This week’s edition of “The Talamo Topline comes as we hit our stride into Q2. Personally this is my own favorite time of the year – the weather turns for the better, outdoor sports start up, and you get a really good look at hope things are shaping up in relation to your goals. And not just business or professional goals, but also personal goals. Everyone knows that the key to achieving a major goal is to break it down into smaller segments, and what better time to look back at how you are progressing than the first quarter. When I was rowing, the 500m mark (which is 1/4 of the way through the race) is where the real racing happens. You either hit your stride or adjust if you find yourself outside of where you wanted to be. So take this moment in mid-April to reflect on where you are versus your goals, and decide whether you need to settle in or shift your pace!
I hope you enjoy this issue of The Talamo Topline. Let’s catch up and talk about the industry… find me on Calendly or send me a note offline. Looking forward to it!
- The New England Journal of Medicine: PERSPECTIVE: Vertical Integration and the Transformation of American Medicine: In the past decade, hospital acquisition of physician practices has become a dominant trend in American medicine — one that has transformed the organization and delivery of health care in the United States.
- Biometric Update: US Healthcare Industry in a ‘Mad Dash’ Toward Digital Transformation: The quest to simplify patient healthcare records is its own miniature saga in technological history, and advances in decentralized digital identity are opening up the latest chapter. Managing huge amounts of health data, protecting it from breaches and accurately matching it with patients has become a costly and precarious enterprise for U.S. healthcare providers.
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Here’s How 3D Printing is Bringing High-End Healthcare to the Home: Innovations in 3D printing and other additive manufacturing methods are helping reduce the number of hospital-based health monitoring and care issues, allowing more people to have high-end healthcare in the home with specialized equipment.
- Pharmacy Times: Pharmacists Can Leverage Future Roles in Outcomes-Based Payment Models: The US health care system continues to evolve further in value-centric modalities of recognition and reimbursement, prompting the adoption of performance-, value-, or outcomes-based payment models (OBPMs) aimed at improving patient outcomes while reducing costs. Although originally targeted at physicians and health care systems, OBPMs are increasingly prevalent in community pharmacies.
- OncLive: Insider Insights: Unveiling Takeaways from AACR 2024: Incase you missed the key sessions at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting (oncology’s premier research meeting), or want to know more about some of the trending topics highlighted during the conference, oncology experts from across the field shared their most notable takeaways during interviews with OncLive?.
- Medical Economics: First Quarter of 2024 Sees Surge in Hospital and Health System Mergers and Acquisitions: The health care landscape has witnessed a dynamic surge in mergers and acquisitions during the first quarter of 2024, marking a substantial uptick in activity and setting a robust tone for the year ahead, according to Kaufman Hall’s M&A Quarterly Activity Report. With 20 announced transactions, this quarter boasts the most significant Q1 activity since 2020.
- The BMJ: Making the Black Box More Transparent: Improving the Reporting of Artificial Intelligence Studies in Healthcare: A.I. is changing research. To ensure that it has value and importantly does not harm people or exacerbate existing inequities, we need transparency. The TRIPOD+AI reporting guidelines have been developed to help guide the writing of research ensuring that AI is fit for purpose and the findings presented in a usable format.
- NY Times: A.I. Could Spot Breast Cancer Earlier. Should You Pay for It?: Clinics around the country are starting to offer patients a new service: having their mammograms read not just by a radiologist, but also by an artificial intelligence model. The hospitals and companies that provide these tools tout their ability to speed the work of radiologists and detect cancer earlier than standard mammograms alone. ?The new add-on to a standard mammogram can cost between $40 and $100.
- The Hill: Congress Turns its Eye to Health Care Cybersecurity: The attack on Change Healthcare in February derailed health care payments across the country as insurance claims went unpaid. In the weeks that followed the attack, more than 80 percent of hospitals said their cash flow had been impacted. Now Congress is beginning its own inquiries into what happened.
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