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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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Behavioral Health AI Leader Eleos Health Raises $40M Series B Round to Expand CareOps Automation Footprint

Healthcare IT Today

Experts have documented an urgent and critical need for behavioral health services in the US,” said Steve Sloane, Partner at Menlo Ventures. Dixie Casford, LPC, MBA, MLS, is the Co-CEO at Mental Health Partners , which rolled out Eleos earlier this year. The company plans to hire more than 50 people by the end of 2024.

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Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

A promising trend emerging in health IT for 2024 is the integration of automation tailored for ambient documentation creation. This technology facilitates the capture of clinical documentation during most patient engagements. 50% of people live in a designated mental health provider shortage area. Today in the U.S.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

The combination of evolving data lakehouse architectures and powerful generative AI unlocks unprecedented value in loosely structured and unstructured data and, increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former.

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Sparrow Health System uses pandemic lessons to expand its virtual care strategic plan

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The benefit of staffing this ourselves was that it allowed our providers to access the patient's medical record, document directly into the chart and accept all the same insurance we do for in-person visits." "We also leverage Epic and its ongoing development of virtual health tools.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Another likely forthcoming requirement that will exacerbate the existing challenges: in the coming years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will implement the provision for convening providers to incorporate projected costs from co-providers on an estimate for a care episode.

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Transforming Patient-Centric Healthcare with Digital Humans

Healthcare IT Today

Specifically, we will examine their applications in patient care, medical education, and mental health support. Specifically, we will examine their applications in patient care, medical education, and mental health support. Drawing on the EMR for patient history and medication information.