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Medicaid redeterminations losses exceeding predicted levels in some states

Healthcare Dive

As of November, eight states had blown past their projected disenrollment of adults, while 12 states exceeded their projected disenrollment of children, according to new research from the Urban Institute.

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The IT strategy behind a groundbreaking new $2B pediatric hospital

Healthcare It News

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It was built from the ground up with the very latest healthcare information technology. It is one of the largest and most advanced pediatric hospitals in the world. It cost more than $2 billion. It is 19 stories tall, with nearly two million square feet.

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Antitrust agencies are relying on consumers to report anticompetitive behavior. That trust might be misplaced.

Healthcare Dive

Regulators want consumers to flag business practices harming market health in the healthcare sector, which could result in a tsunami of new tips — for good and ill, according to experts.

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Clinical champions are key when workflow changes are needed

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Internal sponsors have been hugely helpful in encouraging their peers to adopt telehealth and RPM at Providence, says Dr. Eve Cunningham, the health system's chief of virtual care and digital health, and a HIMSS24 Changemaker.

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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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More than just shortages, the nursing workforce risks a crisis of experience

Healthcare Dive

Building a sustainable nursing workforce requires more than just filling vacancies. How can we prepare and support new nurse graduates to develop a competent and resilient nursing workforce?

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Medicare hospital trust fund extended by five years to 2036

Fierce Healthcare

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money as quickly as expected. Here's how federal officials are reacting.

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The FDA approves Apple Watch's heart monitoring tool for use in clinical trials

Mobi Health News

The Agency has qualified Apple's atrial fibrillation history feature as a medical device development tool, allowing it to be used in clinical trials.

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More than a third of nurses extremely likely to change jobs in 2024: survey

Healthcare Dive

The results suggest job dissatisfaction is still high among nurses, and turnover is likely to remain elevated.

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How AI Is Bringing Patient Experience Back to the Forefront for the Medical Community

HIT Consultant

Michael Zacharski, CEO of Brand Engagement Network (BEN) When it comes to the patient experience, time isn’t on our side. U.S. adults spend the equivalent of an entire workday each month coordinating care for themselves and/or their family, according to a Harris poll. The same poll found that 56% of American adults wait more than a week for an appointment, while many others skip healthcare altogether, with 30% saying they don’t have the time and 25% saying it takes too long to get an appointment

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Steward Health Care files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Healthcare Dive

The filing marks the largest provider bankruptcy in decades, according to experts.

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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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OM1 Unveils AI-Powered Phenotyping Platform for Personalized Medicine

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – OM1 introduces three new products: OM1 Orion, OM1 Lyra, and OM1 Polaris powered by PhenOMTM – an artificial intelligence-powered digital phenotyping platform for personalized medicine and clinical research. – OM1 is the leader in providing Real-World Evidence (RWE) insights from bench to bedside, leveraging advanced predictive and generative AI platforms coupled with deep clinical data to empower healthcare stakeholders.

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Recommendations to support clinician well-being

Healthcare Dive

Consider these recommendations to best combat clinician burnout and protect your team.

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Milken Institute: How employers can change the paradigm for obesity care

Fierce Healthcare

Employers are in a strong position to lead the charge in changing the conversation around obesity care, according to a new report from the Milken Institute. | Employers are in a strong position to lead the charge in changing the conversation around obesity care, according to a new report from the Milken Institute.

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Continuum Health Alliance Data Breach Affects 377,000 Consensus Medical Group Patients

HIPAA Journal

Marlton, NJ-based Continuum Health Alliance has recently confirmed that it has experienced a security incident that exposed the data of 377,119 patients of its client, Consensus Medical Group, a physician-owned medical group in Evesham, NJ. Continuum identified unauthorized activity within its network on October 19, 2023, and after taking steps to secure its systems, third-party cybersecurity specialists were engaged to identify the suspicious activity.

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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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A Case Study in Ambient Clinical Voice at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Healthcare IT Today

Each day that passes, I’m seeing how ambient clinical voice has become the most impactful part of health IT since the $36 billion of stimulus money for EHR software. What’s most exciting about this technology is that it’s mature enough to be used by doctors and provide a lot of value today and yet we’re still in the early days of what’s going to be possible with this technology.

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Struggling Steward Health Care files for bankruptcy

Fierce Healthcare

Embattled health system Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a move it says is critical to continue to treat patients as it navigates its financial issues. | Embattled health system Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a move it says is critical to continue to treat patients as it navigates its financial issues.

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GE HealthCare Unveils Head-Only MRI Scanner for Advanced Neuroscience Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare announced the unveiling of SIGNA MAGNUS , a revolutionary head-only magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. – This FDA 510(k) pending technology holds immense promise for unlocking new frontiers in neuroscience research, a field previously limited by the capabilities of conventional whole-body MRI systems.

