4 ways generative AI is transforming healthcare
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 1, 2024
Learn about a few of the many ways AI tools are helping to transform healthcare — and how they benefit physicians and patients along the way.
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Diabetes WA reports hack and more briefs
Healthcare It News
APRIL 5, 2024
Diabetes WA discloses data breach Diabetes WA, the peak body for diabetes in Western Australia, has reported unauthorised access to the personal information of some of their contacts. Based on its initial investigation, the following information may have been accessed by hackers: name, address, birth date, email, telephone number, marital status, Aboriginal status, Medicare number, referring doctor, and type of diabetes.
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Telehealth groups urge DEA to release virtual e-prescribing rules
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 3, 2024
With current pandemic-era flexibilities for telemedicine set to expire at the end of 2024, several telehealth groups and major health systems are calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to work faster in crafting a new proposed rule regulating the prescribing of controlled substances via telehealth. The American Telemedicine Association, the Alliance for Connected Care, the Consumer Technology Association, the Partnership to Advance Virtual Care, Allina Health, Johns Hopkins, Mass Ge
Epic plans to launch AI validation software for healthcare organizations to test, monitor models
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2024
As artificial intelligence rapidly advances in healthcare, the industry is grappling with how to evaluate AI models for accuracy and performance and monitor the technology for any downstream advers | The healthcare industry is grappling with how to evaluate AI models for accuracy and performance and monitor the technology for any downstream adverse outcomes.
Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices
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Change cyberattack serves as wake-up call for healthcare cybersecurity
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 4, 2024
The outage shows why health systems need to plan for inevitable cyberattacks, evaluating risks and putting operational backups in place, experts say.
Vendor notebook: New AI partnerships with Dell, Google enhance workflows and communications
Healthcare It News
APRIL 5, 2024
While technology innovators look to artificial intelligence to improve patient outcomes and experiences, they are also finding ways to cut the red tape that generally slows healthcare down, according to many announcements this week. Northwestern Medicine, the Nevada Health Link, Cohere Health and Kyruus Health are partnering withDell Technologies, Google Cloud Marketplace and others to offer providers and payers ways to tackle the daily challenges that delay care approvals and prevent patients f
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Medicare Advantage rate cut remains as feds keep up pressure
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 1, 2024
Insurers will feel resentful Monday as the feds opted to not reverse its decision to decrease Medicare Advantage benchmark payments by 0.16%, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced. | CMS is not deviating from its January proposal to modestly rein in Medicare Advantage. Benchmark payments will still decrease 0.16% but the feds expect it will still pay up to $600 billion in payments to plans in 2025.
Walmart decelerates health center expansion plans
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 4, 2024
The retailer previously planned to have more than 75 health centers operational this year. Now, Walmart plans to reach that goal in 2025.
AI in patient portals and ambient scribing offers big gains for Johns Hopkins
Healthcare It News
APRIL 5, 2024
Moving forward, it's working with Epic on EHR chart summarization via artificial intelligence, with an initial focus on inpatient hospital course summary. The top digital health MD tells all.
Boston Medical Center launches new hospital-at-home program
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 3, 2024
Hospital patients with conditions like pneumonia, dehydration and heart failure have been shown to experience shorter recovery times with fewer complications when they receive more cost-effective healthcare at home – and many health systems have been preparing for this future. Boston Medical Center is making a new high-acuity, hospital-at-home service available to help patients recover in the comfort of their homes, the health system announced Wednesday.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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CMS final rule on broker comp, health equity could shake up Medicare Advantage
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a host of actions ranging from broker compensation, health equity, mental health, supplemental benefits and biosimiliars, in the Contract Year | Medicare Advantage plans will need to adjust to new star ratings requirements, industry watchers warned following a final rule on Thursday.
Amwell in danger of being booted from NYSE
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 5, 2024
The once high-flying telehealth stock has traded below the exchange’s minimum listing requirements for 30 days, according to a new notice.
AI can unlock supply to meet demand, says Johns Hopkins physician IT leader
Healthcare It News
APRIL 4, 2024
Dr. Brian Hasselfeld has a little Wall Street in his background and likes to talk about the potential benefits of artificial intelligence to healthcare in economic terms – the law of supply and demand. Everyone knows how healthcare works. A patient sees their primary care physician, who then issues a referral. That physician then issues a subspecialty referral, which may finally reveal the right answer.
Children’s Hospital LA launches telehealth urgent care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 1, 2024
New care option allows remote treatment for non-emergency illness, including minor eye problems, respiratory infections, fever, allergies and other minor injuries.
The Big Payoff of Application Analytics
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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.
