KevinMD
OCTOBER 12, 2023
As technology advances, the health care sector perennially seeks innovative solutions to enhance patient care, diagnostic capabilities, and accessibility. OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, with its pioneering vision feature, has emerged as a potentially transformative tool, enabling myriad applications that traverse beyond textual interactions and delve deeply into the visual realm.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Telemedicine has had an interesting history. During what may be seen as the utopian period for telemedicine – the COVID-19 pandemic – telemedicine lived its gilded age. The pandemic was tragic from a health perspective, with so much loss of life. But it has offered technological advancements that are taking better care of people today and will set up healthcare workers for crises in the future.
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Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. For many clinicians, EHRs have actually been a disservice, a major factor in burnout.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Panelists at the Constellation Forum 2023 at Northwell Health discussed AI's impact on healthcare and how to adapt to the changing health tech environment.
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Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Exec Summary Patient engagement and patient portals are expected to play an increasingly important role in healthcare by 2030. As healthcare becomes more consumer-centric, patients are demanding more control over their own health and wellness. Patient portals provide them with a convenient and secure way to access their medical records, communicate with their healthcare providers, and manage their care.
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Digital Health Global
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Healthware will immediately merge with EVERSANA INTOUCH, shifting from long-standing partnership to a full-service global, award-winning agency network CHICAGO & SALERNO, Italy – 11 October 2023 – EVERSANA , a leading provider of global commercial services to the life sciences industry, today announced the acquisition of Healthware Group , a full-service agency and innovation consultancy headquartered in Salerno, Italy.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 9, 2023
When combined with Med-PaLM 2, providers and life sciences companies can obtain answers to questions about patient medical records and general medical knowledge.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 11, 2023
You know the statistics and they are alarming. Doctors and nurses are burning out, especially in the ER. Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022. Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. Demand and costs are up, and availability of workers is down.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 13, 2023
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” Leonardo DaVinci wrote through his lens on innovation. Simplicity can be a transformational cornerstone of health/care innovation, we learn from Siegel+Gale’s report on the World’s Simplest Brands Tenth Edition (WSBX). Siegel+Gale found the most consumers are willing to pay more for simpler brand experiences and are more likely to recommend a brand for those simpler experiences, as well.
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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
OCTOBER 9, 2023
LAS VEGAS—Medicare Advantage (MA) has only grown over the last decade, and, in tandem, voices criticizing the program have gotten louder. | LAS VEGAS—Medicare Advantage has only grown over the last decade, and, in tandem, voices criticizing the program have gotten louder.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Anita Mahon, executive vice president and global head of healthcare at EXL, discusses how the analytics firm helps payers and providers utilize data within generative AI.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The Drug Enforcement Administration has extended flexibilities for remote prescribing of controlled substances through the end of 2024. Final telemedicine regulations are expected to be issued by the fall of 2024, the DEA said. This is the second extension granted by the DEA. The first was to expire on Nov.
DigitalHealth
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The medical directors of NHS trusts running FDP pilots have been asked to sign an open letter of support to patients and the public for the FDP initiative.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Amazon’s $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical made big waves when it was announced in July 2022, signaling that the online retailer had bold ambitions to expand its reach in healthcare. | One Medical CMO Dr. Andrew Diamond is bullish about what Amazon is building in healthcare. He believes Amazon Health can help tackle the burden of chronic diseases in the U.S.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 13, 2023
The partners were awarded a grant under the UK–Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D program to develop an AI-enabled stroke diagnosis and treatment platform.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 12, 2023
According to Jacqueline de Leeuw, CNIO at Radboud University Medical Centre, the health system has more than 200 "digital nurses" and the motto: "HIMSS 7-up"
DigitalHealth
OCTOBER 10, 2023
A recent Digital Health Networks debate looked at beliefs about the use of AI into healthcare and concluded it can be integrated safely into clinical use.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Four in 10 people insured by employer-provided health plans find their out-of-pocket costs are so expensive they need to dip into savings and take on debt, according to a nationwide survey of 2,500 | A new survey revealed that nearly half of respondents said they would struggle to afford a medical emergency.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 9, 2023
The partnership, announced at HLTH 2023, will allow users to gain access to their longitudinal health data and connect with providers through the Samsung Health app.
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and apples. Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Plus, once collected, that data can easily leverage the full suite of SAS analytics tools.
Digital Health Global
OCTOBER 13, 2023
LAVAL, Québec & WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BIOQuébec and BioFlorida, preeminent life sciences associations from Québec and Florida, are proud to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This agreement is set to intensify collaboration and bolster industry growth in of both regions. Acknowledging the global nature of the life sciences sector and the potential for local life sciences companies to flourish with international collaborations, both associ
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.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Supply chain and business email compromise (BEC) attacks against healthcare organizations are among the leading threats to patients’ care and outcomes, according to a new survey report from cyberse | A newly published industry survey also found that IT executives were less concerned about ransomware vulnerability despite an uptick in organizations experiencing such an attack within the past year.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Besides gaining improved cognitive outcomes, it has also received positive perceptions and acceptance from elderly users.
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Building a system that would allow us to simplify the exchange of information across the nation would a huge achievement. However, we have been operating without one for so long that we already have several different solutions in place to work around it. At the Civitas Conference, there was a lot of talk about TEFCA and QHINs and what their impact will be on healthcare and interoperability.
Digital Health Global
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The funds raised will accelerate product rollout in France and abroad, alongside developing a diverse product range around OdySight. PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Tilak Healthcare , a pioneer and leading player in the field of ophthalmological digital health, has raised €10 million in a funding round led by Elaia and Cap Horn. They were joined by long-standing investors iBionext and SWEN Capital Partners, along with Théa (flagship of the French ophthalmology industry), Adelie and several re
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2023
LAS VEGAS — The team at retail giant Walmart didn't realize how fortuitous a virtual primary care pilot would prove to be when it launched in January of 2020. | LAS VEGAS — The team at retail giant Walmart didn't realize how fortuitous a virtual primary care pilot would prove to be when it launched in January of 2020.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
At HLTH 2023, the venture firm's CEO and the former CEO of Intermountain Health announced the formation of HATCo alongside plans to purchase a health system.
DigitalHealth
OCTOBER 13, 2023
North Tees and Hartlepool is accelerating student's learning by allowing more students to experience live surgical theatres with RealWear technology.
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