January, 2025

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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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Boston Children's brings engineering precision to pediatric heart surgery

Healthcare It News

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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HHS proposes HIPAA update to boost healthcare cybersecurity

Health Care Dive

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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Digital Tracking Technologies & HIPAA: Latest Updates and Ongoing Risks

Healthcare Success

Are the digital tracking technologies you use for your website and healthcare marketing practices fully compliant with HIPAA regulations and digital tracking standards? You might think so, but even industry standards like the Google Analytics (G4) and Meta pixels are not compliant. To understand these issues better, I invite you to listen to my recent podcast guest, James Corr from Freshpaint, as he sheds light on critical issues most healthcare providers overlook.

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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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Biden Signs Dole Act, Expanding Access And Funding For Vets’ At-Home Care

Home Health Care

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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Cold Comfort: The Latest Attacks on America Follow a Familiar Playbook

The Rand Blog

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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Remote patient monitoring will boost CHF and GLP-1 care in 2025

Healthcare It News

The promise of remote patient monitoring is showing itself in more and more telemedicine use cases, with huge potential for day-to-day wellness, management of chronic conditions and the promotion of health equity. Oren Nissim is CEO and cofounder of Brook Health, a care management company that uses telehealth and artificial intelligence for home-based care.

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Independent Health settles with Justice Department over alleged Medicare Advantage upcoding

Health Care Dive

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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How will AI change health care in 2025?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

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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Monday Morning Update 1/6/25

HIStalk

Top News The Wall Street Journal reports that UnitedHealth Group.

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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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First Choice’s Switch To Olli Showcases Potential For AI-Driven Cost Savings In Home Health

Home Health Care

When a home health provider is not happy with a business partner or system, making a switch is common sense. But First Choice Home Health & Hospice provides a case study in the benefits that can come from considering other options even if a current system is satisfactory as well as the potential for solutions rooted in artificial intelligence to drive efficiency and free up dollars for key areas such as staffing.

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Fierce Healthcare

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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In 2025, look for more digital-first patient engagement and data-driven decisions

Healthcare It News

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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VA to resume Oracle EHR deployments in mid-2026

Health Care Dive

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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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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The Obesity Conversation: Moving Beyond Stigma and Shame

HIT Consultant

Dr. Arti Masturzo, Chief Medical Officer atCCS The conversation about what makes a healthy body has never been simple. Throughout every era of history, people have resorted to calling each other too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too curvy, too muscular, or too lanky, often to reinforce power structures or achieve social agendas. And every single time, we fall for it.

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CTA Tech Trends to Watch for 2025 – Health-Context for Kicking off #CES2025

Health Populi

People are living everyday life in digital coexistence — where the connected technologies we use for communication and entertainment now enable life-flows across our lives, morning to night, at work and play and even while we’re sleeping. Welcome to the five key tech-trends for 2025, brought to life Sunday afternoon by Melissa Harrison, CTA’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications tag-teaming with Brian Comiskey, Senior Director, Innovation & Trends.

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Holistic and Seamless: How Health Systems Advocate, Mass General Brigham Are Advancing At-Home Care

Home Health Care

A big part of the evolution of health systems has been more meaningful engagement with the home as an extension of brick-and-mortar operations. In recent years, organizations like Advocate Health and Mass General Brigham have exemplified this shift. These major health systems are reevaluating their home-based care capabilities and partnerships, and leveraging technology and innovative care modelsincluding hospital-at-hometo enable more integrated and cost-efficient services.

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Fierce Healthcare

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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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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2025 forecast: Telehealth will boost panel size and enable more delegation

Healthcare It News

Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare, tries to make it easy on health systems. His is the first Epic-based virtual care company – Epic having the largest market share among EHR vendors, that makes starting up with telemedicine quite simple for a great many provider organizations. But the goal of KeyCare also is simplicity – simplicity in quickly and widely expanding a health system's physician panel.

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States curb CON laws to boost bed capacity

Health Care Dive

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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How Embedded Finance is Transforming the Health and Medical Industry

HIT Consultant

Philipp Buschmann, co-founder and CEO of AAZZUR Healthcare has dramatically transformed in recent years, driven by the urgent need to keep pace with an increasingly fast-moving world. With technology leading the way, healthcare providers, insurers, and patients have seen major improvements in managing medical needs and financial costs. One major change now taking root is embedded finance.

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3 Easy Steps to Increase Upfront Point-of-Service Collections in Healthcare

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 4 minutes While many healthcare practices struggle with declining Medicare payments and rising costs, some are thriving by mastering one critical area: point-of-service collections. The good news? With the right approach, any practice can transform their collection strategy into a powerful driver of financial health. Why Are Point-of-Service Collections More Critical Than Ever?

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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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Inside the Future Of Contessa Health And High-Acuity Care at Home 

Home Health Care

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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A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, in Louisiana and the U.S. has died, the state's health department reported Monday.

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Looking ahead to 2025 with HIMSS Media, part 1

Healthcare It News

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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Marshfield Clinic Health System joins Sanford Health

Health Care Dive

The combined system stretches across seven states and includes 56 hospitals.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Empowering the Aging Population with Tech-Driven Care in 2025

HIT Consultant

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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Community Health Workers and Family Caregivers: Opportunities to Enhance Connection with Community Resources for Aging Populations and Families

NASHP

One of the essential principles of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers is to support family caregivers in cultivating needed connections in and out of the health care and long-term care systems. This principle is rooted in whole-person care and the recognition that navigating the deeply siloed and complex array of health, social services, and community supports is daunting especially in chronically underserved communities.

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Home Recovery Care Plus Shows Value Of Hospital- And SNF-At-Home With Expanded Model

Home Health Care

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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Fierce Healthcare

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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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!