Tue.Oct 24, 2023

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2.3M people would gain coverage if 10 remaining states expanded Medicaid, report finds

Healthcare Dive

Black people, young adults and women, especially those of reproductive age, would see the biggest coverage gains, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute.

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WebMD Ignite collaborates on data privacy in omnichannel outreach

Healthcare It News

Healthcare organizations can now prevent protected health information collected by their marketing channels from reaching destinations where organizations do not have a business associate agreement, according to WebMD Ignite and Freshpaint. WHY IT MATTERS For healthcare organizations, the use of cookies, tracking technologies, digital advertising and analytics tools that other industries use to drive growth presents serious privacy risks and technical challenges.

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Prospect Medical Holdings clear to seek buyer for Crozer Health

Healthcare Dive

The private equity firm has nine months to find a buyer for its struggling four-hospital health system under an agreement announced by the Pennsylvania attorney general last week.

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Exclusive: Caregiver support platform Helpful partners with VNS Health

Healthcare It News

Users of Helpful can now access a loved one's benefit information about their New York-based health plan and select medical records through its app.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view. Against the backdrop of this burgeoning collective amnesia, a project to articulate the human rights norms relevant to public health emergencies led to the devel

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Making SDOH resource matching better with AI

Healthcare It News

DUOS uses large language models to leverage social determinants of health and enhance care-navigation access for Medicare beneficiaries. Feedback from platform users improves the artificial intelligence, said Karl Ulfers, cofounder and CEO.

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Patient outcomes point to efficacy of telehealth and virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5 million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telepho

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HCA misses Q3 expectations on costs from staffing firm Valesco

Healthcare Dive

The for-profit reported operational strains associated with its physician staffing firm in its third-quarter earnings.

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Where virtual care meets value-based care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention: Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations. Telemedicine tools can help ensure physicians and their care teams better manage patient care, and the associated workflow, to help their patients stay their h

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Labor shortages, claims denials, supply chain still hamstring hospital margins, survey shows

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare’s days of widespread contract labor reliance may be over, but hospitals and health systems are still frequently reporting labor shortages and other operating hurdles keeping them from he | Contract labor reliance may be largely in the past, but hospital leaders say there's still plenty of hurdles ensuring “a slow climb" to long-term operational sustainability.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Practical Application of AI Delights eClinicalWorks Customers

Healthcare IT Today

eClinicalWorks AI-Assistant During the opening session of the 2023 eClinicalWorks National Conference (#eCWNC23), company CEO Girish Navani unveiled a slew of AI-powered enhancements, including: Ambient clinical voice to create visit notes (through integration with Sunoh.ai ) AI automation to help with revenue cycle management AI to help reduce no-shows Integration of ChatGPT and generative AI to increase efficiency That final category included two enhancements that generated hearty applause and

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Teladoc brings in $660M in Q3 revenue, reaches 90M members as executives focus on boosting bottom line

Fierce Healthcare

Teladoc's third-quarter revenue grew 8% to reach $660 million, boosted by solid performance in its chronic condition management business and steady membership growth as the company now touts 90 mil | Teladoc's scale, strong financial position and free cash flow performance put the company in a competitive position compared to many virtual care startups struggling in the current macroeconomic environment, executives said.

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Japanese doctors start adopting gen AI

Mobi Health News

Ubie has recently introduced an LLM-based feature that provides an automated summary of patient pre-interviews.

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Direct Contracting model reaches nearly $500M in net savings

Fierce Healthcare

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) unveiled 2022 calendar year results for the Direct Contracting Model on Monday. | More than three-quarters of those who participated in the program reaped savings, data from CMMI revealed.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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3 in 4 Patients Don’t Trust AI in Healthcare Setting

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Carta Healthcare®, a company whose mission is to improve patient care by harnessing the value of clinical data, today announced the results of a survey measuring American perception and trust of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Propeller Insights conducted an online survey of 1,027 U.S. consumers between August 18 and August 29, 2023.

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Independent pharmacies sue Express Scripts, allege price-fixing

Fierce Healthcare

Several independent pharmacies have filed suit against pharmacy benefit management giant Express Scripts, alleging that the company colluded with Prime Therapeutics to fix reimbursement rates. | Several independent pharmacies have filed suit against pharmacy benefit management giant Express Scripts, alleging that the company colluded with Prime Therapeutics to fix reimbursement rates.

