KevinMD

MAY 14, 2024

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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Mobi Health News

MAY 10, 2024

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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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Chief among them: critical staffing challenges. Some federal and state legislators are seeking to mandate patient-caregiver ratios to help improve care and reduce nurse burnout.

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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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FierceHealthIT

MAY 9, 2024

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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Mobi Health News

MAY 13, 2024

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

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Digital Health Global

MAY 14, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2024

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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FierceHealthIT

MAY 13, 2024

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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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.

KevinMD

MAY 9, 2024

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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Mobi Health News

MAY 7, 2024

The company, which tailors cybersecurity offerings to health systems and providers, also appointed its first chief executive officer, Geyer Jones.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 13, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2024

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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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.

FierceHealthIT

MAY 8, 2024

Almost every hospital and health system currently struggles with a growing workforce shortage and rising costs to deliver care. Agencies have stepped in to fill the gap, often resulting in unp | In-House Health developed an artificial intelligence-driven scheduling and management platform for modern nursing teams. The startup picked up $4 million in seed funding from NEA and TMV to build out its platform.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 10, 2024

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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Mobi Health News

MAY 8, 2024

The company's Dream Sock, which received FDA 510(k) clearance in November, gathers real-time health readings, including a baby's sleep trends and pulse rate.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2024

The following is a guest article by Tanya Sanderson, RN, BSN, MBA, MHA, CLNC, CHFP, Senior Director of Revenue Integrity at Xsolis The concept of “revenue integrity” hasn’t really changed over the years, but the roles, responsibilities, and oversight have become far more complex and difficult to gain industry consensus around. What began as several defined systems of controls by which hospitals guarded against revenue loss, revenue integrity has seemingly turned into more narrowly focused contro

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2024

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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FierceHealthIT

MAY 8, 2024

Ascension disclosed Wednesday that it has detected “unusual activity” on some of its technology networks that it believes “is due to a cybersecurity event.” | The Catholic health giant said it detected "unusual activity" Wednesday and "immediately" activated remediation processes, including hiring a third-party cybersecurity firm.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 10, 2024

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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Mobi Health News

MAY 8, 2024

It confidently relies on expert knowledge based on two decades of research with young people.

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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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DigitalHealth

MAY 9, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. But to truly achieve those quality improvements – while tackling social determinant of health challenges and trimming costs – virtual care should be delivered with a bit more of a hands-on approach, said Dr.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 8, 2024

Rad AI, a startup that developed an AI platform for radiology, pocketed $50 million in fresh capital to expand global availability of its generative AI solutions. | Rad AI, a startup that developed an AI platform for radiology, pocketed $50 million in fresh capital to expand global availability of its generative AI solutions.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 9, 2024

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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Mobi Health News

MAY 13, 2024

The companies will utilize Flatiron Clinical Pipe to connect electronic health records to electronic data capture for clinical trial data gathering.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

For the 140th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about the Change Healthcare ransomware attack. To kick this episode off, we share our insights on what has happened in the two months since the attack. Then we discuss whether or not we think this will be the inciting incident for healthcare organizations to wake up about their security.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 10, 2024

NHS Dumfries and Galloway are working with the National Cyber Security Centre following the publication of around three terabytes of stolen patient data.

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