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GE HealthCare receives FDA 510(k) for deep learning software

Mobi Health News

The company's Precision DL speeds up screening time, enhances the image quality of PET/CT scans and improves small lesion detection.

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What $31,065 Can Buy You: a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid, a Year at Gnomon School, or Healthcare for a Family of 4 in America

Health Populi

“Healthcare costs came roaring back in 2021” after falling in 2020. In 2023, that roaring growth in health care costs continues with expected growth of 5.6%. For 2023, you could take your $31K+ and buy a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid auto, fund a year at the Gnomon School in Hollywood toward a degree in animation or game design, or buy healthcare for your family of 4.

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GPT enabled conversational AI provider Hyro garners $20M

Mobi Health News

Hyro will use the funds to expand its workforce, grow strategic partners and further build its platform.

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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Qualitative data provided by 87 primary care practices in New York and Florida showed that while telehealth experiences differed on the basis of pre-pandemic clinician and practice familiarity with virtual care platforms, varying state regulations during the public health emergency, the lack of formal guidelines and physician burnout affected how quickly telemedicine offerings matured within practices.

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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 Has A Data Resolution Problem

Healthcare IT Today

According to Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , even if we solve the interoperability challenge in healthcare, we will still have to work to refine the data to make it useful. The quality of that data needs to be improved and the resolution of the picture it paints of a patient needs to increase. The latter is a hidden challenge that healthcare organizations are not paying enough attention to.

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Missouri nonprofit health systems BJC HealthCare, Saint Luke's targeting $10B merger

FierceHealthIT

BJC HealthCare of St. | The two organizations are hoping to close their cross-market deal by the end of the year, potentially creating a new 28-hospital, integrated, academic health system.

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The Evolution of Electronic Health Records: Overcoming Obstacles and Future Challenges

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Electronic health records (EHRs) have revolutionized the healthcare industry, streamlining patient care, improving efficiency, and enhancing communication among healthcare providers. Here, we explore the history of EHRs, highlighting the obstacles overcome throughout their development and […] The article The Evolution of Electronic Health Records: Overcoming Obstacles and Future Challenges a

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Employers hope to weather inflation without shifting healthcare costs to workers: survey

FierceHealthIT

Employers are bracing for 2024, fearing they’ll face inflation and soaring healthcare costs while still trying to recruit and retain workers in a tight labor market, a new survey shows. | Employers got something of a break last year from inflation when it comes to healthcare costs because most contracts with providers last three years. A survey by the consulting company Mercer says they won’t be so lucky in 2024.

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Good Measures Announces Donna K. Lencki as New Chief Executive Officer

Digital Health Global

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #SDoH — Good Measures , a health tech company, announced the appointment of Donna K. Lencki as Chief Executive Officer. A dynamic healthcare executive with deep industry knowledge and expertise, Donna brings extensive experience leading, transforming, and growing healthcare companies while advancing innovative and technical solutions to align with market demand.

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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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Patients, providers still see many pain points with 'digital front door' and care access, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Despite the increased adoption of digital health tools and telehealth in the past three years, patients and providers see the "digital front door" as still being a less-than-ideal entry point into | More than a quarter of patients believe the payment experience has gotten worse. Four in 10 patients said they’re likely to cancel or postpone care without an accurate cost estimate.

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ChatGPT Misses the Mark in Healthcare – What It Needs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Michael Blum, MD, Cardiologist, Co-founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI and Former Chief Medical Information Officer at UCSF Medical Center The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 (GPT3) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot sparked an unprecedented societal appreciation for the power of AI. While AI has been broadly deployed across industries for a decade, it remained mostly hidden from the typical user.

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Hospital operating margins break even in April, though Medicaid redeterminations are looming

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals’ year-to-date operations broke even in April, though a rise in bad debt and a dip in volumes suggest the upward momentum will likely be short-lived, healthcare consulting firm Kaufman Hal | Kaufman Hall's latest monthly industry report showed a 0% year-to-date median operating margin across the hospital industry as well as signs of bad debt and charity care beginning to pick up as states begin paring their Medicaid populations.

