Wed.Sep 20, 2023

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AI-driven diagnostics and beyond

KevinMD

Years from now, the notion of simple telemedicine will seem quaint. Keep in mind that as recently as a decade ago, most physicians would have denied that telemedicine could ever play a role in the medical profession. Physicians would have argued that this would dismantle the fundamental unit of medical care – the in-person office Read more… AI-driven diagnostics and beyond originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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The Healthcare Financial Experience is a Stressful One: the Convergence of our Medical, Retail, and Financial Lives

Health Populi

One in two consumers in the U.S. feel their well-being or healing was negatively impacted by difficulty paying for their medical care. Welcome to the convergence of patients’ health care life with financial and retail lives, we learn from the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar. And that patient’s positive clinical experience can absolutely reverse the consumer’s perception of the provider, noted by this quote from OSU’s Chief Financial Officer Vincent T

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GI health platform Vivante Health secures $31M

Mobi Health News

The company offers personalized care plans and connects patients with a coordinated care team, including dietitians, internists and gastroenterologists.

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OpenAI and the diagnosis that saved a child’s life

Digital Health Global

ChatGPT plays the main role in a story involving a four-year-old boy and a missed diagnosis by 17 doctors. Courtney, Alex’s mother, told TODAY about her experience and how, during the lockdown due to COVID-19, it was ChatGPT that provided the solution and brought a sigh of relief to the whole family. The woman joined the AI and shared everything she knew about her son’s symptoms with the platform, including medical records and reports obtained after consulting 17 medical experts.

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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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Home care company Inbound Health raises $30M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Data exchange platform Briya and clinical trial-participant management platform Mural Health also secured investments.

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How Mobile-First Websites Can Influence More Patients to Reach You

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bjoern Sjut, co-founder and CEO, Finc3. It is challenging to ignore mobile smartphones’ influence on our day-to-day lives. Sometimes it’s the first thing you see in the morning and the last at night. The […] The article How Mobile-First Websites Can Influence More Patients to Reach You appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Lawmakers, payers and providers all air grievances with federal No Surprises Act implementation

FierceHealthIT

Amid a flurry of partisan roadblocks rolling out across Capitol Hill, representatives on both sides of the aisle came together Tuesday to critique federal agencies’ rollout of the No Surprises Act | Members of the House's Ways and Means Committee were unified in their critiques of HHS' "flawed implementation" of their bipartisan consumer protection legislation.

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Manatt Grows Value-Based Care Capabilities With Preeminent Health Care Executive in D.C.

Digital Health Global

Seth Frazier brings more than three decades of value-based care and consulting leadership experience across the provider, payer and digital health landscapes WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a multidisciplinary, integrated professional services firm, today announced the addition of Seth Frazier to the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a managing director with Manatt Health.

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Transparent PBMs form coalition to advance industry reforms

FierceHealthIT

As pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufacturers once again sparred on the Hill, a group of transparent PBMs revealed that they had come together to form a coalition that drives industry reform. | As pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufacturers once again sparred on the Hill, a group of transparent PBMs revealed they had come together to form a coalition that drives industry reform.

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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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Clinically Trained AI Achieved High Level of Parity with Physicians in Generating Differential Diagnosis, Large-Scale Study Finds

Digital Health Global

The peer-reviewed study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health analyzed more than 102,000 primary care clinical cases, demonstrates how K Health’s clinical AI performs in real-world clinical practice NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– K Health , the clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI), 24/7 national primary care provider, today announces the publication of peer-reviewed research titled “ Diagnostic Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Primary Care “

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Hospital, ED staffer American Physician Partners files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

FierceHealthIT

American Physician Partners, a Brentwood, Tennessee-based hospital staffing firm, announced Tuesday that it and its affiliates have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections “to complete the orde | The company said it has wound down over 150 contracts in July and attributed its financial difficulties to the pandemic and the No Surprises Act.

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Zelis® and Google Wallet Bring Security, Convenience and Efficiency to Healthcare Consumers

Digital Health Global

Digital health insurance ID cards make information more accessible in Google Wallet BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zelis, a healthcare technology company modernizing the healthcare financial experience for all, today announced that its payer clients can now offer their members a way to save customizable digital health insurance ID cards to Google Wallet.

