Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found. | Another white paper released by Inovalon and Harvard Medical School highlights the benefits Medicare Advantage enrollees enjoy over traditional Medicare counterparts.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
States have assessed the eligibility of 28 million Americans to date, and terminated coverage for 35% of them, according to the latest data from KFF.
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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Cigna is looking into the possibility of selling its Medicare Advantage (MA) business, according to a report from Reuters. | Cigna may decide to sell off its Medicare Advantage business. The insurer is reportedly in early discussions with an investment bank to go over its options.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
However, patient experience scores declined again, which could be the result of ongoing labor shortages, according to Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder.
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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Kaiser Permanente pulled in $239 million in net income during the third quarter of 2023, a turnaround from the $1.5 billion net loss the integrated system had seen a year prior. | The massive integrated nonprofit's $156 million operating income turns around the $75 million operating loss of the third quarter of 2022 but is a slight pullback from 2023's prior quarters.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Dealing with natural disasters, severe weather events, active shooters, mass casualties and other external events requires hospital staff to coordinate with multiple outside agencies but communicating with stakeholders can be a challenge.
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Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Dealing with natural disasters, severe weather, active shooters and other events requires hospital staff to coordinate with multiple outside agencies. But communicating with stakeholders can be a challenge.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Health information network Surescripts acquired ActiveRADAR to build out therapeutic alternatives for prescription drugs. | Health information network Surescripts acquired ActiveRADAR to build out therapeutic alternatives for prescription drugs.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Surescripts, fresh off an antitrust settlement with federal regulators, said the acquisition would help boost its e-prescribing network with information on therapeutic alternatives at the point of prescribing.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
U.S. | The Leapfrog Group's latest safety grades outlined improvements among hospitals' MRSA, CLABSI and CAUTI numbers compared to the pandemic's five-year high. On the other hand, patient-reported experience measures such as staff responsiveness and communication regarding medicines took "significant" hits.
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Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Investor concerns that interest in GLP-1s will slow demand for medical devices and procedures have shaved roughly $370 billion in value from stocks across the medtech sector, according to research.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
NorthShore—Edward-Elmhurst Health (NS-EEH) is teaming up with value-based care company Lumeris to improve care for nearly half a million lives. | NorthShore—Edward-Elmhurst Health is teaming up with value-based care company Lumeris to improve care for nearly half a million lives. Working together, the partners hope to enable care coordination while improving clinical outcomes, the patient and provider experience and managing healthcare costs.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
To complement today’s sobering Health Populi post discussing Accenture’s 2024 Life Trends Study — an outlook for a decade of “deconstruction” based on technology and other trends in the ether — I share with you Amazon’s ad for this holiday season gift-giving motivation. The agency responsible for the campaign, Hungry Man and director Wayne McClammy, weave together a beautiful plotline of friendship, the Beatles’ In My Life, and a time-traveling ima
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Shankar Somasundaram, CEO of Asimily The recently proposed U.S. Cyber Trust Mark is a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program operated by the FCC. It will initially provide IoT manufacturers with a certification label that signifies their compliance with cybersecurity guidelines and best practices—while providing consumers with more confidence when purchasing internet-connected devices.
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Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) has received a set of diverse reactions since it has been live. Some home health providers find it useful and others find it to be yet another administrative burden. Either way, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seems intent on expanding it. Broadly, the goal of RCD is to reduce improper billing in home health care.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: Verana Health® (Verana), a digital health company helping to revolutionize patient care and clinical research by unlocking the potential of real-world data, and the Foundation Fighting Blindness – the world’s leading organization committed to finding treatments and cures for blinding retinal diseases—announce a partnership focused on providing the life sciences community with deeper and broader data to optimize and expedite clinical trials.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
For home care leaders, determining the wages of salespeople, caregivers and other contributors is a major undertaking. It is part art, part science, and hard to perfect. At the Home Care Association of America’s (HCAOA) annual conference last month, providers offered a peak behind the curtain on how those determinations take place. Hillendale Home Care CEO Jesse Walters, A Long Term Companion (ALTC) Vice President Brett Ringold and Michelle Cone – SVP of training and brand programs at HomeWell C
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: – A recent study reveals that telemedicine is related to increased EHR time for physicians in the ambulatory setting, primarily due to documentation of visits, and may require adjustments in productivity expectations and strategies to address EHR documentation burden for physicians in healthcare systems. – The longitudinal cohort study of 1052 ambulatory physicians conducted at UCSF Health analyzes the time physicians spent working in the EHR during patient sche
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Health IT Analytics
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Two studies to be presented at the AHA’s Scientific Sessions show that AI and deep learning may be capable of flagging heart disease and cardiovascular event risk.
HKLaw
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Hospitals care about patient privacy, but they also have to connect with the public.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
This is a question that can be answered empirically but doing so is challenging. While cross-country comparisons are feasible for comparing public and private health care provisions, often there are many other differences between health care systems across country. Within any given country, there is significant selection bias in terms of who receives public vs. private care.
HKLaw
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The government will run out of funding on Nov. 17, 2023 – in 10 days. The U.S. House of Representatives will continue to work to advance annual appropriations bills this week.
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HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: – Health Catalyst has acquired Electronic Registry Systems, Inc. (ERS), a prominent cancer registry software and services provider. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – The acquisition aims to strengthen Health Catalyst’s comprehensive data abstraction and registry management capabilities, particularly in conjunction with its ARMUS platform.
HIStalk
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Everyone is talking about the recent shutdown of Olive. Looking.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: – Emory Healthcare partners with Andor Health to implement virtual patient observer technology to enhance safety interventions and reduce fall risks in hospitalized patients. – Emory Healthcare plans to pilot the virtual sitter technology at two of its hospitals, allowing for remote monitoring of at-risk patients in medical and surgical floors as well as the emergency department.
HIStalk
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Surescripts Acquires ActiveRADAR to Offer Therapeutic Alternatives for Prescriptions Surescripts.
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.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: – Surescripts , the leading health information network in the United States, has acquired ActiveRADAR , a clinical intelligence company focused on identifying therapeutic alternatives for prescriptions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – The acquisition is expected to have a positive impact on medication adherence, patient-provider engagement, and the overall patient experience by providing better alternatives and reducing waste and costs
HIStalk
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Jeff Smith, MBA, MIB is CEO of Bamboo Health of.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
What You Should Know: – Accenture and Salesforce are investing in the development of Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud, focusing on innovation, assets, and accelerators powered by data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help life sciences companies create sustainable value and drive growth. – Building on their generative AI collaboration, Accenture and Salesforce will leverage their joint generative AI acceleration hub to develop new solutions and use cases for Salesforce Life Sciences
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The Biden administration is once again cracking down on Medicare Advantage marketing tactics with new guidelines to promote healthy competition in the market and impose limits on plans' payments to | In another proposed rule, CMS aims to tighten Medicare Advantage prior authorizations, establish a maximum payment structure for marketing middlemen and loosen requirements on biosimilar formularies.
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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