Thu.Oct 05, 2023

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Hospitals and digital health companies: making an emulsion from oil and water

Healthcare Dive

Andreessen Horowitz partner Julie Yoo and Bassett Healthcare executive Paul Uhrig share their playbook for digital health entrepreneurs looking to partner with health systems.

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Generative AI roundup: IBM, Wolters Kluwer and others offer new products and services

Healthcare It News

Each day, more companies add generative artificial intelligence assistants to their products and services. This week, some of the biggest names in software announced integrations and implementations they say are safe and transparent uses of AI while a healthcare IT industry research organization published guidance on automation, ethics and trust. IBM introduces Watsonx legal protections To ease customer apprehensions about use of generative AI, IBM announced that it would indemnify its clients a

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Amwell, Nestlé partner on digital nutrition programs

Healthcare Dive

The initial offering, which focuses on surgical nutrition, is the first of several initiatives that the telehealth company is working on with Nestlé, according to Amwell.

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Roundup: VR stroke care training rolled out for NSW ED nurses and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NSW ED nurses get VR stroke care training A virtual reality training programme for administering stroke care has been rolled out across New South Wales. Developed by the Agency for Clinical Innovation and the University of Newcastle Centre for Advanced Training Systems, the TACTICS VR programme provides an immersive experience for emergency nurses to practice handling real-time stroke scenarios.

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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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How Memorial Sloan Kettering is consolidating its supply chain

Healthcare Dive

The healthcare institution is leveraging data to improve forecasting, in addition to streamlining its reporting and purchasing operations to consolidate its supply chain operations.

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Industry Voices—The 'care-ification' of retail is here

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare providers have promised that timely, convenient and affordable care built with the patient in mind is just around the corner. | Retailers are placing big bets on their customers’ willingness to trust them with their healthcare needs. Consumer trust in our healthcare system is at an all-time low, largely due to stubborn barriers like the lack of price transparency and equal access to care.

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Privacy groups focus on national data opt-out as FDP tender concludes

Digital Health News

As NHSE prepares to award a £480m contract to deliver the FDP, legal groups and data privacy activists are focused on the national data opt-out.

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UnitedHealthcare reports high satisfaction, improved outcomes in consumer-centric Surest plans

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare's Surest, which axes deductibles and provides upfront pricing data to members, is the fastest growing product among its commercial plan lineup. | UnitedHealthcare's Surest, which axes deductibles and provides upfront pricing data to members, is the fastest growing product among its commercial plan lineup. And a new analysis offers a look as to why.

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The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Amanda Ford, Executive Vice President of Operations at ScribeAmerica For care teams across the nation, provider burnout isn’t a buzzword, it’s a reality. And while some by-products of the pandemic are expected to disappear with time, burnout seems to be staying. If anything, the issue is getting worse. Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance.

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2 in 5 Native Americans visit ER due to diabetes complications, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

Some 42% of Native Americans have visited the ER because of a Type 2 diabetes complication, a new survey showed. | Some 42% of Native Americans have visited the ER because of a Type 2 diabetes complication, according to the survey.

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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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Expectation vs. Reality: Improving the Patient Payment Experience

HIT Consultant

Ryne Natzke, Chief Revenue Officer, TrustCommerce, a Sphere Company If you’ve ever worked behind the scenes at a provider organization, you likely gained a deep understanding of what makes medical practices tick, giving you the ability to make fairly accurate assumptions about how patients will probably behave in different scenarios. However, when it comes to the patient payment experience, inevitably some patients respond differently than expected.

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Froedtert Health to buy out Ascension's stake in jointly owned Wisconsin health plan

Fierce Healthcare

Froedtert Health is buying out Ascension’s 50% stake in a Wisconsin health plan jointly run by the nonprofit health systems, the former announced this week. | The deal, which is pending review, would give Froedtert Health full ownership of a commercial and Medicare payer with 117,000 members.

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New Epic EPR goes live across Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College

Digital Health News

A new electronic patient record powered by Epic has officially launched across Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts today.

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A Look at Nabla Copilot’s Automatic Clinical Documentation

Healthcare IT Today

Regular readers know that I think ambient clinical voice is one of the most exciting things to happen in health IT since the $36 billion in EHR stimulus money. The promise of automatic note generation is so beautiful and would solve so many of the pains associated with EHR software and more generally clinical documentation. Of course, there are plenty of skeptics that say that the technology won’t get there or will be too expensive.

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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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H1 Launches Gen AI Tool to Accelerate Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: H1 , the leading source of truth for global Healthcare Professional, clinical, scientific, and research information, today announced the launch of GenosAI, a new generative AI tool seamlessly embedded into its clinical trial intelligence platform, Trial Landscape, to analyze and respond to all types of complex inquiries. Trial Landscape allows sponsors to identify new sites, centers of excellence, and investigators with diverse patients; evaluate site and PI patient recruit

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Qure.ai AI collaborative trial is underway to speed up lung cancer diagnosis

Digital Health News

A collaborative trial from Qure.ai, UK academia and two NHS trusts is aiming to improve the speed of a lung cancer diagnosis using artificial intelligence.

