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Planned community Lake Nona collects residents' data for longitudinal health study

Mobi Health News

Juan Santos, SVP of brand experience and innovation at the Tavistock Group, opened the Venture Connect Forum by discussing the community's collection of resident data to improve healthcare outcomes.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” When Dr. Grace Cordovano heard this statement on a panel of physicians convening to share perspectives on the future of AI in health care held in early March 2024, the board-certified patient advocate felt, in her words, “insulted on behalf of the patient communities I know that are working tirelessly to advance AI that works for them.” “The healthcare ecosystem and policy landscape must formally recognize patients as end-

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Virtual agents, chatbots can improve care delivery, but trust is critical

Mobi Health News

Experts emphasized the value of proactive approaches, meaningful interactions and seamless connections to human support while using AI-enabled chatbots in healthcare.

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Telehealth equity key to addressing digital gaps

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

ORLANDO – Telehealth technology has advanced rapidly over the past few years, and while it's both popular and promising, it has also shined a light on the contrast between patient populations with and without adequate access and digital health literacy, the latter of which are less likely to engage in this type of medical care. That's where a digital equity strategy comes in.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Takeaways from attaining health equity through coordination

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS24, experts discussed the value of cross-sector collaboration in delivering innovative care options to underserved communities.

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A Look at Sunoh’s Ambient Clinical Voice Solutions Including New EHR Integrations

Healthcare IT Today

One of the hottest topics in healthcare and particularly at the HIMSS 2024 conference is ambient clinical voice. We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. However, this feels very different since healthcare organizations are evaluating ambient clinical voice solutions on their merit versus chasing government money.

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Eli Lilly partners with Amazon Pharmacy for home delivery of its weight loss, diabetes and migraine drugs

FierceHealthIT

Eli Lilly is partnering with Amazon's pharmacy unit to offer home delivery for diabetes, migraine and obesity medications, including GLP-1 weight loss drug Zepbound. | Eli Lilly is partnering with Amazon's pharmacy unit to offer home delivery for diabetes, migraine and obesity medications, including GLP-1 weight loss drug Zepbound.

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Rural Healthcare Solution myphysician360 Appoints Alexander Poston, Jr, Chief Technology Officer

Digital Health Global

Transformative Healthcare IT Executive Brings More Than 25 Years of Experience to myphysician360; Poston to Lead Multiple Teams for Organization ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–myphysician360, the industry leader in developing innovative solutions for the clinical care-process partnership between local pharmacies, patients, and health plans, has announced the appointment of Alexander Poston, Jr., as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

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HiLabs closes $39M funding round as company enters 'next phase of growth'

FierceHealthIT

HiLabs, an AI-powered health tech company helping plans improve member experience, raised $39 million in a series B financing round, led by growth equity firm Denali Growth Partners and VC firm Eig | An AI-powered health tech company helping drive down operational costs for healthcare organizations and improving member experience for payers pocketed $39 million in fresh funding.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.

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Digital advancements in community nursing empower patients

DigitalHealth

The integration of digital technologies in community nursing has become a pivotal part of patient care and accessibility to medical information.

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Appeals court affirms Arkansas law against drugmakers' 340B contract pharmacy restrictions

FierceHealthIT

A federal appellate court upheld an Arkansas law prohibiting drugmakers from restricting 340B drug discounts for providers using contract pharmacies, potentially setting up other states to pass sim | A pharmaceutical industry trade group had argued that the state's 2021 law was preempted by the federal legislation outlining the drug discount program.

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Concord Technologies Completes Acquisition of Biscom, Inc.

Healthcare IT Today

Concord Technologies Completes Acquisition of Biscom, Inc. to Create a New Industry Leader in the Secure Transmission and Intelligent Handling of Protected Information Concord Technologies (Concord) , a leading provider of secure document exchange and workflow automation solutions, has acquired Biscom, Inc. (Biscom) , a leader in on-premises enterprise fax and secure file transfer solutions.

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Clover Health trends upwards after fourth quarter earnings, posts adjusted EBITDA loss of $19M

FierceHealthIT

Insurtech Clover Health execs are reiterating their path to profitability is headed in the right direction. | Supported by a much-improved medical cost ratio, Clover Health execs expect to hit adjusted EBITDA profitability this year.

