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Introducing Precision Marketing in Healthcare

HealthIT Answers

Now on demand, Hello Healthcare episode with host Alan Tam and guests Sharon Line Clary and Anthony Cadieux from Advent Health. They dive into the world of precision marketing for enhancing patient experiences and shaping the future of healthcare communication. The post Introducing Precision Marketing in Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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CommonSpirit’s operating losses swell, sparking job cuts

Healthcare Dive

Better investment returns due to a rebound in the financial markets helped mitigate CommonSpirit’s net loss, which reached $231 million in the quarter.

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For Oak Orchard, telehealth relieves shortage of medical, dental and mental health pros

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 forced Oak Orchard Health, a health system based in Brockport, New York, to change the way it did almost everything at its health centers – beginning with its inability to see patients face to face. THE PROBLEM But services were needed more than ever. As a rural FQHC, it typically faced many challenges – challenges inflamed by the pandemic.

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Zocdoc expands urgent care bookings to meet surging demand

Healthcare Dive

The healthcare marketplace company says the number of urgent care facilities on Zocdoc has grown by almost 40% month over month, and urgent care bookings have also expanded by an average of 80%.

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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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Hippocratic AI launches with $50M to build large language model for healthcare

Mobi Health News

The company says its LLM model has passed over 100 healthcare certifications and surpassed GPT-4 and other commercial models’ performance.

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Appellate court pauses ruling blocking ACA preventive care mandate

Healthcare Dive

The temporary administrative stay, which now legally requires health plans to provide preventive care for over 150 million Americans, applies while an appeal of the March case is considered by the court.

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Connected Health Initiative – Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill

Healthcare IT Today

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology. Vendors can help by contributing clinical efficacy studies to CHI’s new Digital Health Evidence Resource Database to bolster their advocacy efforts.

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UnitedHealthcare defends controversial prior authorization policy for colonoscopies

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare defends controversial prior authorization policy for colonoscopies fdiamond Tue, 05/16/2023 - 16:43

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Thoughts on the End of the Public Health Emergency

HealthIT Answers

Some thoughts on the Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, which expired at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. The post Thoughts on the End of the Public Health Emergency appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Voiceitt, Cisco partner to offer speech recognition for virtual meetings

Mobi Health News

Webex by Cisco will integrate Voiceitt's technology into its platform for people with non-standard speech to be easily understood during virtual calls.

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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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Legislators reintroduce bill aimed at easing barriers to virtual mental health care in Medicare

Fierce Healthcare

Legislators reintroduce bill aimed at easing barriers to virtual mental health care in Medicare pminemyer Tue, 05/16/2023 - 16:38

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Amino Health Secures $80 Million in Financing to Accelerate Growth and Product Innovation

Healthcare IT Today

Investment Further Validates Amino Health’s Model for Making Healthcare More Intuitive, Accessible and Convenient Through its Transformative Healthcare Guidance Solution Amino Health , the leading digital healthcare guidance company, today announced $80 million in both equity and debt financing led by Transformation Capital and Oxford Finance LLC , respectively.

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OCR Fines Arkansas Business Associate $350,000 for Impermissibly Disclosing ePHI

HIPAA Journal

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has agreed to settle a HIPAA investigation of an Arkansas business associate that impermissibly disclosed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of more than 230,000 individuals after failing to secure a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. MedEvolve, Inc. is a Little Rock, AR-based HIPAA business associate that provides practice management, revenue cycle management, and practice analytics software to HIPAA-regulated entities.

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New startup aims to build generative AI for healthcare armed with $50M from General Catalyst, A16z

Fierce Healthcare

New startup aims to build generative AI for healthcare armed with $50M from General Catalyst, A16z hlandi Tue, 05/16/2023 - 08:37

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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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Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Data in Action

Healthcare IT Today

Just when clinicians—inspired by the HITECH act and new forms of analytics—are grappling with new uses for traditional clinical data, they are being pushed to include a far vaster data set: social determinants of health (SDoH). There are often challenges when it comes to figuring out what types of SDoH data are relevant to each patient, and how to act on it to create healthier individuals and communities.

