Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
SCAN Group is refreshing its visual identity, building its new look around honoring the "rebels with a cause" that founded the company and who continue to inspire its work. | SCAN Group is refreshing its visual identity, building its new look around honoring the "rebels with a cause" that founded the company and who continue to inspire its work.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
BOSTON – When asked about the evolution of artificial intelligence and when sentient AI would become integral to the fabric of healthcare, Dr. Patrick Thomas, director of digital innovation in pediatric surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine, said clinical training needs revamping. "We need to prepare clinical students to go into the real world that they are moving into," he said at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum on Thursday.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Private equity firm New Mountain Capital merged three health tech companies in a multi-billion dollar deal to be a top player in the payment integrity market. | Private equity firm New Mountain Capital merged three health tech companies in a multi-billion dollar deal to be a top player in the payment integrity market.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Wednesday was a rocky day for bankrupt Steward Health Care as the system finalized unprofitable deals and CEO Ralph de la Torre landed in the spotlight once again for rebuffing a Senate subpoena.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva 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
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Elevance Health subsidiary WellPoint announced the company is debuting individual marketplace plans in Florida, Maryland and Texas. | Elevance Health subsidiary Wellpoint is debuting plans in three states for the 2025 coverage year.
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Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A joint venture between Henry Ford Health and Ascension announced last year will close at the end of the month and launch October 1, the organizations announced Wednesday. | The deal announced last year creates a 13-hospital, 50,000-person joint venture hospital system that retains Henry Ford Health's branding and headquarters.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Private providers in Thailand, Russia sign telehealth collab Two large private healthcare providers in Thailand and Russia have partnered to cooperate in such areas as telehealth and medical tourism. Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, a network of 58 hospitals in Thailand, and Medsi Group, which runs 148 medical clinics including a digital clinic in Russia, formalised cooperation in providing medical services to their patients in their respective countries.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Virtual care provider Vesta Healthcare announced the close of $65 million in series C funding with new debt financing. The round brings the company to a total of $160 million raised since 2019. | Digital health platform Vesta Healthcare announced the close of $65 million in series C funding with new debt financing. The company, which supports senior patients and their caregivers, has raised a total of $160 million since 2019.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The findings offer insight into long-term telehealth utilization patterns as a deadline for extending pandemic-era Medicare flexibilities looms at the end of the year.
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
Fertility benefits have become a crucial component of employee well-being and retention strategies. In today’s competitive landscape, creating a fertility benefits program that aligns with both employee needs and organizational goals can be more complex than it seems. From cycle-based to flat-dollar and telehealth models, each solution offers unique advantages and challenges that directly affect employee satisfaction and financial well-being.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) revealed last month that it had submitted a termination notice to UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) UnitedHealthcare. Now, members of Enhabit’s leadership team are divulging more details about how the company, ultimately, came to this strategic decision. “It’s important to remember that the reason we created are payer innovation strategy, about two years ago, was because at that time we had United as a large payer and then a few regional smaller contracts that had come
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The Magnolia State has finally issued new contracts for its Medicaid managed care program, two years later than intended after UnitedHealth and Elevance challenged the awards following unsuccessful bids.
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Earlier this year, I had the chance to interview CenterWell President Sanjay Shetty on stage and off stage at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit in La Jolla, California. Last month, at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE conference in Nashville, I did the same with Kirk Allen, the president of home solutions at Humana Inc.
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Eight Ascension and Genesys hospitals and an addiction treatment center will rebrand under Henry Ford Health on Oct. 1.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A paper by Campbell et al. (2024) provides some guidance. The authors developed a series of recommendations based on literature review, expert interviews and an expert workshop in order to support consistent and transparent evaluation and use of validated family spillover effects in health technology assessments (HTA) and cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA).
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
What You Should Know: – Rune Labs , a leading precision neurology software and data company has announced a significant advancement in its StrivePD app. – The new StrivePD-AI feature leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to provide personalized clinical reports for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Key Features of StrivePD-AI StrivePD-AI utilizes Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet Large Language Model (LLM) to analyze patient data and generate personalized repo
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
I’m off to Florence, Italy, soon, where about 10 years ago I happened upon a vending machine sited outside of a pharmacy just a few blocks from the Duomo — the Farmacia Della Condotta. And in that vending machine, accessible at all hours (especially overnight when the pharmacy was closed), were all manners of direct-to-consumer self-care goods… including condoms.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
What You Should Know: – Abbott , a global healthcare company, has announced the U.S. availability of Lingo , a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system designed for individuals who want to improve their overall health and wellness. – Lingo is the first CGM available without a prescription designed for individuals who want to improve their overall health and wellness, regardless of whether they have diabetes.
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.
Meditech
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
As a non-profit health system serving nearly 1 million people in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, our pharmacists at Emanate Health need the right technology to quickly access important information. This can be difficult if pharmacists are solely reliant on IT staff to create dashboards showing metrics that are crucial to pharmacy operations.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Dr. Summerpal Kahlon, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Edifecs Forty years ago, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, HIV researchers and physicians discovered that simply treating the symptoms of the disease was not enough to provide lasting improvement for patients. Other factors like unstable living conditions, drug use, the public stigma over AIDS and HIV – known today as social determinants of health – all require attention in addition to a traditional treatment plan.
HIStalk
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Top News Private equity firm New Mountain Capital will combine.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Adam Farren, CEO at Canvas Medical What You Should Know: – Canvas Medical , a EMR company, has announced the appointment of Adam Farren as Chief Executive Officer. Farren has been serving as President and Chief Operating Officer since April 2023. – With Farren assuming the CEO role, Andrew Hines, the founder of Canvas, will transition to the position of Chief Technology Officer.
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.
Health Business Group
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Brett White is CEO of Weave , an AI-powered platform designed to support small and mid-sized medical practices. Brett shares his formative experiences growing up in Northern California, working on a farm, and benefiting from his father's career as an airline pilot. These early influences instilled in him a strong work ethic and an appreciation for the value of hard work and simple living, shaping his approach to leadership and innovation in healthcare.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
John Snyder, COO at Wellth What You Should Know: – Wellth , a provider of daily care motivation solutions, has announced the appointment of John Snyder as Chief Operating Officer. Snyder brings over four decades of leadership experience in the healthcare industry, having previously served as CEO of Sanford Health Plan. – In his new role, Snyder will oversee Wellth’s operations, identify and implement new growth strategies, and expand the company’s business development ef
HIStalk
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
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HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
What You Should Know: – Thatch , a pioneering healthcare benefits platform, has secured $38M in Series A funding to fuel its mission of decoupling health insurance from employment. – Led by Index Ventures and General Catalyst, this investment will enable Thatch to expand its team, scale its technology platform, and accelerate customer acquisition.
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Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
By Helen Hughes and Mark Sulkowski As physicians who have dedicated our careers to clinical research and to the advancement of telemedicine respectively, we’ve witnessed first-hand the transformative power of technology in health care. However, despite our progress over the last four years, there remains a glaring barrier to the potential of telehealth in the United States: the complex, state-based system of health care licensure.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
What You Should Know: – New Mountain Capital has announced the formation of a new company that merges Rawlings , Apixio’s Payment Integrity business , and VARIS to form a next-generation payment accuracy and integrity platform. – The combined entity aims to lower healthcare costs by leveraging technology and AI to improve payment accuracy and reduce waste. – The combined entity brings together a wealth of experience and expertise in the healthcare industry.
HIStalk
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The Rawlings Group, Apixio Payment Integrity, and VARIS Merge to.
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