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Steward’s legal battles offer insight into pattern of mismanagement

Healthcare Dive

The health system has been hit with at least 35 lawsuits in the last year alleging issues ranging from unpaid bills and falsified checks to doctor kickback schemes.

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Consumers are getting tech-savvier – healthcare has to up its game

Healthcare It News

Health systems should embrace transparency to keep patients connected and informed – and to avoid losing them to retail clinics and other nontraditional providers, says Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MDI Health's executive clinical advisor.

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CMS launches model to increase primary care investment in Medicare

Healthcare Dive

Value-based care and physician interest groups said the model should create a more stable cash flow for physician groups.

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Automating and integrating RPM boosts BP care for Prisma Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prisma Health is the largest healthcare provider organization in South Carolina. It had encountered a problem while trying to gather patient biometrics and manage their clinical needs: fragmentation. THE PROBLEM The logistical challenge of distributing remote patient monitoring equipment to patients across the initial focus of approximately 50 physicians offices proved overwhelming with the organization's internal resources alone.

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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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Bon Secours Mercy Health names new CFO

Healthcare Dive

Travis Crum, currently senior vice president of finance, will assume the CFO role in the summer. He replaces Debbie Bloomfield, who is set to retire at the end of the year.

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Tech company Artera adds new feature to revamp how providers complete referrals

Fierce Healthcare

Artera has spent the past nine years developing tech solutions to solve industrywide pain points and streamline patient communications. | Artera's tech helps healthcare providers deliver timely patient communications with automated referral outreach and real-time responses and automates pre-visit communications to make sure patients and staff are prepared for the appointment.

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Ophelia's virtual OUD care now in-network for Medicaid, dual-eligible Highmark Wholecare members

Fierce Healthcare

Ophelia, a virtual provider of opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, is now in-network for Highmark Wholecare members. | Ophelia has been part of Highmark Health’s network in Pennsylvania since 2021, serving 2.9 million commercial members. It is now in-network for Wholecare Medicaid and dual-eligible members. Ophelia works with 13 Medicaid plans overall.

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Google & Apollo Fight TB, Lung & Breast Cancer in India with 3 Million Free AI Screenings

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Google Health and Apollo Radiology International are joining forces to tackle some of the country’s biggest health challenges – tuberculosis (TB), lung cancer, and breast cancer – using AI-powered screening technology. – Over the next decade, Apollo will leverage AI models to provide 3 million free screenings for TB, lung cancer, and breast cancer.

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PocketHealth lands $33M to build out its medical image exchange platform

Fierce Healthcare

PocketHealth, a medical image exchange platform, has raised $33 million in a series B round. | PocketHealth, founded in 2016 by Rishi and his brother Harsh, gives patients instant access to their medical images from partner providers and enables image exchange between providers.

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The Risks and Concerns of Ambient Clinical Voice Technology

Healthcare IT Today

Before integrating a new technology into your organization, it’s important that you’ve thought through all of the potential risks and concerns that can come with that technology. So while there are a lot of benefits to come from ambient clinical voice technology , we have to be sure that we are prepared for the challenges. As it is only through being prepared that we can prevent these risks.

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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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Amedisys says Oregon regulators are reviewing its $3.7B acquisition by UnitedHealth

Fierce Healthcare

Amedisys disclosed Tuesday that Oregon regulators are probing the company's potential acquisition by UnitedHealth Group. | Amedisys disclosed Tuesday that Oregon regulators are probing the company's potential acquisition by UnitedHealth Group.

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Radical ideas to progress digitisation shared at Rewired24

Digital Health News

Deprioritising equity, bolstering transparency, reducing indecision, and ditching incremental EPR-related digitisation were part of the Rewired Big Debate

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Flashback: 2005 Tennessee Medicaid disenrollment led to increased crime, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Large-scale Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee nearly 20 years ago led to increased total crime rates, a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found. | A new study, that draws parallels to current day redeterminations, delves into the relationship between mass Medicaid disenrollment in 2005 and how it may have led to violent crime.

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Liverpool to gain global AI hub for health and social care

Digital Health News

Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform will be used by the University of Liverpool’s Civic Health Innovation Labs and Mersey Care NHS FT for an AI hub.

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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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Femtech: New Prenatal Genetic Test Predicts Baby’s Traits as Early as 10 Weeks

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – BillionToOne (BTO), a company dedicated to accessible and accurate genetic testing, has launched BabyPeek , a first-of-its-kind prenatal test uses advanced technology to predict a baby’s non-medical traits as early as 10 weeks. – BabyPeek is designed to bring a touch of lighthearted joy to your pregnancy journey and complements the essential UNITY test, which screens for chromosomal abnormalities and recessive genetic conditions.

