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Tenet, HCA shareholders reject calls to report risks from providing abortion services

Health Care Dive

It's the second time shareholders have blanched at additional reporting of abortion risks, despite ambiguity about providers’ legal requirements for providing care.

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Plenful picks up $17M to automate administrative tasks for pharmacists

Fierce Healthcare

Startup Plenful launched out of stealth seven months ago to tackle the labor challenges and administrative bottlenecks plaguing pharmacy operations. | Plenful, which developed an AI workflow automation platform to streamline pharmacy and healthcare operations, banked $17 million in series A funding to build out its infrastructure and fuel more product development.

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Expense management differentiated nonprofit providers in Q1

Health Care Dive

But the industry has a long way to go before it’s fully back to the profitability levels seen before the pandemic — if it fully rebounds at all, analysts told Healthcare Dive.

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How digital preferences define the modern healthcare consumer

Fierce Healthcare

In an age of digital evolution and expanding care options, what today’s healthcare consumer wants is changing. | What do today’s healthcare consumers want? Huron’s recent survey details how digital trends are impacting consumer preferences and choice.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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ACO Reporting- A Patient-Centered Approach

p3care

An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. They aim to improve your health by ensuring that you get custom care according to your needs while cutting costs.

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Chutes & Ladders—NYC Health appoints inaugural decarbonization officer; Uber Health exec moves to VC

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—NYC Health appoints inaugural decarbonization officer; Uber Health exec moves to VC ebeavins Fri, 05/31/2024 - 13:21

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Mayo Clinic to Deploy Virtual Platform for Enhanced Nurse Education Materials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Kahuna , the leading skills and competency management software, has entered into a copyright and know-how agreement with Mayo Clinic to deploy a virtual platform for enhanced nurse education materials. – Kahuna’s competency management platform combined with Mayo Clinic’s TSAM® Orientation Model will generate a starting point for health systems looking to digitize their competency management processes.

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MRI-based machine learning approach predicts breast cancer metastasis

Health IT Analytics

A convolutional neural network successfully flagged 95% of breast cancer patients with axillary metastasis, demonstrating potential to reduce unnecessary biopsies.

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North Korea's October Surprise: A Nuclear Weapons Test?

The Rand Blog

Some in the United States worry that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could carry out an October surprise by doing a nuclear weapon test just before the U.S. presidential election this year. Could Kim do that? We don't know, but he certainly has a number of reasons for doing so.

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Promising Practices for Collaboration on State and Local Opioid Settlement Spending

NASHP

This webinar is a partnership between NASHP and the National Association of Counties. Opioid settlement funding provides states and counties with new opportunities to reduce overdose deaths and address gaps in the continuum of care. Collaboration and coordination between state and local officials administering these funds will be key to ensuring that settlement resources are targeted towards the communities that have been most impacted by the opioid crisis.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Children’s Minnesota Deploys On-Demand Nursing Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ShiftMed, the leader in On Demand workforce technology, announces its partnership with Children’s Minnesota , an award-winning healthcare system delivering high quality pediatric healthcare. – ShiftMed will provide Children’s Minnesota access to its integrated platform and extensive network of local, qualified healthcare professionals.

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Strategies in Risk Management: An Ultimate Guide

Etactics

41% of companies said they experienced three or more critical risk events in 2022. For reference, a critical risk event is any disruption to an organization's operations. Also, any disruption to company safety, or security. With risk event rates currently so high, it’s important to have a strong approach to risk management. We know that business environments are dynamic, to say the least.

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9 Preventive Healthcare Marketing Strategies

Healthcare Success

Marketing the importance of preventive healthcare services is challenging, costly, and often conflicts with consumer behavior. Despite these hurdles, the urgency to promote prevention has never been greater. Why? The growing number of people diagnosed with preventable chronic diseases each year is staggering (think cancer cases resulting from smoking and diabetes and heart disease cases resulting from obesity).

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Private Equity-Backed Buyer Drops Out Of Sweepstakes For Divested Amedisys Locations

Home Health Care

In early May, it was reported that UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) were working on a divestment package to satisfy regulator concerns over antitrust violations. Capitol Forum had previously reported that Amedisys was aiming to offload more than 100 of its locations to a “private equity-backed buyer.” On Friday, Capitol Forum reported that the buyer had walked away from the deal, leaving Amedisys without a divestment partner.

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Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 2: Bit by Bit, Putting It Together – Planning, Implementing, Pivoting

Health Populi

W elcome to post #2 of 3, publishing the results of three dialogue sessions between Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, and me. The timing of our conversations, tracking both Richard’s and the company’s evolving approach to cybersecurity in health care, has coincided with the Change Healthcare breach and ransom that emerged in February 2024. This second blog of the three is being edited just days after Andrew Witty’s testimony to the U.S.