Fierce Healthcare
MAY 24, 2024
A range of digital health companies today are harnessing natural language processing in different ways to catch those at risk and direct them to resources.
Healthcare It News
MAY 24, 2024
Homecare is facing challenges and none are new. Reimbursement rates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are low and staffing shortages are high, as is demand for home health services due to a rising, elderly demographic.
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Fierce Healthcare
MAY 24, 2024
Elevance Health's philanthropic arm is launching a new initiative that aims to provide loans to small businesses and other organizations in a bid to address health equity. | Elevance Health's philanthropic arm is launching a new initiative that aims to provide loans to small businesses and other organizations in a bid to address health equity.
Healthcare It News
MAY 24, 2024
Patients of the medical center's hospital-at-home program in Minnesota and Florida will be able to receive home deliveries via Zipline's drones.
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
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 24, 2024
Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. | Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
Healthcare It News
MAY 24, 2024
Videha Sharma, clinical innovation lead at the University of Manchester, explains the NHS’s plan to expand pharmacogenetics, or how people’s genetic codes influence the effects of drugs, beyond specialist care to general practice.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Home Health Care
MAY 24, 2024
The following is an op-ed submitted by: Ken Albert, CEO, Andwell Health Partners; David Causby, CEO, Gentiva; Marcylle Combs, CEO, MAC Legacy; Brent Korte, CEO, Frontpoint Health; John Olajide, CEO, Axxess; Billy Simione, Managing Principal, SimiTree; Jennifer Sheets, the former CEO of Interim HealthCare; Susan Ponder-Stansel, CEO, Alivia Care; David Totaro, Chief Government Affairs Officer, BAYADA; Sara Wilson, President & CEO, Home Assist Health; and Bryan Wolfe, the former CEO of Traditio
HIT Consultant
MAY 24, 2024
What You Should Know: – The healthcare industry faces a growing threat: cyberattacks targeting hospital IT systems. In response, the US government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has pledged over $50 million to fund a groundbreaking program called UPGRADE (Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense). – The success of UPGRADE has the potential to significantly improve hospital cybersecurity and protect patient care from cyber threats.
The Rand Blog
MAY 24, 2024
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is the latest to be relieved of his position by Vladimir Putin. But why would Putin oust a long-time loyalist with deep roots in the Russian military establishment?
Home Health Care
MAY 24, 2024
The home care veteran Jeff Bevis is taking on a new challenge as CEO of Concierge Care, a nurse registry platform. A co-founder of FirstLight Home Care and most recently the COO of Caring Senior Service, Bevis has been in home care franchising for nearly two decades. Now, he’s taking the helm of Concierge Care, where caregivers won’t be working for his company, but with them instead.
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
Sequence Health
MAY 24, 2024
The world of healthcare is fast-paced and requires efficient communication systems to handle patient needs effectively. One such system integral to medical call center services is the Automatic Call Distribution (ACD). This technology is designed to manage incoming calls by directing them to the most suitable agent available, ensuring that patients receive timely and appropriate care.
NASHP
MAY 24, 2024
Hospital and health system financial data are critical tools for states to evaluate hospital performance, support state health care systems, and address health care costs. In November 2023, NASHP launched the year-long Hospital and Health System Financial Data Learning Collaborative with the support of Arnold Ventures. The collaborative has engaged officials representing multiple offices and agencies from ten different states to explore hospital and health system financial data, with the goal of
Etactics
MAY 24, 2024
According to AAFP, keeping your denial rate below 5% is advisable. However, this is often easier said than done. Experts often describe the medical billing process as complicated.and this is putting it nicely. I’m sure if you are in medical billing and coding, you have your word for it. No matter how frustrating it can be, knowing the ins and outs is essential when it comes to turning a profit.
NASHP
MAY 24, 2024
There are a variety of publicly available resources that state officials can use to assess hospital financial performance. This resource highlights six sources of data — the NASHP Hospital Cost Tool, Audited Financial Statements, the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) database, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provider and service data, IRS Form 990s, and the RAND’s corporation’s Hospital Price Transparency Study — and compares what state officials can learn from each so
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The Rand Blog
MAY 24, 2024
Generative AI has the potential to significantly change social care, alongside wider technological developments such as sensor technologies that can support people with care needs. What does it mean for culturally sensitive social care?
NASHP
MAY 24, 2024
What data sources can state officials use to understand hospital and health system financial health? Various federal laws and some state laws require hospitals or health systems to report financial and operational performance information. Some of this reporting is available through public reporting sites. Commonly used and publicly available resources for states to assess data and reports related to financial performance include: Medicare Cost Reports Audited Financial Statements IRS Form 990 Ce
Life Qi
MAY 24, 2024
The success of QI hinges on the ability to measure its impact. Discover the metrics that you should consider when evaluating the success of a QI project.
The Rand Blog
MAY 24, 2024
A robust and future-proof regional economy is a goal that virtually everyone in southwest Pennsylvania can agree upon. Which sustainable industries would most benefit the region in economic, social, and environmental terms?
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
MAY 24, 2024
Nursing home associations have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block a controversial staffing policy the Biden administration says is necessary to protect facility residents. | The industry had warned that the Biden administration's mandate to increase nursing home staffing would, in effect, reduce access to care due to nursing homes’ widespread workforce shortages and tight finances.
Health Populi
MAY 24, 2024
Today, I spoke live with Paul Bagnell, news anchor with Bloomberg BNN, on the topic of the GLP-1 agonists and their impact on health care, industries beyond health and medicine, and consumers. In this post, I’ll share with you some of the plotline for our discussion. Gallup polled U.S. adults in March to gauge their experience with injectable weight loss drugs, the results published earlier this week.
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