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How AI is enhancing patient care and improving radiologists’ lives

KevinMD

When the topic of the future of radiology comes up in conversation, I frequently find myself being asked a few recurring questions: “How will artificial intelligence affect radiology?” quickly followed by “Do you think AI will replace you?” These are great questions that I have found myself contemplating as well. As someone with an overall Read more… How AI is enhancing patient care and improving radiologists’ lives originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Michael J. Fox Foundation, data company H1 partner for Parkinson's Research

Mobi Health News

MJFF will use H1's AI-enabled platform to evaluate treatment approaches and improve clinical trial access for patients with Parkinson's from marginalized communities.

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ChatGPT masters USMLE: a real win for AI, but a long way from the art of medicine

KevinMD

In recent years, the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, with numerous applications in diverse sectors, such as transportation, finance, and medicine. One of the most significant milestones in medical AI is the recent success of ChatGPT, an AI language model, in passing the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).

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Our Mental and Emotional Health Are Interwoven With What We Eat and Drink – Chewing On the IFIC 2023 Food and Health Survey

Health Populi

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC). For this year’s study, IFIC commissioned Greenwald Research to conduct 1,022 interviews with adults between 18 and 80 years of age in April 2023.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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.

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Former VA Secretary Shulkin joins Potrero's board and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Mental healthcare company Woebot Health and virtual care platform Pager add new leadership.

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Startup Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health to build out telehealth services

FierceHealthIT

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Addressing Food Insecurity with Electronic Health Records

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Baraka Floyd, MD, pediatrics physician at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford School of Medicine and Lindsay Stevens, MD, pediatrics physician at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Clinical Professor at […] The article Addressing Food Insecurity with Electronic Health Records appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr helps fight a COVID-related decrease in STI testing

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Six Months to a Virtual ICU at Houston Methodist

Healthcare IT Today

Michelle Stansbury, VP of Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist , discusses in this video their virtual hospital programs as well as hot technologies they’re looking at for the future. Their virtual ICU project started four years ago as a two-year project, but they managed to set it up in just six months as COVID-19 hit. Now they’re extending their insights into the whole hospital and beyond.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

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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With Medicaid redeterminations underway, many are unaware of the process: KFF

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What IT advancements are needed to improve value-based care

Optimum Healthcare IT

The shift to value-based care models in healthcare will require significant IT advancements. Prepare your organization with these tech tips. Continue reading What IT advancements are needed to improve value-based care at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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PCMA slams lawmakers for lack of PBM voices at hearing on industry

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Data Sharing Transforms the way Physicians Practice; Let’s Make it More Accessible

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Timi Leslie, President at BluePath Health and Connecting for Better Health Coalition Leader, and Gregg Smith-McCurdy, CIO at Hill Physicians Medical Group Hill Physicians Medical Group, the largest network of independent physicians in Northern California, considers obtaining discrete, contiguous patient health data one of the most important objectives and biggest challenges.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Study finds two-thirds of UK GP surgery websites have accessibility errors

DigitalHealth

A study into UK GP surgeries’ websites has found that two-thirds (66%) of sites have detectable design errors, potentially excluding one-in-five users.

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Simple Basics Are Still Needed to Thwart Cyber Threats

Healthcare IT Today

Every business can suffer financially and reputationally from Denial of Service attacks or ransomware, but in healthcare, patient safety is at risk. In this video, two cybersecurity experts advise healthcare organizations not to fret over AI and advanced attacks, but to shore up the “basic fundamentals”: training against phishing attacks, practicing responses to attacks, and proven cyber technologies.

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Older Adults will benefit from AI -- sooner rather than later

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AI and older adults – powerful if enabled. There are few limits to the possible benefits of AI in its many forms, conversational, generative, Chatbots and more. Some say that we are in The Golden Age of AI. But constraints faced now and in coming years are beginning to emerge from public and political debates about privacy, ethics and proposed regulation.

