HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Cecile Brosset, CEO and Co-founder of Sonio Burnout among sonographers is becoming an alarming reality, driven by the demanding nature of their work. Every day, they face the emotional burden of delivering difficult news to patients, often with little time to recover before moving on to the next case. Long shifts and high-stress environments only add to the strain, making it harder for them to maintain their well-being.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Mimicking prior federal and state investigations into drug manufacturers, health insurer Aetna is suing in Connecticut for rigging the generic drug market.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 2, 2025

By using computational fluid dynamics software and other modeling techniques for complex congenital heart disease patients, Boston Children's Hospital's pediatric cardiology team said it now better understands flow balance and characteristics in preoperative planning and is improving surgical decision-making and patient outcomes. Turning to CFD for decision support As a parent, when finding out your child's heart does not work perfectly, you turn to the most gifted surgeons you can f

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 3, 2025

The update, which would be the first since 2013, aims to clarify and provide more instruction on securing health data as cyberattacks and breaches in the sector skyrocket.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

Veterans will have expanded access to at-home care under a new law signed on Thursday by President Joe Biden. The National PACE Association (NPA) on Friday applauded Bidens signing of the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21 st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, which will enhance veterans access to the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) nationwide.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 2, 2025

In this month's payer roundup, CVS faces antitrust questions from Congress as the company lays off more workers following a failed Medicaid bid in Kansas, Oscar Health CEO Mark Bertolini has a bold idea to remake health insurance and Johnson & Johnson is suing Express Scripts in a long-running lawsuit.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 3, 2025

The $100 million settlement is one of the larger recent sums agreed to by an MA payer accused of inflating its members’ sicknesses to get higher reimbursement from the government.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In a year filled with attention-grabbing, newsworthy articles, it can be easy for some stories to fall through the cracks, no matter how compelling. As the year comes to a close, its the perfect time to revisit some of the Home Health Care News stories that warrant a second viewing. These stories cover the truth behind home health margins, the state of InnovAge after regulatory challenges, how providers ensure advanced hospital care can be delivered in the home, Hurricane Helene and Miltons impa

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 2, 2025

The group is concerned about understaffing, retention challenges and low pay. NYC H+H affiliates and the Doctors Council have been negotiating a new contract for 15 months.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hospitals and health systems have been discussing digital-first patient engagement for a while now, but fewer organizations than you might think have made huge strides forward on that front. Likewise, data-driven decision-making is a phrase that's been tossed around quite a bit in healthcare, but in many cases it's a dream that's yet to become reality.

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Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 2, 2025

More than a year after the agency largely put new deployments on hold, the Department of Veterans Affairs will soon begin work to roll out the new medical record to four facilities in Michigan.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 3, 2025

Recent vehicle attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas underscore persistent terrorist threats in the United States. Both incidents, though likely unrelated, were premeditated and suggest political motives, raising public anxiety about safety and security.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 2, 2025

HHS is backing away from a proposed rule that would've worked around an employer's religious objections to contraceptive coverage without cost sharing.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Finance Analytics AI Cybersecurity and Privacy Strategic Planning Care Business Data and Information Organizational Governance Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 3, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and population growth have led many states to scale back or eliminate Certificate of Need laws, which require providers to get regulatory approval before expanding or adding healthcare facilities.

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Health Recovery

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The healthcare landscape is constantly evolving, and one of the most innovative and patient-centered trends gaining momentum is Hospital at Home (HaH). HaH programs allow eligible patients to receive high-quality, acute-level care in the comfort of their homes. This blog highlights the remarkable achievements of Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) customers, Novant Health, Providence, and University Health, as well as outlines best practices and ways HRS can empower other health systems to successfu

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 1, 2025

Hospitals and health systems, by and large, are going into 2025 on better footing than a year ago, as financial and operating performance stabilized. | Hospitals and health systems, by and large, are going into 2025 on better footing than a year ago, as financial and operating performance stabilized.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Carol Stafford, Medical Device and Diagnostics Executive, Medidata In the MedTech sector, small and medium-sized organizations are the primary drivers of innovation, developing new technologies for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating various conditions. Despite their potential to transform patient care and enhance efficiency in healthcare environments, these companies face significant funding challenges.

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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.

Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 1, 2025

To answer this question, I of course asked different AIs what the answer would be. Their responses: ChatGPT. In 2025, AI will significantly enhance healthcare by improving diagnostic accuracy, such as detecting early-stage cancers through tools like AI-enhanced mammograms and identifying retinal diseases via AI-analyzed optical scans. Personalized medicine will advance as AI tools like DeepMind’s AlphaFold help develop treatments tailored to individual genetic profiles, particularly for ra

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HKLaw

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued an unpublished Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that strengthens the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule and, if finalized, will have a significant impact on the healthcare sector.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Ardent Health is making good on its ambitions to grow its footprint in ambulatory care through acquisitions. The for-profit system kicked off 2025 by buying 18 urgent care clinics across New Mexico and Oklahoma from NextCare Urgent Care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Mateusz Krempa, COO, Piwik PRO As healthcare providers increasingly embrace big data, they find themselves at a crossroads: the challenge of using relevant data to improve patient care while ensuring the highest levels of privacy and compliance with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Violations of HIPAA can result in reputation damage, loss of patient trust, and also severe penaltiesup to $50,000 per violation, alongside potential criminal charges.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2025

This article is available to HHCN+ members When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) acquired Contessa Health for $250 million in 2021, it changed the home-based care landscape. While other companies had been toying with high-acuity care in the home, that deal sent a clear message: Home-based care was becoming more than just Medicare-certified home health care and personal care services.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Health/care is everywhere is the mantra on the back of my business card. And at #CES2025 , that will indeed be the situation. The 2025 convening of CES (once known as the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas officially kicks off on 7 January 2025. But I’ll be there beginning 3rd January, scheduling pre-show meetings with innovators, analysts, and my own clients who will be attending the meeting.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 2, 2025

UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys have pushed back the closure date for their $3.3 billion merger as they fend off a federal challenge to the deal. | UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys have pushed back the closure date for their $3.3 billion merger as they fend off a federal challenge to the deal.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Michael A. Brickman, MD, Medical Director of Plastic Surgery at ModMed Eye contact and good desk-side manner have always been incredibly important in the plastic surgery specialty, where patients decisions can be heavy with emotion around the perception of their image. Even what some see as a small touchup like dermal fillers are huge decisions for others because it is a change in how they present themselves physically and then carry themselves emotionally.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

Since launching five years ago, a partnership among Contessa, Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network (AHN) has expanded and started to prove out the valueto patients, clinicians and payersof delivering more acute care in the home. Highmark, AHN and Contessa in 2020 announced a partnership to launch a home-based acute care model for Highmark health plan members.

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Sequence Health

JANUARY 2, 2025

Attrition in healthcare call centers impacts scalability by increasing costs and disrupting operations. Frequent turnover demands continuous recruitment and training, hindering efficiency and patient care. Managing call volume effectively is crucial in this context, as it can reduce hold times and minimize abandonment rates, alleviating pressure on in-house staff.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 2, 2025

NeueHealth, the care management company formerly known as Bright Health, is set to be acquired by venture capital partner New Enterprise Associates later this month. | NeueHealth is getting bought out by an affiliate of New Enterprise Associates, making the company privately held.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2025

Heath Sampson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Modivcare By 2030, one in six people will be 60 years old or over, increasing the demand for care and intensifying the burden on an already strained healthcare system. These pressures require healthcare leaders to identify more sustainable solutions that deliver optimal care to the growing senior population.

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Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

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