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PocketHealth Raises $33M USD in Series B Funding to Transform Medical Image Exchange and Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Funding Round Led by Round13 Capital with Participation from Deloitte Ventures, Samsung Next, and Existing Investors Questa Capital and Radical Ventures PocketHealth — the Leading Patient-Centric Image Exchange Platform — Gives Patients Instant Access to their Medical Images, Leverages AI to Create a Unique Healthcare Experience for Each Patient, and Enables Seamless Image Exchange Between Providers Series B Funding will Accelerate the Company’s Investment in AI to Enable Intelligent Image Excha

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AstraZeneca Acquires Fusion Pharmaceuticals for $2B to Bolster Radioconjugate Pipeline

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: AstraZeneca has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation radioconjugates (RCs). The acquisition marks a major step forward in AstraZeneca delivering on its ambition to transform cancer treatment and outcomes for patients by replacing traditional regimens like chemotherapy and radiotherapy with more targeted treatments.

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Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements

Healthcare IT Today

Paulo Pinho, MD, Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at Discern Health , highlighted to us that analytics have to be explainable to be trusted. It’s not enough to show a correlation, but to demonstrate that the clinical intervention was responsible for the improved patient outcome. Patients as well as clinicians demand explainability (also known as transparency and accountability).

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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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Cybin Raises $150M to Advance Psychedelic Therapy for Depression

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cybin Inc. (NYSE American: CYBN), a company developing next-generation psychedelic therapies for mental health, has secured $150M in a private placement of common shares led by Deep Track Capital and included participation from other institutional investors. The price per share was set at $0.43, representing a 17% premium over the 10-day volume-weighted average trading price. – The funding will fuel the development of CYB003, a potential first-in-class psyched

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Change Healthcare cyberattack affecting hospital finances, care access

Health IT Security

The majority of hospitals say the Change Healthcare cyberattack is negatively affecting their finances and hindering patient care access, according to a survey from the American Hospital Association.

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Artera Expands Automated Referral Outreach to Stop Referral Leakage

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Artera, a leading SaaS digital health provider, enhances its Artera Harmony platform with premium capabilities through Artera Referrals. This expansion aims to assist healthcare providers in optimizing referral communications, boosting patient outreach, engagement, and loyalty. – Addressing the challenge of incomplete patient referrals and the priority to retain patients within networks, Artera Referrals offers a timely solution for healthcare providers, tackl

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Novari: Supporting the UK government’s ambitious productivity plans and reducing NHS waiting times

Digital Health News

As the UK government announces a significant investment in the NHS productivity plan, Novari Health, a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions, highlights how its innovative Access to Care Platform™ can play a pivotal role in driving down wait times and enhancing NHS productivity across the nation.

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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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Nurse Shortage, Burnout Top Concerns for Healthcare Workers: AI Seen as Potential Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new survey by Carta Healthcare®, a company focused on harnessing the power of clinical data, sheds light on the pressing challenges faced by healthcare professionals in the United States. – In honor of Certified Nurses Day, the survey conducted Propeller Insights in January/February 2024 among 500 healthcare workers, reveals that staff shortages and burnout are taking a significant toll on the industry.

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Vendor ransomware attack exposes patient data at Tennessee hospital

Becker's Health IT

Memphis, Tenn.-based Regional One Health's obstetrics and gynecology patients' information may have been compromised due to a ransomware attack on a technology vendor KMJ Health Solutions.

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Beverley Bryant CDIO GSST and Kings to Step Down

Digital Health News

Beverley Bryant the joint chief digital information officer across Guys and St Thomas’s and Kings College hospital trusts is to step down.

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Success In Healthcare M&A: The Critical Role of Background Screening  

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Val Poltorak, head of US Regulated Industries, Sterling Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity within the healthcare industry has experienced a slow decline over the past couple of years due to the economy’s downturn. However, […] The article Success In Healthcare M&A: The Critical Role of Background Screening appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Online GP registrations reach one million since launch of digital service

Digital Health News

More than one million patients have used the national online ‘Register with a GP surgery’ service to register with a GP since its launch 18 months ago.

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Welltory releases AI feature to pair Apple Watch health data with usable insights

Mobi Health News

The company's Today Screen feature will show personalized health data in context of leading health risks, such as sedentary stress.

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NHSE misses deadline to upload less redacted version of Palantir contract

Digital Health News

NHS England has missed a pledge to upload a less redacted version of its federated data platform contract by March 11, the Good Law Project said.

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Team First Mentality

HealthIT Answers

Joshua Liu MD explains what healthcare taught him about a Team-First mentality. Ultimately residency programs are high-performing teams, and they too want to “hire” individuals who also put the team first. The post Team First Mentality 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.