Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 26, 2024

Walk the floors of a busy hospital today and you’ll see signs of a healthcare workforce in crisis. The signs are the same across the country. It really doesn’t matter which hospital, or where. Nurses have been pushed to the limit. Their dedication and resolve is tested every day against the stark reality of an overburdened system.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 11, 2024

More than 20 million Americans have signed up for Affordable Care Act plans since open enrollment began in November. Sign-ups are expected to continue to grow.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2024

LAS VEGAS — Francisco Dizon, 77 years old, sat comfortably in his living room as a team of clinicians took his vital signs and administered IV medications to treat his urinary tract infection. |

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2024

Millions in unpaid rent and other signs of financial distress have led the for-profit to explore divestitures and other potential strategies in Massachusetts and Texas. Financial troubles and a flurry of planned hospital divestitures have landed for-profit Steward Health Care squarely in the public and lawmakers’ crosshairs.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

million people signing up for plans during the most recent open enrollment period. | Enrollment in individual market plans continues to grow, with a record high of 21.3 CEO Mark Bertolini told investors that Oscar “closed out 2023 with another strong quarter, driving financial performance for the full year.”

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Over 200 hours of videos of human activities involving gait were fed on and trained with the system so it could detect signs of unsteady gait and then alert relevant care teams. New AI fall prediction tool gains ground in Singapore Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) is expanding the trial of its new AI-based fall prediction tool.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Massachusetts healthcare organizations announced this week that every hospital, health system and local health plan in the state is removing “stigmatizing or invasive” mental health questions from | In a nationwide first, every hospital, health system and local health plan in the state has signed on to removing sensitive mental health questions from (..)

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What You Should Know: – Edward-Elmhurst Health (NS-EEH) has announced a significant, long-term partnership with Lumeris , a pioneer in value-based care (VBC). This partnership is a major development in the healthcare industry, representing the largest VBC provider deal since 2018. million residents.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A small Iowa pharmacy is accusing CVS Caremark of forcing independent pharmacies to sign one-sided contracts in order to stay in its network and continue dispensing drugs for its millions of covered lives.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Healthcare lobbying organizations’ efforts to carve out industry-specific exemptions in recently proposed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) policies are unlikely to see their requests reflected in the | FTC Chair Lina Khan told a conference of physicians that the proposal for a broad ban on non-compete clauses was largely supported in public comments, (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 3, 2023

history.” | A Tuesday statement from participating unions showed no signs of slowing down. More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are poised to launch a strike Wednesday that organizers are describing as “the largest healthcare worker strike in U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday a bill that raises the minimum wage for healthcare workers to $25 per hour across the state over the next several years. | California Gov. The law is estimated to bring more than $10,000 per year in wage increases for about 450,000 of the Golden State’s low-wage healthcare workers.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Thirteen major health systems have signed on to a pledge agreeing to work toward sharing patient care data with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in a bid to improve veterans’ cross-organizat | By working toward seamless, secure data exchange, the organizations hope to better coordinate the care veterans seek from community providers and ensure (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 31, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical are among the groups in support of the Centers for Medic | Organizations signed a letter pledging support for a CMS-backed transitional coverage for emergency technologies pathway, which they say could improve (..)

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

LHC’s delisting, a sign that the deal’s close could be imminent, doesn’t come as a surprise, as the Nasdaq notified the home health provider it wasn’t in compliance with the stock market’s listing standards in January.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 5, 2023

CFO Brian Evanko said that, while Cigna is “not yet seeing signs of economic pressure,” it expects higher levels of overall disenrollment in the back half of the year.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Year-to-date, average length of stay has dropped 4% from the end of 2022 to 2023—just one sign of hospitals' improving operations, Kaufman Hall wrote in a new report. Hospitals and health systems closed out the year on a high note with margins up more than 15% from 2022, according to Kaufman Hall.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The RPM system features a wearable sensor that tracks patients' vital signs. Aside from developing predictive algorithms, CGH is also looking to monitor the vital signs of patients post-discharge at their homes to enable the continuity of care in the community setting. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 31, 2023

Hospitals’ year-to-date operations broke even in April, though a rise in bad debt and a dip in volumes suggest the upward momentum will likely be short-lived, healthcare consulting firm Kaufman Hal | Kaufman Hall's latest monthly industry report showed a 0% year-to-date median operating margin across the hospital industry as well as signs of bad (..)

