HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2023

What You Should Know: HealthLock , a leading medical fraud and overbilling protection solution, today unveiled insightful findings from a recent attitudinal study exploring how adults in the United States feel about healthcare, from claims and billing to medical fraud and privacy. The study sheds light on consumer attitudes and preferences, highlighting the need for innovative solutions to address the public’s concerns.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2023

Patients’ perceptions of health care quality and experience have fallen in the three years since 2020, based on a July 2023 update from The Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse study. Start with health care quality, which 58% of U.S. adult patients ranked as “very good or good” in June 2020. The percent of health consumers evaluating their healthcare quality as very good or good fell to 41% of people in June 2023, an erosion of 17 percentage points, shown in the first chart.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 24, 2023

The analysis comes as private equity investments in healthcare soar and regulators look to crack down on roll-up acquisitions.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

Lobbying groups representing different camps of the healthcare industry have come together to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) to reconsider “conflicting regulatory propos | The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association penned a joint letter highlighting "conflicting" prior authorization electronic standards and workflows they say will bring industry confusion and unnecessary burden.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 24, 2023

Lake County, Ohio's Mentor Hospital opened earlier this month, with Cleveland Clinic's first private 5G network – a 5G millimeter wave network built on an Ericsson platform. In addition to several patient engagement touchpoints, the health system says it's looking to private cellular networks to keep up with healthcare's demand for high speeds, low latency and the need for cybersecurity.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. The services are available to members of GNC’s new-and-improved loyalty program, GNC PRO Access , which is priced at a fixed fee of $39.99 for one year’s membership.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

The time is now 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Doomsday Clock, which scientists use to estimate how close humanity might be to blowing itself up with nuclear weapons. | The world hasn't been this close to nuclear war since the Cold War, say experts. Editors of prestigious medical journals sound a call to disarm.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

New healthcare technology innovations developed outside the box offer clinicians more tools, including cloud-based telehealth, remote lab testing for infections and enhanced imaging for surgical precision. Google Cloud adds Pager's virtual care platform Pager announced Monday that its 23 million-member-strong virtual care navigation and collaboration platform is available on Google Cloud Marketplace, which means its customers can now access cloud-based tools like artificial intelligence and

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Healthcare Associates

JULY 28, 2023

Does Milk Help Heartburn? Heartburn is highly common, as it affects an estimated 20% of people in the U.S. It is a symptom of acid reflux. Vomiting, coughing and difficulty swallowing are some of the many other symptoms you may experience with heartburn if you have acid reflux. For many years, it’s been a common belief that drinking milk can make heartburn go away.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 25, 2023

The lawsuit filed in a California district court alleges the health insurer used the technology to “deny payment in batches of hundreds or thousands at a time,” violating state law.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Last month, the American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution to protect access to gender-affirming care, committing to opposing criminal and legal penalties against patients, their famili | Approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the law imposes restrictions on adult access to gender-affirming care. Some providers have been forced to stop serving new or existing patients in some capacity.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Since its go-live in June, St. Peter's Health in Helena, Montana said that it has received feedback that patients are having trouble accessing their health information, scheduling appointments and processing referrals in MyChart. WHY IT MATTERS In June, St. Peter’s patients gained access to MyChart through an Epic Community Connect partnership with SCL Health, which is now part of Intermountain Health.

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Triage Health Law

JULY 27, 2023

On May 10, 2023, the Center for Medicare & Medicare Services (“CMS”) issued guidance to clarify the definition of “marketing” for Medicare Advantage Plans (“MA Plans”) and Prescription Drug Plans (“PDPs”). [1] The new definition expands “marketing” to include activities intended to draw a consumer’s attention to an MA Plan or PDP, influence a consumer’s decision-making process, or influence a consumer’s decision to stay enrolled in an MA Plan or PDP.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 27, 2023

AWS’ Tehsin Syed shared what differentiates HealthScribe from other AI-based medical scribes and how Amazon is approaching tricky questions of accuracy and responsibility around generative AI in healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday a new AI-powered service for healthcare software providers that will help clinicians with paperwork. | AWS HealthScribe uses generative AI and speech recognition to help doctors transcribe and analyze their conversations with patients and drafts clinical notes.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

