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Understanding Medical Waste Regulations

Electronic Health Reporter

Medical waste is defined as waste that is a by-product of healthcare treatments at hospitals, doctor’s offices, and surgeries, dentists, and laboratories as well as veterinarian’s offices, tattoo establishments, and med spas. Medical waste management […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Baxter Advances First Intravenous (IV) Bag Recycling Pilot for U.S. Hospitals

Digital Health Global

Pilot phase successfully demonstrated proof of concept, with more than six tons of plastic IV bag waste diverted from landfill from Northwestern Memorial Hospital Baxter now expanding pilot to support scalability Program demonstrates Baxter’s and Northwestern Medicine’s commitment to corporate responsibility and waste reduction DEERFIELD, Ill.–(BUSINESS

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Turquoise Takes $30M Step Along Path To Transparency

Digital Health Wire

Healthcare pricing looks like it’s on its way to becoming more transparent, with Turquoise Health landing $30M in Series B funding to shine an AI-powered light through the fog of medical costs. The latest funding will help onboard these recently-added clients into Turquoise’s growing product suite.

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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

In a 2022 American Medical Association physician survey , 88% of providers said that the burden of doing prior authorization was high or extremely high. Another survey by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) ranked prior authorization as the largest regulatory burden on doctors. population.

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Taming the beast of multistate provider licensure for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Expanding that across multiple states requires an understanding of niche differences that can affect whether the verification is successful. Provider data management platforms act as central sources of truth, tracking deadlines and status for all medical staff on payroll and storing their information.

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Chronic Kidney Disease: Management, Treatment, Causes

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Physicians need to have a solid understanding of kidney disease management, treatment, and causes so they can properly diagnose and treat their patients. This can lead to a build-up of waste products and excess bodily fluids, which can cause various health problems. Kidney disease is a severe condition that can lead to kidney failure.

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AWS physician expert talks new use cases for telehealth, machine learning, cloud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare must look at how access to the right patient data, paired with advanced analytics and machine learning, can enhance medical and scientific insights tied to patient outcomes in an accurate, scalable, secure and timely manner, says Dr. Rowland Illing, director, international public sector health, at Amazon Web Services.