Mon.Dec 18, 2023

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

Nurses rank highest among various factors in the U.S. health system in the latest Gallup poll — earning a grade of “excellent” or “good” by American adults surveyed in November 2023. Further substantiation for nurses’ topping this poll of excellent care is that Gallup found historic low confidence in the U.S. health system among Americans earlier this year in a July study.

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Predictions for digital health funding in 2024

Mobi Health News

Leaders in digital health foresee investors having a high bar for funding in 2024, looking toward companies with proven modalities and a clear pathway to profitability.

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All I Want For Christmas Is Proof

Digital Health

Proof Some people gonna call you up Tell you something that you already know Proof Sane people go crazy on you Say “No man that was not The deal we made I got to go, I got to go” Faith Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof, yes Proof is the bottom […]

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AI integration strategies require patient focus, partnerships

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS AI Conference in San Diego, panelists discussed the steps needed to strategically incorporate AI into the healthcare setting.

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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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Telemedicine M&A trends moving into 2024

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Drake Star is a tech-focused investment bank that works with top tech companies. Christophe Morvan is managing partner at Drake Star, and Lawrence Giesen is a partner. Both specialize in telemedicine. As 2023 turns to 2024, the two experts have a lot of thoughts on the state of the market for virtual care. Healthcare IT News sat down with the men to discuss main players in the U.S. telemedicine sector, merger and acquisition trends for telemedicine, main financial backers and investment dynamics

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NextGen Focusing on AI to Improve Workflows and on Street Medicine

Healthcare IT Today

NextGen Healthcare is taking a methodical approach to AI and deploying it in places based on customer demand and where it will have maximum positive impact. Right now, that means using ambient clinical voice to generate SOAP notes. The company is also delivering more mobile capability to enable street medicine. In an exclusive interview with Healthcare IT, David Sides, Chief Executive Officer and Dr.

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WeightWatchers rolls out telehealth clinic to prescribe weight loss drugs

FierceHealthIT

WeightWatchers is adding its name to the growing list of companies providing telehealth weight loss management and access to buzzy GLP-1 medications. | WeightWatchers is adding its name to the growing list of companies providing telehealth weight loss management and access to buzzy GLP-1 medications.

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EndeavorRx?, World’s First and Only Prescription Video Game Treatment, Secures FDA Label Expansion for Pediatric ADHD Patients Aged 13-17

Digital Health Global

Akili’s Clinically Proven Digital Medicine Now Authorized for Children 8-17, Opening Option to More Patients as Ongoing Stimulant Shortage Persists BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Akili, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKLI), a leading digital medicine company, today announced that it has received authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the label for EndeavorRx ® from 8 to 12 year-old patients with primarily inattentive or combined-type ADHD who have a demonstrated attention i

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2024 Outlook: Will legislators pass meaningful reforms to PBMs? The jury is still out

FierceHealthIT

There has been no shortage of conversation around pharmacy benefit managers this year, but actual action from legislators has been slow. | There has been no shortage of conversation around pharmacy benefit managers this year but actual action from legislators has been slow.

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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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Vida Health Announces $28.5 Million in Funding; Appoints Joe Murad CEO

Healthcare IT Today

Investment to Support Key Growth Initiatives and Drive Continued Focus on Improving Access to Effective, Affordable, and Sustainable Cardiometabolic Care Treatments Vida Health today announced it has closed $28.5 million in financing led by existing investors, including General Atlantic , Ally Bridge , Canvas Ventures , Hercules Capital , and other insiders.

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2024 Outlook: How experts say payers will—or should—try to improve their Medicare Advantage star ratings

FierceHealthIT

Payers need to properly adapt to changes made to the Medicare Advantage star ratings program or risk financial repercussions, industry experts told Fierce Healthcare. | Payers are being urged to prioritize health equity considerations more than ever before to improve their Medicare Advantage star ratings scores.

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What Dr. Mariela Fuenmayor Finds Most Rewarding as a Telepsychiatry Provider

Iris Telehealth

Iris clinicians are at the heart of what makes our organization such a special place to work. That’s why we’re turning the spotlight on the amazing work they’re doing every day. This month, we’re sitting down to talk with Dr. Mariela Fuenmayor. Q. How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? A. I found Iris online. I worked for the VA, and the stress level was too high.

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2024 Outlook: Drug price negotiations, Braidwood highlights top legal cases to watch

FierceHealthIT

Legal experts indicated they will be paying close attention to lawsuits surrounding the Medicare drug price negotiation program and Braidwood v. | Preventative services covered under the Affordable Care Act and the Medicare drug price negotiations program are two legal questions that will play out next year.

