Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

ORLANDO, Florida — Software giant Oracle continues to build out generative AI tools in its healthcare solutions as it debuted a new service for care management this week and plans to roll out | Oracle is integrating generative AI and ambient listening technologies into its EHR to streamline medical notetaking for clinicians. "We're not trying to go from 10 clicks to seven clicks.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 15, 2024

The cloud-based software company announced a number of new AI tools in the lead up to the HIMSS conference. Healthcare is a “huge priority” for Salesforce, said Sean Kennedy, global health strategy lead.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Nearly every hospital is feeling the consequences of Change Healthcare’s cyberattack on their finances, patient care delivery, or both, according to reports from almost 1,000 hospitals compiled by | Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the incident has had "direct" implications on patient care within their facilities.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 15, 2024

Challenges with health technology adoption and reductions in maternal services could also threaten patient safety this year, according to an ECRI study.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Health plans and providers alike are disgruntled with a new report (PDF) to Congress released | It seems everyone was left unsatisfied by MedPAC's newest report to Congress. Providers objected to its proposal to give physician reimbursement relief, while plans disagreed with its attitude toward Medicare Advantage.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 15, 2024

The appointment will help fill out the North Carolina-based health system’s leadership team after its CFO and COO left last year.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

Strategic Partnerships New Consortium Aims to Ensure Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare A new initiative, the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), was announced at the HIMSS 2024 Global Health Conference. Through collaboration, TRAIN members will help improve the quality, safety, and trustworthiness of AI in health by sharing best practices, enabling registration of AI used for clinical care or clinical operations, providing tools to enable measurement of outcomes associated with t

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Practice Better, a practice management software vendor, is expanding its platform to better support the needs of mental health practitioners. | The practice management platform is adding range of mental health screening forms, client progress tracking tools and mental health templates with more specialized features to its platform. It has also teamed up with clearinghouse Claim.MD to add insurance billing integration to its platform.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

What You Should Know: – Mayo Clinic Platform launches Solutions Studio , a groundbreaking program designed to accelerate the development, validation, and deployment of digital health solutions. – Solutions Studio addresses a critical challenge in healthcare – bridging the gap between promising digital health innovations and their practical integration into clinical workflows.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Leading senators want Department of Health and Human Services, insurers and hospitals alike to know they’re keeping a close eye on the fallout from Change Healthcare’s cyberattack. | Influential senators held HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra's feet to the fire on Thursday, urging him and his department to deliver prompt support and maintain pressure on the industry to invest in cybersecurity.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 15, 2024

By Sana S. Baban At present, there is a population of patients who would physiologically benefit from transplantation but are rejected based on pre-determined non-medical criteria: the presence of psychotic disorders. An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice. The existing organ allocation system has historically marginalized individuals diagnosed with psychotic or affective disorders, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and delusional disorders

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Thyme Care, a value-based care enabler focused on oncology, has formally launched a dedicated platform for oncology practice partners. | Thyme Care Oncology Partners spans more than 400 oncologists across 25 states. Together, Thyme and its partner practices will design and implement value-based initiatives for patients covered by risk-bearing entities, with Thyme taking on downside risk for these partners.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

The outcome of Russia's upcoming election is a foregone conclusion. So why bother? Because Putin's reelection confirms that Russia is Putin. Putin is Russia. And he is in total command. This is the roadmap for the future distilled in his fifth run for the presidency.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it | The approval of the first therapeutic treatment targeting metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis will be game-changing for physicians. More importantly, it will be life-changing for patients. As we celebrate this milestone, we must ask ourselves: Are we truly prepared for when this drug hits the market?

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Staffing shortages remain a challenge in home health care. While that’s true, the overall employment pool in home health care is actually larger now than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which issued its March 2024 report to Congress on Friday. In addition to including information on home health employment levels, MedPAC’s report once again urged Congress to slash fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare home health payments.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Climate stress will become more intense and frequent throughout CENTCOM's area of operations. It may be called upon less to fight wars and more to airdrop humanitarian supplies or evacuate people from disaster zones. It should also plan to contribute to stability operations in the region.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Despite the rising cost of home care services, some high-end and concierge home care agencies have been able to maintain their market footholds. After years of increasing costs, the services costs across many senior care sectors have begun to stabilize. Home care, however, is a notable exception. Last year, home care aide services saw a cost increase of 10%, checking in at an annual median cost of more than $75,000, according to Genworth’s (NYSE: G

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MARCH 15, 2024

The future of economics. Hacker attack on health data. Where is air pollution highest in low- and middle-income countries. 5.8m children have long COVID Underrated: the HPV vaccine.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2024

This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is opening a probe into the Feb. 21 cyberattack at UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Change Healthcare. The cyberattack was a cruel reminder to home health agencies, insurers and other stakeholders that they can never be too safe when it comes to protected patient information.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

What You Should Know: Banner – University Family Care announced a new partnership with Foodsmart, the nation’s largest food benefits management company. The partnership supports the shared mission to improve the health and quality of life of Banner – University Family Care members through nutritional education and improved access to healthy food at scale.

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Etactics

MARCH 15, 2024

Cyber attacks are growing in frequency. Security Magazine shares that over 2,200 attacks occur each day. When we break this down a bit more it’s about 1 cyber attack every 39 seconds. Over the last four years, there has been a 239% increase in large breaches due to hacking in the healthcare industry. In 2023, 88 million Americans experienced breaches of their protected health information (PHI).

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Higher education institutions play a key role in supporting the mental health of college students. But community colleges face significant resource constraints. With little guidance on how to adapt solutions originally developed for universities with more money and infrastructure, community colleges are struggling to find answers.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

All 2024-2025 flu vaccines in the United States will be trivalent (three-component) vaccines. Trivalent U.S. flu vaccines will include vaccine viruses or viral proteins from one influenza A(H1N1) virus, one influenza A(H3N2) virus, and one influenza B/Victoria lineage virus. They will not include an influenza B/Yamagata lineage vaccine virus or viral protein component.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

The Dutch government will soon decide on a replacement for the country's four Walrus submarines. Although it's important for the Netherlands to protect and develop its own industrial and technological base, its relationships with the European Union and NATO are critical, and policy safeguards are in place to ensure that even a non-Dutch bidder will return industrial benefits to the Netherlands.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

The March 21, 2024 Skilled Nursing Facilities/Long Term Care Open Door Forum has been rescheduled to April 2nd, 2:00pm-3:00pm ET. Thank you.

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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

Jason Griffin, Managing Director, Digital Health Strategy and Cybersecurity at Nordic Consulting Andy Adams, Managing Director, Performance Improvement and Advisory Services at Nordic Consulting The recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare highlights the healthcare industry’s vulnerability when threatened with criminal attempts to disrupt technology and operations.

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