Avicenna Medical Blog

Care Management Weekly News Update 3/13/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Mar 13, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

The federal government is pressing UnitedHealth Group and other payers to provide financial relief to providers as they continue to feel the financial disruption caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack. In a letter to the industrypostedon Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wrote that the incident "has impacted payments...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 3/6/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Mar 06, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

Some CIOs are struggling to "keep pace" with the huge explosion in outside vendors that has coincided with the hype over artificial intelligence,The Wall Street Journalreported March 4. Besides AI, CIOs are also sifting through a growing number of digital tools and also looking for smaller vendors so they don't rely so heavily on a handful of big companies, Gartner IT researcher...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 2/28/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Feb 28, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

Veterans' advocates are pushing for another hefty increase in theVeterans Affairs budgetnext fiscal year, saying the funding is needed to keep pace with increased medical care demands and complete long-overdue upgrades to department facilities. On Thursday officials from Disabled American Veterans, Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 2/21/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Feb 21, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

A Feb. 15 hearing of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization highlighted ongoing pharmacy-related patient safety issues with the transition to the new Oracle electronic health record. Last April, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that all deployments in its EHR Modernization effort would be halted while it prioritized improvements at the...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 2/7/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Feb 07, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

Spending on home healthcare surged in November, experiencing a 12.9% year-over-year increase, closely trailed by prescription drug spending, which soared 12.2%, according to a Jan. 31reportfrom nonprofit Altarum. Altarum released its latest "Health Sector Economic Indicators" report that sheds light on critical aspects of the nation's health sector. The report offers an analysis of data on...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 1/31/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Jan 31, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

Data centers can be costly, requiring healthcare organizations to allocate funds toward investments in servers, routers, switches and various other infrastructure elements to sustain them, making CIOs want to get out of the business. Renton, Wash.-based Providence decided to transition away from on-premise data centers five years ago, especially after recognizing that the operational aspect of running data...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 1/24/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Jan 24, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

Private-sector hospitals, clinics, and insurers are bloated, bureaucratic nightmares compared to efficiently run Veterans Health Administration facilities that put care over profits, a new study reveals. The study, by researchers at Hunter College of the City University of New York, Harvard Medical School, the Veterans Health Administration, and the University of Washington,...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 1/16/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Jan 17, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

Academic medical centers such as Vanderbilt and the University of Minnesota have created centers to train learning health system scientistsand coordinate research projects. Now the University of California San Diego School of Medicine will establish a Center for Learning Health Systems Science to provide instructional and experiential learning opportunities for clinicians and researchers in...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 1/9/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Jan 10, 2024 @ 11:45 AM

Stephen Dorner, MD, chief clinical and innovation officer of Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home, toldBecker'sthat the more home-based care models are scaled, the more opportunity there is to move the needle and flatten the curve of healthcare costs in the U.S. Boston-based Mass General Brigham, which runs one of the largest home hospital programs in the country, has had more than...

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Care Management Weekly News Update 1/3/24

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Wed, Jan 03, 2024 @ 12:20 PM

Hospitals and insurers are racing to find new artificial intelligence tools to give them an edge in billing and processing their part of the $4 trillion in medical expenses Americans accrue each year. As one of the largest parts of the U.S. economy undergoes perhaps its biggest transition in decades, billions of dollars are at stake — not only for health care providers and insurers, but also...

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