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Blockchain technology in population health management

KevinMD

Blockchain technology may revolutionize population health management. Patients and health care practitioners face the challenge of securely accessing, managing, integrating, and sharing health records. While blockchain is gaining attention in various industries, its application in health care and population health is still preliminary. Data security and interoperability By combining data security measures with innovative approaches to Read more… Blockchain technology in population health managem

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Foundation Health secures $6M to drive next-generation consumer experiences

Mobi Health News

The health tech company announced the seed funding will help scale its suite of SaaS products within the healthcare ecosystem.

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The doctor’s digital twin will see you now

KevinMD

Imagine a day when you wake up from a perfect six hours and thirty-six minutes of restorative sleep. Overnight, a wearable device or implanted chip has been continuously monitoring and capturing a comprehensive set of your biological and physiological variables. The ingested data from the variables collected is processed through an adaptive machine learning algorithm Read more… The doctor’s digital twin will see you now originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Celebrating World Sleep Day 2024 – Sleep Equity for Global Health

Health Populi

On the long list of things people can do to bolster their well-being, sleep ranks third after eating well and being physically active. We are calling out sleep as a key ingredient for health today, World Sleep Day 2024. Yes, it’s a real thing, and this year speaks to the theme of Sleep Equity for Global Health. The data point here comes from Datassential ‘s latest consumer survey conducted across all adult age groups in the U.S.

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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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Learning from funding missteps in the digital health startup ecosystem

Mobi Health News

Pawan Kohli, strategic advisor at Redesign Health, speaks on the current state of funding and pitfalls in digital health.

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Open letter in response to Frank Hester’s racist comments

DigitalHealth

People working in digital health are being urged to sign an open letter condemning racism and discrimination and committing to develop an ‘equity charter’.

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Payers, providers continue to tussle over Change Healthcare cyberattack response

FierceHealthIT

Providers are still feeling the pain brought on by the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and they're continuing to push insurers and the feds to beef up their responses. | Providers are still feeling the pain brought on by the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and they're continuing to push insurers and the feds to beef up their responses.

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UnityAI Secures $4 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Hospital Flow

Healthcare IT Today

Company will Apply AI Technologies Including Reinforcement Learning and LLMs to Optimize how Patients Flow through Hospitals UnityAI , a healthcare technology startup founded by three seasoned engineers and data scientists with backgrounds at HCA Healthcare , a leading hospital and healthcare company in the United States, announced the successful closure of its seed funding round, securing $4 million in total capital to date.

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Salesforce rolls out 'copilot' to automate tasks as tech giants ramp up focus on healthcare AI

FierceHealthIT

Salesforce launched a new healthcare AI assistant within its customer relationship management system, marking the latest tech company trying to expand its reach in the healthcare market. | Salesforce launched a new healthcare AI assistant within its customer relationship management system, marking the latest tech company trying to expand its reach in the healthcare market.

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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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NHS expands AI to help tackle missed appointments, improve wait times

DigitalHealth

The NHS is set to roll out artificial intelligence to reduce the number of missed appointments and free up staff time to reduce waiting times.

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Nurses report wage, staffing dissatisfaction but most say they'll stick around until retirement, report finds

FierceHealthIT

Despite challenges with compensation, staffing shortages, safety and more, most nurses want to remain in the field until retirement, a new report found. | The report, which also covered nurses' thoughts on healthcare AI, included Incredible Health’s proprietary data from the 1 million nurses using its platform and the findings of a survey that reached more than 3,300 nurses working in the hospital setting.

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Consultant Connect tech keeps thousands of patients out of hospital

DigitalHealth

Thousands of frail and elderly patients are avoiding unnecessary trips to hospitals thanks from technology from Consultant Connect.

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Health spending spikes in Massachusetts amid high drug expenses, unprecedented patient cost sharing, regulator warns

FierceHealthIT

Pharmaceutical costs, non-claims payments and outpatient care fueled “unchecked” healthcare spending in Massachusetts that's increasingly being felt by its residents, according to new findings from | The Bay State's healthcare cost growth benchmark program is calling for policy action after a report showed per-person health spending well above the national average.

