach to offer expertise, technology and data-rich tools to help independent physicians enhance clinical capacity, streamline operations and transition to value-based care.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Payer Roundup–Molina Healthcare strengthens partnership with BeMe Health; North Carolina health plan limits GLP-1 coverage ntong Tue, 01/30/2024 - 16:37

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Never has any modern tool promised greater efficiency and support than what generative AI offers. Last year saw industries, including healthcare, quick to jump in on the trend to get first mover advantage. Applications have also been varied, from documentation to clinical decision support and even in combination with robotics. While the enthusiasm for genAI will remain elevated this year – with governments even investing in this emerging lucrative space , the pace of adoption will likely b

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

This week on “Podnosis,” we rewind to January 2019 when Fierce Healthcare unveiled its inaugural Fierce 15, spotlighting 15 private companies engaged in pioneering work and making waves in healthca | This week on “Podnosis,” we rewind to January 2019 when Fierce Healthcare unveiled its inaugural Fierce 15, spotlighting 15 private companies engaged in pioneering work and making waves in healthcare innovation.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, growth in Medicare's flagship shared savings model has plateaued over the past five years, according to government data.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare closed out 2023 “better than expected” with billions in quarter and annual revenue gains, higher demand and steady progress toward addressing cost pressures such as p | The for-profit health system closed out the year "better than expected" and told investors it expects a solid 2024 amid continued growth and initiatives to address wage growth, capacity and the losses from its recent physician staffing acquisition.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

Effective March 18, Nakesha Lopez will lead human resource and people programs for the 68-hospital nonprofit.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Russo-Ukrainian war might be at a strategic tipping point. The ground fight in Ukraine's east is stalemated, but Russian sea and air power in Crimea is diminished. The future flow of Western aid may be less certain. To address these challenges, the West might escalate support for Ukraine's military and signal firmness to Moscow.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

HCA executives also announced the retirement of longtime CFO Bill Rutherford during a Tuesday earnings call.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

When there are as many problems to hurdle in a space such as home health care, leaders have to prioritize. Interestingly enough, not many companies have the same top priorities, however. The priorities are a good reflection of what home health leaders believe will lead to solutions. Their priorities are generally not what you would consider solutions in themselves, however.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – Walmart is upping the ante with its new Optical Virtual Try-On (VTO) feature, allowing you to virtually “try on” hundreds of frames and purchase prescription glasses online. – Walmart’s Optical Virtual Try-On and online prescription purchases offer a convenient, personalized, and exciting way to shop for eyewear.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

Accompany Health — a new in-home primary, behavioral health and social care provider — has secured $56 million in Series A funding. The Maryland-based company is now serving over 8,000 low-income patients in the Detroit area and aims to address the complex needs of those who often face significant barriers to accessing quality care. “Most innovation in primary care in the U.S. has not addressed the needs of the most medically underserved patients and lower income Americans,” Dr.

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Meditech

JANUARY 30, 2024

In 2023, home health agencies were finally starting to get their feet under them. They were receiving initial reports on their status in the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model, giving much needed insight on where to restructure their strategies, and continuing to recover from the strains of COVID-19. Then CMS announced their new regulations and reset the baseline, forcing agencies to reshape their plans once again.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

Aging Media Network, a WTWH Healthcare company, is proud to announce the Frontline Honors Class of 2023. With nominations in the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the program showcases exemplary character and performance of frontline workers across the care continuum. “In the face of constant change and evolution, frontline care workers have kept the post-acute and seni

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – RxBenefits , a leading pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO), has announced the appointment of Mark Campbell, PharmD , as its first Chief Pharmacy Officer. – The newly created position underscores the company’s commitment to using clinical expertise and technology to improve health outcomes and optimize costs for employers and employees.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2024

One-half of U.S. physicians report feeling burned out, and 3 in 5 of those doctors say they have felt burned out for over two years, according to the Physician Burnout & Depression Report for 2024 from Medscape. While the study’s press release asserts there may be “progress” given the percent of doctors citing burnout fell by 4 percentage points from 53% of doctors in 2022 to 49% in 2023, it is obvious the U.S. physicians need greater support and less taboo concerning their

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: Hip disorders, comprising some of the world’s most common joint diseases, are especially prevalent among adolescents and young adults, causing stiffness, pain or a limp. But they can be hard to diagnose using solely 2D medical imaging. Helping to treat these disorders, the Boston Children’s Hospital’s (BCH’s) Adolescent and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program is the U.S.’s first to deploy a fully automated AI tool across its clinic.

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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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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 30, 2024

By Caroline Hayes The psychedelic renaissance is well underway, with hundreds of clinical trials currently looking into a plethora of different mental health conditions. I was a sub-investigator on a clinical trial researching a psychedelic study drug to treat depression, but I have since stepped back from psychedelic clinical trials due to personal ethical concerns about the way the field is evolving.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD, Founder and CEO of Rimidi Ansley Dalbo, founder of Diabetes – What to Know Whether it’s on TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook, the latest “diet” trends are hard to escape. There’s paleo, keto, macros, intermittent fasting, vegan, Mediterranean, low-carb and so many other programs inundating individuals every day, and many turn to their favorite social media influencers for “expert” opinions on what works and what doesn’t.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 30, 2024

Using commercial claims data between 2009-2018, a paper in Health Services Research by Lalani et al (2024) finds that: Rebates are rising as a share of cost Fewer patients have $0 out-of-pocket cost Patient out-of-pocket costs growth was 2.9x as large as net drug cost growth Specifically: List prices increased 4.4%/yr (interquartile range [IQR], 1.1% to 6.0%) and net prices 3.3%/yr (IQR, 0.3% to 5.5%).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – PathAI , a pioneer in AI-powered pathology, announced a significant expansion of its PathExplore platform, adding six new oncology indications to its arsenal. – The expansion doubles the platform’s reach, now covering 14 different cancer types, and further solidifies PathExplore as the leading tool for characterizing the tumor microenvironment (TME) from H&E-stained whole-slide images (WSIs).

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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.

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Health IT Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2024

Researchers leveraging a machine learning-based “fragmentomics” approach may be able to detect cancer sooner using smaller blood samples than traditional methods.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: Personalis, Inc. , a leader in advanced genomics for cancer, and ClearNote Health, Inc. , a pioneer in epigenomic technologies, today unveiled an alliance through which Personalis will expand its pharmaceutical service offerings by distributing ClearNote’s cutting-edge epigenomic 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) platform. Revolutionizing Cancer Detection and Treatment: ClearNote Health’s Epigenomics Platform ClearNote Health’s Epigenomics Platform is a groundbreak

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Healthy Debate

JANUARY 30, 2024

The health sector is an economic giant. Thus, it must play a significant role in strengthening Canada’s focus on climate change mitigation.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: AION Labs, the first-of-its-kind venture studio spearheading the adoption of AI technologies and computational science to solve therapeutic challenges, announced today the formation of TenAces Biosciences. TenAces is a startup developing a novel approach to discover new molecular glue therapies, leveraging machine learning to enhance development of treatments for a range of conditions.

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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.