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Empowering Healthcare Excellence: The Vital Role of Clinical Asset Management

Optimum Healthcare IT

Beyond ensuring that medical devices function properly, clinical asset management remains challenging for health organizations. Continue reading Empowering Healthcare Excellence: The Vital Role of Clinical Asset Management at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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Walmart rolling out new training program for vision center staff

FierceHealthIT

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas—Retail giant Walmart will roll out a new program that aims to assist employees of its vision centers in advancing their careers. | Retail giant Walmart will roll out a new program that aims to assist employees of its vision centers in advancing their careers.

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Lilli partner with Nourish to deliver data-driven falls prevention 

DigitalHealth

Lilli, a company using machine learning (ML) to revolutionise home care, has announced a partnership with digital care management provider Nourish Care.

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Your platform, yourself – the splintering of interaction tool choices

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Rant on. So there is an upcoming meeting to attend. Now let’s see -- will it be conducted in Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting or something else? Will the meeting invite be visible to my calendar, which has Google’s 500 million users – or do I need to place myself on the calendar of the person who asked to speak with me (10 million users) and request that it also be sent to my calendar?

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NHS could take action against trusts for Facebook breach – spokesman

DigitalHealth

NHS England is investigating the transfer of private patient information from 20 trusts to Facebook and could take further action, a spokesman said.

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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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Kaiser Permanente pledges up to $10M to struggling Colorado safety net system

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente opened its wallet for a $10 million commitment to support a financially struggling Colorado safety net system, according to a Tuesday announcement. | Denver Health, which cares for a third of the city's residents, has faced rising expenses and an influx of patients in need of charity care.

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Pictura Bio receives funding for AI disease testing platform for military use

DigitalHealth

Pictura Bio has announced that it has been awarded funding to develop a prototype of its AI-powered disease testing platform for use in military settings.

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Strive Health clinches $166M from CVS Health Ventures and NEA to fuel growth

FierceHealthIT

Strive Health clinches $166M from CVS Health Ventures and NEA to fuel growth aburky Wed, 05/31/2023 - 12:45

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Empowering Healthcare Excellence: The Vital Role of Clinical Asset Management

Optimum Healthcare IT

Beyond ensuring that medical devices function properly, clinical asset management remains challenging for health organizations. Continue reading Empowering Healthcare Excellence: The Vital Role of Clinical Asset Management at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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Walmart investors vote down bid to study consumers' data privacy and reproductive rights

FierceHealthIT

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas—Walmart investors voted Wednesday to reject a push from some company shareholders to conduct an independent study on consumers' data privacy and reproductive rights. | Walmart investors voted Wednesday to reject a push from some company shareholders to conduct an independent study on abortion data privacy.

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The Root Cause of Addiction: How to Identify and Address Addiction Risk Factors

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

Imagine a puzzle with many interlocking pieces—addiction is much like that. To solve it, you must uncover the root causes and risk factors contributing to its development. So, this article will shed light on addiction’s root causes and risk factors. You’ll find the tools to identify and effectively address these underlying issues. Keep reading!

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Florence Acquires Zipnosis From Bright Health

Digital Health Wire

Florence isn’t wasting any time putting its $20M seed round to good use, picking up asynchronous telehealth platform Zipnosis off of struggling insurtech Bright Health less than two months after closing the funding. Florence was founded to unlock clinical capacity by giving patients mobile-first experiences that rival consumer industries, allowing them to update their clinical information, fill prescriptions, initiate self-discharge, and book follow-ups.

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Featured Health IT Job: Director, Application Development and Integrations

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Application Development and Integrations position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in Manhattan, New York. Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of He

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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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Hello Heart joins other digital health players taking on menopause as overlooked market gains attention

FierceHealthIT

Hello Heart joins other digital health players taking on menopause as overlooked market gains attention hlandi Wed, 05/31/2023 - 08:38

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Addressing Health Disparities through Digital Inclusion in Low-Income Racial & Ethnic Groups

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The COVID-19 crisis underscored pre-existing health disparities, including telehealth inequities , notably among financially disadvantaged racial and ethnic minority groups. Regulation changes fell short of mitigating the obstacles to telehealth accessibility among individuals in these communities. The intertwining of poverty and race led to the exacerbation of health disparities, with these demographics experiencing a lack of access to essential telehealth resources, such as appropriate devices

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Higher patient volume, insurance enrollment helps hike Highmark Health’s revenue to $6.7B in Q1

FierceHealthIT

Higher patient volume, insurance enrollment helps hike Highmark Health’s revenue to $6.

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