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Revolutionizing Diabetes Care with Advanced CGM Devices

LifeSciencesIntelligence Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices have transformed diabetes management by enabling continuous and accurate real-time tracking of blood glucose levels. These minimally invasive wearables eliminate the need for frequent fingerstick...

What Is Behind Rampant Medicare Advantage Contract Terminations?

HealthPayerIntelligence With a history of overpayments, care denials, and limited provider networks, the relationship between Medicare Advantage and the rest of the healthcare industry has always been tumultuous. Over the past year, the private payer program has...

Comparing Female Fertility Drugs: Use Cases, Effectiveness, Risks

PharmaNewsIntelligence Infertility, or the inability to conceive, is characterized by one year of unprotected sex without a subsequent pregnancy. Although infertility can result from male or female partners, most available fertility drugs work on addressing...

Overcoming the Barriers to Value-Based Payment in Primary Care

RevCycleIntelligence Primary care is arguably the most critical component of our healthcare system. Primary care and preventive medicine can help avert and manage chronic diseases and prevent long-term complications. However, efforts to improve primary care...

How Remote Patient Monitoring Can Change At-Home Cancer Care

HealthCareExecIntelligence Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is changing the chronic disease management landscape by allowing clinicians to track patient outcomes and assess their needs on a continuous or near-continuous basis. In cancer care, remote monitoring can...

Exploring Challenges, Successes in Solid Tumor Cell and Gene Therapy

LifeSciencesIntelligence Cell and gene therapy advancements have significantly impacted the oncology landscape, offering an additional treatment option to patients with systemic cancers. For example, on a recent episode of Healthcare Strategies, Alivia Kaylor, MSc,...

Leveraging RPM to Enable At-Home Care for High-Risk Cancer Patients

mHealthIntelligence The rapid advancement in digital health technologies post-March 2020 has expanded the boundaries of at-home healthcare. As COVID-19 forced hospitals to deliver more care outside traditional brick-and-mortar facilities, researchers began to...

How HHS Cybersecurity Performance Goals Will Impact Healthcare

HealthITSecurity HHS recently unveiled healthcare-specific cybersecurity performance goals (CPGs) with the intent of helping the sector prioritize the implementation of key security best practices. On their surface, the voluntary CPGs are straightforward,...

Which Emerging Virtual Care Companies are Top-of-Mind for Health Orgs?

mHealthIntelligence Virtual care remains a vital area of interest and investment for healthcare stakeholders. Supported by technologies like telehealth platforms, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and virtual sitting solutions, virtual care strategies...

What Providers Can Expect for Information Blocking Enforcement

EHRIntelligence While the 21st Century Cures Act prohibited information blocking in 2016, healthcare interoperability has remained a persistent challenge across the country. The Cures Act defines information blocking as any practice likely to interfere...

Revolutionizing Fertility Treatment with a MicroICSI Device

LifeSciencesIntelligence Although traditional in vitro fertilization (IVF) remains a widely utilized assisted reproductive technology (ART) globally, there has been a significant decline in the use of conventional IVF procedures in recent years, with a notable...

Digitizing the Biopharmaceutical Supply Chain Improves Resilience

PharmaNewsIntelligence Throughout the past few years, global, national, and industry-specific changes have posed challenges to the biopharmaceutical supply chain. Disruptions and shortages have caused industry leaders and regulatory organizations to look for...

Exploring Gene and Cell Therapy Integration in Pharmacies

PharmaNewsIntelligence After seeing promising results in cell and gene therapy clinical trials, cell and gene therapy is transforming patient care, offering new possibilities for treating diseases that previously had limited treatment options. As pharmacies...

How AI is Becoming a Staple in Medical Coding, Auditing

RevCycleIntelligence Troves of data flow through the healthcare revenue cycle. Yet, many providers struggle to make sense of the codes and clinical documentation to not only submit clean claims but also understand patient encounters that occur within their...

Overlapping Genomic and Clinical Data Through Real-World Data Insights

LifeSciencesIntelligence Earlier this month, Flatiron Health and Caris Life Sciences entered a partnership that combines clinical data from Flatiron’s electronic health record (EHR) information across the oncology landscape — predominantly community...

A Look Inside the Four Most Common Value-Based Care Arrangements

HealthPayerIntelligence A simple explanation of value-based care is rewarding quality over quantity. However, value-based care arrangements differ in how they determine payments and the level of risk that is assumed. As healthcare organizations warm up to the idea...

Developing Simulation-Based Telehealth Training for Next-Gen Nurses

mHealthIntelligence Telehealth has cemented itself as a vital tool in the effort to expand healthcare access and improve care outcomes. To keep up with the rise in adoption and use, healthcare organizations need trained clinicians who are comfortable with...

Harnessing the Power of Microbiome-Based Therapies

LifeSciencesIntelligence In recent years, the microbiome — a vast community of microorganisms inhabiting the human body — has emerged as a compelling area of research with immense therapeutic potential. The complex interplay between the microbiome and...

How to Adapt as Healthcare Workforce Management Shifts

RevCycleIntelligence There’s a significant workforce crisis in healthcare right now, according to Sarah Nosal, MD, FAAFP, a family physician and a member of the board of directors at the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Nosal, who also serves...