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Hims & Hers expands weight loss program to include access to GLP-1 medications

Fierce Healthcare

Six months after launching its weight loss program, online health and wellness company Hims & Hers added compounded GLP-1 medications to its offerings. | Six months after launching its weight loss program, online health and wellness company Hims & Hers added compounded GLP-1 medications to its offerings.

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TV screens broadcasting branded messaging enhance the patient experience in orthodontic offices

Health Care Dive

UPshow CONNECT is a patient engagement platform that leverages ChromeOS. It enhances the patient experience, boosts brand reputation and offers seamless integration for individual clinics and the corporate office.

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Cedars-Sinai CIO's tips to ensure genAI is fair, appropriate, valid, effective and safe

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Craig Kwiatkowski, senior vice president and CIO at Cedars-Sinai, and his team have been pushing the famous health system forward in the realm of artificial intelligence. Their most prominent accomplishment has been the AI-powered virtual primary care app Cedars-Sinai Connect. Launched in fall 2023, the app already has increased primary care capacity by 11% – the equivalent of building three new clinics.

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Centivo Acquires Eden Health to Scale Its Primary Care Centered Health Plans

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Centivo, a pioneering healthcare company built to make quality healthcare more affordable for employers and their employees, today announced the acquisition of Eden Health , an employer-centered virtual-first medical provider, effective immediately. – This strategic move enables Centivo to accelerate its plans to scale its primary care-centered health plans to more working families and employers nationwide.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Medicare Advantage Penetration Plateau Provides Home Health Tailwind

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership If there were ever a time for Medicare Advantage-related troubles to cool off in the home health care space, now would be it. And, heading into the summer, some of the largest home health providers in the country are scoring demonstrable wins that could lead to future success. Virtually no one has the MA game figured out entirely, and it’s hard to imagine a day where that even becomes achievable.

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Senators Whitehouse, Cassidy propose bipartisan primary care payment reform, seek industry feedback

Fierce Healthcare

U.S. | Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Bill Cassidy want to reform how primary care providers get paid through Medicare, and they also want to hear from the healthcare industry about the best way to do it.

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Fortis Healthcare gets AI boost for mental health vertical

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Fortis Healthcare, a publicly listed private hospital network from India, has introduced a new mental health service enabled by artificial intelligence. The hospital network , which is also part of the larger private healthcare group IHH Healthcare, signed an exclusive partnership with mental health super app United We Care to establish Adayu Mindfulness.

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Report Reveals Pharmacies Poised for Expansion: Consumers Open to Broader Clinical Services

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A recent survey by Outcomes Operating, Inc. , a leader in pharmacy workflow solutions, paints a clear picture: consumers are ready for pharmacies to play a bigger role in their healthcare. The overwhelming majority (86%) are open to receiving new clinical services at pharmacies, indicating a significant shift towards a more comprehensive approach to healthcare delivery. – The survey highlights a clear opportunity for pharmacies to expand their role in healthca

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What Home-Based Care Providers Need To Do To Comply With DOL’s Overtime Rule

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) unveiled its final overtime rule, which is set to go into effect this summer. The rule increases a minimum salary threshold for millions of workers across the country, and could impact home health and home care providers. Broadly, the DOL has increased the salary threshold for the minimum compensation necessary for an individual to be exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Report: The generative AI roadmap, its hurdles and strategies to mitigate

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The panel that worked on the report was made up of Big Tech players like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, as well as leaders such as Harvard Medical School, the Leapfrog Group and Kaiser Permanente.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Kansas jilts CVS in new Medicaid contract awards

Health Care Dive

Kansas kicked CVS to the curb in favor of an Elevance plan, while awarding contracts to incumbents UnitedHealth and Centene. The contracts are worth roughly $4 billion annually.

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A guide to healthcare digital transformation and the digital-first model

Healthcare It News

Besides being all the rage in the industry, digital transformation is a key component to the strategy of forward-leaning hospitals and health systems today. It aligns healthcare organizations with its customers – highly digital patients. This is one of the most important topics healthcare CIOs and other C-suite and health IT leaders can be talking about today.

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Researchers Uncover Critical Vulnerabilities in GE HealthCare Ultrasound Systems and EchoPAC Software

HIT Consultant

The Vivid T9 ultrasound system What You Should Know: – Security researchers at Nozomi Networks Labs have identified a total of 11 vulnerabilities affecting GE HealthCare’s Vivid family of ultrasound machines, the accompanying Common Service Desktop web application, and EchoPAC PC software. – These vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to disrupt critical medical procedures, compromise patient data privacy, and hinder accurate diagnoses.

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Aveanna Is Looking To Grow In Its ‘Rightsized’ Home Health Segment Again

Home Health Care

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (Nasdaq: AVAH) leaders believe the company is back at a place where it can bank on near-term growth in its Medicare-certified home health business. It first entered into a business “transformation” in January 2023, and that transformation is already paying dividends, according to CEO Jeff Shaner. But much of the turnaround has been led by the private-duty services segment.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Uber Health to roll out new caregiving solution to simplify benefits, logistics for families

Fierce Healthcare

NEW YORK CITY—Uber Health will begin rolling out a new solution designed for caregivers this summer, the company announced at its annual product event Wednesday. | Uber Caregiver will allow care-receivers to add a caregiver to their Uber profile so they can see and spend their health benefits on eligible services, request rides to doctor’s appointments or order groceries.

