Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5 million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telepho

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“We definitely do see a slight change compared to the total population, we do see a slight pullback in overall basket,” the CEO of Walmart US is quoted in Bloomberg. “Just less units, slightly less calories.” With patients’ use GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro fast-rising in the pharmacy market, so are the concerns of companies that stock the-middle-of-the-grocery-store aisles for processed foods like sweet and salty snacks.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Physicians accounted for nearly half of departures from 2021 through 2022, with staffing shortages putting care quality at risk, according to a new report from Definitive Healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Healthcare startup Olive saw a meteoric rise in 2020 and 2021, spurred by the digital health funding boom and the need for automation during the COVID-19 pandemic. | It marks the end of the line for healthcare automation startup Olive AI. The company sold its clearinghouse and patient access business units to Waystar and its prior authorization business unit to Humata Health.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Telemedicine has had an interesting history. During what may be seen as the utopian period for telemedicine – the COVID-19 pandemic – telemedicine lived its gilded age. The pandemic was tragic from a health perspective, with so much loss of life. But it has offered technological advancements that are taking better care of people today and will set up healthcare workers for crises in the future.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Do you want to compete in each of your local markets? Do you want to position your healthcare products and services where your target audience actively seeks them? If so, you need a custom digital marketing strategy and budget for each location. We like to call this budget the “minimum daily requirement.” Why is this so important? Unless you have a solid local strategy, your business will not show up online where and when it matters most.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By Alice Fox Technological artifacts do not exist in a vacuum: they bear the undeniable markings of human histories, politics, blind spots, and biases – for better and worse. Consider, for example, the video game: everything in a video game must be created, decided upon, and often negotiated in a dynamic and lively way. As I have written elsewhere , video games can directly embody and reproduce harmful stereotypes and misconceptions, while neatly packaging these dispositions as “the way th

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Artificial intelligence and virtual care technologies are increasingly being adopted by hospitals to ease resource strain, but managing new tools adds “a heavy operational burden” for IT teams.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A new analysis backed by doctor lobbying groups suggest that physician-owned hospitals could have fueled about $1.1 billion in savings across 20 of Medicare’s most expensive conditions in 2019— tho | Lobbying groups in favor of overturning the ban on new physician-owned hospitals outlined broad cost savings if 2019's Medicare patients were treated at such facilities instead of a traditional hospital.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. THE PROBLEM CMH’s digital presence was not able to capture all the business opportunities in its area of influence. Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

State policymakers interested in helping consumers access the drugs they need at an affordable price have continued to take on the rising cost of prescription drugs. During the 2023 legislative session, NASHP has tracked 315 new bills seeking to address the high cost of prescription drugs; as of September, 49 bills have become law in 29 states. Newly enacted laws continue the trends of supporting state efforts to assess prescription drug affordability and regulating the practices of Pharmacy ben

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Palak Shah, Co-Founder and Head of Clinical Operations at Luna The accelerating advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have ignited a new era of innovation and potential across various industries. Healthcare is a sector that stands to gain tremendously from this revolution. Here are eight specific ways AI will transform the future of healthcare, making it more efficient, personalized, and proactive. 1.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

When it comes to long-term care services and home-based care, some states are much further ahead than others. But one thing most of those states agree on is that there’s still room to improve. Last month, when AARP released its long-term services and supports state scorecard report , Minnesota came out on top, ranking number one on the list. That means the state scored high when it comes to factors such as affordability and access, choices of settings and providers, safety and quality, and more.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The launches tie in with Microsoft’s ethos of developing high-impact but low-risk use cases for AI in healthcare, according to Microsoft’s VP of healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nabla, maker of an autonomous clinical AI scribe, has joined forces with Kaiser Permanente to roll out its tool to 10,000 doctors in Northern California. | The AI tool will be available to 10,000 Kaiser Permanente doctors in Northern California across all care settings and specialties.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights has released two new patient privacy resources that healthcare organizations can use to educate patients about reducing their risks of a breach of their protected health information when using telemedicine technologies. WHY IT MATTERS The tips and resources offered on the HIPAA website under Educating Patients about Privacy and Security Risks to Protected Health Information when Using Remote Communication Technologies for Te

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2023

By Kayum Ahmed, Julia Bleckner, and Kyle Knight In mid-May, the World Health Organization officially declared the “emergency” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic over. However, the deep wounds of the pandemic remain, compelling those concerned about this pandemic and future health emergencies to account for catastrophic failures by those in power. These reflections suggest that the public health crisis could have been addressed differently, both reducing COVID-19’s unprecedented magnitude of illne

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Robin Manke-Cassidy, Director, Solution Marketing at Cradlepoint In the world of healthcare, new technologies aren’t just about being on the cutting edge of the latest trend. It’s about how technology can improve care and expand the reach of quality care through unprecedented methods. The latest 5G technologies, an increase in IoT devices, and the right network architecture create a perfect innovation combination for today’s healthcare sector.

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Healthy Debate

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee urged the CMS to rescind or revise its staffing proposal for nursing facilities on Thursday, warning the rules could cause facilities to close.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The approval of Leqembi by the Food and Drug Administration marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. | The approval of Leqembi by the FDA marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. There are big questions around costs, access, risk and efficacy in certain populations. The most urgent, overarching question is: How can we find patients who will benefit from the drug before their condition progresses outside of the treatment window?

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Clear communication is critical in every industry, but it is paramount in healthcare. The information being communicated is inherently complex, highly scientific, and often intimidating. How this information is received will determine the health and well-being of all of the individuals being treated, leaving little room for error. While accuracy and expertise on the clinical side are non-negotiable, if it’s clearly presented through an inviting, empowering medium, patients will thrive and clinic

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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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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By Dom Kelly There’s a lot to say about the nonprofit sector and how it so often burns out, underpays, and devalues the humans who do the labor. There’s a pervasive narrative that this should just be accepted as a cost of doing good in the world. But for marginalized people who find themselves in this work for reasons that are connected to their identities, this kind of thinking ultimately pushes us out of the sector altogether.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) has set out on an ambitious endeavor, aiming to build a pipeline of “100 CEOs.” The company has always leaned into a strategy of purchasing community-driven home-based care agencies with strong ties to their specific markets, and then empowering local leaders. The idea of health care as a local business, however, isn’t just a strategy.

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Healthy Debate

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A universal masking policy in health-care settings that protects the health and well-being of those seeking medical care is well-justified.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Big questions hang over the California health insurer's bold experiment — having five vendors carry out PBM functions previously performed by one — that could threaten BSCA's expected savings.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

LAS VEGAS—Medicare Advantage (MA) has only grown over the last decade, and, in tandem, voices criticizing the program have gotten louder. | LAS VEGAS—Medicare Advantage has only grown over the last decade, and, in tandem, voices criticizing the program have gotten louder.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Alma Beltrán y Puga More than 30 years have passed since women gathered for the Fifth Feminist Latin American Meeting in Argentina and launched the September 28 th Campaign in favor of decriminalizing abortion in the region. The initiative, however, remains painfully relevant, as still today most countries in Central America and the Caribbean prohibit abortion even in cases of sexual violence and instances where the pregnant woman’s health (and, potentially, life) is at stake.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Laura Tortorella had her first day as AccentCare CEO Monday. And, in just about a month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will drop its final home health payment rule. In the meantime, she will be learning as much as she can about a new industry. A health system veteran, she previously served as the COO of Steward Health Care. “I think you’re always learning – every day is another learning opportunity,” Tortorella told Home Health Care News.

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