by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries given home-delivered meals in the four weeks after being discharged from a hospital were not only less likely to be readmitted within 30 days, they were also less likely to die, according to a study in JAMA Health Forum. The 2018...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Health care companies pursuing mergers would have to disclose more information about the transactions under a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposal that could slow health care deal-making. The antitrust agency voted Tuesday to publish a proposed rule that would,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Racial disparities in food insecurity persist among low-income households that don’t participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but not among those that do, according to a new study. Food insecurity is considered a critical public health...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
Nuance Communications, Microsoft’s speech recognition subsidiary, is building on its long-standing partnership with Epic to broaden the availability of generative AI tools for medical note-taking. Nuance is integrating its Dragon Ambient eXperience Express into...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning doctors and public health officials about a handful of locally acquired cases of malaria. Four people in Florida and one person in Texas seem to have been exposed to the disease locally. The four...
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