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Workers at 30 HCA Healthcare hospitals in multiple states picketed on Friday, advocating for progress in contract negotiations and higher quality patient care.
The day of action, conducted by SEIU Healthcare members, marked the expiration of a union contract covering 3,000 HCA workers in California. Contracts for another 19,000 workers at HCA-owned hospitals in Florida, Nevada, Texas and Kansas are set to expire by September.
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Friday, March 31, 2023
Wellstar Health-Augusta Health deal gets OK from USG board
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The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted Friday to approve Wellstar Health System’s proposed takeover of Augusta University Health System.
Wellstar, a nine-hospital system based in Marietta, Georgia, would become the corporate parent of Augusta Health System, which includes the 600-bed AU Medical Center, the Children’s Hospital of Georgia, the Georgia Cancer Center, the Roosevelt Warm Springs Rehabilitation...
Medicaid raid: Millions of Americans are about to lose coverage. Here’s what to know.
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For millions of Americans who get medical care under Medicaid, the end of March marks a grim deadline. Starting April 1, states will start removing people from the...
Thursday, March 30, 2023
PFAS in clothing: Is what you wear dripping in “forever chemicals”?
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There could be more than just fashion risks involved when buying a pair of leggings or a raincoat.
Just how much risk is still not clear, but toxic chemicals have been found in hundreds of consumer products and clothing bought off the racks nationwide.
Thousands of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, exist since the first ones were invented in the 1940s to prevent stains and sticking. PFAS chemicals are...
Enreach for Service Providers partners with Netaxis Solutions to provide a converged environment for all UC systems and apps
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Sophia Antipolis, France & Brussels, Belgium, 30 March 2023 – Enreach for Service Providers, part of Enreach — the fast-growing European contact leader — has today announced a strategic partnership with Belgian-based Netaxis, a technology innovator delivering Fusion. This API integration layer converges multiple apps and systems into one simplified environment across various sources, including cloud unified communications...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
An Florida ER’s error lands 4-year-old Keeling McLin in collections — for care he didn’t receive
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Dr. Sara McLin thought she made the right choice by going to an in-network emergency room near her Florida home after her 4-year-old burned his hand on a stove last Memorial Day weekend.
Her family is insured through her husband’s employer, HCA Healthcare, a Nashville-based health system that operates more hospitals than any other system in the nation....
Mountainview Medical Center Plans Replacement Hospital In Montana
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Rural healthcare provider Mountainview Medical Center plans to break ground on a new $42 million replacement hospital in White Sulphur Springs, Mont., according to the website helenair.com.
Situated on 9.8 acres, the 45,000-square-feet hospital have 25 inpatient beds and offer acute care and nursing home care services.
The project received a $38 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development.
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Prior authorization revamped by Cigna, UnitedHealth Group
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UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are revamping their prior authorization processes as new federal regulations aiming to ease the burden on providers and patients loom.
UnitedHealthcare will eliminate nearly 20% of existing prior authorizations beginning in the third quarter for its commercial, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid members, the insurer announced Wednesday. Next year, UnitedHealth will implement a national “gold card”...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Tiexi Day witnesses Sino-German Cooperation
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Munich – China and Germany have further deepened cooperation at a regional level with a Tiexi Day event being held in Munich Germany on March 27, 2023.
The event coincided with an economic forum on Cooperation in the name of the China-Germany (Shenyang) Equipment Manufacturing Industrial Park.
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How ChatGPT tech has been applied to healthcare
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There is a lot of hype around AI in healthcare and a rush of digital health companies seeking to cash in.
But experts are unsure how generative AI applications like ChatGPT and GPT-4 will influence clinical diagnosis and decision making. Most say the first wave of adoption will take place in areas where there are administrative redundancies.
Related: Microsoft, Nuance introduce ChatGPT successor to healthcare
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Westcon-Comstor earns AWS Security Competency Status – a first for IT distribution in APAC
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Westcon-Comstor expands its AWS capabilities and commitment to help partners & their customers elevate security in the cloud.
SYDNEY, Australia – 28th March 2023– Westcon-Comstor, a global technology provider and specialist distributor, is proud to announce that it has earned Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status. This designation demonstrates Westcon-Comstor’s deep technical expertise and success in seamlessly...
Monday, March 27, 2023
Piedmont Columbus Regional To Open Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital
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Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta) is planning to transform the former Doctors Hospital on the Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown in Columbus, Ga. The structure will become a freestanding children’s hospital named the Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital.
The 30-bed project will house a pediatric inpatient unit with several semiprivate sibling rooms. Additionally, the project includes isolation and behavioral safe rooms, a...
Tennessee trans bill puts Medicaid contracts at risk
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A novel bill making its way through the Tennessee General Assembly could have reverberating effects on Medicaid managed care procurement throughout the U.S.
Tennessee Speaker of the House of Representatives Cameron Sexton (R) and Speaker of the Senate Randy McNally (R), who also is lieutenant governor, sponsored the Tennessee MCO Reform Act, which would prohibit the state Medicaid agency from contracting with insurers that...
Wellvana Health racks in $84M from Memorial Hermann Health, Valtruis
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Wellvana Health, a physician enablement company, has closed an $84 million capital raise, it said Monday. The round brings Wellvana’s total funding to approximately $140 million.
Kyle Wailes, CEO of the Nashville, Tennessee-based startup, said the funds will be used for growth and innovation. The capital raise was led by private equity firm Heritage Group and venture capital firm Valtruis. Houston-based...
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Systematic literature reviews increasingly cited within randomized control trial publications – Healthcare Economist
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That is the finding from a study by Jia et al. (2023) published last week. The authors find that:
Among 4003 eligible RCTs [randomized controlled trials], 1241 studies (31.0%) cited Cochrane reviews, 1698 studies (42.4%) cited prior non-Cochrane reviews, and 2265 studies (56.6%) cited either type of systematic review or both; 1738 RCTs (43.4%) cited no systematic reviews…the percentage of RCTs citing systematic reviews...
Friday, March 24, 2023
Catholic Church issues trans care guidelines for Catholic hospitals
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United States Catholic bishops have issued guidelines that seek to stop Catholic hospitals from providing gender transition care, a move LGBTQ advocates say could harm the physical and emotional health of transgender people within the church.
The 14-page doctrinal note, titled “Moral Limits to the Technological Manipulation of the Human Body,” sets forth guidelines for changing a person’s sex, specifically with youth. The...
UnityPoint Health St. Luke’s Hospital Completes Surgical Specialty Unit Renovation In Iowa
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UnityPoint Health St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, completed a $14 million renovation of its surgical specialty unit, according to the website cbs2iowa.com.
Situated on the third floor, the project combined two medical and surgical units into one new department with 46 private inpatient rooms, a six-room post-surgical recovery area, two nurses’ stations, visitor lounges, and a family conference room.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
Presence of authorized generics among Medicaid beneficiaries – Healthcare Economist
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Authorized generics (AGs) are generic drugs that–unlike independent generics–are sold by the brand-name drug manufacturer under a generic label. How big a role do these AGs play among Medicaid beneficiaries. A paper by Rome et al. (2023) aims to answer that using public Medicaid prescription use data between 2014 and 2020. Using these data, they find:
From 2014 to 2020, 1023 AGs accounted for 175 million filled Medicaid...
