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Medicare Advantage plans provide less intensive post-acute care, study finds

Healthcare Dive

The research found no differences in 30-day hospital readmissions or mortality, but the study’s authors said more analysis on patients’ long-term functioning was needed.

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Navigating the Interoperability Maze: 3 Key Challenges for Healthcare Providers and Payers

MRO Compliance

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. Here we explore the three main interoperability challenges that continue to shape the narrative in healthcare.

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CMS finalizes rule to cut Medicaid DSH payments for some hospitals

Healthcare Dive

Under the new definition, hospitals can only receive disproportionate share hospital Medicaid reimbursements for beneficiaries who are primarily insured by the safety-net program.

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Virtual second opinions are popular but wariness persists on AI diagnosis tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A survey by the Cleveland Clinic revealed nearly four in ten respondents had reservations around seeking a second opinion if the provider used AI diagnostic tools.

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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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CHS’ income falls in the fourth quarter as costs continue to climb

Healthcare Dive

The Franklin, Tennessee-based hospital operator’s net income in Q4 dropped nearly 90% year over year.

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UnitedHealth, HAC study: How social health factors impact employer plans

Fierce Healthcare

Given the impact that social factors have on overall health, employers can better manage costs and outcomes by embracing deeper, population-level data analysis, according to a new white paper. | Given the impact that social factors have on overall health, employers can better manage costs and outcomes by embracing deeper, population-level data analysis, according to a new white paper.

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World Health Organisation launches Global Initiative on Digital Health

Digital Health News

The World Health Organization Tuesday launched its new Global Initiative on Digital Health, designed to aid country-led digital health transformation.

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Teladoc still looking for tech investments, M&A amid operational review

Healthcare Dive

The telehealth vendor is trimming expenses, but it could pursue deals with strategically or financially attractive companies.

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Virtual second opinions are popular but wariness persists on AI diagnosis tools

Mobi Health News

A survey by the Cleveland Clinic revealed nearly four in ten respondents had reservations around seeking a second opinion if the provider used AI diagnostic tools.

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MA enrollees constrained by prior auth but docs more likely to ask about health assessments: report

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are more likely than traditional Medicare enrollees to experience delays in care while they wait for prior authorization approval, but MA members are likely to | Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare enrollees experience similar access to services and similar challenges, a report from the Commonwealth Fund concluded.

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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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Navigating the Interoperability Maze: 3 Key Challenges for Healthcare Providers and Payers

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. Here we explore the three main interoperability challenges that continue to shape the narrative in healthcare.

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Many disproportionate share hospitals face lower Medicaid payments under new final rule

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments are being cut by $8 billion annually during the current and next four federal fiscal years under a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Serv | Published Tuesday and set to go into effect in two months, the final rule limits the calculation of a hospitals Medicaid shortfall to beneficiaries with Medicaid as their primary payer.

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93% of Physicians Feeling Burned Out, Overburdened, and Hopeful for AI Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – 93% of physicians are experiencing regular burnout, spending an average of 15 extra hours per work outside normal hours, according to athenahealth’s latest Nationwide Physician Sentiment Survey. – The athenahealth Physician Sentiment Survey provides valuable insights into the current state of American healthcare. Addressing the challenges highlighted in the survey is crucial to ensuring the well-being of both doctors and patients, while harnessing the potentia

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How Visibility into Compensation and Performance Can Boost Clinician Retention

Fierce Healthcare

How Visibility into Compensation and Performance Can Boost Clinician Retention | To support the delivery of best-in-class patient care, clinicians require a clear line of sight into how they are performing.

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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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Netflix for Healthcare: Direct Primary Care & Shared Decision-Making

HIT Consultant

Dr. Jacob DeWitt, MD, U H SM Ambassador and Founder, Integrative Direct Primary Care In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. Backing this up are recent findings by the Federal Reserve Board, which unearth an uncomfortable truth—that 28% of adults in the U.S. were compelled to forgo medical care in 2022 due to exorbitant costs.

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Leading Healthcare Payer Consulting Firm HealthScape Advisors Joins Chartis

Healthcare IT Today

This Acquisition Positions Chartis to Help Clients Achieve Transformational Healthcare Change Chartis , a leading healthcare advisory firm, today announced that it has acquired HealthScape Advisors , a leading healthcare payer consulting firm. Based in Chicago with 160 professionals, HealthScape helps payers across all segments, including commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, and federal, navigate the evolving healthcare landscape.

