Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2023
The pharma’s suit, which claims Medicare’s new power to negotiate certain drug prices is unconstitutional, comes days before the agency will reveal the first 10 medicines to be included under the plan.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 22, 2023
According to the Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport's Abigail Norville, there is a need to foster and train our existing healthcare workforce to operate in new ways as healthcare evolves.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2023
The EHR vendor and technology giant are working together to quickly deploy “dozens” of tools like clinical note summarization and coding suggestions.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 22, 2023
Innovaccer said "Sara for Healthcare" – named for Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and language – automates workflows, generates insights and conversationally supports decisions for healthcare leaders, clinicians, care coordinators and contact center representatives. WHY IT MATTERS Kanav Hasija, cofounder and chief product officer of Innovaccer, announced the suite of AI that could take "high-quality, low-cost, patient-centered care to the next level" at
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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?
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2023
Inspired by Operation Warp Speed, the new federal program aims to fund development and testing of new therapies that can stay ahead of an evolving virus.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 22, 2023
Through a collaboration with Minnesota-based nonprofit health plan Medica, HealthRules Promote enables analysts to test configuration changes in minutes through a user-friendly web-based interface. WHY IT MATTERS Medica needed to rapidly expand in eight states and teamed up with HealthEdge for infrastructure support, and codeveloped the tool to control and simplify administrative processes, and to save on time and costs, the companies said in today's announcement.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2023
Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting healthcare providers’ third-party business associates, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Critical Insights.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 22, 2023
About eight years ago, Joe Clubb arrived at Allina Health, a non-profit health system serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Today he is vice president of operations in mental health and addiction services. THE PROBLEM Back then, what he heard from many of the hospital presidents – mostly in Greater Minnesota – was they would have patients who had mental health needs within their hospitals and no one to address those needs.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 22, 2023
Across a five-and-a-half-year period, North Carolina hospitals seeking payments brought nearly 6,000 lawsuits against roughly 7,500 patients and their family members, according to a recent analysis | The hospitals were awarded a total of $57.3 million by North Carolina's civil court system across five and a half years, with "a small subset" of hospitals and health systems leading the way.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 22, 2023
Andy Coville, CEO, Brodeur Partners Alice Holland, Ph.D., NP-C, CSE Nurses have the highest level of public trust across medical professions, yet there’s a huge chasm between Americans’ appreciation for nursing and the profession’s uncertain future. A nursing shortage, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, has been fueled largely by high levels of moral distress, politicization, and lack of support.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 22, 2023
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers believed virtual care would have a huge, broad impact on how care is provided across the country. | As COVID-19 has receded, employers' confidence in virtual care to drive changes in care delivery has waned, according to a newly-released survey from the Business Group on Health.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 22, 2023
What You Should Know: Innovaccer Inc. , a data platform accelerating innovation in healthcare announced the launch of its new suite of AI solutions at the Innovation Keynote , the company’s annual online event. During Innovation Keynote, company leaders introduce groundbreaking technologies to help health systems improve patient outcomes, strengthen financial performance, and better engage providers and consumers.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 22, 2023
Thyme Care, a value-based oncology platform, has raised $60 million in a series B round. | Powered by a team of nurse practitioners, oncology nurses and resource specialists, the company aims to help members better understand their diagnosis, manage and address symptoms and quickly connect them to care with its platform, Thyme Box.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 22, 2023
Telepsychiatry plays a critical role in improving access to mental health care, with over one in three outpatient visits being delivered by telehealth, according to Kaiser Family Foundation (for example, 35% and 38% of outpatient visits were over telehealth for depression or anxiety, respectively). This is especially important for the more than 150 million Americans who live in areas where there is a shortage of mental health care professionals.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 22, 2023
Epic is tapping into Microsoft's AI expertise to roll out more tools to help clinicians save time and access critical data at the point of care. | Epic is tapping into Microsoft's AI expertise to roll out more tools to help clinicians save time and access critical data at the point of care. These "copilot" solutions aim to help with medical note summarization, offer coding suggestions and provide access to real-world evidence for patient care.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 22, 2023
Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers in Illinois has started notifying 248,943 individuals about a cyberattack that was detected on April 4, 2023. When the breach was detected, third-party cybersecurity experts were engaged to investigate and determine the nature and scope of the incident and confirmed that files containing protected health information had been exfiltrated from its systems by unauthorized individuals.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 22, 2023
Most Americans support the idea of value-based care but don’t understand or resonate with the term, according to new research from United States of Care. | In total, 64% of people in a national survey supported value-based care over the fee-for-service model. Most resonated with terms and phrases other than value-based care, including “quality-focused care” and “patient-first care.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 22, 2023
cybersecurity has become a top-of-mind issue for the healthcare C-suite. Distributed care delivery models — which bring care to patients virtually or physically, outside of traditional care facilities — are complicating the cyber landscape. While this care model can greatly improve patients’ access to care, it also creates a larger attack surface for cybercriminals to target and increases an organization’s cybersecurity risks.
