Wed.May 10, 2023

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Navigating the ethics of AI in surgery: Balancing bias and accountability for safer procedures

KevinMD

An excerpt from Future Care: Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reinvention of Medicine. In the past I have used magnetic navigation using Stereotaxis equipment to perform procedures. I could sit out in the console room, more than twelve feet from the patient, and maneuver the catheters within the heart using joysticks. … Read more… Navigating the ethics of AI in surgery: Balancing bias and accountability for safer procedures originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Digital health firm Babylon plans to go private

Mobi Health News

The company also released its Q1 2023 earnings, showing increased revenue of $311.1 million with a net loss of $63.2 million.

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Digital Healthcare Transformation: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes

Digital Health Global

The healthcare industry is experiencing a significant transformation, with technology playing a vital role in modernizing medical practices and enhancing health outcomes. As healthcare professionals, it is our duty to keep up with and adopt new technologies in order to offer the best possible care to our patients. Patient experience has become a primary focus in our industry, and the digital transformation has provided new ways to enhance it.

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Wearable company Oura acquires digital identification startup Proxy

Mobi Health News

Oura said the deal could provide new opportunities in payments and data security.

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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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Augusta University Health saves $1.1M with home-based virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Augusta University Health launched its Virtual Care at Home program in February 2021 as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like hospitals across the nation, it was limited on bed capacity and had throughput issues. THE PROBLEM The program was aimed at supporting the inpatient care team by discharging patients (ages 18 and up) from the medical center a few days earlier to help reduce length of stay and free up beds by providing virtual monitoring 24/7 through nurses, episodic monitoring

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Barriers to full benefit of AI for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. This cycle was not helped by the behavior of earlier AI technologies like voice assistants. And there are barriers that need to be addressed to realize the full potential, which is not yet fully understood.

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DEA officially extends remote EPCS flexibilities for 6 months

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This past week, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it would temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities for the prescription of certain controlled medications granted under the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, which is set to expire on May 11. This week, the DEA added some specificity to that promise – allowing an extension of six months, through November 11, 2023, and, in tandem with HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Serv

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Harris Data Integrity Solutions White Paper Explores Healthcare’s $6 Billion Patient Matching Problem

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Harris Data Integrity Solutions, the leading provider of best-in-class patient data integrity services and software, has released a white paper that undertakes an in-depth examination of the healthcare industry’s chronic people matching problem.

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Lavita AI Raises $5M Seed Financing to Launch the First Patient-Driven Health Information Marketplace to Accelerate Life Sciences Innovation

Digital Health Global

Pioneering decentralized marketplace enables patients to take control of their own health powered by AI, blockchain and privacy preserving technologies SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI — Lavita AI , a next generation AI+Web3 healthcare platform, announced today it has closed a $5M seed financing round, led by Camford Capital, and angel investors from blockchain and AI industries.

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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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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

In Disney’s Big Hero 6 , the protagonist, Hiro Hamada, will get stuck in a problem after working on it for a while because he’s becoming too set in his way of thinking. And he is only able to find the solution thanks to his brother’s, Tadashi Hamada, words ‘find a new angle, look for another way out.’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare.

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Closing Clinical and Research Gaps in Interstitial Lung Diseases: The Role of Machine Learning in Image Biomarker Research

Digital Health Global

Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are complex and challenging to manage, particularly when it comes to early detection, accurate prognosis, and effective response to therapy. Despite advances in high-resolution CT (HRCT), which is routinely used in ILD imaging, visual evaluation of the disease can still have high inter-reader variability and low sensitivity to changes in disease severity over short follow-up periods.

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PBM, pharma play blame game over drug pricing at hearing

FierceHealthIT

PBM, pharma play blame game over drug pricing at hearing pminemyer Wed, 05/10/2023 - 16:10

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Connect 2023: 3 Innovations Coming To The LeanIX Platform

LeanIX

On May 9, 2023, our CEO and founder, André Christ, opened our 2023 Connect Summit Europe with an inspiring keynote speech on the current state of the enterprise architecture industry. Yet, he ended by describing three innovations we're adding to the LeanIX platform to tackle future challenges. Let's deep-dive into the new features coming soon to LeanIX.

