Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The analysis adds to a growing body of research highlighting the burden of healthcare costs in the U.S., even for families with higher incomes.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Covenant Health is a Massachusetts-based multistate health system with deep roots in the communities it serves. The organization currently has 100 physician practices and clinics, along with more than 5,000 employees and providers. THE PROBLEM St. Joseph Hospital, a member of Covenant Health, faced a significant challenge in connecting patients to much-needed financial aid.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Many payers beat Wall Street expectations in the quarter, despite ongoing utilization concerns. Other hot topics? Medicare Advantage stars, Medicaid redeterminations, individual exchange growth and GLP-1s.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The move could further integrate the retail giant’s healthcare ambitions with its core e-commerce business.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By Vincent Joralemon Psychedelics have a public relations problem, due in part to overzealous promoters , genuine risks , and bad science. But, recent psychedelic legislation sponsored by conservative congressperson Dan Crenshaw shows minds can be changed in this space. Public perceptions will shape efforts to reclassify , decriminalize , and make psychedelics available for therapeutic use.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Legislative spotlight was put back on pharmacy benefit manager reform and mental health in a comprehensive draft packaged presented by the Senate Finance Committee, which was passed Wednesday 26-0. | A comprehensive healthcare package garnered near unanimous approval on Wednesday, which could lead to big changes for PBMs down the road.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The tech retailer notched similar partnerships to co-develop home care products with Geisinger and Atrium earlier this year.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Mass General Brigham tapped retailer Best Buy Health to scale up its Healthcare at Home services to meet growing demand for home-based care and address workforce shortages. | Mass General Brigham tapped retailer Best Buy Health to scale up its Healthcare at Home services to transition more medical care to patients' homes while also addressing workforce shortages.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Benjamin Barlow, chief medical officer, Experity. As we evaluate the healthcare landscape following the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the urgent care (UC) industry, facilities have undergone significant transformation. Patient behaviors and economic factors have […] The article Redefining Benchmarks and Expectations In Urgent Care: A Data-Driven Approach appeared first on electronic

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

What You Should Know: Cercle, an AI technology company unlocking comprehensive and secure data insights for the healthcare industry, announced its launch today. Its technology platform, the Cercle™ Biomedical Graph, is the first and only of its kind, harnessing and connecting billions of anonymized biomedical and genomics data points drawn securely from healthcare clinics and research labs around the world.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Moody’s Investor Services is forecasting stronger financials across the nonprofit hospital sector in 2024 thanks to upticks in reimbursement rates and volumes that will outpace continued labor expe | The ratings agency said it anticipates a 10% to 20% increase in nonprofit providers' median operating cash flow during the coming year. Median operating revenue is projected to grow between 4% and 6% while median operating costs are forecasted between 3% to 5%.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

What You Should Know: Cognoa, a leading child development and behavioral health company, today published a new report, The State of Pediatric Autism Diagnosis in the U.S.: Gridlocks, Inequities and Missed Opportunities Persist, that underscores the longstanding waitlist crisis for children and their families seeking a diagnosis of developmental delays and autism evaluation.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The retail giant and Massachusetts-based healthcare system will develop custom tools to support the provider's Healthcare at Home offerings and devise new tech.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Rolando Irizarry, Product Manager – Healthcare at Spectrio I have heard the word “Inclusion” quite a bit lately, and I’ve noticed that people seem to be throwing the word around as though everyone knows what it means. Many organizations claim to be inclusive while doing little to actually prove it. This occurs in all industries, but the problem is particularly consequential in health care, where there’s a lot more on the line: patient outcomes and recovery rates.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We recently had a chance to sit down with Jessica Beegle, Senior Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at  Lifepoint Health , who shared with us that her past experience has given her a unique view in crafting the patient experience. Prior to Lifepoint Health, Beegle worked at Amazon AWS and Google, companies that are known for creating and using cutting- edge technology to deliver results.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Amazon's push into healthcare has focused on making medical services more affordable and convenient. | Building on its One Medical deal, Amazon is now offering a One Medical for Prime membership, including 24/7 virtual care, for $9 per month, or $99 a year.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Mulkay Cardiology Consultants at Holy Name Medical Center has recently confirmed that it fell victim to a ransomware attack. The attack was detected on September 5, 2023, when files on its network were encrypted. According to the breach notice, Mulkay was able to rebuild its systems and recover the encrypted files from backups. Third-party forensics experts were engaged to investigate the breach and determined that its systems were compromised between September 1, 2023, and September 5, 2023, an

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Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A Trust and Safety Q&A with Papa and The Purple Method | In this Q&A, Papa and The Purple Method discuss best-in-class trust and safety solutions for a new kind of caregiver changing how healthcare happens.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

What You Should Know: Virtual Reality (VR) technology is not just for the young. It’s paving the way for enhancing relationships between the aging population and their caregivers, as research from the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford University demonstrates. The study sought to understand older adults’ attitudes towards new technologies, including virtual reality, and how professional caregivers felt about facilitating VR experiences for older adults.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

One out of every 5 adults in the United States experienced mental illness in 2021—that’s nearly 60 million people. However, most of those adults did not receive treatment for their mental illness. | With depression on the rise, now’s the time to prioritize mental health. Take action on serious mental health conditions.

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Verisys

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

What Are NPI Numbers? NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers are 10-digit numerical identifiers that uniquely identify individual providers or healthcare entities. Providers, employers, health plans, and payers use these numbers for billing purposes. CMS.gov The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) required the creation of a standard, unique health identifier for healthcare providers, which the NPI satisfies.

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Dialogue Alumni’s New Startup is Gearing up to Strike Hard in the Battle Against the Leading Cause of Death Montréal-based healthtech startup Kento Health has closed a $4.1 million CAD ($3 million USD) pre-seed financing round. The round was led by Boreal Ventures and N49P and saw participation from Broom Ventures, Graphite Ventures, and several other strategic angel investors as well as an undisclosed US-based medical institution.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

What You Should Know: Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented financial pressure; several macroeconomic factors—including the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, and staffing shortages—have forced organizations to work around decreased revenues and increased costs. At this critical time, organizations are looking to consulting firms to help improve their financial performance and circumnavigate obstacles.

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Digital Health News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Staff at Guy's and St Thomas' are benefitting from Allocate software which is helping to plan healthcare visits in the community and deliver safer care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Communication is the key to making anything work – including your organization. But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. What’s the best way for providers to coordinate the many different areas and people they have to handle?

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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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Digital Health News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Bayer Digital Healthcare UKI and Cognitant have launched My Kidney Assistant, designed to help improve type 2 diabetes patients' kidney health.

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The Health Law Firm

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By Michelle E. Missigman, J.D. For corporate health care providers involved in a civil health care fraud or abuse investigation, the corporation may be required to enter into a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) to settle the case. This is an agreement with significant legal implications that requires serious scrutiny and must be followed to the letter.

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Digital Health News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

One of the "joys" of Justine Patterson's role is supporting NHS staff to change the way they do things. By Claire Read.

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HealthIT Answers

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Our monthly HIE rundown includes updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts. The post Sharing Health Data Update November 2023 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.