During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, over 10 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid – nearly a 14% increase from the beginning of 2020. A month before the public health emergency ended on May 11, 2023, 87 million individuals were enrolled in Medicaid. The increase was driven by multiple factors, including the pause of all periodic eligibility reviews during the public health emergency. Now, all Medicaid enrollees face the return of the redetermination process by state agencies – the process
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What it Will Take To Trust Healthcare AI Models?
As ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model (LLM) tools gather and organize data in responses, it’s important to understand how the data they use has been curated. Medical science is constantly evolving, with previously accepted conclusions and standards being supplanted by newer information. Yet the outdated and sometimes disproven body of literature is often still quite large.
For example, external carotid to internal carotid (EC/IC) bypass for cerebral ischemia due to cerebrovascular
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Prescribing Trends Surge: Wegovy & Ozempic Gain Popularity, Survey Shows
What You Should Know:
- Prescriptions for the popular weight loss drug Wegovy showed a six-fold increase between December 2022 and June 2023, according to a recent analysis of prescribing trends by DrFirst.
- Prescriptions for Ozempic, the lower-dose version for treating diabetes, increased by 65% during the same period among doctors on the DrFirst prescribing network.
- DrFirst's network includes over 350,000 prescribers across the U.S., including 260,000 doctors, who use their
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Olive Shutters Business After Sale to Waystar and Humata Health
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare automation company Olive today announced it will shut down its business after selling its Clearinghouse and Patient Access business units to Waystar and its Prior Authorization business unit to Humata Health. Olive sold off its utilization management solution and business unit to Availity and business intelligence solution to BurstIQ earlier this year.
- Founded in 2012, Olive is a developer of an artificial intelligence workforce, automated
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Clinician Shortage Worsens Primary Care Crisis, Experts Reveal
What You Should Know:
– The U.S. has seen a consistent decline in primary care clinicians since 2014 due to fewer clinicians entering the workforce, increased rates of burnout and decreased direct patient care, according to the latest evidence report from the Primary Care Collaborative and Robert Graham Center.
- The report, Health is Primary: Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability reveals the United States has seen a
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The Future of Biomarker-Based Therapy for Mental Disorder Care
We are living in a mental health epidemic. An estimated 26 percent of Americans ages 18 and older – about one in four adults – suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. Among mental disorders, cases of PTSD are on the rise. Roughly five percent of American adults suffer from PTSD in any given year and more than 13 million Americans reported PTSD in 2020 – most of whom are women. Standard PTSD treatments most often come in the form of pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy and include
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Israel Defense Forces to Utilize UltraSight’s PoCUS Devices in Combat
What You Should Know:
- UltraSight – an AI-powered micro-ultrasound company that is revolutionizing cardiac sonography to enable more accurate and timely clinical decisions – is now offering its services to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The device has FDA clearance and is now available in Israel, the UK, and the US.
- Many of the IDF soldiers will now have an ultrasound in their pocket. The PoCUS devices – powered by UltraSight’s software - deliver
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6 Digital Health Executives Share Key Takeaways from HLTH23
We reached out to six digital health executives for their key takeaways and reflections from attending the recent HLTH23 conference.
Patches Seely MBA, BSN, RN, Executive Vice President of Clinical Solutions, Carenet Health
"The energy of everyone I connected with was very encouraging. These are difficult times in healthcare, but I often heard people saying, "I'm not sure how exactly we will partner, but let's figure it out." The collaborative atmosphere spurred productive conversations
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HIMSS Appoints New Chief Financial Officer & General Counsel
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- HIMSS announced it has appointed Elizabeth Slater Jasper as general counsel, and Anne Tuzik as its new chief financial officer.
- Jasper comes to HIMSS after serving for 14 years as the chief legal officer, general counsel and corporate secretary for the National Service Office for Nurse-Family Partnership and Child First, an organization that oversees the national replication of maternal, infant and mental health evidence-based
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Ozempic: From Diabetes Management to Potential Weight Loss Miracle
You've probably heard about Ozempic, especially if you're one of the millions who regularly scroll through TikTok or browse other social media platforms. It's the drug that influencers are lauding as a revolutionary aid for weight loss, making it a hot topic of conversation.
While Ozempic was initially developed to manage Type 2 diabetes, its emerging potential for weight loss is captivating medical professionals and the public alike.
How Ozempic Works: The Basics
Ozempic is a
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