Thu.Mar 14, 2024

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Mayo Clinic launches digital health product pipeline

Healthcare Dive

The program aims alleviate the cost and difficulty digital health companies face in selling to hospitals, while making it easier for hospitals to find and integrate useful tools.

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Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah: A Pioneer in Safe Abortion Law Reform

Bill of Health

By Joelle Boxer Late last year, Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah won the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” for her pioneering efforts to improve safe abortion access in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Dr. Brookman-Amissah, of the 36,000 deaths that occur globally due to unsafe abortion, almost 24,000 are in sub-Saharan Africa.

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HHS opens investigation into Change Healthcare cyberattack

Healthcare Dive

The Office for Civil Rights will focus on whether protected health information was breached and if UnitedHealth complied with privacy and security requirements.

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New Mayo Clinic program to qualify, integrate digital health offerings into clinical care

Fierce Healthcare

Mayo Clinic wants to help digital health more quickly—and more cost-effectively—bring its innovations into the hospital. | The Mayo Clinic Platform's Solutions Studio program will work with digital health companies "from idea to integration into clinical workflows." The system pitches it as a cost-effective way for innovators to bring their offerings to the point of care.

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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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HHS artificial intelligence task force takes shape

Healthcare Dive

The new federal task force plans to stand up “some sort of assurance, monitoring, risk-management practices” around AI in healthcare, according to a top HHS official.

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Payers, providers continue to tussle over Change Healthcare cyberattack response

Fierce Healthcare

Providers are still feeling the pain brought on by the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and they're continuing to push insurers and the feds to beef up their responses. | Providers are still feeling the pain brought on by the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and they're continuing to push insurers and the feds to beef up their responses.

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Salesforce rolls out 'copilot' to automate tasks as tech giants ramp up focus on healthcare AI

Fierce Healthcare

Salesforce launched a new healthcare AI assistant within its customer relationship management system, marking the latest tech company trying to expand its reach in the healthcare market. | Salesforce launched a new healthcare AI assistant within its customer relationship management system, marking the latest tech company trying to expand its reach in the healthcare market.

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Center for Connected Health Policy’s Mei Kwong on what to expect for telehealth regulations

Healthcare Dive

Some telehealth provisions could expire by the end of the year unless Congress makes them permanent.

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Nurses report wage, staffing dissatisfaction but most say they'll stick around until retirement, report finds

Fierce Healthcare

Despite challenges with compensation, staffing shortages, safety and more, most nurses want to remain in the field until retirement, a new report found. | The report, which also covered nurses' thoughts on healthcare AI, included Incredible Health’s proprietary data from the 1 million nurses using its platform and the findings of a survey that reached more than 3,300 nurses working in the hospital setting.

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UnityAI Secures $4 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Hospital Flow

Healthcare IT Today

Company will Apply AI Technologies Including Reinforcement Learning and LLMs to Optimize how Patients Flow through Hospitals UnityAI , a healthcare technology startup founded by three seasoned engineers and data scientists with backgrounds at HCA Healthcare , a leading hospital and healthcare company in the United States, announced the successful closure of its seed funding round, securing $4 million in total capital to date.

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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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Open letter in response to Frank Hester’s racist comments

Digital Health News

People working in digital health are being urged to sign an open letter condemning racism and discrimination and committing to develop an ‘equity charter’.

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Tempus Donates Over 3,000 Cancer Patient Profiles to Fuel National Cancer Institute Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Tempus , a leader in artificial intelligence and precision medicine, announced a groundbreaking data contribution to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) today. – The first-of-its-kind contribution will significantly enhance the NCI’s planned Data Enclave, a secure repository designed to accelerate cancer research.

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Healthcare data breaches are piling up 3 months into the year

Health IT Security

As of the first week of March, 116 healthcare data breaches have been reported to the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in 2024, impacting over 13 million individuals.

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Assort Health Secures $3.5M for Generative AI Solution for Healthcare Call Centers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Assort Health is introducing the first generative AI solution built specifically for healthcare call centers, promising to erase that dreaded hold music forever. The company is announcing $3.5 million in funding, which will be used to continue scaling the team to meet rapidly accelerating demand with large healthcare organizations.

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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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Health spending spikes in Massachusetts amid high drug expenses, unprecedented patient cost sharing, regulator warns

Fierce Healthcare

Pharmaceutical costs, non-claims payments and outpatient care fueled “unchecked” healthcare spending in Massachusetts that's increasingly being felt by its residents, according to new findings from | The Bay State's healthcare cost growth benchmark program is calling for policy action after a report showed per-person health spending well above the national average.

