What You Should Know:
- Pear Suite, a digital health company that empowers community health workers (CHWs), and Instacart, a grocery technology company, have announced a partnership to bring "food-as-medicine" solutions to communities across the country.
- The collaboration will enable thousands of CHWs to address food insecurity and increase access to fresh and healthy foods for Medicaid members.
Pear Suite Background
Pear Suite provides thousands of CHWs nationwide with
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Integrating Psychiatric Urgent Care Into Virtual Care Ecosystems:
Solving the Crisis of Wait Times
According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, over 40% of Americans have reported experiencing “longer than reasonable” wait time for healthcare. Nearly half of them reported simply giving up seeking care, including mental health services. There is currently a nine week waitlist for an in-person psychiatric appointment and six week waitlists for telepsychiatry visits. These delays and waitlists are not only endangering health outcomes but prolonging human suffering.
Within the
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Best Document Processing Software for Healthcare: 2025
Efficient document management is essential for healthcare organizations to ensure smooth operations, maintain compliance, and deliver high-quality patient care. Yet, the sheer volume of paper-based records, ranging from medical files and prescriptions to insurance claims, creates significant challenges, including errors, delays, and administrative burden.
To overcome these obstacles, many healthcare providers are turning to document processing software. By automating the extraction,
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Reach7 Diabetes Studios and Trileas Partner to Launch CARES Program for At-Risk Communities
What You Should Know:
- Reach7 Diabetes Studios has announced that Trileas is the first official sponsor and founding member of its CARES Program. The program is a third-party sponsored initiative that provides screenings for high-risk individuals and subsidized memberships for those most in need.
- The partnership with Trileas, a company dedicated to delivering affordable connectivity and healthcare solutions, will help the CARES Program reach further, expand access, and transform
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Carna Health & Siemens Healthineers Partner to Advance AI-Powered CKD Screening
What You Should Know:
- Carna Health, a digital health company focused on kidney care, has announced a strategic agreement with Siemens Healthineers. The collaboration aims to accelerate the adoption of Carna's AI-enabled chronic kidney disease (CKD) platform and bring point-of-care testing systems to emerging markets.
- This will help improve early detection and CKD management for high-risk and underserved populations by integrating Carna Health’s digital platforms with Siemens
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American Heart Association Launches Virtual Care Program to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions
What You Should Know:
- With chronic disease rates rising and nearly one in four heart failure patients readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, healthcare systems face ongoing challenges in reducing hospital stays and readmissions. To address this critical gap, the American Heart Association has launched American Heart Association Connected Care™, Powered by Cadence. This new virtual care program delivers ongoing heart and cardiometabolic care to patients at home after their
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Humana Report Highlights Better Outcomes for Heart Failure Patients in Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Humana Inc. has released a new Value-Based Care Issue Brief with findings that indicate value-based care delivers a higher quality of care and better medication adherence to evidence-based medicine for Medicare Advantage patients diagnosed with heart failure.
Impact of Heart Failture
Heart failure is a growing concern, with 11.4 million Americans expected to be diagnosed with the condition by 2050. Patients with heart failure are more likely to be
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HHS Terminates California’s PREP Grant Over Refusal to Remove Gender Ideology Content
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Administration for Children and Families (ACF), has terminated California’s Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grant.
-The termination follows California’s refusal to remove "radical gender ideology" from the federally funded education program, which is designed to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
Rejecting Mandate to Change Sex-Ed
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J.D. Power Study: Medicare Advantage Member Satisfaction Declines Amid Policy Changes
What You Should Know:
- A new report from J.D. Power reveals a significant decline in member satisfaction with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Medicare Advantage Study reveals that satisfaction dropped to an average score of 623 out of 1,000, which is down 29 points from the previous year.
- According to the study, the primary cause for this decline is a 39-point drop in members' overall trust in their plans. This trend is occurring in the wake of significant
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PCCI’s Community Vulnerability Compass: The Gold Standard for SDOH Measurement
If you are leading efforts to improve and understand public health in your community, we’ve researched and validated that PCCI’s Community Vulnerability Compass (CVC) offers an improvement in advanced insights and performance compared to existing tools that measure community socioeconomic conditions in our neighborhoods. Although getting here took a lot of innovation and perseverance, through a recent publication, we are now able to share what factors differentiate the CVC and why it offers
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