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Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI

Health Populi

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” This is the key finding in a study from PRC on the implications of nurses’ dis-engagement from their work.

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Facilitating digital transformation through sufficient technical integration

Mobi Health News

As healthcare organizations embrace new care delivery paradigms with the addition of recent technologies, they must ensure that they have sufficient technical integration to support their goals.

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APAC to double down on home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr Deok-Hyun Han, Vice CMIO of Samsung Medical Center, Oscar Lee, professor and vice superintendent of China Medical University Hospital, Low Cheng Ooi, associate professor and CTO of Sheares Healthcare, and Dr Mohammad Adib Khumaidi, president of the Indonesian Medical Association, sat together in the closing panel discussion " Th

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Costco, Sesame partner to offer low-cost care to Costco members

Mobi Health News

The wholesaler's members can access virtual and in-person appointments through Sesame's platform.

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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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What COVID Taught Us About a Train-and-Hire Program To Recruit Frontline Workers

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kyle Bachman, senior recruiter, Goshen Health. It can be hard to see any silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic. But as impacted organizations re-focused on their basics in order to survive – if not […] The article What COVID Taught Us About a Train-and-Hire Program To Recruit Frontline Workers appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 62: Digital Transformation with Laura Marquez

Healthcare IT Today

For the 62nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Laura Marquez, Senior Director for Digital Transformation at the University of Utah Health (UofU Health) , to talk all about digital transformation! We begin this episode by looking at healthcare on the East Coast and on the West Coast to see if they are different or not.

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Costco expands healthcare footprint, teams up with Sesame to offer members $29 virtual care visits

FierceHealthIT

Costco is joining retail competitors Walgreens, Walmart and CVS Health by expanding its healthcare footprint. | The big-box retailer teamed up with startup Sesame to offer special discount pricing to Costco members on a broad range of outpatient medical care services, including telehealth visits.

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How health IT's leading innovators are using AI now, and where they see it going

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AI & ML Intelligence As health systems deploy AI – using it for everything from simple process automations, to helping reduce provider burden, to advanced clinical decision support models, to expanding the possibilities of patient care – they're confronting some key challenges such as algorithmic bias, model transparency and sometimes clinician mistrust.

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Biden signs bill introducing more competition to US' organ transplant network

FierceHealthIT

President Joe Biden signed into law Friday a bipartisan bill that overhauls the country’s organ transplant system by increasing competition among contractors and paving the way for additional fundi | The bipartisan bill ends nearly four decades of an effective monopoly held by a third-party contractor and opens the door for more funding and network reforms floated by HRSA earlier this year.

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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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More than 500,000 have made organ donation decisions via NHS App

DigitalHealth

The total number of organ donation decisions registered for the first time through the NHS App has increased by over a fifth over the last year to 546,825.

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Dr. Carissa Cabán-Alemán Shares Her Advice on Getting Started in Telehealth

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. Carissa Cabán Alemán. Q. How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? A. I came across Iris because of a referral from a great friend.

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Oracle announces new generative AI services for healthcare organisations

DigitalHealth

Oracle has announced the launch of a new Clinical Digital Assistant, enabling healthcare providers to leverage the power of generative AI.

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5 Must-Haves in a Patient Financial Communication Platform

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Steven Dubner, Vice President of Product Management at Nordis Technologies No matter how exemplary the clinical care, overall patient experience and satisfaction often hinge on the last interactions with providers—billing and payments. But many patients are, in fact, unhappy with the current state: 49% of all adults and 74% of millennials would consider switching providers for a better payment experience, according to InstaMed’s 2021 annual consumer survey on

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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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YouTube fights disinformation with verification of health workers

DigitalHealth

YouTube is continuing with its efforts to verify UK health workers on its channel in a battle to tackle the growing problem of health disinformation.

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Women get less value out of their benefits than men do: Deloitte study

FierceHealthIT

Women face greater medical costs than men and, as such, are getting significantly less value out of their benefits, according to a new analysis from Deloitte. | Women face greater medical costs than men and, as such, are getting significantly less value out of their benefits, according to a new analysis from Deloitte.

