Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

Two years ago, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs' Riyadh-based hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, became the first in the world to reach Stage 7 in four different HIMSS models. (It's recently become a pioneer with some impressive work to reach Stage 6 on another model.) Its advanced use of health information and technology has been a boon for the health system's 1.3 million patients.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 18, 2024

Healthcare organizations can create an effective cybersecurity strategy that involves an incident response plan, testing, multifactor authentication and automating mundane tasks using artificial intelligence.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies available for consumption – were inadequate in how they accurately disclosed the use of third-party tracking technologies to consumers. In addition to comparing details about third-party recipients of collected user data, user rights and potential uses, the study also looked at the readabilit

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 18, 2024

The findings suggest it would be challenging to restrict telehealth payment in Medicare, researchers said. Some pandemic flexibilities are set to expire at the end of 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2024

Securing transportation and other needed resources for patients through text messages is one way to ensure health equity for the underserved, says Dr. Emily C. Webber, CMIO at Indiana University Health and 2024 Changemaker Award winner.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 18, 2024

Two years ago, the Kenyan High Court in Malindi decided PAK and Salim Mohammed v. Attorney General et al. , affirming that the constitutional right to abortion is “fundamental.” Approximately 2,600 people lose their lives to unsafe abortion in Kenya each year, with an additional 21,000 people requiring hospitalization. While the Kenyan Constitution, adopted in 2010, allows for abortion when the pregnant person’s life or health is at risk under Article 26(4), the Kenyan Penal Code still criminali

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 18, 2024

At the House Energy and Commerce’s data privacy hearing April 17, lawmakers discussed for the first time Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ discussion draft of a new federal data privacy bill, the Ameri | House lawmakers revived discussions of a national data privacy law at an Energy & Commerce hearing Wednesday. Here are the key takeaways.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

When healthcare staff approach a hospital room, it’s important to know basic things about the patient like their preferred language, whether they’re in isolation, or whether they’re not supposed to eat (an NPO order). Traditionally, these facts are handled through physical markers or even buried in the patient record. The “digital white board” and “digital door sign” technologies from eVideon display the necessary information automatically where it’

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 18, 2024

With the increasing number of technologies that track brain activity, a new Colorado law aims to protect people's "neural data" from falling into the wrong hands, The New York Times reported.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

Anatomy IT , the leading platform for healthcare IT and cybersecurity solutions, and a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital (ASC) today announced the acquisition of Manta HealthTech , a healthcare-focused managed IT services firm, to expand its footprint in healthcare subverticals, including dental and optometry. “We recognized Manta HealthTech’s depth and experience serving various healthcare subspecialties with intelligent digital transformation, cybersecurity, value-based

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Digital Health News

APRIL 18, 2024

Digital Health Intelligence has published its latest NHS Trust Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA) Review, providing a snapshot of DMA scores across trusts.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

I recently had a visit to the doctor’s office for a routine procedure. I kid you not that I was asked to complete essentially the same forms 3 different times. Two times electronically and once on paper. The staff assured me that the forms were asking different questions. I frustratingly assured them that 95% of the questions were the same.

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 18, 2024

Conway (S.C.) Medical Center is conducting an internal investigation regarding accusations of mishandling of confidential patient health data, The Sun News reported April 18.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 18, 2024

Matt O'Donovan, the chief executive of SPARK TSL, argues that trusts and health boards need to put their wi-fi and bedside units to work. And the company's acquisition of Sentean Group and its Fusion Bedside platform gives them a new and unique digital transformation platform to drive quantifiable improvements in efficiency and patient engagement.

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 18, 2024

While the financial impacts of the Change Healthcare hack have gotten a lot of attention, the cyberattack has also harmed patients, health system leaders say.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 18, 2024

ivWatch tech was studied at Frimley Health NHS FT, where it used a predictive algorithm and visible and near-infrared light to detect IV leakage events.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 18, 2024

What You Should Know: – Epicore Biosystems (‘Epicore’) , a digital health company developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables to provide real-time personalized hydration insights for performance and safety, today announced the commercial launch of Connected Hydration. – Connected Hydration is the first sweat-sensing wearable patch and mobile app that equips workers with customized, real-time insights about sweat volume loss, electrolyte loss, body temperature and body movement to inf

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2024

Less than 50% of people living in 16 countries do not trust government, media, or NGOs to do what is right to address their health needs and concerns, based on the responses from over 15,000 people living in 16 countries whose opinions are captured in the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer’s Special Report on Trust and Health. Edelman launched the 2024 Trust Barometer earlier this year during the Davos World Economic Forum, and today released this round of research focused on health.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 18, 2024

The research agreement aims to allow paralyzed patients to communicate and use mobile devices.

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HealthIT Answers

APRIL 18, 2024

By Jason Lockbaum - A shortage of staff impacts healthcare organizations in many ways. It means more work for existing staff and then, often, burnout; more limited care for patients and poorer outcomes; and difficulties with workforce distribution and sourcing staff with needed skills. The post How AI Promises to Solve Healthcare’s Staffing Crunch appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 18, 2024

ALS Association patient liaisons will be embedded into Synapticure’s virtual clinics to provide support for patients living with ALS.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 18, 2024

Thirty health systems from across the country have signed onto an 18-month initiative to explore how best to provide quality care for older adults. | The Age-Friendly System-Wide Spread Collaborative will see CommonSpirit Health, Advocate Health and others sharing data and best practices on how to provide quality care for older adults at every location.

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HealthIT Answers

APRIL 18, 2024

NOW on-demand, Trending NOW episode with host Shahid Shah and guest Malekeh Amini, Founder & CEO of Trayt Health discussing the SDoH and the unique nature of the social determinants of mental health along with industry related trending topics. The post The Unique Nature of the Social Determinants of Mental Health appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 18, 2024

Elevance Health's first-quarter profit grew by double digits year over year, reaching $2.2 billion, according to its earnings report released Thursday morning. | Elevance Health's first-quarter profit grew by double digits year over year, reaching $2.2 billion, according to its earnings report released Thursday morning.

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HealthIT Answers

APRIL 18, 2024

Business and financial news from Zscaler, Lightbeam Health Solutions, HITRUST, Brillio, NextGen Healthcare, eClinicalWorks, Talkiatry, Tendo, eClinicalWorks, Luna, LeanTaaS, eClinicalWorks, Tower Health and Ensemble Health Partners, Longeveron, and more. The post Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – April 18, 2024 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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