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Has the era of "Digital Health Integrators" begun? "Kaiser Permanente announced a significant AI partnership this week aimed at enhancing value-based care. The West Coast-based health system is deploying Innovaccer’s healthcare AI platform and population health management tools — starting with its Washington market and potentially expanding to new markets in the future. "San Francisco-based Innovaccer was founded in 2014. The healthcare technology company specializes in data-driven solutions that help providers enhance patient care and operation efficiency. "Its healthcare AI platform helps simplify patient care by bringing together data from various disparate sources. By combining all this information, the platform provides a complete and detailed view of each patient’s health, explained Innovaccer CEO Abhinav Shashank. “This helps doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals get a clearer understanding of each patient’s situation and deliver better care. Therefore, it is not just a point AI application, but a holistic approach to healthcare AI that helps the healthcare ecosystem journey from data to data-driven decisions,” he remarked." #digitalhealth #dataintegration #digitalhealthintegrators #digitalhealthtwin #10phealth #digitaltransformation #ai #ai4h #artificialintelligence #artificialintelligenceinhealthcare #health #healthcare #healthsystem #biomedicine #medicine #telemedicine #telehealth #ehealth #medtech #medicalinnovation #healthtech #healthtechnology #healthtechinnovation #bioinformatics #genome, #phenome #10ph #systemsbiology #genomics #omics #precisionmedicine

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Consider attending the Population Health Alliance annual conference - the only conference specifically focused on population health - and hear our amazing speakers, collaborate with like-minded individuals focused on improving population health, access and equity! Out newsletter is another source for valuable information about innovation in population health. #populationhealth #healthequity #healthcareaccess #healthcareinnovation

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With a multisystem disease like #sarcoidosis, we (our doctors) often focus on one problem at a time ... but we need to be seen as a whole, too. Read more in this week's Sarcoidosis News column: https://lnkd.in/es3-zKwr ~🦋 Bionews, Inc. #SarcLife #SarcStories #SarcStrong

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Check out this new Mathematica blog on improving postpartum care in Medicaid and CHIP. Very timely and actionable. #Medicaid, #CHIP, #maternalhealth, #Mathematica

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This week on #BiotechNation - Daniel Kraft, MD, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent talks about the gap between medical innovation and its adoption into standard practice. How can we close this gap faster? Listen now to learn how the power of big data, AI, and patient data sharing could accelerate it: https://lnkd.in/eVMqAHnR #HealthTech #InnovationGap

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📣 All of Us Returns Health-Related DNA Results to 100,000 Participants In doing so, the nationwide precision medicine effort identifies 7,000 new genetic variants to improve genetic testing for all Another big milestone. Not only are people receiving information to inform their own health care, the provider community now has information on 7,000 new genetic variants to inform health care for ALL. https://lnkd.in/gvxFVsNc

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Thanks to Janine Austin Clayton #womenshealth is advancing and #menopause #research is happening! And when government investment is matched by private investment, #innovation happens at a much faster pace! Learn more below and let’s accelerate a much better understanding of and options for addressing and delaying menopause so women don’t suffer through (for years!) and no longer suddenly face increased risk for heart disease, autoimmune disease, cognitive factors (and the list goes on) once crossing into menopause. Thank you The National Institutes of Health for doing this work! Thank you partners in improving the health of women and driving investment and innovation: Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR) Women's Health Access Matters HealthyWomen Alliance for Women's Health & Prevention Black Women's Health Imperative RH Capital Avestria Ventures SteelSky Ventures Portfolia Celmatix Springboard Enterprises Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)

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Let's talk about the just released Biden-Harris strategy to strengthen global health security ( 3 impacts and 3 challenges) : 3 Strategic Priorities 📌 ********************* ✅ Expanding Partnerships → The strategy aims to extend formal global health security partnerships to 50 countries, focusing on building and sustaining capacity in critical health areas. 🤝 → This priority strategically ensures a more extensive network capable of comprehensive disease surveillance and response. ✅ Driving Leadership and Financing → This strategy seeks to catalyze global political commitment and financing. → Advocate for robust global health policies and reliable institutions. → Key efforts include negotiations on a Pandemic Accord and reforms to International Health Regulations. 💼📈 → These efforts are critical in establishing a more resilient global health framework. ✅ Enhancing Program Synergies → Integrate health security with other health and development programs → Emphasize a One Health approach. → This strategy aims to create a more unified and effective response to health emergencies. 🌐 The One Health approach is encouraging. ****************** Anticipated Impacts 📌 ****************** ✅ The strategy could significantly enhance global capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to health threats. ✅ By leading initiatives to revise the International Health Regulations and develop a Pandemic Accord, the U.S. could play a pivotal role in shaping the future of global health governance. → This could lead to more robust and equitable global health security systems. ✅ The emphasis on a One Health approach could foster more sustainable health practices worldwide. *********** Potential Challenges 📌 *********** ❌Implementation Complexity → The broad scope of the strategy might lead to challenges in prioritization, coordination, and execution. → Diverse health systems and political environments across partner countries can complicate standardized implementation. ❌Dependence on International Cooperation → The strategy’s success is inherently tied to international cooperation. → The emergence of nationalism and isolationism are rising post covid 19, and consistent international collaboration and support may be challenging to maintain. ❌Equity and Access → While the strategy aims to be inclusive and gender-responsive, operationalizing these principles into tangible outcomes for marginalized populations will be a significant challenge. → Ensuring that these populations benefit equitably from global health security initiatives requires explicit mechanisms that are often challenging to enforce globally. I am hopeful. What's your take on this strategy ❓ End ******** #globalhealth #healthsecurity #healthresilience

