HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 24, 2023
What You Should Know: Carta Healthcare®, a company whose mission is to improve patient care by harnessing the value of clinical data, today announced the results of a survey measuring American perception and trust of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Propeller Insights conducted an online survey of 1,027 U.S. consumers between August 18 and August 29, 2023.
p3care
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Medical billing companies in USA have strong competition for the services they sell. We can’t trust blindly one when many companies claim to be the best in their medical billing services. We have a common saying that all those glitters are not gold. So, healthcare practices have to look for a certain point of distinction to pick on for them. As one of the professional medical billing companies in USA, you have to make yourself different.
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Digital health funding is flagging this year, with investments in the sector reaching only 40% of last year’s totals, according to CB Insights.
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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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
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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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to c | Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to company CEO Shivdev Rao, M.D.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 23, 2023
To track the use of web-based patient portals and smartphone applications by patients seeking their health information, the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an analysis of Health Information National Trends Survey data, which regularly gathers data on many aspects of health communications. WHY IT MATTERS There are a number of highlights in ONC's new publication, Individuals’ Access and Use of Patient Portals and Smartphone Health Apps by Catherine Strawley
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
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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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Insurance coverage often fails to help Americans avoid medical debt, a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed. | Even with health insurance, people are feeling the effects of high medical costs, often cutting back on necessities or delaying care. A new survey shows half of Americans struggle to avoid their healthcare.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 27, 2023
By creating food and nutrition insecurity screening within Tufts Medicine’s Epic electronic health record and patient engagement system, the new Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute in Boston and its team of medical, science, technology and health policy collaborators hope to further food is medicine science. They also aim to figure out how to address food and nutrition accessibility within the healthcare system.
Healthy Debate
OCTOBER 23, 2023
The post It’s not all pretty in pink: To prevent breast cancer, let’s stop missing the forest for the trees appeared first on Healthy Debate.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 27, 2023
On average, organizations were shut down or unavailable to provide services for 14 days to due to ransomware attacks from 2016 through mid-October this year, according to cybersecurity research firm Comparitech.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Two-thirds of patients receiving three months of outpatient therapy will not reach remission, a new analysis of behavioral health therapy outcomes data reveals. | Practitioners can use the framework, known as the Blueprint Quality Index (BQI), to track quality improvement over time, as well as assess the effect of programmatic or infrastructure changes on patient outcomes.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Users of Helpful can now access a loved one's benefit information about their New York-based health plan and select medical records through its app.
NASHP
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Almost half of the over 14 million children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) in the U.S. are covered by Medicaid , and all of them have health care needs beyond that required by children, generally. In the past, states typically served children and adults with disabilities in Medicaid fee-for-service arrangements, but that trend has changed significantly in the last decade.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 23, 2023
The Cigna-owned pharmacy benefit manager colluded with rival Prime Therapeutics to overcharge pharmacies, according to a lawsuit filed last week.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Older adults are adopting digital health tools at a higher rate than ever before. | At Elevance Health, we are seeing an increasing acceptance of virtual care and technology by older adults to help manage their health.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Healthcare organizations can now prevent protected health information collected by their marketing channels from reaching destinations where organizations do not have a business associate agreement, according to WebMD Ignite and Freshpaint. WHY IT MATTERS For healthcare organizations, the use of cookies, tracking technologies, digital advertising and analytics tools that other industries use to drive growth presents serious privacy risks and technical challenges.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 26, 2023
If you guessed manufacturers, you would be incorrect. At least that is according to a new study by Mattingly et al. (2023) in JAMA Health Forum. Using a sample of the 45 generic drugs with >$100m in Part D and used by >1m beneficiaries, the authors found that: …Medicare Part D spent $11.8 billion for 690 million claims (mean, $22.50 per claim; 95% CI, $18.28-$26.72 per claim), representing 5.5% of all Part D spending ($216 billion) in 2021.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Black people, young adults and women, especially those of reproductive age, would see the biggest coverage gains, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 26, 2023
A new national, multispecialty advocacy organization representing independent practices launched last week. | The American Independent Medical Practice Association says it is the first advocacy organization of its kind focused on supporting private medicine across specialties. It is made up of 5,000 physicians collectively treating 10 million U.S. patients.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Lynn Carroll, COO of HSBlox, discusses enterprise-level capabilities required for critical inputs into SDOH and other core processes, and the role of AI and machine learning to target the most vulnerable individuals.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 25, 2023
What You Should Know: – RadiantGraph , a platform using machine learning and artificial intelligence to drive consumer engagement for health plans, today announced its launch today after raising $5 million in Seed funding in a round led by True Ventures and XYZ Ventures , with participation from Remus Capital. – The company plans to use the funding to accelerate growth, which includes partnering with new healthcare organizations and advancing their enterprise health and health plan p
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Numerous studies have outlined how high medical costs affect uninsured individuals, but healthcare prices are straining household budgets regardless of insurance type, according to the Commonwealth Fund.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The federal government is rolling back a pandemic-era waiver that lowered the bar for 340B hospitals to dispense discounted drugs across additional outpatient sites, a decision hospitals said will | HRSA is giving hospitals 90 days to bring any off-site, outpatient facilities using 340B drugs into compliance with requirements that had been waived during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 24, 2023
DUOS uses large language models to leverage social determinants of health and enhance care-navigation access for Medicare beneficiaries. Feedback from platform users improves the artificial intelligence, said Karl Ulfers, cofounder and CEO.
Health IT Analytics
OCTOBER 27, 2023
NYU Langone researchers found that a natural language processing tool could identify pandemic-related markers of psychological distress in healthcare workers.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 24, 2023
The private equity firm has nine months to find a buyer for its struggling four-hospital health system under an agreement announced by the Pennsylvania attorney general last week.
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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