Tue.Oct 22, 2024

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Amazon’s One Medical, Cleveland Clinic partner to build primary care clinics in Ohio

Health Care Dive

The academic medical giant is the latest health system to notch a deal with One Medical, defraying the cost of expansion for the primary care chain while creating a valuable source of referrals for the hospital.

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HLTH24 Day 3: Amazon One Medical rolls out AI tools; Avandra launches out of stealth

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon One Medical, working with the online retail company's technology teams, developed artificial intelligence tools for its clinicians to help them save time. | Amazon One Medical, working with the online retail company's technology teams, developed artificial intelligence tools for its clinicians to help them save time.

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Cleveland Clinic and Amazon to launch coordinated care

Healthcare It News

A new partnership with Amazone One Medical, which offers hybrid virtual and in-person primary care, aims to expand access to high-quality coordinated care in Northeast Ohio, Cleveland Clinic said in an announcement Monday. WHY IT MATTERS Patient access to essential health services is behind the collaboration, according to Dr. Tom Mihaljevic, Cleveland Clinic's chief executive officer and president, with the new practices to offer same and next-day appointments, an onsite lab and virtual care

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HLTH24: Former Humana CEO Broussard joins Define Ventures

Fierce Healthcare

LAS VEGAS — Longtime Humana CEO Bruce Broussard departed the company over the summer, and now he's made his next move. | LAS VEGAS — Longtime Humana CEO Bruce Broussard departed the company over the summer, and now he's made his next move.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Blue Shield of California partners with Salesforce to automate prior authorization

Health Care Dive

The collaboration comes amid controversy about claims automation technology. Paul Markovich, CEO of Blue Shield of California, promised to keep a "human in the loop" to oversee any denials.

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Walmart adds pharmacy to same-day delivery

Health Care Dive

The retail giant said it’s responding to a top request from its customers. The option is now available in six states and will expand nationally.

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Transparency has led to uniformity in healthcare costs—but not necessarily lower prices: study

Fierce Healthcare

Price transparency regulations are leveling the cost landscape for consumers, but that doesn’t always lead to lower prices, according to a new report from Turquoise Health. | Recent price transparency regulations have caused prices to converge for outpatient services but led to more discrepancy for inpatient services, according to findings from Turquoise Health.

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Pinnacle Home Care CEO: Home Health Margins Will Increase ‘Significantly’ With AI

Home Health Care

If you don’t like change, you’re going to hate extinction. That’s a phrase that should be hung up on home health providers’ walls across the country, according to Pinnacle Home Care CEO Shane Donaldson. There’s traditional Medicare rate cuts, Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration, staffing shortages and regulatory challenges in the home health market.

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Beyond the silo: How engagement fuels healthcare innovation

Fierce Healthcare

In healthcare, the best solutions come from bringing different perspectives to the table. | This week on "Podnosis," we examine why diverse viewpoints are essential for tackling the industry’s toughest challenges and how building real engagement serves as the bedrock for innovation.

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Fertility Benefits Playbook: How HR Leaders Are Delivering Value in 2025

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Fertility benefits have become a crucial component of employee well-being and retention strategies. In today’s competitive landscape, creating a fertility benefits program that aligns with both employee needs and organizational goals can be more complex than it seems. From cycle-based to flat-dollar and telehealth models, each solution offers unique advantages and challenges that directly affect employee satisfaction and financial well-being.

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Future Leader: Kylee Bradshaw, Director of Operations, Village Caregiving

Home Health Care

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Kylee Bradshaw, the director of operations at the Bloomington, Indiana Office of Village Caregiving, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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HLTH24: Essence Healthcare to give MA plan members free Oura ring for health tracking

Fierce Healthcare

LAS VEGAS—Oura, maker of the wearable Oura Ring, is broadening its ambitions with payers, seeing the potential to engage older seniors with digital health technology. | The company inked a unique partnership with Essence Healthcare, a provider of Medicare Advantage plans, to provide some MA plan members with an Oura Ring device and its app at no cost.

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HLTH: KLAS Research Unveils Top 20 Emerging Healthcare Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – KLAS Research, a healthcare research and insights firm, has announced the winners of its 2024 Emerging Solutions Top 20 awards at the HLTH 2024 conference. These awards recognize the most innovative and impactful emerging healthcare companies that are poised to transform the industry. – While AI and other emerging technologies offer tremendous potential, the KLAS report also acknowledges the challenges of integrating these solutions into existing healthcare IT

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HLTH24: Walmart aims to simplify online pharmacy orders in 49 states

Fierce Healthcare

Walmart plans to expand its home delivery of pharmacy items and offer them alongside the other merchandise in its online store, spreading to virtually all U.S. | Walmart's pharmacy delivery will also allow customers to bundle general items and pharmacy products in one order.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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HLTH: Essence Healthcare to Offer Free Oura Ring to Medicare Advantage Members

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Essence Healthcare , a provider of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans forms a new partnership with ŌURA , the maker of the Oura Ring. – Starting in 2025, eligible Essence MA members will receive a complimentary Oura Ring and a subscription to the Oura App, giving them access to advanced biometric tracking and personalized health insights.

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HLTH24: Nvidia, Aidoc collaborate to develop guidelines to speed up AI adoption

Fierce Healthcare

LAS VEGAS—While the debate over how to ensure AI tools are safe and effective is being tackled by stakeholders across the healthcare industry, health systems are underprepared to effectiv | Aidoc and Nvidia’s free guide will be available in January 2025. It will include practical considerations for implementation like change management and post-deployment monitoring.

