Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Bankruptcies have spiked this year as federal COVID-19 funding lapsed and heightened interest rates, regulatory changes and labor shortages squeezed the sector.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Open enrollment on the insurance marketplaces began on Nov. | Open enrollment on the insurance marketplaces began on Nov. 1, and more than 4.5 million people have selected plans in the early weeks of the process, according to new federal data.
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Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Failure to get tests or complete referrals is a leading cause of diagnostic errors, and it’s particularly important in primary care, researchers said.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Ayble Health, a digital health platform for patients with chronic gastrointestinal conditions, has announced a new collaboration with the Mayo Clinic. | Ayble is working with the Mayo Clinic Complex Care Program to offer a hybrid care model to match patients with the appropriate virtual and in-person care based on acuity and need.
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
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Inflation is a contributor to the increase, but rising prescription drug costs are likely to have a longer-term impact, according to a Mercer report.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Memorial Hermann Health System is implementing Laudio’s platform to enhance employee efficiency and engagement. | Memorial Hermann Health System is tapping Laudio’s AI platform to promote efficiency and engagement among its employees.
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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Health tech veteran Leo Grady believes the microbiome is going to revolutionize healthcare. | Leo Grady, the former CEO of Paige, saw an opportunity to leverage his work in healthcare AI to unlock the microbiome for health. He launched Jona, a company that provides an at-home microbiome profiling kit and then uses AI to analyze an individual's gut microbiome to deliver actionable, personalized insights.
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 110,000 aged care workers by 2030 , according to a projection by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. The issue is expected to have a profound impact on the aged care sector as it is predicted to be competing with other nursing sectors to hire and retain between 20,000 to 40,000 available staff over the next two years.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Publicly traded health insurers’ financial results held steady in the third quarter, boosted by strong investment income and membership growth, according to the credit ratings agency.
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
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
UPMC’s operations dipped into the red this quarter as volumes and their associated care delivery costs and insurance claims continue to climb. | The integrated nonprofit system's nine-month total operating revenue growth of 9.3% was outpaced by a 11% rise in total operating expenses.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
The health system's head of emergency medicine, Brendan Carr, will replace the long-standing CEO early next year.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Pharmacy benefit management giant Optum Rx is aiming to address maternal and fetal health by leaning on the power of independent pharmacies.
Healthy Debate
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
The post ‘It’s the structures that are sick – it’s not the kids’: Experts stress importance of clean air in schools appeared first on Healthy Debate.
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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Walgreens is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 120-year heritage of caring for communities. | Founded in 1901, Walgreens has been a part of the US healthcare ecosystem for a very long time. In this interview, Chief Growth Officer Steve Wogan explores the company’s recent evolution and looks ahead to what the future has in store.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
What You Should Know: More than half (51%) of U.S. adults are optimistic new applications of artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to major advancements and breakthroughs in healthcare in the year ahead, according to a new survey from Medtronic , a global healthcare technology leader, and Morning Consult. Some of the highest levels of optimism for AI in healthcare are around diagnoses and improving healthcare access.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver was a major boost for organizations hoping to implement or expand hospital-at-home programs. As of Nov. 21 2023, 305 hospitalsand 129 systems in 37 states have been approved to provide hospital-at-home care under the CMS waiver program. Still, CMS’ waiver program was never meant to be permanent.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
That is the finding from a CDC report released this month. Mortality rates fell by 24% between 2001 and 2021. Specifically, the cancer death rate for youth ages 0–19 years was 2.75 per 100,000 in 2001, but decrease to 2.10 per 100,000 in 2021. The analysis uses data including (i) cause of death data from National Center for Health Statistics 1999–2020, and (ii) population information from the US Census, , Some key figures and a more detailed summary are below.
