Tenet to sell two California hospitals to Adventist for $550M
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The latest divestiture comes as the Dallas-based for-profit has sold other hospitals while it reduces its debt load.
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Intersectionality, Indigeneity, and Disability Climate Justice in Nepal
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
By Pratima Gurung, Penelope J.S. Stein, and Michael Ashley Stein The climate crisis disproportionately impacts marginalized populations experiencing multilayered and intersecting oppression, such as Indigenous Peoples with disabilities. To achieve climate justice, it is imperative to understand how multiple layers of oppression — arising from forces that include ableism, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism — interact and cause distinctive forms of multiple and intersectional discrimination
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Three-quarters of health professionals project widespread AI adoption: survey
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The survey from Berkeley Research Group comes as the federal government mulls how to best regulate artificial intelligence in healthcare.
How virtual care is evolving beyond traditional applications – with a hand from AI
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
As telehealth enters its post-pandemic adolescence, broader use cases are dominating the landscape. And Dr. Stephanie Lahr, president of Artisight, knows this landscape well. Artisight markets a "smart hospital" platform designed to capture precise, real-time data to optimize operations, reduce costs and help clinicians focus on providing care.
Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data
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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?
Northwell Health, Nuvance Health to merge
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The proposed deal would create a 28-hospital system in New York and Connecticut.
Virta Health champions its nutrition therapy as an effective GLP-1 off-ramp. Here's why
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Telemedicine clinic Virta Health believes its members can achieve significant and sustained improvement in weight loss, even if a patient has stopped taking a GLP-1 drug, a newly released paper in | A new study in Diabetes Therapy from Virta Health says the company's carbohydrate restricted nutrition therapy allows patients who no longer want a GLP-1 prescription to still keep the weight off.
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Trinity Health hospitals file parallel lawsuits calling anesthesiology group's non-competes unlawful
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Two of Trinity Health’s affiliate hospitals mounted lawsuits against a large anesthesia group alleging that non-compete and non-solicitation clauses included in its providers’ contracts restrict co | The latest pushback against large anesthesiology groups' market power and practices alleges "millions of dollars" in damages for each hospital due to "exorbitant" payment demands.
Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects.
Change Healthcare confirms ransomware attack, hackers claim massive data haul
Becker's Health IT
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Optum's Change Healthcare confirmed Feb. 29 that it was hacked by a ransomware gang after the group claimed to have stolen massive amounts of data.
Elsevier Health, partners unveil conversational AI decision support tool
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Elsevier Health has launched an generative AI-driven version of its flagship clinical decision support tool, ClinicalKey, in partnership with AI company OpenEvidence. | The tool, developed with several key partners, offers an advanced conversational search interface to help doctors find important medical information at the point of care. More than 30,000 doctors across the U.S. have tested the underlying AI technology.
Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices
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Three Key Takeaways From ViVE2024
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Cybersecurity and the Change Healthcare outage dominated the hallway conversations at ViVE2024. AI was everywhere at ViVE2024, but companies were much more realistic with their productivity claims this year. In the exhibit hall, larger booths were more noticeable. The three key takeaways from the ViVE2024 event for me were: Cybersecurity risk and the Change Healthcare outage was top-of-mind for attendees Vendors are being more realistic in their deployment of AI Larger booths are starting to app
'Dozens and dozens' of data analytics projects drive $100M+ in savings, revenue gains for UnityPoint Health
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Long-term commitment and a willingness to stomach both upfront and last-mile burdens are the price of admission for millions in analytics-based cost savings and revenue enhancements. | The nonprofit health system partnered with Health Catalyst on eight years of performance improvement initiatives targeting length of stay, care management, ED utilization and other costly focus areas.
HL7 & The Sequoia Project Partner to Advance Healthcare Data Interoperability
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
What You Should Know: – Health Level Seven International (HL7®) and The Sequoia Project, leaders in promoting healthcare information technology (health IT) interoperability , announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standards in the US and globally. – The HL7 FHIR® Accelerator (FAST) program, initially spearheaded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), will
Affordable Care Act preventive services under threat: Previewing Braidwood oral arguments
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
A core provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), responsible for ensuring hundreds of millions of Americans receive free access to preventive services, faces a serious legal challenge March 4.
