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Envisioning the future of health care with OpenAI’s GPT-4o: potential innovations under secure and unbiased conditions

KevinMD

Introducing OpenAI’s GPT-4o is just the beginning of a transformative journey in health care. As we look to the future, it is essential to ensure that advancements in AI, particularly in sensitive sectors like health care, are grounded in security and fairness. With strict adherence to HIPAA-compliant servers and proactive measures to eliminate bias in Read more… Envisioning the future of health care with OpenAI’s GPT-4o: potential innovations under secure and unbiased conditions ori

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Oura smart ring company extends heart health capabilities

Mobi Health News

The company's new offerings will allow users to determine their cardiovascular age and overall cardiovascular health.

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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

Health Populi

Yesterday, the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means passed six pieces of legislation that would bolster telehealth in the U.S. for the next two years, assuring several aspects of access for health citizens across the country. “One of our top priorities on this Committee is helping every American access health care in the community where they live, work, and raise a family,” Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) explained in his introductory statement.

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RAND: Hospitals charged insurers 254% more than Medicare rates in 2022

FierceHealthIT

The gap between insurance plans and Medicare's payments to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services widened over the course of just a couple of years, a new study from RAND Corporation | A new report from RAND Corporation highlighted just how much more employers and private insurers are paying hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services.

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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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Attendees report in on 'next chapter in virtual care' at ATA conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association held its 28th annual conference, ATA Nexus 2024, this past week in Phoenix. The goal was to gather innovators, changemakers and healthcare providers to lead efforts to improve access to quality care with telehealth and remote monitoring. The theme was "The Next Chapter in Virtual Care," examining new realities, highlighting lessons learned, and sharing actionable insights and use cases, while convening thought leaders, frontline providers and patie

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TytoCare partners with new health systems to expand school health initiative

Mobi Health News

North Carolina-based Cone Health, Virginia health system Sentara Health and Kentucky community health center A Plus Family HealthCare will utilize TytoCare in local schools.

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DETECT-1 Study: a leap forward in cardiac arrest detection

Digital Health Global

In a significant breakthrough, researchers have developed and validated an algorithm for automated cardiac arrest detection using a photoplethysmography wristband. The study, titled “Automated cardiac arrest detection using a photoplethysmography wristband: algorithm development and validation in patients with induced circulatory arrest in the DETECT-1 study” , presents a promising solution to a critical health issue.

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Justice Department 'upping its game' on healthcare antitrust enforcement with new task force

FierceHealthIT

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it has established a new task force to take on healthcare monopolies and collusion. | The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it has established a new task force to take on healthcare monopolies and collusion.

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Rural chronic disease patients: Improving care access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

How Azalea Health's telehealth and EHR tools integrate with partners' remote patient monitoring and chronic care management products to treat patients living in rural care deserts, shows Khue Tran, chief strategy officer.

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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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Artificial intelligence: Revolutionizing patient education in primary care

KevinMD

The landscape of the modern doctor’s office has changed remarkably over the last decade, especially with the emergence of artificial intelligence. The days of turning to Google for medical questions are becoming fewer and far between as large language models such as ChatGPT or Bing chatbot are helping to create personalized and comprehensive responses to Read more… Artificial intelligence: Revolutionizing patient education in primary care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Study: Google reveals new capabilities of Med-Gemini's LLMs

Mobi Health News

Med-Gemini-3D can read 3D scans, generate radiology reports and answer questions, while Med-Gemini-Polygenic can predict health outcomes based on genomic data.

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The Impact of AI Trust and Literacy in Your Health System

Optimum Healthcare IT

Optimum Healthcare IT announced today that its ServiceNow offering, Clinician Connect, is available in the ServiceNow Store. The post The Impact of AI Trust and Literacy in Your Health System appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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CVS warns it could lose up to 10% of its members next year

FierceHealthIT

Facing the wrath of upset investors following its first quarter earnings, CVS Health has promised to value margins over members going forward. | CVS Health is reassessing its Medicare Advantage business and weighing the possibility of exiting certain markets as it looks to get its margins under control.

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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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Sharing of imaging reports to Australia's MHR to be made default and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Australian gov't wants pathology, diagnostic reports sharing to MHR by default The Australian Department of Health and Aged Care will be requiring both public and private providers of pathology and diagnostic imaging to share their reports to My Health Record by default. Prior to this, patients are reportedly waiting seven days before they can access their imaging reports on My Health Record.

