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22 Nov 2024
Exclusive bolsters services depth with Cloudrise buy
Distributor extends presence in the US and gains more expertise to share across the global organisation
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22 Nov 2024
Making a channel event hit the target
The industry enjoys a good get together, but with pressure on time, those organising conferences have to pitch it just right. MicroScope speaks to Distology to find out how
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22 Nov 2024
Swiss encrypted messaging service, ePost, targets one million postal users
Swiss ePost chief Renato Stalder bets on encrypted communications as demand for letter delivery falls
Health IT News from the past 365 days
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02 Feb 2024
Preterm and Early-Term Birth Rates in the US Increased Since 2014
An analysis of the births by gestational age indicated a shift toward shorter gestational age as the rates of preterm and early-term births increased since 2014.
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02 Feb 2024
Predictive Model Accurately Tracks Alzheimer's Disease Progression
The DETree framework combines Alzheimer’s progression modeling with individual prediction to forecast how a patient’s disease may develop over time.
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02 Feb 2024
HCSC Announces $3.3B Cigna Medicare Business Acquisition
Barring regulatory or conditional challenges, the payer expects the acquisition to be finalized in early 2025.
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02 Feb 2024
Breaking Down the Cost of Sickle Cell Disease Gene Therapies
As CMS attempts to navigate the astronomical costs of new sickle cell disease treatments, including gene therapy, it is critical to break down treatment costs.
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02 Feb 2024
Hospital Finances Approach Pre-Pandemic Levels
2023 was a much more promising year for hospitals as margins improved by more than 15% compared to the previous year, Kaufman Hall reports.
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02 Feb 2024
Patient Education Key as Home Medical Devices Pose Patient Safety Threat
At-home medical devices can be confusing to use, posing a potential patient safety hazard, but experts say patient education and user-centered design could help.
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01 Feb 2024
HHS Final Rule to Solidify Access to OUD Medications via Telehealth
The agency plans to make permanent pandemic-era flexibilities, including expanding telehealth access to medications for opioid use disorder.
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01 Feb 2024
Hospital Outpatient Departments Preserve Care Access for Rural Patients
Rural populations receiving care at hospital outpatient departments tend to be dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and have complex health conditions.
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01 Feb 2024
CDC Data Raises Concerns About Rising Syphilis Cases
A CDC analysis of STI data from 2022 prompts concerns about rising syphilis cases despite chlamydia cases stabilizing and gonorrhea cases declining over the past year.
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01 Feb 2024
Mislabeled Packaging Results in Recalled ADHD Medication
Last week, Azurity Pharmaceuticals issued a voluntary recall of Zenzedi, an ADHD and narcolepsy medication, due to mislabeled packaging.
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01 Feb 2024
Lawmakers Lobby for Payment and Policy Stability in Medicare Advantage
The group of senators called for payment and policy stability in Medicare Advantage in the wake of new marketing, competition, and prior authorization standards.
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31 Jan 2024
CMS Proposes 3.7% Increase in Medicare Advantage Plan Payments
In addition to an increase in Medicare Advantage plan payments, CMS proposed updates to the Part D risk adjustment model and star ratings.
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31 Jan 2024
VA Cuts Homelessness, SDOH by 55% with Housing First Model
The crux of VA’s housing first model was the addition of wraparound care and social services to address homelessness and other SDOH.
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31 Jan 2024
Vertex Non-Opioid Drug Is an Effective Pain Management Medication
Vertex Pharmaceutical announced the positive results from a phase 3 clinical trial on VX-548, a non-opioid pain management drug, in a press announcement.
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31 Jan 2024
Epic Study Finds Health Data Exchange Lowers Risk of Code Blue
In patients with a higher level of acuity in the ED, the presence of outside health data is linked to a 34 to 63 percent reduced risk of a code blue event, an Epic study found.
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31 Jan 2024
How Affordability Challenges Reveal Care Disparities for ESI Members
Although some populations were more likely to utilize services like mental healthcare or preventive care, care disparities showed up in their affordability challenges.
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31 Jan 2024
Healthcare Administrative Spending Increased by 50%
Staffing shortages, security challenges, and increased time needed to conduct transactions are behind a significant rise in healthcare administrative spending, CAQH reports.
