Fri.Oct 13, 2023

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Q&A: How to properly implement data to ensure effective generative AI use

Mobi Health News

Anita Mahon, executive vice president and global head of healthcare at EXL, discusses how the analytics firm helps payers and providers utilize data within generative AI.

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How Healthcare and Patients Can Benefit From a “Simplicity Premium”

Health Populi

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” Leonardo DaVinci wrote through his lens on innovation. Simplicity can be a transformational cornerstone of health/care innovation, we learn from Siegel+Gale’s report on the World’s Simplest Brands Tenth Edition (WSBX). Siegel+Gale found the most consumers are willing to pay more for simpler brand experiences and are more likely to recommend a brand for those simpler experiences, as well.

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Brainomix, Nanoflex Robotics partner to create AI robotics platform for stroke

Mobi Health News

The partners were awarded a grant under the UK–Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D program to develop an AI-enabled stroke diagnosis and treatment platform.

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UnitedHealth posts $5.8B in profit, $92.4B in revenue on Q3 beat

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth Group kicked off another round of quarterly earnings calls Friday morning, when it reported $5.8 billion in profit for the third quarter. | UnitedHealth Group kicked off another round of quarterly earnings calls on Friday morning, where it reported $5.8 billion in profit for the third quarter.

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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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BIOQuébec and BioFlorida Announce Strategic Partnership

Digital Health Global

LAVAL, Québec & WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BIOQuébec and BioFlorida, preeminent life sciences associations from Québec and Florida, are proud to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This agreement is set to intensify collaboration and bolster industry growth in of both regions. Acknowledging the global nature of the life sciences sector and the potential for local life sciences companies to flourish with international collaborations, both associ

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RealWear accelerates student learning at North Tees and Hartlepool

DigitalHealth

North Tees and Hartlepool is accelerating student's learning by allowing more students to experience live surgical theatres with RealWear technology.

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CMS is removing PET scan restrictions for Alzheimer’s patients

FierceHealthIT

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has decided to remove the national coverage determination (NCD) that limits patients’ ability to qualify for new drugs, giving people with Alzheimer | After CMS floated the idea in July, the agency decided to remove restrictions for brain scans that could help patients receive access to drugs like Leqembi.

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Surrey Safe Care EPR led to “catastrophic” harm incident

DigitalHealth

The implementation of Surrey Safe Care at the Royal Surrey FT and Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT has seen a number of concerning safety incidents.

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Children 5 and younger may be particularly vulnerable to flu and should be vaccinated: CDC study

FierceHealthIT

Youngsters 5 to 17 years old need to get vaccinated against influenza as soon as possible. | Children and adolescents should receive the seasonal influenza vaccination by the end of October, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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Movers and shakers news roundup

DigitalHealth

This edition of Movers and Shakers features new leadership roles within troubled trusts, including Norfolk and Suffolk and Bradford Teaching Hospitals.

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Profile of a New Health Data Exchange Company healthKERI

Healthcare IT Today

When someone confronts potentially fatal health issues in their life, it’s always interesting to see how they react and what they do after that experience. That’s why I had to sit down with Jared Jeffery, Founder at healthKERI , to learn more about his pathway to starting his new health data exchange company. For those not familiar with Jeffery, I first got to know him when he was working at KLAS and he was an active member of our Swaay.Health marketing community.

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British digital health start-ups win in Las Vegas

DigitalHealth

A quartet of British digital health start-ups were named among the winners at the Digital Health Hub Awards at HLTH in Las Vegas on Monday.

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Place Accessibility Front and Center in Every Aspect of Your Healthcare App

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Sara Faatz, Director, Technology Community Relations at Progress In recent years, we have seen a massive increase in society’s reliance on technology. Accelerated in large part due to the pandemic, technology evolved overnight in order to meet the changing needs of its users, most notably the ability to access information from anywhere on any device.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?

DigitalHealth

This morning briefing includes news from the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and The Good Things Foundation.

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Virgin Pulse and HealthComp Announce Intent to Merge to Create Comprehensive Employer Health Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Joining Forces to Improve Health Outcomes, Lower Costs, and Empower Members Through a Next-Generation Health Technology and Data Platform New Mountain Capital, Marlin Equity Partners, Blackstone, and Morgan Health to Back Combined Entity, the Industry’s First Health Platform-as-a-Service Virgin Pulse , a leading global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company, today announced its intent to merge with HealthComp , a next-generation benefits and analytics platform.

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Metriport, maker of an open-source API for clinical data retrieval, unveils new provider customers

FierceHealthIT

Metriport, a platform that helps facilitate data exchange between providers, has landed several customers since launching its open-source API platform last month. | The startup is now partnered with Circle Medical, LunaJoy and Hospice Match, the tech startup exclusively told Fierce Healthcare. The goal of Medical API, which Metriport says is the first open-source platform of its kind, is to securely retrieve comprehensive patient clinical histories from major EHRs.

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Aligning wellness, mental health benefits & corporate values – Shawna Oliver

Redox

For many today’s healthcare is shaped as much by HR as anything else. The most effective strategies align wellness and mental health benefits with with company values. Our guest this week, Shawna Oliver, has done just that across a 23 year career of strategy work in the HR & employee benefits ecosystem. Join us to here her unique perspective on wellness, mental health benefits, and corporate values.

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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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Navitus Health Solutions taps GoodRx on prescription savings

FierceHealthIT

GoodRx has inked another partnership with a pharmacy benefit manager, bringing its services to Navitus Health Solutions' members. | GoodRx has inked another partnership with a pharmacy benefit manager, bringing its services to Navitus Health Solutions' members.

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Test Interactions in a Production Environment

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I covered how to include Test data in Production Environments using the HTEST tag. That article explained how data that is not real patient data, that is to say 'test' data, would be tagged with HTEST. This is a clear indication of what data in the Production Environment is test data vs not test data. Thus enabling clients to test while connected to the Production Environment, vs having a second environment just for testing.

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Chutes & Ladders—Delta Dental of California promotes first female CEO

FierceHealthIT

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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