KevinMD

APRIL 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence is upon us and likely will forever change the way we interact with learning and education. Despite this reality, educational institutions seem to fall into either of two camps. One camp seems loath to acknowledge that AI exists. A faculty member who helps with curriculum development at one medical school recently shared, “We Read more… The role of AI in medical education: Embrace it or fear it?

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 8, 2024

Tom Peterson, CEO of Blackbird, joined MobiHealthNews to discuss the company's offerings, its recent Series A raise and what it will do with the funds.

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KevinMD

APRIL 8, 2024

An excerpt from ChatGPT, MD: How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine. Imagine a ship at sea, its engine idle. The boat drifts dangerously close to the shoals, a mere hundred yards from land. The captain, fearing the worst, radios for help. The lighthouse watchman responds, sending an experienced mechanic Read more… Empowering patients: Navigating medical information with AI originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 8, 2024

Stock exchange rules give Amwell six months to comply with its minimum price requirement of $1 per share or be delisted. Amwell last traded above $1 in March.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2024

Since the introduction of GLP-1 drugs on the market, their use has split into two categories: for obesity and “recreationally,” according to the Chief Economist with UBS (formerly known as Union Bank of Switzerland). Paul Donovan, said economist, discusses The economics of getting thin in his regularly published comment blog. “These different uses have different economic consequences,” Donovan explains: Obese patients who use GLP-1s should become more productive employee

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

Northwestern Ontario covers a geographical area the size of France, but is sparsely populated, having only around 230,000 residents. THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it's very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to care for remote and rural patients.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2024

Grow Therapy, a mental health technology startup, picked up $88 million in fresh funding to grow its footprint and launch more partnerships with payers. | Grow Therapy, a mental health technology startup, picked up $88 million in fresh funding to grow its footprint and launch more partnerships with payers.

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DigitalHealth

APRIL 8, 2024

Labour has announced a new partnership with Virgin Media O2, to ensure every child with type 1 diabetes can benefit from the latest technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

Medical XR use in psychotherapy and its validity in mental healthcare offerings discussed by Dr. Kim Bullock, a psychiatrist, neuropsychiatrist and founder of the Virtual Reality and Immersive Technology Clinic at Stanford University.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

Health insurers are gearing up to release their first-quarter results over the next several weeks, and a new analysis from Fitch Ratings finds that ongoing concern about utilization in Medicare Adv | A new analysis from Fitch Ratings finds that ongoing concern about utilization in Medicare Advantage has made for a cloudy outlook.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

The company's chief financial officer, Mala Murthy, will step in as acting CEO.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2024

A nonprofit organization’s work buying out and forgiving billions of dollars of medical debt may not be helping patients as much as it or its benefactors had hoped, economists say. | An experimental review of medical debts relieved by the charity RIP Medical Debt in 2018 to 2020 showed near-negligible changes in credit, no improvement in financial well-being, no changes in repayment or utilization behaviors and worsened mental health among those with the most debts.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

Purchase Expands Linus Health’s Cognitive Assessment Capabilities Linus Health , a digital health company enabling early detection of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, today announced it has acquired Aural Analytics , a leader in clinical-grade speech analytics. The deal includes Aural Analytics’ assets, including its technology and intellectual property.

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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 8, 2024

Patient experience monitoring company Press Ganey has taken its data integration partnership with Epic a step further, unveiling Monday an additional collaboration focused on nursing-related safety | Indicators and outcomes logged in the EHR platform will be pulled into Press Ganey's National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, which is used by over 2,000 organizations to benchmark the performance of their nursing teams.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

For the 72nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Donald McGruder, Chief Information and Revenue Integrity Officer at South Shore Hospital. We kick off this episode by discussing how South Shore Hospital is positioning itself in the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare interoperability. Next, we discuss how interoperability influences the hospital’s strategies and operations.

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DigitalHealth

APRIL 8, 2024

North Health Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust, and InterSystems, has implemented a digitalised ward admissions process that focuses on empowering nurses.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

Payers are always wary about funding new treatments for illnesses and conditions: When millions of dollars are at stake, payers want demonstrated improvements in outcomes. So do doctors and patients, before they go through the trouble of adopting a course of treatment. So there was much consternation recently when the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released a report saying that digital interventions weren’t helping people with diabetes much and weren’t worth their added

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

Digital health startups are navigating a tougher funding environment with lower check sizes and more attention to evidence-based outcomes in 2024. | In the first quarter, U.S. digital health startups raised $2.7 billion across 133 deals, with an average deal size of $20.6 million, according to an analysis by Rock Health.

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Xealth

APRIL 8, 2024

Note to readers: This is the third post in a six-part series exploring the perspectives of digital patient engagement. Mike Deegan, Director, Business Development Digital health can no longer be discussed merely as a trend — it’s a profound transformation reshaping healthcare. The shift empowers patients and care providers with innovative tools, paving the way for potentially enhanced health outcomes through more personalized and accessible care.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2024

Enrollees in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans with no monthly premiums are three times more likely to be nonwhite compared to traditional Medicare counterparts, research from Harvard Medical School an | In Medicare Advantage plans with $0 monthly premiums, enrollees are three times as likely to be nonwhite, research from Harvard and Inovalon shows.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

In many rural areas across the U.S., and even in a lot of urban areas, there’s a significant lack of access to psychiatry or behavioral health services in general. Partially due to the ongoing (and worsening) psychiatry shortage , many healthcare organizations find it difficult to locate high-quality, local behavioral health providers to serve their communities.

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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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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2024

Today’s value-based care models emphasize the importance of delivering high-quality care at a reasonable cost, rather than paying for treatment based solely on the volume of services provided. | Today’s value-based care models emphasize the importance of delivering high-quality care at a reasonable cost. Improving the efficiency of procurement processes not only cut costs but also contribute to improved patient care outcomes by ensuring that all necessary supplies and services are always readily

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LeanIX

APRIL 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a complex, revolutionary innovation, but it's also just another new technology that needs to be leveraged to support your business goals. Let's explore how enterprise architects can level-up their capabilities to aid in AI adoption.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2024

The Nasdaq is warning Clover Health, again, that it could get delisted from the exchange after its stock price fell below $1 per share for 30 consecutive days. | Clover Health will have to escape danger once again, as Nasdaq is giving the insurtech 180 days to raise its stock price. The company is considering a reverse stock split.

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Digital Health Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

The rockstar team over at Providence’s Digital Innovation Group officially spun out its fourth digital health startup: Praia Health. Praia Health is making its grand debut armed with $20M in Series A funding to help hospitals avoid the commoditized care caravan by building deeper relationships with their patients. To accomplish that, Praia enables the creation of robust consumer profiles that extend beyond the medical record, which might finally give providers a way to build the “digital flywhee

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