Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2023

Patients expect a convenient, Amazon-like, digital experience when engaging with healthcare. But in an era of continued staffing challenges, staying connected to the patient outside of the four walls of a healthcare facility can be difficult; enter the chatbot. Chatbots proactively engage with patients to offload routine clinical and administrative tasks that are traditionally handled by physicians, nurses, clinicians, and care team members.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 1, 2023

About half of nurses polled by AMN Healthcare said they were likely to encourage others to take up the profession in 2023, down from 64% in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions in healthcare remain strong as providers seek to meet cost and quality goals to meet the demands of value-based reimbursements while health IT companies pursue increased market share or partnerships that scale innovation, said to David Chou, a technology leader with deep integration experience in the healthcare space, earlier this year.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 1, 2023

The tech giant is exiting the wearables sector as it eliminates 27,000 jobs this year. Amazon’s Halo devices will stop working on Aug. 1.

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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?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

In-person visits are still perceived more positively than virtual visits when it comes to telehealth quality, outcomes, convenience and utility, according to a soon-to-be-released healthcare survey of more than 6,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Australia and Germany. The survey was conducted by research and consulting giant EY – and it has plenty more to say about the state of healthcare and health IT today.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 1, 2023

In today’s job market, health and retirement benefits are vital tools for competing for employees. The latest tool? Fertility benefits.

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MAY 1, 2023

Learn the considerations product leaders must evaluate as they develop solutions to ease clinician burnout and deliver fast ROI.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

For the 113th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are dusting off the crystal balls we haven’t touched since 2021 for another round of Hit or Miss! Step on in to our re-opened fortune telling shop as we go through various topics buzzing around in the world of healthcare right now and predict what will happen with each one in the future. Plus, enjoy all the “Hit” or “Miss” baseball references in our predictions as we celebrate the start of the baseball season

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Chatbots outperformed doctors in answering patient questions with accuracy and empathy: JAMA study aburky Mon, 05/01/2023 - 13:58

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

What You Should Know: Flatiron Health announced a new partnership today with Sanofi in their pursuit to redesign the clinical trial experience for sponsors, sites, and patients in the therapeutic area of oncology. The multi-study partnership between Sanofi and Flatiron will focus on improving clinical trial data acquisition, delivery, and quality through site-facing technology that digitally transfers data captured in the electronic health record (EHR) directly into the electronic data captu

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

The following is a guest article by Heather Lane, Senior Architect of Data Science at athenahealth Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have transformed numerous industries in recent years, and healthcare is no exception. AI-powered chatbots, such as ChatGPT, have emerged as tools that have the potential to drastically transform healthcare and the delivery of personalized care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

Russ Johannesson, CEO at Glooko Though we seldom see their use in our modern world and, even then, only in fiction, there was a time when it was common for people to actually use things like crystal balls and divining rods to try to uncover unknown yet valuable information. As unbelievable as it may seem, soothsayers peered into crystal balls aiming to help seekers look into the future for guidance, while prospectors would rely earnestly on divining rods as they attempted to locate underground r

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Doctors, influencers call on their peers to use social media to 'pre-bunk' dangerous misinformation aburky Mon, 05/01/2023 - 18:49

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

What You Should Know: ODAIA , developers of MAPTUAL, an AI-powered commercial insights SaaS platform for pharmaceutical companies, announced it raised an oversubscribed $25 Million Series B financing round, led by Threshold Ventures and co-led by Monograph Capital. Wittington Ventures also joined, with participation from existing investors Flint Capital , BDC Capital , StandUp Ventures and Graphite Ventures.

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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.

Mobi Health News

MAY 1, 2023

AmerisourceBergen will support the distribution of h2o's Apple Watch-enabled prescription digital therapeutic for Parkinson's disease monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

The strategic investment was led by General Catalyst and a cohort of leading health system partners and will enable care teams to give more patients a high-touch care experience Memora Health , the leading intelligent care enablement platform, today announced a strategic investment of $30 million led by General Catalyst with participation from Northwell Holdings , the venture investment arm of Northwell Health , NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health , PagsGroup, and other strategic investors.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 1, 2023

The group who received an interactive DVD and patient navigation services delivered by phone was nearly six times more likely to be up-to-date on breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screenings compared with a cohort who received usual care.

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Modern Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Rep. Jan Schakowsky discusses recently reintroduced legislation that would set minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and her hopes for Medicare Advantage.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 1, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against 90 Degree Benefits over a breach of the protected health information of 181,543 individuals. Unauthorized system activity was detected on or around December 10, 2022, and the forensic investigation determined its systems had been accessed by unauthorized individuals between December 5, 2022, and December 10, 2022. During that time, the attackers had access to parts of its network that contained patients’ and health plan members’ names, addresses, dates of birth,

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Community Health Systems logs $51M Q1 2023 loss despite higher volumes dmuoio Mon, 05/01/2023 - 20:17

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 1, 2023

One Brooklyn Health, a New York City-based network of three acute care hospitals – Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Interfaith Medical Center, and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – is facing a class action lawsuit over a data breach that was discovered in November 2022. On November 19, 2022, One Brooklyn Health identified suspicious activity within its computer network.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Nearly a third of nurses looking for the exit, survey shows.

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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.

HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

What You Should Know: VMG Health , a full-service healthcare strategy and transaction advisory firm acquires BSM Consulting (“BSM”), a specialist healthcare consulting firm with offices in Reno, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona. VMG Health is owned by VMG employees and Northlane Capital Partners (“ NCP”). NCP invested in VMG Health in March 2020. Founded in 1978 by Bruce Maller, BSM Consulting provides practice management consulting and compliance expertise to clients in ophthalmology and medical aes

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

CommonSpirit Health finalizes acquisition of 5 Utah hospitals, 35 medical clinics hlandi Mon, 05/01/2023 - 18:41

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Becker's Health IT

MAY 1, 2023

Two ransomware groups known for targeting the healthcare sector, Clop and LockBit , have been using vulnerabilities to conduct new attacks, the Health Sector Cybersecurity and Coordination Center warned in an April 28 threat brief.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

Michigan Blues plan takes Vermont Blues under its wing in affiliation deal fdiamond Mon, 05/01/2023 - 17:29

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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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HealthIT Answers

MAY 1, 2023

Revenue cycle management, workforce, and behavioral health issues still hold the top spots for healthcare challenges. Take a look at theses surveys and reports we rounded up. The post Studies, Surveys and Reports: What Can We Learn? appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Compliancy Group

MAY 1, 2023

Grasshopper is a virtual phone system that allows businesses to manage calls and messages from multiple devices. As a cloud-based service, it stores and transmits data, which makes it subject to HIPAA regulations when used by a healthcare organization. For software to be HIPAA compliant, appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards must be in place to protect electronic protected health information (ePHI).

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Jackson Lewis

MAY 1, 2023

Health data privacy, including in the context of reproductive health, was strengthened last week when Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the “My Health, My Data Act” on April 27, 2023. Set to take effect on March 31, 2024, the new law aims to address health data collected by entities not covered by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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HealthIT Answers

MAY 1, 2023

By Matt Fisher - The development of new technology in healthcare and the massive expansion in sources of healthcare data have both created many complications when it comes to protecting and securing sensitive information about individuals. The post HIPAA: Deficient or Miscast appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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