Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
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.
Health Care Dive
MAY 15, 2024
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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Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
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.
Health Care Dive
MAY 15, 2024
The agency seeks projects that evaluate and improve healthcare data used by AI and accelerate the use of health IT products among mental healthcare providers.
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Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
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.
HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
Tom Liddell, CEO at Healthcare Harmony IT As we step into the promising terrain of 2024 and beyond, the healthcare industry stands at the cusp of a transformative era, propelled by advanced technology solutions. For healthcare IT professionals, there will be many challenges and opportunities – especially as there is more patient data than ever before.
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HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
What You Should Know: – Uber Healt h, a leader in healthcare logistics, has announced Uber Caregiver , a groundbreaking solution designed to simplify the lives of caregivers and their loved ones. – Launching this summer, Uber Caregiver empowers caregivers to manage transportation, deliveries, and healthcare benefits for their family members, all within a familiar app.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
UnitedHealth Group's investments in affordable housing have topped $1 billion, with the program a keystone in its overarching strategy to address health equity and disparities. | UnitedHealth Group's investments in affordable housing have topped $1 billion, with the program a keystone in its overarching strategy to address health equity and disparities.
HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
What You Should Know: – Butterfly Network , a leader in transforming healthcare with portable ultrasound technology, has unveiled its first specialty product: the iQ+ Bladder™. This innovative solution empowers nurses and healthcare providers to conduct efficient and accurate bladder volume scans. – iQ+ Bladder™ offers a fit-for-purpose ultrasound-based bladder scanner that helps nurses get automated bladder volume calculations, with 3D visualizations, in seconds.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
A leading senator is pushing UnitedHealth Group for more answers on the Change Healthcare cyberattack that caused significant disruption across the industry. | A leading senator is pushing UnitedHealth Group for more answers on the Change Healthcare cyberattack that caused significant disruption across the industry.
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HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
What You Should Know: – WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Regard today announced a 3-year enterprise agreement to deploy Regard’s AI clinical automation tool to the system’s 3 acute care hospitals by the end of 2024. Regard will allow for improved documentation quality, and in turn, decrease physician burnout and improve patient care. – The deployment of Regard’s AI-powered clinical automation platform aims to enhance documentation quality, reduce physician burden, and ultimately, i
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
Improving workforce and leadership diversity is a key priority for many healthcare organizations, particularly at the executive level. | We are putting out the call for nominations to honor leaders from minoritized populations across the healthcare industry—from physicians to CEOs to researchers and tech company execs—who are shaping the way healthcare of the future will be delivered.
Home Health Care
MAY 15, 2024
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.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
Providence President and CEO Rod Hochman, M.D., has announced plans to retire at the end of the year, capping off a 45-year healthcare career and 17 years with the major Catholic health system. | The physician executive headed the large Catholic nonprofit through a period of substantial growth and a pandemic. The system's board has kicked off its process to name his successor.
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HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
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.
The Rand Blog
MAY 15, 2024
Diarrhea kills by dehydration. The discovery that salts plus glucose and water can keep patients alive has been hailed as one of the greatest medical advances of the past century. Yet health care providers from south Asia to sub-Saharan Africa don't prescribe them enough.
Home Health Care
MAY 15, 2024
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.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MAY 15, 2024
Could COVID-19 be more efficacious than effective? This could be the case if individuals receiving COVID-19 engaged in ‘risk compensation’ In short, without a COVID-19 vaccine, individuals may have refrained from travel and engaged in social distancing. After a COVID-19 vaccine, these same individuals could have been more likely to travel and less likely to engage in social distancing due to their lower health risk from COVID-19.
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Home Health Care
MAY 15, 2024
Over the past 12 months, the leaders at Addus HomeCare Corp. (Nasdaq: ADUS) have been increasingly vocal about the company’s involvement in value-based care. The company has established several value-based arrangements across the country, in places like New Mexico, Illinois and Arizona. “There may be a little bit of difference between them, but I think fundamentally, we get paid for our services at the rate that we normally would,” Brad Bickham, executive vice president and chief operating offic
HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
Fay Co-Founders Sammy Faycurry (CEO) and Mark Stefanski (CTO) What You Should Know: – Fay , a San Francisco, CA-based company that focuses on increasing access to medical nutrition therapy emerges from stealth with $25M in funding to tackle America’s growing food crisis. – The company connects individuals with Registered Dietitians (RDs) for personalized nutrition counseling, all covered by insurance.
Nordic
MAY 15, 2024
Last month, a resident physician at Harvard Medical School wrote an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine about the day the electronic health record (EHR) went down. She reported that while most of the hospital staff knew how to deal with a several-hour planned downtime in the middle of the night, this was different because it was unexpected, occurred when the residents should be summarizing the overnight course of their patients, and was going to last an unknown period.
HIStalk
MAY 15, 2024
News OpenAI releases GPT-4o (the “o” stands for “omni”): All.
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.
Vie Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
Episode Introduction Ian shares how 90% of today’s marketing decisions are emotional, and 80% are made on impulse, and the challenges of ‘’marketing by the pound.’’ He also explains why a regulatory environment means healthcare often stays in the shallow end of the marketing pool, how data unlocks empathy between brands and audiences, and advises everyone to ‘’bring your soul to work every day.
HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
What You Should Know: – Laguna Health , a leader in AI-powered care management solutions, has unveiled Laguna Insight, an AI performance dashboard that empowers care teams by offering a deeper understanding of their interactions with patients, going far beyond traditional metrics like call time and handle time. – Laguna Insight allows team leads and executive leadership to train team members and view key operational and performance metrics at the team, care manager, and even individu
HIStalk
MAY 15, 2024
New Orleans Startup Secures $13.6M for Patient Care Coordination Care.
HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
What You Should Know: – Ballad Health , a 20-hospital health improvement organization serving the mostly rural region, is entering into a strategic partnership with Sevaro Health, to integrate Sevaro’s revolutionary teleneurology services into their emergency departments. – With Sevaro’s OneCall™ system, Ballad Health is set to deliver the fastest stroke response times in the nation, ensuring patients have immediate access to highly trained vascular and neurocritical care
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.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
To boost domestic medical supply manufacturing, the Biden administration is hiking up tariffs on syringes, needles, medical and surgical gloves and personal protective equipment from China. | To boost domestic medical supply manufacturing, the Biden administration is hiking up tariffs on syringes, needles, medical and surgical gloves and personal protective equipment from China.
HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
What You Should Know: – TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling health plans and providers to deliver accessible, high-quality remote primary care anywhere across the country, announced today that it has partnered with five new health systems to bring TytoCare solutions to more than 100 additional schools nationwide. – TytoCare’s school health initiative now reaches more than 2,000 schools across 31 states, with the goal of increasing access to primary and urgent care for children
The Rand Blog
MAY 15, 2024
Over the last three decades, China and Israel developed close economic, technological, security, and diplomatic ties. Beijing's surprising response to Hamas' attacks and to Israel's reprisal campaign have completely changed the picture.
HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
What You Should Know: – MazeMap has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for Display Solutions with Premier, Inc. Effective March 1, 2024, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for interactive maps and digital wayfinding. – MazeMap’s open integration architecture integrates with existing hospital systems, such as EMRs, appointment scheduling software, and emergency response
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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