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1 in 4 men Would Rather Change Flat Tire Than Visit Doctor, ZocDoc Report Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: In recognition of Men’s Health Month, Zocdoc , the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy for people to find and book in-person or virtual care across +200 specialties and +12k insurance plans, today announces the findings of its 2023 Men’s Health Report, which includes the results of a new nationwide survey of over 1,000 U.S. men, as well as proprietary insights from Zocdoc booking behavior data.

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Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Healthcare It News

It's a challenging time to be a young person. Study after study has shown that stressors such as social media, bullying, loneliness and the pandemic are causing and exacerbating a wide array of mental health challenges among high school and college kids. And healthcare resources are not always readily available to help them. Among some recent stats: There are never-before-seen levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts among teens, according to a report from the CDC. 71% of college student

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Physician compensation is rising but not keeping pace with inflation, MGMA survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

Despite physician and advanced practice provider productivity continuing its post-pandemic recovery, compensation gains are being outstripped by the most severe inflationary growth in decades, acco | Despite physician and advanced practice provider productivity continuing its post-pandemic recovery, compensation gains are being outstripped by the most severe inflationary growth in decades, according to a new report.

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Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Health Populi

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care. Two years later, Experian provides a look into The State of Patient Access: 2023.

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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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4 Questions You Must Ask Your Medical Billing Services Providers

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Every healthcare practice has its unique necessities to meet to function properly. It is mainly medical professionals like physicians, nurses, etc. who handle the front office tasks. But apart from clinical duties, the practice also depends on administrative affairs. Usually, the back office staff, such as medical billing teams, etc., take on the responsibility to manage them.

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Nonprofit hospitals have decreased charity care spending even as operating profits, cash pools grow

Health Care Dive

The new study is the latest in a string of research suggesting nonprofit hospitals’ balance sheets benefit from the latitude they have regarding charity care spending.

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UNC Health's CIO talks generative AI work with Epic and Microsoft

Healthcare It News

Brent Lamm is CIO at UNC Health, based in Morrisville, North Carolina. He has quite the seat for the artificial intelligence explosion in healthcare – he's sitting right in the middle of it. Lamm and peers at Stanford, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at San Diego are part of a pilot project by electronic health records giant Epic, testing Epic's large language model AI capabilities to enhance the provider experience.

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How to Write an About Us Page for a Healthcare Business (With Examples)

Healthcare Success

What do you consider the most important pages on your healthcare website? After the homepage, many might say it’s their products or services pages. However, the About Us page is among the most important and highly trafficked web pages. In many cases, it's also a critical part of the consumer's buying journey. Fifty-two percent of study respondents said the first thing they want to see when they land on a website is a company’s About Us page, according to a B2B Web Usability Report. 1 Most people

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Google, Mayo partner to explore generative AI in hospitals

Health Care Dive

Mayo Clinic, a longstanding collaborator with Google, will be an early adopter of a Google Cloud tool that allows organizations to create chatbots and other search applications using generative AI.

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The latest generative AI efforts in healthcare: Carbon Health, Tempus launch tools for docs

Fierce Healthcare

Advancements around large language models and generative AI in healthcare are ramping up quickly and it's challenging to keep up with the evolving news. | Carbon Health debuted hands-free charting — an AI-enabled notes assistant — in its proprietary EHR across each of its clinics and providers while Tempus rolled out an AI-enabled clinical assistant for oncologists.

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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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HIMSSCast: Five steps to a better patient experience

Healthcare It News

IDC Research's Research Director, Value-based Healthcare IT Transformation Strategies, Jennifer Eaton had this to say in recent research: "To meet consumer needs and demands, healthcare is using technology more than ever to support meaningful, productive and engaging interactions. Using comprehensive data collection and deep learning insights are further supporting these efforts by highlighting individual needs and preferences that in turn creates a more engaged customer and can lead to

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New Senate Bill Could Make Offering Palliative Care Easier For Home Health Agencies

Home Health Care

A group of lawmakers have rolled out a new Senate bill that would direct the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to develop a palliative care-specific payment model demonstration. The bill is dubbed the Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act. Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) are sponsoring the legislation.

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Friday Health Plans to shut down as state regulators step in

Health Care Dive

In a statement, the insurer said it was “unable to scale our financial infrastructure to match the pace of our growth and secure the additional capital required to run our business.

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FTC adds a third GPO to its investigation into pharmacy benefit managers

Fierce Healthcare

The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again. | The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again.