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HCA Healthcare CFO: Envision Healthcare's bankruptcy won't disrupt Valesco, its recently optioned staffing JV

Fierce Healthcare

HCA Healthcare CFO: Envision Healthcare's bankruptcy won't disrupt Valesco, its recently optioned staffing JV dmuoio Tue, 05/16/2023 - 17:38

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The Edge of Healthcare: Improving Patient Care through Connected Technologies

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest interview with Romina Elias, Healthcare Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, and Jeff Kenkel, Global CTO for Life Sciences and Edge at Dell Technologies The digital transformation of the healthcare industry is on an accelerated path, and part of this change is driven by the multitude of connected devices and sensors available.

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More Than a Website: Should the Federal Government Establish Additional Minimum Standards for the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplaces?

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The Affordable Care Act established health insurance Marketplaces to facilitate enrollment in comprehensive and affordable health insurance. Most states rely on the federal government to run their Marketplace, but recently, several states have expressed interest in taking over Marketplace operations. With Marketplace enrollment at an all-time high, and millions more people poised to transition from Medicaid to commercial insurance, the role of the Marketplaces as a coverage safety net has never

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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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Menopause care platform Gennev becomes Aetna in-network provider

Mobi Health News

Eligible Aetna commercial members will be able to access virtual visits with Gennev's doctors and dietitians without prior authorization.

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Industry Spotlight: Stephen McMillan and Charlotte James, Philips UKI

Digital Health News

Stephen McMillan, solutions leader at Philips UKI, and Charlotte James, business manager CT, AMI, and radiation oncology talk to Jennifer Trueland about the benefits that AI solutions are bringing to patients, staff, and to the NHS as a whole.

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Federal appeals court grants stay in ACA preventive care ruling

Fierce Healthcare

Federal appeals court grants stay in ACA preventive care ruling pminemyer Tue, 05/16/2023 - 11:58

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Dorset launch cloud-based Unified Image Sharing System from SynApps

Digital Health News

Dorset’s three NHS provider trusts have selected enterprise content management specialist SynApps Solutions to deploy a proactive image sharing system.

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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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Data breach at credit agency may impact several Virginia hospitals

Becker's Health IT

A breach at Credit Control Corp., a Virginia-based credit reporting agency, may affect several hospitals, health systems and healthcare practices in the state.

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Getting Health Care at a Retail Pharmacy vs a Retail Store: Consumers May Be Favoring the Pharmacist Versus the Retailer

Health Populi

Not all “retail health” sites are created equal, U.S. consumers seem to be saying in a new study from Wolters Kluwer Health, the company’s second Pharmacy Next: Consumer Care and Cost Trends survey. Specifically, consumers have begun to differentiate between health care delivered at a retail pharmacy versus care offered at a retail store — such as Target or Walmart (both named as sites that offer “health clinics in department stores” in the study press release

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National CNIO the latest NHSE departure

Digital Health News

Natasha Phillips, the national chief nursing information officer (CNIO), has become the latest departure from NHS England.

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Health Systems Must Move “Beyond the Walls” to Support Consumers’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Hospitals’ and health systems’ core competencies have been serving patients “within the walls” of their organizations and institutions. As health systems continue to evolve value-based services while meeting patients’ consumer-oriented demands for convenience and personalization, digital transformation is required, enabling care “beyond-the-walls.” We learn more about this vision and how to map the journey to getting there in the report Integrating digi

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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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Online GP registrations reach 240,000 as new digital NHS service grows 

Digital Health News

GP practices are being encouraged to join a new national online service which makes registering patients quicker and easier.

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Maxim Healthcare Reaches Settlement Over 2021 Data Breach Case

Health IT Security

Maxim Healthcare has… read more

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NHS Hack Day returns to Cardiff May 20-21 after three-year absence

Digital Health News

NHS Hack Day, an event dedicated to “geeks who love the NHS”, is returning this weekend in Cardiff, following a three-year absence.

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OCR Settles HIPAA Investigation with Business Associate

Compliancy Group

Due to a July 2018 incident, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigated MedEvolve to determine if the business associate was HIPAA compliant. The result? A $350,000 HIPAA fine for potentially violating several provisions of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. *Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the MedEvolve incident was the result of hacking.

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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.