Wed.Nov 01, 2023

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HHS announces first ransomware settlement

Healthcare Dive

Doctors’ Management Services agreed to settle claims it did not comply with HIPAA breach rules and failed to identify risks after a cyberattack exposed the information of more than 200,000 patients.

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Taking Abortion to the Polls: What To Expect in Ohio

Bill of Health

By Joelle Boxer Dobbs “return[ed]” the authority to regulate abortion to “the people and their elected representatives.” The people of Ohio will act on that authority on November 7, demonstrating yet again the emerging role of referenda in American abortion law. The referendum will determine if “ The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety Amendment ,” or Issue 1, is added to the Ohio Constitution.

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White House orders HHS to collect reports on healthcare AI safety

Healthcare Dive

President Joe Biden outlined the planned program as part of an executive order on “safe, secure, and trustworthy” artificial intelligence.

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Software Advice wondered. “Yes,” the company’s latest consumer survey found, details of which are discussed in a report published on their website. Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health.

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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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Humana reports medical cost growth from MA utilization

Healthcare Dive

The payer expects higher levels of Medicare Advantage utilization to continue for the remainder of the year, outgrowing past expectations.

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Suki expands availability of its ambient AI clinical documentation platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Suki announced the expansion of its ambient artificial intelligence technology, Suki Assistant, to more than 20 independent practices, including Capital City Primary and Immediate Care. The application is a voice assistant that generates notes in real-time by listening to patient-clinician interactions. It can be used for clinical documentation, diagnosis coding, real-time information retrieval from the electronic health record and other applications.

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Tele-stroke tech improves care and provider confidence at Essentia Health-Fargo

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Essentia Health-Fargo did not necessarily have a specific problem that led it to implement tele-stroke technology. Rather, the implementation stemmed from a desire to be proactive in delivering the best care possible. A PROACTIVE MOVE "Per AHA/ASA Stroke Care Guidelines, tele-stroke implementation is effective in triaging patients for IV thrombolytics and endovascular therapy," said Chelsey Kuznia, RN, SCRN, stroke program manager at Essentia Health-Fargo, DNV Certified Comprehensive S

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CVS beats expectations in Q3, but high costs weigh on profit outlook

Healthcare Dive

The company is prepared for potential legislation forcing transparency in its pharmacy benefit manager business practices later this year, CEO Karen Lynch said on Wednesday.

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CVS Health beats the Street with $2.3B in Q3 profit

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Health beat the Street on both earnings and revenue in the third quarter, reporting $2.3 billion in profit. | By comparison, the company reported a $3.4 billion loss in the third quarter of 2022 as it paid out its part in a global settlement over the opioid crisis.

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Walmart Health Expands Affordable Access to Healthcare in Florida

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Walmart Health announced it is entering into a relationship with both Ambetter from Sunshine Health , which provides insurance to individuals through the Florida health insurance marketplace, and Orlando Health , a private, not-for-profit network of community and specialty hospitals across Florida, through Care Coordination Agreements. – These collaborations will help Floridians gain access to affordable healthcare options with the type of convenience c

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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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How behavioral health tech can help overcome adoption hurdles among neurodiverse populations

Fierce Healthcare

Technologies like wearables and virtual reality could become key tools in engaging neurodiverse patient populations, streamlining provider workflows and tracking outcomes, payers, therapists and te | Speakers at a virtual roundtable commended technologies like wearables and virtual reality (VR) for their potential to engage neurodiverse patients, streamline provider workflows, and measure and improve outcomes.

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AI and the Human Touch: Embracing a Symbiotic Future

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ed Watal, Founder and Principal at Intellibus It seems as if every news outlet, talking head, and business influencer has been talking about AI — and for good reason. Though artificial intelligence is not a new concept, the latest innovations in what the technology can do for business, news, media, art, and finance are taking the world by storm.

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CMS finalizes $140M increase to home health payments

Fierce Healthcare

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a rule Wednesday that increases the 2024 home health payments by 0.8%, or $140 million. | CMS' new proposed rule will increase home health payments by 0.8%, or $140M, among other changes.

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AI in Healthcare: Separating Hype from Reality

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Stephen Dean, co-founder, Keona Health. If you were to believe all the headlines you read about AI in healthcare, you’d probably think that AI will be curing cancer and replacing doctors within the year. I […] The article AI in Healthcare: Separating Hype from Reality appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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What Tools are Needed to Better Handle Cloud in Healthcare?

