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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

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Written by Carol Howard, VP of Clinical Strategy As Medicare Advantage (MA) continues to grow, hospitals have faced growing challenges in navigating complex policies, payer friction, and financial pressures. “Many of our health systems that have at-risk contracts are expecting headwinds in revenue of up to 20%.”

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Maine Hospital Using AI to Record Patient Conversations

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MaineHealth recently announced it is using AI to automatically record conversations between doctors and their patients during a check-up or follow-up visit. Deborah Vaughan, a patient at the hospital, said she appreciates being able to look her doctor in the eye while talking about her health.

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Should Doctors Use Chat-GPT to Practice Medicine?

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Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. And now doctors are using it to answer routine clinical questions.

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Police Save Woman’s Life After Pulling Her Over for Erratic Driving

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They escorted her to a local hospital where she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor before undergoing surgery to have the mass removed. Palmer reached out to the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a follow up,” the department said. On February 19, 2023, Ms. The officers wrote that she is now doing well and in recovery.

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How One Nurse Made $2 Million in Two Years Selling Study Sheets Online

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Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. I work 12-hour shifts at the hospital and when that’s over, I go home and work on being an influencer and my business,” said Beggs. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

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School Nurse Delivers Baby in Elementary School

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Her six-year-old daughter Lorette had a fever and needed to be picked up. The nurse quickly set up a birthing area in her office using a low pediatric cot, the same place where she normally treats kids for tummy aches. Carcamo’s contractions were getting more frequent and there wasn’t time to get her to the nearest hospital.

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Will the left shift of activity be adequately resourced? – By Ben Gowland

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The Government has promised to achieve three big shifts in the NHS, one of which is the so-called left shift of activity from hospital to community. More patient-initiated follow-ups, greater use of the NHS App, and GPs to support patients activating choice of treatment provider are also included.