Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 3, 2023
Cigna’s medical costs in the quarter were “well-controlled,” one analyst said, but faced pressure from higher estimated risk-adjustment payments in the ACA individual exchanges.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 3, 2023
Engaging patients and communities to take surveys is always a challenging task for provider organizations of all shapes and sizes, regardless of who they serve. But in some communities, gaining population-based insights is critically important, despite the challenges. THE PROBLEM With any survey, efforts must be made to best explain the end result and how it will impact overall patient satisfaction and outcomes.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 3, 2023
Independent evaluation could help the healthcare industry figure out which digital health products are backed by evidence, argues Caroline Pearson, executive director of the nonprofit Peterson Center on Healthcare.
Health Populi
AUGUST 3, 2023
An aging U.S. population with a preference for growing older at home — and a fiscally challenging health care financing outlook — are setting the demographic and financial table for the shift of medical care to peoples’ homes discussed in The State of Health at Home Models: Key Considerations and Opportunities , published by the American Medical Association (AMA).
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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
AUGUST 3, 2023
On Monday, AdventHealth and CommonSpirit announced their joint venture, Centura Health, has officially dissolved after almost three decades.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 3, 2023
Scripta Insights, a digital health company focused on pharmacy navigation, is teaming up with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company to bring transparent drug pricing to patients. | Scripta will integrate Cost Plus Drugs’ discounted pricing into its platform to help members understand their medication options.
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 3, 2023
This week, enforcement of San Diego’s new homeless encampment ba | Street medicine entails delivering medical care to those without housing or living in poverty, whether on the streets or in shelters. Such programs have been shown to provide significant cost savings and be a cost-effective way to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities in underserved populations—particularly as Medicaid redeterminations threaten many individuals' access to care.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 3, 2023
The trial linked the AI-supported screen-reading procedure, ScreenPoint Medical’s Transpara, to a 44% reduction in radiologist workload.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 3, 2023
What You Should Know: Interwell Health , a value-based kidney care company, has recently expanded its network with more than 20 new physician practices–supporting the shift to more value-based kidney care. The Interwell Health provider network now includes 1,700 nephrologists from across the country who are aligned with its mission to reimagine kidney care and help people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) live healthier lives.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 3, 2023
The healthcare and hospital group leverages data to track costs, engage with suppliers and fortify itself against future disruptions.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 3, 2023
Large-scale sociopolitical issues are causing negative mental health effects on the country’s younger population. | Society's biggest problems, like racism and gun violence, are wearing on the mental health of the country's youngest demographic.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 3, 2023
The uninsured rate fell to a record low in March, but Medicaid eligibility checks could reverse that progress, according to experts.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 3, 2023
What You Should Know: AdvancedMD , a provider of cloud-based healthcare software for independent medical, mental health, and physical therapy practices, announced today the results of a mental health survey of healthcare providers employed at ambulatory practices. The survey revealed patients are more stressed out now than they were three years ago during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 3, 2023
After CHS posted a net income loss of $38 million on Wednesday, leadership told investors they have a plan to recover.
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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
AUGUST 3, 2023
Beena Wood, Senior VP of Product Management, Safety and Medical Affairs, ArisGlobal The future of safety intelligence is now. New safety reporting and analytics advancements have redefined how pharmacovigilance (PV) teams operate by putting next-generation safety intelligence at the fingertips of those needing it most. Teams that can streamline data flow and enable stakeholders to self-service real-time insights are delivering unprecedented value by enabling greater case management visibility an
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 3, 2023
The U.S. is facing a growing youth mental health crisis. In 2019, 13% of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, up 60% from 2007, according to federal data. | Charlie Health launched in Montana and is now available in 25 states with its recent expansion into Maryland and Wisconsin, a milestone the startup shared with Fierce Healthcare exclusively this week.
