Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

An excellent piece in The New York Times highlighted how Medicare’s unsustainable climb reached a turning point in 2011, and for reasons that aren’t exactly clear. In 2011, Medicare spending per beneficiary (MSPB) reached $13,159, nearly double the level it was at near the turn of the century.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Company Adds Two Board Members and a Senior Executive to Lead its Medicare Advantage Business Aledade , the largest network of independent primary care practices in the country, today announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round to enhance and acquire services and technology to support its practices.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Matt excels at advancing both of these value drivers in innovative models and was the spearhead of our recent business model shift. I look forward to collaborating with Matt and the leadership team to explore and execute opportunities to drive success and value for shareholders in this next phase of the company.” “I

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care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

As with any team, you're constantly working to balance — in this case: care delivery, quality, financial sustainability, staffing and stature in your market, among other items. Add to this the idea that it’s not right to give different people different care based on their insurer. for a health system, it’s even more challenging.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

[link] ; The US health care system relies heavily on private markets. While venture capital -backed startups in digital health offer opportunities to affect the cost and quality of care, often by challenging prevailing modes of care delivery, they pose potential risks to patient care and raise important questions for policy makers.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A 2001 Institute of Medicine report highlighted the shortcomings of healthcare professional training and ongoing proficiency assessment to enhance patient care and safety (IOM, 2001). Many providers have offered virtual care for nearly three years, but how many of these practitioners were trained in telehealth? Psychology.

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CMS.gov

APRIL 15, 2019

CMS is charged with developing and enforcing quality and safety standards across the nation’s health care system, a responsibility we consider a sacred trust. This duty is especially important when it comes to the care provided for some of the most vulnerable in our society, Americans residing in nursing homes.

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