Mon.Sep 18, 2023

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Oracle to launch generative AI tools integrated with EHR

Healthcare Dive

The clinical digital assistant, which will be available in the next year, will automate notetaking and suggest next steps, like scheduling labs or follow-up appointments.

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“Born This Way,” LGBTQ+ Rights, and the Politics of Uncertainty

Bill of Health

By Joanna Wuest “Medical uncertainty” is no straightforward matter when it comes to LGBTQ+ health and civil rights. Take for instance the 11 th Circuit Court of Appeals 2020 decision striking down a pair of municipal ordinances in Florida that had banned so-called “conversion therapy” for minors (contemporary psychology’s preferred nomenclature is “sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts”).

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Hospitals share differing medical prices online versus over the phone, secret shopper survey finds

Healthcare Dive

The study raises new questions about the dependability of hospital pricing, and builds on a mountain of research finding wide variance in pricing between different hospitals — and within the same facility.

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Surrogacy and Employment Rights in the UK    

Bill of Health

By Zaina Mahmoud and Kirsty Horsey At the end of March 2023, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission published their joint Report, Building Families Through Surrogacy: A New Law , outlining recommendations for a new regulatory regime governing surrogacy in the UK, including a new route to (legal) parenthood for intended parents (IPs), referred to as “the new pathway” (para 1.10).

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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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New RSV vaccines can be powerful tools, but rollout poses test

Healthcare Dive

Public health officials and drugmakers are trying to raise awareness of RSV among at-risk older adults — and convince them to get an additional respiratory shot alongside those for COVID-19 and flu.

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Telehealth, properly integrated with EHRs, can boost cancer care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cancer is a highly complex disease but technology should ideally make caring for cancer patients simpler. That's sometimes easier said than done, however. Kathy Dalton Ford, chief product and strategy officer at Ronin, which develops clinical oncology software, very much believes virtual care and other technologies can help providers improve their cancer care.

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UN official, tech leaders tout the power of data, AI to improve global health, sustainable development

Fierce Healthcare

NEW YORK CITY—Advances in technology innovation and artificial intelligence can help accelerate global sustainable development efforts to combat hunger, poverty and climate change and improve healt | Advances in technology innovation and artificial intelligence can help accelerate global sustainable development efforts to combat hunger, poverty and climate change and improve health outcomes, a United Nations official said Monday.

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3 myths sabotaging healthcare innovation

Healthcare Dive

Health systems are rethinking how they engage with patients. Read on to break into innovation.

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Low-income seniors report deceptive Medicare marketing: study

Fierce Healthcare

Seniors are becoming increasingly overburdened by marketing efforts from private Medicare plans, and low-income beneficiaries are twice as likely to file complaints regarding fraudulent phone calls | Fraudulent marketing practices are affecting low-income seniors looking for Medicare plans more than higher-income seniors, a new study has found.

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Ascension posts $2.7B net loss in fiscal year 2023, driven by rising expenses

Healthcare Dive

Like other nonprofits, Ascension continued to feel the strain of inflationary pressures as expense growth outpaced modest gains in revenue.

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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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AMA Releases The CPT 2024 Code Set

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. To bridge language barriers and make healthcare more inclusive and transparent for patients who speak Spanish, the American Medical Association (AMA) now offers Spanish language descriptors for more than 11,000 medical procedures and services. […] The article AMA Releases The CPT 2024 Code Set appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Tennessee BCBS sued by former employees over COVID vaccine mandate

Healthcare Dive

The new lawsuit alleges the nonprofit health plan violated employees' religious rights by not granting them an exemption to its inoculation requirement.

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Ransomware gang stealing data from North Carolina hospitals

Becker's Health IT

Russian ransomware gang Clop is being attributed to the attack on a vulnerability in software called MOVEit that has affected multiple hospitals and health systems around the U.S., Security Affairs reported Sept. 17.

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NHSE publishes guidance on digitising documentation for nurses

Digital Health News

With the continued push for digitisation in the NHS, new guidance for digital documentation by nurses has been published by NHS England.

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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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Navigating the New New York Department of Health Regulation on Facility Fees

Health Law Advisor

Beginning June 21, 2023, New York State (NYS) Public Health Law (PHL) Section 2830 requires hospitals and healthcare professionals to provide written notice to patients before the patient is charged a facility fee. Overview of Hospital Billing Billing by hospitals and certain medical facilities typically involves a combination of a facility fee and a professional fee.

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Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust digitise its maternity service

Digital Health News

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust has digitised its maternity service, using the BadgerNet single neonatal record from Clevermed.

