Bill of Health
MARCH 15, 2023
By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building. This trend poses new ethical questions for physicians who want to create and engage with their communities on social media. A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
Google also shared an a updated version of its medical artificial intelligence that can answer clinical questions at an “expert” level at its annual healthcare event on Tuesday.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 15, 2023
South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. FINDINGS According to the report, over 25,000 medical institutions provided remote treatment to 13.79 million people from February 2020 to January 2023. Of the 36.61 million treatments administered via telehealth, most treatments (29.25 million) were home treatments for COVID-19 cases while about 1.36 million treatment cases were first-time
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
Sean Martin is stepping up as chief medical officer of the New York-based insurer, after Oscar’s old CMO left to become CMO of L.A. Care Health Plan in December.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 15, 2023
Researchers and healthcare technology innovators are using artificial intelligence in many ways to improve patient outcomes and experiences and healthcare delivery. TytoCare, Noze and Google, in partnership with Mayo Clinic, aim to tackle some of the challenges of speed to diagnosis and treatment with new AI-powered technologies. FDA clears AI-driven remote wheeze detection by TytoCare TytoCare, a virtual care company, announced today that it has received U.S Food and Drug Administration clearan
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
The fall of SVB created a chasm in life sciences financing that could be filled by bigger banks, but might hamper access to quick, short-term cash for startups.
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Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
The agency cited its need to take on bigger and more complex cases in areas like health privacy in its request on Tuesday for a $160 million funding boost.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 15, 2023
Researchers and healthcare technology innovators are using artificial intelligence in many ways to improve patient outcomes and experiences and healthcare delivery. TytoCare, Noze and Google in partnership with Mayo Clinic aim to tackle some of the challenges of speed to diagnosis and treatment with new AI-powered technologies. FDA clears AI-driven remote wheeze detection by TytoCare TytoCare, a virtual care company, announced today that it has received U.S Food and Drug Administration clearance
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, pharma companies owe rebates to Medicare for price increases they take that exceed inflation. But they won’t need to pay until 2025.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
Independent Living Systems, LLC (ILS), a Miami, FL-based provider of third-party administrative services to managed care organizations, has recently informed the Maine Attorney General that it suffered a data breach that has affected up to 4,226,508 individuals – the largest healthcare data breach to be reported so far this year. According to the breach notification, ILS identified suspicious activity within its computer systems on July 5, 2022.
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 15, 2023
Jeremy Bloom, CEO, NorthSight Recovery The United States only represents five percent of the world’s population; however, Americans consume 80 percent of the world’s opioids. 1 The U.S. is the world’s leader in the use of opioid medications to cope with physical and emotional difficulties. And the recent Walgreens and Wal-Mart multi-state opioid settlement agreement disclosures have only hammered home the point.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
A lawsuit has been filed against Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) over its recent BlackCat ransomware attack. The attack saw files encrypted after data was exfiltrated as is typical in ransomware attacks; however, the attack stood out due to the aggressive move of the threat group to increase the pressure on LVHN to pay the ransom. Naked images of breast cancer patients were published on the group’s data leak site, along with medical questionnaires, passports, and other sensitive patient data
HealthIT Answers
MARCH 15, 2023
By Michael Armstrong - From patient communication to cancer detection, artificial intelligence’s role across healthcare is becoming increasingly more prominent. Although its implementation increases the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare, AI also raises patient privacy concerns. The post The Ethical Implications of AI and Data in Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 15, 2023
What You Should Know: – Amboy Street Ventures , the world’s first venture capital firm focused on women’s health and sexual health for all genders, closed its debut $20 million fund. – Amboy Street plans to invest in the Seed and Series A stages of women’s health and sexual health startups to both lift associated stigmas and usher forward a new world of inclusive health and wellbeing.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
Fire1, a remote patient monitoring company for heart failure patients, and Protai, an AI-powered drug discovery platform, scored funding.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 15, 2023
– TytoCare , a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced that it received FDA clearance for its Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection, paving the way for its rollout in the US. – The wheeze detection algorithm expands the company’s existing AI-powered Tyto Insights™ smart diagnostic capabilities, filling the quality gaps currently experienced with traditional telehealth and alleviating challenges imposed by the ongoing shortage of hea
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 15, 2023
Biden's 'Cancer Moonshot' is already being fueled by tech addressing breast cancer aburky Wed, 03/15/2023 - 12:05
Kaiser Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain. “A lot of them are straight-up insulting,” said the 40-year-old, who lives in Dallas. “They say things like ‘We don’t treat drug addicts.’” Layman has tried a host of non-opioid treatments to help with the intense daily pain caused by double scoliosis, a collapsed spinal disc, and facet joint arthritis.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has launched a new pilot program in response to the increase in ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure entities. The aim of the pilot program is to help critical infrastructure entities better protect their systems against ransomware attacks by fixing exploitable vulnerabilities in their Internet-facing systems.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 15, 2023
ONC, CMS officials plot next reforms to entice adoption of electronic prior authorization rking Wed, 03/15/2023 - 13:08
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
This month, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) published guidance to help healthcare delivery organizations effectively manage cyber risks associated with legacy technology. In healthcare, a great deal of attention has been focused on addressing cybersecurity risks associated with legacy medical devices, but they are not the only type of legacy technology in use in healthcare environments.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 15, 2023
Zipline's new drone brings Rx deliveries to Michigan Medicine, Intermountain and MultiCare patients aburky Wed, 03/15/2023 - 16:04
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Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 15, 2023
The following is a guest article by Krishna Nacha, SVP and Head of North America and Latin America at Iron Mountain Discovering how best to use the vast amount of data your organization creates and collects is one of the key tenets of any organization’s strategy. Although the importance of effective use of data is now far better understood than ever before, centric to effectively converting data to actionable insights is an organization-wide information lifecycle management framework.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 15, 2023
Clever Care nabs $41M to scale up Medicare Advantage plans integrating Eastern and Western medicine hlandi Wed, 03/15/2023 - 07:57
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 15, 2023
Greenway Health’s Intergy Practice Management (PM) solution was recently ranked in the top five as a ‘ Best in KLAS ’ solution. This recognition was, in part, thanks to improvements that were made from direct user feedback. Greenway Health uses multiple channels to solicit feedback from users including advisory boards, town halls, round tables, and usability research.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
The platform connects adults with conditions like autism, ADHD, OCD or Tourette's with care teams trained to help with their specific needs.
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Digital Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
Hera has been crowned the winner in the start-up category of Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest 2023 following a competitive live final in London.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection analyzes lung sounds for possible wheezing in adults and children 2 and older.
Digital Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
Enthusiasm for digital change must be focused on outcomes and things that matter to patients, urged Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland national leaders.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 15, 2023
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yale New Haven Health and is in Connecticut. Here’s a description of the position: Overview The Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) is a leading national outcomes research center dedica
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