Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, has overturned the Chevron deference, stripping power from federal agencies to interpret and enforce regulations. | The U.S. Supreme Court is overruling long-standing precedent. Here's how it could affect healthcare policy.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 27, 2024
Walgreens is refocusing on pharmacy operations after failing to make inroads in healthcare services. The company will sell its majority stake in VillageMD and is no longer looking to invest in medical offices, executives said.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 28, 2024
Patient intake, and the associated manual tasks that come upfront before a medical visit, represents a key component of a health system's operational efficiency and clinical quality. As a result, some hospitals and primary care clinics are experimenting with artificial intelligence and large language models to focus on note-taking and scribe work.
Home Health Care
JUNE 26, 2024
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its FY 2025 home health proposed payment rule Wednesday. With it, the agency signaled that more significant cuts could be on the way for providers. To rebalance the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) and make it budget neutral, at least according to its internal methodology, CMS is proposing a permanent prospective adjustment to the CY 2025 home health payment rate of -4.067%.
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NASHP
JUNE 21, 2024
This project is a partnership between NASHP and The Health Reentry Project (HARP). The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), in collaboration with The Health and Reentry Project (HARP) and with the generous support from Arnold Ventures, is pleased to announce the following seven states have been selected to participate in the State Reentry Learning Collaborative, a multi-state technical assistance opportunity to support states seeking to implement Medicaid reentry waivers: Californi
HIT Consultant
JUNE 11, 2024
Eli Ben-Joseph, co-founder and CEO of Regard In 2019, my aunt was admitted to the hospital with heart failure. It was a harrowing experience for everyone involved. My family, desperate for answers, waited for hours for a doctor to check-in. When they finally did, their time was limited and felt rushed. But the whole time, we couldn’t shake the uncomfortable feeling that we were nuisances, that our welcome had run its course.
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Health Care Dive
JUNE 26, 2024
A National Bureau of Economic Research report found layoffs followed hospital mergers, as employers struggled to absorb the costs of rising healthcare premiums.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 24, 2024
OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings. Patients discharged from hospitals often were readmitted due to complications that could have been prevented with better monitoring and more proactive management, said Matt Nieukir
Home Health Care
JUNE 13, 2024
Amid efforts to push back the expiration date of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, more patients are expressing their desire to participate in hospital-at-home programs. That’s according to a new survey from Vivalink, a digital healthcare solutions company that offers remote patient monitoring (RPM).
Spok Inc
JUNE 27, 2024
How does communication technology enhance clinical communication and care team collaboration? To give you some tangible examples, our mobility solutions expert examines three clinical workflows to show how communication technology fills the gaps created by the EHR by connecting care teams and systems to deliver information quickly and securely into the hands of those who need to act on it.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 11, 2024
What You Should Know: – Verily , Alphabet’s precision health subsidiary, today announced Lightpath , a next-generation chronic care solution designed to address the evolving needs of health plans and their members. – The initial offering, Lightpath Metabolic, focuses on empowering individuals with cardiometabolic conditions to achieve and maintain their health goals.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 24, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is locking in its enforcement strategy to keep healthcare providers from blocking access to electronic health information. | Providers found to have committed information blocking will face financial repercussions tied to Medicare program participation as well as the public disclosure of the enforcement.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 6, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of seniors could switch plans during next year’s open enrollment, depending on how drastically the MA market giants slash benefits in an attempt to improve profits.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 7, 2024
U.S. consumers remain optimistic about the potential of generative artificial intelligence to address healthcare access and affordability challenges, the new 2024 Deloitte Center for Health Solutions consumer survey shows. But they still have some misgivings about AI tools. WHY IT MATTERS Despite a general sense of optimism, the public's use of genAI tools for health-related reasons has dipped a bit since the initial rush of interest that showed in the previous year's Deloitte study &nda
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Home Health Care
JUNE 20, 2024
The latest episode of the Disrupt podcast is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, we caught up with Joanne Cunningham, the CEO of the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare, and David Totaro, the chief government affairs officer at Bayada Home Healthcare. During the conversation, Cunningham and Totaro discuss all things related to home health payment.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 21, 2024
If NATO is serious about bringing Ukraine in as a member, then it must be clear-eyed about the risks, develop a concrete plan in support of a broader strategy, and commit itself to success. Anything less is likely to lead to failure.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 13, 2024
What You Should Know: – As part of an expanded partnership announced last August, Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) has launched the first set of healthcare large language model (LLM) solutions on Google Cloud’s generative AI (genAI) technology, including the company’s Vertex AI platform and Gemini models, aimed at redesigning healthcare administrative processes and improving experiences. – Google Cloud has awarded Cognizant “2024 Industry Solution Services Partner of the Year – Healthc
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 17, 2024
Color Health is working with OpenAI to test out computer-generated personalized care plans for cancer patients. | Color developed a new copilot app that leverages GPT-4o to identify missing diagnostics and create tailored workup plans for patients.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 25, 2024
Pharmacy benefit managers have largely avoided the brunt of public blame for the deadly opioid crisis. Arkansas’ lawsuit brings the drug middlemen back to the forefront of the controversy.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 3, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights updated its Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident frequently asked questions page on Friday to address questions the agency has received asking which entities are responsible for performing breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and where applicable, the media.
