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HHS agency launches program to automate cybersecurity at hospitals

Healthcare Dive

The program will invest more than $50 million to create a software suite that could automatically find potential vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit and deploy fixes.

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National University Hospital testing predictive AI for Alzheimer's diagnosis and more AI briefs

Healthcare It News

National University Hospital testing Alzheimer's predictive AI from Korea Singapore's National University Hospital is collaborating with medical AI company Heuron from South Korea to test the latter's AI solutions for screening and predicting Alzheimer's disease. Heuron delivered its two solutions: Heuron AD, which provides quantitative analysis on brain atrophy, and Heuron Brain PET, which provides fast and accurate PET tracer quantification.

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Cedars-Sinai CIO's tips to ensure genAI is fair, appropriate, valid, effective and safe

Healthcare It News

Craig Kwiatkowski, senior vice president and CIO at Cedars-Sinai, and his team have been pushing the famous health system forward in the realm of artificial intelligence. Their most prominent accomplishment has been the AI-powered virtual primary care app Cedars-Sinai Connect. Launched in fall 2023, the app already has increased primary care capacity by 11% – the equivalent of building three new clinics.

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The MRO Exchange: Matt Wildman and James Pelletier on Quality Reporting

MRO Compliance

Healthcare NOW Radio Podcast Network · MRO Exchange: Connecting Healthcare Executives S1E1: On the first episode of The MRO Exchange: Connecting Healthcare Executives, host Matt Wildman, Chief Commerical Officer at MRO, interviews healthcare quality reporting expert James Pelletier. Together they discuss the importance of healthcare quality reporting and how it serves to improve patient care, as well as what is currently top of mind for value-based care organizations.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration. A news report recently revealed that one in four psychiatry positions in public health institutions are vacant in some states.

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Stephanie Tabashneck: An “Interpreter” Between Two Fields

Bill of Health

Stephanie Tabashneck , PsyD, JD, is a Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience at the Petrie-Flom Center and Center for Law, Brain and Behavior (CLBB) at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. A forensic psychologist and an attorney, she focuses her research, practice, and teaching on neural development in children and adolescents, substance use issues, and providing forensic evaluations and expert testimony.

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HHS' ARPA-H offering more than $50M for hospital cybersecurity platform pitches

Fierce Healthcare

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) research funding agency is floating more than $50 million to developers who can build a scalable cybersecurity platform able to keep hospitals' c | The UPGRADE program will be handing out millions to those with the best pitches on how to detect hospital cybersecurity weaknesses and deploy fixes with minimal interruptions to care delivery.

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Geisinger saves $560K in pilot integrating video visits into Epic MyChart

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Over the course of the pandemic, demand for behavioral health services increased dramatically in the communities served by Geisinger, the Danville, Pennsylvania-based health system. With a large patient population in rural areas, Geisinger expanded its use of telemedicine to scale access and leverage a national workforce to serve them. Today, Geisinger Behavioral Health serves more than 45,000 unique patients annually, with more than 80% of services offered via telemedicine.

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Battling Physician Burnout with Collaborative Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Sussan Nwogwugwu, DNP, PMHNP, Clinical Leader, Done. Physician burnout, characterized by exhaustion, compassion fatigue and feelings of inadequacy, not only affects physicians; it also affects their care quality, which ultimately compromises patient well-being.

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Senate Finance Committee tackles Medicare physician pay reform

Healthcare Dive

On Friday, the committee released a white paper proposing Medicare adjust doctor reimbursement to account for inflation, a key goal for physician lobbies.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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How US provider organizations can build underserved populations' trust

Healthcare It News

Start addressing the distrust communities of color have for the healthcare system by creating a pipeline of clinicians from those communities, advises Christopher Kunney, advocacy chair for HIMSS Georgia chapter and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient.

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Hospitals grapple with generic drug supply shortages

Fierce Healthcare

In this week’s episode of “Podnosis,” we’re diving into the issue of generic drug shortages. | In this week's "Podnosis" episode, Fierce Healthcare’s Dave Muoio talks with Allan Coukell from Civica Rx about generic drug shortages. Coukell discusses the impact on healthcare providers, recent strategies to strengthen the drug supply chain and advice for organizations facing these shortages.

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The Rise of Capitation: How Tech Optimizes Finances for Payers and Providers

HealthIT Answers

By David L. Morris - The healthcare industry is witnessing a monumental shift toward alternative payment models. Among them, capitation is growing in popularity as one of the most durable ways to stabilize costs and focus on preventive and primary care. The post The Rise of Capitation: How Tech Optimizes Finances for Payers and Providers appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Wysa Awarded $3.4M Grant to Develop Personalized Mental Health Support for Chronic Pain

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wysa , a leading provider of digital mental health platforms, has been selected as a sub-awardee for a $3.4M grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) , part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). – The 4-year project, led by Washington University in St. Louis with Duke University as another sub-awardee, aims to develop personalized pathways for individuals managing mental health conditions alongside chronic pain.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx unveils new drug pricing model

Healthcare Dive

Major pharmacy benefit managers are rolling out a flurry of ostensibly transparent and cost-effective models to retain clients and placate scrutiny over their role in rising drug costs.

