Connectivity was supposed to bring us closer. Instead, it’s exposing a dangerous gap in our healthcare system. The very tools designed to link us have scaled rapidly, but without addressing one of the most urgent and invisible threats to health: loneliness.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently delivered a stark reminder: Chronic loneliness carries the same mortality risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. His warning hits especially hard in healthcare, where digital relationships are on
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Guardrails for AI in Medicare Risk Adjustment: Navigating Innovation Without Losing Control
Implementing AI in Risk Adjustment for Managed Care is like adding rocket fuel to your engine—from accelerating chart reviews to identifying coding opportunities in near real-time, AI can dramatically improve efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. But without the right safeguards, the same tools can just as easily magnify errors, introduce bias, and create costly regulatory exposure.
As Managed Care organizations navigate this rapidly evolving landscape, a key question looms: How
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Pear Suite Secures $7.6M to Scale AI-Powered Community Health Worker Network
What You Should Know:
- Pear Suite, a digital health company dedicated to empowering community health workers (CHWs), today announced it has closed a $7.6 million Series A funding round co-led by Rock Health Capital and Nexxus Holdings.
- The investment will accelerate the development of its AI-powered platform, fuel provider network growth, and expand its impact through new Medicaid and Medicare health plan contracts.
Building Sustainable Infrastructure for Community-Based
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3 Non-Negotiable Practices for Emotional Recovery in Cancer Care
Clinicians rightly celebrate when treatment ends. Yet many patients leave our clinics still carrying the invisible weight of illness—anxiety, low mood, pain, and a fragile sense of self. The evidence says this is not rare, and it is not trivial. A 2025 umbrella review of cancer survivorship found pooled prevalence rates of 33% for depression and 31% for anxiety, with higher figures during periods of wider societal stress. These symptoms shape adherence, function, and quality of life, long after
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Rewriting the Health Economy: 6 Trends Shaping the Future of US Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. health economy is at a critical juncture, defined by unchecked prices, inefficiency, and mounting political pressure for reform, according to Trilliant Health’s latest report.
- The report, 2025 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report, reveals that the fundamental driver of high costs is price, not utilization, necessitating a radical shift in how healthcare value is purchased and delivered.
U.S. Healthcare At A Crossroads
The U.S. spends
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Beyond Bias: 5 Strategies for Clinicians to Deliver Equitable Mental Health
Two 20-year-old males were evaluated at an urban emergency department (based on composite cases). They both experienced hallucinations related to substance use. Both demonstrated depressive symptoms. However, one was diagnosed with schizophrenia, incarcerated for possession of controlled substances, and when released back into the community, received infrequent follow-up care. The other was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, received treatment for both his substance use and mood disorders
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Workforce Insurance: Why Injury Prevention is the Next Frontier of Performance
Prevention Isn’t a Perk — It’s a Competitive Advantage
Every year, U.S. companies lose billions to workplace injuries that could have been prevented — not because they don’t care about safety, but because they’re solving the wrong problem. Most organizations still treat workforce health as a compliance obligation or a claims cost. But the real opportunity lies in building physical resilience directly into operations.
And one thing is clear: prevention isn’t a perk. It’s the next
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ACA Spillovers: A Warning for Employers as Insurers Seek Up to 43% Premium Hikes
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. healthcare market is showing a stark divergence in cost trends between public and private sectors. While Affordable Care Act (ACA) premiums are spiking well above the industry's decade-long trend of sub-10% increases, real-world claims data from self-funded employers show costs holding steady at under 5%, according to new data from Nomi Health.
ACA Rate Hikes Driven by Utilization and Risk
ACA insurers across the country are filing for some
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Why Pressure Injuries Remain the Silent Indicator of Systemic Healthcare Gaps
The Underestimated Marker of Failure
Pressure injuries, often called bed sores, are among the most preventable harms in healthcare. Yet they remain common in hospitals, nursing homes, and long-term care facilities. These wounds form when immobile patients are left in one position for too long without proper care, and when they progress to Stage 4, the damage can reach muscle, tendon, and bone.
Their persistence signals more than isolated lapses. Pressure injuries highlight wider weaknesses
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ATA Launches Digital Infrastructure Score to Map U.S. Virtual Care Readiness
What You Should Know:
- The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has introduced an enhanced Digital Infrastructure Score, a data-driven tool designed to measure how well U.S. communities are equipped for digital access.
- The new benchmarking tool provides a comprehensive review of the elements needed for digital health solutions, especially as physical access to healthcare changes.
What the Digital Infrastructure Score Measures
The ATA's new tool and its accompanying
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