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Google, Mayo partner to explore generative AI in hospitals

Healthcare Dive

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.

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UNC Health's CIO talks generative AI work with Epic and Microsoft

Healthcare It News

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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Penn Medicine uses AI chatbot 'Penny' to improve cancer care

Healthcare It News

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.

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Friday Health Plans to shut down as state regulators step in

Healthcare Dive

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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Your HIPAA Compliance Checklist: Easily Find Out Your HIPAA Requirements

This checklist is your best free resource for assessing your current HIPAA compliance status. Including all of the components of an effective compliance program, you’ll be sure you’re not missing a single piece of compliance. HIPAA is a complex law - protect your organization from financial and legal ramifications by ensuring your compliance program has all of the proper elements in place.

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Lift the Blood Ban, But Don’t Penalize PrEP Users 

Bill of Health

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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Pharma giant Bayer moves deeper into digital health with new business unit

Fierce Healthcare

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.

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Bayer launches precision health unit in latest digital health venture

Healthcare Dive

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.

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Who’s Liable for Bad Medical Advice in the Age of ChatGPT?

Bill of Health

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.

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South Korea begins move to make telemedicine permanent

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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HIPAA: Why It Matters to Your Practice

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.

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Mayo Clinic, Google Cloud partner on generative AI to power enterprise search

Fierce Healthcare

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.

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Linking up immersive tech devices to healthcare networks

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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.

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On Experiencing IBD as a Woman

Bill of Health

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

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Australia’s Medical Board to disallow 'tick and flick’ online prescribing

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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HR and Employee Healthcare Reform: Keys to Increasing Employee Wellness and Retention

Speaker: Mallory Herrin, CEO & Principal HR Consultant at HerrinHR

Your employees are your most valuable resource. If you want to retain employees and keep them happy, you want to make the incentives more valuable. With a full-stack employee experience, culture, health, wellness and benefits navigation solution, you can provide employees with the wellbeing support they need. The results? Employees who are happier, healthier, and more engaged, as well as a business that is thriving both internally and externally, every day.

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Medicare to broaden coverage of Alzheimer’s drugs after full FDA approval, but with some restrictions

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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.

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Reimbursements and EHR integrations are high priorities for RPM, says KLAS report

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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

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Patients of color disproportionately suffer adverse health events, regardless of hospital safety ratings

Healthcare Dive

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.

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Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

Healthcare IT Today

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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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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How to relieve staffing challenges? Add virtual capacity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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.

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Apple rolls out mental health tracking, vision assessment as new health app features

Fierce Healthcare

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.

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HIMSS23 Europe: Reimagining care pathways through the digital lens

Healthcare It News

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.

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UnitedHealth rolls back gastroenterology prior authorization plan amid backlash

Healthcare Dive

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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Streamlined Compliance Facilitates Growth for Multi-Specialty ASC

Discover how MedTrainer solved an unmet need for SurgCenter of Western Maryland, reducing the time and effort it took to monitor and remind staff about crucial annual training. Learn how this intuitive platform helped increase training completion and save staff time, leading to increased efficiency, fewer human errors, and greater overall satisfaction.

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The State of Healthcare Interoperability: Factors Hindering Progress (Part 2)

Electronic Health Reporter

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.

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Boosting health equity with RPM and hospital-at-home

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual care models can improve access and build personalized experiences for underserved patients, says Kuldeep Singh Rajput, founder and CEO of Biofourmis.

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Discrimination, racism, violence are common and weighing heavily on healthcare workers, surveys show

Fierce Healthcare

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.

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Sparking innovation for a health economy that assures health

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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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Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.