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.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Home health providers’ battle for fair reimbursement from Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be a “generational battle,” and not one they will win overnight. But, at least for larger home health providers, their strategies in that battle are much more definitive than they were even a couple of years ago. Luke James, the president of VitalCaring, told Home Health Care News earlier this month that he’s had positive conversations with MA plan executives of late – ones where home health care’s impor
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
What You Should Know: Summer Health , a text-based service for parents to get answers to urgent needs from pediatricians, is expanding into primary care. Improving Access to Medical Professionals Summer Health’s care teams are expanding their services to benefit thousands of parents across the nation in the following ways: 1. Families will now have unlimited access to dedicated medical practitioners assigned to their accounts, similar to a primary pediatric practice.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
In October, National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President Bill Dombi announced that his organization and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) were planning to merge. The plan came with what Dombi described as an “aggressive timeline,” hoping the merger would be done by 2024. “It’s an aggressive timeline even if we’ve been moving very, very deliberately,” Dombi told a group of reporters at NAHC’s annual conference.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
What You Should Know: LG Business Solutions USA announced the immediate availability of a new 55-inch surgical monitor (model 55MH5K) that offers 4K resolution, wide viewing angles, robust resilience to damage, convenient failover technology and the ability to display multiple images at once in a 2×2 onscreen grid. According to Stephen K. Hu, LG Business Solutions USA’s head of medical monitors, the large display is ideal for surgical centers, general operating rooms and hybrid operating ro
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.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
For this episode of the Home Health Care News Disrupt podcast, we caught up with Vince Moffitt, president and CEO of Basin Health Companies. During the conversation, Moffitt talks about how the CMS final rule will impact his agency, how difficult it is to maintain high Medicare star ratings in today’s environment, some unique retention strategies and so much more.
Advanced Data Systems
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Maintaining an efficient and compliant medical practice is crucial in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry. One key aspect often overlooked is the efficacy of medical billing software. Older systems may become obsolete, inefficient, or non-compliant with current standards as technology advances. Here are five signs indicating it's time for your practice to u pgrade its medical billing software.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
“Thanksgiving.” Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines the word, first, as “the act of giving thanks.” Second, it’s “a prayer of expressing gratitude.” And, third, the word means a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness. We each have our own stories about how a loved one’s life has ended. If we’re lucky, that beloved person had a good death: in sleep, perhaps, or simply of old age with no hospital events or trauma.
NCQA
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
In this episode of Inside Health Care, we present two interviews that each ask really basic, yet complex, questions about health care. Taylor Justice The first question: Why is it so hard to develop a health care coordinator service for patients at the local level? It’s something most of us could use: a helper to walk with us through a health journey, advise us in a crisis and make sure we get all the tests and records we should have.
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NASHP
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Nationally, five million children live in food-insecure households in which both children and adults are food insecure. 1 Food insecurity is defined by a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy lifestyle, 2 whereas nutrition security is having consistent and equitable access, availability, and affordability to nutritious foods. 3 Food insecurity impacts child health outcomes and is associated with increased risks of some birth defe
NCQA
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
In this episode of Inside Health Care, we present two interviews that each ask really basic, yet complex, questions about health care. The first question: Why are patient alcohol and substance use issues so often overlooked in primary care? This interview will not only answer that question: it will point patients and providers in the right direction: toward adoption of universal alcohol screening and follow-up.
Healthcare Associates
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Colds are the most common reason people see a doctor in the United States. Adults may catch a cold up to four times a year, whereas children tend to be exposed more and may contract as many as eight per year. These illnesses are highly contagious, frequently spreading through droplets from a sneeze or cough. Colds are caused by various viruses — more than 200, to be exact.
Health Business Group
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
The physical and mental toll of digestive diseases is often under-appreciated. Bill Snyder , CEO of Vivante Health shares how his personal experiences fueled his mission to tackle digestive health head-on, leading him to launch innovative digital gut health programs through Vivante Health. Vivante is leveraging technology, data, and artificial intelligence to revolutionize digestive healthcare.
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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