Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the sharing of health information is a delicate balance, especially when it comes to teenagers. THE PROBLEM Patient portals facilitate efficient sharing of health information between patients, their families and healthcare providers. However, a unique challenge arises when it comes to teenagers. Certain state laws may allow minors to consent to specific types of sensitive care and give them the right to keep this information confidential from thei

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Patients were protected from more than 10 million surprise medical bills thanks to reforms in the No Surprises Act, according to a new survey. | Patients were protected from more than 10 million surprise medical bills thanks to reforms in the No Surprises Act, according to a new survey.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

The sector's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been slower than expected. In a new report, the credit agency said some hospitals may never reach traditional healthy operating margins.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Expect sickle cell disease to be the primary focus of the new Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Tuesday. | CMS gave an update to its Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model announced in February, opting to focus first on sickle cell disease.

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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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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

New adjunct specialty facilities in India's leading health institutions are advancing precision medicine in the country through AI. The Apollo Cancer Centre (ACC) in Bengaluru has recently opened what could be the country's first Precision Oncology Centre powered by AI. It offers comprehensive, specialised care that is tailored to each individual.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

A new value-based care enabler focused on endocrinology has launched with a mission to shape the future of diabetes care. | Valendo Health uses a phased approach to offer expertise, technology and data-rich tools to help independent physicians enhance clinical capacity, streamline operations and transition to value-based care.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

Insurers' MA earnings were 2% lower in 2022 than in 2019, signaling profits in the lucrative insurance program may be weakening.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Payer Roundup–Molina Healthcare strengthens partnership with BeMe Health; North Carolina health plan limits GLP-1 coverage ntong Tue, 01/30/2024 - 16:37

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, growth in Medicare's flagship shared savings model has plateaued over the past five years, according to government data.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

This week on “Podnosis,” we rewind to January 2019 when Fierce Healthcare unveiled its inaugural Fierce 15, spotlighting 15 private companies engaged in pioneering work and making waves in healthca | This week on “Podnosis,” we rewind to January 2019 when Fierce Healthcare unveiled its inaugural Fierce 15, spotlighting 15 private companies engaged in pioneering work and making waves in healthcare innovation.

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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

Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

Effective March 18, Nakesha Lopez will lead human resource and people programs for the 68-hospital nonprofit.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Community Health Systems has migrated its data systems onto a single Google Cloud data platform that is paving the way for generative AI to help manage complex data and automate administrative task | “CHS has already improved data transparency across its organization and seen improvements in quality, outcomes and operations,” the partners said amid promises of new clinical data distillation and administrative automation capabilities.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

HCA executives also announced the retirement of longtime CFO Bill Rutherford during a Tuesday earnings call.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare closed out 2023 “better than expected” with billions in quarter and annual revenue gains, higher demand and steady progress toward addressing cost pressures such as p | The for-profit health system closed out the year "better than expected" and told investors it expects a solid 2024 amid continued growth and initiatives to address wage growth, capacity and the losses from its recent physician staffing acquisition.

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Meditech

JANUARY 30, 2024

In 2023, home health agencies were finally starting to get their feet under them. They were receiving initial reports on their status in the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model, giving much needed insight on where to restructure their strategies, and continuing to recover from the strains of COVID-19. Then CMS announced their new regulations and reset the baseline, forcing agencies to reshape their plans once again.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

When there are as many problems to hurdle in a space such as home health care, leaders have to prioritize. Interestingly enough, not many companies have the same top priorities, however. The priorities are a good reflection of what home health leaders believe will lead to solutions. Their priorities are generally not what you would consider solutions in themselves, however.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Russo-Ukrainian war might be at a strategic tipping point. The ground fight in Ukraine's east is stalemated, but Russian sea and air power in Crimea is diminished. The future flow of Western aid may be less certain. To address these challenges, the West might escalate support for Ukraine's military and signal firmness to Moscow.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – Walmart is upping the ante with its new Optical Virtual Try-On (VTO) feature, allowing you to virtually “try on” hundreds of frames and purchase prescription glasses online. – Walmart’s Optical Virtual Try-On and online prescription purchases offer a convenient, personalized, and exciting way to shop for eyewear.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

