Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
This is a developing story and will be updated with more information. | Walmart is shuttering all 51 health centers along with its virtual care services, the retail giant announced Tuesday morning.
Health Care Dive
MAY 1, 2024
Runaway inpatient spending in particular caused CVS’ insurance costs to snowball after returning “to patterns we have not seen since the start of the pandemic,” its CFO said.
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Healthcare It News
MAY 1, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. Amanda Bury, chief commercial officer at Infermedica, a digital health company specializing in AI-powered systems for symptom analysis and patient triage, knows telehealth's potential to enhance and optimize patient experiences and outcomes while emphasizing convenience, affordability and empowerment – tying in responsible AI innovation and strategies for e
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
What You Should Know: – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized significant changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) , aiming to improve consumer protection in the digital age. – These updates clarify the rule’s application to modern technologies like health apps and expand the information healthcare providers must disclose in the event of a data breach.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early COVID-19 pandemic. | Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity and other related data on a daily basis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then the reporting frequency shifted. The CDC said it still encourages hospitals to report their data on a "voluntary" basis and will soon begin displaying those data online.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
The unexpected closure of Walmart’s 51 health centers and virtual care business highlights the difficulty of providing healthcare at this moment in time.
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
Jim Broome, President and CTO, DirectDefense It’s not a matter of if but when an organization will face a security incident. In 2023, the healthcare industry faced its toughest year, with over 124 million health records breached in a total of 725 hacking incidents, according to The HIPAA Journal. This trend shouldn’t come as a surprise given how hospitals and medical offices are relatively lucrative and easy targets for cyberattacks due to the combination of outsourced services and soluti
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 2, 2024
Google and DeepMind released an open access paper on their newest artificial intelligence tools intended for use in hea | Results released by Google on Med-Gemini's performance show that it outperforms existing AI/ML including GPT-4 on over a dozen industry benchmarks.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
Twenty percent of a typical healthcare organization’s sensitive data holdings are affected in a ransomware encryption event, compared with just 6% for an average organization.
Healthcare It News
MAY 2, 2024
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. He acknowledged that the absence of multi-factor authentication on a legacy server provided the cybercriminals with their successful attack vector.
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
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Home Health Care
MAY 1, 2024
Internal and external headwinds have conjoined to curtail dealmaking in home-based care over the last couple of years. Amid those headwinds, however, there are companies like New Day Healthcare and VitalCaring that are banking on big-time growth in 2024 and 2025, largely driven by acquisition. As growing providers, each company has picked up what they believe to be the right assets, at the right time, over the last couple of years.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 1, 2024
The scale of UnitedHealth Group's sprawling empire was under the microscope on Wednesday as CEO Andrew Witty testified before a key Senate panel about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that's ha | The scale of UnitedHealth Group's sprawling empire was under the microscope on Wednesday as CEO Andrew Witty testified before a key Senate panel about the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that's had ripple effects across healthcare.
Health Care Dive
MAY 2, 2024
Walgreens’ decision to slash VillageMD’s clinical footprint has reverberated to the financial accounts of the primary care chain’s minority owner — Cigna.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 29, 2024
Improvements in public health case administration, faster prior authorizations for specialty medications and rideshare delivery of lab kits for wellness are just a few interesting goals making vendor news in April. Salesforce for public health and other government agencies could integrate natural language processing to ease administrative burdens and generate richer case files.
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The Rand Blog
APRIL 29, 2024
Russia's President Vladimir Putin rants that the West seeks to “dismember and plunder” his country. By accusing the West of plotting against Russia, the Kremlin likely hopes to distract Russian citizens from its own flawed actions. But the true damage to Russia has been self-inflicted.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2024
CVS has quietly acquired Hella Health, a startup Medicare Advantage broker based in New York City, according to a post on LinkedIn. | CVS has quietly acquired Hella Health, a startup Medicare Advantage broker based in New York City, according to a post on LinkedIn.
Health Care Dive
MAY 2, 2024
Legislators slammed Andrew Witty over the company’s lack of cybersecurity practices and the impact of the breach, which may have compromised the data of a third of Americans.
Healthcare It News
MAY 1, 2024
In addition to analyzing client ransomware incidents and other cyberattacks, the privacy and data security specialists at BakerHostetler compared incident response statistics across industries and looked at data breach regulatory response and lawsuits. Of all incidents Baker Hostetler analyzed, healthcare, biotech and pharma took the lion's share at 28%.
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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.
HIT Consultant
MAY 1, 2024
Steve Albert, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, R1 It’s a perfect storm of financial pressures facing healthcare provider organizations – from rising costs to labor shortages to constrained capacity – that stymies revenue growth. Growing challenges with payer payments only exacerbate these issues. According to a Kaufman Hall report , 73% of leaders surveyed said claims denials, which was the top revenue cycle issue in 2022, had increased in 2023.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 2, 2024
Retail pharmacy giant Walgreens inked another partnership to recruit participants for research as it continues to build out its clinical trials business. | Walgreens has signed more than 35 clinical trial contracts with drugmakers including Freenome and Prothena. The aim is to optimize recruitment and make clinical trials more accessible, inclusive and equitable, the companies said.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
On Wednesday, hospitals will no longer be required to report COVID-19 admissions, capacity or occupancy data to the federal government.
Healthcare It News
MAY 1, 2024
Walmart is closing Walmart Health and Walmart Health Virtual Care, saying the business model was not profitable nor sustainable. The Walmart Health centers opened in 2019. "Through our experience managing Walmart Health centers and Walmart Health Virtual Care, we determined there is not a sustainable business model for us to continue," the company said by statement.
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2024
Becky Watkins, Senior VP of Client Solutions of ResultsCX When interacting with industries such as retail, hospitality, and finance, we’ve all become accustomed to quick, effective, and personalized customer service. It’s no surprise that when it comes to healthcare, consumers are now seeking a better customer experience on par with the quality of the clinical care they have come to expect.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 1, 2024
The latest batch of Hospital Safety Grades from independent watchdog The Leapfrog Group suggest that patients’ care experiences, which deteriorated during and since the pandemic, may finally be tur | New data from the watchdog reflecting CMS-reported patient safety measures show that hospitals are, on average, working their way back from patient experience and hospital-acquired infection scores that plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
Congressional inaction regarding health privacy laws robs Americans’ control of ownership of their health data, according to Senator Bill Cassidy, ranking member of the Senate HELP committee.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 29, 2024
A nurse by training, Tim Ashe, chief clinical officer at Wellsky, knows the challenges that burnout, staffing shortages and bed capacity have on clinicians and the health system.
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Home Health Care
APRIL 30, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Now that the Medicaid Access Rule has been finalized , home-based care’s company leaders have had time to digest it, and consider what it means for the future of the space. While some acknowledge the good in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) reform efforts, others are facing the grim realities tied to the 80-20 provision.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 1, 2024
A newly formed group of women’s health companies aims to tackle gaps in care, with a focus on improving outcomes while reducing costs. | A newly formed group of women’s health companies aims to tackle gaps in care, with a focus on improving outcomes while reducing costs.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 29, 2024
Risks associated with the tests have increased, requiring greater oversight to protect patients, the agency contends.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 30, 2024
Ellen Arigorat, nursing informatics program director at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, supports digital technology adoption in clinical workflows, with a focus on health equity.
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