Health Care Dive
APRIL 15, 2024
Chronic disinvestment and inadequate training have created a shortage of primary care workers. Leaders at the Milbank Memorial Fund, National Association of Community Health Centers and the American Academy of Family Physicians argue for solutions.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 19, 2024
UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum appears to have laid off a significant percentage of its workforce, Fierce Healthcare has learned, though the full extent of those job cuts remains unclear. | UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum appears to have laid off a significant percentage of its workforce, Fierce Healthcare has learned, though the full extent of those job cuts remains unclear.
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 19, 2024
In an online survey of 100 practicing physicians who work in a large U.S. hospital or health system and use clinical decision support tools, four in five providers – 81% – agreed that generative artificial intelligence can improve care team interactions with patients. The doctors surveyed by Wolter Kluwer also indicated high standards for selecting genAI tools – with 89% reporting they need vendors to be transparent about the sources of CDS data and want to be sure it comes fro
p3care
APRIL 17, 2024
Several challenges are faced by billers in the dynamic world of OBGYN/Gynecology medical billing. Keeping physicians out of the dilemma of assisting patients and administrative workflow alongside, P3 Healthcare Solutions facilitates a gynecology medical billing system that minimizes the administrative load to the max. So that, physicians focus more on patients’ health.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 17, 2024
Independent practices have clearer financial incentives to lower medical spending than hospitals participating in accountable care organizations, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 17, 2024
Though physicians are quickly growing more comfortable with generative AI, the vast majority expect models to be transparent and trained on credible information, a new
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 16, 2024
S ipra Laddha, MD, Co-Founder & Shama Rathi, MD, Co-Founder at LunaJoy Health What You Should Know: – LunaJoy Health , a FemTech company dedicated to improving women’s mental health, has announced the launch of LunaCare, a novel integrated care program specifically focused on maternal mental health. – The initiative is backed by $4.2M in fresh funding from a distinguished group of investors, including Y Combinator , FoundersX Fund , and Goodwater Capital.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 16, 2024
Steward Health Care’s forbearance period ends in less than 15 days. Analysts say this time, creditors are unlikely to extend the embattled company another lifeline.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 18, 2024
Federal agencies want to hear from the public about monopolistic and anticompetitive behavior within the healthcare industry. | FTC, DOJ and HHS said that information and accounts received from the public could plant the seeds for formal investigations into healthcare companies' monopolistic or anticompetitive practices.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 19, 2024
The shift toward value-based reimbursement demands that hospitals and health systems take a more thoughtful approach to population health management. That requires the development of robust analytics strategies to track care quality and help patients manage their chronic conditions. To achieve this, provider organizations should embrace an enterprise-wide approach that focuses on integrating key data into clinical workflows to identify high-risk patients – and, crucially, provide proactive
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 19, 2024
Medical debt in the U.S. is a major problem. While over 90% of individuals have health insurance, many people are uninsured and even those with insurance may be liable to high deductibles and copayments. A Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis uses data from Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and finds that: …20 million people (nearly 1 in 12 adults) owe medical debt…people in the United States owe at least $220 billion in medical debt.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 15, 2024
Meanwhile, Centene, Elevance and Humana held onto statewide contracts. The reprocurement was especially positive for Centene, which had been expected to lose market share, analysts said.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 16, 2024
UnitedHealth Group released its first-quarter earnings Tuesday morning as the industry continues to reel from the massive cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit. | UnitedHealth Group released its first-quarter earnings Tuesday morning as the industry continues to reel from the massive cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 18, 2024
A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies available for consumption – were inadequate in how they accurately disclosed the use of third-party tracking technologies to consumers. In addition to comparing details about third-party recipients of collected user data, user rights and potential uses, the study also looked at the readabilit
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Home Health Care
APRIL 18, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Transaction volume for home health, home care and other in-home care businesses dipped in 2023, with inflation, higher interest rates and global unrest contributing to the downturn. Many home-based care stakeholders anticipated M&A to rebound in 2024, however, thanks to increased loan activity in January, greater buyer-seller consensus and private equity’s record-high levels of “mature” dry powder.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 16, 2024
Investors on Tuesday got a clearer picture of the cyberattack's financial fallout on the healthcare juggernaut. Some said it wasn't as bad as they'd feared.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 17, 2024
Health systems across the country face the same pressing problem — rising levels of burnout among physicians. It’s a challenge that’s reaching a crisis point. | A growing number of hospitals and health systems are betting on advancements in AI as part of the cure for what ails physicians. Rush University System for Health is partnering with Suki to trial its AI assistant and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is rolling out Nabla's Copilot tool.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 15, 2024
Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients.
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Health IT Analytics
APRIL 18, 2024
A Stanford Medicine-led meta-analysis revealed that artificial intelligence algorithms can help healthcare practitioners diagnose skin cancers more accurately.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 16, 2024
In the wake of the Change Healthcare attack, experts advised hospital leaders to increase their cyber defenses. Change will not be the last sector-wide attack, they warned.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 18, 2024
At the House Energy and Commerce’s data privacy hearing April 17, lawmakers discussed for the first time Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ discussion draft of a new federal data privacy bill, the Ameri | House lawmakers revived discussions of a national data privacy law at an Energy & Commerce hearing Wednesday. Here are the key takeaways.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 18, 2024
Securing transportation and other needed resources for patients through text messages is one way to ensure health equity for the underserved, says Dr. Emily C. Webber, CMIO at Indiana University Health and 2024 Changemaker Award winner.
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 16, 2024
Michael Gao, MD, CEO and co-founder of SmarterDx Applying artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in hospitals and health systems can be overwhelming for leaders due to AI’s complexity (it’s not one technology, but several) and rapid proliferation. This is in addition to the usual technology hurdles within healthcare that include data quality and accessibility, interoperability, and clinical validation and adoption.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 16, 2024
The payer has inked a deal with Clayton, Dubilier and Rice to join their primary care assets as Elevance looks to catch up with peers like UnitedHealth and CVS in care delivery.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 14, 2024
Medical records software giant Epic and venture-backed health tech company Particle Health are mired in an ongoing dispute over healthcare data exchange practices. | Health IT experts say the rift between the two companies exposes larger problems with health data exchange including a lack of transparency on who is accessing data and how it's being used along with the need for better gatekeeping.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 19, 2024
Native leaders should work to ensure culturally relevant education and care for their populations, says Dr. Donald Warne, codirector of the Center for Indigenous Health at Johns Hopkins and a HIMSS24 Changemaker.
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.
Home Health Care
APRIL 15, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care agencies that are part of larger franchise networks get to reap the benefits of operating under established names and reputations. But that doesn’t stop franchise owners from thinking up various ways to stand out in the crowd. Franchise owners at companies like Always Best Care, Right at Home and Griswold Home Care are doing this by offering services that fall outside of the norm.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 18, 2024
Healthcare organizations can create an effective cybersecurity strategy that involves an incident response plan, testing, multifactor authentication and automating mundane tasks using artificial intelligence.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 16, 2024
The House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on innovation will hold a hearing Wednesday to discuss data privacy and the protection of kids online. | The House Energy & Commerce Committee holds a legislative hearing to discuss a slate of privacy and online safety bills Wednesday, one of which would give consumers more control over health data collected by apps and big tech.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 17, 2024
Through volunteer work after the 2020 Beirut explosion, Marina El Khawand, founder and president of Medonations, describes how getting a patient in dire need of her inhaler evolved into starting an NGO that crowdsources medications for Lebanese patients.
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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