Healthcare Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
Mayo Clinic, a longstanding collaborator with Google, will be an early adopter of a Google Cloud tool that allows organizations to create chatbots and other search applications using generative AI.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 5, 2023
Brent Lamm is CIO at UNC Health, based in Morrisville, North Carolina. He has quite the seat for the artificial intelligence explosion in healthcare – he's sitting right in the middle of it. Lamm and peers at Stanford, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at San Diego are part of a pilot project by electronic health records giant Epic, testing Epic's large language model AI capabilities to enhance the provider experience.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 2, 2023
Over the past 25 years, the field of oncology has witnessed a dramatic shift in cancer care delivery with the development of new therapeutics, a desire to shift care from inpatient and clinic settings to the home and widespread implementation of electronic health records. THE PROBLEM One area of innovation has been the development of oral anti-cancer drugs, including cytotoxic chemotherapies that patients can self-administer at home.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 5, 2023
In a statement, the insurer said it was “unable to scale our financial infrastructure to match the pace of our growth and secure the additional capital required to run our business.
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Bill of Health
JUNE 1, 2023
By Doron Dorfman On May 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is lifting its highly contested blood deferral policy for men who have sex with men (MSM, i.e., gay and bisexual men), colloquially known as the blood ban. While this decision should be applauded as a step toward equality, the policy remains flawed and needlessly stigmatizing, as it excludes potential donors who use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an antiviral regimen that prevents HIV infection from sex.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 2, 2023
Pharma giant Bayer is launching a precision health unit as it ramps up its investment in consumer-facing digital health tools. | Pharma giant Bayer is launching a precision health unit as it ramps up its investment in consumer-facing digital health tools.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 1, 2023
The pharma company said it will work with startups and other digital health companies as well as add to its own capabilities as it builds out the consumer-focused business unit.
Bill of Health
JUNE 5, 2023
By Matthew Chun By now, everyone’s heard of ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence (AI) system by OpenAI that has captivated the world with its ability to process and generate humanlike text in various domains. In the field of medicine, ChatGPT already has been reported to ace the U.S. medical licensing exam , diagnose illnesses , and even outshine human doctors on measures of perceived empathy , raising many questions about how AI will reshape health care as we know it.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 5, 2023
The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a doctor deems it necessary and safe for target patients. They include patients with chronic diseases who have done their first in-person visits; paediatric patients seeking follow-ups (only during holidays and at night); people living in islands and other re
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85% of practices are not complying with the government’s HIPAA standards. The large majority of practices are likely trying to protect patients’ information, but they may not be doing all that they need to meet government requirements. Not complying with HIPAA has definite drawbacks, with one major one being massive fines. The government can fine up to 1.5 million dollars for a single HIPAA breach incident - an amount that would put most small practices out of business.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 6, 2023
Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Google Cloud to supercharge search tools with generative AI. | Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Google Cloud to supercharge search tools with generative AI. The health system aims to use the buzzy new technology to make it easier for doctors to get access to relevant medical notes, research papers or clinical guidelines.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 2, 2023
Clinicians and IT groups must work together to incorporate immersive technologies such as VR into digital health and bring VR device data into the EHR, contends Gita Barry, president of immersive healthcare at Penumbra.
Bill of Health
JUNE 7, 2023
By Amalia Sweet At the end of last summer I stopped eating. It wasn’t that I wasn’t hungry — I was, constantly — but rather that pretty much everything I tried to put in my stomach triggered excruciating abdominal pain. While still in Chicago where I was working toward my master’s degree, I went to University Health Services. When tests revealed I was anemic but free of ulcers and Celiac disease, they suggested I work to reduce my stress and follow up with a gastroenterologist when I returned h
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 5, 2023
The Medical Board of Australia, which is responsible for regulating medical practitioners in the country, has made some revisions to its telehealth guidelines. WHAT IT'S ABOUT A major change in the guidelines discourages the practice of prescribing without real-time direct consultation, whether in-person or via video or telephone, which the board claims is "not good practice.
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Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 1, 2023
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration | CMS outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 5, 2023
To better evaluate rapidly evolving remote patient monitoring technologies, KLAS researchers explored customer experience with RPM in several key areas, including partnership, innovation, ease of use and integration with electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS RPM has demonstrated earlier intervention and reduced utilization – particularly critical outcomes for value-based care arrangements – but healthcare organizations that are piloting the technology are looking at reimbursement
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
Rather than suggesting problems with individual hospitals, the data points to a “systemic issue impacting the quality of care for Black and Hispanic patients and those with public insurance plans,” according to a new Leapfrog report.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 2, 2023
Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange more than prescription information. Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN , firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 2, 2023
Virtual care can provide more capacity in near real time for overworked clinicians, says Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare. He advises health systems about finding the right partner to provide that support.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 5, 2023
The roughly half of American smartphone users with iPhones will notice new health and pri | Apple brings its Health app to the iPad while offering new vision and mental health features to its suite of devices.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 7, 2023
Integrating digital solutions into care pathways has the potential to improve efficiency, enhance patient care, increase patient engagement, support data-driven decision making, and reduce healthcare costs. But efficiently redesigning traditional care requires a clearly defined problem and the engagement of healthcare stakeholders, patients, clinicians, and technology vendors.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 2, 2023
The American Hospital Association said it thinks the new advance notification process is a better approach than prior authorization, but other medical groups took a harsher stance against the refocused policy.
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Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 6, 2023
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In our previous article, we discussed the importance of healthcare interoperability and some of the challenges that impede its progress. In this second part, we will delve deeper into the factors that hinder the advancement […] The article The State of Healthcare Interoperability: Factors Hindering Progress (Part 2) appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 7, 2023
Virtual care models can improve access and build personalized experiences for underserved patients, says Kuldeep Singh Rajput, founder and CEO of Biofourmis.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 1, 2023
A pair of new healthcare workforce surveys outline widespread reports of discrimination, racism and workplace violence perpetuated by patients and coworkers alike. | A pair of polls released this week detail the interpersonal difficulties nurses and other healthcare workers face in the workplace.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 5, 2023
Health assurance is about migrating from sick care to preventive care, and funding innovations that improve costs and experiences can help drive that shift, says Sumit Nagpal, founder and CEO of Cherish.
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