Wed.Jun 21, 2023

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Predictive Analytics in Healthcare: Where RPM Fits In

Health Recovery Solutions

Predictive analytics is a rapidly evolving field with tremendous potential for transforming healthcare delivery. As more data becomes available and predictive analytics technology advances, its impact on healthcare will only continue to grow. In fact, the healthcare predictive analytics market size is expected to witness more than 22% growth by 2028.

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AI-enabled administrative task company Outbound AI scores $16M

Mobi Health News

The company offers AI-powered virtual agents that perform revenue cycle-related administrative tasks.

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HCA Healthcare accused of pushing patients toward end-of-life care to boost performance metrics

FierceHealthIT

A pair of new reports released this week allege that HCA Healthcare policies are encouraging staff to transition more patients to palliative and end-of-life care, thereby increasing churn and boost | Two reports, one based on dozens of employee interviews and the other on policies and discharge statistics, paint a picture of internal policies encouraging transfers to boost quality metrics and free up hospital beds.

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Caraway raises $16.75M to expand virtual care platform for Gen Z

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to scale its women-focused platform and services.

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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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Healthcare dealmaking 'resilient' despite regulatory, economic headwinds: PwC

FierceHealthIT

Even in the face of substantial headwinds, dealmaking in the healthcare industry hasn't fallen off, according to a new analysis from PwC. | Even in the face of substantial headwinds, dealmaking in the healthcare industry hasn't fallen off, according to a new analysis from PwC.

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Commonwealth Fund gives healthcare in southeastern states failing grades across the board

FierceHealthIT

The southeastern region of the U.S. | The southeastern region of the U.S. scored worst across the board in the Commonwealth Fund’s annual scorecard on states' healthcare system performance.

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Altis Labs Raises US $6 Million in Seed Funding Co-Led by Debiopharm and Benchstrength to Advance AI Platform for Clinical Trials

Digital Health Global

Debiopharm Innovation Fund and Benchstrength co-lead seed funding round supporting Altis’ AI-powered imaging biomarker platform TORONTO & LAUSANNE, Switzerland & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Altis Labs, Inc. (“Altis”), the computational imaging company accelerating clinical trials with artificial intelligence, today announces the closing of its US $6 million seed financing.

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Meet Paige Bonin – BI Developer

Optimum Healthcare IT

CareerPath-graduate Paige Bonin shares her journey to becoming a BI Analyst and her passion for healthcare IT. Continue reading Meet Paige Bonin – BI Developer at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Loyal Announces Austin Pauls as Chief Financial Officer

Digital Health Global

Brings strong financial leadership skills to continue scaling Loyal’s business ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Loyal , the preferred digital health platform for improved care utilization by the nation’s leading health systems and hospitals, announced today it has named Austin Pauls as Loyal’s first Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Pauls will work cross-functionally to identify and fulfill opportunities for continued growth and operational excellence.

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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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Meet Paige Bonin – BI Developer

Optimum Healthcare IT

CareerPath-graduate Paige Bonin shares her journey to becoming a BI Analyst and her passion for healthcare IT. Continue reading Meet Paige Bonin – BI Developer at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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How Are You Looking to Incorporate AI and Technology like ChatGPT Into Healthcare?

Healthcare IT Today

AI and technology like ChatGPT are only becoming more and more present in our conversations for the future of healthcare. In many ways, these conversations are optimistic, thinking of all the ways that AI can change the world. But there are still plenty of fear in these tools, as it’s hard not to worry about being replaced by a robot. This is what we are talking about today, AI and technology like ChatGPT and their presence in healthcare.

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Special Report: Imaging

DigitalHealth

The regionalisation of NHS imaging services facilitated by the cloud is a promising stepping-stone towards more integrated care. AI's potential, however, is taking longer than expected to be fulfilled. By Owen Hughes.

