Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Rare and less common cancer nearly made up a quarter of cancers diagnosed in the country in 2024; it also accounts for a third of all cancer deaths. New Zealand sets up $3M funding for healthcare AI The Health Research Council of New Zealand has announced NZ$5 million ($2.8 million) in funding for healthcare AI research.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This shift carries profound implications for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as they work to enforce new cybersecurity requirements in the healthcare sector.

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HealthIT Answers

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Starts December 4th in Washington DC - Attend the 2024 ASTP Annual Meeting for two days of conversation, learning, and networking. You'll hear about the key issues at the intersection of health care, public health, policymaking, and technology through a variety of keynote speakers and mainstage, breakout, and education sessions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As the COVID -19 pandemic showed , public health emergencies often disproportionately impact people experiencing poverty. Beyond physical health, the climate crisis also hinders mental health and emotional wellbeing. In May 2024, the High Court ruled that the U.K. For instance, without action, annual U.K.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2024

News from RSNA 2024 Siemens Healthineers has adopted NVIDIA’s MONAI Deploy , an open-source research and development platform for AI applications used in medical imaging. Sales Volunteers of America chose Dimagi as the digital partner for its Public Health AmeriCorps Community Health Worker program.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 4, 2025

10, 2024 (subsequently removed to federal court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania): Bryce Martinez was diagnosed as a 16-year-old with Type 2 Diabetes and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, conditions that the complaint asserts had been largely confined to elderly alcoholics. program, SUNY Albany School of Public Health, and NYU Law School.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2024

Less than 50% of people living in 16 countries do not trust government, media, or NGOs to do what is right to address their health needs and concerns, based on the responses from over 15,000 people living in 16 countries whose opinions are captured in the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer’s Special Report on Trust and Health.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 14, 2024

About $9 million was earmarked for its rollout in the 2024 budget. Enterprise Taxonomy: EHR Population and Public Health Digital Health Core Technologies Care Technology

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) demonstrates a recent increase in direct vulnerability exploitation with a comparable decrease in broad phishing attacks, making attacks more targeted, sophisticated, and harder to detect. The urgency to translate this guidance into actionable strategies has never been higher.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This quote is from a January 2024 op-ed by Dr. Shannon MacDonald, a radiation oncologist at Mass General Brigham who uses telehealth to provide specialty care across state lines. Figure 1 shows the geographic spread of telehealth registrations across the country as of 2024.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

For this among other reasons, it’s predicted that by 2024 nearly two-thirds of all apps will be built using low-code development platforms. Meanwhile, public health — a sector where these benefits could have far-reaching impact — has been relatively insulated from this revolution. The reasons for this are multiple.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

WA Health extends cloud contract with Atos Atos will continue delivering managed services, hybrid cloud, and core infrastructure services to Health Support Services (HSS), the ICT service provider for WA Health, following a contract extension. It has been working with HSS on the digital transformation of WA Health since 2019.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 2, 2024

1525, 118th Congress (2023-2024), to change the burden of proof to “clear and convincing” evidence and reduce numerous abuses commonly associated with drug arrests. Sterling Johnson, JD, MA is a Research Analyst at the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law and a Ph.D.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

IKEA donated the small home to the community of Towne Twin Village in greater San Antonio in October 2024. The company is collecting data to learn more about the direct impacts of people living in the pioneering space and will advocate for TID to be an industry standard that helps people heal and find stability in their lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2025

Healthcare IT Today caught up with Yurcisin at the 2024 NCQA Health Innovation Summit in Nashville, TN. ” NCQA is driving initiatives to ensure data used for HEDIS measures meets the highest standards, making it suitable for broader use cases like prior authorization and public health.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The budget savings come as the government doubled down on improving frontline services in Budget 2024. Since 2021, the government has invested nearly NZ$1 billion (over $600 million) in enhancing the health system's data and digital infrastructure and capabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Partnerships Patient outreach vendor Phreesia and the Ad Council launched three public health campaigns about mental health and have delivered 430,000 messages to patients and caregivers so far. GE HealthCare is integrating Blackford Analysis AI-enabled decision support into its into True PACS and Centricity PACS products.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

THE LARGER TREND Without a third extension before the end of 2024 , the expiration of telehealth prescribing flexibilities would have required patients to have an in-person visit with a provider within 30 days or lose access to medications. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

THE LARGER TREND Securing resources for patients through text messages is one way to ensure health equity for the underserved, said Dr. Emily C. Webber, chief medical information officer at Indiana University Health – and a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker Award winner – earlier this year. Learn more and register.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Americans wagered nearly $150 million on sports in 2024, a more than 1,000 percent increase from 2019. Related Articles Addiction Measures for Recreational Marijuana Failed in Three States: a Win for Public Health By The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Addiction TikTok, Tobacco, and Addiction, Oh My! billion in state tax revenue.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Power 2024 U.S. Power 2024 U.S. The data is based on responses from 4,070 healthcare customers who utilized telehealth services in the past year, collected between September 2023 and July 2024. Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Study Background/Methodology The J.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We believe that trend will accelerate further in 2024 as obesity medication options and supply grow. In 2024, nurse leaders will drive the paradigm shift toward AI-enabled virtual nursing.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Jason Considine, Chief Commercial Officer at Experian Health Staffing shortages will continue to be a major pain point for providers in 2024 and have a direct impact on their bottom line. Morgenstern.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Department of Health & Human Services and the Louisiana Department of Health. MPH 2025) is a third-year dual degree law and public health student. Her research interests include genetics, environmental health sciences, novel biotechnologies, and the FDA regulatory process. Jessica Samuels (J.D./MPH

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Labour Court has recently indicated its acceptance of a “modern” trade union in Simunye Workers Forum v Registrar of Labour Relations and held that the Registrar of Labour must register Simunye Workers Forum as a trade union.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2024

What You Should Know: – Clarivate Plc, a provider of trusted information and insights, today unveiled its highly anticipated 2024 Drugs to Watch report , shining a spotlight on 13 cutting-edge therapeutics poised to revolutionize healthcare in the coming year. – Zolbetuximab (IMAB362): First-in-class claudin 18.2

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. Tasmania's Transforming Outpatient Services Strategy seeks to shorten wait times, improve communication, and modernise processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

In revisiting the report “six months later” in the current environment of public health and health care in the U.S. and more global political-economic currents, that Deloitte’s attention to trust, writ large, and 2030’s commitment to ESG are deeply woven into the future retail health narrative.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 17, 2022

Prof Agnès Buzyn is executive director of the WHO Academy, a state-of-the art learning centre which aims to bring innovations in adult learning to global health. The centre, which is due to open in 2024 in France, will provide digital health training for healthcare professionals on topics such as cybersecurity and ethics.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Soft launched in April, the sandbox pilots will conclude by March 2024. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Population and Public Health Quality Care Digital Health Care Technology. WHAT IT'S ABOUT.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With those flexibilities due to sunset 151 days after the federal Public Health Emergency expires, HIMSS is calling on its members to contact their senators and representatives and urge them to extend coverage of telehealth services under Medicare until at least December 31, 2024.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

patients with sensitive health issues are more comfortable making appointments with chatbots than with staff, according to the Talkdesk U.S. Consumer Healthcare Survey, conducted in August 2024 on the online platform Pollfish. Enterprise Taxonomy: AI Population and Public Health Analytics Care Data and Information

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

What You Should Know: – ECRI , an independent healthcare safety organization, has released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list for 2024 , highlighting critical safety concerns for healthcare providers and the medical device industry. These systems offer a range of capabilities (e.g.,

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