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Will artificial intelligence replace physicians?

KevinMD

A recent Goldman Sachs report determined that artificial intelligence (AI) may wipe out 300 million jobs. Jobs that require advanced education, like mine, are particularly vulnerable. This isn’t welcome news for those of us who have invested a lifetime mastering our crafts and must work for a living. Until recently, the primary goal of medical Read more… Will artificial intelligence replace physicians?

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Valera Health becomes Humana in-network provider for virtual mental health

Mobi Health News

Select Humana Medicare Advantage members will now have in-network access to Valera's telemental health offerings.

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VA, Stanford Medicine unveil plans to develop new comprehensive cancer center in Palo Alto

FierceHealthIT

Stanford Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) unveiled plans Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and rese | Stanford Medicine and the VA unveiled plans on Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and research center to the VA Palo Alto campus.

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Lunit powers cancer screening at Saudi’s Seha Virtual Hospital

Mobi Health News

It expects to get a contract shortly to supply its AI solutions in over 170 hospitals across the kingdom.

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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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Patient Focused Features from Online Scheduling to Chatbots

Healthcare IT Today

In this video, Richard Eells, Vice President of Operations Administration at United Digestive, shares how his organization uses the healow suite of apps to handle appointments and other logistical support for multiple providers. healow is a service provided by eClinicalWorks that really changes how a medical practice can change the experience for its patients at scale.

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As maternal death rates rise, challenges with data collection hamper policy, improvement efforts, study finds

FierceHealthIT

Maternal death rates more than doubled over the last two decades, with Black, American Indian and Native Alaskan women being particularly vulnerable to this trend, according to a

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Loyal Health appoints first chief people officer and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Carenet Health also adds a new chief sales officer to its team.

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How a QR Code Helped Mountain Park Health Center Adopt New Technology

Healthcare IT Today

Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients adopt a new technology. Internal champions collaborated with their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, to double the use of their new patient portal in just twelve months. To find out more, Healthcare IT Today caught up with Amy Nunez, IT Director – Clinical Applications at Mountain Park Health Center (MPHC) at the eClnicalWorks ’ Health Center Summit

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Valera Health becomes Humana in-network provider for virtual mental health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Select Humana Medicare Advantage members will now have in-network access to Valera's telemental health offerings.

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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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Ferrer launches open innovation challenges for digital solutions for ALS

DigitalHealth

A new innovation challenge has been launched by Ferrer, aiming to identify start-ups with digital solutions to help support amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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South Dakota expands Medicaid coverage under ACA

FierceHealthIT

More than 52,000 low-income adults in Sout­­h Dakota are now eligible for Medicaid, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. | Low-income adults in South Dakota are now eligible for expanded Medicaid access under the Affordable Care Act, while 11 states hold out on approving the expansion.

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NHS Forth Valley signs contract for Infix’s cloud-based software

DigitalHealth

Infix has signed contracts with two more Scottish health boards - NHS Forth Valley and NHS Highlands - to deploy its cloud-based software.

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Addiction Telehealth Using a Patient Gateway: A Multi-Cultural Case Study

Telebehavioral Health Institute

While many practitioners have been using telehealth systems for years, many have as yet to begin using patient gateways to augment their services, in-person or through telehealth systems. The following article is written as a series of articles explaining how to integrate an emerging technology into one’s clinical practice and how to do so in a culturally appropriate manner.

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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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Onramp to the Cloud Faster with Redox + Google

Redox

Onboarding healthcare data to the cloud is complex and time intensive. In fact, in a recent Redox report , 97% of surveyed provider organizations shared they’ve encountered significant challenges when attempting to ingest data into the cloud. Most providers assert that despite these challenges, the juice is worth the squeeze – aggregating data in a centralized cloud environment unlocks access to AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) tools that are changing the healthcare game.

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Why Screening for Cyberbullying Is Essential at Intake

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Armed with increasingly sophisticated tools, bullies are almost every therapist’s problem. The results of digital harassment and cyberbullying can be a cornerstone of child abuse, sexual abuse, sibling abuse, elder abuse, or homicide threats. Most cyberbullying and incivility occur with children, a growing body of literature points to cyberbullying in almost every threatened group served by psychotherapists and healthcare providers.

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SBOMs: A 3-Step Guide For Detecting Software Vulnerabilities

LeanIX

SBOMs are rapidly becoming an essential tool for discovering open-source software risk. Read our simple, three-step guide to software vulnerability remediation.

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Report criticises procurement progress for NHS Federated Data Platform 

DigitalHealth

A report issued last month has slated the design of the government’s proposed NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) and its procurement process.

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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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Chutes & Ladders—Talkiatry picks up former DEA admin as CCO; UC Davis brings on inaugural chief AI advisor

FierceHealthIT

Chutes & Ladders—Talkiatry picks up former DEA admin as CCO; UC Davis brings on inaugural chief AI advisor aburky Thu, 07/06/2023 - 11:26

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Northwell Health is rolling out a teleburn service in the ER

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Northwell Health is expanding a new burn triage telehealth service to help doctors assess whether burn patients that present in emergency rooms can be treated onsite or need to be transported via ambulance or helicopter to the health system's burn ICU. WHY IT MATTERS Staten Island University Hospital's burn center specialists now provide teleburn consults for emergency medicine doctors at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills in Queens and will expand the service to ERs at Long Island Jewish V

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Baylor Scott & White Health adds 41 Texas urgent care centers with NextCare partnership

FierceHealthIT

Baylor Scott & White Health (BSW) is adding dozens of Texas urgent care clinics to its network thanks to a newly announced deal with NextCare Urgent Care. | The deal comes less than two months after for-profit competitor HCA Healthcare opened its purse to acquire dozens of additional urgent cares in the Lone Star State.

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Creating the World’s Largest Medical Imaging Library – Gradient Health Closes $2.75M Round

Healthcare IT Today

Gradient Health , a leading medical AI data-sharing company, announced today the successful closure of a $2.75 million funding round led by ReMY Investors & Consultants. The investment will enable the company to continue assembling the world’s largest and most comprehensive annotated medical imaging library into a secure, unified platform.

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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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Home care industry group sues to block 2023, 2024 Medicare payment cuts it claims are unlawful

FierceHealthIT

Days after the Biden administration proposed hundreds of millions in 2024 pay cuts for home health providers, an industry association is suing the government over similar adjustments at the heart o | The National Association for Home Care and Hospice alleges that CMS "arbitrarily and capriciously" set payment adjustments in the Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule for 2023 that conflict with Congress' requirement that a shift away from therapy-based pay incentives be

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