Fri.Mar 15, 2024

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Salesforce’s pitch on healthcare AI

Healthcare Dive

The cloud-based software company announced a number of new AI tools in the lead up to the HIMSS conference. Healthcare is a “huge priority” for Salesforce, said Sean Kennedy, global health strategy lead.

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Mental Illness Shouldn’t Preclude Organ Transplant Eligibility

Bill of Health

By Sana S. Baban At present, there is a population of patients who would physiologically benefit from transplantation but are rejected based on pre-determined non-medical criteria: the presence of psychotic disorders. An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice. The existing organ allocation system has historically marginalized individuals diagnosed with psychotic or affective disorders, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and delusional disorders

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Inexperienced clinicians pose the largest patient safety risk in 2024: report

Healthcare Dive

Challenges with health technology adoption and reductions in maternal services could also threaten patient safety this year, according to an ECRI study.

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A Gartner expert points to AI and hospital-at-home as the biggest emerging technologies at HIMSS24

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's been a long week at HIMSS24, filled with educational sessions and an exhibit hall packed with the latest and greatest in healthcare information technology. Needless to say, artificial intelligence has dominated conversations. Veronica Walk is senior director analyst, healthcare and life sciences, at consulting firm Gartner, where she specializes in emerging clinical technologies.

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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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Novant Health names new CFO

Healthcare Dive

The appointment will help fill out the North Carolina-based health system’s leadership team after its CFO and COO left last year.

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HIMSS24: Oracle Health builds out generative AI tools in its quest to 'eliminate clicks' for clinicians

Fierce Healthcare

ORLANDO, Florida — Software giant Oracle continues to build out generative AI tools in its healthcare solutions as it debuted a new service for care management this week and plans to roll out | Oracle is integrating generative AI and ambient listening technologies into its EHR to streamline medical notetaking for clinicians. "We're not trying to go from 10 clicks to seven clicks.

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AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare's cyberattack

Fierce Healthcare

Nearly every hospital is feeling the consequences of Change Healthcare’s cyberattack on their finances, patient care delivery, or both, according to reports from almost 1,000 hospitals compiled by | Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the incident has had "direct" implications on patient care within their facilities.

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HIMSS24 Roundup: M&A, Strategic Partnerships, Deployments, Product Launches, Funding, More

HIT Consultant

Strategic Partnerships New Consortium Aims to Ensure Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare A new initiative, the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), was announced at the HIMSS 2024 Global Health Conference. Through collaboration, TRAIN members will help improve the quality, safety, and trustworthiness of AI in health by sharing best practices, enabling registration of AI used for clinical care or clinical operations, providing tools to enable measurement of outcomes associated with t

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MedPAC report slammed by insurers and docs over Medicare Advantage and physician reimbursement

Fierce Healthcare

Health plans and providers alike are disgruntled with a new report (PDF) to Congress released | It seems everyone was left unsatisfied by MedPAC's newest report to Congress. Providers objected to its proposal to give physician reimbursement relief, while plans disagreed with its attitude toward Medicare Advantage.

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Mayo Clinic Platform Unveils Solutions Studio to Propel Digital Health Innovation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Mayo Clinic Platform launches Solutions Studio , a groundbreaking program designed to accelerate the development, validation, and deployment of digital health solutions. – Solutions Studio addresses a critical challenge in healthcare – bridging the gap between promising digital health innovations and their practical integration into clinical workflows.

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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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KFF: A look at healthcare spending trends in Medicare households

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare households are spending far more on healthcare than other households, according to a new KFF analysis. | Medicare households are spending far more on healthcare than other households, according to a new KFF analysis.

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Price Transparency: Shifting Responsibility to Employers

Healthcare IT Today

In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON at the HCAA conference in Las Vegas. Two “watershed moments” have been overlooked by most people, while media coverage focuses on other things such as the No Surprises Act. The first change came when a recent “transparency in coverage” law leverages fines on sponsors (normally employers), who the government hopes will then pu

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Practice Better adds new tools, billing integration for mental health practitioners

Fierce Healthcare

Practice Better, a practice management software vendor, is expanding its platform to better support the needs of mental health practitioners. | The practice management platform is adding range of mental health screening forms, client progress tracking tools and mental health templates with more specialized features to its platform. It has also teamed up with clearinghouse Claim.MD to add insurance billing integration to its platform.

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Strengthening Healthcare IT Infrastructure: A Wake-Up Call for Cybersecurity Resilience

HIT Consultant

Jason Griffin, Managing Director, Digital Health Strategy and Cybersecurity at Nordic Consulting Andy Adams, Managing Director, Performance Improvement and Advisory Services at Nordic Consulting The recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare highlights the healthcare industry’s vulnerability when threatened with criminal attempts to disrupt technology and operations.

