Healthcare It News
APRIL 2, 2025
SSM Health is a health system headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with 23 hospitals and more than 650 physician offices serving Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. THE CHALLENGE For SSM Health, continuous improvement is a high priority. When it looked at online scheduling – and the metrics that drive it – staff was determined to do better.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 2, 2025
The sweeping workforce reduction that began Tuesday was made worse by mistakes and poor communication, including directions for some CMS employees to contact a director who died last year.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
By cutting the Provider Relief Bureau, RFK Jr.'s HHS has lost the staff expertise to reclaim more than a billion dollars in payments made to providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The move seems antithetical to the workforce reduction effort's aim to save taxpayer dollars.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2025
Source: Image by freepik What You Should Know: – A new report commissioned by the Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI) and conducted by Avalere reveals a significant decline in the number of independent physicians and medical practices in rural areas of the United States between January 2019 and January 2024. – The report raises concerns about reduced access to care, rising costs, and a decline in care quality for rural communities.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health
AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
The agency submitted an order this week seeking an administrative stay in the case, as there are currently no sitting commissioners who are able to join the proceedings.
Home Health Care
APRIL 2, 2025
Marlie Parks, Case Manager at Innovive Health, has been named a 2024 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News. To become a Frontline honoree, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be: A dedicated, high-performing frontline worker who delivers exceptional experiences and outcomes A passionate worker who knows how to put their vision into for the good of their respective industry, the patients and residents they serve, and their families An advocate for their indus
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Home Health Care
APRIL 2, 2025
When Jay and Melody Vachal discovered that their son required constant medical care, they faced the daunting challenge of finding reliable personal care attendants. Motivated to help other families in similar situations, the Vachal family established Arise Cares, a home care agency serving the St. Cloud, Minneapolis and Saint Paul area in Minnesota.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2025
Source : Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai What You Should Know: – The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched the AI Small Molecule Drug Discovery Center, a pioneering initiative that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize the process of drug development. – The new center aims to integrate AI with traditional drug discovery methods to identify and design novel small-molecule therapeutics with unprecedented speed and precision.
Home Health Care
APRIL 2, 2025
Home Instead a franchise company with one of the largest home care footprint in the U.S. has made major moves to bring on outside talent. This has allowed the company to utilize expertise gleaned from executives time at companies like Nordstrom, Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and more. However, Home Instead isnt the only home-based care company that has an eye for recruiting and leveraging outside talent.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
Senior Writer Paige Minemyer sat down with Soo Jeon, the head of the accelerator at Healthworx, to dig into how the team works with burgeoning startups and what results theyve seen so far.
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Health Populi
APRIL 2, 2025
Patients as health consumers now know what “good” looks like in their digital experiences. People have tasted the convenience and respect they feel from well-designed, streamlined omnichannel retail experiences, and they now expect this from health care — specifically supported by the pharmaceutical companies who manufacture the medicines they use in managing chronic conditions, we learn in ixlayer ixInsights 2025: Pharma’s Role in Improving the Health Experience fromixla
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
Carrum Health has expanded its network to over 1,000 locations and has extended its specialty care offerings to new categories that all together cover 40% of employer medical spend.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2025
What You Should Know: – Generative AI (Gen AI) is rapidly changing the healthcare industry, and a recent McKinsey survey reveals that a large majority of healthcare leaders are actively exploring or implementing this technology. – The latest survey, conducted in Q4 2024, provides insights into the evolving perspectives and approaches of payers, health systems, and healthcare services and technology (HST) groups.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
Enrollment on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges has more than doubled over the past several years, with much of that growth coming from red states, according to a new report.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health 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
Health Care Dive
APRIL 2, 2025
Teams working on communications and policy were cut from the agency on Tuesday, according to multiple FDA workers.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
Apree Health has a new CEO, Jon Porter, who has a bold vision to refocus the company on its digital roots.
Bill Of Health
APRIL 2, 2025
Mental Health Dr. TikTok? The impacts of misinformation on mental health self-diagnosis A study published on March 19 yet again confirmed the widespread nature of healthmisinformation. Looking specifically at claims about ADHD on TikTok, the study found that more than half of all claims in the videos lacked scientific accuracy. Published April 2, 2025 Author Rebekah Ninan Share Share on LinkedIn Share on X Share on Facebook Share on Reddit A study published on March 19 yet again confirmed the wi
Home Health Care
APRIL 2, 2025
On Monday, the Florida House Health & Human Services Subcommittee unanimously approved a bill that would expand home health workforce flexibility and enhance service delivery standards. If passed, the bill would delete geographical limitations on home health agencies that an administrator could manage at any time. Currently, administrators are allowed to manage up to five home health agencies if the agencies have identical controlling interests, only if all agencies are located within one ge
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
A new analysis of 70 hospitals nurse staffing from 2019 to 2022 found an uptick in pressure ulcers tied to heightened levels of agency and overtime labor.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2025
What You Should Know: – Redox , a provider of healthcare data interoperability solutions, has announced its membership in CommonWell Health Alliance , a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN ). – Redox brings a key advantage to CommonWell’s QHIN participants: real-time writeback for direct connections. This capability enhances data exchange and workflow efficiency.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
Dispatch Health and Medically Home come together, Community Health Systems sells off two Florida hospitals to AdventHealth and more healthcare merger and acquisition news from the month of March.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2025
What You Should Know: – CareCloud , a provider of practice management, healthcare technology, and AI-driven solutions for medical practices acquires RevNu Medical Management (RevNu), an emerging revenue cycle management (RCM) company specializing in audiology. – Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Expanding in the Audiology Market This acquisition represents a strategic move by CareCloud to expand its presence in the U.S. audiology market.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 2, 2025
From the Conversation with Tyler podcast with Sheilagh Ogilvie : [Ogilvie]: Historically, there was another reason, which was the medical guildsthe equivalent of the American Medical Association, only much, much worse, back in early modern Europe did not like the idea of this new thing, this new technology that they had not approved and that was also going to challenge their business model and take away their fees from treating smallpox patients.
HIStalk
APRIL 2, 2025
News Amazon releases Nova Act, an AI model that can.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 2, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration, which oversees medical devices, has 3,500 jobs on the chopping block — which could hinder cybersecurity oversight, Democrats said during a House subcommittee hearing.
HIStalk
APRIL 2, 2025
Justin Dearborn is founder and CEO of Praia Health. Tell.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2025
President Donald Trump made good on his threat of announcing new and steeper tariffs during a Wednesday afternoon White House event, setting the stage for higher prices and supply chain uncertainty | Set to go into effect at midnight, the new trade policy lists pharmaceutical goods among the goods exempted from reciprocal tariffs.
HIStalk
APRIL 2, 2025
Leaders of the House, Senate VA Committee & VA Appropriations.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 2, 2025
A coalition of 23 states and Washington, D.C. sued the HHS on Tuesday, arguing the cuts put states “at greater risk for future pandemics and the spread of otherwise preventable disease.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 2, 2025
Sign-ups for coverage on the Affordable Care Act exchanges have more than doubled since 2020. Enrollment was particularly concentrated in states won by President Donald Trump in last year’s election.
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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