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One Medical enters New Jersey through latest health system deal, with Hackensack Meridian Health

Healthcare Dive

The partnership announced Tuesday adds another hospital operator to the company’s bench of health system affiliates. One Medical plans to open its first clinic in the Garden State by the end of next year.

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Reviewing Solidarity in the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

By Eduardo Arenas Catalán The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), entail a notable attempt to consolidate lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. After the largely non-solidaristic international response to COVID-19, the Principles outline the advantages and limitations of embedding human rights discourse within the global public health machinery.

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New AMA policies focus on GLP-1 coverage, resisting corporate medicine

Healthcare Dive

The lobbying group advanced a range of policy resolutions it says will advance access to patient care at its annual interim meeting.

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How one gastroenterology practice uses hybrid virtual care to improve patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey needed to optimize care and capacity: Reimbursement gets tighter every year while patient demand grows. The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine. THE PROBLEM "Gastroenterology is a complex specialty," said Dr.

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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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State Medicaid officials project enrollment nosedive next year amid unwinding

Healthcare Dive

Enrollment in the safety-net insurance program could plummet 8.6% in the 2024 fiscal year — the largest year-over-year drop since 1998, according to KFF.

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Express Scripts embraces cost-plus pricing with new ClearNetwork model

Fierce Healthcare

The country's largest pharmacy benefit manager is taking a page out of Mark Cuban's book. | The country's largest pharmacy benefit manager is taking a page out of Mark Cuban's book.

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New York State proposes new cybersecurity regulations for hospitals

Fierce Healthcare

New York has proposed a slew of new cybersecurity regulations for the state’s hospitals and plans to funnel $500 million from its FY24 budget to help facilities upgrade their technology systems, Go | Should its proposal be finalized, the Empire State will give hospitals a year and access to a $500 million fund to bring their facilities into compliance.

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Edge Computing’s Role in Shaping the Future of Wearable Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Jiang Li, founder and CEO of Vivalink Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has become an integral part of modern healthcare, utilizing wearable devices to track patients’ conditions outside the clinic or hospital setting. Devices like these collect critical information from patients, such as their heart rate, activity levels, and temperature, which providers can use for real-time insights to guide treatment and identify conditions proactively.

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Medicaid enrollment to decrease by 8.6% in 2024: KFF

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid enrollment is projected to slide further next year, according to an annual budget survey of Medicaid officials conducted by KFF and Health Management Associates in collaboration with the N | State Medicaid directors once again see redeterminations as one of the biggest challenges they face heading into next year.

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Game-Based Technology Keeps Seniors Happier and Healthier

HIT Consultant

Joel Landau, founder and chairman of The Allure Group If I told you to picture a gamer, what comes to mind? Likely a teenager or young adult sitting at a desk in their game room, which is outfitted with a multitude of monitors, gaming consoles, and other gadgets. The last image that would probably come to mind is that of a 70-year-old woman wearing a virtual reality headset and playing an interactive game.

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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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'A lot of positives' across labor, volumes, payer mix backstop HCA's multi-year market share play, CFO says

Fierce Healthcare

HCA Healthcare’s priorities are to address immediate issues with its physician professional fee spending, capitalize on its unexpectedly strong payer mix and volumes, and increase its longer term, | CFO Bill Rutherford said plans to spend billions on new inpatient and outpatient facilities across HCA's existing markets arrive as the for-profit system exits COVID amid a flurry of tailwinds—though one clear roadblock remains in Valesco Physician Services and costly professional fees.

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Withings Body Pro 2: A Game-Changer for Early Diabetes Detection

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Withings Health Solutions has launched Body Pro 2 , a revolutionary cellular-connected smart scale that is designed to improve the way patients with diabetes are cared for. – Body Pro 2 is a cellular-connected smart scale that can be used to capture advanced health metrics such as weight and body composition. Diabetic Foot Ulcers Assessment The first module of Body Pro 2 is prescription-only and focuses on improving care for patients with diabetes, addressing

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Digital Health Networks launches The Birmingham Declaration 

Digital Health News

Digital Health Networks has launched The Birmingham Declaration; a statement providing a focus and a framework of priorities for the next five years.

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Yosi Health Asks the Right Questions to Support Patient Self-Scheduling

Healthcare IT Today

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more. In a recent video interview with CEO Hari Prasad, he describes how they have overcome the traditional barriers to patient self-scheduling and other insights into their unique approach to the patient intake process.

