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Understanding Digital Health Passports in a Post-Pandemic World

PharmaNewsIntelligence According to the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) — which refers to digital health passports, digital health passes, and vaccine passports interchangeably — digital health passports are a health documentation tool...

How Family Physicians Can Solve US Maternal Health Problems

PatientEngagementHIT It’s not a secret that healthcare is staring down a maternal mortality problem. But what might be less known is the critical role family physicians can play in ameliorating it. “This country has a lot of work to do on maternity...

Breaking Down the Back-End Revenue Cycle, Key Best Practices

RevCycleIntelligence The healthcare revenue cycle is a continuous process that relies on each step to keep revenue flowing. However, many organizations break down the revenue cycle into front- and back-end steps to manage what happens before and after a patient...

How Data-Informed Risk Stratification Can Support Suicide Prevention

HealthITAnalytics As the mental health crisis in the United States persists, supporting patients and preventing adverse outcomes are top priorities for healthcare providers. However, the national behavioral health workforce shortage and access barriers to...

How Do Social Isolation and Loneliness Impact Healthcare Outcomes?

LifeSciencesIntelligence In 2023, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an advisory from the US Surgeon General on the national epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The report highlighted the multiple risks associated with...

Advancing Packaging Technologies for Climate-Adaptive Supply Chains

PharmaNewsIntelligence The global climate crisis poses significant challenges to the biopharmaceutical industry, particularly regarding packaging and temperature control. The increasing unpredictability of weather patterns can lead to fluctuations in temperature...

How To Leverage Data Analytics to Improve Suicide Risk Assessments

HealthCareExecIntelligence Behavioral workforce shortages and access barriers to mental healthcare continue to drive the United States’ mental health crisis, leaving many at risk for adverse outcomes like suicide without the care they need. Health systems play...

How DirectTrust is Enhancing Health Data Interoperability, Usability

EHRIntelligence Over 300,000 healthcare organizations have access to Direct, making it the most ubiquitous interoperability data standard, according to Scott Stuewe, president and CEO of DirectTrust, the non-profit healthcare industry alliance that...

How Payers and Pharmacy Benefit Managers Work Together to Lower Costs

HealthPayerIntelligence As prescription drug spending rises in the United States, healthcare stakeholders and policymakers constantly look for ways to curb costs. Many payers turn to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which aim to negotiate lower drug prices with...

Senate Report Exposes Big Pharma’s Profiteering at Americans’ Expense

PharmaNewsIntelligence On February 6, 2024, the United States Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee published a Majority Staff Report highlighting the issue of exorbitant drug prices in the United States. It focuses on the business...

Patient Engagement Strategies for Improving Patient Activation

PatientEngagementHIT Clinical care is only one step along the path to helping a patient achieve her optimal state of health. While cutting-edge procedures and innovative therapeutics play a critical role in treating or managing diseases, they typically...

Maximizing Personalized Approaches with Precision Vaccinology

LifeSciencesIntelligence Traditional vaccines have played a crucial role in combating infectious diseases but often follow a one-size-fits-all approach. With the advent of cutting-edge technologies and a deeper understanding of immunology, researchers are now...

Overcoming Tech Barriers to Achieve Prior Authorization Transparency

HealthPayerIntelligence Prior authorization has posed problems for nearly all healthcare stakeholders. The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule aims to streamline the utilization management process and improve data-sharing between payers,...

What Is the Role of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership?

PharmaNewsIntelligence Last week, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) held its inaugural Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) Program Symposium, discussing the progress of multiple AMP projects. Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, President and...

The Status of Male Birth Control, Its Impact on Reproductive Health

HealthCareExecIntelligence Globally, nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended. While some unintended pregnancies result in a successful and safe birth for both the infant and the mother, many unintended pregnancies result in complicated and potentially fatal...

From Pilot to Scale, Mount Sinai Leverages Autonomous Medical Coding

RevCycleIntelligence An experiment to streamline medical coding is set to take off at Mount Sinai Health System. The academic medical system nestled in the New York metropolitan area recently implemented autonomous medical coding within its pathology department...

Is Male Birth Control the Answer to the Unplanned Pregnancy Epidemic?

LifeSciencesIntelligence In an interview with Healthcare Strategies, Stephanie Page, MD, PhD, Co-Director of the University of Washington Medicine Diabetes Institute in Seattle, WA, Robert B. McMillen Professor of Medicine in Lipid Research and head of the Division...

Top Trends in Automation, AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle

RevCycleIntelligence Automation has a lot of potential to streamline revenue cycle management, and healthcare organizations are certainly interested in adopting technology to achieve efficiency. However, that interest is not necessarily turning into investment...

Behind Epic’s Award-Winning MyChart Patient Portal Advancements

PatientEngagementHIT Epic Systems thinks it’s on the brink of a new frontier in patient portal use, saying MyChart is stock-full of the functionalities consumers want, and users are now leveraging it to move the needle on clinical outcomes and the patient...