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Even innocuous-seeming data can reproduce bias in AI

Healthcare It News

Artificial intelligence tools in healthcare, as with any other software, are not immune to bias – especially if they have been trained on data sets that do not accurately reflect the population they ostensibly serve. And tackling bias in AI and machine learning goes beyond recognizing its existence, said Chris Hemphill, VP of applied AI and growth at SymphonyRM.

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Nanotechnology vs. SARS-CoV-2: Can Nanomedicine Help Combat COVID-19?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In a very short period, the novel coronavirus has caused a very significant impact on the global health and socio-economic sector. This has caused serious damages and mortality among countries, especially those developing countries that […]. The article Nanotechnology vs.

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NYC Health + Hospitals keeps patients out of ER with virtual urgent care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest safety net health system in the United States, serving more than one million patients annually, including the most vulnerable New Yorkers. THE PROBLEM. Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system.

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Q&A: How predictive analytics and AI can help providers triage

Mobi Health News

Kristin Molina, business leader for patient engagement and healthcare analytics at Philips, talks about how predictive analytics and AI can help providers manage patient flow, especially as some hospitals struggle with large COVID-19 caseloads.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

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.

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Navigating the intersections of population health and precision medicine

Healthcare It News

Patient Engagement Population Health Precision Medicine This is the second article in a series regarding process-based opportunities as the healthcare industry begins to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic. Sam Hanna Population health and precision medicine have often been set against each other because of the inherent differences in their approaches to health management, but the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on both, highlighting some potential intersections that may not hav

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Medication Mistakes Among Seniors And Tips On How To Prevent Them

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Taking medication is essential to treat some health conditions if they are taken the prescribed way. However, when you skip your dose or take an overdose, the results can be deadly. Medication nonadherence among the […]. The article Medication Mistakes Among Seniors And Tips On How To Prevent Them appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How digital health can help refugees access medical care

Mobi Health News

Digital health and tech can help refugees access necessary medical care and other social determinants of health, like housing, employment and education.

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Hospitals stopped suing patients for unpaid medical debt after media exposure, public pressure, study suggests

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals stopped suing patients for unpaid medical debt after media exposure, public pressure, study suggests. dmuoio. Tue, 08/31/2021 - 17:13.

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DirectTrust Acquires Assets of SAFE Identity

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. DirectTrust has acquired the assets of SAFE Identity, including its Trust Framework. The acquisition substantially extends DirectTrust’s capabilities and services and is expected to enable new and expanded interoperability use cases. SAFE Identity (SAFE) is […].

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Online first visit consults high among private dental clinics in Japan, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

New research has looked into the number of dental institutions around Japan that conducted telemedicine for first and follow-up visits last year. The study , which was recently published in the Journal of Dental Sciences, ultimately found that there were "fewer" dental centres across the country's 47 prefectures that provided online consultations for first visits than for follow-up visits.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

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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Study: Participants using Sleepio's DTx decreased rates of anxiety, depression

Mobi Health News

Using a digital therapeutic improved sleep, anxiety and depression more than other mental healthcare alone, according to a study published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.

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Apple plans to add blood pressure monitoring, thermometer to smartwatch: report

Fierce Healthcare

Apple plans to add blood pressure monitoring, thermometer to smartwatch: report. hlandi. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 13:52.

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Ensuring High Quality Virtual Care Requires Telehealth Training for Clinicians

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Vikram Savkar, vice president and general manager of the medical segment at Wolters Kluwer’s Health Learning, Research and Practice business During the pandemic, nearly every healthcare provider in the country had to execute a rapid, […]. The article Ensuring High Quality Virtual Care Requires Telehealth Training for Clinicians appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HIMSSCast: How telehealth will settle in through the pandemic and beyond

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before COVID-19, many practices were hardly using telehealth for anything. During COVID-19, many practices had to use telehealth for nearly everything. The next era in telehealth will be about picking and choosing the right use cases for telehealth. On today's HIMSSCast, Oak Street Health Regional Medical Director Dr. Laolu Fayanju joins Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich and host Jonah Comstock to discuss telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and choosing the right patients and u

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Cloud-based VR education platform used to continue medical students' training in Japan

Mobi Health News

The platform can capture a 360-view of a live medical procedure, a record of which is later stored in a cloud server.

