Wed.Nov 22, 2023

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AstraZeneca launches Evinova to bring AI to clinical trials

Mobi Health News

The pharma giant's new health tech company will operate as a separate business and scale the company's already established digital technologies to enhance clinical trials.

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Be Thankful by Engaging With Grace and Talking About Your End-of-Life Wishes With Loved Ones

Health Populi

“Thanksgiving.” Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines the word, first, as “the act of giving thanks.” Second, it’s “a prayer of expressing gratitude.” And, third, the word means a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness. We each have our own stories about how a loved one’s life has ended. If we’re lucky, that beloved person had a good death: in sleep, perhaps, or simply of old age with no hospital events or trauma.

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Layer Health launches with $4M from Google Ventures, General Catalyst

Mobi Health News

The company's product, Distill, uses machine learning algorithms and LLMs to perform administrative, clinical and research tasks that require chart review.

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Hospitals: UHC's 2024 MA coverage policy 'blatantly violates' new CMS coverage requirements

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals are petitioning the Biden administration to crack down on Medicare Advantage (MA) plans they say are flaunting coverage requirements recently codified by the Centers for Medicare & Me | The nation's largest MA operator is skirting new CMS regulations prohibiting MA plans from limiting or denying coverage for hospital services that would be covered under traditional Medicare, the hospital industry told federal officials this week.

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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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Vivodyne launches with $38M to create lab-grown human organs

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to grow its drug-discovery pipeline and clinical AI stack.

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4.5M have signed up for coverage on the ACA exchanges so far in open enrollment: CMS

FierceHealthIT

Open enrollment on the insurance marketplaces began on Nov. | Open enrollment on the insurance marketplaces began on Nov. 1, and more than 4.5 million people have selected plans in the early weeks of the process, according to new federal data.

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Acute hospital care at home gets good grades from CMS research

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patients who received care under the pandemic's Acute Hospital Care at Home program had a low mortality rate and minimal complications related to escalations back to the brick-and-mortar hospital, according to a CMS research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum.

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Ayble Health, Mayo Clinic collaborate to treat high-acuity patients in person

FierceHealthIT

Ayble Health, a digital health platform for patients with chronic gastrointestinal conditions, has announced a new collaboration with the Mayo Clinic. | Ayble is working with the Mayo Clinic Complex Care Program to offer a hybrid care model to match patients with the appropriate virtual and in-person care based on acuity and need.

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Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Healthcare IT Today

The insurance card in my wallet—where I always keep it in case of emergency—is getting pretty dog-eared and frayed. So I was intrigued when Mark Scrimshire, chief interoperability officer of OnyxOS , introduced me to developments over the past few years that will make digital insurance cards feasible. This article looks at what it will take to let us all check in to our doctor’s office as easily as we wave our cell phone before a scanner in a retail store.

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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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Memorial Hermann implementing Laudio's AI platform to reduce admin burden on frontline workers

FierceHealthIT

Memorial Hermann Health System is implementing Laudio’s platform to enhance employee efficiency and engagement. | Memorial Hermann Health System is tapping Laudio’s AI platform to promote efficiency and engagement among its employees.

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Augmedix Derives More Value from Automated Generation of Medical Notes

Healthcare IT Today

According to Manny Krakaris, CEO of Augmedix , this company has led the field of medical notes over the past 11 years from human scribes to full automation. To heighten accuracy, they use a combination of the most modern technologies. The transcript of the conversation is fed into a typical large language model (LLM) used by generative AI. But Augmedix has also analyzed more than 500 medical complaints brought by patients to create other data models.

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Former Paige CEO betting big on AI in microbiome medicine with new startup Jona

FierceHealthIT

Health tech veteran Leo Grady believes the microbiome is going to revolutionize healthcare. | Leo Grady, the former CEO of Paige, saw an opportunity to leverage his work in healthcare AI to unlock the microbiome for health. He launched Jona, a company that provides an at-home microbiome profiling kit and then uses AI to analyze an individual's gut microbiome to deliver actionable, personalized insights.

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Mixed reaction as Palantir lands £330m NHS Federated Data Platform deal

DigitalHealth

The £330m federated data platform (FDP) contract was awarded to Palantir by NHS England yesterday, sparking very mixed reactions.

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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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Chutes & Ladders—New CEO atop Mount Sinai Health System summit

FierceHealthIT

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals receive £3m for HealthTech Research Centre

DigitalHealth

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals has secured £3m from NIHR for a national HealthTech Research Centre to develop health tech for those with long-term conditions.

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Santa Teresa Children’s Clinic: Transforming Rural Healthcare

AMD Telemedicine

The Challenge: Inaccessible Healthcare for Rural Patients In New Mexico, a significant number of people live far away from urban centers. According to government statistics, more than one-third of all New Mexicans reside in rural communities. For children and their parents or guardians, getting to a clinic or emergency room can be an arduous process.

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Bertelsmann invests €5 million in Doccla’s European expansion

DigitalHealth

Virtual ward technology provider Doccla has received strategic investment of €5 million Euro from Bertelsmann Investments.

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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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IKS Health Purchases AQuity Solutions to Create the Most Comprehensive Provider of Administrative, Clinical and Financial Services for Healthcare Organizations in the U.S.

Healthcare IT Today

The Combined Company, which will Operate as IKS Health, will have Annual Revenues of $330+ Million and a Global Workforce of over 14,000 Employees Serving an Install Base of 150,000+ Clinicians IKS Health , the premier global solution that revitalizes the clinician-patient relationship while empowering healthcare organizations to thrive, today announced the acquisition of AQuity Solutions , a Best in KLAS industry leader in tech-enabled clinical documentation, medical coding, and revenue integ

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

Today's briefing includes Epro being awardes an ISO 9001 quality assurance accreditation and news that medical businesses are more likely to sell in 2024

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UPMC's operations down $177M at 9 months as care delivery costs, claims payouts mount

FierceHealthIT

UPMC’s operations dipped into the red this quarter as volumes and their associated care delivery costs and insurance claims continue to climb. | The integrated nonprofit system's nine-month total operating revenue growth of 9.3% was outpaced by a 11% rise in total operating expenses.

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Special Report: Interoperability

DigitalHealth

Is it time to stop reaching for interoperability and start thinking instead about "intelligent decision making"? Jennifer Trueland reports.

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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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Optum Rx is aiming to tap into local pharmacies to address maternal health. Here's how

FierceHealthIT

Pharmacy benefit management giant Optum Rx is aiming to address maternal and fetal health by leaning on the power of independent pharmacies.

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GlobalMed® to Sponsor the ISfTeH Global Connections for Sustainable Telehealth Conference

GlobalMed

GlobalMed® to Sponsor the ISfTeH Global Connections for Sustainable Telehealth Conference The event targets those interested in the latest developments in the field of telehealth internationally. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. November 22, 2023 – As one of the leaders in virtual care, the sponsorship of this event perfectly aligns with GlobalMed’s mission to improve lives worldwide by delivering transformative health and wellness solutions across the continuum of care.

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Charting Walgreens evolution as a healthcare company

FierceHealthIT

Walgreens is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 120-year heritage of caring for communities. | Founded in 1901, Walgreens has been a part of the US healthcare ecosystem for a very long time. In this interview, Chief Growth Officer Steve Wogan explores the company’s recent evolution and looks ahead to what the future has in store.

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ACA On Solid Ground Ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election

ACA Times

For the first time in more than a decade, Republican frontrunners eyeing the 2024 election aren’t campaigning for the elimination of the ACA. It’s a rather big shift from previous… The post ACA On Solid Ground Ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election first appeared on The ACA Times.

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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.