The number of hospice providers enrolled in the Medicare program in four states has skyrocketed over the past few years. The jaw-dropping spike, in turn, has triggered increased oversight efforts – some of which may not be having the desired effect. A similar trend could be happening in home health care in one major county, U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data suggests.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – Vizient, Inc., a leading healthcare performance improvement company, has released its latest Pharmacy Market Outlook , projecting a 3.8% growth in drug price inflation. – The increase is the highest since July 2019 and is attributed in part to the expanding realm of specialty pharmacy, notably the increased utilization of weight loss drugs.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

Accompany Health — a new in-home primary, behavioral health and social care provider — has secured $56 million in Series A funding. The Maryland-based company is now serving over 8,000 low-income patients in the Detroit area and aims to address the complex needs of those who often face significant barriers to accessing quality care. “Most innovation in primary care in the U.S. has not addressed the needs of the most medically underserved patients and lower income Americans,” Dr.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2024

One-half of U.S. physicians report feeling burned out, and 3 in 5 of those doctors say they have felt burned out for over two years, according to the Physician Burnout & Depression Report for 2024 from Medscape. While the study’s press release asserts there may be “progress” given the percent of doctors citing burnout fell by 4 percentage points from 53% of doctors in 2022 to 49% in 2023, it is obvious the U.S. physicians need greater support and less taboo concerning their

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

Aging Media Network, a WTWH Healthcare company, is proud to announce the Frontline Honors Class of 2023. With nominations in the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the program showcases exemplary character and performance of frontline workers across the care continuum. “In the face of constant change and evolution, frontline care workers have kept the post-acute and seni

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – RxBenefits , a leading pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO), has announced the appointment of Mark Campbell, PharmD , as its first Chief Pharmacy Officer. – The newly created position underscores the company’s commitment to using clinical expertise and technology to improve health outcomes and optimize costs for employers and employees.

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 30, 2024

By Caroline Hayes The psychedelic renaissance is well underway, with hundreds of clinical trials currently looking into a plethora of different mental health conditions. I was a sub-investigator on a clinical trial researching a psychedelic study drug to treat depression, but I have since stepped back from psychedelic clinical trials due to personal ethical concerns about the way the field is evolving.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: Hip disorders, comprising some of the world’s most common joint diseases, are especially prevalent among adolescents and young adults, causing stiffness, pain or a limp. But they can be hard to diagnose using solely 2D medical imaging. Helping to treat these disorders, the Boston Children’s Hospital’s (BCH’s) Adolescent and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program is the U.S.’s first to deploy a fully automated AI tool across its clinic.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 30, 2024

Using commercial claims data between 2009-2018, a paper in Health Services Research by Lalani et al (2024) finds that: Rebates are rising as a share of cost Fewer patients have $0 out-of-pocket cost Patient out-of-pocket costs growth was 2.9x as large as net drug cost growth Specifically: List prices increased 4.4%/yr (interquartile range [IQR], 1.1% to 6.0%) and net prices 3.3%/yr (IQR, 0.3% to 5.5%).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD, Founder and CEO of Rimidi Ansley Dalbo, founder of Diabetes – What to Know Whether it’s on TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook, the latest “diet” trends are hard to escape. There’s paleo, keto, macros, intermittent fasting, vegan, Mediterranean, low-carb and so many other programs inundating individuals every day, and many turn to their favorite social media influencers for “expert” opinions on what works and what doesn’t.

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Health IT Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2024

Researchers leveraging a machine learning-based “fragmentomics” approach may be able to detect cancer sooner using smaller blood samples than traditional methods.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – PathAI , a pioneer in AI-powered pathology, announced a significant expansion of its PathExplore platform, adding six new oncology indications to its arsenal. – The expansion doubles the platform’s reach, now covering 14 different cancer types, and further solidifies PathExplore as the leading tool for characterizing the tumor microenvironment (TME) from H&E-stained whole-slide images (WSIs).

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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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