Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Informa Markets has struck a deal with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to acquire one of the largest health IT conferences in the market. | Informa Markets, a division of the business-to-business publishing and events company Informa PLC, will take on management of the HIMSS Exhibition, while HIMSS will continue to oversee developing expert content and programming, the organizations announced Tuesday.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 2, 2023

Primary care advocates Ann Greiner and Shawn Martin argue the U.S. needs to turn around decades of underinvestment in its primary care chassis to lower costs and improve care quality.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Duke University Health System has tapped Microsoft to support its exploration of generative AI and cloud technologies, the academic system announced this week. | The organizations aim to roll out a secure cloud ecosystem across Duke Health and—with a focus on ethics and health equity—leverage generative AI for new healthcare applications.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 2, 2023

Humana’s stock rose following the earnings, which — along with comments from other payers — suggest the uptick in outpatient care flagged earlier in the quarter is moderating.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Higher volumes and revenues weren’t enough to keep Community Health Systems (CHS) from a $38 million net loss (-$0.29 per diluted share) for the second quarter, according to financial results for t | The for-profit's leadership pointed to sequential improvements in key metrics like patient volumes and net operating revenues, but ultimately stayed in the red for another quarter.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 2, 2023

The government is alleging plan administrator UMR improperly denied thousands of ER and drug screening claims submitted between 2015 and 2018.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

The study from the Blues payer is the latest finding hospital acquisitions lead to increased readmissions and higher costs for patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Large health systems are scooping up independent hospitals, and that consolidation negatively affects employers, insurers and patients, according to a new analysis backed by Blues giant Elevance He | Hospital consolidation negatively affects employers, insurers and patients, according to a new analysis backed by Blues giant Elevance Health. The AHA, however, disputed the findings.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 2, 2023

Hospitals decried the rate adjustment, which is higher than the 2.8% proposed earlier this year, as out of touch with their financial reality.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 2, 2023

A new five-year partnership between Duke and Microsoft includes the creation of a Duke Health AI Innovation Lab and Center of Excellence. WHY IT MATTERS As part of the new agreement, Microsoft says it will construct a secure cloud environment to train and foster a cloud-savvy IT workforce at the Durham, North Carolina-based health system, which uses Azure.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 2, 2023

CVS also lowered its 2024 earnings outlook, citing cost pressures, and said investors should no longer rely on its 2025 target.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Parkland Health leveraged digital tools to empower patients and staff and make healthcare more accessible, according to Joe Longo, SVP and Dr. Brett Moran, SVP, Associate CMO and CMIO.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

More than one-third of Medicaid members (35%) said they were not contacted by their health plan to renew coverage, a recent survey from healthcare software company Icario and conducted by The Harri | Health plans failed to contact one-third of members about Medicaid coverage renewal, a new survey finds.

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p3care

AUGUST 2, 2023

The MIPS is the finest opportunity for providers to make a real difference in their performance. Overall, CMS is trying to reshape the healthcare landscape using the MIPS reporting framework. We know that things do not remain the same. CMS always focuses on the quality of care delivery. Therefore, it sets milestones for practitioners to achieve. Once they achieve them, CMS immediately sets the next target, keeping the same motive.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Drugstore chain and pharmacy benefit manager CVS Health posted $1.9 billion in profit in the second quarter, down 36% from the same period a year ago when the company reported net income of $2.9 bi | CVS Health posted its second-quarter earnings Wednesday morning, where it reported $1.9 billion in profit and a 10% bump in revenue. The financial update comes amid layoffs that impact 5,000 employees as it pushes deeper into healthcare services.