Home Health Care
JUNE 18, 2024
Nurses of Mass General Brigham’s hospital-at-home program have voted to unionize, and the clinicians at the health system’s home care segment are hoping to follow suit. The efforts to unionize first started in February. On May 16, 80 of the health system’s home-at-hospital nurses voted to join the Massachusetts Nurse Association (MSA). That same month, the National Labor Relations Board certified the union to be representatives for the nurses.
NASHP
JUNE 10, 2024
New York’s health insurance marketplace recently announced it received approval of its 1332 State Innovation Waiver to further expand its Basic Health Program (BHP). What is the Basic Health Program, and how does it work? Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), states have the option to implement a BHP, which offers health coverage to residents whose incomes are too high for Medicaid but who are otherwise eligible to enroll in coverage through the health insurance marketplace.
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.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 17, 2024
What You Should Know: – Relapse rates in behavioral health treatment are a persistent hurdle. Up to 80% of people with substance use disorders will relapse at some point, causing discouragement for both patients and providers. However, a new weapon is emerging in the fight for sustained recovery: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Early Intervention: Catching Relapse Before it Starts Videra Health , an AI-powered mental health assessment platform, highlights how AI can play a crucial role in re
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 12, 2024
AI deal activity is dominating healthcare investment with one in four dollars invested in healthcare going toward companies leveraging AI, according to a new report. | So far, in 2024, $2.8 billion has already been invested in AI healthcare companies, with SVB projecting the sector to see $11.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2024
Steward has been gunning for the deal since March. Without Optum at the table, it’s unclear who will buy the struggling health system’s medical clinics.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 18, 2024
Color Health, a genetic testing company, is using OpenAI's newest, less expensive, large language model to equip doctors with pretreatment workup expertise that could speed up prior authorization requests for cancer screening diagnostics and get patients into treatment faster. The company has also partnered with the University of California San Francisco to study how the cancer copilot tool performs in surfacing early warning signs, seemingly incongruous red flags and other pertinent details
Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend
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.
Home Health Care
JUNE 20, 2024
Silverstone Health began as a small hospice provider. Now, it has expanded its services to cover home health care, palliative care and personal care, and has grown its daily census from 17 patients to 2,000. After CEO Alfonso Montiel purchased and rebranded Comfort Care Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region in 2020, the company began to build out a more complete home-based care continuum.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 11, 2024
Western allies are finally making good on their promises, handing Kyiv substantial economic assistance, weapons, security deals, and now greater command freedom on the battlefield. Ukraine's prospects look better now than they have since early 2023.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 18, 2024
What You Should Know: – A new report by Incredible Health , the leading platform for connecting nurses with healthcare employers, paints a concerning picture of the American healthcare system. The report, titled “ 2024 Healthcare Executive Report , ” reveals a crisis brewing – a deepening shortage of nurses that threatens patient care. – The US healthcare system is projected to face a staggering shortage of 1 million nurses by 2030.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 17, 2024
Amazon Pharmacy is expanding its prescription drug subscription program, called RxPass, to Prime members on Medicare insurance. | The RxPass program, launched in January 2023, provides unlimited access to 60 eligible generic medications and will ship the medications to customers' homes for a flat monthly fee of $5.
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