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CardioOne picks up seed funding, inks new partnerships with independent cardiology practices

FierceHealthIT

Cardiologists running independent practices face an increasingly complex operating environment with new payment models, fragmented technology, resource shortages and administrative burnout. | CardioOne is a care delivery enablement platform that works with independent cardiology practices to help them shift to value-based care. The startup inked new partnerships and nabbed $8 million in seed funding to fuel its growth.

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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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Dock Health Brings HIPAA-compliant Task Management and Workflow Automation to Direct Primary Care Catalyst, Hint Health

Digital Health Global

Membership organizations can now enable administrative and billing efficiencies, revenue opportunities and operational excellence through the deep integration within Hint’s billing platform, CORE SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The leading platform for membership-based healthcare, Hint Health , and healthcare work management hub, Dock Health , today announced the launch of a new bi-directional integration allowing HIPAA-compliant task and workflow automation to seamlessly flow between syst

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Five 2023 innovations to benefit older adults and their care providers

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Older adults and caregivers are served by a number of offerings and events. And CES 2024 is still more than 3 months away. Events are ahead like Aging 2.0 Optimize in September in Lousiville, LeadingAge’s Annual Meeting in November in Chicago, and the What’s Next Longevity Innovation Summit in December in Washington. Each of these will no doubt feature startups of services and technologies, many incorporating AI ) in multiple areas.

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Featured Health IT Job: Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in Salinas, California. Here’s a description of the position: Inspiring Healthy Lives Through Community At Natividad, our dedication to the people of Monterey County is at the heart of everything we do—from th

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ICS digital leaders prioritising Shared Health and Care Records

DigitalHealth

A new snapshot survey of ICS digital leaders has identified Shared Health and Care Records as their highest digital priority.

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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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Announcements, Insights, and Perspectives from the Oracle Health Conference

Healthcare IT Today

One of the nice things about living in Las Vegas is that almost all the health IT conferences come to Las Vegas. Sadly, that wasn’t actually true for the Cerner user conference which was held in Kansas City. However, now that Oracle bought Cerner , the Oracle Health conference is now co-located with Oracle World and is being held in Las Vegas.

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Three Ways to Prove ServiceNow ROI

Optimum Healthcare IT

How do you prove the stakeholder's side of ServiceNow ROI? Optimum has a three-point strategy: investigate, captivate, and empower. Continue reading Three Ways to Prove ServiceNow ROI at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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KPMG to sponsor Digital Health AI and Data skills session on data literacy   

DigitalHealth

KPMG has been announced as the sponsor of a session on data literacy at Digital Health’s AI and Data 2023 event on 30-31 October.

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Cambia Health Solutions, Abacus Insights say their data crunching effort will enhance patient experience

FierceHealthIT

Making sense of mountains of data continues to be an often elusive goal for most of the healthcare system, but Cambia Health Solutions said it hopes its latest effort will allow it to better corral | Cambia Health Solutions, Abacus Insights launched a new data aggregating system that processes information for about 3.4 million members across four Blues plans.

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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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Three ways NHS trusts can get ahead of patient demand

DigitalHealth

If we do more of the same, waiting list numbers will continue to rise.

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OutCare Health partners with Veda to deliver LGBTQ+ affirming provider list to payers

FierceHealthIT

Veda, a data automation startup serving payers, has partnered with OutCare Health to help patients and payers identify queer-affirming providers. | OutCare Health is known for its OutList, an extensive directory of LBGTQ+ affirming providers. Data automation company Veda will ingest that information and offer it to payer clients.

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Breaking Free: The Power of Visibility in ACA Compliance

ACA Times

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reshaped the healthcare landscape, introducing a number of daunting compliance challenges in the process. Navigating the ACA compliance landscape can be challenging, even for… The post Breaking Free: The Power of Visibility in ACA Compliance first appeared on The ACA Times.

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The Unexpected Virtual Solution Elevating the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Holly Miller , President at Collette Health (formerly MedSitter) Amid the many challenges in healthcare, an emerging central theme is how to balance technological innovation with a compassionate human touch. Luckily, the advent of AI-enabled virtual care and machine learning has introduced a whole new world of virtual clinical observation.

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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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Awell Raises $5M to Bring CareOps to Healthcare

Digital Health Wire

Nobody thinks about their patients and clinical workflows more than actual care teams, but many of these teams are still using a mix of spreadsheets and Google Docs to track their processes because they haven’t had any better tools. Awell just raised $5M in seed funding to give them those tools. Awell is a low-code editor that lets providers design clinical workflows and patient journeys that embed into their existing tech stack.