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 2, 2023

By Jordan Brooks and Tamar Ezer Expanding access to midwives and doulas in the United States is a vital and often overlooked way to increase access to culturally-congruent birthing options during pregnancy and improve health outcomes for birthing individuals and their children. The Maternal and Infant Health Crisis The U.S. is the most dangerous developed country in which to give birth, and this crisis is only worsening.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Medicare Advantage (MA) plans serve more marginalized and disadvantaged communities than fee-for-service (FFS) plans, according to a report from research firm ATI Advisory, building on previous res | New research gives greater insight into the differences between Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service beneficiaries.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 2, 2023

What You Should Know: Glytec, the only provider of cloud-based insulin management software across the continuum of care, today unveiled the latest version of its Glucommander® insulin dosing software that makes it easier for providers, nurses and pharmacists to offer best practice, personalized care. These innovations help streamline workflows, improve patient outcomes and offer tighter support for the industry’s top electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Millions of patients with serious conditions like Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis require infusion therapy but there are significant barriers to treatment. | Uptiv Health launched as a new hybrid infusion care company with a focus on reshaping the patient experience. The startup opened its first location in Michigan and aims to combine quality, in-person infusion therapy with convenient, personalized virtual care management services.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Humana Inc. HUM (NYSE) leaders say the investments they’ve made in value-based payment models and at-home care capabilities continue to pay off. It continues to leverage its home health engine – CenterWell Home Health – to deliver on those value-based care initiatives. “In home, we continue to accelerate our value-based strategy, now covering approximately 830,000 of our MA members under a value-based payment model covering home health, DME and infusion services,” Humana CEO Bruce Broussard said

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Providers Have Options: How To Simplify Prior Authorization, Satisfy Patients, and Preserve Revenue mteefey Wed, 08/02/2023 - 13:43

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 2, 2023

What You Should Know: Geisinger , an integrated health care delivery and coverage organization serving members in central and northeastern Pennsylvania forms a strategic collaboration with Bodyport , a virtual care company focused on heart failure to launch remote heart failure monitoring program. Together, Geisinger and Bodypart will develop and implement a fluid-guided care pathway for heart failure.

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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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Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Help at Home makes two more acquisitions The Chicago-based Help at Home announced this week that it has acquired the Ohio-based Berkshire Homecare and the Indiana-based My Care at Home. “We want to extend a warm welcome to the Berkshire Homecare and My Care at Home caregivers, clients and payer partners to Help at Home,” Help at Home COO Ray Smithberger, said in a statement. “These organizations are a great fit for Help at Home an

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 2, 2023

What You Should Know: Suki , the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, recently announced the launch of a native Mac app as part of its Suki Dictate offering to further its mission of building the most comprehensive solution in healthcare. Suki Dictate on Mac expands the use of Suki’s proprietary technology to serve clinicians everywhere and makes Suki the only voice assistant that supports all platforms including iOS, Android, web, Windows, and now Mac.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

On the journey to becoming more of a health care services provider, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is experiencing some bumps in the road. Those bumps aren’t anything the company’s leaders are worried about long term, though, and both of the its recent acquisitions – Signify Health and Oak Street Health – continue to be touted. But the combined $18 million price tag for those acquisitions has, in part, led to cuts elsewhere.

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Health IT Analytics

AUGUST 2, 2023

According to new research, prediction tools supported decision-making in treatment allocation for health services related to domestic violence.

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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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Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

Episode Introduction David explains the law of dissipating structures, how systems, not people, produce 94% of outcomes, and why reorder is a ‘’flight towards chaos.’’ He also explains why the C-suite and frontline employees are different systems in healthcare, highlights the importance of a ‘’pull’’ strategy, and shares why systems improvement means everybody wins.

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NCQA

AUGUST 2, 2023

“Making Data Useful” is one of six themes or topics we’ll focus on at our Health Innovation Summit 2023. The Trouble With Today’s Health Data Remember when health data were scarce? Those days are over. Today, the amount and sources of data are vast. Clinical, administrative, consumer, patient-reported data (including from wearables) flow freely. Now What?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 2, 2023

What You Should Know: Cedar , an enterprise financial engagement platform that improves the end-to-end journey for consumers announced a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud. As part of the collaboration, Cedar will be using Google Cloud’s generative AI tools, including Vertex AI, Generative AI App Builder and others to build solutions that will assist patients in understanding and resolving their healthcare bills.

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Etactics

AUGUST 2, 2023

Dentistry and marketing. Two words that if you heard spoken in the same sentence 20 years ago, you probably would’ve thought it was some sort of joke. These days, those two words coexist and are an essential part of running a modern-day dental practice. I know what you’re thinking, “You have my attention…but prove it.” Well, nearly 80% of patients use search engines to find their next healthcare provider.

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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.