Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2023

It's a challenging time to be a young person. Study after study has shown that stressors such as social media, bullying, loneliness and the pandemic are causing and exacerbating a wide array of mental health challenges among high school and college kids. And healthcare resources are not always readily available to help them. Among some recent stats: There are never-before-seen levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts among teens, according to a report from the CDC. 71% of college student

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. Here’s a picture of the annual study’s top-line findings, a roster of the fifty U.S. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 29, 2023

Providers are expected to seek rate increases from payers as they struggle with labor costs, while health plans will face pressure from increased pharmaceutical expenses.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2023

Physician-owned general acute care hospitals charge less than other non-physician-owned facilities in their region for several common shoppable care services, according to a new analysis published | A new analysis of competing hospitals' published prices adds fuel to the debate over whether Congress should lift the Affordable Care Act's ban on new physician-owned hospitals.

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Healthy Debate

JUNE 28, 2023

Political debates have muddied the water on policy options to address toxic drug deaths. But what do the experts have to say?

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Healthcare Success

JUNE 12, 2023

Consumers across the globe have come to rely on search engines for reliable, trustworthy, accurate, and timely healthcare information. This has significantly increased competition among providers, making SEO—particularly local SEO—a crucial part of any digital marketing strategy. Local SEO is beneficial for any size business but critical for multilocation companies.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Modernizing, better funding, and expanding wildland firefighting forces in North America won't make fires or smoke magically disappear. A massive paradigm shift is necessary. But it's clear something needs to happen immediately too.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 6, 2023

The new study is the latest in a string of research suggesting nonprofit hospitals’ balance sheets benefit from the latitude they have regarding charity care spending.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

Emerging Alzheimer’s disease medications come with high price tags, but researchers with the University of Chicago calculate that in the long run, it’s much less costly to cover these therapies for | Emerging Alzheimer’s medications come with high price tags, but researchers with the University of Chicago calculate that in the long run, it’s much less costly to cover these therapies for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 8, 2023

A group of lawmakers have rolled out a new Senate bill that would direct the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to develop a palliative care-specific payment model demonstration. The bill is dubbed the Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act. Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) are sponsoring the legislation.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 21, 2023

By Timothy Bonis Premiering tonight on PBS , the film Below the Belt sheds light on endometriosis by documenting four women’s experiences with the disease. Endometriosis is a silent crisis. One in ten women have it, yet, on average, people with the condition see seven doctors before they get diagnosed. Many experience severe pain, and the disease costs the American economy $80 billion annually in lost productivity, but the standard treatments are outdated and ineffectual.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S. say their healthcare providers currently use AI to help diagnose, treat or communicate with patients, but 66% expect AI to play a bigger role in healthcare in the next five years, the survey found.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

There is much the West can do to push back against Chinese economic pressure, and many reasons to do so. Doing so is a core interest of the United States, which now places itself in competition with China over the shape of the international order.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 21, 2023

An analysis by KFF found state spending on Medicaid fell during the COVID-19 pandemic even as enrollment soared. But spending will likely increase as the federal government begins to pare back its increased contribution.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 2, 2023

Pharma giant Bayer is launching a precision health unit as it ramps up its investment in consumer-facing digital health tools. | Pharma giant Bayer is launching a precision health unit as it ramps up its investment in consumer-facing digital health tools.

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Healthy Debate

JUNE 7, 2023

The new U.S. guidance on breast-cancer screening shouldn’t be a controversial issue in Canada. It should serve as a model for the change we need.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 30, 2023

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a draft of its FY 2024 home health proposed payment rule Friday. For next year, CMS is proposing to decrease aggregate home health payments by 2.2%, or an estimated $375 million less compared to 2023 levels. The draft is expected to be officially published in the Federal Register on July 10.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 5, 2023

Brent Lamm is CIO at UNC Health, based in Morrisville, North Carolina. He has quite the seat for the artificial intelligence explosion in healthcare – he's sitting right in the middle of it. Lamm and peers at Stanford, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at San Diego are part of a pilot project by electronic health records giant Epic, testing Epic's large language model AI capabilities to enhance the provider experience.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life—could weaken the U.S. military, costs America credibility with its allies, and calls into question the nation's ability to respond to the next big crisis. How can the United States guard against these risks?

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 29, 2023

Industry groups and the HHS argued the ruling against race-conscious admissions policies could roll back gains in the number of minority physicians and ultimately hurt health outcomes.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 1, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration | CMS outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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Healthy Debate

JUNE 14, 2023

The post Finding your energy envelope: Long COVID patients urged to ‘pace’ themselves back to health appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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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CDC

JUNE 7, 2023

Vietnam has adapted established infection prevention and control (IPC) measures for limited-resource settings to help stop the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), identified as an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat in CDC’s 2019 AR Threats Report. A CDC-supported initiative at The University Medical Center Ho Chi Minh City (UMC) in Vietnam that used IPC quality improvement (QI) strategies to reduce CRE colonization and infection in a general intensive care unit (ICU)

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2023

IDC Research's Research Director, Value-based Healthcare IT Transformation Strategies, Jennifer Eaton had this to say in recent research: "To meet consumer needs and demands, healthcare is using technology more than ever to support meaningful, productive and engaging interactions. Using comprehensive data collection and deep learning insights are further supporting these efforts by highlighting individual needs and preferences that in turn creates a more engaged customer and can lead to

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin led Wagner Group fighters in what appeared to be a direct challenge to the Russian military establishment. But it's unlikely that the Kremlin will dissolve Wagner's paramilitary enterprise. It is too significant to Russia's greater geostrategic aims and economic strength.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 20, 2023

The layoffs, reported by Insider, come after the VA renegotiated its contract with Cerner in May over patient safety issues and follow massive job cuts from other tech giants this year.

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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.

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 6, 2023

Advancements around large language models and generative AI in healthcare are ramping up quickly and it's challenging to keep up with the evolving news. | Carbon Health debuted hands-free charting — an AI-enabled notes assistant — in its proprietary EHR across each of its clinics and providers while Tempus rolled out an AI-enabled clinical assistant for oncologists.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2023

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) and Optum – the diversified health care services arm of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) – have agreed to combine. Under terms of the deal, announced early Monday, Optum will acquire the home health and hospice giant Amedisys in an all-cash transaction for $101 per share. Optum previously made a bid to buy Amedisys in an all-cash transaction for $100 per share.

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Health IT Analytics

JUNE 29, 2023

Five pilot projects dedicated to the use of artificial intelligence to enhance the aging process received $250,000 each from MassAITC.

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NASHP

JUNE 30, 2023

During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), states instituted Appendix K amendments to 1915(c) home-and community-based waivers and 1115 demonstration waivers to ensure that Medicaid beneficiaries were able to receive needed services during the pandemic. With the end of the COVID-19 PHE declaration on May 11, 2023, states must decide if and what types of flexibilities will be sustained long-term.

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