Healthcare Dive
JULY 31, 2024
The insurer shrank its plan footprint for 2025 in a bid to improve margins. Now, Humana is giving market watchers loose guidance into how that reduction could affect its enrollment along with second quarter results.
Healthcare It News
JULY 1, 2024
Emory Healthcare constantly is evolving and innovating the care it provides. With regard to at-home physical therapy providers, the health system was intrigued to understand how it could expand its service offerings for outpatient care. THE PROBLEM Especially in the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the way Emory thinks about off-site care and forced the health system to reinvent not only how it diagnoses patients, but also how it treats them nonoperatively.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 8, 2024
There has been a lot of discussion around the ways in which artificial intelligence can be used in telehealth, balancing the need for efficiency with patient security and privacy. Howard Hu, CEO of Whereby, vendor of a videoconferencing API for telehealth platforms, knows quite a bit about this niche. His company is implementing AI to enable real-time transcription of patient sessions, freeing practitioners to engage more deeply with patients without the distraction of note-taking.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 25, 2024
Humana inked a new multi-year agreement with Google Cloud to modernize its cloud infrastructure and build out generative AI solutions. | Humana inked a new multi-year agreement with Google Cloud to modernize its cloud infrastructure and build out generative AI solutions.
Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer
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Healthcare IT Today
JULY 9, 2024
MedPeds is strongly oriented toward innovation. Twenty years ago, before the HITECH Act subsidized electronic medical records, MedPeds adopted eClinicalWorks in a purposeful way: They scanned active medical records into eClinicalWorks and took away the clinicians’ pens and paper. But the health care field as a whole has not made such intrepid advances.
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Healthcare Dive
JULY 10, 2024
Antitrust regulators are poised to file suit against CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx over how they negotiate discounts for drugs, including insulin, according to the report.
Healthcare It News
JULY 17, 2024
Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health is teaming up with Royal Philips to implement and scale a new patient monitoring platform over the next three years – and then monitor it over the following seven. WHY IT MATTERS One of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems, BSMH has more than 1,200 care sites and 49 hospitals across Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia, as well as in Ireland.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 22, 2024
Not too long ago, AdventHealth had a high demand in its Central and East Florida divisions for advanced MRI services. The health system's centralized MRI services at its Orlando campus, though effective, presented areas where AdventHealth could deliver a more consumer-centric experience. THE PROBLEM Expanding advanced MRI services to the community hospitals presented its own set of challenges.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 18, 2024
The sprawling enterprise that is UnitedHealth Group is undergoing more layoffs under its Optum umbrella. | UnitedHealth's Optum is again laying off workers, with the scope unconfirmed. Landmark Health is downsizing once again and leaving major metropolitan areas.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
In the world of small business management, the challenge of managing payroll & HR efficiently while scaling operations can be overwhelming. Yet, with the right strategies in place, these challenges can become opportunities for growth and innovation. In this session, Joe Sharpe, Senior Director of Managed Payroll Services at IRIS, will reveal practical methods and expert insights for outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes, resulting in substantial time and resource savings.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 19, 2024
Pharmacists remain one of the most underutilized resources in healthcare. Reducing the administrative burden on Pharmacists means more capacity for them to care for and advise patients. Asepha is hoping to do just that with their AI-based workflow solutions. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to ask Eunice Wu, PharmD – Asepha’s CEO and Founder – how pharmacists can be leveraged more to patient care.
HIPAA Journal
JULY 8, 2024
Palomar Health Medical Group has warned patients that they may have been affected by an April 2024 cyberattack, and DaVita has learned that tracking tools on its website and mobile app may have sent user data to third-party vendors. Palomar Health Medical Group Announces April 2024 Cyberattack Palomar Health Medical Group, a provider of primary and specialty care to communities in North San Diego County, has informed patients about a recent cyberattack that exposed some of their protected health
Healthcare Dive
JULY 9, 2024
On Tuesday, regulators updated the public on their almost three-year-old inquiry into PBMs’ anticompetitive business practices. The report is not positive for the drug middlemen, which immediately criticized it as one-sided.
Healthcare It News
JULY 30, 2024
Palo Alto, California-based Stanford Health Care is often ahead of the curve when it comes to technology innovation. As a result, health IT leaders at provider organizations across the country can look to Stanford for lessons to be learned. That is the goal of a case study educational session the health system will be leading at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, scheduled for September 5-6 in Boston.
Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski
In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 3, 2024
Cleveland Clinic is working with Masimo on a new partnership focused on hospital-based remote patient monitoring and virtual critical care. WHY IT MATTERS The work will include the integration of Cleveland Clinic's critical care and non-critical care central patient monitoring platforms with Masimo's Hospital Automation platform, according to the company, in an effort to provide tools for clinicians that offer "enhanced situational awareness and clinical decision-support for hospita
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 31, 2024
Humana affirmed its guidance for the year as it continues to face headwinds in the Medicare Advantage (MA) space. | Humana affirmed its guidance for the year as it continues to face headwinds in the Medicare Advantage space.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 10, 2024
The following is a guest article by Mary Lou Prevost, Group VP at Splunk Recently, we’ve witnessed a global increase of cyberattacks across the healthcare sector, including insurance providers, hospitals, and other services critical to maintaining health. This trend demonstrates an established pattern of cybercriminals attacking some of our most vulnerable institutions.
HIPAA Journal
JULY 3, 2024
A cyberattack on Texas Retina Associates has affected more than 312,000 patients, Human Technology Inc., has confirmed that patient data has been compromised in a cyberattack, and the Monti ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Wayne Memorial Hospital. Texas Retina Associates Cyberattack Affects 312,000 Patients Texas Retina Associates, the largest ophthalmology practice in Texas, has announced that there has been unauthorized access to its internal systems and the pot
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Dive into the Compliance Officer's Handbook for advanced OSHA and HIPAA strategies. This guide provides detailed steps for maintaining compliance in healthcare facilities, covering key regulations like the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard and HIPAA Privacy Rule. Learn to create a culture of compliance with management commitment, employee training, and regular risk assessments.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 19, 2024
The cybersecurity firm released what was meant to be a routine software update, but now health systems, including CommonSpirit Health and Cleveland Clinic, are locked out of Windows systems.
Healthcare It News
JULY 16, 2024
Bangkok Hospital, one of Thailand's largest private healthcare providers, has moved away from the paper and manual process of registering and managing patient flow in its headquarters. AI technologies provided by its partner, local startup Agnos Health, now underpin its patient registration and management systems. HOW IT WORKS As part of its enhanced patient flow system, the tertiary hospital implemented self-service kiosks that run on multiple AI, integrating various registration steps.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 15, 2024
Hypertension, the most prevalent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, affects 1.39 billion adults worldwide and has a 46% uncontrolled rate. That poses a substantial burden for hospitals and health systems – and necessitates a paradigm shift in management strategies, clinicians say. THE PROBLEM Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to recurrent heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and death.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 19, 2024
A widespread outage to Microsoft systems has impacted health systems, hospitals and clinics as electronic health record software has been knocked offline, forcing providers to cancel non-emergency | A widespread outage to Microsoft systems has impacted health systems, hospitals and clinics as electronic health record software has been knocked offline, forcing providers to cancel non-emergency procedures and services.
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Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 15, 2024
The following is a guest article by Heather Randall, PhD, Chief Compliance Officer at TrustCommerce Regardless of whether the information is clinical, financial, or demographic, patients are increasingly worried about the possibility that their personal data could be compromised. For example, a recent survey of 1,200 consumers revealed that 95% of patients expressed concern about the possibility of data breaches affecting their medical information, according to Health Gorilla.
HIPAA Journal
JULY 8, 2024
Pennsylvania has updated its data breach notification law, narrowing the definition of personal information, adding the requirement to notify the state Attorney General, and requiring credit monitoring services to be provided to data breach victims in certain circumstances. The Breach of Personal Information Notification Act was amended by Senate Bill 824 and was signed into law by state Governor Josh Shapiro on June 28, 2024.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 17, 2024
Fourteen executives received over $1 million in total compensation the year before Steward entered Chapter 11 restructuring, bankruptcy documents show.
Healthcare It News
JULY 10, 2024
Like many in the U.S., Ohioans are experiencing a historic shortage of behavioral healthcare resources. But population health management tools from Alera Health will help the Ohio Behavioral Health Providers Network better integrate mental health care. Meanwhile, the state’s Miami University has awarded $1 million in funding to the Ohio Alliance for Population Health for the Southern Ohio Behavioral Health Corridor to support future behavioral health practitioners committed to the state
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