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If surgery is so precise, why are we leaving outcomes up to chance?

KevinMD

It is well known that today there is significant variability in surgical outcomes – not only in different parts of the world, but even within the hospital. And, little understanding as to why. While video is becoming a key component of surgery, up until now, it has gone largely uncaptured, making it impossible for surgeons Read more… If surgery is so precise, why are we leaving outcomes up to chance?

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Salesforce launches healthcare data platform Einstein Copilot: Health Actions

Mobi Health News

The software company is launching its new AI-powered healthcare product that uses health organization's data to personalize patient care to reduce administrative tasks.

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WellSpan Health expands AI-powered clinical documentation applications at scale

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Nuance on Wednesday that announced that York, Pennsylvania-based WellSpan Health and more than 60 additional healthcare organizations are in the process of implementing DAX Copilot embedded within Epic electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS DAX Copilot is currently the only fully embedded ambient documentation tool currently operational within Epic electronic health records and has more than 55 healthcare organizations using it, Nuance said in the announcement.

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WellSpan Health aims to improve the patient experience with Nuance’s DAX copilot

Mobi Health News

DAX copilot will be embedded into Epic systems and use generative AI to help providers focus more on patients and less on administrative tasks such as clinical notes.

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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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Mark Cuban's drug company inks first health system partnership to sell directly to Community Health Systems

FierceHealthIT

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company has found its first national health system buyer for hospital drugs currently in short supply. | The 71-hospital for-profit is the first national health system buyer to cut a deal with the billionaire-backed generic drug maker. The companies are kicking off their partnership in CHS' Texas and Pennsylvania hospitals.

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ICHRA is having a moment. VCs are taking notice and looking to invest in the emerging space

FierceHealthIT

Individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements, otherwise known as ICHRA, are enjoying a surge in popularity. | Venture capital firms are looking toward the ICHRA market as a potential opportunity because of its growing popularity among small employers and remote companies.

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Magentus takes shot at genAI with Google Cloud and more partnership briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Medibank's health service unit has tied up with Amwell to support the virtual delivery of its new preventative care program.

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Hackensack Meridian hospitals first to attain Joint Commission's new sustainability certification

FierceHealthIT

Four Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) hospitals are the first in the country to achieve the Joint Commission’s sustainable healthcare certification. | Four Hackensack Meridian Health hospitals are the first in the country to achieve the Joint Commission’s sustainable healthcare certification. The voluntary program for hospitals went into effect at the start of this year and provides a framework to help organizations tackle decarbonization efforts.

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The Role of Remote Monitoring In Rural Communities: How Can It Provide Better Patient Care?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jared Lisenby, chief sales officer, Azalea Health. Telehealth services have become more popular, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted its importance as a necessary solution for rural health clinics (RHCs). RHCs face distinct business […] The article The Role of Remote Monitoring In Rural Communities: How Can It Provide Better Patient Care?

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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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Biden to call for drug negotiation expansions, stronger reproductive care access at SOTU

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare policy wins and promises of further action on prescription drug prices, insurance coverage and reproductive care access are primed for the spotlight when President Joe Biden takes the ro | Speech previews from the White House celebrate and call for expansions to the Inflation Reduction Act. Reproductive care is also expected to headline, as are efforts around coverage parity and antitrust.

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UK health IT community loses one of its brightest and warmest stars

DigitalHealth

Ewan Davis, one of the most original and influential thinkers in UK health IT, and particularly primary care and open platforms, passed away suddenly last month.

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Fijoya Raises 8.3M Seed Funding to Pioneer AI-Powered Platform for Employer-Sponsored Healthcare

Digital Health Global

Funding Round Led by Team8 TEL AVIV–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fijoya, a highly personalized platform for employer-sponsored health and wellness services, announced today an $8.3M funding round led by the Venture-Creation fund of Team8. Employer-sponsored healthcare is a $1.5 trillion industry riddled with escalating costs, administrative overload, and underutilized benefits.

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Health Leaders cautiously welcome £3.4 billion NHS investment in digital

DigitalHealth

Health leaders have given a cautious welcome to the Spring budget's announcement of £3.4 billion of investment in NHS digitisation.

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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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Top Patient Experience Announcements from ViVE2024

Xealth

Seven announcements related to patient experience stood out from the hundreds that shared at ViVE2024: Xealth, GE Healthcare + Biofourmis, Clearstep + Tufts Medicine, WVU Medicine + Hyro, Extreme Networks, 98point6, Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network + Quantum Health.

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HealthSnap Closes $25 Million Series B Funding Amidst Continued Triple Digit Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Platform

Healthcare IT Today

New Investment is Led by Sands Capital, with Participation from Comcast Ventures, and Follows Enterprise Health System Expansions HealthSnap , a Miami-based Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) solution for healthcare providers, today announced its Series B financing totaling $25 million. The round was led by Sands Capital , with new investments from Comcast Ventures , Acronym Venture Capital , and Florida Opportunity Fund.

