Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Telemedicine clinic Virta Health believes its members can achieve significant and sustained improvement in weight loss, even if a patient has stopped taking a GLP-1 drug, a newly released paper in | A new study in Diabetes Therapy from Virta Health says the company's carbohydrate restricted nutrition therapy allows patients who no longer want a GLP-1 prescription to still keep the weight off.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The latest divestiture comes as the Dallas-based for-profit has sold other hospitals while it reduces its debt load.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Two of Trinity Health’s affiliate hospitals mounted lawsuits against a large anesthesia group alleging that non-compete and non-solicitation clauses included in its providers’ contracts restrict co | The latest pushback against large anesthesiology groups' market power and practices alleges "millions of dollars" in damages for each hospital due to "exorbitant" payment demands.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The survey from Berkeley Research Group comes as the federal government mulls how to best regulate artificial intelligence in healthcare.

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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

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Elsevier Health has launched an generative AI-driven version of its flagship clinical decision support tool, ClinicalKey, in partnership with AI company OpenEvidence. | The tool, developed with several key partners, offers an advanced conversational search interface to help doctors find important medical information at the point of care. More than 30,000 doctors across the U.S. have tested the underlying AI technology.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The proposed deal would create a 28-hospital system in New York and Connecticut.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Investment returns and outpatient services revenue drove results.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A core provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), responsible for ensuring hundreds of millions of Americans receive free access to preventive services, faces a serious legal challenge March 4.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Highmark is uniting its diversified business offerings under one roof with the launch of its new Alloyed Works unit. | Highmark is uniting its diversified business offerings under one roof with the launch of its new Alloyed Works unit.

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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

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

What You Should Know: – Health Level Seven International (HL7®) and The Sequoia Project, leaders in promoting healthcare information technology (health IT) interoperability , announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standards in the US and globally. – The HL7 FHIR® Accelerator (FAST) program, initially spearheaded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), will

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Tenet Healthcare has cut a deal to sell two California hospitals and their related operations to Adventist Health for about $550 million, the for-profit announced Thursday morning. | The deal is expected to close this spring and comes alongside a revenue cycle services agreement between the two systems.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG) is more than halfway to meeting its goal of building a pipeline of 100 CEOs. The company announced that it added more than 50 CEOs in training, and that 38 local leaders earned C-level designations in their operations. Pennant CEO Brent Guerisoli noted that leadership development has been one of the most important keys to the company’s success.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To answer this question, a paper by Nicholas et al. (2024) conducted a nationally representative experimental survey. The survey used a series of vignettes related to care decisions of hospitalized adults with dementia. These vignettes were cross-randomized along three dimensions (i) cognitive impairment, (ii) gender, and (iii) characteristics of advance care planning.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

What You Should Know: – WebMD Health Corp., a provider of health information services, announced today the acquisition of certain operating assets from Healthwise, Inc., a company specializing in patient education and engagement solutions. – Healthwise’s assets, including its extensive library of patient education content, technology platform, and client relationships, will be integrated into WebMD Ignite , WebMD’s healthcare engagement division.

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HIStalk

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Top News A ransomware group claims that its cyberattack against.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Of late, it hasn’t always been sunshine and rainbows for home-based care providers after hitting the public market. BrightSpring Health Services (Nasdaq: BTSG), however, is trying to buck that trend. “We have strategically positioned BrightSpring to be a major player in the areas of greatest need in health care and in some of the most exciting growth markets within health care services,” BrightSpring CEO Jon Rousseau said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday.

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Health IT Analytics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

New machine learning tools accurately predicted patient mortality at one, five, three, and 10 years across eight dementia subtypes.

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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.

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

What You Should Know: – Azalea Health, a provider of cloud-based healthcare IT solutions and services, today announced its innovative approach to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize healthcare workflows. – The AI strategy focuses on enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and personalization while prioritizing patient privacy and data security.

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CDC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Experts are working together to bring down rates of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in low- and middle-income countries, which can be at least 3 times higher than those in high-income countries. Healthcare professionals trained in infection prevention and control (IPC) are critical to reduce HAIs and improve patient and healthcare worker safety, but many healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries lack trained IPC professionals.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

What You Should Know: – Elsevier Health, a global leader in medical information and data analytics, announced the launch of ClinicalKey AI , the first and most advanced clinical decision support tool in the US to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI). – Elsevier Health partnered with OpenEvidence, a leader in AI for medicine, on developing ClinicalKey AI.

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Icanotes

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dual Diagnosis: Fentanyl Addiction and Mental Health Exploring the Connection and Importance of Addressing Co-Occurring Conditions in Treatment Linked to devastating fentanyl addiction symptoms and unparalleled numbers of overdoses, fentanyl has been receiving high levels of attention for being a powerfully addictive and deadly substance. Fentanyl has plenty of legitimate medical uses, but the drug’s tendency to be illicitly manufactured and added to other drugs increases the dangers.

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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.

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

What You Should Know: – iRhythm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: IRTC), a leader in digital healthcare solutions for cardiac arrhythmias, today announced a collaboration with Epic to simplify access to its Zio long-term cardiac monitoring services for healthcare providers using Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) platform. – The partnership between iRhythm and Epic is expected to significantly simplify access to Zio services, potentially impacting millions of patients and improvin

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Health Policy News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Congress and States Advance Efforts to Provide Financial Support to Caregivers As Health Policy News continues our Focus on Caregiving Series, we turn our focus to financial support for family.

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Around 43 million Americans had multiple health plans in 2021. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that there were around 301 million people in the United States in 2021. In other words, just about 14% of Americans had multiple insurance payers. When a patient seeks out a medical treatment or service, the first thing they must do upon arrival is check in.

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Health Policy News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

CMS Pushes forward Efforts to Address Health-Related Social Needs As states focus on advancing their 2024 Medicaid priorities, on many of those lists is likely to be Health-Related Social Needs.

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Health Business Group

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Brian Lobley , CEO of Tango , joins me to unravel the complexities of post-acute care and its crucial role in patient recovery and healthcare economics. Brian shares his journey from his Philadelphia roots to reshaping healthcare through technology (with a passionate nod to Philly sports teams along the way). We explore Tango's mission to revolutionize home-based care for seniors, especially within the Medicare Advantage space, and how this aligns with the growing preference for patients to recu

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Health Policy News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

SAMSHA Releases Final Rule on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment following Proposed COVID-19 PHE Telehealth Rollbacks Health Policy News has been closely covering the both Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s plans to.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Hippocratic AI launches beta testing for its generative AI-powered healthcare solution with strong network of healthcare providers.

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Health Policy News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Health Policy News February In this month’s edition of Health Policy News, we continue our Focus on Caregiving Series with an overview of the federal Credit for Caring Act introduced.

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Speaker: Sean Raible

Picture a workplace where physiological safety is not just an aim but a reality, driven by thoughtful employee benefits that prioritize mental health, wellbeing, and DEI. 🤔 ✨ Achieving this vision requires more than just occasional training sessions and employee assistance programs. Moving beyond the basics, this vision calls for a holistic approach that integrates these elements into your company culture as well as your HR and benefits strategy.

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