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Particle Health Unveils Patient Monitoring Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Particle Health, an intelligent data platform that aggregates and delivers actionable patient data and insights to healthcare companies, today announced the availability of its new Patient Monitoring Solution, a purpose-built technology-enabled offering designed to give provider organizations a 360-degree view of their patient’s care journey and how they interact with the healthcare system.

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How data can help make ‘care closer to home’ a reality

Digital Health News

Poor quality data is partly to blame for the failure to shift care out of hospitals and into the community. But simple steps can make data an enabler of change, writes The King's Fund's Danielle Jefferies.

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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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Trilliant Health Launches Network Explorer: An Application To Improve Network Performance With Real-World Data

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Trilliant Health, the leading provider of data-driven strategy analytics for the health economy, announced the launch of Network Explorer, a point-and-click application to manage network performance. Network Explorer enables stakeholders across the health economy to form evidence-based strategies to improve their network performance.

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Answer Digital partners with Lunit and AZmed for speedy AI deployments

Digital Health News

Lunit and AZmed have both formed strategic partnerships with Answer Digital that will help support the speedy deployment of AI models to clinical pathways.

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UCHealth filed over 15,000 lawsuits against patients over 5 years, often under another name, report finds

Fierce Healthcare

Over the past half decade, 15,710 collections lawsuits have been filed against patients by or on behalf of Aurora, Colorado-based UCHealth, according to a recently published investigative report.

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XiFin Appoints Erik Sallee as Chief Financial Officer & EVP

HIT Consultant

Erik Sallee, Chief Financial Officer at XiFin What You Should Know: – XiFin, Inc., a pioneering force in healthcare information technologies, has announced the appointment of Erik Sallee as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Vice President. – With a wealth of experience in finance and a track record of success in leading organizations through transformative growth phases, Sallee’s arrival marks a significant milestone for XiFin as it charts its course towards e

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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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Computer Assisted Professional Coding is Helping St. Joseph’s Be More Resilient

Healthcare IT Today

The team at St. Joseph’s Health in NJ implemented computer assisted professional coding (CAPC) to streamline their revenue cycle management processes. The resulting improvements are helping the organization be more resilient in these challenging times. Dr. Beth Kushner, Chief Medical Information Officer at St. Joseph’s , recently sat down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss the revenue cycle management (RCM) improvements her team has made.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

Digital Health News

Today's briefing covers Tagomics announcing a £6.7 million funding round and the PREDICT-PD study exceeding 10,000 participants.

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Fabric Raises $60M to Automate Healthcare with AI-powered Care Enablement System

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Fabric , a leading care enablement platform developer, announced today a $60 million Series A funding round led by General Catalyst, with continued participation from Thrive Capital, GV (Google Ventures), and other notable investors. – The funding will be used to fuel Fabric’s mission to humanize healthcare by automating administrative and clinical tasks, empowering both patients and clinicians.

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Massachusetts 1115 waiver success can translate to New York: experts

Fierce Healthcare

The blueprint set forth by Massachusetts accountable care organizations to improve population health metrics and reduce costs can be applied to New York, after Centers for Medicare & Medic | New York's section 1115 waiver allocates $500 million toward social care networks to connect community health workers with local organizations. ACO leaders and tech experts say the state can learn from Massachusetts' experience.

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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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Surgical robotics company Medical Microinstruments secures $110M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Blackbird Health, which offers technology-based mental healthcare for youth, scored $17 million in Series A funding.

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ViVE 2024 in LA: Consider these Sessions

HealthIT Answers

The four-day ViVE 2024 agenda includes sessions and content tailored to digital health executives in various roles to ensure that your ViVE 2024 experience is personalized. Consider these sessions to attend! The post ViVE 2024 in LA: Consider these Sessions appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Avista Acquires Terrats Medical

McGuire Wood

Avista Capital Partners has announced it has acquired Terrats Medical from Miura Partners. Terrats , based in Barcelona, Spain, is a provider of dental prosthetics. The company sells into more than 50 countries. Avista , based in New York, makes control buyout investments in middle market healthcare companies. Founded in 2005, the firm focuses on the following healthcare subsectors: pharmaceuticals, medical devices, outsourced pharmaceutical services, distribution and consumer-driven healthcar

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Sharing Health Data Update February 2024

HealthIT Answers

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 February 2024 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.