HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Carla Fogaren R.N., Certified ADA Coordinator at AMN Language Services For the last decade, Section 1557 has been at the center of many changes and today, it continues to be as the Biden administration is working to take giant steps towards restoring and strengthening some civil rights protections for people in many health-related programs and activities that receive funding from the federal government.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By Theo Koury, MD, President, Vituity | Health systems are rethinking how they engage with patients and physician ownership is paving the way. Read on to break into innovation.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On average, organizations were shut down or unavailable to provide services for 14 days to due to ransomware attacks from 2016 through mid-October this year, according to cybersecurity research firm Comparitech.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By Alice Fox Technological artifacts do not exist in a vacuum: they bear the undeniable markings of human histories, politics, blind spots, and biases – for better and worse. Consider, for example, the video game: everything in a video game must be created, decided upon, and often negotiated in a dynamic and lively way. As I have written elsewhere , video games can directly embody and reproduce harmful stereotypes and misconceptions, while neatly packaging these dispositions as “the way th

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. THE PROBLEM CMH’s digital presence was not able to capture all the business opportunities in its area of influence. Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“We definitely do see a slight change compared to the total population, we do see a slight pullback in overall basket,” the CEO of Walmart US is quoted in Bloomberg. “Just less units, slightly less calories.” With patients’ use GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro fast-rising in the pharmacy market, so are the concerns of companies that stock the-middle-of-the-grocery-store aisles for processed foods like sweet and salty snacks.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A new analysis backed by doctor lobbying groups suggest that physician-owned hospitals could have fueled about $1.1 billion in savings across 20 of Medicare’s most expensive conditions in 2019— tho | Lobbying groups in favor of overturning the ban on new physician-owned hospitals outlined broad cost savings if 2019's Medicare patients were treated at such facilities instead of a traditional hospital.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Artificial intelligence and virtual care technologies are increasingly being adopted by hospitals to ease resource strain, but managing new tools adds “a heavy operational burden” for IT teams.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2023

By Kayum Ahmed, Julia Bleckner, and Kyle Knight In mid-May, the World Health Organization officially declared the “emergency” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic over. However, the deep wounds of the pandemic remain, compelling those concerned about this pandemic and future health emergencies to account for catastrophic failures by those in power. These reflections suggest that the public health crisis could have been addressed differently, both reducing COVID-19’s unprecedented magnitude of illne

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With the award of the Federated Data Platform contract said to be delayed until mid-November, NHS England appears to be seeking to drum up support for it.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

What You Should Know: – 23andMe , a genetic health and biopharmaceutical company launched Health Action Plan, a new digital tool for 23andMe+ members that draws on results from genetic reports, health history survey data, as well as blood and biomarker data to provide a uniquely tailored set of health recommendations out of hundreds of options. – Health Action Plan is a helpful first step when it comes to prevention and early risk detection.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Many companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon to offer services ranging from risk stratification to auto-generation of patient notes after a visit. Oracle Health wants to move further. In this video at the Oracle Health conference, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Suhas Uliyar describes how Oracle Health is creating tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nabla, maker of an autonomous clinical AI scribe, has joined forces with Kaiser Permanente to roll out its tool to 10,000 doctors in Northern California. | The AI tool will be available to 10,000 Kaiser Permanente doctors in Northern California across all care settings and specialties.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The launches tie in with Microsoft’s ethos of developing high-impact but low-risk use cases for AI in healthcare, according to Microsoft’s VP of healthcare.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By Dom Kelly There’s a lot to say about the nonprofit sector and how it so often burns out, underpays, and devalues the humans who do the labor. There’s a pervasive narrative that this should just be accepted as a cost of doing good in the world. But for marginalized people who find themselves in this work for reasons that are connected to their identities, this kind of thinking ultimately pushes us out of the sector altogether.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The annual US gathering of investors, VCs, and start-ups spans using digital technology to rethink delivery of all aspects of the vast US healthcare system, from supply chains, reimbursement, remote care, employee mental health, leadership, and equity. But time and again it was generative AI that was cited as the biggest technological disruptor.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Anita Mahon, executive vice president and global head of healthcare at EXL, discusses how the analytics firm helps payers and providers utilize data within generative AI.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By Beth Friedman - I’ve attended over two decades of American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conferences in my career. But this year’s event was remarkably different. At AHIMA23, the association’s legacy of ensuring data quality and protecting patient privacy met face-to-face with today’s most important healthcare issues— The post Forward Thinking and Future Focused: Six Inspirations from AHIMA23 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The approval of Leqembi by the Food and Drug Administration marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. | The approval of Leqembi by the FDA marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. There are big questions around costs, access, risk and efficacy in certain populations. The most urgent, overarching question is: How can we find patients who will benefit from the drug before their condition progresses outside of the treatment window?

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Physicians accounted for nearly half of departures from 2021 through 2022, with staffing shortages putting care quality at risk, according to a new report from Definitive Healthcare.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Alma Beltrán y Puga More than 30 years have passed since women gathered for the Fifth Feminist Latin American Meeting in Argentina and launched the September 28 th Campaign in favor of decriminalizing abortion in the region. The initiative, however, remains painfully relevant, as still today most countries in Central America and the Caribbean prohibit abortion even in cases of sexual violence and instances where the pregnant woman’s health (and, potentially, life) is at stake.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A new report into cyber security has revealed that security budgets in healthcare businesses are under pressure, but help could come in the form of AI.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The medtech giant signed a contract with BARDA to devise AI-enabled ultrasound technology that helps clinicians triage and diagnose lung pathology and traumatic injury.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 4, 2023

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout the month we will be asking our experts to help us navigate cybersecurity in healthcare. We start with phishing, still the most prevalent cybersecurity threat in healthcare. The post Cybersecurity Awareness Month Week 1: Phishing appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 9, 2023

LAS VEGAS—Medicare Advantage (MA) has only grown over the last decade, and, in tandem, voices criticizing the program have gotten louder. | LAS VEGAS—Medicare Advantage has only grown over the last decade, and, in tandem, voices criticizing the program have gotten louder.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee urged the CMS to rescind or revise its staffing proposal for nursing facilities on Thursday, warning the rules could cause facilities to close.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Palak Shah, Co-Founder and Head of Clinical Operations at Luna The accelerating advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have ignited a new era of innovation and potential across various industries. Healthcare is a sector that stands to gain tremendously from this revolution. Here are eight specific ways AI will transform the future of healthcare, making it more efficient, personalized, and proactive. 1.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Panelists at the Constellation Forum 2023 at Northwell Health discussed AI's impact on healthcare and how to adapt to the changing health tech environment.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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