April, 2023

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When will the ER catch up with value-based care?

Healthcare Dive

Amid transformation, innovation and buzzwords in value-based care, one crucial area absent is the emergency department, argues Troy Williams, vice president of healthcare systems partnership for First Choice Health.

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Avoid losing 55% of your patients to poor digital communication

Healthcare It News

If you aren’t already, pretend you’re the owner of a successful specialty healthcare practice. Or maybe you’re an administrator for a large regional healthcare system. How would you keep your organization afloat if more than half of your patients suddenly walked out the door and never returned? Improbable as it seems, a recent survey indicates otherwise.

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New AI-driven long COVID app coming soon to individual, enterprise customers

Fierce Healthcare

New AI-driven long COVID app coming soon to individual, enterprise customers agliadkovskaya Wed, 04/26/2023 - 14:04

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One-Fifth of Healthcare Organizations Do Not Enforce Cybersecurity Protocols

HIPAA Journal

A recent Salesforce survey revealed some of the security gaps that exist in healthcare organizations, even those that have a security-first culture. The survey revealed only one-fifth of healthcare organizations enforce their cybersecurity protocols and only two-fifths of healthcare workers look at their security protocols before using new tools or technology.

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Your HIPAA Compliance Checklist: Easily Find Out Your HIPAA Requirements

This checklist is your best free resource for assessing your current HIPAA compliance status. Including all of the components of an effective compliance program, you’ll be sure you’re not missing a single piece of compliance. HIPAA is a complex law - protect your organization from financial and legal ramifications by ensuring your compliance program has all of the proper elements in place.

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Tech may not be an easy solution to health systems' financial challenges

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS23, panelists discussed health systems' financial challenges as labor costs rise and the population ages.

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Generative AI as healthcare's co-pilot

Healthcare It News

Generative artificial intelligence presents opportunities across provider functions and changing patient experiences, says Erik Barnett, North America advisory health and life sciences lead and digital advisory practice leader with Avanade, a digital, cloud and advisory service provider to healthcare and other industries. "It's hyper-personalized, and so this makes it interesting," he said today at the HIMSS23.

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Q&A: Demand for health tech still 'far exceeds' supply

Mobi Health News

Peter Micca, audit and assurance partner and national health tech leader at Deloitte, discusses the health tech funding and economic environment.

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Digital whiteboards are transforming the patient experience

Healthcare It News

Rebecca Stametz will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Geisinger's Journey with Digital Whiteboards: Measuring the Impact." It is scheduled for Thursday, April 20, at 10:15 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. CT at the North Building, Level 3, Hall B, Booth 8300-8313, Patient Engagement 365.

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‘We Want Them Infected’: An Excerpt from Jonathan Howard’s New Book on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bill of Health

This excerpt from the new book titled “ We Want Them Infected ” is printed with permission from Jonathan Howard, MD and Redhawk Publications. By Jonathan Howard On June 29, 2021, Dr. Harriet Hall penned an essay on the website Science Based Medicine titled “A New COVID-19 Myth?” in which she wrote: A correspondent suggested I should have known that the pandemic was over months ago.

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HIPAA: Why It Matters to Your Practice

85% of practices are not complying with the government’s HIPAA standards. The large majority of practices are likely trying to protect patients’ information, but they may not be doing all that they need to meet government requirements. Not complying with HIPAA has definite drawbacks, with one major one being massive fines. The government can fine up to 1.5 million dollars for a single HIPAA breach incident - an amount that would put most small practices out of business.

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HIMSS23: DHA is developing a virtual-first health ecosystem

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CHICAGO – In a vast, integrated health ecosystem, the future is high-tech and high-touch, "right in line with this year's HIMSS23 theme, "Health that connects, tech that cares," said. Dr. Telita Crosland, Lieutenant General, director of the Defense Health Agency. Crosland described the agency's virtual-first, data-driven focus for the next three years as a "fundamental shift" on Wednesday.

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Without vehicle or viable public transit, 1 in 5 miss needed healthcare: report

Healthcare Dive

Adults with a disability, Black adults, people with low incomes and those on public insurance were more likely to report going without needed healthcare because of transportation issues, the Urban Institute found.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 52: Data Management with Rob Carey

Healthcare IT Today

For the 52nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by our very special guest, Rob Carey, Former Deputy DOD CIO and Navy CIO, President of Cloudera Government Solutions as we dive this episode’s topic of government vs commercial healthcare and data management! Carey kicks off the episode by describing his move from being a government CIO to his current role as President at Cloudera.

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Patients should be at the center when designing digital health experiences

Mobi Health News

Patients should be the focus, but developers need to consider the entire healthcare ecosystem too — including physicians and healthcare workers, said panelists at HIMSS23.