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Revolutionizing medicine with AlphaFold 3: the new frontier in biomedical research

KevinMD

AlphaFold Three is a monumental leap forward in biomedical research and drug discovery, signaling a new era where artificial intelligence (AI) merges seamlessly with molecular biology to unlock mysteries that have long eluded scientists. Developed by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, AlphaFold 3 is not just an upgrade to its predecessors; it’s a transformative tool Read more… Revolutionizing medicine with AlphaFold 3: the new frontier in biomedical research originally appeared in KevinM

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Augmedix stock falls 41% after it lowers FY24 revenue guidance

Mobi Health News

The company's stock price dropped after it released its first-quarter earnings and lowered its full-year guidance despite an increase in revenue.

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Empatica and McRoberts Partnership Achieves 200+ Endpoints and Opens Platform to External Algorithm Developers

Digital Health Global

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Empatica , a pioneer in digital biomarker development and patient monitoring driven by AI, and McRoberts , one of the leaders in ambulatory monitoring of physical activity, announce the integration of all 71 McRoberts endpoints in Empatica’s digital biomarkers portfolio and FDA-cleared platform, bringing its total offering to over 200.

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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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Talkspace expands online mental health therapy to millions of Medicare members

FierceHealthIT

Online therapy provider Talkspace is making a big push into the Medicare market, rolling out to approximately 13 million members in 11 states. | Talkspace plans to expand to all 33 million traditional Medicare members, coupled with several Medicare Advantage plans, across all 50 states by the end of the year.

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – May 15, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Server Systems Administrator – Epic Physician Specialist – Emergency Support – Cleveland Clini

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Intuity Medical’s POGO Automatic, the First and Only FDA-Cleared Automatic Blood Glucose Monitor, Now Covered by Medicare Part B

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Intuity Medical, Inc., a medical technology company committed to making it easier to live with diabetes, announced today that its POGO Automatic® Blood Glucose Monitoring (ABGM) system, featuring one-step testing, is now covered by Medicare […] The article Intuity Medical’s POGO Automatic, the First and Only FDA-Cleared Automatic Blood Glucose Monitor, Now Covered by Medicare Part B appeared

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Employer-focused pharmacy benefits company Truveris raises $15M

Mobi Health News

The Delaware-based company provides self-insured employers with data and strategies to reduce costs associated with prescription medications.

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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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Online Mental Health Program for Australian Adolescents: A Study

Digital Health Global

A study recently published in The Lancet Digital Health has explored the impact of an online, school-based program designed to prevent anxiety, depression, and substance misuse in Australian adolescents. This research, led by Prof. Maree Teesson, PhD, and her team, provides insights into the 72-month outcomes of a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

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Medicare Advantage risk assessments driving billions in costs each year

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Advantage plans have come under fire for upcoding that can increase the payouts they receive, and regulators point to health risk assessments as a likely culprit in this increase in coding | Medicare Advantage plans have come under fire for upcoding that can increase the payouts they receive, and regulators point to health risk assessments as a likely culprit in this increase in coding intensity.

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4 Strategic Considerations for Digital Hospital Transformation

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Kaeli Tully, Healthcare Systems and Solutions Engineer at Intel In the quiet hours of the night, hospital executives toss and turn, grappling with the daunting reality of staffing shortages that plague their institutions. Challenges like these fuel passion and ingenuity for innovation and drive the community to harness the power of technology to find fit-for-purpose and impactful solutions.

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OneLondon announces digital tool for mental health care

DigitalHealth

Six mental health trusts in London to roll out digital tool to support people detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA), OneLondon has announced.

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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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LG launches Primefocus Health for providers to deliver home healthcare

Mobi Health News

The venture will leverage new technologies and therapies for remote patient monitoring to ease provider burnout and allow patients to receive more personalized care.

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CIONIC Unveils New Offerings to Address Full Spectrum of Mobility Challenges with New Activities of Daily Living Exercise Regimen and Training Reports for Patients with Disabilities

Digital Health Global

Revolutionary FDA-Cleared Bionic Clothing Wins Prestigious Gold Recognition at the 2024 Edison Awards SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #assistivetechnology — CIONIC , the neurotech inventor of FDA-cleared bionic clothing to improve walking, strength, and overall mobility, announced significant updates to the Cionic Neural Sleeve experience in its latest software release.

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A CPT code for prior authorization? Here’s how it could happen

FierceHealthIT

One physician is making the case that prior authorization for procedures should be reported to insurance plans as a CPT code—and the proposal could pass this week at an American Medical Association | A New York urologist believes prior auth CPT codes will realign incentives and better support patients and physicians.

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