Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

New York

Covering health equity @FierceHealth. Ex Stabile @ColumbiaJourn @PulitzerCenter @Forbes @THECITYNY. Signal: agliadkovskaya.75

Articles

A bold bet on sharing real-time patient data

1 week ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Ayla Ellison |Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

If you work in healthcare, chances are you have limited visibility into your patients. A primary care provider might not know when a patient visits the hospital, and vice versa. But what if all relevant data could be surfaced and shared in real time with everyone involved in a patient's care? Watershed Health is working to make that possible. The platform enables real-time data sharing by connecting electronic health records, paper-based documentation and nontraditional systems.
Headspace launches insurance-backed direct-to-consumer therapy offering

1 week ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Headspace, a mental health company, has launched a direct-to-consumer clinical therapy offering. Therapy by Headspace is available in all 50 states. It entails 1:1 video sessions with licensed therapists trained in a range of conditions, including anxiety, trauma and mood disorders. The product comes after a decade of Headspace working with employers and health plans. The goal is to expand therapy availability for consumers. It is only available for adults to start.
Urine drug test data can help chart national overdose trends: study

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Urine drug test (UDT) data can generate timely estimates of overdose deaths, a new study suggests. The study, published in JAMA Network Open by specialty lab Millennium Health and The Ohio State University, aimed to determine whether UDT data could provide near-real-time indications of overdose trends. Effective responses to the overdose crisis must be prompt, the study noted, which requires a timely evaluation of current trends.
NeuroFlow unveils analytics tools for behavioral health risk management

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

NeuroFlow, a behavioral health tech company, has launched a suite of analytics tools to help payers and providers understand population risk. BHIQ is a standalone product built on the analytics work NeuroFlow has already routinely been doing for years. It leverages existing data, like historical EHR, claims and pharma data, to predict the behavioral health needs of a population or a patient. It also helps organizations understand the efficacy of their interventions.
Independent pharmacies can now directly contract with GoodRx

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

GoodRx, a prescription savings platform, has launched a direct contract offering for independent pharmacies. The goal is to offer more predictable pricing and brand medication partnership deals. Community Link is designed to address industry challenges that independent community pharmacies face around reimbursement and competitive pressures. Independent pharmacies can now enter into a direct contract with GoodRx without pharmacy benefit manager involvement.
Exclusive look at Nourish's new suite of AI tools for patients and providers

3 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Nourish, a virtual nutrition counseling startup, is doubling down on tech with several new AI features for patients and providers. Over the past several months, Nourish rolled out custom AI tools to streamline workflows, help patients track their meals and surface data insights to providers. So far, the feedback has been very positive, executives say.
CMS deputy Stephanie Carlton asserts Trump administration wants to rein in—not cut—Medicaid spending

3 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

LOS ANGELES—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is prioritizing the acceleration of technology under President Donald Trump, according to the agency’s new deputy administrator and chief of staff Stephanie Carlton. Carlton, a Trump appointee, spoke at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference last week in Los Angeles. She was previously acting administrator of the CMS.
Grow Therapy launches care coordination program to streamline referrals to higher levels of care

1 month ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Grow Therapy, a hybrid mental health provider, has launched a new care coordination program to streamline provider referrals to higher levels of care. Grow providers who need to refer patients to higher levels of care can now initiate the process with a care coordination team. The coordinator evaluates a patient’s needs and insurance coverage to determine the best referral.
How Grow Therapy hopes to prevent patient dropout during referrals

1 month ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

When providers work together, patients are more likely to get their needs met at the right place and the right time. This leads to better health outcomes and lower healthcare costs. In outpatient behavioral health, a certain subset of patients need intensive or specialized care. But referrals to higher levels of care are often inefficient and risk patients dropping out of treatment altogether.
Watershed Health rolls out large-scale data sharing platform across Austin, Texas, region

1 month ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Watershed Health, a platform facilitating real-time care coordination, has teamed up with stakeholders in Austin and Travis County in Texas. Partners in the coordination initiative include Dell Medical School at UT-Austin; Central Health, Travis County’s taxpayer-funded hospital district; Austin Public Health; Integral Care, a community behavioral health provider; the Travis County Sheriff’s Office; health systems; payers; and health information exchanges.