Tue.May 16, 2023

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The game-changing impact of AI regulation: Unlocking the potential in health care and society

KevinMD

The regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic in recent years, especially as AI systems like ChatGPT continue to grow in prominence. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, emphasizing the need for collaboration between the government and private companies to create appropriate regulations.

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Hippocratic AI launches with $50M to build large language model for healthcare

Mobi Health News

The company says its LLM model has passed over 100 healthcare certifications and surpassed GPT-4 and other commercial models’ performance.

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Getting Health Care at a Retail Pharmacy vs a Retail Store: Consumers May Be Favoring the Pharmacist Versus the Retailer

Health Populi

Not all “retail health” sites are created equal, U.S. consumers seem to be saying in a new study from Wolters Kluwer Health, the company’s second Pharmacy Next: Consumer Care and Cost Trends survey. Specifically, consumers have begun to differentiate between health care delivered at a retail pharmacy versus care offered at a retail store — such as Target or Walmart (both named as sites that offer “health clinics in department stores” in the study press release

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Voiceitt, Cisco partner to offer speech recognition for virtual meetings

Mobi Health News

Webex by Cisco will integrate Voiceitt's technology into its platform for people with non-standard speech to be easily understood during virtual calls.

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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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Health Systems Must Move “Beyond the Walls” to Support Consumers’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Hospitals’ and health systems’ core competencies have been serving patients “within the walls” of their organizations and institutions. As health systems continue to evolve value-based services while meeting patients’ consumer-oriented demands for convenience and personalization, digital transformation is required, enabling care “beyond-the-walls.” We learn more about this vision and how to map the journey to getting there in the report Integrating digi

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For Oak Orchard, telehealth relieves shortage of medical, dental and mental health pros

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 forced Oak Orchard Health, a health system based in Brockport, New York, to change the way it did almost everything at its health centers – beginning with its inability to see patients face to face. THE PROBLEM But services were needed more than ever. As a rural FQHC, it typically faced many challenges – challenges inflamed by the pandemic.

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Kaiser Permanente discloses timeline, financial commitments for its VBC megadeal with Geisinger Health

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente discloses timeline, financial commitments for its VBC megadeal with Geisinger Health dmuoio Tue, 05/16/2023 - 12:40

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Connected Health Initiative – Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill

Healthcare IT Today

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology. Vendors can help by contributing clinical efficacy studies to CHI’s new Digital Health Evidence Resource Database to bolster their advocacy efforts.

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Pear Suite Empowers Community Health Workers to Improve Health in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities

Digital Health Global

$2.5 Million in Seed Funding Expands Care Navigation Software and Partnerships with a Focus on Addressing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) with Cultural Competency HONOLULU–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pear Suite , a digital health company working to empower community health workers (CHWs) and better address the social determinants of health (SDOH), today announced its recently closed funding round.

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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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UnitedHealthcare defends controversial prior authorization policy for colonoscopies

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealthcare defends controversial prior authorization policy for colonoscopies fdiamond Tue, 05/16/2023 - 16:43

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Allurion Presents Findings from Landmark Study Evaluating Fully Remote Weight Loss Coaching Program

Digital Health Global

Proprietary, remote-only , text-based behavior change coaching program was delivered via Allurion’s Virtual Care Suite and paves way for fully automated coaching platform Study included the largest-ever qualitative evaluation of the intragastric balloon patient experience The findings were presented at the 8 th Canadian Obesity Summit in Whistler, Canada NATICK, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Allurion, a company dedicated to ending obesity, has unveiled the findings of landmark behavioral sci

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Glycation and Skin Aging: The Connection between Glucose and Wrinkles

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

Glycation is a natural process that occurs in our body when excess sugar molecules react with proteins and fats, forming advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). This process is a significant contributor to skin aging, and one of the visible signs is the formation of wrinkles. High glucose levels in our body can accelerate the glycation process […] The post Glycation and Skin Aging: The Connection between Glucose and Wrinkles appeared first on Healthystic.

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Thriva Becomes a CQC Registered Company as it Launches Membership Model Thriva+

Digital Health Global

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Thriva, the personal health platform, today announces its successful registration with the Quality Care Commision (CQC). The CQC registration enables Thriva to expand its offering into diagnosis and treatment. Thriva intends to introduce prescription and consultation services within its offering as well as further expanding its venous offering, creating an end-to-end clinically credible service that users can trust.

