Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
This is a developing story and will be updated with more information. | Walmart is shuttering all 51 health centers along with its virtual care services, the retail giant announced Tuesday morning.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 15, 2024
Chronic disinvestment and inadequate training have created a shortage of primary care workers. Leaders at the Milbank Memorial Fund, National Association of Community Health Centers and the American Academy of Family Physicians argue for solutions.
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 19, 2024
In an online survey of 100 practicing physicians who work in a large U.S. hospital or health system and use clinical decision support tools, four in five providers – 81% – agreed that generative artificial intelligence can improve care team interactions with patients. The doctors surveyed by Wolter Kluwer also indicated high standards for selecting genAI tools – with 89% reporting they need vendors to be transparent about the sources of CDS data and want to be sure it comes fro
Healthcare Success
APRIL 8, 2024
As an engineering undergrad, I took a Marketing 101 class on a lark, seeking to better understand the psychology behind consumer behavior and developing products with a competitive edge. On the first day of class, we learned the fundamental concept of the 4 Ps of marketing. However, today, I like to use an expanded “7 Ps” definition. In any event, this marketing mix remains essential for any successful marketing strategy.
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
Fertility benefits have become a crucial component of employee well-being and retention strategies. In today’s competitive landscape, creating a fertility benefits program that aligns with both employee needs and organizational goals can be more complex than it seems. From cycle-based to flat-dollar and telehealth models, each solution offers unique advantages and challenges that directly affect employee satisfaction and financial well-being.
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p3care
APRIL 9, 2024
Conceptually wrong. It implies that internal medicine is crucial for medical billing, which is not true. What you can say is medical billers spend a large portion of their day processing claims for internal medicine. It is an important field in the healthcare industry. The physician will pen down every detail of service they have given to their patient by using certain codes.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early COVID-19 pandemic. | Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity and other related data on a daily basis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then the reporting frequency shifted. The CDC said it still encourages hospitals to report their data on a "voluntary" basis and will soon begin displaying those data online.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 17, 2024
Independent practices have clearer financial incentives to lower medical spending than hospitals participating in accountable care organizations, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 12, 2024
ChatGPT has been making an impact on enduring healthcare challenges. Many providers and patients are reporting the artificial intelligence helping with preventative care and preventing non-emergent emergency department visits. Imran Qureshi is chief technology officer at b.well Connected Health, a FHIR-based interoperability platform vendor. He has expertise in AI and a lot of advice to share on the subject of health systems harnessing ChatGPT and other large language model-based technologies.
Cloud Blogs
APRIL 25, 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a futuristic vision: It’s a present reality. Azure OpenAI Service is transforming the way care is delivered and experienced by patients and providers alike. As healthcare providers and tech companies collaborate to harness the power of generative AI, they pave the way for more efficient, accessible, and personalized healthcare solutions that promise to redefine patient care for the better.
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Home Health Care
APRIL 22, 2024
The “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule has been finalized. Most importantly, the bemoaned “80-20” provision has gone through as proposed, meaning providers will eventually be forced to direct 80% of reimbursement for home- and community-based services (HCBS) to caregiver wages. First proposed by CMS in April of 2023 , the goal of the rule is to enhance access to HCBS for Medicaid beneficiaries.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 22, 2024
What You Should Know: – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), along with The Sequoia Project, Inc., a Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), has released Common Agreement Version 2.0 (CA v2.0). What is the Common Agreement? The Common Agreement establishes a set of common rules and technical standards for secure health information exchange across different health information networks (HINs) and their users.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2024
As artificial intelligence rapidly advances in healthcare, the industry is grappling with how to evaluate AI models for accuracy and performance and monitor the technology for any downstream advers | The healthcare industry is grappling with how to evaluate AI models for accuracy and performance and monitor the technology for any downstream adverse outcomes.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 12, 2024
Rampant consolidation continues to threaten the existence of independent physicians, according to a new report from Avalere and the Physicians Advocacy Institute.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 30, 2024
While some nurses recognize the potential of artificial intelligence to minimize documentation burden and improve patient monitoring – and see a future with broader AI-enabled nursing – others are concerned about AI replacing empathetic human assessment of patients, cutting nursing jobs, risking protected patient data to compromise and more.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 19, 2024
Medical debt in the U.S. is a major problem. While over 90% of individuals have health insurance, many people are uninsured and even those with insurance may be liable to high deductibles and copayments. A Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis uses data from Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and finds that: …20 million people (nearly 1 in 12 adults) owe medical debt…people in the United States owe at least $220 billion in medical debt.
