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- Health Transformation Alliance (HTA), a cooperative of nearly 60 of America’s largest employers, has partnered with Cognoa, a pediatric behavioral health company, to offer the company’s Canvas Dx diagnostic device for autism to all HTA Member organizations and their employees.
- HTA will offer its member organizations – some of the most influential and significant brands in the U.S. – the opportunity to add Canvas Dx to their benefit design.
Expanding Horizons By
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Home Healthcare Market is Expected to Reach $340.2B
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- Home Healthcare market in terms of revenue was estimated to be worth $226 Billion in 2022 and is poised to reach $340.2 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 8.5% from 2022 to 2027 according to a latest report published by MarketsandMarkets™.
- The report reveals growth in this market is mainly driven by rapid growth in the elderly population, and the rising incidence of chronic diseases.
Rising Demand for Home-Health Services & Solutions
The home
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Centura Health Acquires Utah Care Sites from Steward Health Care
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Centura Health, one of its two joint operating sponsors, CommonSpirit Health, and Steward Health Care today announced an asset purchase agreement (APA) for CommonSpirit Health to acquire Steward’s Utah care sites, which include five hospitals, more than 35 medical group clinics, and a clinically integrated network of care providers.
As part of the acquisition, Centura Health will manage the five hospitals and their affiliated clinics which includes Davis Hospital and
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Experian Health Launches AI-Driven Predictive Denials Management
What You Should Know:
- Experian Health launches a new AI-Powered solution, AI Advantage that will help providers recoup the billions in lost dollars due to insurance claim denials.
- These new solutions leverage AI and help healthcare providers prioritize their claims reimbursement process and decrease denials overall, saving time and money across the entire healthcare value chain and ultimately improving care and service for patient consumers.
AI Advantage
One of the top
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KLAS: What Impact Do Automated Prior Authorization Solutions Provide?
What You Should Know:
- Prior authorization is mandated by payers to ensure that certain clinical procedures and medications being ordered are necessary. To alleviate the heavy administrative burden this requirement causes, healthcare organizations have adopted automated prior authorization solutions.
- For this report, KLAS interviewed 30 respondents from 26 unique organizations to understand their experiences using these solutions and what outcomes they have seen.
Understanding
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Hurdle, CloudLIMS Partner to Augment Diagnostic Lab Capabilities
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- Hurdle (a Chronomics Inc. brand), a global bio-infrastructure platform that powers end-to-end diagnostics for life sciences, labs and healthcare providers, and CloudLIMS, a leading SOC 2 compliant and ISO 9001:2015 certified lab informatics provider, announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership marking the first integration between a Diagnostic as a Service (DaaS) platform and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) LIMS provider.
- The
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RTLS Can Enhance the Patient Experience, Staff Safety, and Workflow Operations in 2023
Although the healthcare industry has shown significant resilience, the byproduct of the pandemic has amplified staff stressors across all operational and clinical roles. In a study conducted in 2022, more than one-third (34%) of the participating registered nurses (RN) stated that it was likely they would leave bedside nursing by the end of the year. Almost half (44%) cited both burnout and high-stress environments as their main reasons to retire or pursue other careers.
As staff
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Quest Diagnostics Acquires NewYork-Presbyterian Lab Services Assets
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- NewYork-Presbyterian today announced a strategic agreement with Quest Diagnostics, a provider of diagnostic information services to broaden access to quality, innovative laboratory services for the providers and patients of NewYork-Presbyterian primarily in New York as well as the Tri-State Area and beyond.
- Under a definitive agreement, Quest will acquire select assets of the laboratory services business of NewYork-Presbyterian. NewYork-Presbyterian will
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CARE4 Project Delivers Single Patient Portal with MEDITECH Expanse
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- MEDITECH today announced the CARE4 project has delivered a single patient portal across acute and ambulatory settings with MEDITECH Expanse.- Since becoming the first Canadian MEDITECH customers to go LIVE with Expanse Ambulatory, the partnership’s goal has been to ensure that all patients associated with their facilities can easily see and manage their health information from a single place. And six months after implementing the portal, partner hospitals –
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CMS Program Integrity’s Role in Combatting FWA While Maintaining Health Equity
In 2022, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established health equity as a pillar of its future work. Program integrity staff from every state Medicaid program, and federal program staff working on Medicare, must consider the roles of both program integrity and analytics when combatting fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA)in the healthcare system.
CMS defines health equity as "the attainment of the highest level of health for all people, where everyone has a fair and just
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