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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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Legislators reintroduce bill aimed at easing barriers to virtual mental health care in Medicare

FierceHealthIT

Legislators reintroduce bill aimed at easing barriers to virtual mental health care in Medicare pminemyer Tue, 05/16/2023 - 16:38

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Telepresence: Self-Viewing in Telehealth Visual Communication

Telebehavioral Health Institute

During traditional in-person conversations, individuals aren’t usually aware of their facial expressions, body language, or conduct. This changes with visual communication media, such as video chats, where one’s behavior is readily observable during the conversation. This aspect doesn’t seem to go unnoticed, as many video chat users admit they are drawn to watching their own images (O’Gieblyn, 2021 ).

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New startup aims to build generative AI for healthcare armed with $50M from General Catalyst, A16z

FierceHealthIT

New startup aims to build generative AI for healthcare armed with $50M from General Catalyst, A16z hlandi Tue, 05/16/2023 - 08:37

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Palantir and Healthcare: What could the future hold?

Lloyd Price

Intro to Palantir Palantir Technologies is a software company that specializes in big data analytics. The company has a number of products that are designed to help organizations make better decisions based on data. Palantir's products are used by a variety of industries, including healthcare. Palantir's plans for healthcare include using its products to help organizations improve patient care, reduce costs, and improve efficiency.

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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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Amino Health Secures $80 Million in Financing to Accelerate Growth and Product Innovation

Healthcare IT Today

Investment Further Validates Amino Health’s Model for Making Healthcare More Intuitive, Accessible and Convenient Through its Transformative Healthcare Guidance Solution Amino Health , the leading digital healthcare guidance company, today announced $80 million in both equity and debt financing led by Transformation Capital and Oxford Finance LLC , respectively.

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HCA Healthcare CFO: Envision Healthcare's bankruptcy won't disrupt Valesco, its recently optioned staffing JV

FierceHealthIT

HCA Healthcare CFO: Envision Healthcare's bankruptcy won't disrupt Valesco, its recently optioned staffing JV dmuoio Tue, 05/16/2023 - 17:38

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Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Data in Action

Healthcare IT Today

Just when clinicians—inspired by the HITECH act and new forms of analytics—are grappling with new uses for traditional clinical data, they are being pushed to include a far vaster data set: social determinants of health (SDoH). There are often challenges when it comes to figuring out what types of SDoH data are relevant to each patient, and how to act on it to create healthier individuals and communities.

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Industry Spotlight: Stephen McMillan and Charlotte James, Philips UKI

DigitalHealth

Stephen McMillan, solutions leader at Philips UKI, and Charlotte James, business manager CT, AMI, and radiation oncology talk to Jennifer Trueland about the benefits that AI solutions are bringing to patients, staff, and to the NHS as a whole.

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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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The Edge of Healthcare: Improving Patient Care through Connected Technologies

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest interview with Romina Elias, Healthcare Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, and Jeff Kenkel, Global CTO for Life Sciences and Edge at Dell Technologies The digital transformation of the healthcare industry is on an accelerated path, and part of this change is driven by the multitude of connected devices and sensors available.

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Dorset launch cloud-based Unified Image Sharing System from SynApps

DigitalHealth

Dorset’s three NHS provider trusts have selected enterprise content management specialist SynApps Solutions to deploy a proactive image sharing system.

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Federal appeals court grants stay in ACA preventive care ruling

FierceHealthIT

Federal appeals court grants stay in ACA preventive care ruling pminemyer Tue, 05/16/2023 - 11:58

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National CNIO the latest NHSE departure

DigitalHealth

Natasha Phillips, the national chief nursing information officer (CNIO), has become the latest departure from NHS England.

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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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Movers And Shakers In California

David Chou

Sutter Health, a renowned healthcare organization in Northern California, is reportedly in talks to acquire Sansum Clinic, a prestigious multi-specialty healthcare provider in Santa Barbara. This news, released on May 9, 2023, is set to make significant waves in the California healthcare sector. Sutter Health is well-known for its extensive network of physicians, hospitals, and comprehensive healthcare services.

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Online GP registrations reach 240,000 as new digital NHS service grows 

DigitalHealth

GP practices are being encouraged to join a new national online service which makes registering patients quicker and easier.

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Is Vaping with E-Cigarettes as Dangerous as Tobacco Addiction?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Some digital tools can be damaging or life-threatening. Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are portable electronic devices that produce vapor by heating an inhaled liquid containing nicotine, among many other potentially harmful compounds. As of 2020, there were an estimated 68 million e-cigarette users worldwide. Although e-cigarettes are often marketed as a safer alternative to traditional tobacco products ( 2017 ), scholarly controversy continues.