Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

According to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine this past week, artificial intelligence chatbot assistants can provide responses to patients' health questions that are of comparable quality – and empathy – to those written by physicians. A team of licensed healthcare professionals compared physicians' and the chatbot’s responses to patients’ questions asked publicly on the social media forum Reddit’s r/AskDocs in October 2022, but were summarily won

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 4, 2023

The agency said on Wednesday that it needs additional time to parse through the 38,000 public comments it received in response to a proposal to reintroduce stricter limits around telehealth prescribing.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

NorthSight Recovery is an evidence-based behavioral health agency in Arizona specializing in complex mental health diagnoses, co-occurring problematic substance abuse and social determinants of health. It approaches treatment through data-driven modeling powered by analytics. THE PROBLEM "Northsight Recovery was founded with the intent of prioritizing technology and tools alike," said Jeremy Bloom, CEO of NorthSight Recovery.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 4, 2023

Rising expenses and thin operating margins have left hospitals vulnerable to a potential recession or a new public health emergency.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

More residential aged care residents in Western Sydney can now access an IT-enabled urgent care service by the New South Wales government following its expansion. The inTouch urgent care service provides patients with less urgent conditions with access to comprehensive health assessment via video conferencing and direct support from GPs and aged care staff.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 4, 2023

COVID-19 dropped out of the top five telehealth diagnoses nationally, with mental health conditions claiming the top spot.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 4, 2023

U.S. supply of Novo’s Wegovy will be “reduced temporarily,” while the Danish drugmaker gets a new contract manufacturer up and running, executives said Thursday.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 4, 2023

A recent survey of IT decision makers has provided insights on password management practices and has confirmed the increasing adoption of passwordless authentication. This is the third year that the password manager provider, Bitwarden, has conducted its Password Decisions Survey, which this year was conducted by Propeller Insights on 400 America IT decision makers and 2,000 Internet users and revealed their password habits, and attitudes to password security and passwordless authentication tech

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says it will temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities around prescription of certain controlled medications as it sifts through comments on its proposed plans for post-PHE remote prescibing guardrails. WHY IT MATTERS In April, the agency, along with the U.S.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 4, 2023

After more than three years, the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is set to expire on May 11, 2023. Once the PHE designation is lifted, a number of federal policies intended to help the U.S. health care system adapt to the pandemic will also expire. CHIR's Emma Walsh-Alker reviews selected policies tied to the PHE and evaluates how the impending expiration will impact consumers’ access to services.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

Horizon taps AI provider Solera Health in effort to offer more customized care to members fdiamond Thu, 05/04/2023 - 14:16

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

What You Should Know: Verizon Public Sector announced a $448.3M, nine-year expansion of its existing partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers and healthcare facilities to supply mobile devices including mission-critical communications support during the VA’s disaster recovery missions and other emergencies. As part of the agreement, the VA can purchase devices and services for community-based outpatient clinics, field and program offices, and remote users in the U

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Modern Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

At least two Idaho hospitals are ending labor and delivery services, with one citing the state’s “legal and political climate.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

What You Should Know: Healthcare investment firm Patient Square Capital (“Patient Square”) forms Elevage Medical Technologies (“Elevage”), a new portfolio company to support the growth of promising medical device companies by providing capital and deep strategic expertise. Elevage will deliver financial and strategic growth support to a broad set of medical device technology companies that are at the forefront of transforming health care through cutting-edge devices that

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

Investment will fuel product development, expansion into new hospitals and health systems Chiefy , the pioneering cloud platform that helps surgical teams seamlessly embed quality and communication best practices, today announced it has raised $4.2 million in seed funding to accelerate and expand product development and customer acquisition. The new investment was led by LionBird , with participation from Nina Capital and Emerge Ventures.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

What You Should Know: Inbox Health , a New Haven, CT-based patient billing communications platform raises $22.5M in a Series B financing round, led by fintech-focused Ten Coves Capital. The Series B announcement follows news that Inbox Health’s billing technology was awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in April 2023. The new growth capital will further accelerate Inbox Health’s strategic growth as it continues to improve and modernize the billing, support, and payment

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Digital Health News

MAY 4, 2023

The changing of the digital guard at NHS England continues with the news that Dr Tim Ferris, director of transformation is set to depart at the end of June.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

Don Kelly, Manager of the Virtual Information Security Program at Fortified Health Security It’s a fact: More than 80% of data breaches involve a human in some way. That could involve someone falling for a spear-phishing campaign designed to solicit credentials, clicking on a malicious link, or a simple error that leaves a security vulnerability open to bad actors.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

Teva Pharmaceuticals, collaborators team up to donate behavioral health meds to free clinics, pharmacies agliadkovskaya Thu, 05/04/2023 - 14:30

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

St. Joseph’s Health Enhances Provider Communications with careMESH’s Healthcare Directory and User-Friendly Messaging Services New Jersey-based St. Joseph’s Health partners with careMESH to significantly expand the health system’s clinical communications reach to all community physicians, including digital access to electronic medical records. Using careMESH, St.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

Telehealth company Amwell hit with $330M impairment charge as share price declines hlandi Thu, 05/04/2023 - 07:40

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

Joel Landau, Chairman and Founder of The Allure Group To the observant onlooker, data is everywhere. From spending habits to hospital visits, humans are walking treasure troves of information. As technology has exponentially improved in the last 20 years, so has the collection of data. In 2010, a mere two zettabytes of data were created, captured, copied, or consumed.

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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.

Digital Health News

MAY 4, 2023

Regional approaches to digital diagnostic imaging are about much more than pooling data or delivering new technology. They are a means to improve patient safety and access to care, says Sectra's Chris Scarisbrick.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Branden Neish, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Weave In the midst of a global pandemic and a looming economic recession, the healthcare industry has faced a multitude of challenges. Staffing shortages have put a strain on healthcare practitioners, leading to increased workloads and longer hours. As a result, patient care has suffered, with a recent study conducted by Weave revealing that nearly two in three patients have felt rushed, not heard, or no

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Mobi Health News

MAY 4, 2023

Diabetes management company Hygieia extended its Series B round, and Autonomize AI, a workflow platform for healthcare and life sciences, also announced funding.

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Digital Health News

MAY 4, 2023

The Health Innovation Network has announced “Accelerating FemTech”, a initiative to support innovation that addresses current challenges in women’s health.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Digital Health News

MAY 4, 2023

The Toothfairy app - which offers on-demand virtual consultations with real dentists - is now available through Canada Life's group protection scheme.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

One killed, 4 injured in Atlanta medical office mass shooting dmuoio Thu, 05/04/2023 - 14:22

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Mobi Health News

MAY 4, 2023

The company reported a larger net loss in the first quarter that included a $330.3 million noncash goodwill impairment charge.

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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.