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Healthcare technology trends to watch in 2024

Healthcare Dive

Experts discuss their predictions for healthcare industry trends, including investment and consolidation in digital health, adoption of artificial intelligence and improving cybersecurity in healthcare in 2024.

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Telehealth offers advantages for treating children with feeding disorders

Healthcare It News

Many neurotypical and most neurodivergent children struggle with feeding difficulties. This does not just affect the child – it impacts the whole family. Focused Approach is a startup that helps children aged six months to 16 years old with feeding disorders. Its program Focused on Feeding has helped families go from hospital bed (with malnutrition) to the dinner table – entirely via telemedicine.

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Amazon launches chronic condition management portal; Omada nabs first partnership

Healthcare Dive

The new program surfaces eligible benefits for weight management, diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions when users search Amazon for related devices, like a glucose monitor.

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UpDoc to develop conversational, assistant-directed AI providers

Healthcare It News

All care delivered through UpDoc's artificial intelligence-based remote patient providers would be prescribed by physicians or clinical pharmacists who oversee the platform, the company said in an announcement on Friday. WHY IT MATTERS UpDoc's remote patient intervention technology leverages conversational AI powered by multiplelarge language models, including GPT-4 through Microsoft's Azure Open AI Service, Google Cloud's MedLM and Vertex AI models.

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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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Elevance sues HHS over Medicare Advantage star ratings

Healthcare Dive

The payer is taking issue with how regulators calculated quality scores for 2024, after seeing a stars decline that could cause its bonus revenue to fall by $500 million.

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The NCAA May Pay a Healthy Sum to Student Athletes

Bill of Health

By Bobby Stroup Right now in a Los Angeles courtroom , the fate of the NCAA hangs in the balance. Perhaps as a way to preempt the outcome, on December 6, NCAA President Charlie Baker sent a letter proposing some schools should be allowed to compensate student athletes for using their name, image and likeness (NIL). President Baker is right to try and get ahead of the student-athlete compensation issue, but NIL payments are not the only issue at play.

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NHSE to investigate Palantir for possible breach of FDP contract

Digital Health News

NHS England will investigate whether US data analytics giant Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform.

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HHS names first chief competition officer

Healthcare Dive

Stacy Sanders will work with regulators to tackle industry consolidation in an effort to rein in rising healthcare costs.

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JPM24: Mayo Clinic deepens AI commitment with new Cerebras Systems deal

Fierce Healthcare

SAN FRANCISCO — Real-world data and artificial intelligence are front and center among Mayo Clinic’s plans for the future. | The Minnesota nonprofit courted investors and other conference attendees Monday with details on its ongoing pilots and other AI initiatives.

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Printed materials in healthcare can improve patient relationships and build brand loyalty, helping create a prescription for success

Healthcare Dive

Learn more about how high-quality printed materials can help healthcare organizations build patient relationships and boost brand loyalty.

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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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Innovaccer joins AI scribe race, unveiling tool to simplify note-taking for doctors

Fierce Healthcare

Innovaccer, maker of digital tools for providers, has launched an AI assistant that transcribes, analyzes and summarizes conversations between providers and patients. | Sara Scribe prepares encounter notes and provides clinical insights into quality gaps, coding gaps and potential diagnoses for the clinician.

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Providers push back on info blocking penalties

Healthcare Dive

Provider groups argued for changes in financial penalties and more information on an appeals process.

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JPM24: Digital health funding hit $10.7B in 2023, the lowest in four years. How will the market shakeout?

Fierce Healthcare

SAN FRANCISCO — As many investors predicted, digital health funding took a dive in 2023 with startups bringing in $10.7 billion across 492 deals, representing the lowest amount of capital invested | Faced with tightening capital availability, startups got creative to stay afloat and looked for lifelines in 2023, according to Rock Health research analysts.

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CarelonRx president encourages healthcare leaders to commit to improving pharmacy experience for consumers in 2024

Healthcare Dive

CarelonRx President Paul Marchetti highlights three ways healthcare leaders can improve the pharmacy experience.

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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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Hackers say they didn't encrypt health system's data to not 'interfere with patient care'

Becker's Health IT

A hacker group said it only stole data from Trenton, N.J.-based Capital Health — but didn't encrypt it — "so as not to interfere with patient care," databreaches.net reported Jan. 8.

