Commonwealth Fund: High Maternal Mortality Persists in U.S.
Despite improvements, the U.S. still exhibits higher maternal mortality rates than most high-income countries, with significant racial disparities
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Plummeting Patient Collection Rates Call for a New Approach to Hospital Payment
For community hospitals, it’s a sign of the need for a different approach to patient financial communication and payment — one that meets patients where they are and protects their dignity while avoiding undue stress on the organization’s bottom line. The post Plummeting Patient Collection Rates Call for a New Approach to Hospital Payment appeared…
Healthcare AI: What’s in your chatbot?
By OWEN TRIPP So much of the early energy around generative AI in healthcare has been geared toward speed and efficiency: freeing doctors from admin tasks, automating patient intake, streamlining paperwork-heavy pain points. This is all necessary and helpful, but much of it boils down to established players optimizing the existing system to suit their…
Bridging Financial Services and Healthcare
By creating payment experiences that feel less like a burden and more like the seamless, convenient, flexible transactions patients experience elsewhere, we can significantly improve both patient satisfaction and financial performance. The post Bridging Financial Services and Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Watch: In a ‘Dead Zone,’ Doctors Don’t Practice and Telehealth Doesn’t Reach
There’s a fight in the nation’s capital that could affect health care for millions of Americans. At stake is a $42 billion infrastructure program and whether it should continue as planned. The money is for states to build high-speed internet — particularly in rural areas where telehealth currently doesn’t always work. Chief rural health correspondent…
My Publications in 2024
Here is the list of my papers that were published in 2024. Manuscripts were published in Value in Health, BMJ Open, Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, Forum for Health Economics and Policy, Annals of the American Thoracic Society and others. Links to all papers are below. Clayton D, Shafrin J, Yen GP, Geevarghese L, Shi…
Sunrise Introduces Sleep Offering Tailored to Women
With Sunrise’s women’s health program, the company can support women battling sleep issues due to conditions like pregnancy, polycystic ovary syndrome, perimenopause, menopause and premenstrual syndrome. The post Sunrise Introduces Sleep Offering Tailored to Women appeared first on MedCity News.
AHRQ to Fund State-Based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives
With an initial focus on behavioral health, up to 15 cooperatives will use the funding to build their capacity to implement patient-centered, evidence-based healthcare delivery improvements
Coalition of 28 Organizations Urge Congress to Extend ACA Enhanced Tax Credits
A group of healthcare organizations, including AHIP and the American Medical Association, sent a letter to leaders in Congress calling for an extension of the ACA enhanced premium tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of the year. The post Coalition of 28 Organizations Urge Congress to Extend ACA Enhanced Tax Credits…