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How CVS is betting big on healthcare services 'locally delivered' on a national scale

Fierce Healthcare

WASHINGTON D.C. — CVS Health continues to invest heavily in healthcare delivery services with a focus on affordability, convenience and better access to primary care. | CVS Health continues to make investments in healthcare delivery services with a focus on affordability, convenience and better access to primary care.

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Crescent Regional Hospital is first to offer hologram patient visits

Healthcare It News

Patients at Crescent Regional Hospital can schedule a non-touch visit with their doctor or any range of medical specialists from the Dallas area, or anywhere in the world, through the magic of spatial computing. The once-ailing hospital is now using holograms for non-touch patient visits and plans to expand its uses of holographic technology, Holoconnects announced Wednesday.

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UnitedHealth projects shaky Medicaid redetermination aftermath

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth is predicting an upcoming “disturbance” among its Medicaid programs as members continue to disenroll after the COVID-19 public health emergency. | UnitedHealth gave an overview of areas in which the insurer can improve upon, how Medicaid redeterminations will affect the company and thoughts on OptumRx.

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Desert Oasis Healthcare gains 4x ROI with pop health patient engagement tech

Healthcare It News

Desert Oasis Healthcare provides medical care and wellness services to communities in California's Coachella Valley, as well as in Riverside and San Bernardino. The group serves more than 60,000 patients. THE PROBLEM Desert Oasis was facing a challenge many healthcare organizations must contend with: getting patients to follow their care plans. For clinicians, just telling their patients what they need them to do and how to behave is not enough.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

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

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DOJ files objection to Steward Health Care's bankruptcy proceedings

Fierce Healthcare

The feds have raised an objection about Steward Health Care's planned bankruptcy proceedings, seeking additional time to investigate the health system's planned sale of its assets. | The feds have raised an objection about Steward Health Care's planned bankruptcy proceedings, seeking additional time to investigate the health system's planned sale of its assets.

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Indonesian state uni to pilot South Korean digital diabetes app and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Rumah Sakit Universitas Indonesia to test South Korean AI-powered diabetes management app Kakao Healthcare has signed a memorandum of agreement with state university hospital Rumah Sakit Universitas Indonesia (RSUI) to pilot its latest AI-based diabetes management application. Launched in February, Pasta is a mobile app -based service that leverages AI for blood sugar management.

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Move over, Medicare Advantage — UnitedHealth, Centene flag higher Medicaid utilization concerns

Health Care Dive

Worries about higher-than-expected medical spending have reached Medicaid, as redeterminations spark turbulence in the program.

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Specialty society furthering education, policy of AI for GI

Fierce Healthcare

The American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) announced the launch of its Artificial Intelligence Institute for Gastroenterology last week at a Digestive Diseases Week event. | The American Society of Gastroenterology announced the launch of an artificial intelligence institute to educate providers, set standards and move policy forward on AI.

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Hospital emergency visits, inpatient admissions decrease after ransomware attack

Health Care Dive

Nearby unattacked hospitals were affected too, suggesting the consequences from a ransomware attack reach beyond targeted facilities, according to a JAMA study.

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Wyden urges feds to hold UnitedHealth execs accountable for cyberattack

Fierce Healthcare

Oregon Sen. | Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is calling on the FTC and the SEC to hold UnitedHealth Group accountable for "negligent cybersecurity practices" that allowed hackers to breach its Change Healthcare subsidiary.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

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

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Healthcare payments firm Waystar plans $1B IPO

Health Care Dive

The digital health IPO market has stagnated in recent years, but a successful exit by Waystar could help break the ice, one expert said.

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Most Older People Want to Age in Place and Are Adopting Technologies At Home To Do So

Health Populi

The vast majority of older people (95%) want to “age in place” — that is, stay put in their homes and avoid moving into long-term care residences or elsewhere. One approach for enabling aging-in-place is peoples’ adoption of various technologies, a topic surveyed by U.S. News & World Report. In April 2024, U.S. News interviewed 1,500 U.S. adults ages 55 and over on their views toward technology and everyday life at home.

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Allina Health interim CFO steps into full-time role

Health Care Dive

Doug Watson was officially named CFO on Wednesday after taking the position in an interim capacity in January.

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Plenful Secures $17M to Scale AI-Powered Pharmacy Operations Tool

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Plenful , an AI workflow automation platform streamlining pharmacy and healthcare operations, today announced a $17M Series A round, increasing its total raised capital to more than $25 million. – This milestone signifies a meaningful step forward in Plenful’s mission to modernize pharmacy operations through advanced automation and artificial intelligence.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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UnitedHealth Group Continues to Leverage Home-Based Care to Drive Value-Based Strategy

Home Health Care

Value-based care has long been a core focus for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and its Optum arm. Recently, however, the health care giant has started to view value-based care as a sustainable business model that it can lean into to drive growth across its operations. And it’s home-based care that has helped UnitedHealth Group take its value-based care strategy to the next level.

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LunaJoy, Ollie Hinkle Partner on Holistic Mental Health Services for Heart Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation (OHHF) , a leading non-profit organization dedicated to supporting individuals with childhood-onset heart conditions and their families, today announced a national partnership with LunaJoy Health, a women’s mental health company supporting clinical operations and patient risk identification. – This collaboration aims to address the growing need for specialized trauma-informed mental health support for families across the natio

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Simple but Effective Ways to Make the Autoclave Process More Efficient

PDC Healthcare

Efficient autoclave processes are essential for maintaining sterile environments in healthcare settings. Unfortunately, the autoclave process can often be time-consuming and resource-intensive if not managed properly. That’s why finding simple yet effective ways to streamline and enhance this process can make a significant difference in both operational efficiency and patient care quality.

