Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

The following is a guest article by Michael Blum, MD, Cardiologist, Co-founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI and Former Chief Medical Information Officer at UCSF Medical Center The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 (GPT3) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot sparked an unprecedented societal appreciation for the power of AI.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2023

Not to be forgotten, either, is how much care seniors might require, given the fact that six of every 10 Americans currently suffer from chronic conditions and the fact that the likelihood of finding oneself in such circumstances increases with age. Just as clearly, technology like AI is going to have to be at least part of the answer.

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McGuire Wood

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released updated guidance regarding cybersecurity safety requirements for medical devices. Recently, the FDA acknowledged that artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) will play a critical role in medical device development, in part through cross-system integration.

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

From ensuring proper infection control to safeguarding patient privacy and data, the healthcare compliance examples provided in this article demonstrate how compliance plays a pivotal role in maintaining high-quality industry standards. Why Is Healthcare Compliance Important? What Are the Penalties for Non-Compliance?

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2022

Thanks to COVID-19 and numerous other factors, the adoption of digital health technologies used by patients in the home has skyrocketed. Accenture reported in 2021, for example, that remote patient monitoring technology adoption tripled among patients. Aniket Singh Rajput, Founder and CEO of Neuroglee.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Marketing is an important part of any business, but it can be overwhelming to figure out how to market your business. Something else that’s important to consider with healthcare business marketing strategy is how HIPAA factors in. Patients also have the right to revoke their authorization at any time.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2024

DHH released the HIPAA privacy rule standards in December 2000. How can you best help your organization get to yes? How can you help the team be successful AND compliant? Dotty Bollinger is an Executive Partner on the Compliance & Risk Management at SCALE Healthcare. What is your current position? Growing a business isn’t.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Trimmed down vendor booths, a greater focus on efficiency and cost-of-ownership across new product releases were evidently woven amongst the biggest booths. Trimmed down vendor booths, a greater focus on efficiency and cost-of-ownership across new product releases were evidently woven amongst the biggest booths. Modality Predictions.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As legislation, engagement and positive results continue to push digital patient care solutions forward, many healthcare organizations are not yet prepared for the increased adoption of these technologies. As a healthcare provider, how can you best ensure that you’re well-equipped to handle expansions in remote care scenarios? .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

They are: Andrew Buscemi, director of information technology at Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts. ( @HolyokeHealth ). Lord knows that through the bedlam of the past year-plus, there have been countless lessons to be learned in healthcare and health IT. But they've also been dreaming up creative solutions.

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Hall Render

JUNE 29, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released draft guidance (“Draft Guidance”) updating Good Clinical Practices (“GCPs”) recommendations for interventional clinical trials involving human subjects. On June 6, 2023, the U.S. drugs and devices) that will be submitted to regulatory authorities for review.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, RWE is playing an increasingly important role in life sciences research. In the last 10 years, close to 1,600 clinical trials have been registered that were informed using RWE. However, many questions remain about how to gather, analyze, and submit RWE to the FDA and other regulators.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Here is a snippet from the UK government’s press release last week on the extent of the nation’s social isolation challenge: “Loneliness is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time, Theresa May said today as she launched the first cross-Government strategy to tackle it.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

companies’ reputations for social good, the project’s press release explains. Speaking out on societal issues that are important to me. Speaking out on societal issues that are important to me. The top performing companies fell into grocery, technology, and consumer packaged goods segments.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 5, 2020

Here is how QA/RA professionals in the medical industry can help. This is where FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) comes into play and offers an opportunity for the medical industry to rally and help. Global outbreak of the recent novel coronavirus needs an all-hands-on-deck approach.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Think of how many things you can do just by using your smartphone! Another report from McKinsey projects an era of exponential improvement in healthcare , where technology-driven innovation could create between $350-$410 billion in annual value by 2025! Interoperability holds the key to interconnected medical devices.

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Total HIPAA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

We explain every facet of HIPAA, including information about who needs to be HIPAA compliant , who enforces HIPAA , what happens when you violate HIPAA , and what you must do to become and remain HIPAA compliant. The most important thing to remember about HIPAA compliance is that it is an ongoing process. What is HIPAA Compliance?

