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Predicting Next Year’s Life Sciences Outlook: Med Devices, Biopharma

LifeSciencesIntelligence For the second year, Deloitte Life Sciences leveraged its network of life sciences and healthcare executives in the industry to compile a document with life sciences outlooks for the next year. Recruiting a relatively even ratio of...

How Do Payers Cover Prenatal, Postpartum Care for Pregnant People?

HealthPayerIntelligence Prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum care help ensure healthier pregnancies and better birth outcomes for pregnant people. Access to this essential care comes easier with adequate health insurance. Pregnant people are almost guaranteed...

How Advocate Health Uses Patient Communication IT to Close Care Gaps

PatientEngagementHIT Advocate Health wants to be the safety net for patients managing care gaps, using patient engagement technology to streamline the scheduling process. After all, healthcare isn’t easy to navigate, especially for patients who have seen...

Optimizing Cancer Care Pathways Through Precision Medicine, RWD

PharmaNewsIntelligence Personalized medicine is vital because it streamlines clinical decision-making through genetic tests or biomarkers. Essentially, personalized care lets caregivers feel more confident that a patient will respond to a specific drug or be less...

Exploring Prescription Discount Cards’ Role in Medication Adherence

PharmaNewsIntelligence Since prescription discount cards were introduced into the United States market in the early 2000s, patients and providers have leveraged them to combat rising drug costs and make medications more affordable. By enhancing drug...

How Can Medical Schools Educate Students on Artificial Intelligence?

HealthITAnalytics Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in healthcare as stakeholders work to assess how these tools can be used to drive improvements in areas like clinician burnout, population health, and precision medicine. As health systems begin...

How Nursing Homes Can Prepare for Staffing Standards, Gaps

RevCycleIntelligence After experiencing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care facilities have prioritized strategies to improve staffing levels and care quality. The federal government has taken action, too, proposing minimum staffing standards for...

Leveraging Predictive Analytics for Effective Disease Management

LifeSciencesIntelligence Predictive analytics, a powerful tool fueled by advanced technologies and data-driven insights, is transforming how healthcare providers approach disease management. By analyzing vast amounts of patient data, predictive analytics enables...

How 4 EHR Vendors Are Leveraging Generative AI in Clinical Workflows

EHRIntelligence Fueled by the recent availability of chatbot interfaces like Chat-GPT, generative AI has become a hot topic across many industries, and healthcare is no exception. Several EHR vendors are tapping the technology to streamline administrative...

What Is a Community Health Needs Assessment?

PatientEngagementHIT A community health needs assessment (CHNA), sometimes called a community health assessment, is foundational for nonprofit healthcare organizations and a vital tool for hospitals and health systems working to improve population and public...

Analyzing Data in the Medical Device Marketing Landscape

LifeSciencesIntelligence Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, which has built-in data collection strategies through prescription data, medical device companies do not have the same regulated data-tracking technologies. Understanding the importance of data and how to...

Exploring a Framework for Pediatric Data Use in Health AI Research

HealthITAnalytics The number of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-enabled medical devices authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has risen in recent years as healthcare organizations have become increasingly...

‘Every Patient, Every Time’: Boosting Techquity in Patient Portal Use

PatientEngagementHIT For many healthcare organizations, the patient portal has become the place where patients access the healthcare system and keep coming back. It’s a wraparound digital experience that meets the moment on healthcare consumerism, but if...

Ensuring Equal Clinical Trial Access Across Vulnerable Communities

PharmaNewsIntelligence Clinical trials play a critical role in ensuring the widespread safety of medical products for patients by analyzing product efficacy, safety, and indications. Since clinical trial data is used to guide drug approvals and standards of care...

Understanding Chronic Kidney Disease Coverage, VBC Opportunities

HealthPayerIntelligence Efforts to improve chronic kidney disease coverage have evolved over the last several decades, but the disease remains costly and prevalent. Around 15 percent of the adult population in the US has chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to...

Exploring Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reforms: Transparency

PharmaNewsIntelligence Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have received criticism over the past couple of years for pocketing savings intended for patients. While this rhetoric is true for some PBMs, a small subset of the market advocates for PBM transparency and...

Embracing AI in Life Sciences: Opportunities for Healthcare Technology

LifeSciencesIntelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the life sciences industry, offering unprecedented opportunities for advancements in healthcare technology. Life sciences companies must embrace AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to...

Understanding the Nuances of the Healthcare Cybersecurity Regulatory Landscape

HealthITSecurity Considering the complexity and magnitude of cyber threats facing the healthcare sector today, it stands to reason that the regulations that aim to protect patients and organizations from these threats must be equally intricate. These...

Best Legal Practices Before, During, After A Cybersecurity Incident

HealthCareExecIntelligence The healthcare sector is up against sophisticated cyber threats, from phishing to ransomware. From 2018 to 2022, there was a 239 percent increase in large breaches involving hacking reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR),...