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Q&A: Moon Surgical's Maestro System and assisting in laparoscopic surgery

Mobi Health News

Anne Osdoit, CEO of Moon Surgical, discusses the company's commercial version of its surgical robotics system that recently assisted laparoscopic surgeons in France.

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

Clinicians’ feeling burnout is the top morale challenge facing U.S. doctors, driven by turnover and understaffing, compassion fatigue, and challenges using digital tools — think EHRs. T he 2023 BDO Clinician Experience Survey “takes on” clinician burnout, connecting the strategic dots between the clinician experience and the patient experience.

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Midi Health expands women's care access in all 50 states

Mobi Health News

The California-based virtual women's healthcare company will be available to employers nationwide beginning January 2024.

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NHS England has not yet proven its case on FDP

DigitalHealth

With the award of the Federated Data Platform contract said to be delayed until mid-November, NHS England appears to be seeking to drum up support for it.

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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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HHS proposes info blocking 'disincentives' for hospitals, clinician groups, ACOs

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its plan to keep healthcare providers in line with data blocking requirements. | Providers determined to have committed information blocking would face changes to their status in certain Medicare programs, and subsequently a hit to program payments. Enforcement would begin once the proposed rule is finalized.

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Biden to sign sweeping executive order pursuing 'safe, secure and trustworthy' AI development

FierceHealthIT

President Joe Biden is set to sign a sweeping executive order establishing new safety, security and equity standards for artificial intelligence, including its use within the healthcare industry.

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“We need to proceed with caution” as AI develops says Dr Halliday

DigitalHealth

President of The Royal College of Radiologists Dr Katherine Halliday has said that “we need to proceed with caution” as AI in healthcare develops.

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Toku joins Innovators’ Network at American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation

Digital Health Global

American Heart Association consortium advances development of evidence-based health tech solutions SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Toku Inc, a provider of an AI-based screening tool for detection of cardiovascular risk through retinal imaging, has joined the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation’s (the Center) Innovators’ Network.

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Healthcare AI Edition: Buy or Sell – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 126

Healthcare IT Today

For the 126th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are once again back with everyone’s favorite game: Buy or Sell, only this time we are doing a special AI edition! For anyone who’s new or would like a reminder, in these episodes, we select a list of topics and then debate whether we believe something will happen or will have an impact on health IT (ie. we ‘buy’ it) or if we don’t think it will happen or it’ll have no impact (ie. we ‘sell’ it)

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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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Global Coalition on Aging, partners launch community health initiative to address CVD in Baltimore

FierceHealthIT

The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) has teamed up with local leaders to launch a community health initiative in Baltimore focused on addressing cardiovascular disease. | Supported by Novartis, the program is focused on reducing health inequities through community-led programming including health education, healthy food and preventive cardiovascular screening.

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WellSky Acquires Corridor, Expands Commitment to Offering Best-in-Class Coding, Revenue Cycle Management Services for Post-Acute Industry

Healthcare IT Today

The Combined Companies will Work Together to Bolster Providers’ Ability to Improve Financial Performance and Succeed in Value-Based Care Arrangements WellSky , a leading health and community care technology company, announced today that it has acquired Corridor , an end-to-end tech-enabled services platform designed for the post-acute care industry’s toughest challenges, from HealthEdge Investment Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm.

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White Paper: RPM for CCM & Improved Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure and Hypertension

Clear Arch Health

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has demonstrated great potential to significantly benefit health management for patients with chronic conditions, such as heart failure and hypertension. RPM allows patients to track their health data at home and transmit it to their healthcare providers for review, assessment, and intervention, as needed. Convenient access to the actionable patient data gathered through connected care technology enables providers to identify potential problems early on, adjust me

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Dr. Valerie King-Ernst Shares How Virtual Care Compares to In-Person Care

Iris Telehealth

Iris clinicians are at the heart of what makes our organization such a special place to work. That’s why we’re turning the spotlight on the amazing work they’re doing every day. This month, we’re sitting down to talk with Dr. Valerie King-Ernst. Q. How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? A. I had been getting inundated with emails from telehealth companies.