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Ascension hit with lawsuits days after ransomware attack

Health Care Dive

Most data breach lawsuits settle out of court rather than through litigation, an expert told Healthcare Dive.

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How US provider organizations can build underserved populations' trust

Healthcare It News

Start addressing the distrust communities of color have for the healthcare system by creating a pipeline of clinicians from those communities, advises Christopher Kunney, advocacy chair for HIMSS Georgia chapter and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient.

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LG Unveils Primefocus Health: Personalized Care & Remote Monitoring From Home

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Global innovator LG Electronics has unveiled “Primefocus Health,” a new venture that aims to leverage innovative technologies and new healthcare therapies to enable providers to deliver a personalized, complete care experience and empower individuals to take control of their health at home. – Primefocus Health is the first new venture launched by LG NOVA , LG Electronics’ North America Innovation Center.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Pennant Group CEO: Payers Are Recognizing Home Health Care Is ‘Not A Commodity Business’

Home Health Care

The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG) has had to adjust to Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration in home health care, just like its peers. Unlike its peers, however, its adjustments have been mostly smooth sailing. For over a decade, the company has been building out relationships with MA plans and health systems in the communities it serves to establish sustainable MA business in its home health segment.

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CVS warns it could lose up to 10% of its members next year

Fierce Healthcare

Facing the wrath of upset investors following its first quarter earnings, CVS Health has promised to value margins over members going forward. | CVS Health is reassessing its Medicare Advantage business and weighing the possibility of exiting certain markets as it looks to get its margins under control.

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Hospitals charged employers and insurers 254% more than Medicare in 2022: study

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Hospitals with larger market shares were among the worst offenders, the RAND Corporation found.

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Clinicians learn in the hospital as care moves to the home

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RPM tools and other user-friendly tech are enabling a paradigm shift in care delivery, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, CMO at Biofourmis, who says it's also important to be educated on the pain points associated of home care.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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ECP Unveils AI-Powered Tools to Improve Medication Safety in Over 7500 Senior Living Communities

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: 1. ECP, a leading software provider for senior living and long-term care communities, launched AI tools to enhance medication safety and clinical outcomes. 2. ECP links 7,500+ communities to 500+ pharmacies, facilitating real-time medication data exchange through electronic records (eMAR). 3. New AI features include: – Preventing duplicate medications in real-time. – Alerting staff to early PRN medication administration. – Identifying controlled substances

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Celebrating a community of innovators at Swaay.Health Live 2024

Meditech

Last week I attended Swaay.Health Live, a premier HIT annual marketing event, and had the opportunity to connect with customers and many industry friends over the course of the three day conference.

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Transcarent unveils new gen AI-enabled platform WayFinding

Fierce Healthcare

Earlier this month, Transcarent teased that it was betting big on artificial intelligence as it banked a $126 million funding round. | Earlier this month, Transcarent teased that it was betting big on artificial intelligence as it banked a $126 million funding round. Now, it's unveiling WayFinding, a new platform that leans on generative AI to connect members with benefits navigation, clinical guidance and care delivery services all in one place.

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HHS agency launches program to automate cybersecurity at hospitals

Health Care Dive

The program will invest more than $50 million to create a software suite that could automatically find potential vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit and deploy fixes.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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Empowering European citizens to manage their health digitally

Healthcare It News

Sarah Wamala Andersson, professor of health and welfare technology at Sweden's Mälardalen University, discusses Europe's IDEAHL project, which aims to increase citizens' access to and use of digital health tools through targeted interventions.

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Kyruus Health Expands National Provider Network to Include Virtual Behavioral Health Providers

HIT Consultant

Kyruus Health logo What You Should Know: – Kyruus Health , a leader in care access platforms, has announced a significant expansion of the Kyruus Network by integrating virtual behavioral health providers. – The Kyruus Network enables health plans to expand their dataset, close care gaps, and boost access by making the provider directory actionable.

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Home-Based Care Clinicians Are Shedding Skepticism Around Technology

Home Health Care

At a time when home health providers are already facing numerous challenges, the utilization of the right technology tools can elevate care delivery, while improving interaction between clinicians and patients. Prior to the pandemic, clinicians may have been skeptical about incorporating technology into the care delivery models. This has mostly changed due necessity, according to Stacey Brown, a registered nurse and an independent consultant.

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House Energy and Commerce Committee presents own 2-year telehealth extension, with more rural health wins

Fierce Healthcare

The Energy and Commerce Committee released telehealth extension legislation today that will be voted on during a health subcommittee markup Thursday. | The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee will hold a markup May 16 that includes a different two-year telehealth extension proposal than the Ways and Means Committee passed last week.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.