McGuire Wood
AUGUST 3, 2023
WM Partners recently announced it had acquired Allergy Research Group (ARG) from Kikkoman Corp. ARG , founded in 1979 and based in South Salt Lake, Utah, sells hypoallergenic supplements focused on addressing condition-specific issues to healthcare practitioners. WM Partners , based in Aventura, Fla., is a middle-market private equity firm. Founded in 2015, the firm specializes in buyout investments in the health and wellness sector.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 3, 2023
The following is a guest article by Terry Ray, SVP, Data Security GTM, and Field CTO at Imperva Despite satisfying regulatory requirements, 93% of healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach within the past three years and 57% have been breached more than five times over that span. The alarming frequency and severity of these breaches leave many wondering why.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 3, 2023
CommonSpirit Health and AdventHealth finalized the breakup of Centura Health, a 20-hospital joint venture that ran for 27 years in Colorado and western Kansas, on Aug. | The nonprofits' 20-hospital joint venture had served Colorado and Kansas patients for 27 years. As of Aug. 1, AdventHealth is the direct manager of five hospitals and CommonSpirit the remaining 15.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 3, 2023
What You Should Know: Virtual care TytoCare secures $49M in additional growth funding for their Series D round led by global software investor Insight Partners , which also led TytoCare’s previous round. Notably, the round includes new investors, including MemorialCare — a leading California health system — as well as two major pension funds, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) and Clal.
Medical Gas Compliance
AUGUST 3, 2023
Every day, we come into the office and move papers and look at emails until the phone starts ringing. Then all the needs and crises start driving our activity. This flood of requests and demands challenges anyone to “keep their eye on the prize.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 3, 2023
Dublin’s National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) has become the first healthcare provider in the Republic of Ireland to go live with InterSystems TrakCare.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 3, 2023
The protected health information of 1.7 million Oregon Medicaid patients has been stolen by the Clop threat group, which exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer solution on or around May 30, 2023. The data breach occurred through a contractor used by the Oregon Health Plan – PH Tech – which was informed about the vulnerability and data breach on June 2 by Progress Software.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 3, 2023
Artificial intelligence can be safely used to improve the accuracy of screening of mammography results, according to a study in The Lancet Oncology.
Medical Gas Compliance
AUGUST 3, 2023
For over 50 years, glutaraldehyde has been a high-level disinfectant. As a disinfectant, it is used to eliminate harmful microorganisms on surgical instruments and has other uses as a fixative or preservative in other parts of a healthcare facility. However, it can get into the air from its use as a disinfectant, potentially exposing employees and patients to the chemical.
Kaiser Health News
AUGUST 3, 2023
Under programs set up by the Affordable Care Act, the federal government cuts payments to hospitals that have high rates of readmissions and those with the highest numbers of infections and patient injuries. For the readmission penalties , Medicare cuts as much as 3 percent for each patient, although the average is generally much lower. The patient safety penalties cost hospitals 1 percent of Medicare payments over the federal fiscal year, which runs from October through September.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 3, 2023
There have been so many talented people solving problems and finding new and easier ways to do things in healthcare recently and it is amazing! The world of healthcare is full of individuals that are always seeking improvement. How do we reach more patients? How do we make our clinicians’ lives easier? How do we ease this pain? And who among us doesn’t enjoy getting to break out and play with the latest innovations in healthcare?
Digital Health News
AUGUST 3, 2023
Most Integrated Care Systems are struggling to reach digital maturity. Learning from the best could help them catch up, write Catherine Davies of the Digital Healthcare Council, and Alyson Scurfield of TEC Services Association.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 3, 2023
Multiple major health plans have warned that utilization, particularly in Medicare Advantage (MA), is set to rise in the latter part of this year. | Multiple major health plans have warned that utilization, particularly in Medicare Advantage, is set to rise in the latter part of this year. Cigna executives echoed those sentiments Thursday morning.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 3, 2023
Informa Markets will manage the massive health technology conference, while HIMSS will continue overseeing content and programming.
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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.
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