Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 21, 2024

More than 100 provider organizations want the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a tougher stance on Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ practices following an industry survey es | Providers spent nearly $20 billion in 2022 pursuing delays and denials across all payer types, yet those efforts are substantially more costly on average when dealing with private plans, hundreds of hospitals and health systems told Premier in a recent survey.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 22, 2024

Two weeks after the FDA updated Wegovy’s label, Medicare changed its stance to allow people with a history of heart disease to receive treatment, a shift that could further boost access to the fast-selling medicine.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

As healthcare providers worldwide grapple with worsening healthcare staff shortages and rising service demand, low-code technologies have proven indispensable in bridging these twin challenges while promoting positive outcomes for both patients and clinicians. Take the case of Mount Alvernia Hospital, a 300-bed private not-for-profit medical institution in Singapore.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 18, 2024

There’s a potential storm brewing in New York state due to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive budget for 2025. The budget proposal includes over $1 billion in cuts to the states’ home care programs. The move is an effort to reduce Medicaid spending. The budget proposal cuts, which was released on Jan. 16, would directly impact New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

Google is doubling down on its ambitions for healthcare AI by exploring how generative AI can help clinicians in medical decision-making, understand lab and imaging information and provide con | Google is hyper-focused on generative AI in healthcare, pushing forward research to advance gen AI capabilities that can help clinicians in medical decision-making, understand lab and imaging information and provide consumers with personalized health insights based on their wearable data.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 18, 2024

The CMS doesn’t require states to report data on outcomes or care denials, and has made “delayed” progress on plans to analyze the information and make it public, according to the Government Accountability Office.

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Pro CRNA

MARCH 20, 2024

By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA Born in Denmark in the early 1800’s, Hans Christian Anderson was a prolific writer best known for his fairy tales. Among his famous fables, The Emperor’s New Clothes is a classic story that continues to be referenced two centuries later when the reality that we experience does not align with what we are told is “the truth”.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2024

Uncomfortable waiting rooms. Revealing hospital gowns. Confusing insurance. Exhausting travel between appointments. | Oncology was a major focus at this year’s SXSW conference. Across multiple sessions, clinicians and patient advocates called for better access to specialty care, more thoughtful communication with patients and continued collaboration across stakeholders.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 18, 2024

Regulators seeking to erect guardrails around AI are facing a Sisyphean task, experts said at HIMSS. How do you oversee something that is constantly changing?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2024

Sensors and automation tech can allow nurses to interact with and monitor multiple hospital patients around the clock without entering their rooms or interrupting their sleep. Michael Brandofino, president and COO of Caregility, explains how.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 19, 2024

What You Should Know: – Google Health recently hosted its annual event, The Check Up, showcasing significant progress in applying generative AI to revolutionize healthcare. – These advancements aim to improve personalized care, radiology workflows, information accessibility, and ultimately, empower individuals to take charge of their health.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 21, 2024

Chipmaker Nvidia sees big opportunities in healthcare AI and this week it launched more than two dozen new gen AI-powered microservices. | The global computing powerhouse inked collaborations with Abridge, Microsoft, GE HealthCare and Hippocratic AI to to expand its generative AI capabilities into healthcare and life sciences.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 22, 2024

In a Thursday letter, the American Hospital Association urged the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights to reduce possible “duplicative” breach notifications from the Change cyberattack.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

At HIMSS24, Dr. Denise Hines and Shirelle King of Georgia Health Information Network discuss social integration to foster trust in underserved communities.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Adam Rarick-Varner, Sr. Director of Healthcare Strategy at LexisNexis Risk Solutions Healthcare delivery continues to evolve to meet ever-changing patient demands. Over the years, rural doctors who historically performed house calls have been replaced with regional physician groups and community hospitals that are owned and managed by large health systems with multiple locations.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

Launched out of stealth about a year ago, Hippocratic AI launched its first generative AI product and pocketed $53 million in series A funding, the startup announced Monday. | Launched out of stealth about a year ago, Hippocratic AI launched its first generative AI product and pocketed $53 million in series A funding. The fresh funding boosts the company's valuation to $500 million.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 20, 2024

The health system has been hit with at least 35 lawsuits in the last year alleging issues ranging from unpaid bills and falsified checks to doctor kickback schemes.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2024

Health systems should embrace transparency to keep patients connected and informed – and to avoid losing them to retail clinics and other nontraditional providers, says Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MDI Health's executive clinical advisor.

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Meditech

MARCH 19, 2024

Whether it was connecting with customers, prospects, industry thought leaders and other champions of innovative health IT solutions, or exploring connection through interoperability and open data exchange – the spirit of connection was tangible at HIMSS24.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

Google Health unveiled an open-access dataset of real-world dermatology images in partnership with Stanford Medicine. | Thousands of people contributed their images of skin, hair and nail conditions to the Skin Condition Image Network (SCIN) for a diverse dataset reflecting various skin tones, ages, settings and condition severities.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 21, 2024

While respondents were largely willing to share their data, consumers have become pickier about who they’ll offer their information to, according to a Rock Health survey.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 18, 2024

Aging Media Network, a WTWH Media company, is proud to announce the 2024 Aspect Awards winners. With more than 60 submissions across the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the focus on innovation and creativity is sharper than ever before.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2024

What You Should Know: – Google Health and Apollo Radiology International are joining forces to tackle some of the country’s biggest health challenges – tuberculosis (TB), lung cancer, and breast cancer – using AI-powered screening technology. – Over the next decade, Apollo will leverage AI models to provide 3 million free screenings for TB, lung cancer, and breast cancer.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s campaign against healthcare worker burnout took a step forward this week with the release of a new instructional guide for executive-level hos | The free resource was developed alongside the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation and informed by a six-month, six-hospital pilot across CommonSpirit Health facilities.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 19, 2024

The Medicare Advisory Payment Commission also suggests tying the rate of physician payment increases to the Medicare Economic Index — a move some industry groups support.

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Health IT Analytics

MARCH 21, 2024

AI improves performance for some radiologists, but not others, raising questions about a one-size-fits-all integration approach for the tools in healthcare.

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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – Digital diabetes management tools are failing to deliver meaningful health benefits to patients, according to a new evaluation by the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI). – The report casts doubt on the effectiveness of widely used digital diabetes management tools. Despite billions in investment, the study finds these tools offer minimal health benefits and actually increase healthcare spending.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2024

Artera has spent the past nine years developing tech solutions to solve industrywide pain points and streamline patient communications. | Artera's tech helps healthcare providers deliver timely patient communications with automated referral outreach and real-time responses and automates pre-visit communications to make sure patients and staff are prepared for the appointment.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 21, 2024

At least 100 services remain offline four weeks after the UnitedHealth Group detected an intrusion in its medical claims clearinghouse. Experts say the impacts are unprecedented.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Healthcare organizations report an average 124% ROI for their data investments, but many cite data management and integration as major roadblocks.

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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.