How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering
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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.
Unlearn Raises $50 Million Series C to Optimize Clinical Research With AI-Powered Digital Twin Technology
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Using Novel Digital Twins of Clinical Trial Participants, Unlearn is Accelerating Clinical Research to Help Bring New Treatments to Patients Sooner Unlearn , an AI company creating digital twins of clinical trial participants that enable smaller, faster studies, today announced a $50M Series C round led by Altimeter Capital, joined by returning investors Radical Ventures, Wittington Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Epic Ventures, and Necessary Venture Capital.
Exclusive: ambitious shared EPR procurement for four NHS trusts ended
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
One of the largest shared EPR procurements, covering four NHS trusts in Blackpool, Lancashire and South Cumbria, has been abandoned at the eleventh hour without selecting a supplier or awarding a contract.
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: How to Get There
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Previous articles in this series have shown how generative AI can be used for administrative and back-office functions in health care. Now we’ll look at how models are trained for these specific purposes. Training Generative AI Models Every industry has to develop domain-specific models, and health care has the extra burden of protecting personally identifying data.
Navigating digital transformation in healthcare
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Ahead of Rewired 2024, Beverley Bryant, CDIO at Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College Hospital Foundation Trusts, shares insights in Computer Weekly from their joint digital transformation journey: the Apollo project.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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When ransomware strikes, who to call?
Becker's Health IT
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations have cost the U.S. economy nearly $80 billion in downtime. There's another expense that doesn't come with a price tag: The sense of stress and helplessness outages cause.
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?
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FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Today's briefing covers the launch of a new mental health research hub and Dutch researchers' use of new technology to find cures for rare diseases.
How to Improve 5 Common Hospital Communication System Problems | symplr
Symplr
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
If you’ve ever shown up for a meeting or event only to find out it was canceled, you probably felt frustrated that you weren’t notified in time. In our hectic daily lives, missed connections result in wasted time and opportunities. But missed messages in a hospital setting are more than just inconvenient. Communication failures in health systems negatively affect patient care quality and steal valuable time from busy healthcare workers.
Data exchange company Moxe Health secures $25M
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The company offers tools to payers and providers to share patient health information and will use the funds to scale its operations.
Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements
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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.
Double your cybersecurity spending, CIO warns amid Change Healthcare attack
Becker's Health IT
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
What does the Change Healthcare ransomware incident mean for healthcare organizations? Doubling your cybersecurity spending, according to one health system CIO.
How Patient Experience Affects Healthcare Quality and Reimbursement
Symplr
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Hotels feature walls made of succulents and greet travelers with warm chocolate chip cookies on arrival. The elevator at the building downtown pipes in calming nature sounds. Movie theaters feel like plush living rooms. Now, the enhanced experiences consumers expect and receive elsewhere are coming to healthcare facilities. But more importantly, your organization’s quality scores and reimbursement levels increasingly depend on the ability to deliver an overall positive patient experience through
Not just hospitals, pharmacies: Change Healthcare hack hits physician practices hard
Becker's Health IT
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
It's not just hospitals and pharmacies that have been disrupted by the cyberattack on Optum's Change Healthcare — physician practices have been hit hard too.
NHS Mental Health Trust looks to transform digital capabilities with Access Rio EPR
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust have chosen Access Rio EPR to enhance and connect their systems.
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.
The ransomware groups targeting healthcare
Becker's Health IT
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Russia-based ransomware gang ALPHV/Blackcat, aka BlackCat, has made headlines due to its attack on Change Healthcare, but the group has been targeting healthcare for a while.
Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Healthcare’s Secret Weapon | symplr
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FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Clinical collaboration among multidisciplinary teams is essential to provide the best possible patient care. But we can also look at multidisciplinary collaboration as the foundation for the healthcare delivery system of tomorrow.
Salvo Health secures $5M for digital gastrointestinal care
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The company offers a virtual care clinic for people with chronic gut issues and will use the funds to expand its reach with providers.
Highmark unites diversified business solutions under Alloyed Works umbrella
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Highmark is uniting its diversified business offerings under one roof with the launch of its new Alloyed Works unit. | Highmark is uniting its diversified business offerings under one roof with the launch of its new Alloyed Works unit.
How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics
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