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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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Warning on AI and Data in mental health: ‘Patients are drowning’

DigitalHealth

AI and Data innovators need to act now to prevent patient harm using digital tools to support mental health, said a speaker at Digital Health AI and Data.

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Tenet Healthcare beats on higher volumes, strong acuity, modest physician fee growth in Q3

FierceHealthIT

Tenet Healthcare dual strategy of rapid ambulatory surgical center additions and a shift toward high-acuity hospital care capabilities paid off in the third quarter, with earnings from both sides o | Executives hailed their company's two-pronged strategy of ASC growth and high-acuity hospital service lines for volume and revenue growth. Meanwhile, Tenet stood out from its peers this earnings season with a 15% rise in professional fees that landed "in line" with the company's

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Generative AI masterclass: focus on problem-solving and be confident

DigitalHealth

Generative AI has the ability to be transformational as long as both clinicians and entrepreneurs working in the space are focused on problem-solving.

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Abridge Lands $30M As AI Race Heats Up

Digital Health Wire

Momentum makes magic, and few startups have more of it than AI medical scribe Abridge after landing $30M in Series B funding from Spark Capital and high-profile strategics like CVS Health, Kaiser Permanente, and Mayo Clinic. Abridge’s generative AI platform converts patient-provider conversations into structured note drafts in real-time, slashing hours from administrative burdens by generating summaries that rarely require further input (clinicians edit less than 9%).

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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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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

Today's briefing reports that patients preparing for surgery in Hull can get on-demand VR resources and that an AI-powered lamp is reducing care home falls.

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DocGo investor hits company with class-action lawsuit

FierceHealthIT

The hits keep coming for embattled health company DocGo. | An investor filed a proposed class-action lawsuit Friday against the company and five current and former members of its top brass, aiming to recover losses they suffered amid recent controversy.

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Accurx launches five-point plan for modern general practice access

DigitalHealth

Accurx, the communications platform powering 98% of GP practices, announces today a commitment to help 1,000 GP surgeries tackle the 8am rush.

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Private insurer analysis uncovers geographic price variations

FierceHealthIT

Patient office visit costs were lowest in counties in Florida and the central U.S., and prices were the highest in the upper Midwest and Southeast, according to health payer Humana’s negotiated rat | In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers found that the cost of patient office visits varied by region, with the highest costs typically in the upper Midwest and Southeast.

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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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Sustainable population health requires getting “everyone in the same room” 

DigitalHealth

Sustainable and inclusive population health requires a number of prerequisites, including good leadership and appropriate technology.

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UK and Middle East healthcare organisations launch AMR Innovation Programme  

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

A new AMR Innovation Programme launched at Global Health today (30 October), opened by Professor Steve Field, UK Special Healthcare Representative to Saudi Arabia. Professor Field raised the need for new health technologies to meet the UK government’s priority to contain and control antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by 2040. The new programme targeting AMR, led by Healthcare Innovation Consortium in collaboration with Mecomed and Barts Life Sciences , is targeting healthtech innovators in the UK,

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New £100M fund to use AI’s potential in life sciences and healthcare

DigitalHealth

A new mission announced by the Prime Minister will accelerate the use of AI in life sciences to tackle the biggest health challenges of our generation.

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President Biden's executive order on AI directs HHS to establish safety program

Mobi Health News

The White House plan for "safe, secure and trustworthy" artificial intelligence wants the Department of Health and Human Services to have a mechanism in place to collect reports of "harms or unsafe healthcare practices," and act to remedy them.

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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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Generative AI for Mental Wellness: Balancing the Potential, Cybersecurity, and Ethics

Healthcare IT Today

This is a guest article by Srija Saha and Aryyama Kumar Jana. Srija is a Member of the Technical Staff at a leading Cloud and database services provider. Aryyama is a Software Development Engineer with an E-commerce and cloud computing giant. This article is solely the opinions of Srija and Aryyama and is in no way representative of the viewpoints of their employers.

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Enterprise Architecture: Data Is The Key To Democratization

LeanIX

Enterprise architecture management is far more than just an ivory tower exercise. Learn to empower your EA function with democratized data.

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