Fierce Healthcare
MAY 30, 2024
WASHINGTON D.C. — CVS Health continues to invest heavily in healthcare delivery services with a focus on affordability, convenience and better access to primary care. | CVS Health continues to make investments in healthcare delivery services with a focus on affordability, convenience and better access to primary care.
Healthcare It News
MAY 26, 2024
Gold Coast Health, a public health service in Queensland, has recently introduced a new digital front door for chronic disease patients. The General Medicine-Rapid Access Service (G-RAS) offers an alternative pathway for patient management. Through a scan of a take-home QR code, patients can reach their doctor for follow-ups via secure two-way messaging and voice or video calls.
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Health Care Dive
MAY 31, 2024
It's the second time shareholders have blanched at additional reporting of abortion risks, despite ambiguity about providers’ legal requirements for providing care.
p3care
MAY 31, 2024
An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. They aim to improve your health by ensuring that you get custom care according to your needs while cutting costs.
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Fierce Healthcare
MAY 30, 2024
UnitedHealth is predicting an upcoming “disturbance” among its Medicaid programs as members continue to disenroll after the COVID-19 public health emergency. | UnitedHealth gave an overview of areas in which the insurer can improve upon, how Medicaid redeterminations will affect the company and thoughts on OptumRx.
Healthcare It News
MAY 28, 2024
Crowded waiting rooms, stressed medical staff, and time pressure during diagnostic examinations—these are familiar challenges faced by many healthcare facilities and they require urgent attention. The Vinzenz Gruppe, one of the largest private operators of non-profit healthcare facilities in Austria, is committed to expanding its digital patient portal to meet the ever-increasing demands.
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Home Health Care
MAY 28, 2024
Though it has become more common for larger home-based care providers to enter and find success in value-based care arrangements, so many small- to mid-sized companies still struggle in this area. Helping these kinds of home-based care companies see success in these arrangements has become Integrated Home Care Services’ sweet spot as a driver of value-based care.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 28, 2024
Hospital lobbies have signed onto a multi-sector letter of 230 industry associations and chambers of commerce urging the Federal Trade Commission to bump the effective date of its ban on employee n | The American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals are among 230 groups urging the regulator to put the final rule on hold pending legal challenges and "lack of Commission guidance on key pieces" of the ban.
Healthcare It News
MAY 28, 2024
Psychiatric Medical Care prides itself on delivering evidence-based care services. It wanted the ability to drive patient treatment through their responses to evidence-based testing. THE PROBLEM The healthcare provider organization is accredited by The Joint Commission, which requires patients' treatment plans be developed based on an evidence-based testing process.
Health Care Dive
MAY 30, 2024
Worries about higher-than-expected medical spending have reached Medicaid, as redeterminations spark turbulence in the program.
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Home Health Care
MAY 29, 2024
Medicare Advantage (MA) – the offshoot of traditional Medicare that’s administered by private insurance companies – has recently caught a lot of flak. As it pertains to home health care specifically, MA plans have been criticized for their cumbersome prior authorization requirements and provider reimbursement rates that are typically far below fee-for-service Medicare.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 29, 2024
Imagine360, a self-funded health plan out of Pennsylvania, reduces healthcare costs significantly more than major national carriers, an actuarial analysis by Axene Health Partners found. | Imagine360, an alternative health plan in Pennsylvania, is pointing to an independent analysis showing its clients save 20% on health benefit costs when compared to traditional carriers.
Healthcare It News
MAY 30, 2024
Patients at Crescent Regional Hospital can schedule a non-touch visit with their doctor or any range of medical specialists from the Dallas area, or anywhere in the world, through the magic of spatial computing. The once-ailing hospital is now using holograms for non-touch patient visits and plans to expand its uses of holographic technology, Holoconnects announced Wednesday.
Health Care Dive
MAY 31, 2024
But the industry has a long way to go before it’s fully back to the profitability levels seen before the pandemic — if it fully rebounds at all, analysts told Healthcare Dive.
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Home Health Care
MAY 28, 2024
One of the faster-growing home care providers in the country is non-franchised and has taken no private equity funding to date. The Barboursville, West Virginia-based Village Caregiving announced earlier this month that it would be opening three new locations in Indiana, growing its density in the state. Earlier this year, it also opened up shop in three other new locations – one in Minnesota, one in Indiana and one in Kentucky.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 29, 2024
This week on "Podnosis," we dive into the topic of telehealth and its role in a comprehensive approach to healthcare. | This week on "Podnosis," Emma Beavins from Fierce Healthcare interviews CVS Health Chief Medical Officer Sree Chaguturu, M.D., to dive into the topic of telehealth and its role in a comprehensive approach to healthcare.
