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MedCity Pivot Podcast: Tackling Rare Disease With Someone Who Was Touched By It
Rich Horgan believes that there’s an alternative path to drug development that can lower costs and the time it takes to bring drugs to market. He is trying to apply it to the field of rare and ultra-rare diseases.
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Digital Therapeutics: A Panacea for Care or Overvalued Health Tech?
Digital therapeutics will be one of the topics discussed at INVEST Digital Health scheduled for October 26 at Health Wildcatters headquarters in Pegasus Park in Dallas. Register today!
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Payer’s Place: Don Antonucci
The CEO of Providence Health Plan visits the Payer’s Place and addresses the future of payment models.
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Nursing Homes, Beware! Supreme Court Greenlights Civil Lawsuits to Enforce FNHRA
The Supreme Court’s recent summer decision in Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indiana, et al. v. Talevski has raised the stakes for nursing homes by ruling that private litigants may bring civil claims against facilities to recover damages for violations of certain provisions of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (FNHRA). This decision provides powerful incentives for nursing homes and other facilities subject to the FNHRA to enhance their monitoring and compliance processes.
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The 3 Areas that Concern Business Group on Health’s CEO
Issues around healthcare affordability, mental health challenges and worsening chronic conditions are all top of mind for Ellen Kelsay, president and CEO of Business Group on Health.
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How are Employers Responding to Staff Health Needs, Burnout and Helping Them Feel Valued?
Although employee stress and burnout are critical issues in all industries, the healthcare industry offers numerous examples of the impact on staff as well as ways to provide short and long-term solutions. These topics will be part of the discussion at the HLTH event October 8-11 in Las Vegas. Register today to join the conversation!
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Harnessing the Power of Phone Interactions in Healthcare
A human touch makes a significant difference in healthcare call interactions where an automation-dominant approach would fall short.
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Should More Doctors Be on TikTok? This One Says Yes
Gastroenterologist Dr. Austin Chiang has about a decade of experience as a physician influencer on social media. During a conference in Chicago, he encouraged more providers to share their expertise on social media. By having a presence on these platforms, healthcare professionals demonstrate their commitment to meeting patients where they are, he said.
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How the FTC Is Tackling ‘Below the Radar’ Healthcare Deals
The Federal Trade Commission only gets notified when a merger/acquisition deal value is above $100-$110 million, so smaller deals nonetheless lead to a slow consolidation of the market. In conference remarks, FTC Chair Lina Khan outlined the ways in which the agency is trying to counter this phenomenon.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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The Vibe at Vive 2023: First Dollar
Jason Bornhorst, First Dollar CEO and co-founder, explained why the current healthcare benefits infrastructure isn’t doing enough to serve patients and health plans.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh, Highmark Health
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Data-Driven Diversity: Using Granular Insights to Design More Inclusive Trials
The healthcare industry is sitting on a wealth of data gathered from electronic health records, commercial pharmacies, health systems and payers, and health tech companies. So much that it makes up one-third of the world’s data. Pharmaceutical companies need to tap into this type of data to build inclusive clinical trials,
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Can AI Compose Clinical Documentation? Absolutely, but with Limits.
A recent academic study of the leading LLM AI models’ ability to read and interpret clinical information demonstrates the incredible power of these tools to support healthcare, but concludes that LLMs should be used as “a supplement to existing workflows rather than as a replacement for human expertise.”
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Introducing MedCity FemFwd, a New Podcast on Women’s Health
MedCity News is launching a new podcast called MedCity FemFwd, which will discuss the breakthroughs and challenges in the women’s health space. In the inaugural episode, Michelle Long of KFF examines whether Opill — the first daily oral contraceptive approved for nonprescription use in the U.S. — will be covered by insurance.
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Is Medicaid Expansion Still a Political Wedge Issue?
When Medicaid expansion was first enacted, it was a hot topic debate between Democrats and Republicans. But more and more states are starting to expand Medicaid, including several conservative states.
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The Gigification of Healthcare
By leveraging technology and strategies used within the gig economy—and even tapping into the talent pool of gig workers themselves—healthcare organizations can address staffing shortages, retain and motivate more workers, and ultimately deliver better patient care.
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The Vibe at Vive 2023: Season Health
Josh Hix, Season Health CEO, discussed how his food-as-medicine company helps people with chronic conditions. He also talked about how Season Health secured funding from venture capital investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and 8VC.
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The Vibe at Vive: Homethrive
Dave Jacobs, co-founder of Homethrive, shared details of how his company supports caregivers.
