Category: World

Healthcare providers such as Advocate Health, Ochsner Health and Inspira Health are turning their focus to long-term, creative and cost-effective investments to support employee mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic heightened existing challenges surrounding labor shortages and employee burnout. Scrambling to accommodate healthcare workers suffering through the crisis taught employers key lessons that inform new approaches […]

Three years ago right around this time, I went home from my job in another Chicago newsroom and hunkered down, like everyone else worried as COVID-19 case numbers swelled here and across the country. Groceries were delivered, plans were canceled, social gatherings became Zoom calls.  Today we largely go about our lives normally again, with […]

Through their 10-year Discovery Accelerator partnership, Cleveland Clinic and IBM have unveiled the IBM-managed quantum computer, billed as the first of its kind in the world dedicated to healthcare research. Installed on the Clinic’s main campus, the IBM Quantum System One aims to help accelerate biomedical discoveries and is the first deployment of an onsite […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear signed into law Monday a bipartisan measure that’s meant to bolster access to healthcare across Kentucky by injecting additional funding into hospitals. The infusion will help shore up financially ailing hospitals in rural Kentucky, supporters said. One hospital administrator called it “a lifesaving action” to preserve hospital services and […]

The number of medical students applying to residency through the National Resident Matching Program increased slightly compared with last year, but the number of unfilled positions also grew. The National Resident Matching Program, a private, nonprofit organization overseeing health systems’ residency selection process, published its “Match Day” results on March 17. Nearly 43,000 applicants submitted […]

Highmark Health’s Medicare Advantage membership grew 12.3% for the 2023 plan year, nearly twice the rate of most other carriers and one of the largest increases in the industry, the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit company announced Monday. Policies co-branded with providers, tailored benefit offerings and high star ratings drove up enrollment 29,000 to 345,000, Highmark Health Plan […]

Nearly 12 years ago, a nonprofit centered on substance abuse prevention in Lyon County, Nevada, broadened its services to dental care. Leaders with the Healthy Communities Coalition were shocked into action after two of their food pantry volunteers used pliers to pull each other’s abscessed teeth. The volunteers saw no other option to relieve their […]

A physician as well as a venture capitalist, Zheng offers a unique perspective on where she’s seeing growth in women’s digital health now and what lies ahead. Source link

Nuance Communications, a clinical documentation software company owned by Microsoft, is adding OpenAI’s ChatGPT successor GPT-4 to its latest application.  Nuance introduced its new application on Monday morning called Dragon Ambient eXperience Express. The company said this version of Dragon can summarize and enter conversations between clinicians and patients directly into electronic health record systems using OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI capabilities. […]

Revamped marketing strategies separated the lions from the house cats during 2023 Medicare Advantage open enrollment. Industry giants UnitedHealthcare and Humana dominated the private Medicare market for the current plan year, capturing more than 70% of new enrollees and far outpacing the average industry growth rate of 7%. These leading insurers strengthened their positions by […]