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Apple’s new accessibility features: a game changer in health care

KevinMD

Apple’s recent announcement of new accessibility features, including eye tracking, music haptics, and vocal shortcuts, represents a significant leap in technological advancement to improve the quality of life for individuals with disabilities. These features are set to revolutionize health care by enhancing patient autonomy, improving the quality of care, and supporting inclusive design.

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Real-world data platform Atropos Health raises $33M

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to enter into strategic relationships with life sciences organizations focusing on oncology and specialty care.

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5G Ushered Huge Advances in Healthcare Technology. What will 6G Offer?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by John English, Director of Service Provider Marketing and Business Development at NETSCOUT Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, medical technology became essential for keeping healthcare running when other industries had to close. Cellular network technology, particularly 5G, has been a critical enabler in running medical services during and after the pandemic.

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Aevice targets Japan, US with latest $1M fund and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Lunit has completed its acquisition of breast screening AI company Volpara.

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The Cost of Inefficient Communication in Home Care & Beyond

This eBook explores the critical issues of using consumer-grade messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and SMS in healthcare, especially home care. It highlights the negative impacts on patient care quality, data security, and HIPAA compliance and provides practical solutions to enhance communication efficiency! You will learn how to: Consolidate Messaging Platforms: Streamline communication by reducing the use of multiple apps, improving efficiency in patient care.

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The 20 highest paid specialties in 2023 as doctors see 6% boost in pay: Doximity

FierceHealthIT

After several years of modest or declining growth, the average pay for doctors jumped 5.9% in 2023, rebounding from a decline of 2.4% in 2022. | After several years of modest or declining growth, the average pay for doctors jumped 5.9% in 2023, rebounding from a decline of 2.4% in 2022.

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Centene taps McCormack Baron Salazar for investments in affordable housing

FierceHealthIT

Centene's philanthropic arm is joining forces with McCormack Baron Salazar to develop new affordable housing options in multiple states. | Centene's philanthropic arm is joining forces with McCormack Baron Salazar to develop new affordable housing options in multiple states.

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XGEN Venture Announces €160 million First Life Science Fund

Digital Health Global

Investing in early stage breakthrough opportunities across life sciences Led by experienced former Genextra team Supported by anchor investors European Investment Fund (EIF), CDP Venture Capital SGR (CDP VC) and Micheli Associati, as well as a broad institutional base including UniCredit, Quaestio Capital, Banco BPM, Inarcassa, ENPAM, Fondazione di Sardegna and Banca Sella Holding Launched in December 2022, has so far invested in five companies Fundraising to continue to end of Q3 2024 MILANR

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Atropos Health lands $33M to scale AI-powered real-world evidence, build out pharma partnerships

FierceHealthIT

Atropos Health, maker of a real-world data platform, sits at the intersection of two rapidly growing fields, real-world evidence research and artificial intelligence. | Atropos Health is getting closer to its mission of addressing the evidence gap in healthcare and secured $33 million in series B funding to help fuel its growth.

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Digital Health Startup and Health Engagement Veteran, Linda Zespy, Joins CareHive as VP of Marketing and Engagement

Digital Health Global

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #minnesota –CareHive, a pioneer in data-driven, digital-first, white glove navigation solutions, today announced the appointment of Linda Zespy as Vice President of Marketing and Engagement. Zespy has 20+ years in the healthcare space, including 15+ years of experience working specifically with B2B2C digital health startups to help them leverage their brand to build their client base and harness behavior science and human-centered design to build and re

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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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Three Acute Hospital Alliance trusts to implement shared EPR

DigitalHealth

The three trusts that form the Acute Hospital Alliance are to implement a new shared electronic patient record (EPR), which will go live in 2026.

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3 takeaways from Veradigm, ScienceIO CEOs on the potential for AI to transform EHRs

FierceHealthIT

Interim CEO at Veradigm Shin-Yin Ho and Will Manidis, CEO and founder of ScienceIO (which was recently acquired by Veradigm), spoke about the potential of artificial intelligence on a panel at the | Veradigm and ScienceIO CEOs discussed how artificial intelligence will dramatically change the function of electronic health records, from making their contents more usable to demoting their prominence in healthcare.

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NHS England sets ambition to improve access to virtual wards

DigitalHealth

NHS England has announced proposals to increase access to virtual wards in a bid to reduce emergency department (ED) waiting times.

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Shifting From Healthcare Marketing to Storytelling

Geonetric

Real-life narratives help your health system build relationships with prospective patients, job candidates, donors and other members of your community. Let’s explore the differences between the two types of communication and see where storytelling can supplement your marketing efforts. Marketing: The Science of Influence Marketing is overtly promotional.

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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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Become A Technology Obsolescence Risk Superhero

LeanIX

Technology obsolescence risk management can unlock superior IT performance for your organization by locating and replacing the legacy IT components that are letting you down. Become a hero to your organization by optimizing your essential technology.

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National CIO John Quinn returns as Summer Schools keynote in 2024

DigitalHealth

Digital Health is delighted to announce that NHS England’s CIO John Quinn will return as keynote at Summer Schools 2024 in July.

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Flying Blind: LeanIX Survey Shows Need For AI Governance

LeanIX

Generative AI is revolutionizing IT across all industries, but it's still a relative unknown. Discover how 226 IT specialists across the world are working on AI adoption and governance in our LeanIX AI Report 2024.

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Site-neutral payments draw blanket, bipartisan support at House Budget hearing

FierceHealthIT

Rampant consolidation within the healthcare industry is proving to be a rare point of unity among Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the House. | House Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said that site-neutral payment policy is the "most obvious" solution amid supportive testimonies from partisan thinktanks, the Congressional Budget Office and a practicing independent physician.

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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.