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Medicaid Budget Cuts Test Risk Adjustment Program Readiness
By Kathryn Eshelman MD MPH – Unlike Medicare Advantage, risk adjustment in Medicaid is a zero-sum game. Medicaid is managed at the state level with fixed budgets, and the slice of the pie your health plan receives depends on the effectiveness of its risk adjustment program.
Talent Tuesday: Designing a Workplace Where Chronic Conditions Don’t Mean Career Setbacks
By Greta Barnes – Imagine Jane, a mid‑level project manager, powering through another flare‑up of her rheumatoid arthritis. Her joints ache, fatigue drapes over her like a heavy blanket, and she knows she needs to take a day or two away from her desk. When she checks her company’s PTO policy, however, she’s met with rigid accrual tiers and a “use it or lose it” deadline.
Maintaining and Protecting the Connected Surgical Environment
By Ellie Gabel – Internet of Things (IoT) solutions have seen rapid growth across the health care industry. Patient-monitoring wearables may be the most prominent example of this technological shift, but connected technologies also have vast potential in the operating room.
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Health IT Innovation
Why Data Intelligence Is the Missing Link in Healthcare Modernization
By Mark Coetzer – The pace of healthcare modernization is accelerating. With value-based care becoming the norm, organizations across the care continuum are under pressure to improve outcomes, reduce administrative burden, and meet increasingly complex reporting requirements.
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Sharing Health Data Update July 2025
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Our monthly HIE rundown includes updates on industry interoperability news, TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.
Read MoreRegulatory
Medicaid Budget Cuts Test Risk Adjustment Program Readiness
By Kathryn Eshelman MD MPH – Unlike Medicare Advantage, risk adjustment in Medicaid is a zero-sum game. Medicaid is managed at the state level with fixed budgets, and the slice of the pie your health plan receives depends on the effectiveness of its risk adjustment program.
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Minimizing AI Shortcomings with Clinical Intelligence Engines
NOW on Demand Tell Me Where IT Hurts episode with host Dr. Jay Anders and his guest David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, who discusses the growing role for artificial intelligence in healthcare technology, including how AI documentation summarization is improving but not yet perfect.
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Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance
Revenue Cycle and Payer News – June 25, 2025
Reported payers and health insurance industry news from Humana, AHIP, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Cigna, CareSource, Independence Blue Cross, Aetna, and more.
Read MoreDigital Health & Telemedicine
Virtual Healthcare July 2025
We are seeking out the latest developments around virtual healthcare. News from Iris Telehealth, WovenX Health, DT Research, ATA Action, TeleRay, Craft Telemedicine, Wheel, Rauland, DataFirst, Tenovi, GlobalMed, and more.
Read MoreAnalytics & Population Health
AI Can’t Be a Black Box in Rehab Therapy Care
By Keavy Murphy – The adoption of AI within healthcare to improve and streamline workflows and inform clinical decision-making has grown exponentially within the last three years. While the potential is clear, questions around data privacy, compliance, and clinicians’ trust in the technology continue to slow progress.
Read MoreHealth IT Security Privacy and Compliance
Do Your Risk Analysis
By Matt Fisher – The drumbeat of settlement agreements for alleged HIPAA violations by the Office for Civil Rights is continuing along with the consistent finding that the required risk analysis did not occur. The consistent announcement of settlements offers regular reminders to the healthcare industry that OCR is watching and expecting compliance to improve.
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