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Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Emerging trends in the European HealthTech M&A market 2023

Lloyd Price

This is being driven by the increasing adoption of digital health technologies by patients and healthcare providers, as well as the growing need for healthcare organizations to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Life sciences: This includes companies that develop and commercialize drugs, biologics, and medical devices.

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Intelligent Medical Objects Announces the Acquisition of Melax Technologies Inc.

Healthcare IT Today

Melax Tech empowers the healthcare and life sciences industries through use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies to extract information from biomedical textual data to solve real-world problems. Melax Tech).

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

It is key for pharmaceutical companies to recognize that efficiency does not override compliance, patient safety or regulatory standards. Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR) will become more common in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). Dave Latshaw, CEO at BioPhy 1.

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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

The WHO and the India G20 presidency emphasised its importance by launching ‘The Global Initiative of Digital Health’ (GIDH) in August, proclaiming: “Digital health is a proven accelerator to advance health outcomes and achieve Universal Health Coverage and health-related Sustainable Development Goals.”

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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

Health Populi

Pharmaceuticals garner the lowest score at 57, compared with biotech and life sciences at 64. ” In addition, there is a growing risk of cybersecurity hacks of patients’ personal health information, with stories reaching local news media on a regular basis.

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