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HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 22, 2023
Researchers at ESET have identified a largescale and ongoing phishing campaign targeting Zimbra Collaboration email servers at small- and medium-sized businesses and government agencies. The campaign has been active since at least April and is being conducted globally, with Poland, Ecuador, and Italy the most targeted countries. The campaign does not appear to be targeted on any specific vertical.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 22, 2023
A report from cybersecurity vendor Critical Insight found that 40 million patients' medical information has been involved in data breaches so far this year; at this rate, 2023 will break the record for most individuals affected in breaches.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 22, 2023
A few months ago, many of you may remember our review of the new medical tablet from Zebra. It’s a great tablet that’s designed for healthcare’s unique challenges. While at the HIMSS conference, we were able to see a demo of the tablet in action at the bedside with Zebra’s partner Oneview Healthcare. In the demo video below, Rikki Jennings, BSN, RN, CPN, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra , shares about Zebra’s efforts to enable real time health system and
Modern Healthcare
AUGUST 22, 2023
Oregon's new law represents a growing effort among state lawmakers to increase scrutiny of nonprofit hospitals’ charity care contributions.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 22, 2023
The following is a guest article by Jim Tyrrell, Vice President of Enterprise Product Management at TNS COVID-19 didn’t spawn patient dissatisfaction, but the pandemic did accelerate it. In 2022, only 12% of US adults surveyed said healthcare was handled ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ well. Patient care frustration can pose very real financial risks for healthcare brands: satisfied patients are 28% less likely to switch providers, highlighting the importance of addressing their needs to improve patient r
Digital Health News
AUGUST 22, 2023
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital has become the fourth hospital in England to offer the robotic treatment Aquablation to men with enlarged prostates.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 22, 2023
Two Florida families have filed a class-action lawsuit against a state health agency, alleging that low-income individuals are losing Medicaid coverage and don’t know how to challenge the decisions | In an apparent first case of its kind, two families are suing Florida saying they were illegally kicked off the state's Medicaid rolls.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 22, 2023
Virtual ward technology provider Doccla has acquired medically certified cloud-based platform OTH in a transaction that expands Doccla’s global presence.
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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.
Health Populi
AUGUST 22, 2023
Due to their delayed return to medical services and diagnostic testing in the COVID-19 pandemic era, U.S. employees are expected to sustain serious health impacts that will drive employers’ health care costs, envisioned in the 2024 Large Employer Health Care Strategy Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH). Dealing with mental health issues is the top health and well-being impact workers in large companies are addressing in 2023.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 22, 2023
Digital weight management provider Oviva has been recommended by NICE for its Tier 3 weight management services to tackle complex obesity.
Medical Gas Compliance
AUGUST 22, 2023
Medical gas systems are a standard feature of most healthcare facilities, and they require special monitoring and maintenance to ensure they are operating properly. Unlike other medical equipment and systems, their use of gas under pressure makes them vulnerable to a unique set of unexpected failures, which may not be readily apparent. This makes medical gas preventative maintenance critical to a problem-free working environment.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 22, 2023
Newcastle Hospitals has appointed Shauna McMahon as its new Chief Information Officer to oversee digital technology and innovation across the trust.
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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.
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