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Healthcare technology trends to watch in 2024

Health Care Dive

Experts discuss their predictions for healthcare industry trends, including investment and consolidation in digital health, adoption of artificial intelligence and improving cybersecurity in healthcare in 2024.

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Telehealth offers advantages for treating children with feeding disorders

Healthcare It News

Many neurotypical and most neurodivergent children struggle with feeding difficulties. This does not just affect the child – it impacts the whole family. Focused Approach is a startup that helps children aged six months to 16 years old with feeding disorders. Its program Focused on Feeding has helped families go from hospital bed (with malnutrition) to the dinner table – entirely via telemedicine.

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Healthcare Quality and Worker Safety Information

Briggs Healthcare

Updated Guidance for Healthcare Providers on Increased Supply of Nirsevimab to Protect Young Children from Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) during the 2023–2024 Respiratory Virus Season — On October 23, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory 499 to provide guidance for prioritization of nirsevimab given limited supply.

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Healthcare predictions for 2024

Health Business Group

My healthcare predictions for 2023 were on the money: Medicare Advantage faced pushback, retailers struggled to deliver primary care, and AI started to realize its potential. Here’s how I’m seeing 2024. 1. Pharma companies bypass physicians and pharmacies to sell products directly to consumers FDA is preparing to approve a new framework called ACNU (additional condition for nonprescription use), which will allow patients to self-prescribe certain drugs.

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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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Virtual group therapy enables Geisinger to treat more patients and maintain care continuity

Healthcare It News

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the department of psychiatry and behavioral health at Geisinger began experiencing a significant increase in demand for behavioral health services. THE PROBLEM The demand for services was most noticeable for adult psychotherapy services, with waits as long as several months and several thousand outstanding orders.

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UnitedHealth Group kicks off payer earnings, reports $5.5B in Q4 profit

Fierce Healthcare

Industry giant UnitedHealth Group kicked off fourth-quarter earnings for major payers on Friday morning, where it reported $5.5 billion in profit. | Industry giant UnitedHealth Group kicked off fourth-quarter earnings for major payers on Friday morning, where it reported $5.5 billion in profit.

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MIPS 2023 Participation Status: Do I Have To Report?

p3care

Are you one of the MIPS 2023-eligible clinician types? Certainly, you might be familiar with the utmost significance of retaining MIPS eligibility. Twice a performance year, CMS updates the MIPS participation status. At first, clinicians get their initial eligibility status. Then, they get their final eligibility status. So, it’s time for MIPS 2023 clinicians to check for their final MIPS eligibility.

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Growing AI adoption for fall prediction in Singapore and other AI integrations across APAC

Healthcare It News

New AI fall prediction tool gains ground in Singapore Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) is expanding the trial of its new AI-based fall prediction tool. Co-developed with medical technology company Longway AI Technologies, the AI system was trained via a 3D convolutional neural network, a deep learning model that teaches a computer to process data the way the human brain and nervous system do.

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JPM24: Amazon rolls out service to connect customers with digital health benefits, taps Omada Health as launch partner

Fierce Healthcare

SAN FRANCISCO—Amazon plans to collaborate with digital health companies to connect customers with virtual care benefits for managing conditions like diabetes and hypertension. | Amazon plans to collaborate with digital health companies to connect customers with virtual care benefits for managing conditions like diabetes and hypertension. The online retail giant tapped virtual-first chronic care provider Omada Health as its first partner.

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Kentucky-based Baptist Health drops UnitedHealthcare, Centene MA plans

Health Care Dive

Kentucky-based Baptist Health has gone out of network with UnitedHealthcare and Centene’s WellCare Medicare Advantage plans after failing to agree to contract terms.

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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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Canadian women are waiting longer than ever for gynecologic surgery: Patients and providers are calling for action.

Healthy Debate

The post Canadian women are waiting longer than ever for gynecologic surgery: Patients and providers are calling for action. appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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HIMSSCast: How Karmanos Cancer Institute uses AI to find high-risk breast cancer

Healthcare It News

Detroit-based Karmanos Cancer Institute, a network of 16 treatment locations across Michigan and Ohio that is part of McLaren Health Care, is using artificial intelligence to elevate risk assessment and is surfacing high-risk breast cancer patients who would benefit from supplemental care and imagery. With women having a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer over their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society, finding breast cancer at earlier stages has moved the needle on s

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CES 2024: Older seniors are happily living with AI—in the form of chatty robot ElliQ

Fierce Healthcare

LAS VEGAS — With all the buzz and headlines about artificial intelligence, there is one demographic that is quietly embracing the technology and even building long-term relationships with it. | With all the buzz and headlines about artificial intelligence, there is one demographic that is quietly embracing the technology and even building long-term relationships with it.

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Mortality rates low for hospital-at-home patients, study finds

Health Care Dive

The study could support extending acute hospital care at home, researchers said. Currently, a pandemic-era waiver for the programs is set to expire at the end of the year.

