Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Developed using OpenAI's ChatGPT and trained on healthcare-specific prose, the online DocsGPT offers doctors a chance to test and weigh in on AI-powered product development. Testing AI for workflow 'scut' OpenAI developed ChatGPT, which launched in November as a prototype, using multiple learning methodologies. Human trainers, in collaboration with Microsoft on Azure's supercomputing infrastructure, created reward models to improve its performance.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cyberattacks on business associates of healthcare organizations have increased to the point where attacks on business associates now outnumber attacks on healthcare providers. In addition to an increase in cyberattacks on third-party suppliers, the impact and destruction caused by those attacks have also increased, according to a recent report from the vendor risk management company, Black Kite.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By Nicole Huberfeld Once again, health law has become a vehicle for constitutional change , with courts hollowing federal and state public health authority while also generating new challenges. In part, this pattern is occurring because the New Roberts Court — the post-Ruth Bader Ginsburg composition of U.S. Supreme Court justices — is led by jurists who rely on “clear statement rules.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Providers and payers are still grappling with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the winding down of pandemic-era policies, which will have major effects on hospitals and insurers.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Healthcare organizations have been investing in cybersecurity to improve their defenses against increasingly numerous and sophisticated cyberattacks; however, while an organization’s security posture can be improved, it can only be as good as the weakest link. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the supply chain in their attacks, as these are usually the weakest links in the security chain.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. It's important to understand that home health technologies are leveraged in home health settings by clinicians for home health patients, and at-home or home-based health technologies are diagnostic and/or screening tools that can be used in non-clinica

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Kate Barecchia, Global Data Privacy Officer at Imperva. For many of us, change is hard. In cybersecurity, change is essential to defeat two of the most common causes of data breaches: the ever-evolving attack styles of hackers and human error. New products and features designed to protect data from the latest attack vectors and human errors are released regularly.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By Nina Kohn and Irina D. Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. In response, at least one of the state’s largest hospital systems is throwing off the mask despite the continued high level of virus transmission in New York City and most of the rest of the state.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The American Hospital Association is pushing the FTC to abandon its proposal to eliminate restrictive covenants. At the very least, the lobby wants physicians and senior executives exempt.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Karley Yoder, general manager and chief digital officer for ultrasound at GE HealthCare, discusses the company's planned acquisition of Caption Health and why thoughtful integration is important for using AI in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

With the Veris Cancer Care Platform, cancer care teams at the New Jersey Cancer Care, PA can now review patients' physiologic and clinical data in real time and deliver personalized care. WHY IT MATTERS Today, NJCC and Veris Health, a subsidiary of New York-based PAVmed Digital Health, announced that the cloud-based clinician portal was successfully integrated into the oncology practice's information technology systems.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan City, Taiwan has become the second-highest-ranking organisation in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. Based on the assessment, it scored 349/400 overall, achieving strong scores in each DHI dimension. In the area of interoperability, CGMH was commended for its "highly structured documentation and medical records" that have enabled "advanced and effective" clinical decision support and data collection for research.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) has warned about an ongoing ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors that have not been patched against the critical heap-overflow vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21974. VMware issued a patch on February 3, 2021, to fix the vulnerability; however, hundreds of VMware ESXi virtual machines are still vulnerable to the exploit and are now being attacked.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By Wendy E. Parmet and Elaine Marshall I. Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. In the past three years, courts, led by the Supreme Court, have endangered reproductive health and handcuffed governments’ capacity to meet a wide array of public health challenges.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A whistleblower and the DOJ allege that UPMC’s longtime head of cardiothoracic surgery, James Luketich, regularly performed as many as three complex surgeries at the same time and didn’t participate in critical portions of his procedures.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Health care institutions, like many colleges and businesses, have trouble retaining people. Tiffany A.S. Wright, vice president of operations at CareMax , says that it’s one thing to engage with patients but a much bigger challenge to retain them. Retention is particularly key to maintain the funding for fee-for-value programs, which are growing in popularity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Baptist Memorial will deploy LockDeep's advanced telehealth technology throughout its system of 22 affiliate hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS The collaboration utilizes LookDeep's Clinical Action Platform, built on modern SOC2 Type II audited software, to provide Baptist Memorial's nurses, therapists, doctors and others with a way to continuously monitor patients at every moment of their hospital journey, according to the announcement.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

According to a review of studies published in the Lancet Digital Health, "a real risk of reidentification exists" when sharing data from wearable devices.

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleging impermissible disclosures of patient data to Google, Meta, and other third parties due to the use of website tracking technologies without either a business associate agreement with the code providers or authorizations from patients. In the summer of 2022, an investigation into the use of these technologies revealed almost one-third of the top 100 hospitals in the United States had used pixels and other tracking code on their

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. has collapsed. In its place, we are left with an insufficient, impoverished alternative: personal crusades. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Addressing the education pipeline is one thing that legislators can focus on to improve nurse and physician shortages, medical school and health system leaders said during a Senate committee hearing.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jonathan Jesneck , Co-Founder and CTO at Firefly Lab. Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first applied in medicine in the mid-1950s , but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that developments using AI in a variety of healthcare fields started to happen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers. THE PROBLEM "The flexibility and various practice areas and models of care may appeal to nurses considering leaving the profession and who may not be able to w

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Doximity rolls out beta version of ChatGPT tool for docs aiming to streamline administrative paperwork hlandi Sat, 02/11/2023 - 05:02

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Dr. Jong Soo Choi, information technology lead at Samsung Medical Center in South Korea, previews a panel he'll lead at HIMSS23 on the hospital's embedded technology.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to recognize the threat to liberal democracy from the last 50 years of coordinated conservative political and policy actions. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is facing a “severe strain” on its staff and budget amid rising breaches and complaints, according to the agency’s annual report to Congress.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Tamara Badza is a manager at Inviggo. The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed the healthcare industry, allowing for the collection and analysis of vast amounts of data to improve patient outcomes. According to a report by Vantage Market Research, the Global IoT in Healthcare Market is currently valued at USD 73.5 billion and is expected to grow to more than USD 190 billion by 2028.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. WHY IT MATTERS The bill aims to keep stand-alone telehealth benefits separate, not as a replacement of medical plans, offering them under a group health plan or group health insurance coverage as excepted benefits.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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