Thu.Jul 27, 2023

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AWS offers generative AI documentation through API, medical imaging at scale

Mobi Health News

Powered by Amazon Bedrock, AWS will now offer artificial intelligence to quickly create clinical notes that can be added to EHRs. A new imaging service, meanwhile, could help reduce costs compared to self-managed infrastructure.

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Pharmacy Plays a Growing Role in Consumers’ Health @Retail – J.D. Power’s 2023 Rankings

Health Populi

“Brick-and-mortar pharmacies forge meaningful connections with customers” through conversations between pharmacists and patients, “on a first-name basis.” This quote comes from Christopher Lis, managing director of global healthcare intelligence at J.D. Power who released the company’s annual 2023 U.S. Pharmacy Study today, the 15th year the research has been conducted.

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Microsoft, Blue Shield of California partner for integrated data hub

Mobi Health News

The Experience Cube platform will employ the tech giant's cloud computing services to create a more personalized experience for Blue Shield's members.

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1000Farmacie Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding, with an Additional $10 Million in Second Tranche Extension

Digital Health Global

MILAN (27 July 2023) – 1000Farmacie , the leading Italian pharmacy marketplace, announced today the successful completion of its second tranche of Series A funding , raising a total of $25 million. The company secured an additional $10 million in the extension round , highlighting investor confidence and further accelerating the company’s mission to revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry.

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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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Talkspace reports increased B2B payor revenue, reaffirms break-even goal

Mobi Health News

The company reported a 19% increase in revenue in the second quarter of this year compared to the prior year, driven by an 82% increase in B2B revenue.

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How Automated Lineage Improves Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ernie Ostic , Chief Evangelist at Manta The healthcare industry creates a vast amount of data each year — roughly 30% of worldwide data — the bulk of which must conform with regulatory standards. That data lives in a complex and evolving ecosystem, integrated with multiple applications and infrastructures, creating countless dependencies.

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AWS rolls out generative AI service for healthcare documentation software

FierceHealthIT

Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday a new AI-powered service for healthcare software providers that will help clinicians with paperwork. | AWS HealthScribe uses generative AI and speech recognition to help doctors transcribe and analyze their conversations with patients and drafts clinical notes.

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Exclusive: DHI research reveals the barriers to digital communications with patients

DigitalHealth

Effective digital communication with patients could make the NHS more efficient and deliver huge benefits for patients, so how much progress has been made?

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HCA reports $1.2B profit, 7% YoY revenue growth for Q2 2023, adjusts guidance

FierceHealthIT

Editor's note: This story was updated with executive comments from Thursday morning's earnings call. | Executives said that volumes, revenue payer mix and labor improvements were consistent across nearly all of its service lines and divisions, prompting an upward adjustment to 2023 guidance.

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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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Every NHS trust on track to have an EPR by March 2026 says Vin Diwakar

DigitalHealth

Every trust across the NHS is currently on track to have an electronic patient record in place by March 2026, Dr Vin Diwakar revealed at Summer Schools.

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IoMT – Helping Data Reach Its Full Potential

Healthcare IT Today

The importance of data in healthcare has been beaten into our heads again and again and again. Healthcare runs on data, all good decisions are backed by data, etc. I think we’re all on the same page about making sure our organizations have all of the healthcare and patient data we can get our hands on. But in repeating the simple message that data is important, we tend to leave out that even more important is the ability to properly manage it to make it accessible, especially with the shee

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Case for digital transformation funding needs to be strengthened – Quinn

DigitalHealth

The CIO of NHS England has told Digital Health Summer Schools he intends to champion adequate funding for the digitisation of the health service.

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Women in medicine often delay starting families, face infertility challenges, study finds

FierceHealthIT

Women physicians often delay starting a family, in part due to career-related pressures and the hours required for medical training and residency programs. The competing priorities of parenthood an | Female physicians are not paid as well as their male counterparts nor do they have the same career opportunities. A study in JAMA Network Open links those problems, and high infertility rates, to women delaying starting families due to career-related pressures.

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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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Previous and future digital leaders reflect on priorities at Summer Schools

DigitalHealth

Past Digital Health Networks leaders look back at 10 years of Summer Schools and the incoming chairs of the Advisory Panels set out their priorities.

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Medicare patients more likely to get breast, colorectal cancer screenings

FierceHealthIT

Researchers found that once joining Medicare, patients are 50% more likely to get health screenings for breast cancer and colorectal cancer. | A study analyzing more than 20 million patients found that breast cancer and colorectal cancer screening rates increasing by 50% once joining Medicare coverage.

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Overcoming Telehealth Challenges in Home Health & Hospice

Health Recovery Solutions

Florence Kariuki RN MHA FHELA, Chief Clinical Officer at Health Recovery Solutions, recently spoke at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice's FMC2023 on the topic of “How Home-Based Programs Partner to Address Universe of Post-Acute Demands.” We caught up with Florence at the conference to get her perspective on the challenges home health and hospice providers currently face launching and scaling a telehealth program.

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FTC, Surescripts reach settlement over 2019's e-prescribing monopoly allegations

FierceHealthIT

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Surescripts have reached a settlement over the regulator’s claims that the health tech company was excluding competitors from certain e-prescribing markets an | The regulator highlighted new restrictions that would be imposed on the health tech company's e-prescribing business. Surescripts celebrated the settlement's lack of monetary penalties and maintained that the FTC had mischaracterized its business.

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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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Gradia Health Secures $4.2M in Seed Funding to Improve Ongoing Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions

Healthcare IT Today

The Platform is set to Reinvigorate Patient-Physician Communication Pathways by Partnering Directly with Brick-and-Mortar Practices to Deliver Superior Virtual Care Beyond the Doctor’s Office Gradia Health , the integrated concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions, today announced its seed funding totaling $4.2M.

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Virtual provider Hello Alpha launches 'whole-person' weight management program for employers

FierceHealthIT

Hello Alpha, a virtual primary care platform, has launched a weight management program for employers that supports sustained weight loss through the lens of whole-person primary care. | The program, Ahead with Alpha, aims to support sustained weight loss through the lens of whole-person primary care. The program treats and screens for health needs by combining weight loss support with care for more than 100 other medical conditions.

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AI Doesn't Make Everyone A Programmer Overnight

David Chou

The technology industry is bullish on AI, with Nvidia hitting the $1 trillion market cap on Tueday. Artificial intelligence (AI) is actively transforming the software development industry at a rapid pace. Developers use AI-powered tools to automate tasks, enhance code quality, and accelerate development. The CEO of Nvidia boldly claims that everyone is now a programmer.

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Events firm Informa exploring potential deal to buy HIMSS global healthcare conference

FierceHealthIT

London-based events firm Informa is exploring a deal to buy one of the largest health IT conferences as competition in the healthcare events market heats up. | London-based events company Informa announced exclusivity to acquire the massive HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition.

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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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Women In Tech Interview: Victoria Muehlhaupt, LeanIX

LeanIX

Our Women In Tech forum has been meeting regularly to address the issue of inclusion in our industry. In the first of a series of interviews, Jessica Wilson, our DEI Program Manager, spoke to Victoria Muehlhaupt, our Head of Customer Success Management, Midmarket, about her experiences.

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