KevinMD

JUNE 16, 2023

Health care organizations are complex systems that require a multitude of moving parts to work smoothly. The background operations that keep health systems running are key to enabling frontline doctors and nurses to deliver quality care. As a registered nurse and health care administrator for 45 years, I have a unique perspective on the challenges Read more… Unleashing the power of optimized operations, data connectivity, and technology for unparalleled patient care originally appeared in KevinM

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

The company will use the funds to release new offerings to providers and payers, expand its reach nationally in 2023 and establish a presence in all 50 states in 2024.

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Clear Arch Health

JUNE 16, 2023

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs enable the delivery of convenient, proactive, and responsive care to patients wherever they are, regardless of location. This is highly advantageous for rural healthcare patients who often encounter barriers to patient care services. Here, we'd like to share some good news about the RPM program at Coal Country Community Health Center ‐ Beulah Clinic, in North Dakota.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

Dr. Jim Feng, CEO of Phyxable, discusses the company's work with the Canadian Space Agency's Health Beyond Initiative to develop innovative tools for space health.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

With the release of ChatGPT, what had long been science fiction became a reality, leaving healthcare wondering where medicine meets machine. | This week, Stanford Medicine and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) launched Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health (RAISE-Health) with the goal of addressing critical ethical and safety issues regarding the technology.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 16, 2023

Luma Health, a platform automating the patient journey, has launched a new digital call deflection service to reduce inbound call volume for provider staff. | Calls are redirected to self-service text messaging, which the company argues helps short-staffed providers get patients to the next step in their care quickly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2023

Penn State Health announced this week that a subscription-based virtual care service, currently in beta with employers and educational institutions in central Pennsylvania, will expand access to patients statewide later in the year. WHY IT MATTERS Through the new service, called COMMpanion, members can call or message two physicians, three nurse practitioners and a team of nurses and health navigators to get their questions answered and access health coaching and care navigation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth Patients want the same modern computing experience in healthcare that they enjoy the rest of their lives to extend to our health and medical care. They want a modern consumer experience with ease of access, speed, availability, accuracy, and affordability. US healthcare is notorious for whiffing on the consumer experience, and it looks like we are about to miss another big opportunity to get things right if t

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 16, 2023

A pair of key panels advising Congress on Medicare and Medicaid policy recommended lawmakers adopt contentious site-neutral payment for certain ambulatory services and amend the Social Security Act | The congressional advisory panels backed site-neutral payments for certain ambulatory services and called for amendments to secure uncompensated care payments during economic downturns.

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Setting up a modern healthcare technology environment spanning on-premise and multicloud locations requires a comprehensive strategy that takes time, needs to be application-based, and allows for an on-ramp to move entire ecosystems of applications. Due to the proliferation of attacks – which are disproportionately target healthcare and life sciences organizations, becoming more frequent, increasingly sophisticated, and their consequences more dire – the inescapable conclusion is that it is no l

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DigitalHealth

JUNE 16, 2023

Population health management (PHM) has the potential to eliminate some of the legwork in health visits, and help clinicians forecast patient needs

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Technology Leader Seeks to Help Tackle Growing Drug Diversion Challenge in the U.S. Wolters Kluwer Health today announced it has signed and completed the acquisition of Invistics Corporation (Invistics) , a U.S.-based provider of cloud-based, AI-enabled software for drug diversion detection and controlled substance compliance. Invistics will join the company’s Clinical Surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions unit, part of Clinical Solutions.

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DigitalHealth

JUNE 16, 2023

A report into digitalisation in the care sector by Log my Care has revealed the most common future investment plans and the barriers to adoption.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

Insurers have plenty to consider when weighing coverage for new weight loss medications, and that includes the need to carefully coordinate distribution with their pharmacy benefit managers, accord | Payers need to work closely with PBMs to coordinate coverage decisions about Ozempic and other weight loss drugs, a new guide advises.

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DigitalHealth

JUNE 16, 2023

This Digital Health News industry roundup covers a cybersecurity win for Cylera and a VR walkthrough at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 16, 2023

Thirty years ago, Highmark enrolled the first Pennsylvania child in the Children's Health Insurance Program. | One of the country's largest Blues plans is looking to get the word out about how critical CHIP could be as flexibilities introduced under the public health emergency unwind.

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DigitalHealth

JUNE 16, 2023

Digital leadership in ICBs continues to be a careful balancing act, with efforts to maintain and improve systems proceeding on parallel tracks.

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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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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 16, 2023

The sheer size of the country's largest health plans positions them well for a "stable" business outlook, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings. | The sheer size of the country's largest health plans positions them well for a "stable" business outlook, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.

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