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Essentia Health, Marshfield Clinic abandon merger plans

Healthcare Dive

The Midwestern health systems were in merger discussions since October 2022.

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JPM24: How Aetna charted a comeback in the 2024 MA star ratings

Fierce Healthcare

For the 2023 plan year, Aetna's performance in the annual Medicare Advantage star ratings took a massive hit, with just 21% of its members enrolled in plans that earned a score of four stars or mor | After a rough showing a year ago, Aetna bounced back for 2024, and was one of the stronger performers in the latest star ratings.

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Here’s What to Expect from IoMT Cybersecurity in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Shankar Somasundaram, CEO at Asimily Healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) continue to be up against a fast-moving landscape trying to keep up with and mitigate cybersecurity threats to medical technology. But even setting aside the immense challenge of safeguarding Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices from increasingly sophisticated and frequent attacks, HDOs must also adapt to shifting cyber insurance practices and compliance mandates.

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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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2024 Predictions Final Thoughts

HealthIT Answers

Over the past few weeks we have heard from many of our industry experts on what they see happening in 2024. From AI to equity, from security to interoperability, from finance to payments, and from innovation to transformation, here are some final thoughts. The post 2024 Predictions Final Thoughts appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Eight Common Physician Credentialing Mistakes

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Charlie Falcone, CEO, Verisys. If you find credentialing uninspiring, consider this cautionary tale. In a frequently cited negligent credentialing case, an Illinois jury awarded the plaintiff nearly $8 million dollars when the patient’s foot […] The article Eight Common Physician Credentialing Mistakes appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Amazon Unveils Health Condition Programs Making Chronic Condition Management Easier

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon launches its new Health Condition Programs to simplify access to digital health benefits offered by insurance plans and employers. – By partnering with companies like Omada Health, Amazon brings awareness and enrollment options directly to patients where they’re already looking for health information.

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As Alignment Health expands, CEO predicts profitability is on the horizon

Fierce Healthcare

The top brass at Alignment Health expects the company to turn a profit this year in part because it now offers Medicare Advantage plans in Merced County, Calif., a move made on Jan. | As Alignment Health expands into Merced County, Calif., the company’s CEO predicts it will be a profitable year for the insurtech.

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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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New Year’s Wish List for Healthcare – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 131

Healthcare IT Today

The 131st episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast is our first episode in 2024! For this episode, we are looking forward and making a wish list of things we would like to see happen in healthcare this year. The first wish on our list is the two changes we would like to see happen in healthcare. Our second wish is about the regulation changes we want to happen in 2024.

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JPM24: Corewell Health's merger is saving $200M per year. Here's what it learned along the way

Fierce Healthcare

The “secret sauce” to Corewell's merger was the establishment of an "integration management office" to track all savings and investments, execs said.

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Volpara Health Enters Agreement to be Acquired by Lunit, Inc.

Healthcare IT Today

Volpara Health Technologies (Volpara) , a global leader in software for the early detection of breast cancer, is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Lunit Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Lunit would acquire all shares of Volpara stock for A$1.15 per share in cash, representing a 47.4% premium to the Company’s closing stock price on December 13 , 2023.

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Clover Assistant shows improved patient adherence for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol medications

Fierce Healthcare

Clover Assistant, a web application integrated into electronic health records showing a patient's medical history, may encourage a patient to adhere to medication, a new study by Clover Health clai | Clover Health is stressing how Clover Assistant improves medication adherence rates for its members. That can go a long way in enhancing Medicare Advantage star ratings.

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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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Uber Health, Socially Determined partner to leverage SDOH data

Mobi Health News

The company will use Socially Determined's analytics data to help Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and commercial insurance patients access food, prescriptions and transportation.

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New UK Digital Health and Care association launched

Digital Health News

UK Digital Health and Care (UKDHC), a new UK membership body has been launched to provide a home for professionals in the sector.

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Step-by-Step: Congressional Proposals Could Help Unlock Information Key to Curbing U.S. Health Care Spending

Center for Health Insurance Reform

In recent years, outpatient care has contributed considerably to growth in U.S. health care spending. Efforts to curb outpatient spending have been stymied by fundamental problems connecting data on sites of care, providers, and specific charges, but a bill that recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives could provide new information necessary to craft reforms and slow spending growth.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

Digital Health News

Today's briefing covers a new 24/7 service from the London Clinic and a new app to tackle UTI-related hospital admissions.

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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.