Providence Forms Joint Venture With Compassus for Home Care
Providence Health System is forming a joint venture with home care provider Compassus for home care, palliative care, community-based palliative care and private care services. Under the agreement, Tennessee-based Compassus will assume management of operations for Providence’s 24 home care centers in Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington, and 17 hospice
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for evaluating treatment effectiveness, but real-world effectiveness may vary. One reason for this is that clinical trials often have stricter inclusion criteria than the population treated. Policymakers, payers, and clinicians may wonder how well results translate from the smaller clinical trial population to
HCA Co-Developing Multi-Specialty, EHR-Agnostic Ambient AI Platform
HCA Healthcare Inc., one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers with 188 hospitals and approximately 2,400 outpatient care sites, is making an effort to integrate AI into healthcare and transform the way healthcare is performed and Document patient visits throughout the HCA Healthcare network. HCA is working with vendor Commure
EHR Association celebrates 20 Years of groundbreaking collaborations and milestones
Twenty years ago this month, 21 of the industry’s leading EHR vendors came together to form what was then called HIMSS EHR Vendor Association to accelerate widespread EHR adoption. It was based on a bold premise: competitors worked collaboratively to identify issues related to software development and functionality of EHR
Network Created to Promote Healthier Pregnancies in Michigan
A collaboration led by Wayne State University’s Office of Women’s Health is launching SOS Motherhood, a statewide network seeking to end preventable causes of death in mothers and children in Michigan. The state of Michigan has allocated $11 million to fund the statewide network established to address some alarming statistics,
Stakeholders Describe Progress With 360X Referral Management
Eliminating paper, faxes and phone calls from the referral process has proven to be a difficult interoperability challenge, but health IT experts continue to work on it. Providers and developers recently announced that they have successfully implemented the 360X closed-loop referral management tool integrated into their Epic and Netsmart EHRs.
Helping Health Plans Improve Analytics Approach to Whole-Person Care
Siftwell Analytics is a prescriptive analytics company that provides health-related social needs data analytics to health plans. Trey Sutten, co-founder and CEO, recently spoke with Healthcare innovation about trends in this space and some of the ways health plans are using this data to improve patient outcomes. Sutten has served
‘Employers Haven’t a Clue How Their Drug Benefits Are Managed’ – Healthcare Economist
That is the title of a KFF article published last week. Results are based on KFF. 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey. They write: For the KFF survey of 2,142 randomly selected companies, officials at those with 500 or more employees were asked what share of
Walgreens Announces Closing of 1,200 Locations in Next Three Years
Facing mounting losses, the Deerfield, Illinois-based company Walgreensannounced on October 15 the planned closure of some 1,200 stores throughout the country over the next three years. As CNN’s Jordan Vallinsky wrote on Tuesday, “Walgreens will close approximately 1,200 locations as the pharmacy chain struggles to compete with online competitors and
Florida-Based Lee Health Scales Up Virtual Nursing Program
Lee Health, one of Florida’s largest health systems, is expanding its virtual nursing program in partnership with telehealth company Caregility. The expansion includes the deployment of Caregility APS200 Duo dual-camera telehealth devices, building on the existing fleet of telehealth wall systems and carts to more than double the health system’s
‘LLM-Native’ Startup Parakeet Bringing AI to Physician Practice Call Centers
After raising $3 million in seed funding led by Canvas Ventures, startup Parakeet Health launched a generative AI voice platform focused on patient engagement. Two of the San Francisco-based company’s executives recently spoke with Healthcare innovation about what it means to bring generative AI to doctor’s office call centers. CEO
CMS Announces Coverage of Traditional Healthcare Practices
In a press release dated October 16, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)announced the passage of Section 1115 Demonstration Amendments that allow Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to cover traditional health care practices provided by Indian
