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Amazon brings cashierless tech to hospitals

Healthcare Dive

After opening automated stores on college campuses and sports stadiums, the tech giant is moving into healthcare facilities.

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McKinsey: Healthcare Profit Pools to Reach $819B by 2027

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The US healthcare industry, after weathering a storm of inflation, labor shortages, and lingering COVID-19 impacts in 2023, is now showing signs of a promising rebound, according to a new repor t by McKinsey & Company. – The McKinsey report predicts accelerated transformation efforts and strategic shifts will unlock new growth opportunities in key segments, while others face continued challenges.

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knownwell Raises $20M Series A From A16Z to Scale the First Patient-Centered Healthcare Home For Those With Overweight and Obesity

Healthcare IT Today

Building on This Mission, the Company is Launching an Adolescent Metabolic Health Program to Combat Rising Child Obesity Rates knownwell , an in-person and virtual, weight-inclusive primary care and metabolic health company, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by a16z with participation from existing investors including Flare Capital Partners.

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NHS digital Leaders call on Secretary of State to focus on digital basics

Digital Health News

NHS digital leaders have called on the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkins to focus on digital basics for the service, such as modern infrastructure and networks, reliable laptops and wi-fi, and staff training, to help it better cope with unprecedented pressures.

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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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Claims Software Can Ease Manual Processes Related to Treating Medical Tourists from Outside the U.S.

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Rob Stuart, Founder and President at Claim.MD Medical tourism is big business for leading hospitals and health centers around the world. In the United States, the overwhelming perception is that American patients seek treatment in Mexico, Turkey, Singapore, and other places to save money over what they’d pay for the same treatments.

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UHDB attract hundreds of staff to Paper2Pixels events

Digital Health News

The room in the education centre at the Royal Derby Hospital was filled with chatter as staff gathered for the largest of six Paper2Pixels events.

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Critical incident status stood down at Uni Hospitals Sussex after IT outage

Digital Health News

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is no longer in critical incident, after good progress was made overnight in restoring IT systems.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Renovus Invests in Behavioral Framework

McGuire Wood

Renovus Capital Partners has announced it has invested in Behavioral Framework. Behavioral Framework , founded in 2017 and based in Rockville, Md., is a provider of applied behavior analysis therapy for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Behavioral Framework serves children and families across Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC. Renovus , based in Philadelphia, is a lower middle market private equity firm that invests in a few sectors, including healthcare services.

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HelloSelf helps NHS to reduce mental health waiting lists

Digital Health News

Digital therapy platform HelloSelf is helping the NHS to speed up waiting times to access mental health therapy from three months to just two weeks.

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What’s Happening at the ONC

HealthIT Answers

Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the HTI-1 final rule published on the Federal Register with an effective date of February 8, 2024, an HTI-1 webinar, & more. The post What’s Happening at the ONC appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Sheffield Children’s goes live with System C EPMA

Digital Health News

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with System C's CareFlow Medicines Management EPMA solution as part of its digital strategy.

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The Telemedicine Tightrope: How to Keep Patients Safe and Satisfied 

American Medical Compliance

In recent years, telemedicine has surged in popularity, offering a convenient and efficient way for patients to access healthcare services remotely. According to Statista, the telemedicine market is forecasted to grow significantly, from 50 billion U.S. dollars in global market value in 2019 to nearly 460 billion U.S. dollars by 2030. Especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become an essential tool for both patients and healthcare providers.

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Understanding the 2025 Medicare Part D Re-design: What You Need to Know

Innovaare Compliance

The Prescription Drug Program, commonly known as Medicare Part D, is undergoing significant transformations in 2025 due to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. These changes mark a pivotal shift from its original structure in 2006. Understanding these changes is crucial for stakeholders, as they impact various aspects of the program, from beneficiary cost sharing to the introduction of new manufacturer discount programs.

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HHS Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity

Med Law Blog

In furtherance of the National Cybersecurity Strategy announced March 2023, HHS has released an Introduction to the Strategy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity. Click here for the PDF.

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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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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

Digital Health News

Today's briefing looks at published research from the UK's 100,000 Genomes Project and new life expectancy data from the ONS.

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Beyond the Hype: How AI is Helping Transform Neurodegenerative Disease Treatment Right Now

HIT Consultant

Lawrence Whittle, President of Verana Health Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a sensitive subject for some healthcare professionals, and rightfully so. It was not too long ago that IBM’s Watson supercomputer won on “Jeopardy!” The hype and hubris that followed led to one of the great all-time examples of technology that some might say over-promoted and under-delivered.

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Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest 2024 shortlist revealed

Digital Health News

Following a record 95 applications, judges have selected 25 digital health start-ups to advance to the next stage of Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest 2024.

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Cautionary Views of Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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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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Secretary Becerra Names Chief Competition Officer

HealthIT Answers

The HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra appointed Stacy Sanders to the role of Chief Competition Officer, a new role for the Department which was created last month as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to lower health care and prescription drugs costs by promoting competition. The post Secretary Becerra Names Chief Competition Officer appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Dealing with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Non-Decision on Standards Compliance Evidence

Drug & Device Law

As we discussed at length in this post, since the 1940s, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and other courts applying Pennsylvania law have refused to subject prescription medical products to strict liability. That is significant because, unlike (now) every other state in the country, since 1987 Pennsylvania precedent prohibited defendants from introducing evidence of their compliance with government and/or industry standards (“standards compliance” or “compliance” evidence, for short) in strict li

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Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Other New Frontiers in Medicine, and the Income Tax's Role as a Backup Health Insurance System

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Daniel Shaviro (New York University), Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Other New Frontiers in Medicine, and the Income Tax's Role as a Backup Health Insurance System, Tax L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024): Recent decades have seen explosive growth in the availability and efficacy.

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Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health Organization: Revisiting the Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process of Law, and American Citizenship

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Thomas Burrell, Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health Organization: Revisiting the Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process of Law, and American Citizenship, 49 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. (2023): On March 19, 2018, the State of Mississippi enacted a law prohibiting abortions after fifteen.

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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.