Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 18, 2024
Connected care through the Memorial Healthcare System's mobile application gets patients engaged and taking more control of their care, and by feeding data to EHRs, can also help to save nurses time, says Jesus Diaz, director of nursing informatics.
Optimum Healthcare IT
JUNE 20, 2024
Can GenAI help improve employee experiences & workplace culture? If so, how do HR leaders apply the solution in practical, responsible ways that protect sensitive data? The post How Top Health Systems Are Using GenAI to Wow Employees appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.
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Geonetric
JUNE 18, 2024
Getting a peak behind the curtain at Google’s search algorithm has long been on digital marketers’ wish lists. Late last month, we got exactly that in the form of a then-anonymous leak that revealed previously unknown details of Google’s algorithm and how it collects data from users. Among the algorithm factors included in the leaked […] Read What the Google Leak Means for Healthcare Marketing at Geonetric.com.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2024
You can’t spell AHIP without AI. | Health insurance executives are captivated by artificial intelligences' use cases. Here's where they see advancements on the horizon.
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This eBook explores the critical issues of using consumer-grade messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and SMS in healthcare, especially home care. It highlights the negative impacts on patient care quality, data security, and HIPAA compliance and provides practical solutions to enhance communication efficiency! You will learn how to: Consolidate Messaging Platforms: Streamline communication by reducing the use of multiple apps, improving efficiency in patient care.
Digital Health Wire
JUNE 16, 2024
Preventable hospitalizations are one of healthcare’s most widely adopted quality measures, which is exactly why they ended up in the crosshairs of a new opinion piece in Health Affairs. Rates of preventable hospital admissions were first developed as an indicator of access to timely ambulatory care over 30 years ago , yet they’re now used to judge the performance of hospitals, health plans, and even individual providers ( MSSP is an easy example ).
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KevinMD
JUNE 21, 2024
Are you tired of spending hours deciphering your colleagues’ EMR notes or struggling to understand your own? Excessive details in documentation can lead to confusion and decreased productivity. Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” It’s time to declutter your documentation and unlock the benefits of clear, structured clinical notes.
Health Populi
JUNE 20, 2024
Most Americans follow some kind of eating regime, seeking energy, more protein, and healthy aging, according to the annual 2024 Food & Health Survey published this week by the International Food Information Council (IFIC). But a person’s household finances play a direct role in their ability to balance healthful food purchases and healthy eating, IFIC learned.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 20, 2024
Telstra, NTT contracted for major ICT upgrade in NSW health facilities eHealth NSW disclosed that telecommunications companies Telstra and NTT were tapped to upgrade the wired and wireless networking infrastructure of more than 1,100 public health facilities across New South Wales. Hospitals and community health centres will "progressively undergo a refresh of local networking hardware and software that underpin our increasingly digital hospital environments," said Ian Schrader, infras
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2024
At AWE2024 in Long Beach, California, Fundamental VR announced it incorporated AI into its surgical training platform and HouseCall VR relayed it has signed an agreement with the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 21, 2024
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a decision in a major legal case that observers have said could fundamentally alter the preventive services provision in the Affordable Care Act. | The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its ruling on Braidwood Management v. Becerra, a case that has wide-ranging implications on millions of Americans.
Health Populi
JUNE 18, 2024
Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world. In the Future Health Index 2024, Philips’ latest annual report presents a profile of the state of health care focused on how to provide better care for more people.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 19, 2024
OntarioMD is working closely with clinicians, provider organizations, consultants, and vendors, to accelerate the adoption of AI in healthcare. They are trying to cut through the hype to arrive at the best way to deploy the technology to maximize impact while minimizing cost and disruption. A year ago, Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to connect with Robert Fox, OntarioMD ’s new CEO.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 20, 2024
The offering allows doctors to see a patient's 3D images and medical scans in detail through an augmented reality headset and collaborate remotely.
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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 17, 2024
Color Health is working with OpenAI to test out computer-generated personalized care plans for cancer patients. | Color developed a new copilot app that leverages GPT-4o to identify missing diagnostics and create tailored workup plans for patients.
Health Populi
JUNE 17, 2024
You would assume that most people over 50 would be worried about the financial future of Medicare to cover health care as those middle-aged Americans age. But a surprising two-thirds of young Americans between 18 and 29, and 7 in 10 between 30 and 39 years of age, are concerned that Medicare’s solvency will worsen leading to their not being able to receive Medicare when eligible to receive it, discovered in the 2024 Healthcare in America Report from West Health and Gallup.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 20, 2024
ModMed has been offering their cloud-based EHR for 15 years, so they have built up a database on more than 600 million unstructured texts in real-life clinical use. Therefore, now that they are adopting AI, their ambient listening tool can generate specific, highly accurate structured data from a patient interview. They don’t need a Large Language Model (LLM) the same way other ambient clinical voice companies need them, according to Cofounder and Co-CEO Dan Cane, so they can avoid the err
Mobi Health News
JUNE 17, 2024
The company is now an in-network provider with numerous insurers and commercial and Medicare Advantage plans, expanding its reach to all 50 states.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 17, 2024
Amazon Pharmacy is expanding its prescription drug subscription program, called RxPass, to Prime members on Medicare insurance. | The RxPass program, launched in January 2023, provides unlimited access to 60 eligible generic medications and will ship the medications to customers' homes for a flat monthly fee of $5.
DigitalHealth
JUNE 19, 2024
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has criticised the “glacial” pace of adoption of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP).
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 21, 2024
Before Guidewell DCMG implemented the Prisma AI service from eClinicalWorks , intake on a patient could take two days when the office was busy. Why this long? Guidewell operates in Florida and many patients come from out-of-state and their records are scattered among various HIEs and other healthcare organizations. Obtaining the records, reading them, and entering summaries into Guidewell’s own EHR was labor-intensive.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2024
The company will use the funds to expand its product portfolio and help it meet the demand for its offerings.
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.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 17, 2024
LAS VEGAS — Last week, leaders across the health insurance industry descended on Sin City to dig deep into the biggest topics facing payers. | LAS VEGAS — Last week, leaders across the health insurance industry descended on Sin City to dig deep into the biggest issues facing payers.
Digital Health Global
JUNE 20, 2024
Coinciding with Migraine Awareness Month, the company is also sharing user-permissioned insights from over 20,000 individuals with migraine SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Evidation , the company creating new ways to measure and improve health in everyday life, is announcing MigraineSmart, a health engagement program on the Evidation app that helps individuals track and better understand their migraine symptoms.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 17, 2024
For the 76th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Susan Snedaker, Chief Information Officer at El Rio Health to talk about her new book, Renovating Healthcare IT: Building the Foundation for Digital Transformation ! We kick this episode off by talking about the motivations behind Snedaker’s newest publication.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 18, 2024
Patients in Switzerland will have access to Mika Health's psychological support offerings in conjunction with pharmaceutical therapy.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2024
Novant Health is throwing in the towel on its $320 million plan to purchase two Community Health Systems hospitals after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) scored an injunction on the deal from an | "With the FTC’s continued roadblocks we do not see a way to finalize this transaction," a spokesperson for the nonprofit system said Tuesday.
DigitalHealth
JUNE 17, 2024
More than 800 planned operations and 700 outpatient appointments were rearranged in the week following a cyber attack on Synnovis.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 18, 2024
Although we all call it AI, the technology we have is not all the way there to be true independent and self-thinking artificial intelligence. Instead, the AI that we are working with is a very sophisticated technology that is trained to predict and analyze things based on what it has been coded and trained to recognize. So in that spirit, let’s take a moment to look at all of the work that AI-driven predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms are doing in the world of healthcare r
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