Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Hospitals are finalizing contingency plans and transferring patients ahead of Hurricane Helene, which is set to make landfall in northwestern Florida late this evening as at least a Category 3 hurr | “Although Florida has had some experience with this, [Hurricane Helene] seems to be on a scale that the state hasn’t seen in a very long time,” said Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It’s the first time in more than 50 years the body has voted to send a contempt charge on to the U.S. Department of Justice, which will determine whether to bring charges against Ralph de la Torre.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Citing fears of vertical integration and reduced competition, anti-monopoly advocacy group American Economic Liberties Project and a small cadre of other advocacy organizations are urging federal r | Anti-monopoly group American Economic Liberties Project and others say the vertical integration deals will stamp out competition in already concentrated markets, ultimately harming patients.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Seoul-based Asan Medical Center (AMC) has been validated for Stage 6 of the new HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM). The new INFRAM, introduced in March , assesses an organisation's infrastructure maturity based on cybersecurity, adoption, sustainability, performance, and outcomes. The previous framework evaluated healthcare organisations in the areas of mobility, security, collaboration, transport and data centres.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Komodo Health continues to invest in generative AI capabilities, seeing the potential to use AI-powered conversational language to make it easier for health research teams to parse through troves o | Komodo Health continues to invest in generative AI capabilities, seeing the potential to use AI-powered conversational language to make it easier for health research teams to parse through troves of data.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

CommonSpirit Health cut its operating losses by nearly $400 million and notched a bottom-line gain of about half a billion dollars during its fiscal year ended June 30, the Catholic giant reported | The improvement reflects an uptick in patient volumes, checked labor costs and shorter stays due to tighter discharges to post-acute settings, the nonprofit said.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The legislation, sponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Warner, would direct the HHS to develop minimum cybersecurity standards for providers, health plans, claims clearinghouses and business associates.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As employers face rising costs, many are looking to rethink plan designs rather than emphasize shifting expenses to workers, according to a new WTW report. | As employers face rising costs, many are looking to rethink plan designs rather than emphasize shifting expenses to workers, according to a new WTW report.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – WellSpan Health , a leading integrated healthcare provider known for its innovation, is partnering with Hippocratic AI , a pioneer in healthcare-focused large language models, to introduce a groundbreaking clinical GenAI healthcare agent. – The conversational AI-powered service will directly interact with patients, enhancing healthcare access, equity, and outcomes.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

One of the first pain equity courses for medical students is launching at the Morehouse School of Medicine this fall. | The course offers insights into fostering safe, trustworthy, transparent and empathetic patient-provider interactions. It also emphasizes how to address the unique preferences and needs of Black patients in pain.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Sohail Djariri, Chief Growth Officer, Sagility Kevin Terrell, Cofounder and CEO, BirchAI, a Sagility company While in recent years healthcare has made significant strides toward optimizing the customer experience, the industry is now at an inflection point with the adoption of generative AI (GenAI). With its highly trained and expensive talent and mountains of unstructured data, healthcare is uniquely suited to leverage GenAI to drive productivity and an improved consumer and employee experience

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rula Health, a virtual behavioral health company, has expanded its therapy services to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. | Rula, established in 2019, aims to improve access to personalized, in-network mental healthcare by prioritizing the therapeutic relationship and by taking a measurement-based approach to care.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Tim Quinlan, Sr. Technical Manager at Coder It’s no surprise that one of healthcare leaders’ biggest fears is having customer data stolen, leaked or exposed. As large healthcare breaches hit record highs, hacks are affecting more individual records than ever – 136 million in 2023, more than double the previous year. This has triggered a wave of class action lawsuits , disruptions in billing cycles , and major service impacts at healthcare institutions.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

State laws mandate insurers cover a 12-month supply of contraception but this requirement is rarely followed by insurers, a JAMA Health Forum study reviewing Medicaid plans in nearly a dozen states | Insurance plans are supposed to cover a 12-month supply of birth control pills, but a recent study found that requirement is rarely followed.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What You Should Know: Mission Bio , a leader in single-cell multiomics solutions for precision medicine, today announced the launch of its Tapestri® Genome Integrity CNV Solution. This new product is the only single-cell high-throughput solution for measuring genome-wide copy number variants (CNVs) on the market and is designed to fulfill important needs in the critical areas of therapeutic development oncology research.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

My FTI colleagues Mark Van Ert and Krunal Patel summarize some of the new quality measures that will be incorporated into the 2025 CMS Star Ratings that are used to evaluate Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The CMS Star Ratings are very important as CMS payments to MA plans is expected to increase by 3.7% or $16 billion between 2024 and 2025. Van Ert and Patel describe the CMS ratings cycle as follows: Star ratings are determined through a four-year process.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes brand and leading provider of clinical trial solutions to the life sciences industry, today announced the launch of Medidata Patient Payments , a new solution that streamlines trial-related stipends and reimbursements for patients participating in clinical research. – This offering automates the payment lifecycle and addresses the longstanding challenge of compensating participants for their time, effort, and study-related expense

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CDC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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Clearwave Inc

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes 2024 Fast 40 Awards Recognize Patient Revenue Platform Provider ATLANTA – September 26, 2024 – Clearwave is proud to announce its recognition by the Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth® (ACG) as one of the top 40 fastest-growing companies in Georgia for 2024. This prestigious acknowledgment highlights Clearwave’s commitment to continuously evolving to meet client needs and patient demands in an ever-changing healthcare environment.

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HIStalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Top News Graybill, a California-based primary care group, will split.

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Health Policy News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Academy Health Conference Academy Health, an organization promoting health policy and health systems research, held its Annual Research Meeting (#ARM24) tin July in Baltimore.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – A recent survey conducted by Carta Healthcare , a company dedicated to advancing healthcare through clinical data, has revealed a concerning reality: while clinical data registries are deemed crucial for improving care quality and population health management, their effectiveness is being hindered by challenges related to data accuracy, completeness, and inadequate sponsor tools. – The survey, conducted by Reaction Data in June 2024 among clinical data abstrac

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home-based care staffing environment will always be a challenge for providers, but things look far better now than they did two years ago in the wake of the pandemic. However, one area that remains a lingering problem for providers is nurses, and specifically nurses who are leveraging a worker shortage to maximize earning power.

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Health Policy News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Health Policy News Conference Roundup 2024 The last couple of months have been busy with conferences across the country. In this round up, PCG staff shares key highlights from conferences.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – Novant Health, a leading integrated healthcare network with over 850 locations across North Carolina and South Carolina has selected CitiusTech as the preferred vendor for Enterprise Data & Decision Intelligence services. – Novant Health turned to CitiusTech to leverage enterprise data to enhance patient outcomes and operational efficiency through cutting-edge technologies and methodologies. – CitiusTech will provide Novant Health with a wide array o

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Health Policy News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) Annual Conference NASHP brought together its largest group for this year’s annual conference, with more than 1,000 state health policy leaders, policymakers and.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – GoodRx, a prominent prescription savings platform in the U.S., has joined forces with ARS Pharmaceuticals to offer the lowest discounted cash price for neffy®, a revolutionary needle-free treatment for Type I allergic reactions. – The partnership makes neffy available for $199 at over 70,000 pharmacies across the nation, exclusively through GoodRx. neffy: A Needle-Free Solution for Anaphylaxis Allergies and allergic reactions affect over 100 million Americans

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Health Policy News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

National Association of County and City Health Officials NACCHO360 The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) held its annual NACCHO360 conference in July in Detroit, Michigan. The.

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