Home Health Care
APRIL 23, 2024
BrightStar Care has built a reputation as one of the home care industry’s innovators. Past examples of the home care franchise company’s pioneering spirit include its investment in small-home senior living residences and its educational partnership with Chamberlain University. On Tuesday, the Gurnee, Illinois-based BrightStar announced its latest innovation effort, which will include an expansion of its clinical capabilities.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 11, 2024
What You Should Know: – VieCure , a leading cancer care company, announced today that it’s integrating DrFirst’s e-prescribing and medication management solutions into its clinical decision support system. – VieCure is a well-established point-of-care intelligence system specifically designed for community oncologists. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) , patient data, and a comprehensive oncology knowledge base, VieCure generates personalized treatment plans for canc
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 1, 2024
Insurers will feel resentful Monday as the feds opted to not reverse its decision to decrease Medicare Advantage benchmark payments by 0.16%, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced. | CMS is not deviating from its January proposal to modestly rein in Medicare Advantage. Benchmark payments will still decrease 0.16% but the feds expect it will still pay up to $600 billion in payments to plans in 2025.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 16, 2024
Steward Health Care’s forbearance period ends in less than 15 days. Analysts say this time, creditors are unlikely to extend the embattled company another lifeline.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 22, 2024
Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. In other countries such as Belgium and Spain, patients can access regional portals.
Meditech
APRIL 23, 2024
Following the recent ransomware attack on Change Healthcare , many healthcare organizations are rightly reviewing and considering their cybersecurity posture — and that of their EHR vendor. At MEDITECH, we work to meet or exceed all industry-standard security best practices in our corporate operations and in the products and solutions that we develop and deploy.
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Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs
Home Health Care
APRIL 18, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Transaction volume for home health, home care and other in-home care businesses dipped in 2023, with inflation, higher interest rates and global unrest contributing to the downturn. Many home-based care stakeholders anticipated M&A to rebound in 2024, however, thanks to increased loan activity in January, greater buyer-seller consensus and private equity’s record-high levels of “mature” dry powder.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 23, 2024
What You Should Know: – Healthcare technology leader DrFirst has joined forces with medication adherence company PatchRx to tackle a major healthcare challenge: medication non-adherence. – The strategic collaboration aims to improve patient health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs associated with patients not taking their medications as prescribed.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 9, 2024
Healthcare company Bayer has tapped Google for its cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities to build new tech products to assist radiologists. | Bayer wants to pair its radiology, healthcare regulator and clinical data handling expertise with Google's tech muscle and ongoing work in generative AI to speed up innovation in media imaging.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 23, 2024
The rule places more stringent staffing requirements on nursing homes than those initially proposed and offers exemptions for certain providers. Still, interest groups on all sides slammed the rule, calling it either too stringent or lax.
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 18, 2024
Two years ago, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs' Riyadh-based hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, became the first in the world to reach Stage 7 in four different HIMSS models. (It's recently become a pioneer with some impressive work to reach Stage 6 on another model.) Its advanced use of health information and technology has been a boon for the health system's 1.3 million patients.
Health IT Analytics
APRIL 18, 2024
A Stanford Medicine-led meta-analysis revealed that artificial intelligence algorithms can help healthcare practitioners diagnose skin cancers more accurately.
Meditech
APRIL 17, 2024
While conference season provides an excellent opportunity to meet with fellow healthcare leaders in our booth and reconnect with our customers face-to-face, it is also an opportunity to share with the industry what makes MEDITECH Expanse “ The Intelligent EHR Platform ” and to highlight the success of our amazing customer base.
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