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31 Jan 2024
Insurance Broker Data Breach Impacts 1.5M Individuals
Keenan & Associates suffered a data breach in August 2023 that potentially exposed some client health information.
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31 Jan 2024
Safeguards Needed for Generative AI EHR Data Summarization
A viewpoint published in JAMA notes that EHR data summarization LLMs could perpetuate bias, underscoring the need for FDA oversight.
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31 Jan 2024
Data-Focused Strategy May Hinder Generative AI Deployment in Healthcare
New Deloitte survey suggests that healthcare leaders must focus on data, governance, consumers, and the workforce to successfully implement generative AI.
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31 Jan 2024
Lawmakers Call on HHS to Collaborate on Telehealth Access Policies
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and Congressional branches are urging HHS to work with them to ensure that expanded access to telehealth is not curtailed.
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31 Jan 2024
Are Consumers Left Behind in Healthcare’s Generative AI Talks?
While focus on data quality and regulatory compliance is high, the consumer perspective is missing from healthcare’s talks of generative AI.
- 30 Jan 2024
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30 Jan 2024
Discontinued Treatment for GHD Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
Human growth hormone injections derived from cadaver pituitary glands were linked to non-contagious, transmittable Alzheimer’s disease in patients with GHD.
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30 Jan 2024
After Slowdown, ACO Participation in Shared Savings Program Grows
ACO participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program grows to 480 participants, while 245 organizations are in two Innovation Center models.
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30 Jan 2024
No Surprises Act Prevented 10M Surprise Medical Bills, But IDR Use Grows
An estimated 670,000 commercial claims were submitted to the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process last year.
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30 Jan 2024
PJ&A Data Breach Fallout Continues, 4M Additional Individuals Impacted
Concentra Health Services reported a nearly 4 million-record data breach to HHS stemming from a previously disclosed data breach at Perry Johnson & Associates, a medical transcription company.
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30 Jan 2024
Machine Learning, ‘Liquid Biopsy’ to Bolster Early Cancer Detection
Researchers leveraging a machine learning-based “fragmentomics” approach may be able to detect cancer sooner using smaller blood samples than traditional methods.
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30 Jan 2024
Patient-Provider Communication About Dementia Left Wanting
Social stigma, among other barriers, get in the way of patient-provider communication about dementia, but there are key strategies to overcome that.
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29 Jan 2024
Data Augmentation May Improve LLM Generalization on Clinical Notes
Using large language models in a healthcare domain-informed manner could address dataset shifts and enhance generalizability in AI-driven medical note analysis.
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29 Jan 2024
73% of Digital Health Companies Use Standards-Based EHR APIs
While most digital health companies use standards-based EHR APIs for EHR integration, nearly the same number of companies reported the use of proprietary EHR APIs.
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29 Jan 2024
FL Bill Seeks to Reduce Cyber Incident Liability For Entities That Meet Industry Standards
Under the Cybersecurity Incident Liability Act, Florida businesses would not be liable in connection with a cybersecurity incident provided they comply with certain cyber standards.
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29 Jan 2024
UC San Diego Risk Stratification AI Predicts Sepsis, Reduces Mortality
UC San Diego Health’s artificial intelligence tool to predict sepsis infection risk in emergency department patients has reduced mortality by 17 percent.
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29 Jan 2024
State Changes to Telehealth Policy Appear to be Stagnating
Last year, most states only tweaked their telehealth policies and laws, showing progress toward a more flexible telehealth landscape has slowed, per a new report.
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29 Jan 2024
HHS Seeks Stakeholder Input to Improve Medicare Advantage Transparency
The request for information seeks feedback on access to care, provider networks, and competition in the Medicare Advantage program.
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29 Jan 2024
What’s Driving Pediatric Use of Urgent Care & Retail Health?
The number of kids visiting an urgent care or retail health clinic increased from 21% in 2021 to 28 percent in 2022, CDC said.
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26 Jan 2024
Researchers Observe Increase in Emerging Ransomware Groups Targeting Healthcare
Healthcare used to be an off-limits sector for ransomware groups, but emerging ransomware gangs were not afraid to target the sector in 2023, GuidePoint Security observed.