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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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We need to take scapegoating out of cyber says Phil Huggins

DigitalHealth

Phil Huggins told the Rewired24 audience that we “need to take scapegoating out of cyber” and understand how cyber incidents happen and how things go wrong.

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Patient Portals and 'Answer Engines' to emerge as a powerful duo in HealthTech 2024?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Answer engines and generative AI are a powerful combination revolutionising the way information is accessed and delivered in the healthtech industry. Here's how: Answer Engines: Improved Patient Education: Imagine patients getting clear, concise answers to their health questions through an AI-powered interface that understands natural language.

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NHS procurement process has become overcomplicated says Ian Hogan

DigitalHealth

Ian Hogan, CIO at Leeds and York Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has said that the NHS has overcomplicated the procurement process, in a Rewired 2024 session.

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Boston's largest academic medical centers taking another step closer under multiyear integration plan

FierceHealthIT

Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the two flagship hospitals of nonprofit integrated system Mass General Brigham (MGB), will be consolidating their clinical and acade | Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital have been under the same umbrella for 30 years but largely kept their operations separate.

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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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MFT’s Hive EPR thrives with 360k patients empowered and DNA reduction

DigitalHealth

Professor Jane Eddleston has highlighted the positive results so far of Manchester University NHS FT's Hive EPR in a keynote session at Rewired 2024.

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VIVE and HIMSS -- payers, providers, tech -- little about older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider the recent big healthcare events. Two weeks ago, VIVE in Los Angeles , "The Only Digital Health Event Focused on You" was attended by 8000 people there to hear 300 speakers on topics of interest to payers, providers, and those interested in consumer health. VIVE claims to be the “Who’s Who of Health IT”, complete with Matchmaker opportunities between Payers and Providers.

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Cromwell Hospital pioneers Apple Vision Pro tool in UK surgery

DigitalHealth

Apple Vision Pro has been used by Cromwell Hospital to increase surgical delivery efficiency, through equipment and workflow accuracy.

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The Invisible Costs of Manual Invoicing

Health Portal Solutions

“Our invoicing processes are manual, but it’s not too bad. We probably can’t afford to automate our invoicing processes yet.” Does that sound familiar? While you may want to automate your invoicing process, the cost to implement that automation seems … read more The post The Invisible Costs of Manual Invoicing appeared first on Health Portal Solutions.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

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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Integration key to removing friction and promoting digital inclusion – Payne

DigitalHealth

The Access Group's Alan Payne said at Rewired that integration is crucial for removing friction from the care system and promoting digital inclusion.

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Bonus Features, HIMSS2024 Edition – March 13, 2024 – AI news from AWS, Google, Innovaccer, Microsoft, and Oracle Health, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Nottingham University Hospitals studies use of N-Tidal device

DigitalHealth

The N-Tidal is to be studied by Nottingham University Hospitals to assess its accuracy in diagnosing and monitoring respiratory conditions in children.

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Verato Enables Healthcare to Know Who is Who with Google Cloud

Digital Health Global

Google Cloud customers now have access to best-in-class Verato hMDM platform to efficiently manage identities across the care continuum MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Verato , the identity experts for healthcare, today announced its partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate healthcare organizations’ ability to transform their businesses with an end-to-end, trusted enterprise identity data management solution – solving the problem that drives everything else – knowing who is who.

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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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Convert clinicians to digital wards by allowing them to ‘play’ with the tech

DigitalHealth

The clinical and cost benefits of virtual wards are becoming clearer, but some clinicians still need to be won over, according to speakers at Rewired24.

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Transgender Woman’s Sex Discrimination Claim Allowed to Proceed Under ACA

ACA Times

A federal court rules that a transgender woman’s discrimination claim can proceed under ACA. The result of the case could expand minimum essential coverage. The post Transgender Woman’s Sex Discrimination Claim Allowed to Proceed Under ACA first appeared on The ACA Times.

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NHS App to target prevention and increase messaging as expansion continues 

DigitalHealth

The UK government ambitions for the NHS App are likely to focus increasingly on preventative tools and greater use of the platform for messaging.

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