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Visage Imaging launches diagnostic imaging platform for Apple Vision Pro

Mobi Health News

The company's new product, Visage Ease VP, will allow users to examine diagnostic images in an immersive world via Apple's augmented reality headset.

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'Cybersecurity matter' forces Lurie Children's Hospital to take communications, MyChart offline

FierceHealthIT

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has been working through a “cybersecurity matter” since Wednesday that has led the organization to take its phone, email and Epic MyChart systems offline, accor | Illinois' largest pediatric care provider said it took down its systems preemptively on Wednesday, leading to disruptions across its hospital and other locations.

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Balancing Innovation and Digital Transformation with Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety

Healthcare IT Today

As we continue to push the world of healthcare forward with innovation and digital transformations, it’s important to remember to do so safely. All of our progress is for naught if we can’t use any of it without breaking regulations or if it puts our patient’s safety at risk. This leaves us with one very important question. How can professionals in Health IT foster innovation and drive digital transformation within healthcare organizations while balancing the need for regulato

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Industry Voices—Embracing the advantages of virtual care

FierceHealthIT

The pandemic acted as a catalyst, propelling virtual care to the forefront of healthcare delivery. | The pandemic acted as a catalyst, propelling virtual care to the forefront of healthcare delivery.

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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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Breaking Boundaries: Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical Join Forces in Healthcare Evolution

Digital Health Global

Amazon’s pioneering pilot program is reshaping healthcare as it seamlessly integrates Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical to improve outpatient care. Amazon Pharmacy has initiated a pilot program, collaborating with One Medical to provide pharmacy consultation services for high-risk and complex care patients. One Medical, acquired by Amazon in early 2023, is a primary care service that combines in-office and 24/7 virtual care to improve the accessibility and quality of primary and chronic care

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Australia unveils a 10-Year Digital Health Blueprint

Digital Health Global

Australia has laid out an ambitious “ 10-year Digital Health Blueprint ” aimed at reimagining the country’s healthcare system, putting individuals at the center of their health and well-being journey. The Digital Health Blueprint 2023–2033 envisions a future where digital capabilities seamlessly integrate into healthcare delivery, offering personalized and connected experiences for all Australians by 2033.

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Florida Blue partners with Sanitas to run a value-based primary care center in Jacksonville

FierceHealthIT

When Florida Blue announced this week that it’s partnering with Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville to deliver primary care, officials with the company considered it in keeping with a healthcare | Among the primary care services to be offered at Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville are onsite pharmacy dispensing, chronic condition management, mental health services, labs and imaging.

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Artisight to Scale and Advance AI-Driven Smart Hospital Platform with Oversubscribed $42 Million Series B Round

Healthcare IT Today

A Crop of New Investors Joins Existing Financiers such as AI Powerhouse NVIDIA Artisight, Inc. , a smart hospital platform powered by industry-defining artificial intelligence to provide virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination solutions, announced today that it raised $42 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. Multiple new strategic and client health system investors participated in the round, as well as full participation from Series A investors, including chipma

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Providence agrees to $158M of refunds, debt erasure to settle charity care billing investigation

FierceHealthIT

Renton, Washington-based Providence has cut a deal to refund or erase $157.7 million in medical care payments following allegations and a lawsuit from its home state’s attorney general that the lar | The nonprofit health system's deal with the Washington State Attorney General over allegations it billed patients who may have qualified for charity care is "the largest resolution of its kind in the country.

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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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Pharmacy2U joins the NHS Pharmacy First service

DigitalHealth

Pharmacy2U is now able to see patients about six common ailments, to help relieve pressure on busy GPs, with the NHS Pharmacy First service.

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Healthcare CFOs are optimistic yet cautious in 2024

FierceHealthIT

While promising opportunities are arising for healthcare chief financial officers, there may also be formidable challenges ahead. | While promising opportunities are arising for healthcare CFOs, there may also be formidable challenges ahead. This insight comes from a BDO Healthcare CFO outlook report, which reveals that approximately 80% of healthcare CFOs expect improved profitability in 2024 after experiencing a similar upturn in 2023.

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University of Warwick trials AcuPebble sleep apnoea diagnostic device

DigitalHealth

Acurable's AcuPebble has been trialled at the University of Warwick to determine if it can help speed up the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea.

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Cigna Group posts $1B in profit in Q4 earnings beat

FierceHealthIT

The Cigna Group beat the Street on both profit and revenue in the fourth quarter, where it reported $1 billion in earnings. | The Cigna Group beat the Street on both profit and revenue in the fourth quarter, where it reported $1 billion in earnings.

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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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My Menopause Centre teams up with Medichecks for diagnostic testing

DigitalHealth

Medichecks and My Menopause Centre have partnered opening up access to diagnostic blood testing for the latter's patients.

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Mass General Brigham pilot: AI tool helped optimize palliative care utilization

FierceHealthIT

Artificial intelligence can help identify easy to miss patients who might be good candidates for a palliative or hospice care referral, a recent pilot at Mass General Brigham (MGB) revealed. | The pilot at Newton-Wellesley Hospital relied on an AI-driven tool from Radial. Over the course of the pilot, 9% of 1,522 MSSP ACO patients were recommended for a consult by the tool and 40 got inpatient palliative consults with the potential to generate notable savings for the ACO.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?   

DigitalHealth

Today's briefing covers the use of AI to create personalised cancer therapies and the UK Sepsis Trust welcoming new NICE sepsis guidelines.

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Enhancing Payment Integrity in Healthcare through Pre-Payment Reviews

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Tom Magnotta, COO & President at Apixio Albert Einstein famously said , “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” This quote lies at the heart of integrity, a powerful concept that applies equally critically in the healthcare payments environment as it does in daily life.

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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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Nottingham University Hospitals selects Nervecentre EPR

DigitalHealth

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the UK’s largest, has selected Nervecentre’s next-gen EPR to drive forward its digital capabilities.

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Self-sovereign identity (SSI) - the future of Health Data?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the future of health data, empowering individuals to take control of their information and fostering a more secure, transparent, and patient-centric healthcare ecosystem. Here's how: Empowering patients: Data ownership and control: SSI enables individuals to store and manage their health data in secure digital wallets, granting access to specific parties with granular control.

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Talkspace, Bicycle Health team up to cross-refer patients, expand access to virtual care

FierceHealthIT

Talkspace, an online therapy company, has teamed up with Bicycle Health, a virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment provider, to expand access to care for their patient populations through refer | For Talkspace patients, the partnership will increase access to opioid use disorder specialty care, including medications. For Bicycle Health patients, the partnership will increase access to therapists specializing in areas outside substance use disorder.

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Key Takeaways from Arab Health 2024: Integrated Healthcare Systems, Strengthening Healthcare Infrastructure, Sustainable Healthcare Practices

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: The Arab Health 2024 conference, held in Dubai from January 29th to February 1st, 2024, covered a wide range of topics, but several key talking points emerged: Future of Healthcare: Technological Disruption: AI, big data, robotics, and telemedicine were central themes, with discussions on their impact on diagnosis, treatment, and overall healthcare delivery.

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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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Clinical Utility of FEops AI-enabled Predictive Pre-planning for LAAO Demonstrated in US

Digital Health Global

Data showing FEops HEARTguide significantly improves efficiency of LAAO procedures presented at the 2024 AF symposium GENT, Belgium–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Data from the first US comprehensive single center experience at St Bernard’s Medical Center and Arrhythmia Research Group, presented at a Late-Breaking session at the AF Symposium 2024 in Boston, shows that Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (LAAO) procedures planned by means of FEops HEARTguide TM result in significantly improved procedura