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26 Jan 2024
Artificial Intelligence Models May Enhance Immunotherapy Treatments
Research findings from Cleveland Clinic and IBM demonstrated how AI models can better show how immune systems recognize threats, which may improve immunotherapies.
- 26 Jan 2024
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26 Jan 2024
CBT Reduced Frontal and Parietal Activity in Children with Anxiety
An NIH study tracking brain activity in children with anxiety revealed that cognitive behavioral therapy reduced previously elevated activity in the frontal and parietal lobes.
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26 Jan 2024
Patients Maintain Weight Loss One Year After Discontinuing GLP-1 Drugs
An Epic Research study evaluating the long-term effects of GLP-1 drugs noted that patients maintained weight loss for one year after stopping semaglutide and liraglutide.
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25 Jan 2024
Pennsylvania HIEs, Health IT Vendor Partner on SDOH Referral Tool
Health IT vendor findhelp and Pennsylvania's Consortium of HIEs are creating a platform called PA Navigate that aims to improve SDOH referrals and drive health equity across the state.
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25 Jan 2024
Eli Lilly Gene Therapy Restores Hearing Within 30 Days
Eli Lilly recently announced the success of their gene therapy for genetic hearing loss, noting it had restored hearing in a pediatric patient within 30 days.
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25 Jan 2024
Bugcrowd sees surge in vulnerability submissions, led by public sector
Crowdsourced vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty platform Bugcrowd says it saw a 151% uptick in submissions related to government and public sector organisations in 2023
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25 Jan 2024
Tony Blair Institute calls for creation of NHS Data Trust
The NHS would have a majority stake in the data trust, with additional investment from private sector companies, harnessing anonymised data as a competitive asset, proposes the think thank
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25 Jan 2024
Senators Reintroduce Bill to Ease Telemental Healthcare Access
The legislation would lift the requirement that Medicare beneficiaries seeking telehealth for mental health conditions first have an in-person visit.
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25 Jan 2024
Survey Reveals Revenue Cycle Management Concerns for 2024
As challenges persist, half of healthcare leaders plan to invest in new revenue cycle management technology in the next 12 to 18 months.
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25 Jan 2024
ML Model Predicts Complications Following Cardiovascular Interventions
A machine learning model outperformed standard tools for predicting death and other serious complications in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
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25 Jan 2024
Healthcare Workers Urge Health Systems to Address Climate Change
A survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed that approximately 80% of clinicians believe their hospitals should be working to address climate change and its climate impact.
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24 Jan 2024
WebKit vulnerability sparks Apple’s first major security update of 2024
A zero-day in the open source WebKit browser engine that powers Safari has sparked Apple’s first major patch roll-out of the new year
- 24 Jan 2024
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24 Jan 2024
Preventable Hospitalizations More Common for Black Patients
The analysis of Medicaid enrollees showed that Black patients had higher preventable hospitalization rates for heart failure than their White counterparts.
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24 Jan 2024
NY Charges Midwife $300K for Falsifying Vaccine Records
New York State Department of Health issued Nassau County midwife $300K for falsifying vaccine records and administering nearly 12,500 fake immunizations.
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24 Jan 2024
AI will heighten global ransomware threat, says NCSC
The benefits of artificial intelligence to cyber criminals being well-known, the NCSC now assesses it’s likely AI will soon be widely used to enhance ransomware attacks
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24 Jan 2024
HHS Unveils Healthcare Cybersecurity Performance Goals
The voluntary cybersecurity performance goals follow HHS’ recently released healthcare cybersecurity concept paper and provide a roadmap for improving security across the sector.
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24 Jan 2024
NYC Partners with Non-Profit to Relieve $2B in Medical Debt for Residents
New York City residents with low incomes and substantial medical debt will experience one-time debt relief through the partnership.
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24 Jan 2024
Mississippi Health System Suffers Ransomware Attack, 253K Individuals Impacted
Ransomware attacks, theft, and unauthorized access were the causes of several recent data breaches reported to HHS recently.
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24 Jan 2024
UnitedHealth Group Saw Revenue and Enrollment Growth in 2023
UnitedHealth Group’s revenue increased by more than $47 billion, with UnitedHealthcare and Optum both seeing growth.