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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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Mercy’s AI-Powered Texting Platform Intercepts Chemo-Related Hospital Admissions

HIT Consultant

Jiajing Chen, Data Scientest What You Should Know: – Mercy has developed a new AI-driven texting platform called The Chen Chemotherapy Model, which is helping to keep chemotherapy patients out of the hospital by raising red flags before symptoms become severe. The model was created by Jiajing Chen, a data scientist who passed away from cancer earlier this year. – The Chen Chemotherapy Model predicts the likelihood of outpatient chemotherapy patients experiencing symptoms that may res

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AI to help boost NHS winter response and prevent avoidable admissions

Digital Health News

AI will spot patients at risk of needing to go to hospital so community NHS teams can get to them first and reduce pressures on A&Es.

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Providence Pioneers Data Sharing for Value-Based Care with HL7® Da Vinci Clinical Data Exchange

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Providence has become the first health system in the United States to develop a data-as-a-service (DaaS) product driven by HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). – This product facilitates the exchange of clinical data between providers and payers, aiming to standardize clinical data across the system.

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System C CEO analyses EPR market and says one size does not fit all

Digital Health News

System C CEO Nick Wilson discusses the current EPR market, including how one size does not fit all and what sets System C apart from its competitors.

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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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Widespread Ultrasound Adoption in Primary Care Expected Within 5 Years, Exo Study Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Exo, a pioneering medical imaging software and devices company, today released its 2023 Survey Report: Unlocking Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Based on a survey of more than 150 U.S.-based physicians, the report uncovers trends related to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) adoption and use—such as challenges with existing solutions, their perceived value of handheld POCUS devices, and the impact of new innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) on medical imaging and ultras

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The Answer to Provider Data Management May Already be in Your Tech Stack

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Karra Hendrix, Product Marketing at Verifiable It’s no secret that healthcare is one of the slowest industries to evolve to modern digital practices, with most large healthcare organizations still living in a world of paper and filing cabinets. This affects not only how patient data is handled, but also provider data.

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Pieces Technologies adopts AWS AI tech for clinical workflow platform

Mobi Health News

The healthcare generative AI company's Sculpted AI leverages Amazon's Bedrock, Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon SageMaker Canvas.

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SCAN Group Makes Strategic Investment in Dina

Healthcare IT Today

SCAN Group , a mission-driven organization whose holdings include SCAN Health Plan , one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, has made its latest strategic investment in Dina. Dina provides digital care-at-home network management and coordination solutions to help health plans and providers improve access to a variety of in-home care services.

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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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Under Amazon, One Medical builds out health system, employer partnerships for primary care services

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon's One Medical inked a major partnership with Health Transformation Alliance, expanding access to its primary care services to 67 employers and nearly 5 million employees. | Amazon's One Medical inked a major partnership with Health Transformation Alliance, expanding access to its primary care services to 67 employers and nearly 5 million employees.

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Best Practices on Healthcare Data Archiving

HealthIT Answers

NOW on demand, The Tate Chronicles with host Jim Tate and guest Kel Pults, Chief Clinical Officer and VP, Government Strategy for MediQuant sharing best practices on healthcare data archiving. The post Best Practices on Healthcare Data Archiving appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Joined Up Care Derbyshire partner with Doccla to launch virtual wards

Digital Health News

Doccla, a virtual ward provider, has announced a new partnership with Joined Up Care Derbyshire to introduce a transformative approach to healthcare.

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Teen behavioral health app BeMe inks partnerships with payers in Kansas, California

Fierce Healthcare

BeMe, a digital behavioral health app aimed at teenagers, has inked several partnerships with major payers, including $1.5 million in investment from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS).< | Nicki Tessler, CEO of BeMe, told Fierce Healthcare that while the COVID-19 pandemic has shined a brighter light on youth mental health challenges, it didn't create them.

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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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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

Digital Health News

Today's briefing includes the results of a study of Apple's digital asthma device and news about a future in which we all have a digital medical twin.

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Ovia to offer fertility, family-building benefits beginning January 2024

Mobi Health News

The Boston-based company will allow employers to customize benefits packages to include adoption, assisted reproductive technologies and surrogacy options.

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Skin Analytics looks to remap patient pathways for cancer diagnoses

Digital Health News

Fresh off a Digital Heath Hub award at the HLTH annual conference in Las Vegas in October, Skin Analytics aims to help rebuild patient pathways.

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Aiberry Expands Mental Health AI-Powered Assessment Platform to Cover Major Anxiety Disorders

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Aiberry® , a leading AI-powered mental health assessment platform, today announced that it has expanded its capabilities to include screening for anxiety disorders, in addition to the clinically-validated depression assessments it has provided to date. The comprehensive anxiety screening includes assessments for five distinct anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), and obsessiv

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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.