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4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand

Bill of Health

By Jennifer S.

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Techquity: Getting Healthy Through Equity-by-Design

Health Populi

The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation in the world. Yet Americans’ health outcomes rank relatively low compared with other wealthy peer nations on Planet Earth, manifesting a low return-on-investment for this huge financial spend.

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Pandemic-driven healthcare staffing shortages have mostly eased, report finds

Healthcare Dive

Employment in ambulatory services is now well above pre-pandemic levels, as healthcare jobs recuperate from pandemic-driven shortages, according to nonprofit Altarum

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5 AI-Driven Healthcare Trends and Solutions in 2023

HIT Consultant

Dmitrii Evstiukhin, Director of Managed Services at Provectus Enterprise-level healthcare is a massive business sector with seemingly infinite moving parts. With patients’ lives at stake, liability is huge, leaving little room for error.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Generative AI Takes On Administrative Burdens

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most frustrating burdens on health care workers today is the drag of administrative tasks. New AI technologies that interpret and generate natural human speech (illustrated most famously in ChatGPT) can remove more of the burden of such tasks.

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How to Prepare for a Medical Gas Shutdown

Medical Gas Compliance

Every smooth-running healthcare facility has a time when they need to shut down some part of their medical gas system for maintenance or installation. The effect of this downtime is that many departments in the building are taken out of their comfort zone.

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Robust infrastructure is key to delivering digital change for the NHS

Digital Health News

At its core, the NHS is made by the people who work within it, helping to keep things going just like a beating heart.

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‘We’ve had to be creative’: How a major health system eased its labor shortage

Healthcare Dive

By the summer of 2021, turnover at Memorial Hermann reached 30%. The organization implemented new staffing models and invested in greater staff support. Turnover is now down by half

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Could more options push patients back to primary care?

Mobi Health News

Panelists at ViVE 2023 discussed the future of preventive medicine as retail chains and virtual care players push into the space and more patients avoid primary care altogether

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Streamlined Compliance Facilitates Growth for Multi-Specialty ASC

Learn how SurgCenter of Western Maryland improved compliance and streamlined their employee training process with MedTrainer. Eliminate the risk of lost records and save time with MedTrainer's intuitive platform.

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Epic at HIMSS23: Cosmos innovations, new MyChart features, interoperability and more

Healthcare It News

Epic's plan for the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition next month is to showcase all the ways the company is helping health systems and other care providers, says Erika Koch, project manager on the company's events team.

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The Promise of Connected Healthcare: How AI Advancements Are Creating More Meaningful Experiences

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Amanda Hansen, president, AdvancedMD My father was diagnosed with diabetes when he was very young and lived his entire life maneuvering various healthcare systems.

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CVS-Oak Street deal clears regulatory hurdle as antitrust waiting period expires

Healthcare Dive

Oak Street also announced on Thursday it’s canceling its annual board meeting following the CVS deal, which is expected to close in the first half of the year. Oak Street stockholders will meet on April 28 to vote on the sale

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Should Brain Scans Be Used As Evidence in Trademark Litigation?

Bill of Health

By Matthew Chun In a recent paper in Science Advances , researchers have proposed using neuroscientific data from brain scans to “improv[e] the state of evidence-based legal decision-making” in trademark infringement cases. But can — and more importantly, should — such evidence be used?

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist for Mental Health Agencies

Keeping up with compliance can be intimidating, but this checklist can help make your job a little easier! Use this printable checklist to ensure your systems are buttoned up to avoid breaches, HIPAA violations, and other privacy and safety infractions.

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Personify Care's digital patient pathway project to go SA-wide

Healthcare It News

Health IT company Personify Care has bagged a A$5.6 million ($3.7 million) contract from SA Health to extend its digital patient pathways project across the entire state over the next two years.

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Interoperability Regulations and the Effects on Health Information Management

MRO Compliance

Interoperability Regulations and the Effects on Health Information Management In January 2023, the Health Data Management COVER story focused on the future of interoperability.

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How open-loop networks are changing health rewards as we know them

Healthcare Dive

Health rewards have traditionally included limited offerings that not all members can access. Now, open-loop rewards offer more choices than ever

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Banning Noncompete Contracts for Medical Staff Riles Hospitals

Kaiser Health News

Jacqui O’Kane took a job with a hospital in southern Georgia in 2020, as the lone doctor in a primary care clinic in a small town that’s a medically underserved area. She soon attracted nearly 3,000 patients.

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The American Benefits Conundrum: Realigning Healthcare Incentives

Speaker: Chris Wolpert, Founder of Group Benefit Solutions

This webinar with Chris Wolpert will expose the hidden misaligned incentives in the employee benefits space and help you modernize your approach to benefits by leveraging technology and communication.

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US Wellness Inc & Blue Shield of California Victims of GoAnywhere Hack

HIPAA Journal

Data breaches have recently been reported by Blue Shield of California, US Wellness Inc., Health Plan of San Mateo, and the California Department of Health Care Services.

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The New Deaths of Despair in America – Among U.S. Children

Health Populi

The phenomenon of Deaths of Despair is the short-hand name for rising mortality among certainly people living in the U.S. due to overdose, accidents, and suicide. Angus Deaton and Anne Case published their first of many research papers on Deaths of Despair in 2015.

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Oscar Health names former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini as new chief executive

Healthcare Dive

Bertolini brings decades of experience in the payer sector — including overseeing Aetna’s $70 billion sale to CVS in 2018 — to Oscar as the insurer works toward profitability

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VR use in medicine in the spotlight at IVRHA 2023

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Contract Life Cycle Management Report

Gartner has positioned Evisort in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Life Cycle Management. Read the report to learn why Evisort is a Visionary provider in the market.

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Everyone is Waiting for Something at ViVE2023

Healthcare IT Today

The top story ViVE2023 wasn’t a major product launch, new legislation, or a mega-merger. Instead, the entire industry seems to be waiting for better times to arrive. Vendors are waiting for the economy to turn around. Providers are waiting for labor costs to stabilize.

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Healthcare's new equation = technology + operations

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Ohio AG sues ‘modern gangsters’ Cigna, Humana for alleged PBM price fixing

Healthcare Dive

Ohio Attorney General David Yost filed suit on Monday against the payers' PBMs, along with Prime Therapeutics, for allegedly sharing pricing information and driving up drug prices

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Virtua Health improves patient and caregiver experiences with 2-way text messaging

Healthcare It News

Virtua Health, the largest health system in South New Jersey, saw an uptick in virtual care appointments and digital communications during the pandemic as patients sought care at home.

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