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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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Rise Of The Caregiver ‘Gray Market’ Has Home Care Companies On Their Heels

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care companies have always had to deal with a gray market in senior care, or an “underground” caregiver workforce. But as the cost of providing care continues to rise, providers may find themselves in more of a bind than before. Broadly, caregivers that are part of the underground workforce are individuals who are unaffiliated with a home care agency.

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Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

Healthcare It News

Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger this week announced that it has received a $948,741 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual

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CES 2024: Elevance Health launches program to provide digital health-enabled smartphones to Medicaid members

Fierce Healthcare

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care and digital health tools are more popular than ever. | Elevance Health is launching a new initiative that aims to put smartphones in the hands of Medicaid members who otherwise cannot connect to virtual services.

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Amazon launches chronic condition management portal; Omada nabs first partnership

Health Care Dive

The new program surfaces eligible benefits for weight management, diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions when users search Amazon for related devices, like a glucose monitor.

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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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Engaging with People with Lived Experience in Opioid Settlement Decision-Making

NASHP

As states administer opioid settlement funds, they are seeking ways to engage people who have been affected by the opioid epidemic in decision-making, policy development, and program implementation. In many states, legislation or memoranda of agreement creating administrative structures for distributing settlement funds require representation of people with lived experience* on advisory boards and other decision-making bodies.

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Mass General Brigham CMIO on AI: 'exciting, but a little anxiety-provoking'

Healthcare It News

Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of features on top voices in health IT discussing the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. To read the first feature, on Dr. John Halamka at the Mayo Clinic, click here. To read the second interview, with Dr. Aalpen Patel at Geisinger, click here. To read the third, with Helen Waters of Meditech, click here.

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JPM24: Top trends for payers, providers and health tech companies to watch

Fierce Healthcare

We've closed the books on another hectic J. | We covered some of the biggest headlines from the four-day conference and after parsing through all the presentations, interviews and panel discussions, we tracked a handful of key trends dominating the conversations.

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Walgreens to pay Humana $360M to settle drug pricing dispute

Health Care Dive

The settlement is a little over half of what Walgreens was originally ordered to pay, after an arbiter said the retail pharmacy chain overcharged Humana for prescription drugs for more than a decade.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Sixteen States Selected for State Respite Summit

NASHP

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is pleased to announce that the following 16 states will be attending a State Respite Summit in Washington, DC on February 6–7, 2024: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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China doubles down on smart medicine

Healthcare It News

More healthcare stakeholders in China are contributing to the government's vision to make smart Chinese medicine popular and standardised. In December, the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and China Resources Research Institute of Science and Technology, a subsidiary of consumer goods conglomerate China Resources Enterprise (CR Enterprise), entered into an R&D agreement to establish the CR-BU Joint Innovation Centre on Smart Chinese Medicine.

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Hims & Hers grows health system partnerships, taps Hartford HealthCare for in-person primary care

Fierce Healthcare

SAN FRANCISCO — Virtual care company Hims & Hers is collaborating with Hartford HealthCare to connect patients in Connecticut with in-person primary and specialty care services. | Virtual care company Hims & Hers is collaborating with Hartford HealthCare to connect patients in Connecticut with in-person primary and specialty care services.

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Elevance sues HHS over Medicare Advantage star ratings

Health Care Dive

The payer is taking issue with how regulators calculated quality scores for 2024, after seeing a stars decline that could cause its bonus revenue to fall by $500 million.

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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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Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market to Reach $750B by 2033

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The healthcare industry is poised for a seismic shift, powered by a disruptive technology: blockchain, according to the market.us, the Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market report. – This transformative ledger system is projected to propel the global Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market to a staggering $750B by 2033, a 69.2% annual growth rate compared to its $3.9B valuation in 2023.

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UpDoc to develop conversational, assistant-directed AI providers

Healthcare It News

All care delivered through UpDoc's artificial intelligence-based remote patient providers would be prescribed by physicians or clinical pharmacists who oversee the platform, the company said in an announcement on Friday. WHY IT MATTERS UpDoc's remote patient intervention technology leverages conversational AI powered by multiplelarge language models, including GPT-4 through Microsoft's Azure Open AI Service, Google Cloud's MedLM and Vertex AI models.

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JPM24: Cigna's top brass says PBM Express Scripts is poised to weather industry reform

Fierce Healthcare

Last August, Blue Shield of California made headlines when it rev | As the market shifts toward greater transparency, Express Scripts has rolled out multiple programs in the past year that aim to address some of the central criticisms of the industry.

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FTC bars data broker from selling sensitive location information, like clinic visits

Health Care Dive

The Federal Trade Commission reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with a data broker that the regulator alleged sold data that could be used to track visits to medical or reproductive health clinics.

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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.