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AI Governance Vs Adoption: Innovation Without Risk

LeanIX

Artificial intelligence has tremendous potential, but it also poses risks for both security and hallucination. Discover how you can ensure safe AI use in your organization without holding back your team from leveraging AI for ideation and innovation.

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Home-Based Care Provides Powerful Example for Harnessing Technology Across the Care Continuum

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Laura Templeton , Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at Compassus There’s no denying that increased delivery of patient care in the home was accelerated by the pandemic. The upward trend continues today, driven by the growth of our aging population and the continued adoption of technology. Many patients now prefer to receive care at home, when possible, and almost 93% of older adults say aging in place is important to them.

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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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EPR focus is “blinkered” and attention should be elsewhere – Steve Sawyer

DigitalHealth

Access HSC managing director Steve Sawyer has said that it is “blinkered” to solely look at and worry about EPRs because “it is not about the EPR anymore”.

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First Analysis Invests in Dina, Provider of Home-Centered Care Coordination Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Digital Network Management and Coordination Solutions to Help Health Plans and Providers Improve Access to Home Centric Care First Analysis , a leading venture capital investor, has made a new investment in Dina , a provider of digital network management and coordination solutions for the Medicare Advantage and Managed Medicaid markets, with a focus on coordinating supplemental benefits and long-term services and supports (LTSS).

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Challenging Innovators to Design for Older Adults: 2014 -2024

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In the tech innovation world, a decade is both a long and short time. In 2014, AARP’s Health Innovation @50+ sponsored a report, Challenging Innovators: Matching Offerings to the Needs of Older Adults. It was published in June of 2014 in conjunction with a Venture Summit event run by Mary Furlong and Associates. This was exactly a decade prior to this year’s What’s Next Longevity Venture Summit.

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Wheel partners with Talkspace, Cost Plus Drugs and Health Gorilla to build out virtual care network

FierceHealthIT

Austin, Texas-based Wheel continues to build out its health tech partnerships to integrate more virtual care capabilities into its platform. The company has added three big healthcare players— | Austin, Texas-based Wheel continues to build out its health tech partnerships to integrate more virtual care capabilities into its platform. The company has added three big healthcare players—Talkspace, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company and Health Gorilla—to its virtual care network.

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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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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

Today's briefing includes NHS England publishing guidance on network segmentation and Sonari Analytics and Candel Therapeutics announcing a partnership.

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Evernorth expands GLP-1 program, unveils new Behavioral Health Care Group

FierceHealthIT

As part of its investor day on Thursday, Cigna's Evernorth arm announced an expansion to its GLP-1 management solution as well as the launch of a new behavioral-health-focused medical group. | As part of its investor day on Thursday, Cigna's Evernorth arm announced an expansion to its GLP-1 management solution as well as the launch of a new behavioral health-focused medical group.

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A Deep Dive Into Epic’s Partnership with Microsoft and Nuance Including Integration with DAX Copilot

Healthcare IT Today

We’ve written a number of articles on the Nuance DAX (now called Nuance DAX Copilot aligning with Microsoft’s Copilot) ambient clinical voice solution. Nuance and Microsoft recently announced that DAX Copilot was going to be fully embedded in Epic’s Haiku and Hyperdrive to provide Epic users easy access to the DAX copilot solution.

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Times are hard, but trusts can still make positive IT choices

DigitalHealth

Chief information officers can make future-proof investment decisions to support their clinical colleagues, drive efficiency and improve outcomes, even when budgets are tight and a general election is on the way, writes Rebecca Wise at Clanwilliam UK.

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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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10 Ways NCQA Accreditation Consulting Revolutionizes Your Organization

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Explore 10 transformative benefits of NCQA accreditation consulting services for healthcare excellence and compliance in our latest insight post. The post 10 Ways NCQA Accreditation Consulting Revolutionizes Your Organization appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions.

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ViVE24: Healthcare Goes Hollywood

Xealth

Being one of the first major healthcare conferences in Los Angeles in a while, we spent the better part of last week at ViVE, February 25-28, an event where “digital health executives go to do business.” After a break from the Rebel Yell of Billy Idol during ViVE’s Industry Night, here are some of our observations: Conversations were either serious about the here and now – what is the ROI next month?

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Payer Roundup—Elevance Health wins reversal of star ratings decision; Humana expands partnership

FierceHealthIT

Below is a roundup of payer-centric news for the week of March 4, 2024. | This week, the CMS concedes to Elevance Health on its star ratings verdict, Humana grows its kidney disease partnership and a new report finds the government is not enforcing its copay accumulator regulations.

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