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Even innocuous-seeming data can reproduce bias in AI

Healthcare It News

Artificial intelligence tools in healthcare, as with any other software, are not immune to bias – especially if they have been trained on data sets that do not accurately reflect the population they ostensibly serve. And tackling bias in AI and machine learning goes beyond recognizing its existence, said Chris Hemphill, VP of applied AI and growth at SymphonyRM.

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NYC Health + Hospitals keeps patients out of ER with virtual urgent care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest safety net health system in the United States, serving more than one million patients annually, including the most vulnerable New Yorkers. THE PROBLEM. Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system.

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Apple plans to add blood pressure monitoring, thermometer to smartwatch: report

Fierce Healthcare

Apple plans to add blood pressure monitoring, thermometer to smartwatch: report. hlandi. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 13:52.

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Online first visit consults high among private dental clinics in Japan, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

New research has looked into the number of dental institutions around Japan that conducted telemedicine for first and follow-up visits last year. The study , which was recently published in the Journal of Dental Sciences, ultimately found that there were "fewer" dental centres across the country's 47 prefectures that provided online consultations for first visits than for follow-up visits.

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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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Medicare's hospital fund is running out of money. Experts have 5 ideas on how to help

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare's hospital fund is running out of money. Experts have 5 ideas on how to help. rking. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 15:50.

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Study: Participants using Sleepio's DTx decreased rates of anxiety, depression

Mobi Health News

Using a digital therapeutic improved sleep, anxiety and depression more than other mental healthcare alone, according to a study published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.

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Are We Overthinking Patients Downloading Healthcare Apps?

Healthcare IT Today

I just bought a new cell phone (The Google Pixel 4a for those that wonder and yes, it says a lot about me). I’m an Android user and always have been an Android user. I also use Google voice, so switching phones was easy. I logged in with my Google account and everything was ready […].

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FBI warns healthcare systems of Hive ransomware following Memorial Health System attack

Fierce Healthcare

FBI warns healthcare systems of Hive ransomware following Memorial Health System attack. elucas. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 11:54.

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Clinical Trials: 4 Strategies to Maximize Patients Referrals

HIT Consultant

Jai Singh, SVP of Growth at Reify Health. Clinical trials were front and center in 2020, as pharma companies raced to develop and prove the safety and efficacy of their COVID-19 vaccines. Despite this increased awareness, many potential participants and referring clinicians remain unaware of available trials and how to become involved. This negatively impacts enrollment efficiency and overall study timelines.

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Hospitals ramp up hiring, benefits offerings to counter the workforce shortage, survey says

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals ramp up hiring, benefits offerings to counter the workforce shortage, survey says. dmuoio. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 12:47.

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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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Pear's reSET-O DTx lowers costs, enhances quality of life in new study

Mobi Health News

Using the reSET-O app in addition to other opioid treatments lowered healthcare costs by $1,014 and added 0.003 quality-adjusted life years compared with treatment alone.

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Florida Blue parent GuideWell to acquire Puerto Rico-based Triple-S Management

Fierce Healthcare

Florida Blue parent GuideWell to acquire Puerto Rico-based Triple-S Management. pminemyer. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 12:39.

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One Medical Completes Acquisition of Iora Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, One Medical closed its acquisition of Iora Health , a value-based primary care group serving roughly 39,000 Medicare patients. Together, One Medical and Iora will extend its combined reach to provide human-centered, technology-powered care across every stage of life, with nationwide digital health coverage and a combined office footprint in 28 markets covering 120 million people or nearly 40% of the entire U.S. population. – The acquisition, taking on m

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Healthcare Dealmakers—Ginger, Headspace's $3B merger; UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare's DOJ deal

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare Dealmakers—Ginger, Headspace's $3B merger; UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare's DOJ deal. dmuoio. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 16:24.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Post Call: How a pandemic transformed healthcare for the future

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: GE Healthcare Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Interoperability Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: GE Healthcare.