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AppliedVR taps Curebase to run at-home clinical trials testing VR for pain treatment

Fierce Healthcare

AppliedVR taps Curebase to run at-home clinical trials testing VR for pain treatment. hlandi. Sun, 08/29/2021 - 20:50.

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You’ll Never Have All the Data You Want in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

As I look at healthcare, it seems like everyone is chasing the data. Every health IT company is a data company or at least they think they are. And in many ways, every health IT company is a data company. Everything from medical devices to wearables to EHR to labs to phones to scrubs are […].

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HIMSS publishes its first-ever report on Connected Health maturity in APAC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an organisation-first, HIMSS has published a report exploring the maturity of Connected Health in the APAC region. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. The HIMSS Insights State of Connected Health in APAC: 2021 report features findings from a survey of 159 e-health professionals in the APAC region, top-level discussions on some of the challenges and opportunities to Connected Health, and a case study on how one of the region's leaders in digital health is fostering person-enabled health by leveraging dig

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

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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New platform PreciseMDX aims to simplify diagnostic testing

Mobi Health News

PreciseMDX said its new platform would allow for easier scheduling, care coordination and results reporting.

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Federal judge grants final approval of $575M settlement against Sutter Health

Fierce Healthcare

Federal judge grants final approval of $575M settlement against Sutter Health. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 13:13.

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Leveraging Telemedicine Post-Op

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Nadeem Dhanani, MD, MPH and Medical Director of Urology, Modernizing Medicine. There has been a great deal of discussion over the last year and a half about the value of telemedicine and its potentially transformative benefits long term. Often, these high-level conversations allude to the use of […].

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Florida man pleads guilty in scheme exploiting amended telehealth restrictions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that a Florida laboratory owner had pleaded guilty for his role in a $73 million Medicare kickback scheme. According to the agency , the conspiracy involved paying a telemedicine company to arrange for doctors to authorize medically unnecessary genetic testing. Leonel Palatnik, the co-owner of Panda Conservation Group LLC, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to offer kickbacks and one count of paying a kickback.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Apple reportedly looking to expand smartwatch health features to blood pressure and fertility tracking

Mobi Health News

In the future, the company could be looking at sleep apnea and diabetes detection, according to Wall Street Journal.

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Medicare trustees project hospital fund to run out in 2026, same deadline as year before

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare trustees project hospital fund to run out in 2026, same deadline as year before. rking. Tue, 08/31/2021 - 17:02.

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Are We Overthinking Patients Downloading Healthcare Apps?

Healthcare IT Today

I just bought a new cell phone (The Google Pixel 4a for those that wonder and yes, it says a lot about me). I’m an Android user and always have been an Android user. I also use Google voice, so switching phones was easy. I logged in with my Google account and everything was ready […].

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5G's impact on real-time care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.

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Bayer Middle East brings Alleye home monitoring programme to Egypt

Mobi Health News

The German pharma giant is working with top eye hospitals in the country to support virtual care for patients with Diabetic Macular Edema or age-related macular degeneration.

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Medicare's hospital fund is running out of money. Experts have 5 ideas on how to help

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare's hospital fund is running out of money. Experts have 5 ideas on how to help. rking. Wed, 09/01/2021 - 15:50.

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Recuro Health Announces Its $15 Million Series A Round Led by ARCH Venture Partners

Healthcare IT Today

Recuro Health (Recuro), an integrated digital health solutions company that transitions the U.S. healthcare system from a reactive, disease-focused model to a population health, outcomes approach, today announces a $15 million Series A financing led by ARCH Venture Partners, with follow-on support from existing Seed Round-investors OLSF Ventures, Cortado Ventures, 1843 Capital and Sage Venture Partners.

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Clinical Trials: 4 Strategies to Maximize Patients Referrals

HIT Consultant

Jai Singh, SVP of Growth at Reify Health. Clinical trials were front and center in 2020, as pharma companies raced to develop and prove the safety and efficacy of their COVID-19 vaccines. Despite this increased awareness, many potential participants and referring clinicians remain unaware of available trials and how to become involved. This negatively impacts enrollment efficiency and overall study timelines.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.