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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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DHSC outlines plans to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices

DigitalHealth

Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Social Care announced its plan to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices.

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Bold Statements from Hal Wolf at HIMSS24

Healthcare IT Today

Hal Wolf, CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), made several bold statements at HIMSS24 about international growth, courting people in CIO-adjacent roles, and learning from other industries. HIMSS Expansion At a briefing during the HIMSS24 annual conference in Orlando Florida, Hal Wolf CEO of HIMSS laid bare the organization’s plans for continued growth an expansion.

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Central Camden PCN slashes wait times with LuminEye tech

DigitalHealth

The Bloomsbury Clinic, part of Central Camden PCN is using the LuminEye digital rectoscope to slash waiting times for bowel issues.

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ViVE 2024 Takeaways: The ‘Rebel Yell’ of AI and Cybersecurity

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 5 min When the Optimum Healthcare IT experts weren’t gracing the stage as speakers, they were able to connect with fellow healthcare IT thought leaders about the current state of the healthcare industry. Here are a few of their major takeaways from ViVE 2024. Continue reading ViVE 2024 Takeaways: The ‘Rebel Yell’ of AI and Cybersecurity at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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7 Steps to Successfully Achieve URAC Accreditation

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Discover the seven key steps your organization can take to earn the URAC accreditation. From gap analysis to creating a focused action plan, we’ve compiled the latest best practices to help your team move forward. The post 7 Steps to Successfully Achieve URAC Accreditation appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions.

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Healthcare Marketing Analytics

Geonetric

The healthcare world is quickly realizing just how important digital marketing can be. It’s a powerful way to connect with patients and meet business goals. But to really make the most of digital marketing, it’s essential for healthcare organizations to get a good grip on what digital healthcare analytics is all about. Digital marketing is […] Read Healthcare Marketing Analytics at Geonetric.com.

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Understanding SAMHSA’s Key Changes to 42 CFR Part 8: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals

Mend

Imagine a healthcare landscape where treatment is accessible, patients receive personalized care tailored to their unique needs, and innovative approaches pave the way for improved medical outcomes. With the recent amendments to federal regulations governing opioid treatment programs (OTPs), this vision becomes a step in the right direction toward making this a reality.

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What Happens To Middleware When You’re Cloud-Native?

LeanIX

Does cloud migration render traditional middleware obsolete or is there still value to co-ordinating software acting between your applications in the cloud? Let's explore what you need to do with middleware when you migrate to the cloud.

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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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Staying Safe After Surgery: Remote Patient Monitoring for Early Detection of Rebound Intracranial Hypertension

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Had surgery and worried about complications? Rebound intracranial hypertension (RIH) is a potential issue after specific procedures. This blog explores RIH, its signs, and how remote patient monitoring (RPM) can help with early detection, keeping you safe at home. Beyond Recovery: Embracing Remote Monitoring to Prevent RIH Our brains are delicate organs, protected by a fluid called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 1 – Bulk FHIR

Redox

One of the reasons I like working at Redox as a solutions engineer is that I get to help our prospective and current customers solve hard problems with creative solutions. Something I’ve seen firsthand over the last couple of years is that there is a big difference between what you’d think should be possible (or what will be possible) and what actually is possible.

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HIMSS 2024 Recap and Major Announcements

Digital Health Wire

It’s the final day of HIMSS 2024, and although most exhibitors are still either valiantly stationed at their booths or playing hooky at Disney World, the giant wave of announcements has already crashed and it’s time to round up some of the biggest stories from the show. The topics du jour among the ~35,000 attendees weren’t entirely unexpected. Generative AI was definitely the main course, but with an especially heavy portion of HIMSS’ signature interoperability sauce poured over it following th

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Payer Roundup—PBM reform gathering sparks new hope; Centene talks ACA subsidies

FierceHealthIT

Wyden, Crapo push PBM reform again Senate Finance Committee leaders Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, gathered with pharmacists and patients to advocate for PBM reform Thursda | This week, there was a renewed push to include PBM reform in upcoming legislation, Centene CEO Sarah London discusses how the election could affect expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies and nine critical issues not included in Biden's budget.

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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.