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 1, 2023

The organizations signed a non-binding agreement to form a 28-hospital system serving patients in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 25, 2023

Nonprofit hospitals and health systems are likely still a year away from “normal” finances, volumes and in particular labor availability as the sector claws its way back from “what will likely be d | The ratings agency's latest sector report outlines "across-the-board" margin deterioration and other signs that nonprofit hospitals' (..)

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 25, 2022

Signs point toward another historic year in VC investment, experts say, which will benefit the medical system as it evolves to encapsulate more digital services.

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APRIL 21, 2024

In January last year, the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council signed a memorandum of understanding with HIMSS to collaborate in strenghtening the digital capabilities of local hospitals, amplifying the "Malaysia Healthcare" brand. Consulting survey report noted.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The two Michigan health systems have signed a formal integration agreement, marking the next step in the merger process that was first announced in June.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 11, 2023

2023 was the year healthcare began to show the first major signs that the pandemic was firmly in the rearview mirror.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2023

UPMC has signed a non-binding letter of intent to affiliate Washington Health System, a two-hospital nonprofit community health system based in Pennsylvania, according to a release shared Tuesday.<

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

According to a media release, the partnership will see 30 beds of CRH upgraded to Dozee-connected beds with contactless continuous vital signs monitoring and an early warning alert system. The news report noted that the company has already reported the incident to the authorities and has since isolated its affected IT assets.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This past week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill 1196a/Assembly Bill 1673a into law directing all state-regulated health plans, including Medicaid, to cover comprehensive biomarker testing, clearing the path for more patients to access precision medicine treatments. Roxanne Persaud in the announcement.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

Currently being integrated into four disease pathways, including COPD, diabetes, heart failure, and ischaemic heart disease, Clinitouch allows patients to complete health questionnaires and input vital signs from home. Delivered by registered and enrolled nurses, the service is offered to eligible Tasmanians with chronic diseases.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2024

An AI system specifically designed to analyze chest X-rays for early signs of TB, offering a crucial tool for early detection, especially in underserved communities. Google AI’s solution? AI can play a vital role here too. Similarly, breast cancer death rates in India are significantly higher compared to developed nations.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 19, 2023

Although it’s still early in the redeterminations process, Elevance is seeing “encouraging” signs that many Medicaid members who lose coverage are transitioning onto ACA plans, according to its CFO.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Additionally, HIMSS noted the user-friendly design of their EMR and how medical devices for collecting vital signs – such as blood pressure, temperature, heart rate and oxygen saturation – are all directly interfaced with it. The hospital also leverages telehealth, as well as social media like Facebook and TikTok.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Across all of our health care reports, we’re seeing that the combination of considerable rate increases — which far exceeded the routine increases of 2-4% seen prior to 2020 — along with the utilization of sign-on bonuses are having a positive effect on increasing retention rates and helping attract new talent.” and $33.27

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CDC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

All my vital signs were strong at the time, and there was no indication that the infection had progressed or that my body had developed sepsis. Over the next 36 hours, I developed several of the signs and symptoms of sepsis, but I didn’t realize that I was experiencing more than just the flu. My infection had gotten worse over time

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The transformational program leverages the BioIntelliSense FDA-cleared BioButton® wearable devices, algorithmic-based data analytics, and clinical intelligence system to monitor for subtle changes in vital sign trends and signs of potential patient deterioration for actionable clinical decisions and proactive interventions.

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HKLaw

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

President Joe Biden signed a sweeping EO and invoked the Defense Production Act to establish the first set of standards for using AI in healthcare and other industries.

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Healthcare Associates

DECEMBER 20, 2023

12 Although a deficiency in vitamin C is uncommon, signs of deficiency can appear within one month of little to no vitamin C intake and may lead to a disease known as scurvy. Starting a new vitamin regimen for your health can be exciting. You may have a few questions about it, such as how long it takes for the vitamins to work.

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