What You Should Know:
- The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau today announced the opening of a new online portal by which private entities such as hospitals and health systems can alert agency enforcement staff of suspicious robocall, robotext, and spoofing campaigns. For example, a private hospital or small business might use the portal to seek support from the FCC in cutting off or taking enforcement action against robocallers flooding their institution’s phone lines with robocalls or spoofing the
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PwC’s Health Services 2023 Deals Outlook – Volume Remains Resilient Against Headwinds
What You Should Know:
- While megadeals, trading multiples and overall deal values in the health services sector have not been immune to interest rate hikes and recessionary fears, PwC’s 2023 Health Services Deals Outlook report released recently forecasts a strong year ahead.
- Increasing transaction volumes and players embracing value-based care—coupled with large levels of corporate cash and private equity dry powder—are leading to continued expansion for deal volumes in 2023.
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Unlock the Full Potential of Inpatient Bed Capacity with AI
Every day, hospital staff do the best they can to navigate the daily chaos of bed management by making educated guesses as to what is going to happen over the course of the day. Relying on team huddles throughout the day, staff pore over Excel or paper spreadsheets to predict how many beds will open up and when. They try to estimate demand for those beds by the time of day, unsure when to deploy “surge capacity.” On some days, this method works out well. However, more often than not, the staff’s
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Encouraging Health Literacy Through Member Advocacy
With the swift rise of digital health tools in the last two years, consumers have easier access to more health information than ever before. But for many, the proliferation of digital health tools has done very little to change their level of health literacy.
Consumers are still confused about their insurance benefits, the resources they can access, and their options for care management, among other things.
As just one example, new research found that 50% of health insurance
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59% of Employees Would Rather Speak To An App About Their Mental Health
What You Should Know:
- In October 2022, Wysa commissioned an independent survey of over 1000 American employees to get an in-depth look at the urgent state of mental health post-COVID. The results are staggering.
- There are serious debilitating mental health concerns that our workforces are silently struggling with, leading to impacted individual self-confidence and self-perception about their abilities and identity at work, which further leads to perceived low self-efficacy, leading to
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Wraparound Programs – An Alternative Approach to Address the Children’s Mental Health Crisis
The mental health crisis impacting America’s children requires states, parents, guardians, and behavioral health professionals to rethink how we provide treatment. For many young people, high-fidelity wraparound programs are the answer.
Even before the pandemic, mental health issues were a leading cause of disability for children. The pandemic only worsened the situation. In the fall of 2020, Challenge Success conducted a national study that found that only one-third of high school students
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PatientsLikeMe Partners with LetsGetChecked to Offer Members Access to Home Testing Solutions
What You Should Know:
- PatientsLikeMe (PLM), the trusted community health network that empowers patients to take charge of their health, announced its partnership with LetsGetChecked, a global healthcare solutions company.
- The partnership will provide PLM’s 1 million members with access to enhanced patient support capabilities for testing. PLM’s expansive patient community can now utilize LetsGetChecked’s suite of offerings directly through the PLM platform and receive a discount on
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Greenway Health Launches Greenway Engagement Model
What You Should Know:
- Greenway Health has launched its new client engagement program, the Greenway Engagement Model (GEM), designed to strengthen Greenway's trusted advisor relationship with clients and support a more successful healthcare technology journey for Greenway clients through intentional interaction and strategic support.
- The GEM program provides a dedicated client support team and creates a client feedback program aimed at improving the user
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IT/Security Leaders Can No Longer Rely Solely on Perimeter Security
What You Should Know:
- Imprivata, the digital identity company for life- and mission-critical industries, today released new research that reveals over 91% of security leaders agree they can no longer rely solely on perimeter security to combat and respond to cyber threats, with 99% having experienced a cyberattack in the past year.
- The report outlines how healthcare, finance, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and biotech organizations are approaching cyber and privacy
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Patient Financial Experience: 40% of Americans Confused by Medical Bills
What You Should Know:
- AKASA™, a developer of AI for healthcare operations, released findings from a new survey conducted on its behalf by YouGov.
- The survey findings highlight uncertainty looms among patients about what is included in a bill and if they can pay - two factors that drive the most confusion on medical bills. However, there are strategies healthcare organizations can take to be proactive and prevent billing surprises from trickling down to patients.
Understanding
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