Center for Health Progress
AUGUST 8, 2023
A year ago, I sat in a hospital waiting room for hours into the night in Denver, only to leave after my intense stomach pains had lessened and my fears about an overwhelming medical bill set in. My frustrations increased as the time passed…Why can’t I just see a doctor? Who is even working here? I unfairly started to blame the doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff.
Cloud Blogs
AUGUST 9, 2023
In the midst of an ever-evolving healthcare industry with mounting demands, healthcare frontline workers have emerged as true champions helping to carry the industry forward. This year has been a whirlwind of challenges and uncertainties, but these remarkable individuals continue to display unwavering flexibility and perseverance. They stand at the forefront of patient care, skillfully navigating the changing landscape of the industry.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 30, 2023
Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell Anyone who recalls the ‘turbo’ trend of the 1980s will have a foreboding sense of déjà vu about the sudden ubiquity of artificial intelligence in every aspect of our lives. What began with the Swedish motor manufacturer, Saab, unveiling its 99 Turbo Coupé in 1977, suddenly had manufacturers scrambling for their own version of the latest technological buzzword in everything from alarm clocks to hairdryers.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 25, 2023
Resilient Healthcare has teamed up with Community Hospital Consulting – a Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) organization – on a joint venture partnership. The JV, which will be dubbed Resilient Community LLC — would expand CHC’s health-at-home program across more than 40 states. CHC owns and manages hospitals in the community health space. The organization has been looking to provide an innovative hospital-at-home community care model for their hospitals.
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
Cloud Blogs
AUGUST 2, 2023
An unprecedented amount of data exists in healthcare. Health organizations are often challenged with collecting, collating, assimilating, and making valuable use of that data. Care management in healthcare involves a complex web of patient information, communication, and manual processes that without integration can hinder the delivery of efficient and coordinated care.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 28, 2023
Erica Jain, CEO and co-founder of Healthie Healthcare providers depend on comprehensive patient data to make fast, informed decisions. Unfortunately, our existing healthcare ecosystem has evolved into a collection of data silos that have, over the years, multiplied because of legacy healthcare systems that have stacked on top of one another. These silos of data were constructed around intentional business decisions to hold data, making it harder for new entrants – both EHR platforms and pr
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 30, 2023
In the employer-sponsored insurer market, employers play a “critical” role when it comes to quality and outcomes, according to a report by Morgan Health and Embold Health.
p3care
AUGUST 7, 2023
Medical billing and coding lay a strong foundation for smooth AR management. A refined revenue cycle strengthens the practices and improves their revenue. We require a fine medical billing service to meet compliance standards and reduce claim denials. Do you know why we get claim denials? It’s simple—we get them due to gaps somewhere in the clinical documentation.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 16, 2023
The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S. are not ready to participate in video visits. THE PROBLEM Inexperience with technology was the major barrier – those who were older, Black or Hispanic tended to have less education and lower inc
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 30, 2023
Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes. | Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes.
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
AUGUST 30, 2023
In a letter sent to all states (PDF), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( | As more Medicaid beneficiaries are wrongly kicked off the program, CMS is requiring states to reevaluate its eligibility systems and auto-renewal process.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 30, 2023
GoodRx has launched a new feature to allow healthcare professionals to see the cost of a patient’s prescription with their insurance. | The feature, embedded in GoodRx's provider solution, surfaces a patient’s coverage and benefits at the point of care with the goal of increasing price transparency and access to drugs.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 30, 2023
In order to address deteriorating adolescent mental health, interventional behavioral health app BeMe Health moved to meet teens where they’re at—online. | In order to address deteriorating adolescent mental health, interventional behavioral health app BeMe Health moved to meet teens where they’re at—online. Amd according to new research, this methodology is proving successful.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2023
Digital mental health company Headspace is teaming up with Castell, Intermountain Healthcare’s value-based care subsidiary, to expand access to virtual mental health services. | The partnership will provide members of select insurance plans in Utah access to Headspace’s self-guided content, behavioral health coaching and therapy in an outcomes-based payment model.
