Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The generative AI technology will supply patients with answers to healthcare-related questions and scheduling services and offer employees HR-related information.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 2, 2023
SA Health has announced the launch of a new virtual care service for women needing urgent attention for their gynaecological concerns. Run by the Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN), the virtual Women's Assessment Service will provide pregnant women across the state the option to receive an urgent assessment from an experienced midwife via video link.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The capital will be used to launch new partnerships with hospitals and employers and expand its reach nationally.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Cigna will pay $172 million to settle allegations brought by a whistleblower and the U.S. | Cigna will pay $172 million to settle allegations brought by the U.S. government that it submitted false and inaccurate Medicare Advantage diagnostic codes in a bid to boost its reimbursement.
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DigitalHealth
OCTOBER 2, 2023
ACE and NHS AI Lab have collaborated to develop a tool that can identify those patients who are at risk of an extended hospital stay.
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DigitalHealth
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Fertility care provider Ovum Health has partnered with IBM to scale its web and mobile app-based chat and scheduling solution with AI.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), once expected to save money and deliver healthcare at a lower cost, is increasing federal spending after all. | CMMI was designed to reduce federal healthcare spending, but a new CBO reports shows its had the opposite effect. Some say this is the necessary outcome of embracing value-based care.
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 2, 2023
For the 124th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are mixing together some of the recent health IT news with previews of some upcoming conferences to make our own little health IT potpourri! The first big news item we are discussing is UPMC and Intermountain moving to Epic. Then we discuss the acquisition of NextGen by Thoma Bravo. Lastly, we take a look forward and give a little preview of the upcoming HLTH and AHIMA conferences!
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Renton, Washington-based Providence launched a new startup to modernize patients' digital experience with the traditional healthcare system. | Health systems must take a page from the book of other consumer-facing industries, said Sara Vaezy, chief strategy and digital officer at Providence. The health system launched Praia Health to modernize patients' experience with the traditional healthcare system.
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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.
BMC Digital Health
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is widely used to assess functional capacity in patients with various diseases. Use of wearable devices can make this test more accurate and easier to administer, and may even e.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Independence Blue Cross unveiled Medicare Advantage (MA) packages that the company said will greatly enhance benefits for its MA members, including a bigger allowance for vision, dental, hearing an | The MA enhancements touted by Independence Blue Cross include reducing premiums for its Personal Choice 65 PPO while including a Part B giveback and a bigger allowance for vision, dental, hearing and over-the-counter items.
DigitalHealth
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Nottingham University Hospitals failed to send out 400,000 digital letters and documents to GPs and patients, BBC News reported Saturday.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
SCAN Health Plan, a nonprofit health insurer specializing in Medicare Advantage (MA) offerings, is choosing to move faster than the government’s drug price negotiation timetable and is also offerin | SCAN Health Plan is launching a Medicare Advantage plan geared toward women and cutting 13 name-brand drug prices starting in 2024.
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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.
DigitalHealth
OCTOBER 2, 2023
mTuitive has launched mTuitive Insight to give power to structured cancer data and provide a view of this data for healthcare providers and researchers.
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The New Financing will Accelerate Adoption of Amenities’ Groundbreaking Digital Front Door Platform Designed to Help Health Systems Improve Patient Loyalty Amenities Health , a leading Digital Front Door platform, today announced the final closing of its Series A financing round. The company secured an additional $6.25 million, putting Amenities’ total amount raised to date at $10 million.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
An “early glimpse” into the work of hospital equity officers outlines a combination of internal and external roadblocks, including systemic racism, this new cadre of health system leaders face as t | Responses from hundreds of health systems' equity leaders outline a consensus that "racism, today, is a public health issue that cannot be adequately addressed in the vacuum of healthcare," but that hasn't stopped executives from trying.
LeanIX
OCTOBER 2, 2023
LibWebP has a reported critical zero-click vulnerability potentially impacting a huge number of web-based applications. Discover the risk to your software supply chain security (SSCS) and what you can do to protect your organization.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Hospitals nationwide saw their operating margins inch upward in August thanks to an uptick in revenue and a dip in contract labor utilization, according to the latest monthly check-in from Kaufman | Hospitals logged an 8% month-over-month jump in daily net operating revenue while total expense per adjusted discharge dropped by 5%, according to the healthcare consulting firm's latest monthly report.
Iris Telehealth
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers (CCBHC) are specially designated clinics offering comprehensive services to treat mental health and substance use disorders. Organizations must apply for designation and adhere to extensive CCBHC certification criteria, ultimately allowing them to focus on target populations, increase access to care, and offer a broader range of services.
HIStalk Interviews
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Ben Hilmes, MHA is president of Healthcare IT Leaders of.
Society for Participatory Medicine
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Since our beginning in 2009 a big part of the vision for our Society has been to spread the word. Toward that end, this month I’m doing a talk at the Massachusetts Council on Aging annual conference , to launch a new topic I’ll be using in local community presentations: How To Be An Empowered Patient and Caregiver. I’ve been reading as much as I can about generative AI (ChatGPT etc), and everyone says “You can’t understand this by reading – you gotta use it t
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.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 2, 2023
In the nation’s search for spending smarter on health care, the U.S. could save at least $13 billion a year through deploying medically-tailored meals for people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance programs, according to the True Cost of Food , research published by the Tufts School of Nutrition Science and Policy collaborating with The Rockefeller Foundation.
Digital Health Global
OCTOBER 2, 2023
COMISAIR study is now the longest prospective real-world CGM study ever conducted, demonstrating significant and continued HbA1c reduction for patients using real-time CGM over seven years. 1 New data shows the Dexcom ONE CGM system delivers a clinically meaningful increase in time in range, reduction in HbA1c and improved glucose control for users with Type 2 diabetes. 2 Based on a recent study of 96 pregnant women presented at EASD 2023, Dexcom G7 and Dexcom G6 are now the only commercially av
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The following is a guest article by Kim Howard, Chief Client Officer at Nomad Health The U.S. healthcare system faces an estimated national deficit of more than 900K registered nurses by the end of the decade. Hospital CEOs agree that workforce challenges are the biggest issue they face, with 90% saying nursing shortages are the most pressing – a trend driven by the 4.7M healthcare workers retiring by 2030.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The judge overseeing Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce et al. v. | A preliminary injunction that would pause the Inflation Reduction Act's drug pricing negotiation provision has been rejected by a Trump-appointed judge.
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