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VR Changing Surgical Training is About Repetitions

Healthcare IT Today

When you first hear about VR (Virtual Reality) being used for medical training, it kind of sounds like a game or a joke and not a serious addition to a doctor’s training. However, the reality is that the technology and the research around surgical training using VR is very serious and much more than a game.

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Sanford Health's CIO talks virtual care, workforce challenges, modern data ecosystem

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As part of our virtual care initiative, Sanford Health will focus on expanding access, improving the patient experience, advancing innovation through new research, attracting and training a new generation of clinicians, and sharing learning opportunities through an education institute.

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Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

In this environment, “hybrid labs”—those that perform both direct-to-consumer genetic testing and traditional, medical-grade testing—are proliferating. Meanwhile, an emerging scheme for fraudulent and unnecessary cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing allegedly resulted in $174 million in false and fraudulent Medicare claims.

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ChatGPT May Not be Ready to Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry Quite Yet, But There’s Promise for the Future

Healthcare IT Today

Currently, potential for errors remains in ChatGPT’s responses since it has been trained on vast amounts of data, much of which includes race, gender, ethnicity, and other stereotypes, using machine learning algorithms that can make mistakes. ” The human touch is still needed to help AI achieve its full potential.

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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For decades, Chinatown Service Center of Los Angeles, a federally qualified health center community clinic, relied on the ubiquitous faxing of patients’ medical records from local hospitals and physician offices, as well as patients bringing their most recent doctor visits’ paperwork outside of CSC to their appointments.

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RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Healthcare IT Today

From the outside it looks one thing, but upon further inspection there are a million tiny little pieces that fit together to create the whole. Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is like a one of those huge Lego sculptures. Having a well executed RCM strategy is crucial to keep your organization running because it impacts everything.

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How the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

They've gotten better with adaptability and rapid implementation of new workflows. Some have learned that 24- to 72-hour downtime processes are inadequate to prepare for a 23-day outage. And they've discovered that teams that don't usually spend time together can co-create innovative fixes for urgent challenges. " Dr. Andrew W.