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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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One key concern is that the technology will diminish personal connections between patients and providers, a survey from the Pew Research Center found.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ron Strachan, healthcare CIO advisor, Zoom. Healthcare is constantly evolving, with new technologies permanently changing the hospital and care delivery models. Today, medical practitioners are leveraging technology with medical care devices and electronic health […] The article Tech In The Healthcare Industry: Guarding Against Digital Roadblocks appeared first on electronichealthreporter

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Being aware of the newest healthcare compliance rules and regulations is no easy task. Governing bodies are constantly updating standards due to changes in legislation, technological advancements, new medical research, societal dynamics, and more. You might be wondering if there are critical compliance trainings you’re either missing at your facility or that need revision.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Over one in three U.S. consumers use a health app or wearable technology device to track some aspect of their health. “The public’s use of health apps and wearables has increased in recent years but digital health still has room to grow,” a new poll from Morning Consul t asserts, published today. Among digital health tech users, most check into them at least once every day in the past month.

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HealthIT Answers

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By Megan Pruente - While the current state of patient matching is best described as tumultuous, progress toward a solution is being made thanks to efforts of stakeholders from across the spectrum. The post The Impact of and Solutions to Healthcare’s People Matching Problem appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Streamlining and improving revenue is hyper-important for healthcare organizations right now. One challenge is finding the right patient payer information. Technology can help organizations identify more billable insurance coverage for self-pay patients, maximizing revenue, increasing efficiency and improving patient experience. The following is a guest post from Inovalon.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Melissa Mooney, Director of eCOA Solutions Engineering at IQVIA In the US alone, an estimated 1.9 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2022, positioning oncology as a key subject of clinical research. Throughout oncology trial development, it is important that stakeholders acknowledge that only patients can fully understand the impact of treatment on their lives.

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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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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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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. This has led some to ask: is this the end of public health law? What does the future hold?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center in Charleston has a unique telemedicine program in place to help pregnant and postpartum women. The program is called Listening to Women and Pregnant and Postpartum People, or LTWP. The technology vendors are REDCap and Twillio. It's a mid-maturity program that is responding to behavioral health needs of pregnant women, and has recently expanded to newborn virtual home visitation for all mothers with births in the hospital.

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Healthcare Dive

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 News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Ascom has been chosen to provide its clinical communications and collaboration solutions to a new medical facility run by the Chulabhorn Hospital in Thailand. Through its Thai partner Xovic, Ascom will deliver an IT ecosystem at the 449-bed Bhadra Maha Rajanusorn Medical Centre, including its mobility devices, a software suite, the Telligence nurse call system, and integration with third-party vendors.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By John Culhane The United States Supreme Court poses a serious threat to public health, but not because the majority of the justices are necessarily opposed to laws and policies designed to protect and further public health and safety. The problem, rather, is the justices’ commitment to other projects that they deem more central to their anti-administration and pro-religion ideology.

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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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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

About 64% of adults in a Medicaid-enrolled family said they did not know they may lose coverage once pandemic-era policy ends and eligibility checks resume on April 1, a survey from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found.

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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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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

China Medical University Hospital in Taichung, Taiwan has proven its capability in digital health by scoring well above the global average in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. The DHI measures an organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: predictive analytics, interoperability, predictive analytics, person-enabled health and governance and workforce.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By James G. Hodge, Jr. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its fourth year in 2023, legislators, executives, and judges at every level of government have sought measures to derail efficacious public health interventions. Despite clear risks of excess morbidity and mortality, these law- and policy-makers, often in more conservative jurisdictions, intentionally chose to push laws, guidance, and decisions prioritizing rapid “returns to normalcy” over the health and lives of Ameri

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MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Follow the (Medical) Record: NPRM Update with Rita Bowen On this episode, host Don Hardwick interviews show-regular, Rita Bowen, MRO’s privacy expert. They discuss HIPAA’s Notice of Proposed Rule Making, that has resurfaced in recent weeks, starting up conversations around patient privacy once again.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Short-term plan operators will likely ramp up their marketing in April to nab new consumers from the Medicaid churn, but health policy experts largely aren't concerned.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In May 2022, Healthcare IT News published a story looking at how Northwell Health's pandemic experience made the case for robust occupational health IT. Northwell Health, New York's largest health system, had achieved great success with this form of IT in addressing pandemic-era needs. In this interview with Dana Flitsch, director, product services and management, human resources technology, at Northwell Health, we revisit the massive health system's occupational health IT efforts ni

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers either incentivized or required employees and customers to be vaccinated and/or masked even in the absence of federal and state mandates.

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MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

MRO Achieves Clinical Data Milestone for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Successfully Acquiring Over One Million Longitudinal Patient Records MRO’s clinical data exchange solutions navigate the complexity of building a patient record across care settings, by connecting the various data sources across a large payer network. This allows MRO to provide validated, curated, and longitudinal clinical records for over one million CareFirst Members since the program launched in June 2021.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The loss was mainly due to an impairment charge from the shrinking value of an earlier acquisition, but analysts said that the earnings provide a reset for Teladoc's financial expectations heading into 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

SA Health has started a 24/7 remote health monitoring service in rural and regional South Australia. Funded by Country SA Primary Health Network, the service is being provided by the Integrated Cardiovascular Clinical Network of the Rural Support Service. HOW IT WORKS The free service, which is available to individuals aged 15 and over with a GP referral, provides patients with a monitoring kit that will allow them to measure their vital signs, including blood pressure, oxygen levels, pulse rate

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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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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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The acquisition, which closed without a challenge from regulators, gives Amazon a footprint in primary care and reinvigorates the company’s long-held plans to sell healthcare services to employers.

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