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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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NEC expands digital elderly care system trial to Chiang Mai

Healthcare It News

The Thai unit of the Japanese IT and electronics company NEC is helping turn Chiang Mai, a city north of Bangkok and the second largest city in Thailand, into a smart city by first digitising its delivery of care to the elderly and patients with chronic diseases. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The municipality of Chiang Mai and NEC Thailand recently signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of smart city solutions, including smart hospital technologies to support its provision of elderly car

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The Global Movement Against China's Economic Coercion Is Accelerating

The Rand Blog

There is much the West can do to push back against Chinese economic pressure, and many reasons to do so. Doing so is a core interest of the United States, which now places itself in competition with China over the shape of the international order.

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CMS exploring models centered on social health factors

Health Care Dive

Regulators said they're trying to work around restrictions regarding what groups Medicare is allowed to pay as they look to address social determinants of health.

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Apple rolls out mental health tracking, vision assessment as new health app features

Fierce Healthcare

The roughly half of American smartphone users with iPhones will notice new health and pri | Apple brings its Health app to the iPad while offering new vision and mental health features to its suite of devices.

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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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Reimbursements and EHR integrations are high priorities for RPM, says KLAS report

Healthcare It News

To better evaluate rapidly evolving remote patient monitoring technologies, KLAS researchers explored customer experience with RPM in several key areas, including partnership, innovation, ease of use and integration with electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS RPM has demonstrated earlier intervention and reduced utilization – particularly critical outcomes for value-based care arrangements – but healthcare organizations that are piloting the technology are looking at reimbursement

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Implementing Infection Prevention and Control Measures Reduces CRE in Vietnam

CDC

Vietnam has adapted established infection prevention and control (IPC) measures for limited-resource settings to help stop the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), identified as an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat in CDC’s 2019 AR Threats Report. A CDC-supported initiative at The University Medical Center Ho Chi Minh City (UMC) in Vietnam that used IPC quality improvement (QI) strategies to reduce CRE colonization and infection in a general intensive care unit (ICU)

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Patients of color disproportionately suffer adverse health events, regardless of hospital safety ratings

Health Care Dive

Rather than suggesting problems with individual hospitals, the data points to a “systemic issue impacting the quality of care for Black and Hispanic patients and those with public insurance plans,” according to a new Leapfrog report.

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Mayo Clinic, Google Cloud partner on generative AI to power enterprise search

Fierce Healthcare

Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Google Cloud to supercharge search tools with generative AI. | Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Google Cloud to supercharge search tools with generative AI. The health system aims to use the buzzy new technology to make it easier for doctors to get access to relevant medical notes, research papers or clinical guidelines.

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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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Taking a more holistic approach to patient engagement

Healthcare It News

Will Cantrell, director of product solutions at InteliChart, sees the need to tie all the pieces of the healthcare journey into one seamless interaction. By making it easier for patients to stay engaged, he says, better outcomes will result.

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America Is Winning Against China in Oceania

The Rand Blog

The United States retains enormous advantages in Oceania and should not be alarmed by China's security activities in the region. Washington should nevertheless keep a close eye on Beijing's moves, particularly against small and weak nations that will struggle to counter Chinese coercive activities on their own.

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CMS launches primary care pilot to expand value-based care

Health Care Dive

The Making Care Primary Model, which will begin next summer in eight states, aims to strengthen primary care delivery, particularly for safety net and small or independent organizations.

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CMS launches new pilot program to test out value-based primary care in 8 states

Fierce Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to advance value-based primary care, especially in rural areas and among underserved populations, with a new pilot project. | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to advance value-based primary care, especially in rural areas and among underserved populations, with a new pilot project.

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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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Sparking innovation for a health economy that assures health

Healthcare It News

Health assurance is about migrating from sick care to preventive care, and funding innovations that improve costs and experiences can help drive that shift, says Sumit Nagpal, founder and CEO of Cherish.

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Insights on the evolution and implications of healthcare workforce challenges [White Paper]

Meditech

Download the white paper below As a nurse myself, I have seen firsthand some of the many challenges our clinical workforce has faced for years. I recall challenging days when I felt rushed and unable to devote the time necessary for the kind of deep patient engagement and education that drew me to the profession. Even as pandemic pressures have begun to subside, levels of stress and burnout among clinicians remain unsustainably high, amplified by ongoing staffing shortages, challenging patient l

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Study predicts widespread use of digital twins in healthcare but warns about privacy, cybersecurity risks

Health Care Dive

More than half of respondents to a survey from Tata Consultancy Services saw wide implementation of digital twins in life sciences and healthcare in the next three years.

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Home health bidding wars heat up: Optum makes $3B unsolicited offer for Amedisys

Fierce Healthcare

The home health bidding wars are heating up as UnitedHealth Group's Optum unit is making a big play for home health and hospice firm Amedisys. |.Just one month ago, Amedisys agreed to be bought by another healthcare company, Option Care Health, a provider of post-acute care and infusion services.

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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.