Healthcare It News
MAY 30, 2024
Desert Oasis Healthcare provides medical care and wellness services to communities in California's Coachella Valley, as well as in Riverside and San Bernardino. The group serves more than 60,000 patients. THE PROBLEM Desert Oasis was facing a challenge many healthcare organizations must contend with: getting patients to follow their care plans. For clinicians, just telling their patients what they need them to do and how to behave is not enough.
Health Care Dive
MAY 29, 2024
With “no playbook out there” to fall back on, the new company is taking a long-term approach as it develops its portfolio, an Otsuka Precision Health exec told MedTech Dive.
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HIT Consultant
MAY 29, 2024
Jeff Surges, CEO at RLDatix When it comes to healthcare, efficiency isn’t just a goal—it’s a lifeline. With a growing and aging patient population and widespread workforce shortages , hospitals and health systems must find ways to increase efficiencies and do more with less, while providing safe, high-quality care. This starts with liberating data and connecting healthcare operations solutions across the enterprise.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 30, 2024
The feds have raised an objection about Steward Health Care's planned bankruptcy proceedings, seeking additional time to investigate the health system's planned sale of its assets. | The feds have raised an objection about Steward Health Care's planned bankruptcy proceedings, seeking additional time to investigate the health system's planned sale of its assets.
Healthcare It News
MAY 30, 2024
Rumah Sakit Universitas Indonesia to test South Korean AI-powered diabetes management app Kakao Healthcare has signed a memorandum of agreement with state university hospital Rumah Sakit Universitas Indonesia (RSUI) to pilot its latest AI-based diabetes management application. Launched in February, Pasta is a mobile app -based service that leverages AI for blood sugar management.
Health Care Dive
MAY 29, 2024
The ban initially only affects UnitedHealthcare, which is the sole for-profit managed care organization with a Medicaid contract in the state.
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Home Health Care
MAY 31, 2024
Choice Health at Home and Resilient Healthcare have formed a partnership that will give the former access to digital health technologies and hospital-at-home capabilities. Plano, Texas-based Resilient is a technology company that enables health care organizations to deliver higher-acuity care in the home. Meanwhile, Tyler, Texas-based Choice Health at Home is a home health, hospice, palliative care, rehabilitation and home care services provider.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 29, 2024
Direct-to-consumer health and wellness company Ro launched an online GLP-1 supply tracker as an interactive tool to give patients real-time insights on GLP-1 drug shortages. | Direct-to-consumer health and wellness company Ro launched an online GLP-1 supply tracker as an interactive tool to give patients real-time insights on GLP-1 drug shortages.
Healthcare It News
MAY 29, 2024
Healthcare providers in Australia have been "slow" in their uptake of remote care technologies, such as remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics. Despite their wide availability and verifiable and promising benefits, remote care technologies "[don't] fit neatly within broader funding models," according to the Australian Productivity Commission's report on digital health.
Health Care Dive
MAY 28, 2024
The healthcare technology company was delisted from Nasdaq this year after failing to file timely financial reports for months.
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA
Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.
Home Health Care
MAY 29, 2024
HouseWorks – one of the largest non-franchised home care providers in the U.S. – has executed another deal. The company has acquired AccordCare’s personal care division in Connecticut, which operates under the brands Companions & Homemakers and Companions Forever. The acquisition will bring HouseWorks into Connecticut for the first time, and further expand its footprint in the Northeast.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 29, 2024
A new review of California patient volumes is the latest warning that hospital ransomware attacks have consequences that extend to other providers in their surrounding community. | While inpatient admissions and ED visits decline for weeks at a targeted hospital, those in the surrounding areas can expect up to 7% more ED visits, according to a recently published analysis of ransomware attacks among California hospitals.
Healthcare It News
MAY 28, 2024
Asad Lilani, political strategy director at the Access Challenge, says the NGO recruits regional influencers and community members for its African vaccination campaigns. Their messages appear on each region's favored communications platform.
Health Care Dive
MAY 30, 2024
Nearby unattacked hospitals were affected too, suggesting the consequences from a ransomware attack reach beyond targeted facilities, according to a JAMA study.
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Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.
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