Healthcare IT Today

There are a lot of amazing things that the cloud is capable of doing in healthcare. But as a newer technology, there are still some areas that it falls behind. So as we are looking into the cloud and possibly adding it to our organizations, we need to be looking at some additional tools that can help you better manage your cloud efforts in healthcare.

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Humana raises MA enrollment projections again, beats EPS market estimates

Fierce Healthcare

Humana expects to add 35,000 more members to its Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and grow by 19% in 2023 to reach approximately 860,000 members, an increase of about 85,000 more members than projecte | Utilization rates and popularity in MA offerings remain high, Humana announced during its third-quarter earnings call.

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AI Diagnostic Fund worth £21m to be shared by 64 NHS trusts

Digital Health News

The £21m AI Diagnostic Fund is to be split between 64 NHS trusts to speed up the diagnosis of lung cancer and how quickly patients can access treatment.

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First CPT Code for AI Prostate Cancer Imaging Issued for Avenda Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Avenda Health’s AI mapping tool for prostate cancer, Unfold AI™, has received significant recognition by obtaining a new Category III CPT code in the 2024 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set, signifying its status as a cutting-edge medical technology. – The new Category III CPT code, X237T, outlines the tool’s capabilities, describing it as a non-invasive prostate cancer estimation map that is derived from an augmented analysis of image-g

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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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Government leaders trying to stay ahead of AI, address public fears 

Digital Health News

Government leaders in both the UK and the US have addressed the safety of AI over the past week as they attempt to address demands for guidelines.

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Comparing HIPAA and NIST

Total HIPAA

In the ever-evolving landscape of data security and privacy, two key frameworks have emerged as significant players: HIPAA and NIST. Both emphasize the importance of safeguarding sensitive information, but they have key differences in their scope, mandate, and enforcement. In this blog post, we’ll explore the similarities and differences between these two frameworks.

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New standards released to ensure medical AI is safe and effective

Digital Health News

Healthcare professionals can harness artificial intelligence safely and effectively by following a new set of patient and industry-agreed standards.

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Warehouse ETL Developer and Administrator (Epic)

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Data Warehouse ETL Developer and Administrator (Epic) position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is remote. Here’s a description of the position: Now seeking a Data Warehouse ETL Developer and Administrator with Epic Clarity certification for a 12-month remote client health system engagement.

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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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23andMe Data Breach Raises Concerns for Minority Health Data

Health IT Security

Senator Bill Cassidy fears 23andMe data breach has exposed health data and PII of recently targeted minority groups, including Jewish and Chinese descendants.

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AI and data: Consent to use of data ‘a sticking plaster for broken systems’

Digital Health News

Issues around consent in AI and data cannot be addressed through legal processes or focusing on patients’ rights and autonomy, suggested an expert panel.

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Care enablement platform IKS Health acquires AQuity Solutions for $200M

Mobi Health News

The acquisition combines IKS Health's tech-enabled ambulatory care offerings with AQuity's acute care solutions pertaining to clinical documentation.

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Tunstall Healthcare Group signs MoU with the University of Edinburgh

Digital Health News

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Tunstall Healthcare Group and the University of Edinburgh to develop AI-powered digital solutions.

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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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AI-enabled radiology performance platform Covera Health secures $50M

Mobi Health News

The company also finalized its acquisition of fellow AI-powered radiology quality assurance company CoRead.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?

Digital Health News

This coffee briefing features the Maple Centre at Milton Keynes University Hospital celebrating its first birthday and the use of two innovative apps.

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'Podnosis': A look at Blue Shield of California's new pharmacy benefits model

Fierce Healthcare

In this week's episode of “Podnosis,” we explore Blue Shield of California's plan to transform its pharmacy model. | In this week's episode of “Podnosis,” we explore Blue Shield of California's plan to transform its pharmacy model. This includes a shift away from the traditional PBM relationship in favor of forming partnerships with five companies: Amazon Pharmacy, Abarca, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company, CVS Caremark, and Prime Therapeutics.

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Improving Patient Outcomes with an Innovative Approach to Data

HealthIT Answers

By Josh Rubel - Valuable insights are buried inside the massive quantities of data collected in various healthcare settings, but extracting those insights is often challenging and resource-intensive for health systems and hospitals. The post Improving Patient Outcomes with an Innovative Approach to Data 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.