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 28, 2023
Earlier this year, HCA Healthcare launched a pilot program that equipped 75 emergency room physicians at four hospitals with Google’s AI technology, utilizing an ongoing partnership with Google Clo | HCA Healthcare wants to spread generative AI tools beyond four hospitals in an initial pilot program, as well as incorporate Google's medical LLM.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2023
The American Telemedicine Association, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical are among the groups in support of the Centers for Medic | Organizations signed a letter pledging support for a CMS-backed transitional coverage for emergency technologies pathway, which they say could improve patient care, prevent hospitalizations and reduce costs.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 30, 2023
As large employers take a step back from self-insurance, small- and medium-sized employers are taking a step forward in embracing that coverage option, according to an issue brief by the Employee B | The share of large employers offering self-insurance options to employees steadily declined since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, with it dropping to 72% in 2022, the lowest it’s been since 2010, according to the EBRI.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 31, 2023
The South Carolina-based health system alleges that the insurer broke its contract and gave "false and misleading" statements to the press about Prisma’s proposed rates for 2024.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 29, 2023
Sepsis is a factor among roughly 1 in 3 hospital deaths, yet, as of last year, more than a quarter of hospitals didn’t have a formal sepsis committee in place and nearly half said they did not prov | The agency's Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements is a free resource center for hospitals beginning or refining their efforts to identify and address sepsis in their facilities.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 29, 2023
A limited group of Google Cloud clients, including systems HCA and Mayo Clinic, have been testing the large language model since April in a variety of use cases.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2023
Employers fund huge swaths of the healthcare system, yet the quality of care their employees receive varies widely. | Employers fund huge swaths of the healthcare system, and yet the quality of care their employees receive varies widely, a new study shows.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 28, 2023
Rite Aid is reportedly preparing to file for bankruptcy within a few weeks to help restructure its debt and potentially halt ongoing lawsuits. | The bankruptcy would reportedly pause the many legal claims against the retailer and allow it to consolidate and resolve them in one place.
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 28, 2023
L.A. Care Health Plan is investing $4.05 million in a street medicine initiative to expand access to care for unsheltered people. | Nine organizations offering street medicine services will each receive up to $500,000 from the health plan. The program aims to beef up street medicine teams serving LA, as well as to ensure people without stable housing do not drop off Medi-Cal amid Medicaid redeterminations.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 28, 2023
Bon Secours Mercy Health took its ongoing spat with regional Elevance Health plans to the next level on Monday, filing suit against the insurer alleging that it owed more than $93 million in unpaid | Bon Secours Mercy Health took its ongoing spat with regional Elevance Health plans to the next level on Monday, filing suit against the insurer alleging that it owed more than $93 million in unpaid claims.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 28, 2023
As health plans drop costly GLP-1 drugs, controversially leaving people without access to potentially life-changing therapies, health companies are hoping to fill the marketplace void to provide be | Obesity impacts roughly 40% of Americans, but insurers are becoming less willing to cover weight loss drugs for the disease. Health companies are looking to bridge the gap.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 30, 2023
The addition of insurance pricing is a key differentiator for GoodRx’s medication comparison platform, an executive said. It should also increase the company’s revenue opportunities.
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Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 29, 2023
Healthcare providers continue to misuse patient data | HIPAA compliance is challenging, but healthcare organizations must cultivate it in all their operations, including marketing activities.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 25, 2023
Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2023
Health plans would play a vital role in extending Medicaid benefits to include housing, a possibility that’s gotten a boost from certain initiatives by the Biden administration, according to
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2023
The healthcare industry has suffered fewer but larger cybersecurity breaches in the first half of 2023, suggesting a shift in targets and tactics among attackers, wrote cybersecurity firm Critical | An analysis of 308 reported data breaches suggests cyberattackers have shifted their focus from email phishing to network servers as well as to vulnerabilities in the healthcare supply chain.
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