The American Health Care Association and other groups representing nursing homes have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services to block staffing mandates. The lawsuit was brought in federal court in the Northern District of Texas on Thursday by the American Health Care Association, the Texas Health Care Association, Arbrook Plaza, […]
These clinical and math models are a cheaper, faster and safer way to enhance treatment, says Thierry Marchal of Ansys and researcher María Angeles Pérez.
Compensation climbed for physicians year-over-year, due to increases in productivity and the use of AI, according to a new MGMA report. Physicians are being pushed towards higher productivity than during the pandemic-rebound years of 2021 and 2022, as providers continue to recover from economic and staffing challenges, the report said.
Homecare is facing challenges and none are new. Reimbursement rates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are low and staffing shortages are high, as is demand for home health services due to a rising, elderly demographic.
Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits services business of The Cigna Group’s Evernorth, has entered into a collaboration with CPESN USA, a network of pharmacy providers that delivers health services, to provide support to independent and community pharmacies.
The technology holds great progress to get that needle in a haystack data and do something with it, even applying higher levels of cognition, says Tim O’Connell, cofounder and CEO of Emtelligent.
Former American Express executive Kristina Fink has joined CVS Health as its new senior vice president, corporate secretary and chief governance officer, according to a LinkedIn post.
Raising $60 million, Tuesday Health has launched an app and supportive care for seriously-ill Medicare patients in partnership with Valtruis, Blue Venture Fund, Mass General Brigham Ventures and CareSource.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again sounding the alarm bell on bird flu, and is asking health officials in all 50 states to continue monitoring the prevalence of H5N1 infections even during the warmer months. While respiratory viruses tend to spread more easily during colder months, bird flu infections among poultry […]
Other innovations include virtual bedside nursing support, ambient AI for documentation and population health strategies, says Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director, health informatics at Trinity Health.