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HR and Employee Healthcare Reform: Keys to Increasing Employee Wellness and Retention

Speaker: Mallory Herrin, CEO & Principal HR Consultant at HerrinHR

Your employees are your most valuable resource. If you want to retain employees and keep them happy, you want to make the incentives more valuable. With a full-stack employee experience, culture, health, wellness and benefits navigation solution, you can provide employees with the wellbeing support they need. The results? Employees who are happier, healthier, and more engaged, as well as a business that is thriving both internally and externally, every day.

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EHR vendors demo new GPT features at HIMSS23

Healthcare It News

Two generative artificial intelligence announcements from electronic health record vendors – Epic and eClinicalWorks – using Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service, launched in March – coincided with HIMSS23. EHR and customer relationship management platforms – like Salesforce, which announced its Einstein GPT for CRM in early March – are integrating generative AI into their software to allow provider organizations to search and summarize contextual information with n

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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

By Michael S. Sinha, Edna Besic, and Melissa Mann Members of Congress have been focused on drug pricing for the last several years, culminating recently in new drug pricing provisions within the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. One reason for our drug pricing problem is that we allow manufacturers to charge whatever the market will bear for a new therapeutic.

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Lehigh Valley streamlines ED triage with virtual docs and nurses

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like many health systems, Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network had been facing the problem of long wait times in its emergency departments. To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley began using telehealth and telecommunications technologies to mobilize resources to optimize a patient’s waiting time – while reducing the number of patients leaving the ED without being seen.

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Climate groups call on health systems to divest fossil fuel holdings

Healthcare Dive

Although more than 1,550 organizations representing more than $40 trillion in assets have divested fossil fuel investments, the healthcare industry lags behind, according to the report.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Hal Wolf on HIMSS23: “It feels like we are all back”

Healthcare IT Today

At the HIMSS23 media briefing held yesterday, the number of attendees was announced as 35,000 – a significant increase over 2021 and 2022’s attendance. This result led Harold (Hal) Wolf, President and CEO of HIMSS to declare to the gathered journalists: “Let’s be honest, this is the first HIMSS where it feels like we are all back.” HIMSS23 certainly felt fuller and busier than the conferences held in 2021 and 2022.

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Why there's no 'one-size-fits-all' for remote monitoring and patient privacy

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS23, panelists discussed why health systems need to consider the unique needs of their patient populations when implementing remote patient monitoring programs.

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3M to partner with AWS to leverage AI for clinical documentation

Healthcare It News

3M Health Information Systems has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services to accelerate the innovation and advancement of its M*Modal ambient intelligence machine learning and generative AI services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Comprehend Medical and Amazon Transcribe Medical. WHY IT MATTERS Compatible with more than 250 electronic health records, more than 300,000 clinicians use M*Modal for real-time speech recognition compatible amd ambient clinical documentation, according to

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Policy Proposals for Improving Air Quality in Schools

Bill of Health

By Lynette Martins Amid the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis, investments in better ventilation and air filtration in schools are critically important to the health of students and communities. In this article I offer policy proposals through which communities may improve indoor air quality in school buildings. The Importance of Clean Air Some viruses such as SARS-COV-2 spread through aerosolized droplets that can hang in the air in a room event it is unoccupied.

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Streamlined Compliance Facilitates Growth for Multi-Specialty ASC

Discover how MedTrainer solved an unmet need for SurgCenter of Western Maryland, reducing the time and effort it took to monitor and remind staff about crucial annual training. Learn how this intuitive platform helped increase training completion and save staff time, leading to increased efficiency, fewer human errors, and greater overall satisfaction.

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Teladoc-Philips partnership enables neonatal virtual care in rural Queensland

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new virtual care programme is providing round-the-clock access to neonatal care in rural Queensland. US-based companies Royal Philips and Teladoc have tied up to help deliver the Neonatal Virtual Care programme to hospital chain Mater. The said programme, which was co-designed by the Mayo Clinic, provides patients, parents and bedside clinicians in Central Queensland with 24/7 access to senior neonatologist support.

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’Fair share’ deficits at nonprofit hospitals reached $14.2B in 2020

Healthcare Dive

The amount nonprofit hospitals receive in tax breaks over what they spend on charity care in several states could cover all medical debt for residents, according to the Lown Institute.

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Where You’ll Find Us at HIMSS 2023

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited at Healthcare IT Today for the HIMSS 2023 Global Conference happening next week in Chicago. We have a lot going on at the conference, including a dual-studio setup in the Healthcare IT Today booth #2481. Please stop by and say “Hi”! We can’t wait to connect with you in-person. If we’re not at our booth, here is where you will likely find us at the HIMSS conference.

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Digital therapeutics should work 'like magic' to succeed in clinical care

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS23, panelists explained how digital therapeutics must appeal to all healthcare stakeholders – including clinicians, patients, hospitals and payers – to work well in clinical settings.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.