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24 Jan 2024
Precision Medicine Tool May Enhance Pancreatic Cancer Outcome Prediction
Cedars-Sinai’s Molecular Twin Precision Oncology Platform has outperformed the only FDA-approved test to predict pancreatic cancer survival.
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24 Jan 2024
CDC States JN.1 Accounts for Nearly 90% of Circulating COVID Variants
A recent CDC update on respiratory viruses, including influenza and COVID-19, revealed that JN.1 is the most prevalent COVID variant.
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24 Jan 2024
55% of Rural Orgs Lack Labor & Delivery, Cause Maternity Deserts
Experts may consider staffing and reimbursement policies to alleviate the nation’s growing maternity desert and care access problems.
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23 Jan 2024
Treat cyber risk like financial or legal issue, says UK government
UK government and NCSC launch proposed code of practice on cyber security governance to help directors and business leaders toughen their defences
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23 Jan 2024
Leak of 26 billion records may prove to be ‘mother of all breaches’
The discovery of a dataset comprising 26 billion stolen records may prove to be record-breaking in both its size and the danger it poses to ordinary people
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23 Jan 2024
UCLA Releases Public-Access Surgical Outcomes Database for AI Training
The new Medical Informatics Operating Room Vitals and Events Repository is set to advance the development of AI algorithms to predict surgical outcomes.
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23 Jan 2024
OOP Costs Greater for Cancer Patients in High-Deductible Health Plans
After switching to a high-deductible health plan, out-of-pocket costs increased by 68.1 percent for patients with cancer relative to those in traditional plans.
- 23 Jan 2024
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23 Jan 2024
Threat Actors Abuse ScreenConnect Access to Target Healthcare
HC3 issued a sector alert warning healthcare organizations of potential unauthorized access to systems as a result of threat actors abusing the remote access tool ScreenConnect.
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23 Jan 2024
Patient Boarding in the ED Soars by A Third at MGH, Harms Experience
Mass General Hospital is building out inpatient capacity to reduce the practice of boarding patients in the emergency department, which harms experience.
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22 Jan 2024
KLAS: Improved EHR Efficiency Can Mitigate Early-Stage Clinician Burnout
To help address clinician burnout in its early stages, organizations can focus on EHR efficiency by providing additional EHR training, KLAS authors said.
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22 Jan 2024
WHO Releases Governance Guidelines for Generative Artificial Intelligence
New guidance from the World Health Organization outlines how stakeholders can ensure the appropriate use of large multi-modal AI models in healthcare.
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22 Jan 2024
New Reality of Medicare Physician Payments, Future with MIPS
Medicare physician payments have always been a source of debate, leading to several changes in its payment model as it continues its shift to value-based care.
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22 Jan 2024
Steward Health Care Faces Financial Troubles, Possible Closures
Steward Health Care may have to close some facilities as the for-profit health system navigates financial distress.
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22 Jan 2024
Healthcare Data Breaches Continue to Impact Patients in New Year
Several healthcare data breaches have been reported to HHS so far in 2024, all of which occurred in 2023 or earlier.
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22 Jan 2024
Financial Distress Drove 2023 Merger and Acquisition Activity
Financial distress was cited as a factor in 28 percent of the 65 announced healthcare mergers and acquisitions in 2023.
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22 Jan 2024
UnitedHealthcare Platform Improves Member Access to Well-being Programs
The platform can connect members with well-being programs that are specific to their healthcare needs.
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19 Jan 2024
FDA Expands Approval of CASGEVY for Beta Thalassemia
Following its revolutionary approval as the first CRISPR-based gene therapy, the FDA expanded the indications for CASGEVY, approving it for beta thalassemia.
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19 Jan 2024
NIH-Developed Antibodies Neutralize HIV in Animal Studies
A proof-of-concept animal study on rhesus macaques proved that an NIH-developed antibody can protect against various strains of HIV.
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19 Jan 2024
AHA Warns Hospitals of IT Help Desk Social Engineering Scheme
Threat actors have been using the stolen identities of revenue cycle employees to launch social engineering schemes against hospital IT help desks.