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Better Therapeutics Shutters Operations, Terminates Employees, NASDAQ Delisting

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Better Therapeutics (BTTX), a developer of prescription digital therapeutics (PDT), announced today it is shuttering operations and terminating its employees as they explore strategic alternatives. – The announcement follows a special meeting of the board of directors on March 13, 2024. Strategic Crossroads The company will explore strategic options, including: Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC): In an ABC, an independent trustee takes control of t

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Bold Statements from Hal Wolf at HIMSS24

Healthcare IT Today

Hal Wolf, CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), made several bold statements at HIMSS24 about international growth, courting people in CIO-adjacent roles, and learning from other industries. HIMSS Expansion At a briefing during the HIMSS24 annual conference in Orlando Florida, Hal Wolf CEO of HIMSS laid bare the organization’s plans for continued growth an expansion.

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NHS expands AI to help tackle missed appointments, improve wait times

Digital Health News

The NHS is set to roll out artificial intelligence to reduce the number of missed appointments and free up staff time to reduce waiting times.

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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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Foundation Health secures $6M to drive next-generation consumer experiences

Mobi Health News

The health tech company announced the seed funding will help scale its suite of SaaS products within the healthcare ecosystem.

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Consultant Connect tech keeps thousands of patients out of hospital

Digital Health News

Thousands of frail and elderly patients are avoiding unnecessary trips to hospitals thanks from technology from Consultant Connect.

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ONC’s Commitment to Furthering the Vision of Better Health Enabled by Data

HealthIT Answers

By Micky Tripathi - On the heels of the release of the HTI-1 Final Rule, we are now developing the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability Proposed Rule (HTI-2.) The 2nd rule in ONC's series of Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability rules. The post ONC’s Commitment to Furthering the Vision of Better Health Enabled by Data appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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DHSC outlines plans to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices

Digital Health News

Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Social Care announced its plan to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices.

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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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New AI Technologies are Advancing the Industry for Patients and Providers

HealthIT Answers

By Branden Neish - Now after the initial AI boom, both patients and providers are starting to expect the integration of AI into everyday practice workflows and are excited about the host of incredible benefits generative AI can bring to the industry. The post New AI Technologies are Advancing the Industry for Patients and Providers appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Learning from funding missteps in the digital health startup ecosystem

Mobi Health News

Pawan Kohli, strategic advisor at Redesign Health, speaks on the current state of funding and pitfalls in digital health.

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Health IT Business News – March 14, 2024

HealthIT Answers

Health IT business news including HIMSS announcements from eClinicalWorks, Corcentric, Greenway Health, Luma Health, Rivet, HL7, The Sequoia Project, First Databank, Lexaria, Lightbeam Health Solutions, Harris Data Integrity Solutions, Lyric, Lindus Health, Relias, and more. The post Health IT Business News – March 14, 2024 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Urgency in Modernizing Credentialing and Provider Data Management | symplr

Symplr

Physician credentialing stands as a cornerstone of healthcare operations; however, it is often taken for granted by other departments. It ensures compliance with regulations, safeguarding patient welfare, and mitigating legal risks for both payers and providers. However, traditional credentialing processes have long been plagued by inefficiencies, delays, and inaccuracies, prompting the need for a paradigm shift in how we approach this critical function.

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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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Amazon, CVS, Google, Mayo Clinic, Stanford Others Join Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) as Founding Partners

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) announced today a significant milestone with the formation of its founding partner group. – The diverse group brings together leading non-profit research institutions, patient advocacy organizations, and healthcare providers alongside major technology companies. Shared Mission: Trustworthy AI for Better Healthcare CHAI’s core mission is to establish itself as the go-to resource for responsible AI in healthcare.

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Celebrating World Sleep Day 2024 – Sleep Equity for Global Health

Jane Sarashon

On the long list of things people can do to bolster their well-being, sleep ranks third after eating well and being physically active. We are calling out sleep as a key ingredient for health today, World Sleep Day 2024. Yes, it’s a real thing, and this year speaks to the theme of Sleep Equity for Global Health. The data point here comes from Datassential ‘s latest consumer survey conducted across all adult age groups in the U.S.

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Central Camden PCN slashes wait times with LuminEye tech

Digital Health News

The Bloomsbury Clinic, part of Central Camden PCN is using the LuminEye digital rectoscope to slash waiting times for bowel issues.

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Therabody Pours $10M into Scientific Research, Formalizes Advisory Board

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Therabody , an innovator in wellness technology is pledging over $10M to fund scientific and clinical research studies across beauty, wellness, and athletic performance. – The investment reflects their commitment to scientific validation in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Therabody will also launch its first grant program to support researchers globally who are merging wellness and technology in their work.

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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.