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

to Study Treatments for Vascular Abnormalities Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Nation’s First Ban on Gender-affirming Care for Minors Jason Demke Hired as COO at Mercy Hospital Fort Smit Pulaski Tech Awarded $5.7M

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Health equity and technological innovation are top priorities for the healthcare industry – with new standards, technology and policy driving the way. Unite Us is a technology company that builds coordinated care networks of health and social service providers. What more needs to be done to break down barriers to care?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Instead with how deeply personal and important the information and data that we hold is in the world of healthcare, we need to be prepared for the absolute worst. But doing so is a very daunting task since technology is so deeply embedded into everything we do. But unfortunately that is just not the case.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

How algorithms perpetuate bias Race is used as an input in many clinical algorithms , despite strong evidence that race is not a reliable reflection of genetic differences. The use of race as a variable can lead to undesirable effects , such as worsening health inequities and directing more resources to white patients over racial minorities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

"The role that HIMSS has been playing across the globe has really been accentuated because of the pandemic," said Wolf. In a precarious moment, with novel coronavirus numbers spiking once again to new heights in the U.S. and in Europe, there's still a sense of urgency about this current moment.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer Kurt Delbene says his goal is to make the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the model of what it means to be a modern IT shop in the federal government. "Very flat organizations are typically the most effective ones," he said.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

We leveraged our experience executing transactions, extensive network, and market analysis from our 16-year history of advising and selectively investing across the ever-evolving Health IT and Digital Health sectors to gather key market information. Executive Summary. Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 18, 2022

But recent events are not what motivated CDC Director Rochelle Walensky’s announcement of a complete overhaul of the agency in the face of failure to provide “information in a way that ordinary people and state and local health authorities can understand and put to use.” By Jennifer S. As weekly deaths from COVID in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

With the help of technology, the ongoing digital, and now cultural, transformation will enable providers and patients to catch health concerns earlier and provide better solutions in the long run. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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Medisys Compliance

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Standardization One of the most important steps in improving healthcare practice collections is to establish standards for every single process in your practice. This includes standardization of various processes like fee structure; cancellations and missed appointments; patient payments; release of information; and many others.

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Innovaare Compliance

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Annually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releases star ratings, which measure the quality of care health plans deliver for its members. Why are CMS star ratings important? The CMS star ratings challenge. Star ratings combine and average the scores reported for individual health-plan components of each plan (e.g.,

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SQA

AUGUST 2, 2021

United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the new handbook , ISO 22000:2018 – Food safety management systems – A practical guide , provides in-depth and practical information to help organizations more effectively implement a food safety management system (FSMS) in accordance with ISO 22000:2018. Published jointly by ISO and the?

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The First Lady has traveled the country and the world to hear from cancer patients and their loved ones, as well as the researchers, physicians, nurses, and patient navigators who support them – focusing on the importance of early detection and improving the experience of patients, families, and caregivers.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

CIOs’ 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies. Alabama lawmakers talking about how to use next round of federal pandemic relief funds. Biden administration withdraws Covid vaccine mandate for businesses after losing Supreme Court case. COVID-positive employees returning to work: 2 CEOs share their protocols.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A study released nearly two decades ago showed that women are systematically prescribed lower amounts of pain medication after reporting similar levels of pain compared to their male counterparts. Gina Nebesar, Chief Product Office of Ovia Health. The word “hysteria,” in fact, comes from the Greek word for uterus, “hystera.”

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

NATIONAL 4 Healthcare Design And Construction Trends To Watch AHA urges court to preserve ACA preventive services requirement pending appeal AI may pose ‘existential threat,’ physicians warn in BMJ Biden’s nursing home staff mandates expected soon CareFirst, Noom program aims to ‘retrain’ the brain of members with obesity, (..)

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

We have blogged several times about the somewhat esoteric issue of whether intangible items – chiefly computer software, website algorithms, and other electronic information – is treated as a “product” for purposes of imposing strict liability on their creators. Henderson, “Tort vs. Technology: Accommodating Disruptive Innovation,” 47 Ariz.

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