KevinMD

APRIL 29, 2024

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into health care transforms patient care, making it more personalized, efficient, and accessible. Two groundbreaking technologies, the Humane Ai Pin and the Rabbit R1, exemplify this shift. By enhancing communication, ensuring data security, and improving administrative and clinical operations, these devices promise a future where technology and human expertise merge to Read more… How AI is revolutionizing patient care: Exploring the Humane Ai Pin and Rab

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2024

Epitel received 510(k) clearance for two remote monitoring offerings and Curio Digital Therapeutics received clearance for its postpartum prescription digital therapeutic.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 23, 2024

The Home as a Health Care Hub will use augmented reality and virtual reality to reimagine how the home can become a healthcare system to improve health equity.

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KevinMD

APRIL 26, 2024

Apple’s announcement of OpenELM, an innovative suite of efficient, open-source language models, heralds a potential game-changer for health care technology, especially with the anticipated enhancements in iOS 18. This suite is designed to function directly on personal devices like iPhones, presenting new opportunities for medical practitioners to leverage advanced AI tools in their day-to-day operations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2024

Three trends underpin health consumers’ evolving demands for service: spending more but getting less satisfaction and innovation; trusting health care with data but underwhelmed by the use of that personal information; and, growing “shopping” behavior seeking quality, availability, proximity, cost, and options across channels for health care.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 25, 2024

Amae Health launched in January 2022 to improve care for individuals with severe mental illness through a community-based, integrated approach. | Amae Health, which opened its first outpatient clinic in Los Angeles 18 months ago, closed a $15 million series A round to fuel its growth as it plans to open new clinics in four markets.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 25, 2024

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #biotech — Koneksa , a healthcare technology company pioneering evidence-based digital biomarkers, announced today the enrollment of the first patient in a pilot study collecting patient-generated health data (PGHD) during proton radiotherapy for lung cancer in collaboration with the New York Proton Center (NYPC), a leading institution in cancer care and research.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. In other countries such as Belgium and Spain, patients can access regional portals.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 23, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Tuesday to issue a final rule striking new noncompete agreements for all workers and phasing out existing noncompetes for all but senior executives acro | The final rule, which does not apply to nonprofits, forbids noncompete contracts for all new hires and winds down existing noncompetes for all employees who are not senior executives.

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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.

Mobi Health News

APRIL 23, 2024

Members can access mental health coaches for cases that may not require a licensed therapist, such as sleep-related issues or building healthy relationships.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2024

Sagility to Transform Member, Patient, and Provider Interactions Using BirchAI’s SaaS Platform Sagility LLC , one of the leading technology-enabled services providers in the healthcare services space, announced its acquisition of Seattle-based BirchAI. BirchAI is a healthcare technology company offering cloud-based, GenAI call technology built by experts in transformer-based natural language processing.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 25, 2024

Seven New Startups Chosen for Their Transformative Potential in AI, Public Safety, Marketing and Healthcare PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI — NEC X , the Silicon Valley-based innovation accelerator and venture studio backed by global IT leader NEC, today unveiled the standout startups selected to join Elev X! Ignite cohort Batch 11.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Today, most remote patient monitoring services are billed under four Current Procedural Terminology codes. These codes can be split into two categories to help understand their uses. There are two RPM device monitoring codes – 99453 and 99454 – and two timed RPM management service codes – 99457 and 99458. CPT 99453 covers the time it takes to enroll patients in RPM and get them set up on their devices.

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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

APRIL 23, 2024

The Joint Commission announced Tuesday a new set of accreditation standards for telehealth and remote patient monitoring companies. | A third-party healthcare accrediting organization will offer a new program for telehealth and remote monitoring platforms to build patient trust and ensure high-quality virtual healthcare.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 24, 2024

The new offerings and content will help members taking GLP-1 medications maximize nutrient intake and access medication tracking, recipes and community forums.

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DigitalHealth

APRIL 26, 2024

At the Digital Healthcare Show 2024, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS FT CIO Andrew Raynes highlighted six actions for NHS trusts to take on their AI journeys.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 24, 2024

This appointment marks a turning point for Newel Health in advancing Digital Therapeutics and Healthcare Innovation Salerno, Italy | Newel Health , a pioneer in digital therapeutics, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ervin Ukaj as its new Chief Executive Officer. A proven leader with an extensive digital health background, Ervin is well-positioned to drive Newel Health’s impact in the healthcare industry.

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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!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

On an April 18 conference call with Optum Everycare CEO Jennifer Phalen, some employees of the company's virtual care division were told that their last date would be in July, according to a news report this week. WHY IT MATTERS UnitedHealth Group, Optum's parent company, reported more than $1 billion in net losses during the first quarter – which included impacts from the February 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack and subsequent payment systems outage.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 24, 2024

Walgreens is expanding its specialty pharmacy services to offer gene and cell therapy services, supported by a dedicated 18,000-square-foot center in Pittsburgh, the company announced Thursday. | Walgreens is expanding its specialty pharmacy services to offer gene and cell therapy services, supported by a dedicated 18,000-square-foot center in Pittsburgh, the company announced Thursday.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 24, 2024

Xaira's CEO, Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, resigned as president of Stanford University last August due to controversy over inaccuracies discovered in his lab's scientific papers.

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DigitalHealth

APRIL 26, 2024

Spark TSL has acquired Dutch firm Sentean Group and will use this to power ahead with its plans to help hospitals with their digital transformation.

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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 Global

APRIL 23, 2024

A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) provides insights into the digital health landscape in the WHO European Region. The report, titled “ Exploring the Digital Health Landscape in the WHO European Region: Digital Health Country Profiles “, offers a comprehensive overview of how member states are integrating digital health into their healthcare systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2024

The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. The program, with an effective date of July 1, is designed to offer updated and more streamlined standards to help organizations offering telehealth services put structures and processes in place to help deliver safer and higher quality virtual care WHY IT MATTERS The new Telehealth Accreditation Program was developed, the commission says,

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 22, 2024

Simple HealthKit is bringing chronic condition diagnostics to front porches across the country via a new partnership with Amazon. | Consumers can now buy Simple HealthKit’s at-home tests for diabetes (HbA1c), respiratory wellness and sexual wellness and have it shipped to their door through Amazon.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2024

Wheel's BabySat virtual telehealth services platform will enable caregivers to obtain a prescription for the baby tech company's pulse oximetry sock.

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DigitalHealth

APRIL 26, 2024

Nurses from the Californian Nurses Association have been protesting against the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in US hospitals.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 23, 2024

There were 122 million NHS appointments booked in 2022. Of those, around 6.4% (7.8 million) were missed. For context, that equates to more missed appointments every month than the entire population of Bristol, UK (650,000). It also costs the NHS over £200m annually. According to an NHS review into outpatient appointments , the main reasons for missing appointments stem from difficulties with processes and communication, as well as previous poor experiences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2024

The Singaporean Ministry of Health has officially broken ground on a new medical campus in eastern Singapore. To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. It will provide a range of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care services, as well as continuing and rehabilitative care services.

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