What You Should Know:
- Healthcare professionals face a constant challenge: balancing efficient communication with patient privacy and regulatory compliance. Today, NetSfere, a provider of secure messaging solutions, announced it is integrating its secure message platform with Microsoft Nuance’s Dragon Medical speech recognition.
- Doctors, nurses, and frontline workers can now communicate using industry-specific jargon – anatomical terms, medications, procedures – all
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Aligning Primary Care with Behavioral Health is Critical to Patient Outcomes
There is increasing recognition across the healthcare continuum of the link between patient behavioral health and clinical outcomes. Unfortunately, alignment between primary care physicians and services for mental health issues, substance use, and other social determinants of health (SDoH) too often range from poor to nonexistent.
“Behavioral health factors have an outsized influence on morbidity and mortality, and are the source of a large portion of family physicians' frustrations
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Med-Metrix Acquires HRSI to Strengthen Eligibility Management Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Med-Metrix, LLC (“Med-Metrix”), a leading provider of technology-enabled Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solutions acquires Healthcare Receivable Specialists, Inc. (“HRSI”). HRSI is a specialized RCM and patient access company with a strong reputation for its best-in-class Medicaid eligibility services.
- The strategic acquisition strengthens Med-Metrix’s position as a comprehensive RCM provider by adding HRSI’s expertise in eligibility management. Financial
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Missouri DHSS to Leverage HIMSS Digital Health Indicator for Transformation
What You Should Know:
- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is taking a leap forward in digital health transformation by partnering with Guidehouse and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to assess the current state of its public health data infrastructure.
- This strategic initiative, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), marks the first time the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator (DHI) will be used
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The Consumer Voice in Weight Care: Rock Health Survey Series Reveals Preferences and Challenges
What You Should Know:
- The obesity epidemic continues to be a major public health concern, with projections suggesting half of all Americans will struggle with weight issues by 2025. While discussions about weight management solutions often focus on healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies, a new survey series sheds light on the experiences and preferences of consumers directly engaged in weight care.
- The 2024 Rock Health Weight Care Experience Survey Series aimed to
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Guidehealth, Story Health Partner to Deliver Value-Based Cardiology Care
What You Should Know:
- Guidehealth, an AI-powered healthcare services company, and Story Health, a digital health leader in specialty care delivery, have joined forces to offer a comprehensive cardiology care program for health systems and clinically integrated networks (CINs).
- By leveraging their combined expertise, Guidehealth and Story Health aim to revolutionize cardiology care, leading to better outcomes for patients and a more cost-effective healthcare system.
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WannaCry Wasn’t Enough: Why Healthcare Still Struggles with Cybersecurity Communication
According to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), cyber incidents in health care are on the rise. From 2018-2022, there has been a 93% increase in large breaches reported to OCR (369 to 712), with a 278% increase in large breaches involving ransomware.
Ascension, a healthcare provider with 140 hospitals across 19 states, recently suffered a cyberattack that disrupted multiple critical systems. Another significant breach occurred earlier in February, impacting Change Healthcare and affecting
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CMS Proposed Rule for CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule outlining changes to Medicare payments under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for services furnished and other Medicare Part B issues on or after January 1, 2025.
- The calendar year (CY) 2025 PFS proposed rule is one of several proposed rules that reflect a broader Administration-wide strategy to create a more equitable healthcare system that results in better accessibility, quality, affordability,
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New AMGA Survey Reveals Physician Compensation Up in 2023, But Primary Care Lags Behind
What You Should Know:
- A new report by AMGA Consulting reveals significant growth in physician compensation and productivity across most specialties in 2023. The findings are based on data from nearly 190,000 providers in 459 medical groups, making it a comprehensive analysis of physician pay trends in the US.
- The AMGA survey underscores the need for addressing factors impacting physician compensation, particularly in primary care. Sustainable solutions might involve adjustments
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CRISP Awarded $255M Grant to Accelerate Public Health Data Modernization
What You Should Know:
- CRISP Shared Services (CSS), a leading non-profit focused on public health data exchange technology, has been selected as an Implementation Center awardee under the newly launched $255M National Implementation Center Program.
- The program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG), positions CSS as a key player in modernizing data exchange and integrating health data into the public
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