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39K people told to get new coverage as North Carolina puts Friday Health Plans into receivership

FierceHealthIT

The death spiral for Friday Health Plans continues, as insurance officials in North Carolina placed the troubled insurer into receivership and

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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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Next Labour government needs to learn from IT failures of the past

DigitalHealth

Labour is committed to digital and pinning hopes of NHS renewal on AI. But the shadow Health Secretary should understand there are no easy wins in digital transformation.

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Pennsylvania community health system pursuing affiliation with UPMC

FierceHealthIT

UPMC has signed a non-binding letter of intent to affiliate Washington Health System, a two-hospital nonprofit community health system based in Pennsylvania, according to a release shared Tuesday.< | Two-hospital Washington Health System said it chose UPMC over competitor Allegheny Health Network due to the organizations' long history of clinical collaborations.

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TidalSense AI device improves accuracy of COPD diagnoses

DigitalHealth

A review of clinical studies has confirmed that the TidalSense AI-powered N-Tidal device can improve the accuracy of COPD diagnoses.

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Cincinnati Children's takes Boston Children's spot at top of US News' contentious ranking

FierceHealthIT

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has dethroned Boston Children’s Hospital in the latest release of U.S. | A change in the annual list's methodology that deemphasized expert opinion helped Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center top the nine-year champion Boston Children's Hospital.

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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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Kooth to deliver digital mental health support in Inverclyde

DigitalHealth

Kooth has been commissioned to deliver free, confidential and personalised digital mental health support for 16-26-year-olds in the Inverclyde area.

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Aledade clinches $260M to fuel tech M&A, expand value-based care solutions for practices

FierceHealthIT

The health tech industry may be in the middle of a market downturn but Aledade has picked up more than $380 million in venture capital dollars in the past 12 months. | The health tech industry may be in the middle of a market downturn but Aledade has picked up more than $380 million in venture capital dollars in the past 12 months.

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University Hospitals of Leicester choose Accurx for innovation partnership

DigitalHealth

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has signed an Innovation Partnership agreement with Accurx, a software company joining up healthcare communication around each patient. Like all NHS Trusts, UHL is aiming to bring down its elective backlog and address long waiting lists for patients.

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Chicago Social Worker Indicted for Telehealth Medical Billing Fraud

Telebehavioral Health Institute

According to a federal indictment returned in the Northern District of Illinois, the US Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois, in a press release dated May 11, 2023, the operators of a suburban Chicago company, along with a social worker, allegedly engaged in a fraudulent scheme to unlawfully obtain over $1.16 million for medical billing fraud from Medicare.

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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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John Quinn to be named new NHS CIO

DigitalHealth

John Quinn, the current interim NHS England CIO, is set to be confirmed as the new NHS England CIO, following a lengthy recruitment process.

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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future. With inflation brings financial concerns that lead to cost-cutting efforts often resulting in poorer health outcomes from millions of Americans.

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Pharmacy2U sees demand grow for NHS new medicine service

DigitalHealth

Pharmacy2U has become the number one provider of the NHS new medicine service, after a 68% increase in users of the service.

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Patient-centeredness and acceptability of remotely delivered physical therapy care for musculoskeletal disorders in four large hospitals within the Military Health System

BMC Digital Health

Physical therapy services delivered remotely are becoming more common. The purpose was to summarize the acceptability and patient-centeredness of remotely delivered physical therapy.

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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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Featured Health IT Job: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Sr. Infrastructure Engineer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in either the Albany, New York or Manhattan, New York office.

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Zocdoc's new integration with Elation Health's EHR expected to decrease wait times, increase timely care

FierceHealthIT

Up until recently, patients could search for providers on Zocdoc, check to see if that provider takes their insurance and then book an appointment. | Providers’ schedules are now seamlessly connected with the Zocdoc platform to decrease tedious work for office staff and allow for real-time additions of appointments on the online marketplace to help optimize scheduling.

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Aledade Closes $260M for VBC Enablement

Digital Health Wire

If we’re in a digital health funding rut, Aledade definitely missed the memo. The primary care enablement company just raised what looks like its “ last funding round needed ” after securing an eye-popping $260M in Series F capital. Aledade partners with independent primary care practices to establish tech-enabled accountable care organizations.