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An In-Depth Look At VPNs and Their Importance In Today’s Digital World

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In a world where our online privacy is constantly threatened, many individuals are now opting for VPNs as an effective solution. However, what exactly is a VPN, and why has it become so important? A […] The article An In-Depth Look At VPNs and Their Importance In Today’s Digital World appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Epic is going all in on generative AI in healthcare. Here's why a handful of health systems are eager to test-drive it

FierceHealthIT

Epic is going all in on generative AI in healthcare.

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blueBriX digital health platform expands into pharmaceutical sector

DigitalHealth

Digital health platform blueBriX is expanding into the pharma sector, supporting the use of software as a medical device to drive patient experience.

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Medicaid work requirements become sticking point in debt ceiling negotiations

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NHS-backed Acurable to launch sleep apnoea testing device in the US

DigitalHealth

London-based medical device company Acurable is launching its AcuPebble device for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) diagnosis in the US.

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The American Benefits Conundrum: Realigning Healthcare Incentives

Speaker: Chris Wolpert, Founder of Group Benefit Solutions

Of all the benefits employers provide, healthcare and insurance are two of - if not the - most important. But health insurance in America is broken. It's fragmented, confusing, opaque, and expensive because it was made that way. What’s missing from the discussion of benefits today is the financial implications of the status quo and its impact on employees' health outcomes.

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How Children’s Wisconsin Laid the Foundation for Its Digital Health Future

Xealth

Trish Wnek, Program Manager, Children’s Wisconsin Children Wisconsin’s (CW’s) digital health strategy began with the goal of improving the accessibility and deliverability of patient care resources – not with deciding what third-party apps and devices to use. At CW, the state’s only independent healthcare system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children, we are laying the groundwork for our broader digital health vision: a comprehensive family health engagement platform that wil

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Hippocratic Emerges to Bring LLMs to Healthcare

Digital Health Wire

Although we touched on Hippocratic AI’s emergence from stealth last week, the startup struck all the right chords with its talk of generative AI and large language models so we’re doing a deeper dive to unpack the hype. Hippocratic AI debuted with $50M from a massive seed round co-led by the VC power duo of General Catalyst and a16z, giving the company a “triple-digit millions” valuation right out of the gate.

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Medicare Advantage Growth Aggravate Prior Authorization Burdens

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Medicare Advantage growth aggravates prior authorization burdens in the several ways. Most medical groups, providing care to patients with Medicare Advantage plans, must comply with more prior authorization requirements. Increased Administrative Burden: The expansion of MA plans leads to a larger population covered by these plans. As a result, the volume of prior authorization requests increases, placing a heavier administrative burden on healthcare providers.

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Adaptive Phage Therapeutics Enters Collaboration and License Agreement with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center

Digital Health Global

GAITHERSBURG, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of phage-based therapies to combat bacterial infections, is pleased to announce a collaboration and license agreement with the Israeli Phage Therapy Center (IPTC) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center.

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist for Mental Health Agencies

Keeping up with compliance can be intimidating, but this checklist can help make your job a little easier! Use this printable checklist to ensure your systems are buttoned up to avoid breaches, HIPAA violations, and other privacy and safety infractions.

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Healthcare 'flying blind': Medication nonadherence and how remote therapeutic monitoring can help

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Verato Expands Relationship with Contexture to Support HIE Identity Management

Digital Health Global

Partnership supports patient matching across more than 28 million lives in Arizona and Colorado MCLEAN, Va., & PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Verato, the identity experts for healthcare, and Contexture, the largest health information organization in the western U.S., are expanding their longtime partnership to better support physicians, hospitals, behavioral health, emergency medical services, public health, long-term care, laboratories, imaging centers, health plans, communities and pa

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Featured Health IT Job: Ambulatory Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Ambulatory Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Llyod Staffing and is in Melville, New York. Here’s a description of the position: Responsibilities Work closely with clinical and technical staff to implement and optimize the EPIC Ambulatory system Provide technical support for end-users, including troubleshooting