Mobi Health News
JANUARY 17, 2024
The Wearables for Metabolic Health study will use Fitbit behavioral and biometric data and laboratory tests to attain insights into metabolic health and disease prevention.
KevinMD
JANUARY 17, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize the practice of medicine by expanding our knowledge and reducing our workload. However, physicians should tread carefully and take heed of the example set by other industries. For example, AI was at the core of the negotiations in the recent 2023 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Writers Guild of Read more… What doctors can learn from actors about artificial intelligence originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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Mobi Health News
JANUARY 17, 2024
The VC firm's business venture, HATCo, announced it signed a letter of intent to purchase the nonprofit healthcare system and shift its focus to value-based care.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 17, 2024
The number of active diagnostic radiologists is expected to decline in the next decade as a slight majority become eligible for retirement. 1 Their departure will only worsen an existing gap between growing healthcare needs and a shrinking talent pool to provide them. “This gap between demand and supply of diagnostic radiologists has been going on for a while,” said BreAnne Buehl, Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions for VMware by Broadcom, a cloud computing and virtual
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FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 17, 2024
Venture capital firm General Catalyst is making good on its October promise to purchase a health system with about eight months left to spare. | The venture capital firm's deal would make the Ohio nonprofit a wholly owned subsidiary of the recently launched Health Assurance Transformation Corp. The deal still requires regulatory approval.
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 17, 2024
As the U.S. | The new program from Bloomberg Philanthropies and major systems like Mass General Brigham, HCA Healthcare and Northwell Health will build new or refurbish existing high schools in 10 urban and rural communities.
DigitalHealth
JANUARY 17, 2024
NHS England has written a letter to health service leaders reminding them of their requirement to submit nationally mandated returns during EPR launch.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 17, 2024
Forta, a family-powered autism therapy startup, has raised $55 million in a series A round. | Forta is trying to fill the gap in accessible therapy services for autism by training parents to become behavior technicians to treat their own kids.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 17, 2024
In this article I interview three high-level executives who made the transition from the clinical IT setting—running hospitals—to digital IT settings that develop health apps and services. I asked these industry leaders why readers might want to move into a CIO-type position in a health IT firm vs a hospital or health system, what makes a good candidate for such a position, and what to expect after the change.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 17, 2024
Cancer deaths in the United States are falling, with more than 4 million fewer deaths since 1991. | Cancer deaths in the United States are falling, with more than 4 million fewer deaths since 1991. But, this progress is jeopardized by increasing incidence for 6 of the top 10 cancers as the projected number of new diagnoses now tops 2 million for the first time, according to new data from the American Cancer Society.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 17, 2024
The following is a guest article by Ritesh Ramesh, CEO at MDaudit Safeguarding revenues in the coming year requires healthcare systems to proactively navigate an evolving landscape with cross-functional collaboration, technological innovation, and increased AI investments. Additionally, going into 2024 operational excellence is the table stakes for healthcare organizations to improve bottom lines, and where AI and automation can provide a boost in productivity and costs.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 17, 2024
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has closed a deal to scoop up 55 FastMed urgent care clinics operating in the Tarheel State. | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has closed a deal to scoop up 55 FastMed urgent care clinics operating in the Tarheel State.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 17, 2024
Constellation Software Inc. (Constellation) , today announced its wholly-owned subsidiary N. Harris Computer Corporation (Harris) , a global vertical market software provider, has acquired MEDHOST, Inc. (MEDHOST) , a leading electronic health record solution provider. Harris will continue to operate MEDHOST as a stand-alone business headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.
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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.
DigitalHealth
JANUARY 17, 2024
Today's briefing finds that AI could be used to combat vaccine hesitancy and a report that a provider of PACs system has partnered with an AI developer.
ActiGraph
JANUARY 17, 2024
The adoption of wearable Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) to measure outcomes of interest in clinical trials is rising. Digital outcome measures can improve upon or complement existing patient reported outcomes by objectively and continuously assessing patient behaviors in a real-world environment. One of the benefits compared to traditional measures, which often only capture snapshots in time or collect measures in a laboratory setting, is a more patient-centric outcome measure that reflects
DigitalHealth
JANUARY 17, 2024
The COVID-19 testing platform, Coronalab.eu, has exposed a database containing 11.8 million patient records, according to a report in Cybernews.
NiftyHMS
JANUARY 17, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare by making patient care smarter and more effective. From accurate diagnostics to optimized treatment strategies, AI is playing a vital role in elevating the standards of healthcare and ensuring better outcomes for patients. Here are some key benefits and importance of AI in the healthcare industry: Helps Doctors and Nurses: AI makes it easier for healthcare workers by doing routine tasks, so they can focus on helping patients better.
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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!
DigitalHealth
JANUARY 17, 2024
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has joined the LungIMPACT study to help gather evidence into AI-assisted lung cancer diagnosis.
Society for Participatory Medicine
JANUARY 17, 2024
Our goal for the Society for Participatory Medicine in 2023 was to expand awareness of participatory medicine ([PM)] and SPM post-Covid and build new insights into the value of PM. We developed two curriculum modules, one on participatory medicine and the other on health equity for Health Union, who became a gold member in 2023. The curriculum is now being used as part of the certification course Health Union has developed for patient leaders of its online, condition-specific communities.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 17, 2024
Two top leaders at Cigna will be taking on expanded roles with the company. | Two top leaders at Cigna will be taking on expanded roles with the company.
Digital Health Wire
JANUARY 17, 2024
Major inefficiencies are often caused by pixel-sized pain points that are hard to see one at a time, so Artisight just closed $42M in Series B funding to help hospitals combine those pixels into high resolution images of their operations. To unlock new efficiency gains , Artisight is turning to new methods. Its Smart Hospital Platform consists of ambient IoT sensors coupled with two-way audio and video, improving the coordination of people and processes so that clinicians can focus on caring for
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.
ACA Times
JANUARY 17, 2024
With the New Year well underway, the IRS has begun assessing new ACA penalties, setting the tone for compliance in 2024. Earlier this month we received notice from a new… The post IRS Now Issuing 2021 Letter 226J Penalties first appeared on The ACA Times.
ActiGraph
JANUARY 17, 2024
Regulatory guidance plays a pivotal role in shaping the ecosystem of clinical research and healthcare. After a decade of exploration with wearable sensors in industry research and decades of use in academic research, we welcomed the final release of the FDA guidance " Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Aquisition in Clinical Investigations ” last month.
HIStalk Interviews
JANUARY 17, 2024
Mark Burgess is president of North America of Agfa HealthCare.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 17, 2024
To combat growing criticism of prior authorization delays by payers, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a rule Wednesday that requires health plans to send prior authorization d | In a Wednesday morning rule drop by CMS, the Biden Administration warned payers they will soon be required to give a reason for denying a prior authorization request, as well as require plans to meet a quicker response timeline.
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Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 17, 2024
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.
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