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Payers Continue To Take Short-Sighted View Of Home Health Care

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home health providers want better rates and arrangements from Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The plans, on the other hand, sometimes still can’t figure out what they want from providers. Some of the largest home health companies have begun to make headway with MA plans. “I think the payers are recognizing that this is not a commodity business; there is a real need to partner with high-quality providers in the communities,” Pennant Group Inc.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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.

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Securing AI Model Weights: Q&A with Sella Nevo

The Rand Blog

Considering the transformative potential and immense commercial value of artificial intelligence systems, it's becoming more and more important to safeguard AI from bad actors. But what does that look like in practice? And where should you even begin?

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BrightSpring Health Services Views Home-Based Care As The Key To Margin Uptick

Home Health Care

BrightSpring Health Services (Nasdaq: BTSG) views at-home care as the area that could drive margins back up. In the first quarter, BrightSpring saw some mixed impact on EBITDA margin as a result of the company’s growing specialty oncology business. However, Jon Rousseau, president and CEO of BrightSpring, believes that the company is now in a stable position.

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PathAI Unveils New AI-Powered Pathology Tools for Cancer Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PathAI, a global leader in AI-powered pathology, unveiled two novel AI products, PathExplore™ Immuno-Oncology Profiling (IOP) and IHC Explore1™ to empower cancer drug developers and clinical researchers with AI-powered insights. – The product pairing provides unprecedented single-cell and spatial resolution of the tumor microenvironment from routine pathology samples to facilitate biomarker discovery and deeper understanding of treatment response for the next

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Sudanese Women as Agents of Change in the Wake of Conflict

The Rand Blog

The women of Sudan are ready to help design a peace movement that protects themselves and their children. Support from international actors and the African diaspora could go a long way in creating space for Sudanese women to play a central role in Sudan's future.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

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.

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Cost–effectiveness of sotagliflozin for the treatment of patients with diabetes and recent worsening heart failure

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the title of my article with Jaehong Kim, Shanshan Wang and Slaven Sikirica in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research. The abstract is below. Aim: To assesses the cost–effectiveness of sotagliflozin for the treatment of patients hospitalized with heart failure and comorbid diabetes. Materials & methods: A de novo cost–effectiveness model with a Markov structure was created for patients hospitalized for heart failure with comorbid diabetes.

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Weave Bio Launches for AI-Powered Drug Development, Secures $10M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Weave Bio , an AI-native life sciences platform company, announced today the public release of its flagship offering, AutoIND, and $10 million in seed funding co-led by Innovation Endeavors and Magnetic Ventures. – AutoIND marks a significant advancement in drug development by automating and accelerating the preparation, writing, and review process for Investigational New Drug (IND) applications.

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South Park on the American health care system Social science genomics. Blood donation or high interest loan? Cost doesn’t equal quality ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) Will the market accept cell therapies ?

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State Palliative Care Advisory Councils Are Advancing Serious Illness Care

NASHP

Twenty-four states have a palliative care advisory council, coalition, or task force created through state legislation or regulation to guide work to support and expand care for those with serious illness. We talked to leaders of active and longstanding councils in Maine, Maryland, and Texas to learn about their creation, impact, and lessons learned for states looking to do the same.

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.

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Securing the Drug Supply Chain: How Simulation Tech is Aiding Electronic Drug Tracing in the US

HIT Consultant

Bob Celeste, founder of the Center for Supply Chain Studies in collaboration with Simul8 The United States drug supply chain is a complex and decentralized system that involves multiple entities. This includes suppliers, distributors, manufacturers, repackagers, wholesale distributors, third-party logistics providers (3PLs), dispensers, and medical facilities such as hospitals and retail stores.

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Achieving the quadruple aim: Enhancing healthcare communication to combat clinician burnout

Spok Inc

Addressing the clinician experience challenges of the Quadruple Aim takes a thoughtful, broad set of improvements to make a meaningful difference, including communication workflow and technology improvements. The post Achieving the quadruple aim: Enhancing healthcare communication to combat clinician burnout appeared first on Spok Inc.

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Color Health Expands Cancer Screening with SkinIO and Bexa Partnerships

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Color Health , a leader in comprehensive cancer care, announced today that it is partnering with SkinIO and Bexa to integrate their innovative solutions for skin and breast cancer screening into its Virtual Cancer Clinic. – The collaboration aims to significantly increase cancer screening and detection rates, making early diagnosis more accessible for employers and individuals.

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Rationalizing Drug Prices. Interview with ICER CEO Sarah Emond

Health Business Group

Curious about the forces driving healthcare pricing and access? Join for an enlightening conversation with Sarah Emond , President and CEO of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review ( ICER ). Sarah's upbringing in a family passionate about policy and social justice laid the foundation for her impactful career in health policy. We explore her educational journey from Smith College to Brandeis University’s Heller School, and how her professional experiences in clinical research and biopharm

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Creating a Company Culture of Care: Integrating Mental Health, Wellbeing, and DEI in Benefits

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.