April, 2024

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4 Tips for Modernizing Healthcare HR Operations

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 2 min When modernizing your HR-shared services (HRSD), it can be challenging to know where to start. Let Optimum Healthcare IT help you! Continue reading 4 Tips for Modernizing Healthcare HR Operations at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Center for BrainHealth helps mental health patients develop social skills using virtual coaching

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cognitive neuroscience researchers and clinicians had been encountering significant challenges in effectively addressing social skills development among individuals dealing with mental health conditions or neurodevelopmental disorders. THE PROBLEM Traditional approaches often lacked engagement and real-world applicability, making it difficult for individuals to generalize skills learned in therapy sessions to everyday social interactions.

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FDA launches extended reality-enabled initiative for home health care

Mobi Health News

The Home as a Health Care Hub will use augmented reality and virtual reality to reimagine how the home can become a healthcare system to improve health equity.

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Concerns and Uncertainty In the Wake of Sweeping HTI-1 Rule

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Stephanie Jamison, Executive Committee Chair and Public Policy Leadership Workgroup Vice Chair, EHR Association. In the months that have passed since the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the […] The article Concerns and Uncertainty In the Wake of Sweeping HTI-1 Rule appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Walmart shuttering all 51 health centers, citing lack of profitability

FierceHealthIT

This is a developing story and will be updated with more information. | Walmart is shuttering all 51 health centers along with its virtual care services, the retail giant announced Tuesday morning.

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Labour to partner with Virgin Media to expand access to diabetes tech

DigitalHealth

Labour has announced a new partnership with Virgin Media O2, to ensure every child with type 1 diabetes can benefit from the latest technology.

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Digital from the start: New medical campus to rise in Singapore's east

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Singaporean Ministry of Health has officially broken ground on a new medical campus in eastern Singapore. To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. It will provide a range of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care services, as well as continuing and rehabilitative care services.

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Talkspace launches behavioral health consortium with specialty care providers

Mobi Health News

The consortium will allow Talkspace users with high-acuity needs to access specialty care providers via clinician referral or through its wellness ecosystem, Health Collective.

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Optimum Healthcare IT Celebrates Surpassing 400 Go-Live Projects

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 2 min Optimum Healthcare IT celebrates surpassing 400 successful Electronic Health Record (EHR) training and go-live projects. Continue reading Optimum Healthcare IT Celebrates Surpassing 400 Go-Live Projects at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Hospitals no longer required to report COVID-19 data to CDC

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early COVID-19 pandemic. | Hospitals were required to share COVID-19 admissions, ICU capacity and other related data on a daily basis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then the reporting frequency shifted. The CDC said it still encourages hospitals to report their data on a "voluntary" basis and will soon begin displaying those data online.

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Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools and Training Is Key to Securing Your Healthcare Organization

Healthcare IT Today

According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc. , phishing emails are still the most prevalent and dangerous sources for security breaches. In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) , discuss how they protect against breaches through fundamental investments in tools and training.

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Should we admit our mistakes and start again?

DigitalHealth

At last month's giant HIMSS in Orlando, you could 'smell the money'. But it might be time to stop getting excited about the future of health tech and face up to some hard truths, writes Joe McDonald.

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New codes from the AMA could mean more RPM reimbursement by 2025

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Today, most remote patient monitoring services are billed under four Current Procedural Terminology codes. These codes can be split into two categories to help understand their uses. There are two RPM device monitoring codes – 99453 and 99454 – and two timed RPM management service codes – 99457 and 99458. CPT 99453 covers the time it takes to enroll patients in RPM and get them set up on their devices.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Q&A: Microsoft's AI for Good Lab on AI biases and regulation

Mobi Health News

Juan Lavista Ferres, head of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss his book on ethically using AI to impact humanity positively.