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HLTH: OneStep Secures $36M to Establish Gait Analysis as the Sixth Vital Sign

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – OneStep , a provider of smartphone-based motion analysis technology has raised $36M in funding co-led by Team8 and Vintage Investment Partners. – The company aims to establish gait analysis – the study of how a person walks – as the sixth vital sign, crucial for understanding and improving overall health. Transforming Smartphones into Clinical Tools OneStep’s technology turns smartphones into clinical-grade motion analysis tools, making gait analysis as

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Where Home-Based Care Providers Are Growing, And Why

Home Health Care

As home-based care demand continues to increase, several leaders are thinking about the unique growth trajectories at their companies. At Impact Healthcare, growth has been achieved by not overextending. In recent years, the company has seen 35% year-over-year growth, except for in 2020. “When I think about our growth trajectory, it’s making sure that we stay true to who we are,” Steve Burningham said during a panel discussion at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE conference.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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HLTH: Zoom and Suki Integrate to Power AI-Generated Clinical Notes

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Suki , a leader in AI technology for healthcare, announced a partnership with Zoom Video Communications, Inc., a leading telehealth platform. – Zoom will integrate Suki’s AI engine, Suki Platform, to generate clinical notes, enhancing its user experience and improving patient care. – The Suki Platform enables companies to build AI experiences with minimal development effort and already supports nearly one million clinicians across the U.S. –

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Closing the Chasm Between Patients and Clinicians With Digital Health Tools – Some Health Consumer Context for #HLTHUSA

Health Populi

As the annual HLTH conference convenes this week in Las Vegas , numerous reports have been published to coincide with the meeting updating various aspects of technology, health care, providers and patients. In this post, I’m weaving together several of the papers that speak to the intersection of health care, consumers, and technology – the sweet spot here on Health Populi.

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Combining an Omnichannel Strategy with Benchmarking and Metrics to Engage Healthcare Professionals

HIT Consultant

Christopher Wooden, Senior Director, Business Marketing, IQVIA A critical aspect of any pharma/life sciences commercialization strategy is to develop and deploy effective and meaningful ways to engage, inform and build trust with healthcare providers (HCPs). A brand can best meet its clinical and commercial objectives throughout its lifecycle by offering a well-orchestrated mix of information and resources in different digital and in-person formats that HCPs can easily access.

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Grounding Research in Communities Most Impacted to Build Narrative Power

Center for Health Progress

Building power requires more than organizing people and making campaign demands – it also involves shaping deeply-held values and beliefs in our society so that we can enact long-lasting change. In our one-on-one conversations with leaders, we often hear people share that the widespread ideas about our society – what organizers refer to as “dominant narratives” – don’t match up with their actual experiences.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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Code Red: Healthcare Cybersecurity in a Post-Chevron World

HIT Consultant

Ty Greenhalgh, Principal of Healthcare at Claroty In light of the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the Chevron deference, the regulatory landscape, especially concerning cybersecurity in healthcare, faces significant changes. The ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which reversed the 1984 Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council precedent, alters how federal agencies can interpret and implement laws.

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News 10/23/24

HIStalk

Top News Remote patient monitoring company CopilotIQ acquires competitor Biofourmis.

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HLTH: Amazon One Medical’s AI Tools Help Clinicians Reclaim 40% of Their Time

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Amazon One Medical announced new AI tools to ease administrative workload on providers. Integrated into its proprietary Electronic Health Record (EHR), these AI tools simplify provider workflow and help them get back to focusing on patient care. – By using Amazon One Medical’s AI technology, backed by AWS generative AI services including Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthScribe , doctors can now save time on tasks.

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GoMo Health Expands Advisory Board Welcoming Michael Barr as Executive Clinical Advisor

GoMoHealth

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 22, 2024 GoMo Health Shelley Schoenfeld, Chief Marketing Officer E-mail: sschoenfeld@gomohealth.com Phone: 732-484-9144 GoMo Health Expands Advisory Board Welcoming Michael Barr as Executive Clinical Advisor Asbury Park, NJ, October 22, 2024: GoMo Health, a leading health and wellness patient and consumer engagement company is excited to welcome Michael Barr, MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP as Executive Clinical Advisor, joining the clinical advisory board to further advance t

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.

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Zombie Investments: The State of Private Equity in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Greg Hagood, President of SOLIC Capital, LLC Private equity (PE) firms, once eager investors in the healthcare services sector, are facing a chilling reality. A confluence of factors including challenges recruiting and retaining physicians, reimbursement headwinds, accelerating labor costs and restrictive antitrust policies, have resulted in a string of high-profile failures, and are casting doubt on the future role of PE in healthcare.

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NCQA Innovation Award Winners: Delivering Quality and Value

NCQA

In honor of Healthcare Quality Week, NCQA is celebrating the accomplishments of our Innovation Award winners. Each year, NCQA recognizes health care organizations for implementing leading-edge strategies that improve both quality and value, drive integration across the care delivery system and support person-centered care. NCQA congratulates this year’s winners: Elevance Health.

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How A Human-AI Partnership Can Boost Clinical Trial Recruitment

HIT Consultant

The demand for clinical trial testing is rising, from over 260,000 trials conducted in 2018 to nearly double that figure in 2024. This means that more trials are being conducted simultaneously than ever—a factor that adds to the already challenging process of finding clinical trial participants. Because trial sponsors are struggling to find sufficient numbers of suitable participants, 80% of the world’s more than 450,000 clinical trials are at risk of delays.