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Moniker magic: The adventurous world of naming a startup

Fierce Healthcare

As a proud Colombian, Maria Artunduaga, M.D., wanted her startup to have a Spanish name that could easily be pronounced in English. | Every founder has a different story to tell about naming a startup. Two main approaches exist: do it yourself or outsource help. It all comes down to what they can afford.

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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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Exploring The Impact of AR in Surgical Training and Simulation

HIT Consultant

Image by JAFAR AHMED on Unsplash Human surgery training has used the classical approach of dissections of bodies and presence in live surgery for a long time. These means offer truly priceless opportunities to learn but multiple problems lie in accessibility, interactivity, and safety. AR has started a new era in surgical training through its affordability, interactivity, and safety.

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WeightWatchers partners with Personify Health for B2B weight loss offering

Mobi Health News

The announcement comes less than a year after Virgin Pulse and HealthComp announced their $3 billion merger and their rebranding as Personify Health.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 74: Ambient Clinical Voice with Ray Lowe

Healthcare IT Today

For the 74th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Ray Lowe, SVP and CIO at AltaMed ! We kick this episode off by discussing how the role of CIO is different at an FQHC than at other organizations. Then Lowe shares with us the patient experience projects he is actively working on and discusses how those projects have changed over time.

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Suki secures Premier sticker of approval — and thousands of potential hospital customers

Fierce Healthcare

Suki, a voice-assistive AI and scribe tool, inked a national group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc. The deal could skyrocket Suki to the top of the healthcare AI assistant market. | A new group purchasing agreement between Premier, Inc. and Suki AI will encourage adoption by Premier's thousands of hospital and health system members.

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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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Opmed.ai Secures $15M to Bring AI Optimization to Healthcare Operations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Opmed.ai, the AI optimization platform for healthcare, announced today the successful raise of $15M in series A funding. – The round was co-led by NFX and Grove Ventures , with Secret Chord Ventures , the Impact investor Sir Ronald Cohen, and Unbox Ventures also participating Revolutionizing Healthcare Efficiency: Opmed.ai’s AI-Powered OR Optimization Solutions The funding announcement arrives amidst a critical shortage in healthcare labor, with projecti

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The Top 3 Challenges With Managing Regulatory Compliance

Compliancy Group

Administrative tasks are among the primary strains in the healthcare industry, and 61% of HCPs agree that this is a top indicator of the industry’s high level of burnout. While there may still be a small percentage of physicians and other healthcare professionals who swear by the ease of pen and paper, the majority want more electronic means of charting, documentation development, and operations tracking.

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health

Redox

In this series, I am exploring how Redox can fill the gap between things one would think should be possible and what actually is possible. In the first two posts, I covered how Redox is overcoming current limitations with bulk FHIR and translating data between HL7 ® v2 and HL7 ® FHIR ®. Let’s dive in. What is Carequality? As someone who sells products to innovators, speed to go-live and value come up on nearly all my sales calls.

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2024 HFMA Annual Conference

HealthIT Answers

Starts June 24th in Las Vegas - The HFMA Annual Conference is the premier event in healthcare finance, drawing more than 3,000 participants from across the nation and offering 4 strategy-focused general sessions, more than 70 educational sessions, and 7 content tracks over 4 days. The post 2024 HFMA Annual Conference appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Ensuring Access to Behavioral Health Providers

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Lack of access to care for behavioral health conditions is a longstanding issue. In a recent post for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR experts JoAnn Volk and Justin Giovannelli reviewed state and federal access standards for behavioral health providers and services.

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Getting Intentional About Equity

HealthIT Answers

From the AHRQ Blog - Just over 20 years ago, the Institute of Medicine released two seminal reports on the need to improve healthcare quality—one on healthcare disparities, another that emphasized the promise of digital healthcare technologies. Since then, healthcare technology has made significant strides. The post Getting Intentional About Equity appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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BCBS Provider Enrollment: What To Expect

MedTrainer

The challenge of meeting each payer’s unique provider credentialing and enrollment processes can be daunting. As a healthcare credentialer, you know the importance of working with insurance payers to ensure smooth and timely reimbursement. So understanding their processes is a must. Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) is unique because it comprises independent companies with different enrollment requirements.

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The AI Applications Augmenting Rehabilitation Care Delivery

HealthIT Answers

By Jared Gillespie - As healthcare continues to shift towards value-based care models, rehabilitation services are increasingly evaluated based on the quality of outcomes and cost-efficiency. In this environment, clinicians face the dual challenge of delivering high-quality care while minimizing costs. The post The AI Applications Augmenting Rehabilitation Care Delivery appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.