A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits…
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Dr. Howard Sandler, the ASTRO president, spotlights personalized patient care through advanced imaging and bespoke radiation therapies. He emphasizes strides in the PACE-B trial’s ultrashort regimens and champions workforce diversity and equitable patient representation…
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This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized updates to its physician fee schedule for 2024, as well as finalized the rule for next year’s Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).
The federal agency…
What You Shoud Know:
– Medicaid prospective payment rate for Michigan’s federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) has not kept pace with the actual costs incurred to provide healthcare, resulting in a substantial reimbursement gap of…
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Steve Weber
AJ Grotto
The following is a guest article by Steve Weber, Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley, and AJ Grotto, Director, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at Stanford University
Generative artificial intelligence…
Background: Digital therapeutics (DTx) are therapeutic interventions driven by software and directly provided to patients, allowing them to manage their health with ease in any setting. A growing interest in DTx has spurred a…
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By Anuja Vaidya
October 27, 2023 – Though all 50 states and Washington, D.C., provide reimbursement for some form of live video-based telehealth within their Medicaid programs, only 25 provide Medicaid reimbursement for live video as…
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Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention:
Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations…
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How to harness, regulate and safely enable the use of generative AI in healthcare were central themes of this year’s HLTH conference in Las Vegas this week. Jon Hoeksma reports for Digital Health NewsThe…
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Panel discussion on Harnessing AI and Analytics as a Force for Good at Payer Insights Program. From left: Arundhati Parmar of MedCity News (moderator); Amir Azarbad, of 10Pearls; Dr. Ainsley MacLean of Kaiser Permanente;…
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