From April to August 2020, 45% of U.S. COVID deaths occurred in long-term care (LTC) facilities, even though LTC residents made up only 0.45% of the population. This stark disparity revealed that nursing homes were particularly vulnerable during the pandemic, with high transmission and fatality rates in these congregate settings. Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), commonly known as nursing homes, represented about 80% of LTC COVID deaths, making them the deadliest place to live during COVID.
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Veradigm Enhances EHR Database with SDoH and Mortality Data
What You Should Know:
- Veradigm (OTCMKTS: MDRX), a leading provider of healthcare data and technology solutions, announced a significant expansion of its Veradigm Network EHR (VNEHR) Data with the integration of social determinants of health (SDoH) and mortality data.
- The enhancement provides researchers with a more comprehensive view of patient health, enabling deeper insights and driving innovation in life science research, public health, and academic studies.
VNEHR
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OMNY Health Partners with Scipher Medicine to Advance Precision Immunology
What You Should Know:
- OMNY Health, the leading healthcare ecosystem for compliant real-world data insights at scale, and Scipher Medicine, which has the world’s largest immunology clinico-transcriptomics data set and is focused on advancing precision medicine with proprietary AI network biology solutions, today announced a partnership to advance precision medicine efforts for immunology.
- This collaboration marks a significant leap forward in the fight against autoimmune diseases,
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XO Health Launches Next Gen Value-Based Care and Benefits Platform
What You Should Know:
- XO Health launches operations of its value-based care and benefits platform, serving self-insured employers, level-funded plans and third-party administrators (TPAs). This launch will enable XO Health to bring their value-based provider network and comprehensive benefits administration offerings to customers in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Minneapolis.
- XO Health is redefining how healthcare is delivered and paid for by dramatically expanding access to
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The Obesity Conversation: Moving Beyond Stigma and Shame
The conversation about what makes a “healthy” body has never been simple. Throughout every era of history, people have resorted to calling each other too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too curvy, too muscular, or too lanky, often to reinforce power structures or achieve social agendas.
And every single time, we fall for it. We spend billions upon billions of dollars on products, potions, and procedures to help us get a little closer to that perfect body — whatever that means.
It’s
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Empowering the Aging Population with Tech-Driven Care in 2025
By 2030, one in six people will be 60 years old or over, increasing the demand for care and intensifying the burden on an already strained healthcare system. These pressures require healthcare leaders to identify more sustainable solutions that deliver optimal care to the growing senior population.
An AARP report found that technology use amongst older adults has significantly increased since the pandemic. This population’s adoption of digital solutions opens the door for more tools to reduce
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How Medicare Advantage Programs Can Address Social Risk and Improve Health Outcomes
There are almost 33 million people enrolled in eligible Medicare programs. Nearly half are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, and that number is expected to continue its climb. While many MA plans offer services that align with social determinants of health (SDOH) goals, there are still gaps in how these services reach and support vulnerable populations. This challenge is multifaceted. Critical issues include:
An incomplete understanding of how MA services impact different SDOHs
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Optimizing MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) for Oncology Practices in 2025
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) as part of its ongoing revisions to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program, which was established in 2017 to encourage ongoing and consistent quality, efficiency, and improvement in medical practices. The MVP framework was designed to ease the burden imposed on clinicians and their administrators who participate in the MIPS program. Traditionally, MIPS scores have been calculated based
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Systems Thinking: The Future of Equitable, Efficient, and Effective Population Health Management
Healthcare in the United States consists of a tangled web of complex interconnected drivers, including payment models, regulations, processes, and facilities. However, the lack of a cohesive system design has resulted in less than optimal care industry for the US population and highlighted the need for a more comprehensive approach.
Year over year, data from the Commonwealth Fund demonstrates that despite high costs for healthcare, the patients in United States experience worse outcomes with
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Medical Home Network and Instacart Partner to Address Food Insecurity
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- Medical Home Network (MHN), an organization supporting value-based care in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) forms a collaboration with Instacart, the North American grocery technology leader, to integrate Instacart's SNAP eligibility screener into MHNConnect, its care management platform.
- The strategic partnership aims to address food insecurity among vulnerable populations and improve health outcomes.
Tackling Food Insecurity in
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