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The clinical AI revolution: 3 things to know

KevinMD

The use of natural language processing (NLP) in the clinical domain dates as far back as the 1960s, with important early work performed in the 1970s and 1980s. While great technical advances were made during this period, clinical NLP failed to live up to initial expectations as accuracy rates were too low to use for much Read more… The clinical AI revolution: 3 things to know originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Midi Health partners with health system for women's midlife care

Mobi Health News

Memorial Hermann Health System patients in Houston will have access to Midi Health's virtual perimenopausal and menopausal care services.

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AI and 10 seconds of voice can screen for diabetes, new study in Mayo Clinic journal reveals

Digital Health Global

Klick Labs scientists discover voice tech as potential game changer in Type 2 diabetes detection NEW YORK & TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Determining whether a person is diabetic could be as easy as having them speak a few sentences into their smartphone, according to a groundbreaking study from Klick Labs that combines voice technology with artificial intelligence in a major step forward in diabetes detection.

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Headspace announces new CFO and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Kidney-care company Monogram Health and digital diagnostics company ixlayer also announced new appointments.

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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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Medicare Advantage marketing practices draw ire from senators

FierceHealthIT

Seniors are forced to navigate a convoluted Medicare Advantage (MA) landscape for healthcare coverage, often only to be denied care, experts told legislators during a Senate Finance Committee heari | Senators and experts agreed Wednesday that marketing practices from Medicare Advantage plans are often overwhelming for seniors.

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Henry Ford Health, Ascension Michigan unveil plans to form $10.5B joint venture

FierceHealthIT

Henry Ford Health is coming together with several of Ascension Michigan’s hospitals and other facilities to form a joint venture with over $10.5 billion in annual operating revenue, the organizatio | Should the deal close, the resulting organization would span 13 acute care hospitals and over 550 sites of care. The nonprofits stressed that the arrangement is not a merger and that "no cash transaction" would take place.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. This article shows how organizations are collecting it. Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs.

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CalOptima awards $52.3M to local nonprofits to spur creation of more affordable housing in Southern California

FierceHealthIT

CalOptima Health, the Medi-Cal managed care plan for Orange County, is awarding $52.3 million in grants to accelerate the creation of affordable and permanent housing. | The grants will go to 15 grantees to acquire, construct and upgrade a total of 706 housing units to support people experiencing homelessness.

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AI Elevates the Audit Process and Improves Revenue Outcomes

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ritesh Ramesh, CEO, MDaudit. Healthcare organizations are in a precarious financial position. With operating margins still hovering near zero, revenues are at heightened risk because of a surge in third-party audits following the expiration […] The article AI Elevates the Audit Process and Improves Revenue Outcomes appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Washington hospitals sue to block policy extending charity care to out-of-state patients

FierceHealthIT

Washington hospitals are looking to take their state’s Department of Health to court over a September notice requiring certain providers to offer charity care to poor patients regardless of where i | The Washington State Hospital Association wrote in a filing that the update is inconsistent with decades of charity care policy implementations and would make their facilities a hotspot for costly medical tourism.

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Cabinet Health Introduces “Cabinet Health Rx” the World’s First Plastic-free and Refillable Prescription Solution

Digital Health Global

Cabinet Health Rx tackles the pharmaceutical plastic crisis with new digital health platform and sustainable packaging NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cabinet Health launched its refillable mail-order prescription solution. Cabinet Health Rx is a direct-to-consumer healthcare service dedicated to improving the pharmacy patient experience and the environmental impact of the pharmaceutical industry.

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Elevance Health boosts guidance as it posts $1.3B in Q3 profit

FierceHealthIT

Elevance Health reported $1.3 billion in profit for the third quarter, beating the Street but falling short of the prior-year quarter's haul. | Elevance Health reported $1.3 billion in profit for the third quarter, beating the Street but falling short of the prior-year quarter's haul.

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CIONIC Raises $12 Million Series A Extension Led by L Catterton with New Partners THVC and Enable Ventures

Digital Health Global

Nine months after the start of shipments, Cionic Neural Sleeve licensed nearly nationwide with more than 200,000 hours of customer use, transforming the lives of those with mobility impairments CIONIC Expands Board with Addition of Whitney Casey, Venture Partner at L Catterton SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CIONIC , the pioneering neurotech company that created the FDA-cleared Cionic Neural Sleeve, today announced an additional $12 million extension of its Series A financing, bringin

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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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Healthcare payments tech company Waystar plans to go public. Is the IPO freeze thawing out?

