Fierce Healthcare

JULY 1, 2024

As its stack of unpaid vendor obligations climbed, now-bankrupt Steward Health Care paid private investigators millions of dollars to follow and uncover compromising information on individuals | An investigative report details a "spare no expenses mission" in which executives authorized intelligence firms to allegedly follow, data mine and disseminate damaging information about individuals viewed as opponents.

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JULY 1, 2024

Emory Healthcare constantly is evolving and innovating the care it provides. With regard to at-home physical therapy providers, the health system was intrigued to understand how it could expand its service offerings for outpatient care. THE PROBLEM Especially in the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the way Emory thinks about off-site care and forced the health system to reinvent not only how it diagnoses patients, but also how it treats them nonoperatively.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, has overturned the Chevron deference, stripping power from federal agencies to interpret and enforce regulations. | The U.S. Supreme Court is overruling long-standing precedent. Here's how it could affect healthcare policy.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 27, 2024

Walgreens is refocusing on pharmacy operations after failing to make inroads in healthcare services. The company will sell its majority stake in VillageMD and is no longer looking to invest in medical offices, executives said.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2024

Patient intake, and the associated manual tasks that come upfront before a medical visit, represents a key component of a health system's operational efficiency and clinical quality. As a result, some hospitals and primary care clinics are experimenting with artificial intelligence and large language models to focus on note-taking and scribe work.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2024

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its FY 2025 home health proposed payment rule Wednesday. With it, the agency signaled that more significant cuts could be on the way for providers. To rebalance the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) and make it budget neutral, at least according to its internal methodology, CMS is proposing a permanent prospective adjustment to the CY 2025 home health payment rate of -4.067%.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 26, 2024

A National Bureau of Economic Research report found layoffs followed hospital mergers, as employers struggled to absorb the costs of rising healthcare premiums.

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Spok Inc

JUNE 27, 2024

How does communication technology enhance clinical communication and care team collaboration? To give you some tangible examples, our mobility solutions expert examines three clinical workflows to show how communication technology fills the gaps created by the EHR by connecting care teams and systems to deliver information quickly and securely into the hands of those who need to act on it.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2024

L ila, alongside her mom Nicole in 2022 What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a significant $10M commitment to propel research for pediatric healthcare and unlock a deeper understanding of rare childhood diseases. – The initiative targets a critical gap in resources and aims to empower researchers to develop more effective treatments for vulnerable young patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 30, 2024

As Walmart shutters its primary care clinics, the retail giant inked a deal to sell its MeMD telehealth business to healthcare technology startup Fabric. | The deal will significantly expand Fabric's reach in the employer market as MeMD provides virtual care services to 30,000 employers and 5 million employees.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 28, 2024

Steward has been gunning for the deal since March. Without Optum at the table, it’s unclear who will buy the struggling health system’s medical clinics.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Dr. Geeta Nayyar – known by many as "Dr. G" – has a long track record as a physician IT leader, who thinks creatively about the intersection of technology and healthcare. Her jobs over the years have included serving as chief medical officer of tech giants such a AT&T and Salesforce and AT&T. She sits on the board of the American Telemedicine Association.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 28, 2024

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upended the Chevron doctrine precedent. For home health industry purposes, that means a potentially weakened Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) moving forward. The news comes just two days after the home health proposed payment rule was released, which included significant cuts for the third straight year.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – Today the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) released a draft framework for responsible health AI with an invitation for public review and comment. – The framework, consisting of an Assurance Standards Guide, provides considerations to ensure standards are met in the deployment of AI in healthcare. This draft framework was created with a consensus-based approach, drawing upon the expertise and knowledge of multiple, diverse stakeholders from across the healthcare

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 1, 2024

Digital primary care startup K Health raised $50 million in an equity funding round to build out its AI-powered medical services and fuel its growth, the company announced Monday. | Digital primary care startup K Health raised $50 million in an equity funding round to build out its AI-powered medical services and fuel its growth, the company announced Monday.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 25, 2024

Pharmacy benefit managers have largely avoided the brunt of public blame for the deadly opioid crisis. Arkansas’ lawsuit brings the drug middlemen back to the forefront of the controversy.

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JUNE 27, 2024

The HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum is scheduled to take place September 5-6 in Boston. Learn more and register.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Following its move to decrease VillageMD’s physical footprint, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) seems to be doubling down on its decision. “We don’t have plans to continue to invest in brick and mortar-owned primary care practices,” Mary Langowski, the president of U.S. Healthcare, said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Thursday.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2024

What You Should Know: – Noom , the leader in digital health coaching for chronic disease prevention, is revolutionizing its platform with the launch of two cutting-edge AI features: AI food logging and Welli, their new AI personal health assistant. – The launch of AI food logging and Welli reinforces Noom’s commitment to leveraging technology for sustainable behavior change.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2024

Medicare enrollees will pay less for 64 prescription drugs from July though the end of September because drug companies raised prices faster than the rate of inflation, the Centers for Medicare &am | Medicare enrollees will see lower prices this quarter for certain drugs treating cancer and genetic disorders under action unveiled by CMS.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 28, 2024

The court’s controversial decision raises the bar for healthcare regulators when they’re implementing laws with undefined terms — and opens the door for stakeholders in the industry to sue when they’re unhappy with an agency’s reading of statute.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2024

The HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum is scheduled to take place September 5-6 in Boston. Learn more and register.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 25, 2024

The transition between hospital discharge and home health care is often fraught with issues. Unfortunately, it also happens to be one of the most crucial parts of a patient’s care journey. With more sick and complex patients coming into home health care than ever , a swift start of home health care is also arguably more important than ever. “When I’m talking about acuity creep, I’m thinking about how much need do the patients in our care models require?

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – A glimmer of hope emerged today for rectal cancer patients as a collaborative effort between Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) , Cleveland Clinic , and University Hospitals (UH) received a $2.78 million grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute. This grant will fuel research leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize treatment for rectal cancer patients. – The new research effort signifies a sig

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2024

Amazon continues to evolve its healthcare business more than a year after spending $3.9 billion on a primary care company. | Amazon continues to evolve its healthcare business more than a year after spending $3.9 billion on a primary care company. The online retail giant is now folding its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into its One Medical primary care platform.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 27, 2024

A managing director at a global strategy firm makes the case for Walmart to continue pursuing healthcare customers through maximizing access to nutritious food.

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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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Healthcare It News

JUNE 25, 2024

Dr. Nele Jessel, athenahealth's CMO and Dr. Andrew Mellin, Surescripts' VP and CMIO, said that real-time prescription benefit data has helped patients avoid sticker shock, save money and pick up 8% more scripts across athena's prescribers.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 28, 2024

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) filed paperwork Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission saying it has agreed to divest “certain” locations to an affiliate of home health and hospice company VitalCaring. The divestiture was a way for Amedisys to avoid further antitrust concerns from regulators prior to it joining UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 27, 2024

What You Should Know: – At the American Diabetes Association conference, Abbott unveiled a new addition to its FreeStyle Libre portfolio – the FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensor. – The sensor boasts the distinction of being the world’s smallest, thinnest, and most discreet continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor available. Unmatched Design and Performance The FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensor offers a unique combination of user-centric features: Unmatched Discreetness: The sensor mai

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 25, 2024

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has released a concrete proposal for testing the quality of healthcare AI. | The Coalition for Health AI released a draft framework for assuring healthcare AI meets agreed-upon quality standards. The public will have 60 days to comment.

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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.