HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

By Vid Desai & Jessica N. Berrellez - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released its comprehensive FDA Information Technology Strategy for Fiscal Years 2024 to 2027 (IT Strategy), marking a defining roadmap for the agency's technological advancement and the alignment with its broader public health mission. The post FDA’s IT Strategy: Unlocking Potential, Leading Transformation appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

By P.F. Anderson and LaTeesa James PubMed special queries are master search strategies on common, important, but challenging health topics, which are usually peer-reviewed. Disability certainly qualifies as a common, important health topic that is challenging to search – and yet, no PubMed special query exists for it. This oversight is concerning. Put simply, it’s important that disability as a topic is easily identifiable in the scholarly record.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The application, previously called DAX Express, drafts summaries of patient conversations “in seconds,” according to Microsoft-owned Nuance.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Employed women have as much as $15.4 billion more a year than men in out-of-pocket healthcare expenses, despite largely buying the same health insurance products, according to new findings published this week by Deloitte.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The insurer has been struggling with headwinds from Medicaid redeterminations and MA star ratings. The layoffs follow similar workforce reductions at CVS Health earlier this summer.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Kristofer Smith, MD, MPP is the Chief Medical Officer of Landmark Heath, where he oversees efforts to establish a high-quality and clinically effective home-based medical care model for patients with serious illness. We sat down with Dr. Smith to discuss his experience caring for patients with serious illness and developing programs to provide health care at home, among other topics.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. | Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. The collaboration introduces more competition and more options for healthcare teams looking to innovate using different approaches or to get more tactical with their AI strategy, one health IT expert said.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The state is the latest to propose “safe staffing” legislation in a push to address nurse recruitment and retention.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite the challenging funding market, startups focused on women's health and menopause care continue to attract investors who see an untapped market. | The startup, which launched about a year ago, focuses exclusively on women navigating midlife hormonal transition. Midi offers evidence-based interventions ranging from lifestyle coaching and supplements to prescription medications, all covered by major insurance providers.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A group of investment firms — including JP Morgan’s health ventures arm — are joining forces for the transaction, which aims to create an integrated platform for employer-sponsored health benefits.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. For health systems, hospitals and medical groups, competition for the shrinking pool of nurses and doctors will intensify, according to a new analysis.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need. Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Big players continue to make hefty investments in health tech—look no further than Amazon expanding its virtual clinic to all 50 states and the planned $3 billion merger between digital wellness co | Health tech company Wheel has been building for the next evolution of virtual care with an eye toward working with large enterprises, health plans, pharma and nontraditional players like retailers.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

NHS England’s chief data and analytics officer Ming Tang has said at HETT 2023 that the NHS must bring the public along with it when it comes to NHS data.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Structural racism encompassing groups, not bigotry targeting individuals, drives much of the healthcare inequity in the U.S., according to a study in Health Affairs. | The residual effects of a 1930s racist mortgage program are still being felt. The expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act helped address the problem to some extent, but not all states elected to take advantage of that opportunity.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Rural Health Clinic Transition Project Manager position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is a hybrid position located in the Midwest. Here’s a description of the position: Now seeking a Project Manager for a client engagement in the Midwest, who can lead the organization’s physician pract

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

St. Louis-based health insurer Centene is laying off approximately 2,000 workers, or about 3% of its total workforce. | Health insurer Centene is laying off 3% of its workforce, but gave sparse details on the decision.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Niall O’Connor, Chief Technology Officer at Cohere Health Constructing a Responsible AI Framework for Prior Authorization The American healthcare system is on the precipice of a critically necessary digital transformation. Anyone who has experience with healthcare, even just as a consumer, knows technology and change are needed.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A U.S. | The case was a test of whether a state's Certificate of Public Advantage exempted a health system from submitting to federal regulatory review.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Digital treatments platform Wellmind Health has officially launched Pathway through Arthritis, a unique arthritis pain management program.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In U.S. health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. “Report” is one word for this nearly 150-page compendium of health care data that is a treasure trove for health service researchers, marketers, strategists, journalists, and those keen to explore questions about the current state of health care in America.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The employer health tech company and healthcare services administrator will combine to create an extensive employer-focused health platform.

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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.

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What You Should Know: , a French-American pioneer in collaborative robotics, today announced that Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Florida) performed the first clinical procedures in the United States using the Maestro System. Three surgeons who practice at Baptist Health hospitals used the Maestro System over a week to perform sleeve gastrectomies – the most common bariatric (weight loss) surgery.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Behavioral health company Owl partners with Medicaid plan Colorado Access, and hybrid care platform Amwell integrates Health Gorilla's lab offerings into its platform.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, SAS, is to launch a new transformative healthcare platform that will simplify health data.

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Symplr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Managing contracts is a complex task for healthcare organizations, with a diverse range of agreements to oversee. From provider contracts to vendor agreements , these contracts cover both clinical and non-clinical services and are subject to strict regulations to protect patients. Laws such as the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law govern provider arrangements in order to ensure compliance.

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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.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Microsoft and Mercy are the latest big tech-health system pairing to explore generative AI, cloud technology and other tools that could lighten the load on employees. | "Immediate" generative AI use cases Mercy plans to implement will assist with patient communications and employees' HR-related searches, the organizations said.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

NOW on Demand Tell Me Where IT Hurts episode with host Dr. Jay Anders and his guest Tim O’Connell, M.D., Founder and CEO at emtelligent. They take a frank, hopeful, and sometimes skeptical look at OpenAI and generative AI and how it all relates to healthcare––the good, the bad, the ugly, and the crazy. The post The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Crazy of AI in Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A groundbreaking alliance aims to help NHS trusts meet the challenge of EPR implementation.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

By Matt Fisher - Without taking time to think about an answer, what first comes to mind when asked where the cost for healthcare services is the highest? In or connected to a hospital is the usual answer. Is that the correct answer? It can be complicated (as everything in healthcare usually is), but there are more than a few grains of truth and accuracy to the answer.

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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.