Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

Atlanta-based Wellstar Health announced this week that it is deploying techonology from Clear, the biometric security company best known for enabling faster access at airports and entertainment venues, to streamline patient check-in. Clear's HIPAA-compliant mobile check-in technology, successfully integrated with its Epic electronic health records at a pilot location, gives Wellstar Health System real-time identity verification that can reduce waiting room friction, the company says.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 21, 2024

More than 50 provider groups are asking the federal government to publicly state that UnitedHealth should handle data breach reporting stemming from the cyberattack on its subsidiary.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

Editor's Note: This is part two of our interview with Craig Kwiatkowski. To read part one, click here. Cedars-Sinai, the prominent California health system, has a variety of artificial intelligence programs either deployed or in the works. It's ahead of the game in the field of healthcare AI. Craig Kwiatkowski is chief information officer at Cedars-Sinai, leading the teams putting together the AI that is designed to improve care and help patients and providers.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 21, 2024

Major pharmacy benefit managers are rolling out a flurry of ostensibly transparent and cost-effective models to retain clients and placate scrutiny over their role in rising drug costs.

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Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

National University Hospital testing Alzheimer's predictive AI from Korea Singapore's National University Hospital is collaborating with medical AI company Heuron from South Korea to test the latter's AI solutions for screening and predicting Alzheimer's disease. Heuron delivered its two solutions: Heuron AD, which provides quantitative analysis on brain atrophy, and Heuron Brain PET, which provides fast and accurate PET tracer quantification.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

Gözde Susuzlu Briggs, programme manager for the European Patients' Forum, discusses the "Data Saves Lives" initiative, which explains digital data and AI concepts to patients and encourages involvement in patient advocacy organizations.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 21, 2024

The nonprofit operator attributed the gain to increased admissions and improved reimbursement rates from payers.

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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. A news report recently revealed that one in four psychiatry positions in public health institutions are vacant in some states.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 21, 2024

A new paper published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure shows that patients on Cadence’s remote physiologic monitoring program had better outcomes than patients eligible for the program wh | Deaths from heart failure are rising. National remote monitoring company Cadence published new evidence that RM for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) could be the missing link in heart failure treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

The following is a guest article by Phyllis Wojtusik, Executive Vice President of Value-Based Care at Real Time Medical Systems. We all know that CMS is pushing hard towards value-based care. They’re goal is to have 100% of Medicare beneficiaries in a value-based care arrangement by 2030. We see a number of ACO approaches that make up these efforts, along with Medicare Advantage plans.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 21, 2024

Three years after talks of an IPO surfaced, health tech company Tempus AI lit the fuse and is looking to go public this year. | Founded in 2015, Tempus says it’s built the world’s largest library of clinical and molecular data along with an operating system to make those data accessible and useful for providers to inform patient care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – Wysa , a leading provider of digital mental health platforms, has been selected as a sub-awardee for a $3.4M grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) , part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). – The 4-year project, led by Washington University in St. Louis with Duke University as another sub-awardee, aims to develop personalized pathways for individuals managing mental health conditions alongside chronic pain.

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Becker's Health IT

MAY 21, 2024

Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago said it is "no longer addressing an active cybersecurity matter" after a cyberattack disrupted the hospital's operations earlier this year.

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

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Mobi Health News

MAY 21, 2024

Caregivers can order rides and deliveries for their care recipients and pay for the service using the care receiver's health benefits.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 21, 2024

Arun Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder of BeyondID Between January 1 and April 1, 2024, at least 16.6 million individuals were impacted by data breaches across the healthcare industry. Of those, 16.3 million – or 98 percent – were hacking/IT incidents according to the HIPAA Breach Report generated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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KFF

MAY 21, 2024

This brief reviews the proposed revisions to the World Health Organization-based agreement known as the International Health Regulations (IHR), and the implications for the U.S. WHO member states are expected to adopt the revised IHR at the World Health Assembly meeting this year. The U.S. government has been a leading proponent of many of the expected revisions to the IHR.

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Digital Health News

MAY 21, 2024

A smartphone app which aims to deliver more personalised care to Parkinson's disease patients is being trialled at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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MAY 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – John Snow Labs , a leader in AI for healthcare, has announced a significant breakthrough in medical Large Language Model (LLM) accuracy. Their models have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on industry benchmarks, surpassing hundreds of competing models. – John Snow Labs’ Healthcare NLP & LLM subscription provides access to their state-of-the-art models, along with ongoing updates and new releases.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 21, 2024

Caregivers can order rides and deliveries for their care recipients and pay for the service using the care receiver's health benefits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

Doctors have recognized the importance of empowering patients and “ humanization” of care. But interventions based on artificial intelligence, particularly risk assessments, are being developed through black-box computer programs, walled off from human review. Can patients have a say in the AI models that are applied to them? Most AI would benefit from human review.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 21, 2024

Increasing surgical services revenue is a top priority for most health systems, but reliance on manual operating room scheduling and operational inefficiencies can impede these efforts. | Six months post-go-live, Banner Health reported strong initial results, proving out the potential for AI-based automation tech to maximize operating room access, unlock OR growth and reduce staff burden.

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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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Digital Health News

MAY 21, 2024

Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals have become the first pilot sites to transition to a local instance of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP).

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Mobi Health News

MAY 21, 2024

Also, Optiscan is working with Mayo Clinic to develop a digital endomicroscopic imaging system for robotic surgery.

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Digital Health News

MAY 21, 2024

The leader of one of Europe’s most successful regional health information digitisation programmes, will be a keynote at Digital Health Summer Schools 2024.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – Sanofi , a global pharmaceutical leader, Formation Bio , an AI-powered drug developer, and OpenAI , a leading research and development company in artificial intelligence, have announced a groundbreaking collaboration. The first-of-its-kind partnership in the pharma and life sciences industries aims to leverage AI to accelerate drug development and bring new medicines to patients faster. – Sanofi, Formation Bio, and OpenAI believe this collaboration will be a g

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