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Southeast NHS Trust signs 3-year deal with health cybersecurity specialist  

DigitalHealth

Cylera, a leader in healthcare IoT intelligence and security, has signed a new three-year agreement with Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

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The Vital Role of Clinical Research Sites in DHT Deployment

ActiGraph

Once your team has made the decision to collect digital measures in your clinical trial and selected a fit-for-purpose digital health technology (DHT), it’s time to prepare to go live. This step is critical because failures during DHT deployment can result in poor data collection, ultimately limiting your insight into participants’ health and behavior during the study.

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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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Facilitating digital transformation through sufficient technical integration

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the technology landscape across the healthcare industry, and the transformation continues. Healthcare organizations around the globe are investing in new digital technologies to enhance care delivery, reduce costs, manage workforce shortages and adapt to evolving healthcare delivery patterns. Youzhi Li, PhD, director of healthcare at Keysight, said, “Newer technologies can address these common pain points, but their deployment also adds new technical hurdles.

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How commercial plans cover digital health varies widely. An AMA analysis says that's hindering progress

FierceHealthIT

While digital health still holds plenty of promise in healthcare, the lack of cohesion between Medicare, Medicaid and commercial health plans about just what digital services should be covered is a | Just how commercial plans cover digital health codes varies greatly, often leaving physicians confused about treatment options and patients uncertain about what they’ll have to pay for those services, according to the issue brief.

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Ibex Raises $55 Million in Series C Funding to Drive Global Adoption of AI for Cancer Diagnosis

Healthcare IT Today

Led by 83North, This Round of Financing Brings Total Funding to Over $100 Million Ibex Medical Analytics (Ibex) , the leader in AI-powered cancer diagnostics, today announced it has closed a $55 million Series C financing round led by 83North. Additional participants in the round were Sienna Venture Capital and existing investors in the company, Octopus Ventures, aMoon, Planven Entrepreneur Ventures, and Dell Technologies Capital.

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Black patients more often restrained by ED staff, meta-analysis finds

FierceHealthIT

Black patients are more often physically restrained in emergency departments than white patients and those of all other races are, thereby increasing their risk of physical and psychological harm a | The disproportionate frequency of physical restraints puts Black patients at risk of physical and mental adverse harm, researchers said while advocating increased investigation into any potential role individual, institutional and structural mechanisms of racism may play in the trend.

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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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Hint Introduces Hint AI at Annual Summit

Digital Health Wire

Direct primary care seemed more alive than ever at last week’s Hint Summit, which brought together physicians looking to escape the fee-for-service “hamster wheel” and companies building the tools to make that possible. That of course includes Hint Health, who introduced its new Hint AI solution to help DPC physicians focus on their patients by automatically generating visit notes.

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FSAs and HSAs Miss Opportunities to Help Americans

Connected Health Initiative

Do you have a guess when menstrual products were first categorized as allowable expenses for health flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs)? Although FSAs were first introduced in the Revenue Act of 1978 , and the forerunner to HSAs became part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, menstrual products were not an allowable medical expense until the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) in 2020!

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Estée Lauder's 8-Steps To Application Rationalization

LeanIX

Application rationalization's most challenging aspect is often where to begin. We spoke to Dawit Lessanu from Estée Lauder about how his team leveraged LeanIX EAM to develop an eight-step methodology for application portfolio optimization.

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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Arcadia and HIMSS Market Insights Unveil Key Findings

FierceHealthIT

By Michael Meucci, President and CEO, Arcadia | Market insights from HIMSS and Arcadia uncover data analytics priorities, opportunities, and challenges for health systems.

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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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A Surprising Collaboration Gives Trauma Patients a Second Chance

Society for Participatory Medicine

Emergency medicine has always been a collaborative practice, where teamwork and communication are paramount as first responders, nurses and physicians work together knowing that every second counts. While much has been written about collaboration during the clinical handover of care when paramedics bring a patient to the emergency department, there has been far less focus on the opportunity to collaboratively empower paramedics to save more lives in the prehospital setting.