In a new report released this week, researchers with the Sequoia Project showed how meaningful improvements in health information access for patients, caregivers and care partners are critical to boosting interoperability. WHY IT MATTERS During months of direct research, the Sequoia Project's Consumer Voices Workgroup facilitated discussions and polls focused on patient and provider experiences using electronic health record-based patient portals as the vehicle for accessing, using and shari

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Bill Of Health

JULY 26, 2023

Image courtesy of Matthew “Hezzy” Smith. By Matthew “Hezzy” Smith Bangladesh, at the frontlines of global climate change, provides a critical litmus test for advocacy to ensure that persons with disabilities are included in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The disastrous effects of last summer’s historic flooding in the Sunamganj and Sylhet districts on persons with disabilities show that while the country’s laws and policies gesture toward inclusion, considerabl

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Health Care Dive

JULY 28, 2023

The departure of CFO James Kehoe comes as recent financial results for Walgreens, which is working to transition from a pharmacy chain to a healthcare services company, have underperformed market expectations.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

This week, a visitor opened fire at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, killing a security guard and injuring a nurse. | Following increases in both aggression towards nurses and mass shootings, stakeholders are debating whether new tech or old solutions can make a difference.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

Healthcare information technologies like AI-driven decision support and patient outreach tools can enable hospitals and health systems to achieve improved outcomes through proactive, predictive patient oversight, some health IT experts contend. Why is proactive, predictive patient oversight important in today's healthcare industry? What role does AI-driven decision support play in this kind of patient oversight?

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Home Health Care

JULY 26, 2023

Now that the public health emergency (PHE) has ended , one segment of the senior care space that had a particularly difficult time throughout the pandemic could make a serious comeback. That is adult day services. “Adult day definitely struggled during the pandemic in a lot of ways that other care models didn’t,” Brendan Flinn, a senior policy advisor at the AARP Public Policy Institute, told Home Health Care News.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 24, 2023

Learn how ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) can help move the needle on every aspect of the Quintuple Aim—and the impact its having on clinicians and patients at WellSpan Health.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

Most Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees use one or more supplemental benefits, with most health plan members using multiple benefits, according to a newly released report from the Elevance Health Pu | Extra benefits from Medicare Advantage plans are highly utilized by enrollees, which improves health outcomes among at-risk populations, new analysis shows.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

While facing rising costs and workforce shortages, healthcare systems across Asia-Pacific have been exploring ways to make healthcare services more accessible by shifting to a data and digital-enabled distributed model of care delivery, a new Philips report found. FINDINGS The latest Future Health Index 2023 report by Royal Philips gathered responses from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders and young professionals in 14 countries.

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The Rand Blog

JULY 25, 2023

How can the United States best monitor its millions of square miles of domestic airspace for unidentified anomalous phenomena—what were once called UFOs—or anything else? Public reporting could help officials identify potential threats—but it'd help if the sightings being reported were actually unknown aerial phenomena and not U.S. military aircraft.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 28, 2023

The lawsuit alleged the health IT vendor monopolized e-prescription drug markets for routing and eligibility through exclusivity agreements, threats and other exclusionary conduct.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

The need for speed underpins a collaborative effort by Blue Shield of California and Microsoft that will utilize the cloud to deliver data about members to the insurer and providers in real-time, t | Blue Shield of California is collaborating with Microsoft to move to its cloud platform to improve data collection, storage and analysis.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

Community Health Systems operates more than 80 affiliated hospitals and more than 1,000 outpatient sites of care in 16 states. THE PROBLEM The massive health system recently set three goals: Improve patient outcomes by monitoring and actively managing patients with chronic diseases, with a specific focus on remote medication titration to get more patients to guidelines.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB, VP of Quality at Relias Despite the recent end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency, its effects linger. This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. About 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic, with over 600,000 reporting their intention to leave by 2027, citing stress and burnout as primary reasons.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 26, 2023

With the release of HealthScribe, AWS is the latest tech giant to leverage the futuristic algorithms to streamline medical notetaking for physicians.

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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.