In the first year of Covid-19, Medicare paid providers $1 billion for psychotherapy services, and $580 million were improper payments, including $348 million that were for telehealth services, a recent audit by the Office…
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By Mark Melchionna
May 05, 2023 – Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine have created a hand-worn wearable device containing a knitted robotic textile to assist hand edema patients.
According to the press release, hand edema is the…
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Contract negotiations between virtual primary and urgent care provider Carbon Health and health insurance giant Elevance Health have become public after Carbon published a blog post calling out the insurer for failing to ‘pay…
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The U.S. healthcare system’s shift from volume to value has been a trudging fifteen-year journey. Despite its potential to reduce costs and improve quality of care, the national movement toward value-based care has been…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 05, 2023 – LCH Health and Community Services, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Pennsylvania, has initiated an EHR implementation through vendor athenahealth to provide a cohesive patient experience across various…
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In order to carry out a seamless joint replacement, surgeons must create a customized preoperative plan for each patient. However, surgeons having to perform multiple operations per day are often too busy to dedicate…
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Global healthcare company AmerisourceBergen has announced a strategic partnership with business-to-business telehealth provider SteadyMD, beginning with the companies co-creating and piloting a telehealth offering for independent community pharmacies dubbed Test to Treat. The Test to…
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Mayo Clinic on Friday announced that its Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect distributed data network will expand internationally with a trio of new health system partners.WHY IT MATTERSWith new collaborations with Brazil’s Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein,…
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At TechNet Cyber 2023 in Baltimore, Mark Gorak, principal director for resources and analysis for the Department of Defense’s deputy chief information officer, talked about the Pentagon’s massive cyber workforce shortage and its goal…
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Jackson Health System is one of the nation’s largest public health systems, with a mission of providing one standard of high-quality care to all Miami-Dade County residents regardless of their ability to pay.At Jackson,…
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