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"We have standard noncompete provisions within our contracts for our affiliated providers. We feel these are needed to help protect both parties as the organization has invested in the startup and growth of the clinic and the providers have invested their time in building patient panels and closely held relationships with their patients." from Novant Health, in its response to RFP to privatize New Hanover Regional Medical Center, March 2020. This is the same Novant Health that is pushing back on the FTC's suit to block its acquisition of more hospitals in North Carolina. Novant now owns New Hanover Regional Medical Center (more on this later). How pervasive are physician non-compete clauses that limit physician mobility, entrepreneurship, and potentially patient access? If North Carolina is any example, they are very pervasive--at least among the mega-health systems. In 2020, 5 mega-systems bid to acquire New Hanover Regional Medical Center, a profitable, highly attractive county hospital in Wilmington, NC. All 5 bidders--Novant, Atrium, HCA, Sentara, and Duke had to answer the question in their proposals, and all 5 acknowledged they require physician noncompetes in their system-owned practices. Because NHRMC was a public hospital, the proposals had to be disclosed publicly. Non-competes are usually non-disclosed. Here is what HCA said in its proposal: HCA typically includes non-compete language in its physician contracts. The terms and  conditions vary based on a number of factors including but not limited to size of the group, specialty, state laws and regulations, and local market dynamics.  Here is what Atrium said: Atrium Health believes convenants against competition are more market competitive than cost-sharing provisions. To remain competitive, Atrium prefers the use of covenants but is willing to consider alternatives. . . " In 2018, a group of Charlotte physicians that became Tryon Medical Partners sued Atrium to get out of an unfair noncompete. They are now a successful independent medical group, but it hasn't been easy. The founder in part credits shared savings programs, noting, "one thing that has helped to level the playing field significantly is shared savings programs which created a way for primary care to stay in business." It sure seems like physician non-competes are a tool in the arsenal of anti-competitive practices observed as hospital consolidation occurs in and across markets. Federal Trade Commission #noncompetes #consolidation https://lnkd.in/eyWiyUDe.

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Take action & make an impact TODAY by co-signing letter to Congress asking for increased funding for #womenshealth #research and initiatives that advance FDA approval and CMS reimbursement for innovations that can transform the health of women. 2024 is the year of women's health. Now is our time to join forces and #advocate together. Please sign on and help us reach 1,000 signatures! We can do this together! Highlights of Letter to Congress Advocating for Women's Health Research Funding: -Add $500 million to the NIH Common Fund within the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill focused on women’s health research and innovation for FY2023 -Double the funding for the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health from FY24 budget of $76.48 million to $153.9 million within the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill -Establish a $10 million FDA Center of Excellence on Women’s Health Innovation within the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations bill that ensures clinical trial design is representative of disease impact in the broader population, and includes a fast track process in women’s health -Create $50 million Women’s Health Research Program within the DoD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program within the Defense Appropriations bill and require an annual report to Congress of the amount and percentage of funding for women’s health research within the agency -Include $13.7 billion for women Veterans’ healthcare, including $1.1 billion toward women’s gender-specific care within the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill -Establish a $10 million NSF Women’s Health Innovation Program within the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill dedicated to computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), and/or engineering to support research and development within digital technologies to advance the health of women in recognition of the historical exclusion of women limiting accuracy of data used in AI to ensure bias that can be harmful is eliminated   Co-sign the letter here https://lnkd.in/gc7_Nc75 Thank you: Lyndsey Harper, MD, FACOG, IF Madeleine L. Alicia Chong Rodriguez Karla Loken DO OBGYN FACOOG Piraye Beim Sipra Laddha, MD Lynae Brayboy, MD Alison Cowan Pita Navarro Santosh Pandipati, MD, FACOG Carolee Lee Alice Zheng Elizabeth Bailey Lebone C. Moses Kerry Rupp Abbie Strabala Jessica Karr Anula Jayasuriya Taja L. Jenny Yip Paula Soteropoulos Jessica J. Federer Jasmaine McClain, PhD Linda Goler Blount, MPH Mitzi Krockover, MD Grace Galvin Saralyn Mark Valerie Palmieri Elizabeth Garner Roberts Tomeka Sateria Venable Rachel Braun Scherl Kathryn Godburn Schubert Lindsey (Horan) Miltenberger DeChane Dorsey Millicent Gorham Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH Bethany Corbin Beth Battaglino Heather L. Maurer, MA, CAE

