Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2024
Uncomfortable waiting rooms. Revealing hospital gowns. Confusing insurance. Exhausting travel between appointments. | Oncology was a major focus at this year’s SXSW conference. Across multiple sessions, clinicians and patient advocates called for better access to specialty care, more thoughtful communication with patients and continued collaboration across stakeholders.
Health Care Dive
MARCH 22, 2024
Two weeks after the FDA updated Wegovy’s label, Medicare changed its stance to allow people with a history of heart disease to receive treatment, a shift that could further boost access to the fast-selling medicine.
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Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2024
Though it may sound benign, unexpected laundry service interruptions can leave a deep stain on hospital care delivery. | The large nonprofit systems will jointly own and operate a regional laundry facility that will deliver 80 community jobs and 35 million pounds of clean hospital linens per year.
Health Care Dive
MARCH 22, 2024
In a Thursday letter, the American Hospital Association urged the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights to reduce possible “duplicative” breach notifications from the Change cyberattack.
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Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2024
Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners. | Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 22, 2024
VRGS goes south Western New South Wales's Virtual Rural Generalist Service (VRGS) has been expanded to cover Southern NSW. The service provides 24-hour virtual medical support, specialty or critical care advice and transport, logistics, and coordination support. It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Care Dive
MARCH 22, 2024
In testimony to Congress Thursday, industry and patient group leaders described the trade-offs expected from increased FDA oversight of laboratory-developed tests.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 22, 2024
Americans have been concerned about tech-enabled government surveillance for as long as they have known about it. With the recent Department of Homeland Security announcement that it is embracing artificial intelligence, that concern isn't going away anytime soon. How could federal agencies mitigate some of that fear?
Home Health Care
MARCH 22, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Three years after being acquired by Advocate Aurora Health , Senior Helpers has a new home. The personal care company has been sold to Waud Capital, a Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm. Senior Helpers declined to disclose the transaction purchasing price. The wheels for the acquisition began turning following Advocate Aurora’s merger with Atrium Health in 2022, Senior Helpers CEO Peter Ross told Home Health Care News.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 22, 2024
Allies are key to U.S. great power competition. They are the only asset its adversaries do not also share. Instead of a strategic calculation, isolating European partners' vital interests because they are “less important” than Asia can only harm the United States' relationship with its Asian partners as well.
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NASHP
MARCH 22, 2024
States are increasingly turning to capitated Medicaid managed care programs to deliver long-term services and supports (LTSS) to individuals with complex needs. As of December 2023, 24 states have managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) programs in place , up from only eight in 2004. States are hoping to achieve a number of goals with their MLTSS programs, including increasing access to home and community-based services, promoting care coordination, enhancing quality and beneficiary sati
Health IT Analytics
MARCH 22, 2024
Machine learning models accurately forecasted one-year major adverse outcomes following endovascular intervention for peripheral artery disease.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 22, 2024
Russia's failed invasion of Ukraine pushed neutral Sweden to embrace a role in Europe and NATO's collective defence and security. With the addition of its 32nd Member, NATO's toolkit gains Sweden's ground and air combat, nearshore and undersea warfare capabilities, as well as the country's expertise in niche areas such as cold weather operations.
Home Health Care
MARCH 22, 2024
By committing to cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships, Tomorrow Health hopes to be a pioneer in a future where the home becomes the primary site of care. However, doing so will take some innovation and overhaul of a system that is in need of upgrades. “I think one of the biggest [obstacles] is something that our industry has been facing writ large, which is the transition from analog to digital,” Tomorrow Health CEO Vijay Kedar told Home Health Care News’ sister site HME Busi
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NASHP
MARCH 22, 2024
State health officials are prioritizing access to quality behavioral health services and supports across the continuum of care, enhancing capacity for interventions where and when people need them. The increase in demand, morbidity and mortality sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic remains at crisis levels and is exacerbating existing challenges, such as diminished provider capacity and workforce issues.
Etactics
MARCH 22, 2024
In 2023, the world reached nearly 4.5 million USD in losses due to data breaches. Judging from the fact that this cost only continues to increase, keeping your information safe is pinnacle. Especially as a business owner. This goes for whether you run a large organization or a smaller one. Hence why the topic of cybersecurity is such a hot one right now.
NASHP
MARCH 22, 2024
The 2024 open enrollment season has officially ended, with a record over 21 million individuals enrolling in coverage through the health insurance marketplaces. This marks the marketplaces’ most robust enrollment season to date and comes as they celebrate over ten years of providing individuals and families with access to health insurance. Over their history, marketplaces have worked continuously to improve their ability to provide affordable, reliable, and quality coverage to their populations.
Home Health Care
MARCH 22, 2024
The United States relies heavily on family caregivers, so much so that the Biden administration has gone lengths to support them. Still, in order for family caregivers to actually reduce the cost of care in the home, they need to be given the proper resources and education. Otherwise, patients are likely receiving – unbeknownst to them – subpar care that isn’t guaranteed to keep them out of more costly settings.
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NASHP
MARCH 22, 2024
This is one section of Modernizing Behavioral Health Systems: A Resource for States. See the full resource guide. The graphic below provides a high-level framework for a modernized behavioral health system. The conceptual frame synthesizes key components of a behavioral health continuum of care and cross-cutting principles from expert input and best practice approaches.
NASHP
MARCH 22, 2024
This is one section of Modernizing Behavioral Health Systems: A Resource for States. See the full resource guide. As major purchasers, administrators, and regulators of behavioral health treatment and supports, states play a critical role in system transformation. State leaders can use these levers to develop a modern behavioral health system with equitable access to high-quality services and supports, including establishing a statewide vision, driving reform through payment and delivery transfo
NASHP
MARCH 22, 2024
This is one section of Modernizing Behavioral Health Systems: A Resource for States. See the full resource guide. Delivery systems can avail themselves of a comprehensive array of evidence-based services and models that address the complexities of mental illness and addiction across an individual’s lifespan. Still, access to these approaches is more rare than not and is heavily influenced by inequities.
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