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OIG: Nearly half of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with COVID-19 also treated for kidney failure, circulatory issues

Fierce Healthcare

OIG: Nearly half of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with COVID-19 also treated for kidney failure, circulatory issues. pminemyer. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 15:35.

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Smart bed maker Sleep Number adds new features to monitor health

Mobi Health News

Every morning, My Sleep Health creates a weekly recap of users’ trends based on the duration, efficiency and timing of their sleep.

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CANNABIS IN NEW YORK STATE: JUST THE FACTS

NY Health Law

On March 31, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Marihuana Regulation & Taxation Act (MRTA) legalizing adult-use cannabis in New York State. In doing so, New York became the 15 th state in the United States to legalize cannabis use. As a result of the enactment of the MRTA, New York established the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM). The OCM will regulate and control the cultivation, processing, manufacture, distribution, transportation, and sale of cannabis in New York.

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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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Fertility startup kegg scores another $3 million in seed funding

Mobi Health News

This news comes less than a year after the company closed a $1.5 million seed funding round.

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Real-World Data Flow – The Only Way to Change Value-Based Care?

HIT Consultant

Manan Sheth, Sr. Technical Product Manager at CitiusTech. Healthcare interoperability issues have always been confusing, changing, and difficult to address. The reason why is not straightforward: we have a fragmented health system with a myriad of specialized applications that are not universally used. Instead, we have a system where each organization elects which technology tools to use and in what configuration.

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Ellipsis Health Secures $26 Million in Series A Funding to Harness the Unique Power of Voice to Pioneer a New Clinical Standard in Mental Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

Market leader in AI-generated voice biomarker technology offers clinicians, payers, and patients clinically validated measurement-based solutions for advancing mental health care Ellipsis Health, pioneer of the first voice vital sign to quantify and manage depression and anxiety at scale, today announced that it has raised $26 million in Series A funding to further its measurement-based approach to identifying […].

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Boots partners with Deliveroo for home delivery of painkillers and vitamins

Mobi Health News

The move will also enable the delivery of Boot's beauty products and medication for mild ailments via a delivery app.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth with Care on Location

Healthcare IT Today

Working in healthcare, you realize that a large majority of people in healthcare are in it for the right reasons. They have the patients best interest in mind and they want to provide the best care possible. Often, their biggest challenge is that healthcare doesn’t incentivize or pay for patients to receive the best care. […].

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New AI technology screens for COVID faster than lateral flow tests

Mobi Health News

A University of Oxford-led study found the test safely triaged ED patients.

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Ochsner Health Launches Fall Prevention Pilot Program to Medicare Advantage Members

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ochsner Health and innovationOchsner (iO) have partnered with Bold , an evidence-based, digital exercise platform for older adults aimed at reducing falls and improving health outcomes. – The Bold platform is one of five interventions in the Ochsner Connected Stability pilot fall prevention and monitoring programs focused on helping Medicare Advantage members who are at the highest risk for falls.

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Swiss diet and lifestyle coaching app Oviva raises €67M in Series C funding

Mobi Health News

The digital health scaleup uses individual coaching with an intuitive app and certified dietitians to deliver healthy eating programmes.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Provation Acquires endoPRO Software Portfolio from PENTAX Medical

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Provation , a SaaS provider of procedure documentation and clinical decision support solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced its acquisition of the endoPRO® endoscopy informatics and software portfolio from PENTAX Medical. Terms of the carve-out transaction were not disclosed. – The Provation-acquired endoPRO portfolio of software solutions includes endoPRO iQ® endoscopy procedure informat

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One Medical closes acquisition of senior-focused Iora Health

Mobi Health News

One Medical shareholders will now own 73% of the joint company and Iora Health shareholders will have 27%.

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COVID-19 vaccine mandates, HIMSS21 highlights and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Florida Governor Signs Sweeping COVID-19 Liability Protections Into Law

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On March 29, 2021, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that protects businesses, governments, and healthcare providers in Florida from COVID-19 lawsuits if they make a reasonable effort to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus (whatever that means).

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.