Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the sharing of health information is a delicate balance, especially when it comes to teenagers. THE PROBLEM Patient portals facilitate efficient sharing of health information between patients, their families and healthcare providers. However, a unique challenge arises when it comes to teenagers. Certain state laws may allow minors to consent to specific types of sensitive care and give them the right to keep this information confidential from thei

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

The sector's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been slower than expected. In a new report, the credit agency said some hospitals may never reach traditional healthy operating margins.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

New adjunct specialty facilities in India's leading health institutions are advancing precision medicine in the country through AI. The Apollo Cancer Centre (ACC) in Bengaluru has recently opened what could be the country's first Precision Oncology Centre powered by AI. It offers comprehensive, specialised care that is tailored to each individual.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

Insurers' MA earnings were 2% lower in 2022 than in 2019, signaling profits in the lucrative insurance program may be weakening.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

Never has any modern tool promised greater efficiency and support than what generative AI offers. Last year saw industries, including healthcare, quick to jump in on the trend to get first mover advantage. Applications have also been varied, from documentation to clinical decision support and even in combination with robotics. While the enthusiasm for genAI will remain elevated this year – with governments even investing in this emerging lucrative space , the pace of adoption will likely b

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 30, 2024

By Caroline Hayes The psychedelic renaissance is well underway, with hundreds of clinical trials currently looking into a plethora of different mental health conditions. I was a sub-investigator on a clinical trial researching a psychedelic study drug to treat depression, but I have since stepped back from psychedelic clinical trials due to personal ethical concerns about the way the field is evolving.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Patients were protected from more than 10 million surprise medical bills thanks to reforms in the No Surprises Act, according to a new survey. | Patients were protected from more than 10 million surprise medical bills thanks to reforms in the No Surprises Act, according to a new survey.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

Effective March 18, Nakesha Lopez will lead human resource and people programs for the 68-hospital nonprofit.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 30, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Tim Bristol, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, director of strategic planning, NurseThink, Wolters Kluwer Health. The ever-worsening nursing shortage is taking the United States by storm, with nearly 800,000 nurses planning to leave their roles […] The article Teaching Nursing Students to Think Clinically with Realistic Instructional Tools appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

HCA executives also announced the retirement of longtime CFO Bill Rutherford during a Tuesday earnings call.

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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.

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Expect sickle cell disease to be the primary focus of the new Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Tuesday. | CMS gave an update to its Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model announced in February, opting to focus first on sickle cell disease.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 30, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Josh Marsh, vice president and general manager Sonexus access and patient support, Cardinal Health. Every patient’s journey through the healthcare system is different, but patients on specialty medications need extra support with navigating both […] The article Year in Review: Five Trends that Impacted Patient Services in 2023 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – Walmart is upping the ante with its new Optical Virtual Try-On (VTO) feature, allowing you to virtually “try on” hundreds of frames and purchase prescription glasses online. – Walmart’s Optical Virtual Try-On and online prescription purchases offer a convenient, personalized, and exciting way to shop for eyewear.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

A new value-based care enabler focused on endocrinology has launched with a mission to shape the future of diabetes care. | Valendo Health uses a phased approach to offer expertise, technology and data-rich tools to help independent physicians enhance clinical capacity, streamline operations and transition to value-based care.

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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.

Digital Health News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Labour Tuesday unveiled a new life sciences sector plan that it said will create thousands of jobs and inject growth into R&D investment.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Despite the hype, this buzzing AI will still have to prove its worth for Asia's cautious hospitals, says one health tech vendor.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 30, 2024

Payer Roundup–Molina Healthcare strengthens partnership with BeMe Health; North Carolina health plan limits GLP-1 coverage ntong Tue, 01/30/2024 - 16:37

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 30, 2024

TenAces will develop an AI platform to help identify protein interactions that naturally occur in the body to assist with targeted protein degradation.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – Vizient, Inc., a leading healthcare performance improvement company, has released its latest Pharmacy Market Outlook , projecting a 3.8% growth in drug price inflation. – The increase is the highest since July 2019 and is attributed in part to the expanding realm of specialty pharmacy, notably the increased utilization of weight loss drugs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

Partnership Enhances Firm’s Portfolio of Healthcare Services Impact Advisors , a leading healthcare management consulting firm, announced it has acquired First Quadrant Advisory , a strategy and operations consulting firm specializing in the healthcare payer market. The strategic partnership will allow Impact Advisors to continue to grow and enhance its mission to improve the business and delivery of healthcare by offering comprehensive, value-driven solutions to both payer and provider organiza

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Becker's Health IT

JANUARY 30, 2024

Discover the top 10 companies for data breaches in the healthcare sector according to a 2023 report from Identity Theft Resource Center, with a total of 3,205

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – RxBenefits , a leading pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO), has announced the appointment of Mark Campbell, PharmD , as its first Chief Pharmacy Officer. – The newly created position underscores the company’s commitment to using clinical expertise and technology to improve health outcomes and optimize costs for employers and employees.

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre has unveiled the companies set to join its Advanced Wellbeing Accelerator programme.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD, Founder and CEO of Rimidi Ansley Dalbo, founder of Diabetes – What to Know Whether it’s on TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook, the latest “diet” trends are hard to escape. There’s paleo, keto, macros, intermittent fasting, vegan, Mediterranean, low-carb and so many other programs inundating individuals every day, and many turn to their favorite social media influencers for “expert” opinions on what works and what doesn’t.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2024

One-half of U.S. physicians report feeling burned out, and 3 in 5 of those doctors say they have felt burned out for over two years, according to the Physician Burnout & Depression Report for 2024 from Medscape. While the study’s press release asserts there may be “progress” given the percent of doctors citing burnout fell by 4 percentage points from 53% of doctors in 2022 to 49% in 2023, it is obvious the U.S. physicians need greater support and less taboo concerning their

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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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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: Hip disorders, comprising some of the world’s most common joint diseases, are especially prevalent among adolescents and young adults, causing stiffness, pain or a limp. But they can be hard to diagnose using solely 2D medical imaging. Helping to treat these disorders, the Boston Children’s Hospital’s (BCH’s) Adolescent and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program is the U.S.’s first to deploy a fully automated AI tool across its clinic.

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust is advancing its pathology services, as it's Oldham laboratory goes live with Sectra enterprise imaging technology.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – PathAI , a pioneer in AI-powered pathology, announced a significant expansion of its PathExplore platform, adding six new oncology indications to its arsenal. – The expansion doubles the platform’s reach, now covering 14 different cancer types, and further solidifies PathExplore as the leading tool for characterizing the tumor microenvironment (TME) from H&E-stained whole-slide images (WSIs).

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Today's briefing covers new community digital health hubs in Sunderland and the replacement of eight separate nursing records with one in Wales.

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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.