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How Dental Enterprise Platforms Revolutionize Dental Delivery

HIT Consultant

Ankit Shah, VP of Strategy and Development, Braid Health Modern technology concepts are finally entering Dentistry and reshaping the way we think, approach, and treat the dental field. In today’s digital age, where advanced technology is expected to provide a consumer-level experience in every aspect of life, there’s one area that sorely needs it – oral health.

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Up-and-coming physicians even more burned out than their senior colleagues, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

Recent survey data from The Physicians Foundation suggest residents and medical students are no strangers to the widespread burnout weighing down America’s physician workforce. | Medical students—and, in some cases, residents—more frequently reported mental health difficulties than practicing physicians, among whom feelings of burnout remain well above pre-pandemic rates.

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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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Epic UGM and Civitas – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 123

Healthcare IT Today

For the 123rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are discussing the recent Epic UGM and Civitas Conferences! We kick the episode off by going through the big announcements that were made at this year’s Epic UGM conference. Next, we talk about what wasn’t announced or talked about at Epic UGM that we thought would be. Then we dive into two topics from the Civitas conference including a debate whether TEFCA and QHINs are real or if they’re memorex.

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Oregon Advances Basic Health Program: Considerations for States

Center for Health Insurance Reform

A September 12 vote in Oregon would make it the third state to establish a Basic Health Program, after New York and Minnesota. CHIR and Urban Institute researchers recently examined New York and Minnesota's experiences with the BHP and the lessons learned for other states considering the program.

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Collaboration, communication and controlling costs: How one tool is modernizing the way the dental industry does business

Fierce Healthcare

Collaboration, communication and controlling costs: How one tool is modernizing the way the dental industry does business jpiatt Mon, 09/18/2023 - 15:52

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Bonfire Analytics, an AI-Driven Sales Intelligence Platform, Closes Pre-Seed Round

Healthcare IT Today

Bonfire Analytics, a Startup Offering AI-Driven Lead Scoring and Claims-Based Targeting, has Closed its Pre-Seed Funding Round New York-based healthtech startup, Bonfire Analytics , has just become venture-backed as they close a pre-seed round. The company was recently founded in 2022 and has achieved tangible success for both itself and its clients.

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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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Oto teams up with Lindus Health for remote digital trial for tinnitus patients

Digital Health News

Lindus Health is facilitating a fully remote, digital trial using the tinnitus management app from Oto and comparing it to traditional tinnitus therapy.

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The SDOH Reality Check: Coding, Claims and Value-Based Care

HIT Consultant

Michael Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value-Based Care, Edifecs While the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) is definitely not new, 2023 marks the first year SDOH is codified into national and statewide value-based payment program mandates. These mandates are designed to hold Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) accountable.

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Ochsner Health pilots generative AI draft responses to routine patient requests

Fierce Healthcare

New Orleans-based health system Ochsner Health is testing generative AI to draft message responses from healthcare workers to patients. | The pilot launching this month will draft simple messages to patients in the MyOchsner app portal. A small group of clinicians will participate in testing a new Epic feature that drafts responses to routine patient requests, which they will then review and edit.

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Cardiology care platform CardioOne announces funding, new partners

Mobi Health News

The care delivery enablement platform scored $8 million and now has a foothold in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida and Maryland.

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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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Prime Therapeutics taps Inovalon to enhance specialty pharmacy through cloud-based tech

Fierce Healthcare

Prime Therapeutics has tapped Inovalon and its cloud-based tech to enhance its Magellan Rx specialty pharmacy, the Blues-backed pharmacy benefit manager announced Monday. | Prime Therapeutics has tapped Inovalon and its cloud-based tech to enhance its Magellan Rx specialty pharmacy, the Blues-backed pharmacy benefit manager announced Monday.

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Monday Morning Rounds with CMS

HealthIT Answers

In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases. The post Monday Morning Rounds with CMS appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Trilliant Health makes national demand forecast publicly available via API

Fierce Healthcare

Trilliant Health, a healthcare analytics company, has made its national demand forecast publicly available. | The demand forecast supplies algorithms on the company’s all-payer claims data set to model how demand for care is likely to change over the coming decade. The national forecast is updated quarterly, with projections by service line and demographic segments.

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Checking In on Hospital EHR APIs

HealthIT Answers

By Catherine Strawley & Wes Barker - Thanks to a decade of effort, nearly every U.S. hospital today stores health data electronically. To put that data to work, however, clinicians and patients need to be able to access and appropriately share that data. The post Checking In on Hospital EHR APIs 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.