Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 12, 2024
AI deal activity is dominating healthcare investment with one in four dollars invested in healthcare going toward companies leveraging AI, according to a new report. | So far, in 2024, $2.8 billion has already been invested in AI healthcare companies, with SVB projecting the sector to see $11.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 12, 2024
More Americans had insurance in 2023 than at any other time in the nation’s history, spurring medical utilization and accelerating healthcare spending faster than growth in the overall economy, according to government projections.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 10, 2024
Holograms and extended reality have unique roles in patient engagement and education. Cole Wiser, executive creative director at the Virtual Wild, and Srini Iyer, SVP at Leidos, explain.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 11, 2024
What You Should Know: – Verily , Alphabet’s precision health subsidiary, today announced Lightpath , a next-generation chronic care solution designed to address the evolving needs of health plans and their members. – The initial offering, Lightpath Metabolic, focuses on empowering individuals with cardiometabolic conditions to achieve and maintain their health goals.
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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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 14, 2024
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s long-awaited second attempt at a telemedicine prescribing rule has been handed off to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. | The Drug Enforcement Administration has submitted a proposed telehealth prescribing rule to the Office of Management and Budget which aims to regulate how telehealth providers prescribe controlled substances when the patient and provider do not have an established relationship.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 10, 2024
It is no secret that health systems face growing competition from industries like venture-backed healthcare disruptors and health insurance that are offering increasingly specialized and consumer-focused virtual care offerings. THE PROBLEM The MetroHealth System is Ohio's Cuyahoga County's public, safety-net health system, providing care through five hospitals, four emergency departments and more than 20 health centers.
Home Health Care
JUNE 13, 2024
Amid efforts to push back the expiration date of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, more patients are expressing their desire to participate in hospital-at-home programs. That’s according to a new survey from Vivalink, a digital healthcare solutions company that offers remote patient monitoring (RPM).
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 13, 2024
The CEO and clinical president of telehealth startup Done have been arrested and charged with fraud, accused by federal authorities of participating in a scheme to distribute Adderall online. | According to the DOJ, Done's CEO and clinical president allegedly arranged the prescription of 40 million Adderall pills as well as other stimulants, generating more than $100 million in revenue.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 12, 2024
The technology giants will offer free or low-cost cybersecurity tools to rural hospitals, which often have limited resources to combat the rising number of cyberattacks.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 11, 2024
Kyruus Health is a nationwide platform than aims to boost access for its 90 million members by using specific matching techniques and partnering with 120 health systems and 100 health plan brands. Kyruus president Paul Merrild explains.
Home Health Care
JUNE 14, 2024
GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) announced at the end of May that Adam Holton – formerly of Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) – would be joining the company as chief people officer to lead the company’s human resources. “Adam has the right mix of leadership, HR expertise, and people focus to help enable business growth and drive our culture forward,” GE HealthCare CEO Peter Arduini said in a press release.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 12, 2024
The American Medical Association (AMA) and a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders are looking to stop unfair prior authorization practices from health plans. | A large coalition of bipartisan lawmakers and national advocacy organizations are renewing their efforts in reforming prior authorization.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 12, 2024
The influential advisory group has been lobbying the federal government to collect more detailed information on how states loop providers into funding Medicaid for almost a decade.
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.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 11, 2024
Eli Ben-Joseph, co-founder and CEO of Regard In 2019, my aunt was admitted to the hospital with heart failure. It was a harrowing experience for everyone involved. My family, desperate for answers, waited for hours for a doctor to check-in. When they finally did, their time was limited and felt rushed. But the whole time, we couldn’t shake the uncomfortable feeling that we were nuisances, that our welcome had run its course.
