HealthIT Answers

JUNE 7, 2023

By Jon Moore MS JD HCISPP and Dr. Thomas Graham PhD - Artificial intelligence is a tool; like any tool, it is capable of benevolent and malevolent applications. As with any novel technology, there is often an eagerness to adopt and utilize it. But what are the potential hazards? The post The AI Revolution Unveiled: Exploring the Potential Rewards and Security Risks appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Mayo Clinic, a longstanding collaborator with Google, will be an early adopter of a Google Cloud tool that allows organizations to create chatbots and other search applications using generative AI.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2023

The Thai unit of the Japanese IT and electronics company NEC is helping turn Chiang Mai, a city north of Bangkok and the second largest city in Thailand, into a smart city by first digitising its delivery of care to the elderly and patients with chronic diseases. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The municipality of Chiang Mai and NEC Thailand recently signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of smart city solutions, including smart hospital technologies to support its provision of elderly car

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 7, 2023

Rather than suggesting problems with individual hospitals, the data points to a “systemic issue impacting the quality of care for Black and Hispanic patients and those with public insurance plans,” according to a new Leapfrog report.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2023

Will Cantrell, director of product solutions at InteliChart, sees the need to tie all the pieces of the healthcare journey into one seamless interaction. By making it easier for patients to stay engaged, he says, better outcomes will result.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 7, 2023

The bill’s sponsor previously told local media that it could give the nonprofit, state-owned system the chance to save struggling rural hospitals.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 7, 2023

Provider cost pressures are weighing on the nation's largest insurers, with contract negotiations possibly forcing premiums higher over the next few years, according to Fitch Ratings.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

Years of rising operating profits and cash reserves did not translate to greater charity care across the nation’s nonprofit hospitals, according to a study published this week in Health Affairs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2023

Virtual care models can improve access and build personalized experiences for underserved patients, says Kuldeep Singh Rajput, founder and CEO of Biofourmis.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

SCAN Group and CareOregon have issued grants to RIP Medical Debt that will wipe out millions in patients' medical debt. | SCAN Group and CareOregon have issued grants to RIP Medical Debt that will wipe out millions in patients' medical debt.

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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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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

Tammi Jantzen, Co-founder, Astarte Medical Protocol Driven Care Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. Standardization reduces waste, makes treatment predictable and controllable, and defines clear responsibilities for all team members.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

Six-year-old Cityblock Health, a startup that has raised nearly $900 million to date, has restructured its business as it focuses on ramping up payer partnerships and accelerating its path to profi | Six-year-old Cityblock Health, a startup that has raised nearly $900 million to date, has restructured its business as it focuses on ramping up payer partnerships and accelerating its path to profitability.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

What You Should Know: Researchers at NYU Langone Health, the academic medical center of New York University, have collaborated with NVIDIA experts to develop a large language model (LLM) that predicts a patient’s risk of 30-day readmission, as well as other clinical outcomes. The LLM was deployed in the healthcare system’s six inpatient facilities, the NYUTron model — featured today in the scientific journal Nature that will provide doctors with AI-driven insights that could help them identify p

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Digital Health News

JUNE 7, 2023

Electronic document management is no longer about 'going paperless'. It is viewed increasingly as part of a much broader digital transformation - a shift which brings it own challenges, reports Claire Read.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

What You Should Know: Wolters Kluwer Health today announced the acquisition of  Invistics Corporation  (Invistics), a U.S.-based provider of cloud-based, AI-enabled software for drug diversion detection and controlled substance compliance. Invistics will join the company’s Clinical Surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions unit, part of Clinical Solutions.

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Health IT Security

JUNE 7, 2023

Verizon’s annual DBIR shed light on 2022 cyberattack trends, highlighting the prevalence of social engineering, ransomware, and basic web application attacks.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

What You Should Know: Know Labs, an emerging developer of non-invasive medical diagnostic technology, revealed the next stage in the development of its proprietary Bio-RFID™ technology – the Generation (Gen) 1 Device. Gen 1 incorporates Know Labs’ Bio-RFID sensor – which has been proven as technically feasible and stable in delivering repeatable results in measuring blood glucose when used in a lab environment – in a portable device.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 7, 2023

Samsung will integrate the Orlando-based company's Smart Care Facility Platform into its displays to help with patient monitoring in the care setting.

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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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Health IT Security

JUNE 7, 2023

Enzo Biochem suffered a data breach that exposed clinical test information and Social Security numbers.

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JUNE 7, 2023

RxLightning, a digital platform focusing on specialty medication distribution, and Canadian fertility startup Twig also scored investments.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 7, 2023

In August last year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took legal action against the mobile data broker Kochava alleging the Idaho company had violated consumer privacy and put consumers at risk by selling geolocation data from their mobile phones, which was tied to each individual through the unique ID of their mobile device. The FTC claimed Kochava sold the data from hundreds of millions of devices which could reveal that consumers had visited sensitive locations such as abortion clinics, men

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by David Bucciferro, Chair of the EHR Association In April 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its much-anticipated proposed rule to advance interoperability, improve transparency, and support further access, exchange, and use of electronic health information (EHI).

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

As buzzwords like “holistic care” and “patient-centric” have solidified into value-based care models and total capitation contracts, providers and payers still face a lot of friction to align incen | Syntax Health launched a new platform designed to smooth out the value-based care contracting process using analytics, infrastructure and a collaborative virtual workspace.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 7, 2023

Acuity International (formerly known as Comprehensive Health Services, LLC / CHS, LLC), a provider of medical management support services, has agreed to a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2020 cyberattack and data breach that impacted 106,910 individuals. Suspicious activity was detected within the systems of Comprehensive Health Services on September 30, 2020, following the discovery of fraudulent wire transfers; however, it took until November 3, 202

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Earlier this year, Tytocare received FDA approval for its AI-based solution that analyzes lung sounds captured via its handheld home care device. The thoughtful way that the AI was incorporated into the overall design of the solution is impressive. The AI blends seamlessly into the background and feels like a natural addition to the workflow. Exactly the way technology ideally is supposed to work in healthcare.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 7, 2023

One of the biggest NHS challenges is lifting up the least digitally mature hospital trusts. Andy Callow now has experience with two of them.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

Healthcare insurers in the long-term care market over the decades found themselves in a bind because they could not pay claims with prices that had been agreed upon years earlier and that inflation | When many long-term care policies were first drawn up, insurance companies had no historical data to help them predict the financial future. The companies and older Americans are now paying the price, according to a new report.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in the Albany, New York office.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

A federal judge has granted Cigna a preliminary injunction against former executive Amy Bricker, barring her from joining rival CVS Health as a noncompete case is resolved by the courts. | A federal judge has granted Cigna a preliminary injunction against former executive Amy Bricker, barring her from joining rival CVS Health as a noncompete case is resolved by the courts.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

What You Should Know: Today, Google Cloud announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to transform healthcare with generative AI, starting with enterprise search. Enterprise Search on Generative AI App Builder (Gen App Builder) is designed to improve the efficiency of clinical workflows, make it easier for clinicians and researchers to find the information they need, and ultimately to help improve patient outcomes.

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