Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 2, 2025
In this month's payer roundup, CVS faces antitrust questions from Congress as the company lays off more workers following a failed Medicaid bid in Kansas, Oscar Health CEO Mark Bertolini has a bold idea to remake health insurance and Johnson & Johnson is suing Express Scripts in a long-running lawsuit.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 2, 2025
By using computational fluid dynamics software and other modeling techniques for complex congenital heart disease patients, Boston Children's Hospital's pediatric cardiology team said it now better understands flow balance and characteristics in preoperative planning and is improving surgical decision-making and patient outcomes. Turning to CFD for decision support As a parent, when finding out your child's heart does not work perfectly, you turn to the most gifted surgeons you can f
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 2, 2025
The group is concerned about understaffing, retention challenges and low pay. NYC H+H affiliates and the Doctors Council have been negotiating a new contract for 15 months.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 2, 2025
The promise of remote patient monitoring is showing itself in more and more telemedicine use cases, with huge potential for day-to-day wellness, management of chronic conditions and the promotion of health equity. Oren Nissim is CEO and cofounder of Brook Health, a care management company that uses telehealth and artificial intelligence for home-based care.
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
JANUARY 2, 2025
HHS is backing away from a proposed rule that would've worked around an employer's religious objections to contraceptive coverage without cost sharing.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 2, 2025
More than a year after the agency largely put new deployments on hold, the Department of Veterans Affairs will soon begin work to roll out the new medical record to four facilities in Michigan.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 2, 2025
This article is available to HHCN+ members When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) acquired Contessa Health for $250 million in 2021, it changed the home-based care landscape. While other companies had been toying with high-acuity care in the home, that deal sent a clear message: Home-based care was becoming more than just Medicare-certified home health care and personal care services.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 2, 2025
NeueHealth, the care management company formerly known as Bright Health, is set to be acquired by venture capital partner New Enterprise Associates later this month. | NeueHealth is getting bought out by an affiliate of New Enterprise Associates, making the company privately held.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 2, 2025
Heath Sampson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Modivcare By 2030, one in six people will be 60 years old or over, increasing the demand for care and intensifying the burden on an already strained healthcare system. These pressures require healthcare leaders to identify more sustainable solutions that deliver optimal care to the growing senior population.
Sequence Health
JANUARY 2, 2025
Attrition in healthcare call centers impacts scalability by increasing costs and disrupting operations. Frequent turnover demands continuous recruitment and training, hindering efficiency and patient care. Managing call volume effectively is crucial in this context, as it can reduce hold times and minimize abandonment rates, alleviating pressure on in-house staff.
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
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 2, 2025
Lance Reid, CEO of Telcion Its hard to imagine, but its true: Wi-Fi-enabled devices didnt go mainstream until 2004, when the first devices (cellphones, personal data assistants, and TVs) hit the market. Fast forward two decades, and can you imagine work or home life without Wi-Fi access, well, everywhere? Just like electricity, water, and natural gas, internet access has moved well beyond a nice-to-have to a necessity.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JANUARY 2, 2025
China has been transitioning from a fee-for-service (FFS) payment system to a Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) payment system for hospitals in various cities. Under the FFS model, hospitals were reimbursed for each individual healthcare service provided, which created incentives to increase the number of services during a patient’s hospitalization.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 2, 2025
Karie Bostwick, VP of People and Compliance, Revenue Enterprises The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced that it wants to ban the inclusion of medical debt data in credit reports to lessen the negative impact of medical debt on credit scores and improve financial outcomes for consumers. Though well-intentioned, the CFPB’s medical debt credit reporting ban would severely inhibit the activities of medical collection companies who partner with healthcare providers to col
Home Health Care
JANUARY 2, 2025
Todays cutting-edge technology solutions can do many innovative things: They can process massive amounts of code, for example, they can learn and optimize driving routes, and they can help perform quality control measures for large scale manufacturers. In health care, artificial intelligence combined with machine learning and a shift toward cloud-based technologies is producing groundbreaking advancements such as predicting health outcomes, managing remote patient monitoring and optimizing staff
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HIT Consultant
JANUARY 2, 2025
Clifford Jones, Founder and CTO, AllazoHealth Patient adherence has been a top priority in healthcare for quite some time. One in five new prescriptions are never filled, according to the CDC , and about half of those that are filled are taken with incorrect dosage, timing, or duration. The results can be higher hospital admission rates, suboptimal health outcomes, and increased morbidity, with the cost of medication non-adherence estimated at $100$300 billion in the U.S. annually.
Sequence Health
JANUARY 2, 2025
Health call centers play a critical role in managing end-of-life care conversations. They provide 24/7 support to patients and their families, ensuring immediate help during times of need. Trained healthcare professionals use telehealth technologies and advance directives to guide these sensitive conversations. This blog will explore how health call centers handle end-of-life care conversations, offering insights into their methods and strategies.
HIStalk
JANUARY 2, 2025
Watsonville hospital says data of some patients may be at.
Sequence Health
JANUARY 2, 2025
Effective call routing is vital for health call centers to reduce wait times and improve patient satisfaction. This blog will cover the best strategies for enhancing call routing in health call centers, including the use of intelligent call routing, interactive voice response systems, and data analytics to optimize performance. Key Takeaways Healthcare call centers must implement advanced call routing systems, including intelligent call routing (ICR) and IVR technologies, to enhance operational
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.
The Rand Blog
JANUARY 2, 2025
As an island vulnerable to frequent blackouts, Puerto Rico deserves a resilient and reliable power grid. Natural gas could serve as a crucial interim solution, supporting immediate energy needs while paving the way for a net-zero future.
Sequence Health
JANUARY 2, 2025
In healthcare call centers, call queue management means organizing incoming calls in a way that ensures every call gets attended to in the right order. This system helps prioritize urgent cases and connects patients with the most appropriate agents quickly. Effective call queue management is vital as it reduces wait times and improves patient satisfaction.
The Rand Blog
JANUARY 2, 2025
The banking industry and its regulators should seek solutions to bring more of the unbanked into the traditional banking sector. That would be good for banks and their low-income customers.
The Rand Blog
JANUARY 2, 2025
Japan has increasingly taken on a leadership role in East Asia, countering threats from China, North Korea, and Russia. However, current political instability in Japan may limit its ability to maintain this crucial geopolitical influence.
Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski
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The Rand Blog
JANUARY 2, 2025
In December 2023, a former Israeli intelligence official described the October 7 Hamas attack as an earthquake, leading to significant shifts in the Middle East. As Hamas and Hezbollah weakened, the Houthis and Iran emerged as new threats, complicating U.S. efforts to disengage from the region.
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