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I highly recommend this brief, great state examples.

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I’ve been given advice that the fastest way to monetize HER Heard without charging the end user (woman) is trackers and selling data. Instead, I’d like to build something more trustworthy. I don’t want to be in a headline like this. If you are not paying, then you are the product (you/your data are being sold). There are newer ways to deindentify data or even to aggregate things women search for that can be of interest to various stakeholders. In theory that could be okay to sell, but in a post-Roe world with laws encouraging bounty hunting, I am vetting the choices ahead. I am all for moving fast, without breaking things.

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At its inaugural, Margaret Chan, then D.G WHO, called " Universal Health Coverage is the single most important concept that public health has to offer." Yet a decade later there has been no progress on financial protection and almost none on service coverage and outcomes. And these problems precede and continue after the Covid Pandemic. In this conversation we look beyond implementation issues to more basic questions about UHC as strategy and as a discourse.

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The market for digital health technologies has exploded in recent years, and this interest is reflected in National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)’s #SBIR and #STTR portfolio. NIMH is supporting a range of projects in this space, including research to develop devices and software applications that can help increase mental health care access, quality, and personalization: https://lnkd.in/g76yw9ra #mentalhealth #smallbusiness #funding

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Good question Prof. Georgi Chaltikyan, MD, PhD, I think worldwide this could be already the case but not in Germany. We need to do a lot of work I would say. #digitalhealth #digitalization

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🦊📺 Exciting News! On Fox News Night, Dr. Laura Gabayan discussed the concept of Resilience. 🌟 She explained that resilience means moving forward no matter what happens. 💪✨ Find out more about resilience by clicking the link above to watch the interview. 🎥 Keep coming back to this social media page for more updates on our free promos! 🎉 #FoxNewsNight #DrLauraGabayan #Resilience #MoveForward #InnerStrength #LifeLessons #StayPositive #MentalHealth #Inspiration #PersonalGrowth #Wellbeing #PositiveChange #Empowerment #HealthyMindset #SelfImprovement #TransformYourLife #Happiness #LifeTips #SuccessStrategies

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Exciting Update from ATA Nexus 2024! 🎙️ Join Matt Cybulsky, PhD, Joseph Kvedar, MD and me as we share a quick take from the floor of ⁠⁠ATA Nexus 2024⁠⁠. We dive into critical topics such as building greater trust, the future of legislation and policy, including the state of the telehealth industry more than 4 years after the onset of the pandemic, Medicare telehealth flexibilities, remote prescribing of controlled substances, AI and virtual care, and more. 🎧 Listen Here: https://lnkd.in/eeaYn4mM #ATANexus #telehealth #HealthcareInnovation

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New in HealthLeaders: the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has unveiled proposed guidelines of the responsible use of #AI in #healthcare. https://lnkd.in/e7zaFD4g

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A while back I re-shared an article about the FFS and PMPM rates that would be needed to cover the costs of operating a community health worker (CHW) program by the Waymark research team. This article by the California Health Care Foundation describes how California's CHW program was developed and what they went through, including barriers (like merits of certification, CHW reimbursement rates). It also paints more context on the growing role (and need) of the CHW— a trained specialist with lived experience who helps patients in underserved communities navigate the health system and connect to social supports. The article highlights the key component best: "For generations, CHW/P/Rs have filled critical gaps in California’s health landscape and acted as liaisons between marginalized communities and mainstream systems. As trusted community representatives, they share cultural and linguistic backgrounds with their clients, many of whom are immigrants, people of color, and people with low incomes. And they provide accessible information and support in ways that resonate with their surrounding community." It would be pretty hard to replicate this connection and bridge with centralized care coordinators, discharge planners, customer service reps, etc., let alone AI, imho. As more closed loop referral systems are being implemented across city, county, state HIEs, and, systems, health plans, Medicaid agencies, etc., the increased effort on supporting whole-person care gives rise to more opportunity—and hopefully more funding pathways—for this kind of relevant, community-based work. Really great read by Robin Buller.

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