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Source Why is the Globe and Mail afraid of healthcare reform that works? The Globe and Mail editorial board seems to find healthcare innovation “scary.” On Sept. 3, it published an editorial called “Danielle Smith has a scary fix for healthcare,” criticizing the Alberta Premier’s idea to introduce competition in the province’s health system. Premier…
Source The National Committee for Quality Assurance has named the best-rated health plans of 2024 based on nearly 50 factors that include patient experience and clinical quality. The ratings were released Sept. 16 and are based on 2023 data from commercial, Medicare, Medicaid and ACA plans that reported HEDIS and CAHPS results to the NCQA,…
Source The healthcare sector remains a busy space for XR. Weekly, new stories of immersive solutions are seen in training and patient-facing procedures. While XR adoption in some industries is slow, healthcare is a potential hotbed for AR/VR/MR growth. According to a Dimension Market Research report published earlier this year, the global augmented and virtual reality…
Source Inefficient infrastructure and limited supporting resources impede the ability of health care organizations to incorporate research routinely into clinical practice. In turn, this reflects policy gaps that heighten the cost and limit the feasibility and interest of health care organizations to participate in an improved clinical evidence generation system. Figure 1 illustrates current barriers…
Source The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is launching a series of reform initiatives to implement recent amendments to the regulations governing the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY) adopted by the state Department of Health (DOH) in July 2024. As the state-designated entity (SDE) providing leadership and oversight to the SHIN-NY, NYeC,…
Source Francisco Avia_Hospital Clinic / Flickr cc A University of Pittsburgh–led study estimates that psychiatric inpatients—especially those on the geriatric unit—with COVID-infected roommates were at much higher risk of infection than those exposed to contagious patients housed elsewhere in the unit from 2020 to 2023.For the study, published late last week in the American Journal of…
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Source Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and Herself Health, a primary care company for women over 65, have shifted their payment structure from a fee-for-service arrangement to a value-based arrangement, the companies recently announced. St. Paul, Minnesota-based Herself Health offers older women support for social isolation, mental health, bone health, heart health and…
Source International Day of Science, Technology, and Innovation for the South: Science and technology are the most important tools for addressing global issues, including healthcare, agriculture, education, and climate change. By fostering innovation and building scientific capacities in developing nations, the International Day of Science, Technology, and Innovation for the South aims to bridge the…
