Sentara Sees Progress With Behavioral Health Navigator Program
New role guides patients through assessment, stabilization and follow-up coordination and connects them to community-based resources
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A Closer Look at California’s Plans to Implement Work Requirements While Facing Major Budget Shortfalls Amid Cuts in Federal Medicaid Funding
This issue brief examines California’s Medicaid work requirement implementation plans to provide initial insight into how California is preparing to implement work requirements amid projected state budget shortfalls and changes in the 2025 reconciliation law.
La búsqueda de Trump de inscritos indocumentados en Medicaid arroja muy pocos infractores
En agosto pasado, como parte de la ofensiva del gobierno federal contra las personas en el país sin papeles, la administración Trump envió a los estados los nombres de cientos de miles de inscritos en Medicaid, con la orden de determinar si no eran elegibles por su estatus migratorio. Pero, siete meses después, los resultados de cinco…
From Data Ownership to Learning Velocity in Direct-to-Consumer Healthcare
As commercialization increasingly reflects direct engagement dynamics, differentiation depends less on the volume of data controlled and more on the speed at which systems incorporate feedback. The post From Data Ownership to Learning Velocity in Direct-to-Consumer Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Not All Hospitals Have Equal Resources — Knowledge Sharing Can Help Level the Playing Field
Resource-sharing across large networks of hospitals allows people to receive a higher quality of care across the country, regardless of where they live or how well-resourced their local health system may be. The post Not All Hospitals Have Equal Resources — Knowledge Sharing Can Help Level the Playing Field appeared first on MedCity News.
Athenahealth Adding Agentic AI Patient Engagement Features
Ambulatory EHR vendor says offering patients 24/7 access to front-office AI agents will enable text and chat features as well as enhanced self-scheduling
Científicos de Estados Unidos secuencian 1.000 genomas del sarampión, eliminado durante años gracias a las vacunas
Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) acaban de publicar en línea por primera vez una gran cantidad de datos genéticos detallados de los virus del sarampión que circularon el año pasado. Científicos familiarizados con el proceso esperan que los CDC publiquen muchos más datos en…
These Women Had Their Breasts Removed To Thwart Cancer. Then Came the Pain.
Three weeks after Sophia Bassan’s mastectomy, she felt a stabbing pain beneath her right armpit. In the following months, painful shocks radiated through her chest and back. Her body became so sensitive that at times she couldn’t wear a shirt or lift a fork to her mouth. Bassan slept sitting up because it hurt to…
Immigrant Seniors Lose Medicare Coverage Despite Paying for It
OAKLAND, Calif. — Rosa María Carranza leaned forward to hold a 3-year-old’s back as the girl climbed a rock in the forested hills of northeast Oakland. Dressed in hiking gear and beaded necklaces, Carranza, 67, maneuvered between trees and children on a sunny morning in December. “Hold on to that branch,” she said in Spanish….
Tom Kelly, Heidi Health
Tom Kelly is the CEO of Heidi Health, another of the many ambient AI scribes that is spreading its wings to other roles, including bringing its own AI Open Evidence competitor! He calls it an AI care partner. Heidi started in Australia, and quickly moved to the UK and Canada, but now are in over…