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Putting a Price Tag on Healthcare Middlemen

HealthIT Answers

By David Burda - Healthcare middlemen like group purchasing organizations, distributors and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) add costs to our already bloated healthcare system, not subtract costs through savings like they claim. The post Putting a Price Tag on Healthcare Middlemen appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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RFID: Increasing Patient Safety and Operational Efficiencies

Healthcare IT Today

Hospital pharmacy leaders, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians have long strived to ensure the accuracy of medications delivered throughout the healthcare system, be it in operating rooms, crash carts, or various specialized areas. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers.

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9amHealth Raises $9.5M Series A Extension Led by The Cigna Group Ventures to Expand to Employers Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

After Being Selected by Leading PBMs, Benefits Navigators, and Health Plans as the Virtual Cardiometabolic Provider of Choice, 9amHealth Increases the Round’s Total to $25M 9amHealth , the leading virtual provider for cardiometabolic health, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A extension round today.

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RFID breakthroughs poised to transform healthcare

Healthcare It News

Early forays into the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in the healthcare industry were plagued with issues. “The main benefit of these advances is that they made RFID an efficient, trusted way for drug manufacturers to communicate all essential product information to clinicians and hospital staff.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. We know that “health information” encompasses much more than data stored in a health plan’s claims system or a pharmacy benefit manager’s computer data base.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

He shared this image from Cracked Labs which illustrates the many data sources beyond the legacy health care claim that stakeholders can access and, if used for good, can benefit patient care and health outcomes. Technology is re-shaping physical retail, from Tiffany and Nike to retail pharmacy. for Americans.

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Day 4 Notes from the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Healthcare Law Blog

According to McKinsey, “the cost to treat the diabetes of a patient with depression is, on average, almost $20,000 higher than for a patient without depression, due to factors such as medical complications, reduced access to preventive care, and challenges with illness self-management.” Bring on the Robots.