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Israel Defense Forces to Utilize UltraSight’s PoCUS Devices in Combat

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UltraSight – an AI-powered micro-ultrasound company that is revolutionizing cardiac sonography to enable more accurate and timely clinical decisions – is now offering its services to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The device has FDA clearance and is now available in Israel, the UK, and the US. – Many of the IDF soldiers will now have an ultrasound in their pocket.

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HCA Healthcare's newly consolidated physician staffing venture is bleeding $50M per quarter, execs tell investors

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's note: Updated at 12:15 p.m. Oct. 24 with commentary from HCA Healthcare's Q3 earnings call. | The for-profit system celebrated "continued solid demand for our services" during its Q3 2023 earnings call, but had to defend its decisions surrounding Valesco Physician Services to analysts and investors.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

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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Exclusive: Caregiver support platform Helpful partners with VNS Health

Mobi Health News

Users of Helpful can now access a loved one's benefit information about their New York-based health plan and select medical records through its app.

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The Value of Time in Nursing: Maximizing Patient Care and Outcomes

Symplr

In nursing, there are special moments that time allows to happen. Through moments of joy, fear, sadness, anger, grief, or gratitude, it’s a nurse’s job to be there through it all.

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Why Secure Data Archiving is Critical to Fortifying Your Healthcare Organization’s Technology Stack

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Shawn Fergason, Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Technology Services at MediQuant Securing healthcare data archiving is not just good practice – it’s essential for safeguarding confidential patient information and should be a cornerstone of a healthcare organization’s cybersecurity program. Alongside other protective measures, data archiving plays a pivotal role in strengthening security by retiring applications and software that aren’

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UnitedHealthcare adding 4 new states to ACA exchange footprint for 2024

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare is expanding its footprint on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges to four new states in 2024, the insurance giant

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

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.

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Cortica Closes $40 Million Series D Extension Led by CVS Health Ventures, LRVHealth, and Other Strategic Investors, Bringing Round Total to $115 Million

Healthcare IT Today

Funding to Support Expanded Access to Whole-Child, Value-Based, Outcomes-Driven Autism Care Cortica , the United States’ leading physician-led, whole-child, value-based autism services company, has raised $40 million in a Series D extension, bringing the total Series D round to $115 million. The extension was entirely strategic, led by CVS Health Ventures , in conjunction with LRVHealth , Ascension Investment Management (a subsidiary of Ascension ), and the University of Wisconsin F

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AI Model Finds 55% of Commercially Insured Women Unlikely to Get a Mammogram

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cedar Gate Technologies’ advanced AI analytics platform has identified that 55% of commercially insured women are unlikely to get a mammogram. Leveraging this proprietary AI, Cedar Gate evaluated nearly 2.4 million women in its national healthcare benchmark database. – The model surfaces a probability score for whether or not a woman is likely to get a mammogram based on U.S.

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Centene boosts guidance on the back of $469M in Q3 profit

Fierce Healthcare

Centene Corporation posted $469 million in profit for the third quarter, according to its earnings report released Tuesday morning.

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AI-Massage Powered by Robotics: Redefining Healthcare and Wellness

HIT Consultant

Dennis Ledenkof, CEO of Robosculptor In an era where technological breakthroughs reshape traditional industries, the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics delivers extraordinary transformations in healthcare and wellness. The emergence of AI-driven robotic massage devices is not only revolutionizing the quintessential relaxation experience but also poised to redefine the fundamental dynamics of healthcare practices.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

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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OrbiMed scores more than $4.3B in private investment funds

Mobi Health News

The investment firm's portfolio includes tech-enabled drug discovery startup Insilico and fertility benefits manager Carrot Fertility.

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Princess Alexandra deploys digital experience management solution

Digital Health News

Deploying a digital experience management solution from Riverbed will see Princess Alexandra save up to £3m in IT costs over the course of five years.

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A Global Food Retailer Connects Climate Change and ESG to Consumers’ Health

Health Populi

In the food sector, “the opportunity for us and the role that we play is to connect climate and health,” Daniella Vega of Ahold Delhaize told Valerio Baselli during the Morningstar Sustainable Investing Summit 2023. In a conversation discussing the importance of non-financial metrics in companies’ ESG efforts, Vega connected the dots between climate change, retail grocery, and consumers’ health and well-being.

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Northern Care Alliance cuts referral times with Bleepa

Digital Health News

A review into the use of Bleepa at Northern Care Alliance NHS FT has found the clinical communications platform reduced referral wait times by 75%.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

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.