Free White Paper: How can Artificial Intelligence Be Applied to Healthcare in the Future?

In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning has expanded in nearly every industry. For healthcare organizations, AI has many unique and beneficial applications such as improving diagnostic screening, individualizing treatment of patients, and reducing administrative burden. This white paper explores how healthcare organizations could apply AI along with some common barriers to its adoption.

Event Recap: Tivity Health’s Connectivity Summit on Rural Aging
Tivity Health hosted its third annual Connectivity Summit on Rural Aging to promote healthy aging for rural Americans and to address issues such as social isolation and social determinants of health. The Summit included an action-focused agenda that engaged stakeholders from community and faith-based organizations, industry experts, government, academia and the private sector to improve the health and well-being of rural seniors.

This year’s Connectivity Summit focused on the conditions in which people live, work and age – also known as the social determinants of health – exploring how these factors impact the health of older Americans living and solutions that can mitigate their impact. More than 11,000 Americans are aging into Medicare every day, and nearly 1 in 4 live in rural areas. The annual Summit serves as a driver for change and a forum for key stakeholders to engage to spark innovation and strengthen existing solutions, particularly for those aging in rural areas.

The event featured nearly two dozen speakers and experts, including U.S. Senator William Frist, M.D., award-winning journalist Katie Couric, MIT AgeLab founder and director Joseph Coughlin, Ph.D., Jefferson College of Population Health founding dean emeritus David B. Nash, M.D., M.B.A., Mary Grealy, President, Healthcare Leadership Council, and renowned social isolation researcher Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D. Other speakers included representatives from Aetna, Humana, Walmart, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Administration for Community Living.

It is exciting to note that the joint paper between HLC and Tivity Health, Determined to Reduce Disparities: Solutions to Address Social Determinants of Health,  served as a framework for the meeting and was an outgrowth from the last WBL Summit in Dallas, TX.  The WBL Summit’s incredible networking opportunities provided the inspiration to plan for the roundtable and the paper that was later published by Tivity Health, HLC and Aetna.

Event Announcement: Culture + Compliance + Innovation = HR and Legal’s Formula for Tomorrow’s Workforce: Epstein Becker Green’s 38th Annual Workforce Management Briefing
This full-day event addresses the latest legal developments in the areas of employment, labor, and workforce management. The program will feature in-depth panels and discussions on several important topics, including pay equity compliance, the #MeToo movement, and the increase in anti-harassment requirements. Specifically, WBL members should find the “Marijuana and the Workplace – What Cannabusiness Do?!” workshop helpful and informative – this session will explore various approaches to drug screening, considerations for accommodating the needs of medical marijuana users, and propose strategies for dealing with inherent conflicts in federal and state law. Join us to learn more about these and other issues impacting tomorrow’s workforce. For information about attending, please contact Keith Clarke at kdclarke@ebglaw.com.

PR Announcement: Epstein Becker Green Grows Tennessee Presence with Experienced Health Care Hires
Epstein Becker Green is pleased to announce that we have grown our Nashville, TN office and established a presence in Memphis, TN with the addition of several seasoned health care hires. Julie Watson Lampley, Member of the Firm, focuses on health care regulatory and compliance law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracting (with an emphasis on health care entities), and antitrust law; Machelle Dunavant Shields, Strategic Advisor, has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of compliance and ethics, privacy (HIPAA), and reimbursement support and strategy; Kathy Doelling, Advisor for EBG Advisors, Inc., brings a wealth of compliance and health care administration experience. In Nashville, which boasts a thriving health care sector, our attorneys are able to anticipate developments in Washington, DC, including at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid and other federal agencies, that are of importance to our Nashville clients. Building on the firm’s presence in Nashville, our Memphis office helps life science and health care providers manage the significant regulatory, reimbursement, privacy, and compliance issues generated by developments in Washington, DC.

Free White Paper: Beyond the Wow Factor: Getting the Most Out of Disruptive Technologies
As technological innovations continue to flood the market, will healthcare organizations adopt them at a pace that results in big-bang disruption or will they simply stick to the more measured approach that has historically been so common in the industry? While a plethora of technologies are now available to healthcare organizations in this age of rapid innovation, the rate of adoption and subsequently disruption hinges upon healthcare organizations having the motivation to take the plunge. In this insightful white paper, the thought leaders at Medecision share perspectives on how your organization can get ready to handle the change.