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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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Algorithm used to cut ER overutilization for kids penalizes Black, Hispanic patients: study

FierceHealthIT

Algorithm used to cut ER overutilization for kids penalizes Black, Hispanic patients: study fdiamond Wed, 05/10/2023 - 13:18

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Featured Health IT Job: Allscripts PM Reporting Specialist

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Allscripts PM Reporting Specialist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is remote. Here’s a description of the position: Currently seeking an Allscripts PM Reporting Specialist for a fully remote one-year engagement with possibility of extension.

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Envision Healthcare likely to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy: WSJ

FierceHealthIT

Envision Healthcare likely to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy: WSJ pminemyer Wed, 05/10/2023 - 12:54

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World cyber security leaders form council to tackle healthcare challenges

DigitalHealth

World leaders in cyber security have formed an Advisory Council to tackle the many security challenges facing the rapidly digitalising healthcare sector.

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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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17 health systems commit to hiring, promoting more low-income workers by 2027

FierceHealthIT

17 health systems commit to hiring, promoting more low-income workers by 2027 dmuoio Wed, 05/10/2023 - 13:06

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MyRenalCare app trial increased outpatient capacity by 30%

DigitalHealth

A trial for MyRenalCare found that when patients with chronic kidney disease used the app outpatient capacity was increased, and associated costs decreased.

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Small and Medium Medical Practices Need Business Support

Healthcare IT Today

Small- and medium-sized medical practices are struggling. The uncertain economic environment, staffing challenges, and the increasing complexity of providing care is putting practice owners under tremendous stress. EverHealth , providers of end-to-end solutions for healthcare providers, believes that these practices need support from partners that can take on some of the administrative, operational, and financial tasks so they can continue to deliver care to patients.

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Sweatcoin app partners with NHS for diabetes prevention programme

DigitalHealth

A partnership between Sweatcoin and the NHS will see patients at risk of type 2 diabetes in south west London offered monetary rewards to get active.

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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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From New Report: Future of AI and Older Adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

New report published - Future of AI and Older Adults. From the findings; One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. This cycle was not helped by the behavior of earlier AI technologies like voice assistants.

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King’s Fund speakers: NHS innovators must feel free to experiment and fail

DigitalHealth

Digital transformation of the health service will only be successful if innovators feel free to experiment and payors are realistic about timelines.

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Transformative Tech: Enhancing Healthcare Outcomes for All

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Patrick Tarnowski, Chief Commercial Officer at OneStep As many as 91% of patients who could benefit from physical therapy (PT) do not access care, and of those who do, only 30% complete their course of care. There are numerous reasons why. Perhaps patients work long hours or need access to transportation to get them to their appointments, primarily if they live in rural or lower socioeconomic areas.

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Mobile connectivity in healthcare: the revolution that must deliver

DigitalHealth

A new generation of 5G connectivity can unlock innovative approaches to treatment, says Freshwave's Simon Frumkin.

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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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About 1 in 3 physicians report being sued at least once in their career, AMA finds

FierceHealthIT

About 1 in 3 physicians report being sued at least once in their career, AMA finds dmuoio Wed, 05/10/2023 - 16:51

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Examining the validity and fidelity of a virtual reality simulator for basic life support training

BMC Digital Health

Virtual reality (VR) offers an immersive and practical method for training medical skills, especially in emergency healthcare settings. However, it is unclear whether learning in VR will translate into real-wo.

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Digital health guidance platform Amino snags $80M in the midst of shaky economy

FierceHealthIT

Digital health guidance platform Amino snags $80M in the midst of shaky economy aburky Wed, 05/10/2023 - 17:24