Fri.Nov 29, 2024

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Advancing Behavioral Health Care Through AI Integration

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Andy Flanagan , CEO at Iris Telehealth The U.S. behavioral health system faces unprecedented strain as patient demand continues to outpace provider availability. This growing gap creates significant barriers to care, particularly for high-risk patients who require immediate intervention. Traditional care delivery models, which typically follow first-come-first-served protocols, often fail to effectively prioritize clinical urgency, potentially compromising p

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Advancing Diabetes Management with CGM Training 

American Medical Compliance

Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) technology is transforming the approach to diabetes care for healthcare providers, including endocrinologists, diabetes educators, and nurses, as well as for the patients they support. Unlike traditional methods that rely on periodic fingerstick tests, CGM offers real-time insights into glucose levels, trends, and fluctuations, empowering proactive management and improving patient outcomes.

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Is Verbal Consent Permitted for HIPAA?

Compliancy Group

When understanding what practices are permissible under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), it makes sense to plan for various contingencies. For example, if a patient cannot provide written consent for releasing their protected health information (PHI), is verbal consent permitted for HIPAA? The answer is “yes” under certain circumstances.

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AI tool offers insights to improve safety in maternity care

Digital Health News

Researchers have developed an AI tool designed to enhance safety in maternity care by identifying human factors that impact outcomes.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Health IT Business News – November 29, 2024

HealthIT Answers

Health IT business news from Infinx, Consensus Cloud Solutions, NextGen Healthcare, Lynx Dx, Wondr Health, Before Health Intelligence, Intelerad, Lindus Health, HealthEdge, Codoxo, RevSpring, CliniComp, CirrusMD, Veradigm, ModMed, 1upHealth, symplr, AKASA, and more. The post Health IT Business News – November 29, 2024 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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NHS national image-sharing platform hits ‘record usage’

Digital Health News

The Image Exchange Portal (IEP) is now being used to share as many as 500 images per second, according to technology supplier Sectra.

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Heim Health raises £2.2m to deliver community-based care

Digital Health News

Heim Health, a software platform that helps deliver at-home care, has announced a £2.2m seed round to boost community-based healthcare.

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Counsel Health Launches with $11M in Seed Funding to Deliver Physician-Led, AI-Powered Medical Advice

Healthcare IT Today

Counsel Health announces $11M in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health, with participation from Asymmetric Capital Partners, Floodgate Fund, and Pear VC. The funding will support Counsel’s national expansion and coverage extension to millions more members. The U.S. healthcare system has an access-to-care crisis, with 60 million Americans facing primary care shortages and patients waiting 38 days for appointments.

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Lula’s environmental foreign policy, the global far-right, and the climate agenda

Bill of Health

by Danielle Hanna Rached and Denise Vitale Donald Trump’s second term in office promises to bring turmoil to the global climate agenda. Against the scientific consensus that fossil fuel is leading the world to a climate breakdown, Trump has managed to impose his opportunistic views on the rest of the world. For the amount of $1 billion in campaign contributions, he initiated his vitriolic attacks against climate change (a “ big hoax ”), embraced the oil and gas industry (“ liquid gold ”), and v