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Atropos Health Launches Gen AI App with Direct Chat-to-Database for Health Systems

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Atropos Health , leader in evidence generation for healthcare, today announced the launch of the Geneva OS (Generative Evidence Acceleration Operating System) and the ChatRWD (Real World Data) application, the first Generative AI application incorporating direct Chat-to-Database capability, to help healthcare and life science leaders advance and accelerate evidence generation.

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AI and Data: Remote monitoring must filter out ‘excess noise’

Digital Health News

Generating large volumes of poor quality data wastes clinicans’ time and puts patients at risk, says Elina Naydenova, a speaker at Digital Health’s AI+Data event.

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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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Here's how New York Medicaid plans to bring social care networks and revamp its value-based payment program

Fierce Healthcare

Pending final approval, New York plans to introduce social care networks to serve regional Medicaid-enrolled organizations in the state. | Details from New York Medicaid's COO came during a recent value-based care conference, during which panelists discussed integrative care services, generative AI and more.

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Private hospital websites lack accessibility compared to NHS counterparts

Digital Health News

A report from NEC Digital has found that private hospital websites performed worse for accessibility errors compared to their NHS counterparts.

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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company partners with elderly care coordination company

Mobi Health News

Avanlee Care will integrate MCCPDC's low-cost drug services into its Ava app to improve caregiver and care receiver resources.

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Atropos Health unveils AI chatbot to accelerate real-world data-based evidence generation for docs

Fierce Healthcare

Atropos Health, maker of a real-world data platform, has launched a new operating system and a chatbot interface to help generate observational studies rapidly and at scale. | Leveraging generative AI, the system helps non-technical users query real-world clinical data and get publication-grade results in minutes.

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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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Improving Member Communications: Trust, Empathy and Innovation Pave the Way to Better Stars

HealthIT Answers

Now on demand, FINN Voices with host Beth Friedman talks to Dan McDonald, CEO at 86Borders, a member engagement and health action company that identifies, aggregates, and applies data insights to build trusted member relationships and improve Star ratings for health plans. The post Improving Member Communications: Trust, Empathy and Innovation Pave the Way to Better Stars appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Roundup: MSK DTx FlexifyMe scores $1M seed funding and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Lupin has launched a new digital diabetes support programme.

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Introduction to Fraud, Impersonation, and Operational Controls

HealthIT Answers

By Kyle Neuman - Part 2 of 5 - Let’s dig deeper into identity credentials and focus on one specific facet of identity credentials: identity proofing. What is it, why is it important, and what risks should we look out for when relying on identity credentials that involve identity proofing? The post Introduction to Fraud, Impersonation, and Operational Controls appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Will Healthcare Let AI Fix The Slow-Motion Crisis of Physician Burnout?

HIT Consultant

Deepthi Bathina, CEO of RhythmX AI When I ask primary care physicians about their biggest problems today, they share the excruciating pain they experience as the American healthcare system pushes them towards administrative work rather than letting them focus on true patient care and clinical excellence. Some doctors described themselves as “square pegs in a round hole” for bridling under the system’s bureaucratic constraints.

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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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Health IT Business News – October 5, 2023

HealthIT Answers

Health IT business news from Darena Solutions, Dräger, SonarMD, Early Check, OM1, Objective Medical Systems, Weave, Affirm, PeriGen, Komodo Health, AdvancedMD, Gozio Health, Quris-AI, 3D Systems, AVIA, TruBridge, SAIGroup, H1 and more. The post Health IT Business News – October 5, 2023 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Expert: Surescripts settlement didn't go far enough

Fierce Healthcare

When Surescripts settled its case with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July, regulators praised the ruling and the effect it would have limiting Surescripts' monopolistic power. | Surescripts is still enjoying an unfair advantage over its rivals despite a recent settlement with the FTC, one expert believes.

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How to Make a Compliance Culture Contagious 

YouCompli

In the business of healthcare, promoting a culture of compliance is not merely a goal – it’s a necessity. Ethical integrity and adhering to regulatory requirements are critical to any organization’s success. That said, implementing compliance policies or appointing an individual to be the compliance officer is not enough. There has to be a commitment throughout all levels of an organization to do the right thing and do things right.

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Samsung partners with Brigham and Women's, Tulane University and MIT on digital health research

Fierce Healthcare

Samsung has unveiled a slew of digital health and wellness projects it’s conducting alongside Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tulane University School of Medicine and others. | The tech company shared new research partnerships that will use smart watches, clinical algorithms and other tools to explore health and wellness.

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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.