Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

Healthcare, AI top list of fastest growing jobs
While artificial intelligence engineers and consultants took the top two spots, physical therapists and advanced practice providers also landed among the 25 fastest growing jobs in the U.S.
$49B in medical debt to be erased from credit reports
A new final rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bans reporting agencies from including medical debts on credit reports or factoring them into credit scores.
$3.3B merger of UnitedHealth and Amedisys delayed by DOJ lawsuit
The new deadline for the deal to be finalized is Dec. 31, 2025. However, the ultimate fate of UnitedHealth's acquisition of Amedisys will be decided in a federal court.
Industry Watcher’s Digest
New Year’s Day brought the go-live for California’s new law forbidding the use of AI to deny health insurance claims.
FDA to hopeful marketers of AI-equipped medical devices: Think beyond your initial approval
Some FDA-approved medical devices age more safely than others. That’s no less true of AI-enabled technologies than of any others. The agency spells out the ramifications in draft guidance issued this week.

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Instacart, DispatchHealth launch joint effort to mitigate food insecurity

A grocery-delivery giant is partnering with a commercial provider of medical house calls to bring healthy meals to patients in their homes.

January 25, 2024

Amazon rolls out proactive virtual care for undermanaged chronic conditions

Next time you browse Amazon for a health-related product, don’t be surprised when you get prompted to consider consulting with a personal care team.

January 9, 2024

$3.7B acquisition shakes up urology business

Boston Scientific Corp. is purchasing Axonics in a move the buyer says will allow it to pursue a ripe segment of the urology market.

January 8, 2024

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

December 22, 2023

Mark Cuban’s drug company partnering with PBM startup

A pharmacy benefit management company founded less than five years ago is teaming up with a drug pricing disrupter that will mark its second birthday next month.

December 19, 2023

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

December 15, 2023

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Denied claims increasingly saddle hospitals with cashflow lags

Over the past three years, the value of claims waiting longer than 90 days for payment from commercial payers has risen by 33%. Stalled Medicare Advantage claims have spiked by even more.

December 13, 2023

Credit forecast: Hospitals will recover only slowly from lingering ‘labor-demic’

In its annual outlook report released this week, Fitch Ratings says the coming calendar year will probably strike much of the sector as “another make or break” period.

December 7, 2023

Business Intelligence

Healthcare, AI top list of fastest growing jobs

$49B in medical debt to be erased from credit reports

$3.3B merger of UnitedHealth and Amedisys delayed by DOJ lawsuit

Industry Watcher’s Digest

FDA to hopeful marketers of AI-equipped medical devices: Think beyond your initial approval