Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

René Quashie, an executive at the Consumer Technoloy Association, argues that artificial intelligence could be pivotal for the healthcare industry — with regulation and guardrails.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Social determinants of health – the food, shelter and security attributes of patients that exist outside of care settings – contribute disproportionate risks for disease, hospital readmissions and a lack of access to quality healthcare among vulnerable populations, including people on Medicare. Consider that medical care may only account for between 10% and 20% of health outcomes, while a patient's neighborhood and environment, economic stability and education, social and communi

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Employers face a difficult decision over whether to cover pricey weight loss drugs that pits the health and wellbeing of their employees against the health of their bottom line.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 13, 2023

UnitedHealth Group kicked off another round of quarterly earnings calls Friday morning, when it reported $5.8 billion in profit for the third quarter. | UnitedHealth Group kicked off another round of quarterly earnings calls on Friday morning, where it reported $5.8 billion in profit for the third quarter.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

About 42% of Medicare Advantage plans that offer prescription drug coverage in 2024 earned four or more stars, compared with just over half this year.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Approximately 42% of Medicare Advantage plans that offer prescription drug coverage will have a star rating of four or more in 2024, marking yet another substantial decrease from

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has decided to remove the national coverage determination (NCD) that limits patients’ ability to qualify for new drugs, giving people with Alzheimer | After CMS floated the idea in July, the agency decided to remove restrictions for brain scans that could help patients receive access to drugs like Leqembi.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Amid financial woes and the exit of key executives, Presbyterian Healthcare Services and UnityPoint Health have decided against pursuing a merger, which would have formed a system of nearly 50 hospitals.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Anita Mahon, executive vice president and global head of healthcare at EXL, discusses how the analytics firm helps payers and providers utilize data within generative AI.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The payer reported a lower medical cost ratio, but executives noted that costs could rise in the fourth quarter.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The partners were awarded a grant under the UK–Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D program to develop an AI-enabled stroke diagnosis and treatment platform.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Youngsters 5 to 17 years old need to get vaccinated against influenza as soon as possible. | Children and adolescents should receive the seasonal influenza vaccination by the end of October, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formed a new Digital Health Advisory Committee to help the agency explore the complex, scientific and technical issues related to digital health technologies (DHTs), such as artificial intelligence /machine learning (AI/ML), augmented reality, virtual reality, digital therapeutics, wearables, remote patient monitoring and software. – The Digital Health Advisory Committee will advise the FDA on issues related to D

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

North Tees and Hartlepool is accelerating student's learning by allowing more students to experience live surgical theatres with RealWear technology.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 13, 2023

On October 3, CHIR held the first in a series of in-person policy briefings on the future of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI), sponsored by Arnold Ventures. The event, featuring remarks from U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan and a panel discussion moderated by Sarah Kliff of The New York Times, spotlighted state cost containment policies and employer strategies to inform the federal policy process concerning ESI, which covers almost half of all Americans.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: GE HealthCare announced a $44M contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) —part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—to develop and obtain regulatory clearance for next-generation ultrasound technology with AI applications. – The goal of the technology will support clinicians of all skill levels in efficiently diagnosing and providing tre

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

When someone confronts potentially fatal health issues in their life, it’s always interesting to see how they react and what they do after that experience. That’s why I had to sit down with Jared Jeffery, Founder at healthKERI , to learn more about his pathway to starting his new health data exchange company. For those not familiar with Jeffery, I first got to know him when he was working at KLAS and he was an active member of our Swaay.Health marketing community.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: – LG Business Solutions USA announced a collaboration with healthcare technology innovator Aceso Interactive to deliver customizable, personalized content to digital healthcare displays. – Aceso’s new Pane of Glass™ platform enables hospitals to use digital displays as blank canvases, allowing full control of the information displayed Customizable, Personalized Patient Experience Aceso’s patented platform consumes and presents data from various clinical, AI and

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Joining Forces to Improve Health Outcomes, Lower Costs, and Empower Members Through a Next-Generation Health Technology and Data Platform New Mountain Capital, Marlin Equity Partners, Blackstone, and Morgan Health to Back Combined Entity, the Industry’s First Health Platform-as-a-Service Virgin Pulse , a leading global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company, today announced its intent to merge with HealthComp , a next-generation benefits and analytics platform.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The implementation of Surrey Safe Care at the Royal Surrey FT and Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT has seen a number of concerning safety incidents.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” Leonardo DaVinci wrote through his lens on innovation. Simplicity can be a transformational cornerstone of health/care innovation, we learn from Siegel+Gale’s report on the World’s Simplest Brands Tenth Edition (WSBX). Siegel+Gale found the most consumers are willing to pay more for simpler brand experiences and are more likely to recommend a brand for those simpler experiences, as well.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This edition of Movers and Shakers features new leadership roles within troubled trusts, including Norfolk and Suffolk and Bradford Teaching Hospitals.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 13, 2023

By Joe Payne - Part of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Few industries place as much value on their intellectual property as the life sciences sector. On average, it takes $2.3B investment and between 10 - 15 years to go to market. In 2020, the U.S. biopharmaceutical industry spent $122B on R&D. The post 4 Principles for Protecting Against IP Theft and Data Leakage in the Life Sciences Sector appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A quartet of British digital health start-ups were named among the winners at the Digital Health Hub Awards at HLTH in Las Vegas on Monday.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Metriport, a platform that helps facilitate data exchange between providers, has landed several customers since launching its open-source API platform last month. | The startup is now partnered with Circle Medical, LunaJoy and Hospice Match, the tech startup exclusively told Fierce Healthcare. The goal of Medical API, which Metriport says is the first open-source platform of its kind, is to securely retrieve comprehensive patient clinical histories from major EHRs.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This morning briefing includes news from the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and The Good Things Foundation.

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Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Symplr

OCTOBER 13, 2023

During the pandemic, we praised doctors, nurses, and frontline workers as heroes, but we haven't done enough to tackle the ongoing challenges they face day-to-day, and it's starting to take a toll. Our 2023 Compass Survey found that healthcare IT and clinical leaders’ number one concern is provider burnout heading into 2024. Burnout has been leaving hospitals and health systems understaffed, putting even more pressure on the clinicians who stay.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 13, 2023

GoodRx has inked another partnership with a pharmacy benefit manager, bringing its services to Navitus Health Solutions' members. | GoodRx has inked another partnership with a pharmacy benefit manager, bringing its services to Navitus Health Solutions' members.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As we fall into autumn weather, CHIR continues to keep up with the latest health policy research. In September, we read about trends in individual market enrollment, mental health care networks available through the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Marketplace, and employers’ ability to negotiate lower prices for health care services.

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Becker's Health IT

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is requesting to pay a lower price for its planned 3-hospital acquisition from Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings as the hospitals deal with a six-week-long cyberattack, Yale News reported Oct. 13.

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