KevinMD

MAY 9, 2024

AlphaFold Three is a monumental leap forward in biomedical research and drug discovery, signaling a new era where artificial intelligence (AI) merges seamlessly with molecular biology to unlock mysteries that have long eluded scientists. Developed by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, AlphaFold 3 is not just an upgrade to its predecessors; it’s a transformative tool Read more… Revolutionizing medicine with AlphaFold 3: the new frontier in biomedical research originally appeared in KevinM

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

Yesterday, the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means passed six pieces of legislation that would bolster telehealth in the U.S. for the next two years, assuring several aspects of access for health citizens across the country. “One of our top priorities on this Committee is helping every American access health care in the community where they live, work, and raise a family,” Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) explained in his introductory statement.

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KevinMD

MAY 6, 2024

In the bustling city of New York lived a young woman named Emily. Emily wasn’t a health care provider or even remotely associated with the medical field. She worked as a graphic designer, spending her days creating stunning visuals for advertising campaigns. One evening, while browsing the internet, Emily stumbled upon an article titled “Why Read more… The universal impact of health care informatics originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 8, 2024

The company's Dream Sock, which received FDA 510(k) clearance in November, gathers real-time health readings, including a baby's sleep trends and pulse rate.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 8, 2024

Almost every hospital and health system currently struggles with a growing workforce shortage and rising costs to deliver care. Agencies have stepped in to fill the gap, often resulting in unp | In-House Health developed an artificial intelligence-driven scheduling and management platform for modern nursing teams. The startup picked up $4 million in seed funding from NEA and TMV to build out its platform.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2024

The Agency has qualified Apple's atrial fibrillation history feature as a medical device development tool, allowing it to be used in clinical trials.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 9, 2024

Six mental health trusts in London to roll out digital tool to support people detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA), OneLondon has announced.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 8, 2024

Ascension disclosed Wednesday that it has detected “unusual activity” on some of its technology networks that it believes “is due to a cybersecurity event.” | The Catholic health giant said it detected "unusual activity" Wednesday and "immediately" activated remediation processes, including hiring a third-party cybersecurity firm.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Chief among them: critical staffing challenges. Some federal and state legislators are seeking to mandate patient-caregiver ratios to help improve care and reduce nurse burnout.

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Strategic Client Services at HCTec Gone are the days when patients or couriers physically transported copies of patient records from their primary care physician’s office, lab or imagining center to a specialist. Electronic health record (EHR) systems have drastically reduced the need for physical records, and they have been a critical part of healthcare operations for decades.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 8, 2024

It confidently relies on expert knowledge based on two decades of research with young people.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 7, 2024

WeightWatchers for Business and Personify Health have announced a strategic partnership aimed at supporting employers in providing weight health care solutions for their workforce. Personify Health clients will now have integrated access to WeightWatchers for Business’s full-spectrum weight health platform. This platform is customizable to support benefit coverage decisions and offers a flexible spectrum of care that can grow in intensity from behavioral to medical interventions.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2024

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money as quickly as expected. Here's how federal officials are reacting.

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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.

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2024

Internal sponsors have been hugely helpful in encouraging their peers to adopt telehealth and RPM at Providence, says Dr. Eve Cunningham, the health system's chief of virtual care and digital health, and a HIMSS24 Changemaker.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

The amount of technology that’s in the hospital room today is extraordinary. We have more monitors at our fingertips than ever before that are all watching and alerting us of potential problems for the patients that need to be addressed. Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 9, 2024

The company notified the SEC of a data breach after discovering an unauthorized party stole consumers' sensitive information, including patient health data.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 7, 2024

A new AI tool has been used for the first time at St Bartholomew's to help identify when actions have not been taken that could cause harm or care delays.

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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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FierceHealthIT

MAY 7, 2024

More than 18 million veterans live in the U.S., making up about 7% of the adult population. | In this week’s episode of “Podnosis,” Fierce Healthcare Senior Writer Anastassia Gliadkovskaya sits down with two experts to discuss how stakeholders can help overcome the issues plaguing the veteran healthcare system.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 3, 2024

OXFORD, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Arcturis Data Limited (“Arcturis”), a UK leader in Real World Data and Evidence, and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (“OUH”) a global exemplar in clinical, research and digital health excellence, announce today that they are to embark on a focussed initiative to develop deep, multi-modal data to enable researchers to assess the benefit of standard and new treatment options for cancer patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Assistant General Counsel – Supply Chain Management & IT – NYU Langone Health Associate Network

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2024

The announcement comes less than a year after Virgin Pulse and HealthComp announced their $3 billion merger and their rebranding as Personify Health.

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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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DigitalHealth

MAY 3, 2024

Pharmacy system supplier Invatech is to roll out its technology across Wales following the completion of live testing at a site in the north of the country.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 8, 2024

All of Steward Health Care’s hospitals are up for grabs as the now-bankrupt system works to settle its debts, but as of now the company doesn’t believe there will be any closures that would interru | The for-profit, which has about $9 billion in total liabilities, on Tuesday received the go-ahead on a $75 million debtor-in-financing loan. In a virtual hearing, its legal representation bemoaned regulatory delays with its planned physician group sale to Optum that "would have been more than e

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Digital Health Global

MAY 3, 2024

In a significant development for digital health technology, the atrial fibrillation ( AFib ) detection feature on Apple Watch devices has become the first to be qualified under a program recently introduced by the FDA. This program, known as the Medical Device Development Tools ( MDDT ) framework, aims to reduce the regulatory burden of evaluating new technologies and speed up the review process.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2024

The following is a guest article by Yaacov Martin , CEO at Jifiti If you are responsible for payments at a healthcare provider or overseeing digital strategy and innovation, it’s time to look at how embedding bank payment plans for your patients and customers within your payment system can help you build patient loyalty and stay ahead of competitors, while solving the medical debt crisis impacting patients’ financial well-being.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 8, 2024

The quarter marks the first time the company reported profitability on an adjusted EBITDA basis.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 9, 2024

Consultant Connect technology has been rolled out across NHS Lanarkshire, connecting ambulance clinicians with specialist consultants to improve care.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 8, 2024

Rad AI, a startup that developed an AI platform for radiology, pocketed $50 million in fresh capital to expand global availability of its generative AI solutions. | Rad AI, a startup that developed an AI platform for radiology, pocketed $50 million in fresh capital to expand global availability of its generative AI solutions.

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