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UnitedHealth, Amedisys agree to sell clinics to get merger across finish line

Health Care Dive

The divestiture will only go through if UnitedHealth and Amedisys complete their merger, which was announced last summer but has been held up amid scrutiny from the Department of Justice.

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OMNY Health takes first steps into AI partnerships with Aris Global and Quant Health

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare data company OMNY Health announced partnerships with two healthcare artificial intelligence companies, Aris Global and Quant Health on Tuesday. | OMNY Health announced it will supply its living data layer of over 70 million patients to power AI solutions from Aris Global and Quant Health. This is the first step the company is taking in the AI space, which is in desperate need of a scalable data solution, OMNY executives say.

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The power of delivering virtual SUD treatment

Healthcare It News

Virtual care is comparable to in-person substance use disorder treatment and lowers the cost of treatment for substance misuse, said Dr. Yusuf Sherwani, CEO and cofounder of Pelago.

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Data breach at Geisinger may have exposed data from 1.2M patients

Health Care Dive

A former employee at vendor Nuance Communications accessed patient data two days after being terminated, according to the health system. The employee is facing federal charges.

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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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CMS approves waivers allowing incarcerated individuals to receive Medicaid coverage before release

Fierce Healthcare

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is helping incarcerated adults and children obtain access to Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage before they leave a pr | HHS is extending Medicaid and CHIP coverage to incarcerated individuals that are soon to be released in five states.

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Mental health benefits at work are getting better. Here’s how we can go further.

Health Care Dive

More employers than ever are focusing on mental health benefits. Congress must invest more and act soon to reauthorize telehealth extensions before it’s too late, argues the director of health policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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Prospect Medical Holdings reveals DOJ investigation

Health Care Dive

The federal investigation follows multiple state inquiries into Prospect’s business practices last year.

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KFF: This insurance market had the highest gross margins last year

Fierce Healthcare

A new analysis from KFF digs into insurers' financial performance across multiple markets and found the highest gross margins in the Medicare Advantage (MA) space. | A new analysis from KFF digs into insurers' financial performance across multiple markets and found the highest gross margins in the Medicare Advantage space.

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Cano Health exits bankruptcy as private company

Health Care Dive

The primary care chain is now focused on its Florida market, which includes 80 medical centers.

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Biden administration awards $206M to geriatrics clinician training programs

Fierce Healthcare

The Biden administration has awarded $206.3 million of funding to clinician training programs to bolster the nation’s geriatrics care workforce. | Forty-two programs training physicians, nurses and other clinicians will integrate geriatric care training into their primary care programs.

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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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Designing for Health: Interview with Jeff Mounzer, PhD, and Peter Kriss, PhD [Podcast]

Nordic

At first glance, many challenges in healthcare look like massive, complex, and sometimes unsolvable obstacles. But when human nature is taken into account, many of these foggy issues become clear. With a deeper understanding of behavioral economics, it becomes easier to discern why some problems in healthcare persist, and how they can be remedied. Pairing new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) with well-established findings of human psychology is a pathway to solving some of healthca

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Hummingbird Healthcare Secures $10M to Streamline Patient Access, Create Jobs

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hummingbird Healthcare Inc. , a tech-driven healthcare services company raises $10M in Series A funding led by UCHealth , a leading Colorado-based health system and existing investor. The round also included participation from CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, 8VC, and Gaingels. – With this new funding, Hummingbird is poised to expand its reach and empower healthcare providers to deliver exceptional patient experiences.

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Augmented intelligence in health care

Osf Healthcare

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently released a report on augmented intelligence (AI) in health care. Clinical informaticist and senior fellow for Innovation at OSF HealthCare, Jonathan Handler, MD contributed to the report.

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News 7/3/24

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Top News Heritage Valley Health System (PA) will pay $950,000.

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OMNY Health Democratizes Healthcare Data with Launch of AI Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – OMNY Health , the leading healthcare ecosystem known for facilitating compliant cross-industry data sharing launched its platform designed to power AI driven health technology companies, further cementing the company’s commitment to democratizing healthcare data. – QuantHealth and ArisGlobal are just two of OMNY’s newest partners to leverage this new platform to power their organizational AI-driven needs.