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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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Senate Finance Committee grills Becerra on HHS' delayed relief in Change Healthcare cyberattack

Fierce Healthcare

Leading senators want Department of Health and Human Services, insurers and hospitals alike to know they’re keeping a close eye on the fallout from Change Healthcare’s cyberattack. | Influential senators held HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra's feet to the fire on Thursday, urging him and his department to deliver prompt support and maintain pressure on the industry to invest in cybersecurity.

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Understanding FWA Compliance in Healthcare

American Medical Compliance

Among the various areas of compliance, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) compliance stands out as a critical pillar. The Department of Justice recently revealed charges against 78 individuals involved in healthcare fraud schemes. Therefore, for healthcare providers to prevent these charges from happening, understanding FWA compliance is essential. Healthcare organizations need to fully understand FWA compliance to maintain integrity, protect patients, and uphold regulatory standards.

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Exploring real-life impact with digital health apps in patient experience 

Digital Health News

Putting the patient at the centre when digitalising systems and processes is a must, speaker told a session on the Patient Engagement stage at Rewired24.

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Three Ways AI, If Trusted, Can Transform the Healthcare Landscape

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jeanne Greathouse, Healthcare Development Director, AI Regulatory Services at BSI 77% of Healthcare Workers Say They May Be Ready to Let AI Take on Administrative Work Few industries have been stress-tested as thoroughly as the healthcare system during COVID-19 when, at the worst moments, 22% of US hospitals were reporting staff shortages.

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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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UK’s huge potential is being lost in the wait for ‘silver bullets’ says Bracken

Digital Health News

The UK could be a global leader in digital health if it embraced public-interest tech and stopped depending on big IT, Mike Bracken said at Rewired 2024.

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How much money are hackers selling medical records for?

Becker's Health IT

"Find out why medical records are being sold for $60 on the dark web, according to CNBC. Cybersecurity experts warn of the dangers of exposed healthcare data.

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Homerton Healthcare achieves milestone with Sectra imaging technology

Digital Health News

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the first organisation anywhere in the NHS to deploy Sectra’s imaging service using public cloud.

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9amHealth Raises $9.5M Series A Extension Led by The Cigna Group Ventures to Expand to Employers Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

After Being Selected by Leading PBMs, Benefits Navigators, and Health Plans as the Virtual Cardiometabolic Provider of Choice, 9amHealth Increases the Round’s Total to $25M 9amHealth , the leading virtual provider for cardiometabolic health, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A extension round today. The financing round was led by The Cigna Group Ventures, with additional support from existing institutional investors, including 7Wire Ventures, Define Ventures, Leaps by Baye

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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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Rewired 2024: Funding pledge provokes opportunities and challenges

Digital Health News

NHS IT investment is a vote of confidence in digital leaders but brings complex questions about digitisation and its impact, Rewired24 speakers argued.

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Thyme Care unveils oncology practice partner network to scale value-based care

Fierce Healthcare

Thyme Care, a value-based care enabler focused on oncology, has formally launched a dedicated platform for oncology practice partners. | Thyme Care Oncology Partners spans more than 400 oncologists across 25 states. Together, Thyme and its partner practices will design and implement value-based initiatives for patients covered by risk-bearing entities, with Thyme taking on downside risk for these partners.

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Digital Health News - Untitled Article

Digital Health News

Today's briefing includes US regulators approving a label expansion for Wegovy and research showing the NHS is failing to collect data for people with OCD.

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AION Labs launches CombinAble.AI to design antibodies for therapeutic development

Mobi Health News

The Israel-based company is the result of AION Labs' fifth startup challenge.

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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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10 must-know perspectives on digital transformation for healthcare IT leaders

Redox

What’s the best way for your IT infrastructure to support your organization’s digital transformation? If this question is niggling away in your mind, you’re not alone. It’s a complex question without, it seems, a universal answer. That said, after doing a deep research dive, I’ve come across some great content that can help move your healthcare IT (HIT) down the digital transformation path.

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Derma AI Cureskin bags $20M Series B funding and more funding from India

Mobi Health News

Also, digital diabetes management startup Sugar.fit secured $5 million more in Series A funding.

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Industry Voices—The dawn of a new era in liver care: MASH therapeutics' arrival

Fierce Healthcare

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it | The approval of the first therapeutic treatment targeting metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis will be game-changing for physicians. More importantly, it will be life-changing for patients. As we celebrate this milestone, we must ask ourselves: Are we truly prepared for when this drug hits the market?

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The Vital Role of Consent Management in Bridging HHS Data

HealthIT Answers

By Pooja Babbrah - The latest HHS Data Strategy was unveiled back in December, and it's packed with updates that provide valuable insight into their priorities and where they're putting their attention. Let's take a look. The post The Vital Role of Consent Management in Bridging HHS Data appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.