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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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Oncology Care Partners' digital transformation: AI, CDS and virtual care

Healthcare It News

Dr. Chevon Rariy is digitally transforming oncology care at her practice with virtual care, artificial intelligence-powered clinical decision support and other technologies, in part via an AI app called Marigold. Rariy is chief health officer and senior vice president of digital health at Oncology Care Partners,, an oncology group practice centered on value-based care.

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In-House Health nabs $4M to build out AI-enabled scheduling platform for nursing teams

Fierce Healthcare

Almost every hospital and health system currently struggles with a growing workforce shortage and rising costs to deliver care. Agencies have stepped in to fill the gap, often resulting in unp | In-House Health developed an artificial intelligence-driven scheduling and management platform for modern nursing teams. The startup picked up $4 million in seed funding from NEA and TMV to build out its platform.

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Nurses Take New Seats at the Leadership Table: Five RNs Speak Out

HealthIT Answers

By Beth Friedman - Over the decades I’ve worked with (and for) several nurses. Each and every experience reinforces my belief that nurses are the bedrock of our healthcare ecosystem. They are the glue that holds our industry together, simultaneously supporting patients, patient families, healthcare teams, administrators, and more. The post Nurses Take New Seats at the Leadership Table: Five RNs Speak Out appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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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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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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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Chief among them: critical staffing challenges. Some federal and state legislators are seeking to mandate patient-caregiver ratios to help improve care and reduce nurse burnout.

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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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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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Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Healthcare IT Today

The amount of technology that’s in the hospital room today is extraordinary. We have more monitors at our fingertips than ever before that are all watching and alerting us of potential problems for the patients that need to be addressed. Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming.

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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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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. But to truly achieve those quality improvements – while tackling social determinant of health challenges and trimming costs – virtual care should be delivered with a bit more of a hands-on approach, said Dr.

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Change Healthcare cyberattack: 5 technical takeaways from UnitedHealth CEO’s testimony

Healthcare Dive

Change Healthcare was running on legacy technology, which magnified the ransomware attack’s impact and hampered recovery efforts, Andrew Witty said.

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Despite Current Concerns, AI in Healthcare Has A Long History

HIT Consultant

Matt Hollingsworth, co-founder of Carta Healthcare Andrew Shin, MD, Executive Medical Director, Innovations & Clinical Effectiveness and Medical Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research for Stanford Children’s Health Though AI has successfully been utilized in healthcare for decades, a Pew Research Center survey revealed that 60% are uncomfortable with their provider relying on AI for their own healthcare.

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California hospital shuts down patient portal, citing suspicious activity

Becker's Health IT

In a letter to patients, Poway, Calif.-based Palomar Health Medical Group said it is investigating "suspicious activity on certain computer systems within its network," NBC San Diego reported May 7.

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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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Steward Health Care tells bankruptcy court it plans to sell all 31 hospitals, but summer deadline 'not feasible'

Fierce Healthcare

All of Steward Health Care’s hospitals are up for grabs as the now-bankrupt system works to settle its debts, but as of now the company doesn’t believe there will be any closures that would interru | The for-profit, which has about $9 billion in total liabilities, on Tuesday received the go-ahead on a $75 million debtor-in-financing loan. In a virtual hearing, its legal representation bemoaned regulatory delays with its planned physician group sale to Optum that "would have been more than e

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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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Geisinger Health Plan to Deploy OncoHealth for Comprehensive Cancer Care Services

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) with OncoHealth® , the leading platform for managing the cost and complexity of cancer, will provide supportive cancer care services to GHP’s more than 550,000 members. – GHP will implement OncoHealth’s market-leading software and services platform, which combines oncology value management services with virtual cancer care to be sure people with cancer get the most appropriate treatment and support throughout the duration of their t

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April 2024 Health IT Marketing Minutes

HealthIT Answers

What makes marketing in the health IT space unique? Who are the movers and shakers? What’s working, what’s trending? Where can you learn more? News from Merge, Clarity Quest, KNB Communications, Matter Communications, Swaay.Health, Amendola Communications, Infinx, Wheelhouse DMG, J2 Interactive, & more. The post April 2024 Health IT Marketing Minutes 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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Rad AI clinches $50M to scale generative AI tech for radiologists

Fierce Healthcare

Rad AI, a startup that developed an AI platform for radiology, pocketed $50 million in fresh capital to expand global availability of its generative AI solutions. | Rad AI, a startup that developed an AI platform for radiology, pocketed $50 million in fresh capital to expand global availability of its generative AI solutions.

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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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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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BMF Biotechnology Launches 3D Printed Organ-On-A-Chip Platform to Accelerate Life Sciences Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know; – Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) today announced the launch of BMF Biotechnology Inc., a dedicated subsidiary focused on developing and commercializing innovative BioChips – advanced microfluidic platforms that mimic human organs. – By leveraging BioChip technology, BMF Biotechnology aims to accelerate breakthroughs in drug development, improve cosmetic safety and efficacy testing, and ultimately, contribute to the development of more effective treatments for pa

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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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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – May 8, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Assistant General Counsel – Supply Chain Management & IT – NYU Langone Health Associate Network

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Yale New Haven sues to get out of Prospect hospital acquisition

Healthcare Dive

Yale says Prospect allowed the conditions at three Connecticut hospitals — which it agreed to acquire in 2022 — to deteriorate. Prospect argues the lawsuit is an “11th hour attempt” to back out of the deal.

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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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St Bartholomew’s Hospital deploys AI to spot missed appointments

Digital Health News

A new AI tool has been used for the first time at St Bartholomew's to help identify when actions have not been taken that could cause harm or care delays.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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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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Steward’s bankruptcy documents reveal sprawling debt, planned hospital fire sale

Healthcare Dive

Since filing for bankruptcy Monday, Steward Health Care revealed it's carrying more than $1 billion in debt and said its entire hospital portfolio is for sale.

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Clover Health authorizes $20 million share buyback program

Fierce Healthcare

Clover Health is raising its full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance and announced a share repurchase program of up to $20 million over the next two years, the insurtech said ahead of its first quarter | Clover Health announced an improved year-over-year adjusted EBITDA, insurance revenue and MCR during its first quarter earnings call.

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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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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.