In today’s healthcare landscape, large employers are being challenged to rethink how they structure and deliver health insurance to their workforce. With costs rising faster than wages, and employees increasingly expecting personalized and accessible benefits, traditional group health plans are showing signs of strain. This is particularly true in industries like healthcare, where organizations must balance operational efficiency with competitive employee offerings.
According to the latest
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Your Ultimate Guide to A Graduate Diploma in Psychology Course
Could a graduate diploma in psychology open doors to a new career and higher-paid roles? For many students, the answer is yes, but you need to be sure that the course is right for you. The postgraduate course will provide you with an understanding of psychological science and human behaviours and development, allowing you to better help people. To ensure this course is right for you, we have created our ultimate (and brief) guide that walks you through everything you need to know about a
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4 Things that Are Holding Your Business Back
Running a business isn’t a walk in the park. You’ll need to differentiate your business so that you stand out from the competition. If you’re struggling to grow your business, then you may be making one of the following common mistakes. We’ll also cover the solutions you can use.
1. A Poorly Designed Website
Today, most people use the internet to look up various goods and services. From there, they’ll choose a business to work with. Instead of relying on referrals and traditional adverts,
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Beyond Disruption: 4 Key Strategies for Healthcare Providers to Thrive Under OBBBA
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. healthcare landscape is facing a transformative moment with the signing of H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), into law on July 4. This landmark legislation introduces sweeping changes to Medicaid and Medicare, as well as Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies.
- According to Tamyra Porter, Managing Director of Regulatory Advisory Practice at Premier, these shifts present both significant challenges and a rare inflection point for
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Syndromic Monitoring Gives Public Health Teams a Head Start on Emergencies
From Buzzword to Lifesaver
Once dismissed as another healthcare buzzword, syndromic monitoring has proven its value in real-world scenarios. At its core, it captures early health signals—like symptom trends or provider impressions—and analyzes them in near real time. Rather than waiting days or weeks for lab confirmations or hospital reports, public health teams receive early alerts that support action when it matters most.
Heat Waves and the Power of Early
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2025 Homecare Insights: Provider Voices Survey
What You Should Know:
- HHAeXchange, a leading provider of healthcare workforce technology for home and community-based services (HCBS), released insights from a new survey of 145 agency owners and operators.
- The report, a "2025 Homecare Insights: Provider Voices Survey," reveals that compliance has emerged as the top business priority for 2025, alongside persistent concerns about cost and the critical need for better real-time communication among caregivers.
Compliance
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“One Health” Disease Surveillance: Why Integrated Systems Are Critical for Public Health and Economic Stability
Is our siloed approach to health surveillance creating the perfect conditions for the next pandemic?
Recent outbreaks—from avian influenza to E. coli contamination in leafy greens—highlight the urgent need for integrated disease surveillance systems. Yet, many public health surveillance systems still operate in isolation, creating dangerous blind spots in our ability to detect and respond to zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental contamination.
"The “One
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Teladoc Health Launches Wellbound Employee Assistance Program
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), the global leader in virtual care, today announced the launch of Wellbound, a bold new employee assistance program (EAP) designed to empower a more engaged, healthier workforce.
- The new program, purpose-built for the company’s employer and health plan clients in the U.S., leverages Teladoc Health’s unmatched scale, clinical product portfolio and consumer engagement expertise to help organizations create a powerful “on-ramp” for
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Eko Health’s Telehealth Platform Expands Across 800 Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Eko Health, a leader in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary care, announced today that its telehealth platform is now used by health systems that operate over 800 hospitals across the U.S.
- By enabling the real-time streaming of high-fidelity heart and lung sounds, Eko is helping virtual care teams deliver more confident frontline diagnostics from anywhere.
Eko Health Expands Remote Diagnostic Capabilities with Web-Based Telehealth Platform
Eko Health, a
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Boost Medicare Star Ratings: A Strategic Game Plan for Health Plans
As they navigate complex times, health insurers have their eye on two important financial indicators. And both are moving in the wrong direction. Costs are on the rise while Medicare Star Ratings are on the decline.
Separate but related, the two trends converge on the same idea: health plans need to enable higher quality care at a lower price.
If it sounds like a Herculean feat, that’s because it is. But some health plans are making it happen.
While some of the cost pressures—for
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