Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Pharmaceutical companies are waging war against federal agencies over one of the Inflation Reduction Act’s major provisions allowing Medicare to negotiate 10 drugs to reduce out-of-pocket costs for | Legal experts question whether the Inflation Reduction Act is within its rights to enforce its drug pricing negotiation provision.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Despite widespread support from healthcare workers and hospital associations, federal regulations protecting hospital workers have previously failed to advance in Congress.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
St John of God Midland has recently rolled out the Kyra Flow digital journey boards and bed management dashboards provided by Telstra Health. The Kyra Flow e-Journey boards provide real-time patient journey updates from admission to discharge. It integrates crucial patient information from various hospital systems, including patient admission, pathology, radiology, electronic medical records, and diet systems.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
More than 1,700 nurses have been on strike in New Jersey since the beginning of August. The hospital and union are expected to return to the bargaining table on Thursday.
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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?
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The next goal on the UAE's pioneering digital health journey is to promote prevention and happiness by engaging patients with the HIE, explains Dr Mohammad Al Redha, director of health informatics and smart health at the Dubai Health Authority.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
At Morgan Stanley’s healthcare conference on Tuesday, Karen Lynch also called into question the $500 million in savings Blue Shield of California expects from kicking CVS’ pharmacy benefit manager to the curb.
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Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Nearly 6% of executives say they currently have a generative AI strategy, while about half are actively developing one or plan to do so soon.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
By Yael Hashiloni-Dolev and Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty In 2009, Israel was one of the first countries to authorize social egg freezing , before it was declared non-experimental. Israel is a highly pronatalist familistic society with relatively high marriage rates, low divorce rates, and the highest birth rate among OECD countries. Israeli pronatalism frames the favorable Israeli approach to fertility medicine and preservation.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Congress is inching closer to pharmacy benefit manager reform with new legislation released last week. But even eliminating all PBM profits would barely move the needle on U.S. drug spending, according to a new report.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
This is a developing story with updates expected. U.S. Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and four of their colleagues expressed support for the Drug Enforcement Administration's new engagement on a potential special registration for telehealth with this week's listening sessions hosted by the DEA's Drug Diversion Control Division, but said they had several concerns.
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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.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Agency advisers voted 13-1 to recommend the updated shots for everyone over the age of 6 months, greenlighting the vaccines’ rollout one day after the FDA’s approval.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Oracle shares fell 13% Tuesday as the software giant's near-term revenue forecast was weaker than Wall Street analysts expected. | Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison told investors Monday that the company is working to modernize the Cerner EHR platform using an application code generator to enhance the software "one piece at a time." "On the business side of things, we think the Cerner business is going to get stronger and stronger," Ellison said.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Aaron Schroeder, Director, AI Solutions & Head of AI Center of Excellence at TTEC Digital Digital twins are helping organizations make more informed decisions. These analytical tools use real-time data to represent a product or process, creating a realistic simulation that can be used to test, monitor, or predict outcomes for its real-world counterpart.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Healthcare providers have upped their spending on IT and software, a shift leaders said is driven by the new technologies, labor challenges and other financial pressures on their organizations, acc | Nearly 80% of polled provider executives report higher tech spending during the past year, and about three quarters say their numbers will grow over the next 12 months.
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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.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Fifteen projects, including eight digital health initiatives, received $3 million in cash, Google Cloud credits and technical assistance.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Providers are under significant pressure as the COVID-19 pandemic effects wear on, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they're pushing payers for more in contract negotiations. | Providers are under significant pressure as the COVID-19 pandemic effects wear on, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they're pushing payers for more in contract negotiations.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Guy Friedman, Co-Founder and CEO of SteadyMD The crisis of clinician burnout is worsening. Clinicians are feeling stressed, overworked and underappreciated. Some are responding by leaving healthcare or cutting back on hours. Nearly 334,000 healthcare providers, including 117,000 physicians left the workforce in 2021, according to a 2022 study. And the problem did not end when the public health emergency did.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Senate legislators have rolled out a bipartisan, industry-backed bill that would make assault or intimidation of hospital workers a federal crime. | The bipartisan Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees Act has industry support and follows similar legislation brought in the House.
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HealthIT Answers
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
By Mari E. Cely, MBA, PMP - In an era of transformative change within the healthcare industry, the shift from a FFS model to VBC has emerged as a beacon of hope. This transition is driven by the collective pursuit of achieving better patient outcomes at reduced costs. And empowering this model shift is data analytics. The post Using Data to Advance Value-Based Care: A Way to Enhance Results appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Digital health and health IT funding continued to decline in the second quarter of 2023, according to two new reports from Pitchbook. | Digital health VC deal flow hit a new low, though several strong segments persisted. VC deals in health IT also dropped quarter over quarter but are beginning to recover from their low in 2022.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Annie Erstling. Chief Operating Officer of Forcura In home-based care, the way we manage care transitions must change. Poorly managed care transitions have become more prevalent in the sector and have a considerably negative impact on patients. In addition, less-than-ideal transitions place a tremendous amount of pressure on providers, who face the risk of referral rejections, hospital readmissions and the consequences of below-average value-based care performance – often all due to messy proces
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The following is a guest article by Tisson Mathew, Founder and CEO at SkyPoint AI Why Large Language Models Trained on Industry Context are Essential for Effective Generative AI in the Healthcare Space Ask ChatGPT an important but complicated healthcare-related question, and you might very well get a wrong—and potentially dangerous—answer. Navigating the complexities of medical data, regulations, and patient care can place demands on generative AI technologies that can’t be fulfilled.
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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.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
What You Should Know: A new study from Bain & Company and KLAS Research shows US healthcare providers are accelerating spending on IT and software. The research shows nearly 80% of healthcare executives say they increased spending materially over the past year, spurred by emerging technologies—particularly generative AI—labor shortages, and cost pressures.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Elevance Health research outlines ways health plans can fight loneliness in MA beneficiaries fdiamond Wed, 09/13/2023 - 13:26
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
What You Should Know: Found, a medically assisted weight loss program, released its inaugural State of Weight Care Report from a survey representing 500 large employers with a minimum of 5,000 employees each and more than 350 active individual Found members. The 2023 report illuminates what employers and benefits decision-makers need to do to support employees on their healthcare journeys.
Digital Health News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Brainomix will be trialling its novel imaging biomarkers in its e-Lung platform as a sub-study of the TIPAL trial for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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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.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
What You Should Know: In light of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Talkspace announced the results of its unique AI algorithm over the last three years of identifying individuals at risk of self-harm or suicide. Using machine learning capabilities, the Talkspace platform can detect language patterns consistent with high-risk behaviors that place individuals at risk for self-harm.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Accelerated innovation is affecting health care in several ways. For instance, it’s increasingly important to offer services and monitoring to patients in the home, because those interventions are key to managing chronic conditions as well as rehabilitation after surgery or other medical procedures. Furthermore, a wealth of home-based solutions are being offered by a range of IT companies.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
What You Should Know: – Belong.Life today announced the launch of Tara, a new conversational AI SaaS solution to assist health providers and CROs with cancer clinical trial matching and recruitment. – Available as a SaaS solution for providers, hospitals, health systems, CROs and other organizations, the technology can be embedded into websites, mobile apps or text messaging platforms to enable easy communication with opt-in patients.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Will the DEA, finally, set up a special registration process for telehealth prescribing?
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