Home Health Care
JUNE 9, 2024
When it comes to their mental health and well-being, home-based care aides are susceptible to stress and depressive symptoms due to working conditions, a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found. To compile this study, focus groups and interviews with home-based care aides were conducted from August 2022 to February 2023, in partnership with the 1199SEIU Training and Employment Fund.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 12, 2024
National health spending is estimated to have outpaced the rest of the country’s economy in 2023, growing by 7.5% with projected expenditures of $4.8 trillion, according to newly published calculat | Record-high insurance coverage rates from pandemic policies alongside other trends like high utilization pushed health spending past the nominal GDP growth rate in 2023, according to new projections from government actuaries.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 14, 2024
State regulators, workers and creditors reacted to Steward's new loan terms, which demand the health system transition or close facilities that don't sell at auction.
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Meditech
JUNE 11, 2024
The Scottsdale Institute began with a vision of the future. Founded by executives Stan Nelson and Don Wegmiller in 1993, the not-for-profit professional development organization was ahead of its time as a bridge to facilitate knowledge sharing around the application of IT. Stan, a credited visionary of his time, anticipated the evolution of isolated hospitals into integrated health systems and how IT would be instrumental to that advancement.
Home Health Care
JUNE 14, 2024
A group of bipartisan lawmakers this week reintroduced legislation aimed at curtailing restrictive – and often flawed – prior-authorization processes within Medicare Advantage (MA). As it has been to most other parts of health care, prior authorization has long been problematic for home health providers and patients. That’s been increasingly true as more insurers have started to adopt systems and processes that use predictive analytics and algorithms to guide their decision-making, too.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 10, 2024
Microsoft will offer nonprofit pricing and discounts for its security products optimized for smaller organizations, providing up to a 75% discount.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 13, 2024
Andrew Carney, from HHS agency ARPA-H, explains why hospitals struggle with cybersecurity and talks about a new program that aims to help them defend their technology environments.
Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski
In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.
NASHP
JUNE 10, 2024
New York’s health insurance marketplace recently announced it received approval of its 1332 State Innovation Waiver to further expand its Basic Health Program (BHP). What is the Basic Health Program, and how does it work? Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), states have the option to implement a BHP, which offers health coverage to residents whose incomes are too high for Medicaid but who are otherwise eligible to enroll in coverage through the health insurance marketplace.
Home Health Care
JUNE 10, 2024
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) remains on the defensive against the activist investor AREX Capital Management. Last month, it provided more details around its completed strategic review , explaining the rationale behind remaining an independent company, in lieu of a merger or a sale. On Monday, it laid out its reasoning behind past struggles, its plan for future success, and most importantly, why it believed shareholders should back its chosen board members, and not AREX Capital’s.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 11, 2024
Clear, a company well recognized for its biometric identity tech used in airports, is expanding its reach in healthcare and ramping up partnerships with major health IT companies like InterSystems | Clear, a company well recognized for its biometric identity tech used in airports, is expanding its reach in healthcare and ramping up partnerships with major health IT companies like InterSystems and Epic.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 14, 2024
The redo comes after regulators lost two court cases over the methodology used to determine 2024’s quality ratings, and should result in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional bonuses to plans that see their ratings improve.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 13, 2024
What You Should Know: – As part of an expanded partnership announced last August, Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) has launched the first set of healthcare large language model (LLM) solutions on Google Cloud’s generative AI (genAI) technology, including the company’s Vertex AI platform and Gemini models, aimed at redesigning healthcare administrative processes and improving experiences. – Google Cloud has awarded Cognizant “2024 Industry Solution Services Partner of the Year – Healthc
Home Health Care
JUNE 10, 2024
Addus HomeCare Corp. (Nasdaq: ADUS) is set to acquire Gentiva’s personal care assets for about $350 million. Those assets amount to over 16,000 home care patients per day, in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Addus – which just left the state of New York – will fund the acquisition through its existing revolving credit facility.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 14, 2024
Tempus AI, a precision medicine company that, as its name implies, uses artificial intelligence to process medical data, popped in its stock market debut Friday, with shares jumping 15%. | Tempus AI, a precision medicine company that, as its name implies, uses artificial intelligence to process medical data, popped in its stock market debut Friday, with shares jumping 15%.
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