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2024 Healthcare AI Trends: Leading the Future

NiftyHMS

The Indian government predicts that healthcare will be transformed by AI before 2030, making it more accessible and efficient. NiftyHMS is at the forefront of this change, leading the way. Let’s work together to create a healthier future. Join us on our journey of innovation! Aspect Before 2010 During 2020: WhatsApp Chatbot with NiftyHMS Future 2030: AI Revolution with NiftyHMS Appointment Booking Phone calls WhatsApp chatbots streamline booking AI Assistant will book a doctor’s app

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Epic plans to launch AI validation software for healthcare organizations to test, monitor models

FierceHealthIT

As artificial intelligence rapidly advances in healthcare, the industry is grappling with how to evaluate AI models for accuracy and performance and monitor the technology for any downstream advers | The healthcare industry is grappling with how to evaluate AI models for accuracy and performance and monitor the technology for any downstream adverse outcomes.

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How AI is Shaping Drug Discovery at AION Labs

Healthcare IT Today

In the fast-paced realm of pharmaceuticals, where innovation can mean the difference between life and death, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of drug discovery and development. Mati Gil, CEO at AION Labs , stands at the forefront of this revolution, pioneering the use of AI to tackle the challenges inherent in the pharma industry.

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Real-Life Examples of HIPAA Violations and How to Avoid Them

Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer

Download our 30-minute webinar where we delve into real-life examples of HIPAA violations and preventative measures every organization should know! You will learn: The critical factors that lead to HIPAA violations and how to identify them. Three compelling real-life cases of organizations that faced severe HIPAA penalties. Proven strategies to safeguard YOUR organization against HIPAA violations.

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The Health Foundation: technologies clinicians say can save the NHS time

DigitalHealth

Research from The Health Foundation has explored the technologies saving clinicians time right now, and those that have potential for the future.

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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. In other countries such as Belgium and Spain, patients can access regional portals.

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Owlet, Wheel partner to launch telehealth platform for caregivers of infants

Mobi Health News

Wheel's BabySat virtual telehealth services platform will enable caregivers to obtain a prescription for the baby tech company's pulse oximetry sock.

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Digital wayfinding for NHS estates: reduce DNAs, alleviate anxiety and save money

Digital Leaders HealthTech

There were 122 million NHS appointments booked in 2022. Of those, around 6.4% (7.8 million) were missed. For context, that equates to more missed appointments every month than the entire population of Bristol, UK (650,000). It also costs the NHS over £200m annually. According to an NHS review into outpatient appointments , the main reasons for missing appointments stem from difficulties with processes and communication, as well as previous poor experiences.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Medicare Advantage rate cut remains as feds keep up pressure

FierceHealthIT

Insurers will feel resentful Monday as the feds opted to not reverse its decision to decrease Medicare Advantage benchmark payments by 0.16%, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced. | CMS is not deviating from its January proposal to modestly rein in Medicare Advantage. Benchmark payments will still decrease 0.16% but the feds expect it will still pay up to $600 billion in payments to plans in 2025.

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Transparency and Data Sharing Can Also Ease Patient Burn-Out

Healthcare IT Today

Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results , co-Founder of Unblock Health , and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families. Cordovano and Colin Banas, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst , talk in this video about recent regulatory advances in data sharing and how both clinicians and

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US nurses protest against the use of AI in hospitals

DigitalHealth

Nurses from the Californian Nurses Association have been protesting against the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in US hospitals.

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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and thro

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How 3 Urgent Cares Tackled Key Metrics For Accelerated Growth

Considering the growth of your clinic? It’s difficult to advance any business today without using technology — but what will truly enhance your daily operations? How successful are other urgent care centers with these solutions? This article offers a glimpse into real-world technology experiences from urgent care centers like yours. Discover how various solutions can boost your growth potential and see firsthand how effective they are.

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h2o Therapeutics' Apple Watch feature for Parkinson's gets FDA medical device listing

Mobi Health News

The feature provides vibrotactile stimulation when a patient is experiencing freezing of gait, a common symptom of Parkinson's disease.

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AI-enabled drug discovery company Xaira launches with $1B

Mobi Health News

Xaira's CEO, Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, resigned as president of Stanford University last August due to controversy over inaccuracies discovered in his lab's scientific papers.

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Q&A: Actress Kellee Stewart on advocating for fertility benefits

Mobi Health News

Kellee Stewart, actress and fertility advocate, sat down with MobiHealthNews at an event in LA to discuss Progyny's partnership with Evite its fertility benefits offerings.

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