Wed.May 17, 2023

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How ChatGPT can boost patient engagement and communication

Healthcare It News

Patient engagement is top of mind for executives and clinicians at hospitals and health systems today. While there may be a need for more constant touchpoints with patients, that would bring with it an unintended physician burden. So, what's the solution? Some say artificial intelligence can play a role. Especially the latest and most powerful flavor – generative AI, the kind behind ChatGPT.

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Uninsured rate fell 18% during pandemic, CDC finds

Healthcare Dive

The findings reflect government subsidies aimed at boosting healthcare access during the pandemic, and requirements that states keep Medicaid beneficiaries on their rolls during the public health emergency.

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LGBTQ patients and data-driven health equity goals

Healthcare It News

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Included Health and DispatchHealth partner on virtual-to-in-home care

Healthcare Dive

Included’s care teams will now be able to coordinate in-home care for patients after a telehealth visit through Dispatch’s network of medical practitioners.

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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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KLAS: PointClickCare Leads in Long-Term Care EMR Market Share?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC. As a result, many organizations are pressing their LTC EMR vendors to address documentation challenges, simplify workflows while mitigating costs, and improve satisfaction in a market that has seen an overall decline.

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FTC expands probe into pharmacy benefit managers to GPOs

Fierce Healthcare

FTC expands probe into pharmacy benefit managers to GPOs pminemyer Wed, 05/17/2023 - 16:36

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More than Productivity: Include User Experiences when Assessing the ROI of AI-Based Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Peter Hahn, MD, MBA, Dr. Lance Owens, DO, and Joshua Wilda, MPA, CHCIO Over the past two years, clinical and technical leaders at the University of Michigan Health-West have been deploying and assessing the impacts of AI-based solutions intended to improve organizational efficiencies. We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to docu

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How AI Can Improve the Human Connections of Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Dr. Nele Jessel, Chief Medical Officer, athenahealth ChatGPT is the latest artificial intelligence (AI) advancement making waves. Nearly every industry is evaluating the advantages and disadvantages associated with incorporating this technology into their processes. In healthcare specifically, ChatGPT’s AI capabilities are far away from true disruption, but there is a sharp lens on its future potential for improving healthcare operations and delivery of care.

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WellSpan Health partners with Emerus to build three 'neighborhood hospitals' in southern Pennsylvania

Fierce Healthcare

WellSpan Health partners with Emerus to build three 'neighborhood hospitals' in southern Pennsylvania dmuoio Wed, 05/17/2023 - 13:52

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Health Equity Gap: Why Cybersecurity Should Be A Priority

HIT Consultant

Dr. Erin Jospe, Chief Healthcare Advisor, World Wide Technology There has been a newfound effort to highlight and address the disparity in health outcomes for patients who belong to one or more marginalized communities. Opportunities for health and wellness are dictated by social, economic, environmental, and systemic factors, not by factors that are inherently genetic or physiologic.

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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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'Podnosis': How tech can help diagnose neurodevelopmental disabilities and how insurtechs can be profitable

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': How tech can help diagnose neurodevelopmental disabilities and how insurtechs can be profitable tcarey Wed, 05/17/2023 - 09:26

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LRVHealth Raises $200M Fund V Focused on Care Anywhere

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Today, LRVHealth announced that it raised $200M in its fifth fund to accelerate its track record of driving transformational change in healthcare. In addition, the firm has expanded its team of healthcare operators and insiders to focus on a core investment strategy for this new fund that’s anchored around a central theme: Care Anywhere.

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Featured Health IT Job: Procurement Coordinator

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Procurement Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collabor

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VA renegotiates $10B Oracle Cerner EHR contract with stronger performance metrics, bigger penalties

Fierce Healthcare

VA renegotiates $10B Oracle Cerner EHR contract with stronger performance metrics, bigger penalties hlandi Wed, 05/17/2023 - 13:22

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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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NHSE extends Microsoft national licensing deal for £8m for one month

Digital Health News

NHS England has signed an £8m one month extension on the NHS Microsoft licensing deal that includes Office 365 and Teams video conferencing application.

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Abortion pill case advances to appeals court, on course to Supreme Court

Modern Healthcare

The case is likely to wind up at the Supreme Court, which already has intervened to keep the drug, mifepristone, available while the legal fight continues.

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The Digital Health Continuum – Connecting Clinical Trials to Care Delivery

Fierce Healthcare

The Digital Health Continuum – Connecting Clinical Trials to Care Delivery mteefey Wed, 05/17/2023 - 16:26

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Fertility companies AIVF, Genea Biomedx partner to optimize IVF care

Mobi Health News

Genea Biomedx will integrate AIVF's AI-enabled EMA platform into its time-lapse incubator to analyze embryo data in real-time.

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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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AdviseInc secures contracts with 22 NHS trusts in four months

Digital Health News

AdviseInc has announced it has secured 22 new NHS trust contracts and 61 NHS trust contract renewals since the start of the year.

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Found launches new program to assist employers in managing obesity care, including GLP-1 drugs

Fierce Healthcare

Found launches new program to assist employers in managing obesity care, including GLP-1 drugs pminemyer Wed, 05/17/2023 - 14:53

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Great Ormond Street and Roche UK partner to improve child care using AI

Digital Health News

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Roche UK are co-developing digital tools to better care for children with rare and complex diseases.

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TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale

Healthcare IT Today

State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to tackle youth mental health. The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium is a unique collaboration between stakeholders across the state that provides access to mental health resources no matter where the child may be.

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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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Insurers set to pay $1.1B in premium rebates this year: KFF

Fierce Healthcare

Insurers set to pay $1.

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Norton Healthcare hit with demands from hackers after cyber event

Becker's Health IT

The FBI has stepped in to help investigate a cybersecurity event at Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare, CBS affiliate WLKY reported May 17.

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Mpox One Year Later: Where is the U.S. today?

KFF

This brief provides an overview of the impact of mpox in the U.S. one year later and the federal response to date, and discusses the future outlook.

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Is Hotjar HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

Hotjar is a popular software platform that helps businesses collect and analyze customer behavior data on their websites. However, one of the biggest concerns for many companies is whether Hotjar is HIPAA compliant. Despite its popularity, Hotjar is not HIPAA compliant. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a federal law in the United States that mandates strict data privacy and security requirements for healthcare organizations.

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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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PatientsLikeMe & MGH Partner to Support ALS Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: PatientsLikeMe (PLM), announced a partnership with the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to share de-identified patient data that can improve research outcomes for ALS. The company’s outcomes-rich data is now freely available to the international research community and will be a significant addition to Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) database comprising anonymized data from 29 clinical trials an

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AI in Healthcare News and Updates

HealthIT Answers

This month's AI report includes news and updates from Cardio Diagnostics Holdings, Inc, Lavita AI, Informatica, West-Com Nurse Call Systems, Vitalchat, Outbound AI, Castle Biosciences, Inc., BeCare Link, Spectral MD Holdings, Ltd., Iterative Health, Weave, DrFirst, Accelex, & more. The post AI in Healthcare News and Updates appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Adonis Secures $17M for Revenue Cycle Automation Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Adonis , an NYC-based revenue cycle intelligence and automation platform built for healthcare, today announced that it has raised $17.3M in Series A financing led by General Catalyst and existing investors Bling Capital , Max Ventures , and Homebrew. As part of the financing, Holly Maloney from General Catalyst will join the board of directors.

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COVID Crashed Healthcare

HealthIT Answers

New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest David Nash, MD, the founding Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy at Jefferson College of Population Health. The post COVID Crashed Healthcare 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.