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19 Jan 2024
Provider Groups Say Final Rule Will Relieve Prior Authorization Burdens
Provider groups, including the American Medical Association and the Medical Group Management Association, said the final rule will help streamline prior authorization processes.
- 19 Jan 2024
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19 Jan 2024
Predictive Models for Personalized Medicine Have Limited Generalizability
New study reveals that the predictive algorithms used to tailor individual treatments have limited effectiveness and may not generalize well across populations.
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19 Jan 2024
ONC Publishes Draft USCDI v5 to Drive Health Data Interoperability
ONC added 13 new data elements to United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Draft Version 5, including “Sex Parameter for Clinical Use.”
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18 Jan 2024
Tribal Healthcare System Selects MEDITECH Cloud-Based EHR
Winnebago Comprehensive Healthcare System and 36 other healthcare organizations tapped the MEDITECH cloud-based EHR platform in 2023.
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18 Jan 2024
New Medicaid Payment Model Targets Behavioral Health Integration
CMS announced an 8-year Medicaid payment model that will incent behavioral health integration for people with Medicare and Medicaid.
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18 Jan 2024
Four States Identify Measles Outbreak This Year
Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia reported measles cases in the past month, indicating concerns about vaccination uptake.
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18 Jan 2024
Massachusetts Fertility Test Center Reaches $1.25M Data Breach Settlement
Class members alleged that ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics failed to protect patient data and delayed notification following a data breach.
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18 Jan 2024
AI-Driven Eye Exams May Increase Screening Rates Among Diabetic Youth
Diabetic eye exams that leverage artificial intelligence may increase exam completion rates and improve patient outcomes among children and adolescents.
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18 Jan 2024
Underserved MA Beneficiaries Opt for Plans with Supplemental Benefits
Black individuals were 11.2 percentage points more likely to enroll in a plan with a comprehensive dental benefit, highlighting the attraction of supplemental benefits for underserved beneficiaries.
- 18 Jan 2024
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18 Jan 2024
CVS Report Predicts 2024 Trends in Community Pharmacy
The Rx Report published by CVS Health evaluated multiple trends in community pharmacy and predicted their future changes.
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17 Jan 2024
Deep Learning Tool May Help Detect Pediatric Rheumatic Heart Disease
A new deep learning model can detect rheumatic heart disease in children with high accuracy, which could improve screening in areas lacking cardiologists.
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17 Jan 2024
A Third of Older Adults Using DTC mHealth Services Do Not Tell PCPs
Most older adults use direct-to-consumer services for prescriptions, but survey results show that a third do not inform their regular PCPs of the new medications.
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17 Jan 2024
Medication Errors in Kids Cut in Half with Better Caregiver Education
A more in-depth caregiver education process during hospital discharge cut medication errors in kids from 54% to 30%.
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17 Jan 2024
CMS Finalizes Payer Requirements to Streamline Prior Authorization
Payers must send prior authorization decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests and seven calendar days for standard requests, CMS finalized.
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17 Jan 2024
CMS Releases Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule
The CMS final rule requires impacted payers to implement an HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) API to automate the prior authorization process between providers and payers.
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17 Jan 2024
States Leverage Waivers To Support Medicaid Redetermination
CMS has categorized the waivers for Medicaid redetermination into four buckets, of which ex parte renewals had the highest adoption rate among states.
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17 Jan 2024
University of Massachusetts DL Model to Predict Alzheimer’s Onset
New NIH-funded project aims to spur the development of a deep learning tool for predicting Alzheimer's two or more years before symptom onset.
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17 Jan 2024
Mayo Clinic Launches Weight Loss Prescription Program
Mayo Clinic is establishing the Mayo Clinic Diet Medical Weight Loss Rx Program to help patients on weight loss drugs manage symptoms and enforce other lifestyle changes.
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16 Jan 2024
Healthcare Consumers Want Hospital Price Transparency, Survey Finds
A third of healthcare consumers believe Congress should prioritize hospital price transparency.
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16 Jan 2024
Testosterone Replacement Therapy Linked to 7.9% Greater CVD Risk
An epic research study evaluating men with low testosterone on hormone replacement therapy links this treatment to an increased CVD risk.