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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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Lindus Health and Thirty Madison complete enrolment for telemedicine trial

DigitalHealth

Enrolment has been completed for a trial facilitated by Lindus Health into Thirty Madison's dermatology telehealth platform.

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Molina, Bright Health agree to lower sale price of embatted insurtech's MA business

FierceHealthIT

The hits keep coming for embattled insurtech Bright Health. | The hits keep coming for embattled insurtech Bright Health. Ari Gottlieb, principal at A2 Strategy Group, told Fierce Healthcare that such a move was expected.

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Belfast HSC and South Eastern HSC go live with Clinisys WinPath

DigitalHealth

The first two health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland have gone live with Clinisys WinPath: Belfast and South Eastern.

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Industry Voices—Premature babies deserve mature AI

FierceHealthIT

In some healthcare settings, imperfect works for now. Clinicians in intensive care facilities, however, aren't able to accept imperfect AI.

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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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The Future of Alcohol Rehab: AI’s Role In Addiction Treatment

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Everywhere you turn around, artificial intelligence is the topic of the hour. Indeed, the new program is taking over the world by a storm, and it has grown into the drug recovery field too. The […] The article The Future of Alcohol Rehab: AI’s Role In Addiction Treatment appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

Today's coffee time briefing includes news of the rapid advances in genomic sequencing that are raising new legal issues.

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Real-world FHIR mapping use cases from HL7® FHIR® DevDays

Redox

2023 HL7 ® FHIR ® DevDays in Amsterdam stood out in a few ways, and in case you weren’t able to make it to the event, here’s your chance to digest the newly uploaded session recordings. Among the highlights were two insightful sessions hosted by Redoxers. These sessions highlighted two crucial truths about FHIR capabilities and adoption. First, FHIR’s strength lies not just in its modernization capabilities but also in its ability to be a powerful, programmable tool for developers.

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Digital Health at the Turn of 2024

Digital Health Wire

Rock Health is wrapping up the year in style by sharing the trends it believes are most likely to move the needle in 2024, based on where they stand along its “ innovation maturity curve. ” The top trends were plotted along the curve to reflect their funding momentum, research volume, and partnership activity, revealing insights into which innovations are ready to make the leap from hype to impact.

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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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Nabla reports rapid uptake of Spanish language AI scribe, plans to expand options in 2024

FierceHealthIT

Within the first four months of implementing a Spanish language AI assistant for practitioners, Nabla has seen 10% of its clinicians using the feature. | Nabla launched a Spanish language option for its AI scribe this past summer. It has seen rapid adoption among clinicians, especially mental health clinicians, the company claims.

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Introducing Internal Medicine and Cardiology Program: Revolutionizing Medical Care at Sea

Ortholive

In this blog, we sit down with the Medical Director of Internal Medicine and Cardiology Services Dr. Joseph Daibes to talk about some of the differences and experiences with maritime medicine, especially as telehealth leads to faster, more positive outcomes for patients at sea. Join Destiney Barker, our director of brand development, for this insightful Q&A.

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HIStalk Interviews Dan Schubert, CEO, Revuud

HIStalk Interviews

Dan Schubert is co-founder and CEO of Revuud of Charlotte,

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Reverse Bed Chain, a New Way to Tackle Hospital Inefficiencies

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Connie Moser, CEO at Navenio The current NHS waiting list has hit 7.3 million in the UK, increasing monthly. A recent survey conducted by the NHS revealed only 21.3% of staff reported that there is enough headcount available for them to do their job properly and 44.8% admitted to witnessing errors, near misses, or incidents that could have hurt staff or patients.

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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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Shailya Hospital Optimizes Healthcare Delivery with NiftyHMS Software

NiftyHMS

Shailya Hospital, a top healthcare provider in India, is growing its footprint and aims to make its operations highly Efficient. To do this, they started using the NiftyHMS software , which lets patients book appointments through WhatsApp and helps manage medical records and prescriptions easily. Challenges Faced by Shailya Hospital: Appointment Booking Inefficiencies: The traditional appointment booking system led to delays and confusion for both staff and patients.

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CMS finalizes updated fees for No Surprises Act dispute resolution

FierceHealthIT

The Biden administration on Monday released amended fees related to independent dispute resolution under the No Surprises Act. | The Biden administration on Monday released amended fees related to independent dispute resolution under the No Surprises Act.

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