Survey: Amid economy concerns, 4 in 10 therapists plan to raise rates in 2024
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2024
Four in 10 therapists are planning to raise their fees in 2024, a new survey has found. | In last year’s report, 64% of therapists said they were planning to raise their fees in 2023. Yet only a third did, which could be explained by therapists' desire to remain accessible to patients.
Kaiser closes Geisinger acquisition, launching Risant Health
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 3, 2024
The deal closed roughly a year after it was first announced. Geisinger is the first health system to join Risant, but it’s far from the last — the hospital operator wants to acquire at least four additional nonprofits.
Patients have unique care journeys, and call center agents should understand
Healthcare It News
APRIL 4, 2024
Talkdesk can integrate AI with EHRs so patients don't have to repeat information and agents can express empathy in their calls, explains Patty Hayward, the company's healthcare and life sciences GM.
Larry Ellison and Seema Verma: Computers — not humans — can prevent healthcare cyberattacks
Becker's Health IT
APRIL 2, 2024
Autonomous computer systems are healthcare's best protection against disruptive cyberattacks, Oracle's Larry Ellison and Seema Verma wrote April 1 in The Wall Street Journal.
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.
Costco teams up with Sesame to offer weight loss program to members, including GLP-1 drugs
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Big-box retailer Costco is expanding its reach into healthcare services with a new weight loss program for members. | Big-box retailer Costco is expanding its reach into healthcare services with a new weight loss program for members.
Blue Shield of California and Providence at stalemate over contract negotiations
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 3, 2024
It's the latest negotiation to spill out of the boardroom and into the public eye as tensions between providers and payers ramp up.
WHO offers genAI health assistant with enhanced empathetic response
Healthcare It News
APRIL 4, 2024
The World Health Organization said it has expanded its generative artificial intelligence assistant, first launched during the COVID-19 pandemic as Florence, to help people everywhere live healthier lives. S.A.R.A.H, or Sarah, was created using an AI training approach based on modeling interactive human systems to deliver more personalized and engaging messages.
Otsuka, Click Therapeutics get FDA clearance for prescription digital therapeutic
Mobi Health News
APRIL 1, 2024
The new smartphone app, Rejoyn, will deliver treatment to patients taking antidepressant medication aimed at enhancing cognitive control of emotion.
Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware
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NYSE tells Amwell to increase share prices or be delisted
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2024
Amwell could find itself dropped from the New York Stock Exchange if it isn’t able to turn its share prices around. | The telehealth giant's shares have closed below $1 on average for the past 30 days. The company said it would address the deficiency by effecting a reverse stock split.
Intermountain-owned Saltzer shutters operations, sells clinics
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 3, 2024
The financially strapped physician group finalized a midnight deal to sell some services to Trinity Health-owned Saint Alphonsus Health System and Intermountain Medical Imaging of Idaho.
AI-automated workflows help clinicians focus on patients
Healthcare It News
APRIL 2, 2024
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Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 2, 2024
The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. While this is great and has the potential to make a really big impact for good on the lives of patients and potentially costs, one thing that is often missed in this discussion is high quality patient identification. This is a problem that’s made worse by not having a national patient identifier, but let’s set that topic aside for a moment and recognize that even with a
Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing
Advertiser: Evisort
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.
Diagnostics company Binx Health banks $65M to drive growth of point-of-care testing
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 4, 2024
Binx Health is a health technology company aiming to speed up the time between diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections with a point-of-care diagnostic solution. | Binx Health is a health technology company aiming to speed up the time between diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections with a point-of-care diagnostic soultion.
Telehealth groups urge DEA to release controlled substance prescribing proposal
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 4, 2024
Advocacy groups, providers and virtual care companies said clinicians and pharmacies need time to comment on the rule and prepare for implementation.
Health IT Product News Report March 2024
HealthIT Answers
MARCH 30, 2024
Our monthly roundup of product news from FDB, emtelligent, WellSpan Health, Ambience Healthcare, Lindus Health, TrustCommerce, Lyric Health, Harris Data Integrity Solutions, Rivet, Corcentric, eClinicalWorks, Panva Technology, Pager, UTM Healthcare, Azalea Health, Ontrak, and more. The post Health IT Product News Report March 2024 appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Important Healthcare Technologies That Have Fallen Off the Radar – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 137
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 1, 2024
With the world of healthcare constantly updating and evolving, it’s very easy for topics and technologies to be forgotten and left behind. Though we may forget it in the excitement of something new, these technologies don’t stop being important and effective for our organizations. So for the 137th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are putting a spotlight on some important healthcare technologies that have fallen off the radar.
Monetizing Analytics Features
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