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Educating patients to advocate for themselves and for policy change

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Gözde Susuzlu Briggs, programme manager for the European Patients' Forum, discusses the "Data Saves Lives" initiative, which explains digital data and AI concepts to patients and encourages involvement in patient advocacy organizations.

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Precision medicine company Tempus AI files to go public

Fierce Healthcare

Three years after talks of an IPO surfaced, health tech company Tempus AI lit the fuse and is looking to go public this year. | Founded in 2015, Tempus says it’s built the world’s largest library of clinical and molecular data along with an operating system to make those data accessible and useful for providers to inform patient care.

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How Technology Drives Value-Based Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Phyllis Wojtusik, Executive Vice President of Value-Based Care at Real Time Medical Systems. We all know that CMS is pushing hard towards value-based care. They’re goal is to have 100% of Medicare beneficiaries in a value-based care arrangement by 2030. We see a number of ACO approaches that make up these efforts, along with Medicare Advantage plans.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Twin Health Unveils Digital Twin AI for Weight Loss with GLP-1 Elimination

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Twin Health announced it is extending its whole body digital twin AI platform, proven to help members achieve remission of type 2 diabetes and eliminate medications, to address the challenge of obesity and weight loss. – Twin’s Healthy Weight solution combines digital twin AI and compassionate clinical care to help members achieve a healthy weight that they can sustain without medication.

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Ascension hit with lawsuits days after ransomware attack

Healthcare Dive

Most data breach lawsuits settle out of court rather than through litigation, an expert told Healthcare Dive.

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Clinicians learn in the hospital as care moves to the home

Healthcare It News

RPM tools and other user-friendly tech are enabling a paradigm shift in care delivery, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, CMO at Biofourmis, who says it's also important to be educated on the pain points associated of home care.

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Hims & Hers expands weight loss program to include access to GLP-1 medications

Fierce Healthcare

Six months after launching its weight loss program, online health and wellness company Hims & Hers added compounded GLP-1 medications to its offerings. | Six months after launching its weight loss program, online health and wellness company Hims & Hers added compounded GLP-1 medications to its offerings.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Healthcare leaders praise Ascension cyberattack response

Becker's Health IT

Healthcare leaders are praising St. Louis-based Ascension for its communications response to a recent cyberattack, pointing to the health system's transparency and speed in divulging information.

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Healthcare’s Trillion-Dollar Data Breach Crisis: Cybersecurity is a Matter of Life and Death

HIT Consultant

Arun Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder of BeyondID Between January 1 and April 1, 2024, at least 16.6 million individuals were impacted by data breaches across the healthcare industry. Of those, 16.3 million – or 98 percent – were hacking/IT incidents according to the HIPAA Breach Report generated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Providers urge HHS to clarify Change data breach reporting requirements

Healthcare Dive

More than 50 provider groups are asking the federal government to publicly state that UnitedHealth should handle data breach reporting stemming from the cyberattack on its subsidiary.

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Deploying AI to help anticipate patient health problems

Healthcare It News

Mette Maria Skjøth, RN, department head at the Dermatology and Allergy Centre of Denmark's Odense University Hospital, discusses potential uses for AI tools, including early detection of sepsis and infectious diseases.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Report: The generative AI roadmap, its hurdles and strategies to mitigate

Fierce Healthcare

The panel that worked on the report was made up of Big Tech players like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, as well as leaders such as Harvard Medical School, the Leapfrog Group and Kaiser Permanente.

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5 Considerations for Managing Data in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Era

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jessica Rengstorf , MPH, Director of US Healthcare Strategy at Endava From Alexa speakers to Apple watches, robotic or ‘smart’ devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) are now ubiquitous among consumers. The healthcare market is no exception. The global Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) market is expected to reach over $187 billion by 2028, more than four times its worth in 2020—owing in part to improving technology and the rise in remote care during

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HHS puts $50M toward hospitals' ransomware fight

Becker's Health IT

A new agency within the National Institutes of Health is launching a $50 million initiative to develop tools for hospital IT teams that enhance their cybersecurity measures and resources to combat ransomware.

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New online portal allows patients to report potential EMTALA violations

Healthcare Dive

The federal government and states have sparred over whether providers must cover emergency abortion services since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.