Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced the general availability of Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot for documentation assistance in Epic electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to free clinicians from administrative tasks and increase clinical efficiencies. After months of collaboration, Nuance's DAX Copilot is available for full Epic EHR integration, the company said Thursday.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions increased last year as health systems sought strong partners while expanding capabilities in “core” markets, the consultancy said.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Lightfully Behavioral Health, a hybrid mental health provider, has launched a new offering to support college students. | Lightfully U is intended to support the more than 60% of college students who have at least one mental health condition. The offering is a virtual intensive outpatient program targeted at college students ages 18 through 25 with higher-acuity conditions.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

It’s not yet clear how much the new Medicaid managed care contract is worth. The state’s previous contract with insurers, including Centene, allocated $6 billion in funds over five years.

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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?

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Intermountain Health plans to shut down Saltzer Health, a multispecialty group the system acquired less than four years ago, if it’s unable to find a buyer by March 29, according to an announcement | Saltzer Health has more than 450 employees across 11 Idaho locations. It attributes its situation to "significant financial pressures," but said it is "optimistic" that at least some services could be sold to a new owner.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

More than 150 health systems, hospitals and medical centers will deploy the Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot embedded within Epic, the Microsoft-owned company said.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Minneapolis-based nonprofit will launch a nationwide search for a successor to Ric Magnuson, who has served Allina for over 25 years.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Traditional Medicare’s bar for reimbursing long-term care hospitals (LTCH) for severely ill, “high-cost outlier” patients has spiked under current payment policies. | The cutoff for an expensive long-term care hospital case to qualify for greater reimbursement rose 55% from FY 2023 to FY 2024, and is projected to rise another 17% the following year, AHA wrote in a recent white paper calling for policymaker intervention.

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

HoloCare's surgical hologram technology is to be deployed at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to help surgeons perform more efficiently and accurately.

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Becker's Health IT

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hackers pilfered about $7.5 million from HHS last year using a technique called "spearfishing," illustrating the continued cybersecurity threat facing healthcare, Bloomberg reported.

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Funding will Support Development of AI Clinician, Using Spatial Computing XRHealth , the leading healthcare platform in Spatial computing, announced today that the company secured $6 million in funding led by Asabys Partners, with the participation of NOVA Prime Fund, a venture capital fund created by global innovator LG Electronics and Clearbrook, LLC., and XRHealth’s current investors.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2024

Tommy Carls, VP of Product Development & Marketing at Proprio Over the past decade, product development has undergone a transformative shift, driven by the integration of AI , machine learning, and data-driven approaches. Traditional methods that relied on user stories, prototype testing and customer research offered limited control over product development outcomes, often leaving success to multiple iterations of feasibility, testing and field assessment.

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Digital Health Rewired 2024 will feature a live AI “bake-off”, where a panel of NHS doctors will test AI LLM models on a series of diagnostic questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

The following is a guest article by Steve Gwizdala , VP of Healthcare at Ping Identity The healthcare security landscape has become an increasingly critical concern. According to the 2023 ForgeRock Breach Report , healthcare has consistently ranked as the most targeted industry by cybercriminals for the past five years. These relentless attacks come at a staggering cost, with the average healthcare breach reaching $10.93 billion according to IBM Security.

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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 19, 2024

Host Jordan Sollof is joined by Shuri Network members Tolu Awe and Felicia Akubue to highlight the benefits of being a part of the bursary programme.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 19, 2024

Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces has ended in most states, with a record number of people selecting a Marketplace plan for 2024. This week, we're highlighting answers to common post-enrollment questions from our Navigator Resource Guide.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

A new year brings a new approach to tracking health tech and digital health investments. | A new year means a new approach to tracking healthcare fundraising. Each week, Fierce Healthcare will publish a roundup of health tech and digital health financing rounds.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The healthcare technology company signed a one-year, $480,000 contract to examine the state's public health and healthcare readiness.

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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 19, 2024

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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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine. Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. Elevance Health, the health plan organization comprising XXX plans serving 117 million members, launched a program to channel mobile phones and data plans into the hands of some Medicaid plan enrollees, explained in the organization’s press release on the program.

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Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 19, 2024

Introduction For urology providers, navigating the complexities of healthcare reimbursement is similar to crossing a financial web. Every step, from patient registration to claim collections, holds the potential for lost revenue and administrative headaches. This is where urology revenue cycle management (RCM) emerges as your trusty map, guiding you towards financial stability and efficient operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the past several weeks, the team here at Healthcare IT Today has been gathering Health IT predictions for 2024. Here is a short video with our favorite video predictions that we captured. Here are the predictions in order of appearance. Heidi Gerner, Chief Operating Officer at OSIS predicts that although AI may dominate the discussion again in 2024, healthcare organizations will also be discussing the UDS+ regulator changes.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

Today's briefing includes a new cloud-based platform to recruit retired doctors back to the NHS and an AI system to predict pancreatic cancer.

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McGuire Wood

JANUARY 19, 2024

Vesey Street Capital Partners (VSCP) has announced the completion of a majority recapitalization of Inceptua Group. Inceptua , founded in 1997 and with its U.S. office in Princeton, N.J., is provider of clinical trial supplies and related services. VSCP , based in New York, is private equity firm that specializes in buyouts of lower middle market healthcare services businesses.

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Dossier

JANUARY 19, 2024

Authored By: Geir Arnhoff CEO Linkedin The statistics regarding preventable harm are alarming. According to the World Health Organization , around 1 in every 10 patients is harmed in healthcare, and more than 3 million deaths occur annually due to unsafe care. In low-to-middle-income countries, as many as 4 in 100 people die from unsafe care. F urthermore, the financial burden is significant, with medical errors costing around $20 billion annually.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 19, 2024

The stakes are high for patient and employee safety in the healthcare industry. Leadership and employees need to understand and comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. Given the fact that healthcare systems are not closed environments, like warehouses or food production lines, OSHA standards are not simply regulations; they serve as a moral imperative to those with the power to ensure safety and well-being.

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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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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

On January 17, 2024, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”) and the Office of Personnel Management issued a notice that they will reopen the period for submitting comments on the proposed rule , “Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Operations” (the “Proposed Rule”) under the No Surprises Act (the “Act”).

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Innovaare Compliance

JANUARY 19, 2024

Starting January 2024, the Medicare Parts C and D Oversight and Enforcement Group of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin conducting both Program Audits and focused audits of Medicare Advantage organizations (MAO) to assess compliance with the Utilization Management (UM) requirements finalized in CMS-4201-F released in April 2023.

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Hanys

JANUARY 19, 2024

As illustrated by the results of our latest joint association fiscal survey , New York's hospitals and nursing homes continue to face unrelenting fiscal and workforce challenges that threaten access to patient care. State and federal policymakers must act now to maintain existing vital healthcare funding, bolster the healthcare workforce and enact sensible policy changes that enhance patients' access to care.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2024

8 digital health and life sciences executives share their hot takes and insights from the recent annual JPM Healthcare Conference 2024 Virgil Bretz, co-founder and CEO of MacroHealth “The annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is still one of the most efficient ways to meet with capital partners. Other conferences are increasingly attracting the investment community, such as HLTH, but none are as concentrated as JP Morgan.

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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.