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare payment software maker Waystar filed for an initial public offering, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the health tech IPO market. | Healthcare payment software maker Waystar filed for an initial public offering, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the health tech IPO market.

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Sentara: Strategic Portfolio Management with ServiceNow

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 2 min We partnered with Sentara to create a custom and efficient Strategic Portfolio Management solution centralized within ServiceNow. Continue reading Sentara: Strategic Portfolio Management with ServiceNow at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Conquering 5 Common Healthcare Marketing Challenges

FierceHealthIT

Conquering 5 Common Healthcare Marketing Challenges | Healthcare marketing is tough. Learn about 5 common healthcare marketing challenges and how health education content helps you face them head-on.

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Evernorth Acquires Bright.md Technology Platform, Enhances MDLIVE’s Virtual Care Experience for Patients and Clinicians

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition will add Asynchronous Care, Triage, and Navigation Capabilities to Evernorth’s MDLIVE Virtual Care Platform for a More Convenient, On-Demand Experience for Patients and Clinicians Beginning in 2024 MDLIVE Virtual Primary Care Expands Chronic Condition Care M anagement to Include Health Coaching Beginning Immediately Evernorth Health Services , the pharmacy, care, and benefits solution division of The Cigna Group , announced it will enhance MDLIVE ‘s virtual care by acquir

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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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Bicycle Health, Override Health team up on chronic pain, OUD care referrals

FierceHealthIT

Bicycle Health, a virtual provider of opioid use disorder (OUD) care, is teaming up with Override Health, a virtual chronic pain management clinic, for a bidirectional patient referral relationship | Bicycle will refer patients to Override for chronic pain care, while Override will refer patients in need of OUD treatment to Bicycle. The partners’ goal is to increase access to chronic pain care and OUD treatment, two areas they say have a lot of patients in common.

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How Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Risk with Zero Trust

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Peter Newton, Senior Director of Products and Solutions at Fortinet Personal medical and financial data is incredibly valuable, which is why healthcare organizations are high-value targets for cybercriminals. The most common way attackers infiltrate networks is by stealing user credentials, making identity and access management absolutely critical for the medical industry.

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Propel@YH welcomes 11 new innovators to accelerator programme

DigitalHealth

The newest recruits to the Yorkshire & Humber Propel@YH digital accelerator have been unveiled with the programme starting on 19th October.

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How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?

Healthcare IT Today

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. This naturally made it a hot topic at the recent Civitas Conference. We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

This news briefing reports on a partnership between Thriva and Stella, Strolll securing new funding and four industries most likely to consolidate.

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Memorial Hermann, Midi Health team up to expand access to menopause care in Houston

FierceHealthIT

On Wednesday, World Menopause Day, two healthcare partners unveiled their collaboration to help patients going through midlife hormonal transitions. | Patients will be able to access Midi’s telehealth services directly through Midi or by getting a referral from their Memorial Hermann-affiliated physician. All services are covered by insurance in Texas under major PPO plans.

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Cera to save the NHS £100m by committing to five million care home visits

DigitalHealth

Cera has committed to delivering five million care visits this winter, which is predicted to save the NHS £100m and reduce hospital waiting times.

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Waymark scores $42M in fresh funding, including investment from CVS

FierceHealthIT

Waymark, a Medicare-focused provider enablement company, has secured $42 million in fresh funding that it plans to use to continue scaling its offering. | Waymark, a Medicare-focused provider enablement company, has secured $42 million in fresh funding that it plans to use to continue scaling its offering.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals eliminates transport delays with digital service

DigitalHealth

RLDatix's Allocate Transport Marketplace service has helped Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust's patients wait just five minutes for transport.

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Family premiums in employer plans set to rise 7%: KFF survey

FierceHealthIT

Family premiums for employer plans are set to rise by 7% on average this year, one year after virtually no growth, according to a

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Global Health Tech 1000: HolonIQ's most promising Health Tech startups around the world

Lloyd Price

Global Health Tech 1000 Every year, HolonIQ’s Health Intelligence Unit identifies the top 1000 Health Tech startups around the world. The global 1000 is built region by region from over 10,000 nominations, applications and screening to ensure the global cohort is diverse and to shine a light on the inspiring innovation happening all around the world.