Mon.Jul 24, 2023

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GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. The services are available to members of GNC’s new-and-improved loyalty program, GNC PRO Access , which is priced at a fixed fee of $39.99 for one year’s membership.

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Contributed: Medicaid unwinding highlights digital divide, creates urgency for accessible technology

Mobi Health News

Doug Hirsch, cofounder and chief mission officer of GoodRx, describes how technology and addressing the digital divide can improve access to care and educational content.

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When physicians and health IT leaders embrace an 'AI as an ally' mindset

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Dhruv Suyamprakasam is CEO and founder of virtual healthcare company iCliniq. Its physician panel consists of more than 3,500 doctors from more than 80 specialties in the U.S., UK, UAE, India, Singapore and Germany. He believes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence models like it are not a threat to healthcare but an enhancement. And he says the benefits are only beginning.

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Biofourmis confirms layoffs of 120 employees globally

Mobi Health News

The company let go of 48 workers in the U.S.

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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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Consolidated hospitals leading to larger premiums and out-of-pocket spending, report finds

FierceHealthIT

As hospitals acquire ambulatory care centers, consumers are more likely to be forced to pay outpatient facility fees for routine care traditionally covered by physician offices at lower costs. | Customers are being surprised with larger medical bills to cover a hospital's operational expenses, and hospital consolidation is major driving factor, a Georgetown University report uncovered.

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Labor shortages, Medicaid redeterminations: These are the headwinds facing payers, providers this year

FierceHealthIT

While payers are facing headwinds going into the latter part of this year, the ongoing financial impacts of healthcare's labor shortage will be felt in the hospital sector far longer, according to | While payers are facing headwinds going into the latter part of this year, the ongoing financial impacts of healthcare's labor shortage will be felt in the hospital sector far longer, according to a new report from analysts at Moody's Investors Service.

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Application Rationalization: Is Complexity avoidable?

LeanIX

Application rationalization is about removing complexity from your application portfolio, but does it really work? We explore how to succeed at simplification with LeanIX.

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Dozens of studies paint private equity's provider purchases in a negative light

FierceHealthIT

A body of published academic data suggest that private equity ownership of healthcare providers frequently comes with higher costs and reduced quality, according to a systematic literature review p | Evidence of private equity ownership's detrimental impact on healthcare providers is "robust enough" to warrant greater scrutiny and possibly new regulations, researchers wrote in a recent 55-study literature review.

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The Problems and Benefits of Non-Competes in Healthcare – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 119

Healthcare IT Today

For the 119th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are diving into the world of non-competes in healthcare and looking at their pros and cons. We kick off this episode by sharing our insights on the current efforts made by the FTC to make non-competes illegal. Next, we discuss whether non-competes hinder innovation, in healthcare or any other industry.

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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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Joint Commission to revise another 200+ standards next month

FierceHealthIT

The Joint Commission unveiled the second tranche of its planned accreditation standards reduction, which will become effective Aug. 27. | The second tranche of an ongoing standards review primarily focused on accreditation requirements for non-hospital programs.

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FCI described as a ‘Greek Tragedy’

DigitalHealth

The FCI is said to be falling apart with the Chair of Trustees and CEO at logger-heads with members and a series of bitter internal power struggles.

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Virtual health can reduce industry’s carbon footprint, says Blue Shield of California

FierceHealthIT

Virtual healthcare holds the key to not only increasing patient satisf | Virtual healthcare can not only improve outcomes and the patient experience, but it can also help reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint, according to Blue Shield of California.

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Intuitive collaborates with RCS England to further RAS surgery

DigitalHealth

The Royal College of Surgeons England has formed a three-year collaboration with Intuitive to further the development of robotic assisted surgery.

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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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Global youth perspectives on digital health promotion: a scoping review

BMC Digital Health

As digital technology presents the potential to enhance the accessibility and effectiveness of health promotion campaigns, adolescents and young adults are an important target population. Young people are esta.

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Royal Marsden doubles genomic testing capacity through automation

DigitalHealth

A partnership between the Royal Marsden and Automata will see the UK’s first fully automated system for clinical cancer genomic testing.

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Digital health startup Dorsata sues Athenahealth alleging deceptive business practices and trade secret theft

FierceHealthIT

Digital health startup Dorsata has filed a lawsuit against electronic medical records software company Athenahealth and women's health practice Unified Women's Healthcare. | Digital health startup Dorsata has filed a lawsuit against electronic medical records software company Athenahealth and women's health practice Unified Women's Healthcare.

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Help Desk Updates: Your Super Weapon to Boost Clinician Productivity

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Bill Lewkowski, Vice President, Strategic Client Services at HCTec Clinicians Remain Overwhelmed, Overworked, and Burned Out. Improved EHR Help Desk Support Mitigates these Issues while Making a Positive Impact on Clinician Workflow and Patient Care. Among many well-documented pain points for clinicians is the complexity of dealing with electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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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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1upHealth spin-off GenHealth AI grabs $13M to fuel large medical model

FierceHealthIT

Generative artificial intelligence companies continue to rake in funding despite a chilly market. | GenHealth AI brought in $13 million in early funding last week that will help the company continue its work building out its large medical model, or LMM.

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How Robust Patient Intake Software Can Revolutionize the Patient Experience at Your Organization

Healee

Healthcare leaders are well aware that patient intake is the crucial first step towards exceptional patient experience. This pivotal process not only sets the tone for the entire patient-provider relationship... The post <strong>How Robust Patient Intake Software Can Revolutionize the Patient Experience at Your Organization</strong> appeared first on Healee.

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Optimum Healthcare IT Acquires eCloud Managed Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition Expands Optimum’s Cloud Services Team and Capabilities Optimum Healthcare IT , a Best in KLAS healthcare IT staffing and consulting services company, announced today that it has acquired eCloud Managed Solutions. Founded in 2016, Milton, GA-based eCloud Managed Solutions is a woman-owned organization that guides its clients through the evaluation, selection, migration, and operational processes to better support business requirements in the public cloud.

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The Health Informatics Service deploys LogRhythm Axon

DigitalHealth

The Health Informatics Service (THIS) has deployed LogRhythm Axon to provide analysts with cybersecurity protection to help manage their threat environment.

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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.