Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced the general availability of Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot for documentation assistance in Epic electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to free clinicians from administrative tasks and increase clinical efficiencies. After months of collaboration, Nuance's DAX Copilot is available for full Epic EHR integration, the company said Thursday.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions increased last year as health systems sought strong partners while expanding capabilities in “core” markets, the consultancy said.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Lightfully Behavioral Health, a hybrid mental health provider, has launched a new offering to support college students. | Lightfully U is intended to support the more than 60% of college students who have at least one mental health condition. The offering is a virtual intensive outpatient program targeted at college students ages 18 through 25 with higher-acuity conditions.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

It’s not yet clear how much the new Medicaid managed care contract is worth. The state’s previous contract with insurers, including Centene, allocated $6 billion in funds over five years.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Intermountain Health plans to shut down Saltzer Health, a multispecialty group the system acquired less than four years ago, if it’s unable to find a buyer by March 29, according to an announcement | Saltzer Health has more than 450 employees across 11 Idaho locations. It attributes its situation to "significant financial pressures," but said it is "optimistic" that at least some services could be sold to a new owner.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

UnitedHealthcare is rolling out a new resource hub that seeks to make it easier for members to use wellness offerings while also easing the financial burden on employers. | UnitedHealthcare is rolling out a new resource hub that seeks to make it easier for members to use wellness offerings while also easing the financial burden on employers.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Minneapolis-based nonprofit will launch a nationwide search for a successor to Ric Magnuson, who has served Allina for over 25 years.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Traditional Medicare’s bar for reimbursing long-term care hospitals (LTCH) for severely ill, “high-cost outlier” patients has spiked under current payment policies. | The cutoff for an expensive long-term care hospital case to qualify for greater reimbursement rose 55% from FY 2023 to FY 2024, and is projected to rise another 17% the following year, AHA wrote in a recent white paper calling for policymaker intervention.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

The following is a guest article by Steve Gwizdala , VP of Healthcare at Ping Identity The healthcare security landscape has become an increasingly critical concern. According to the 2023 ForgeRock Breach Report , healthcare has consistently ranked as the most targeted industry by cybercriminals for the past five years. These relentless attacks come at a staggering cost, with the average healthcare breach reaching $10.93 billion according to IBM Security.

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

HoloCare's surgical hologram technology is to be deployed at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to help surgeons perform more efficiently and accurately.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Funding will Support Development of AI Clinician, Using Spatial Computing XRHealth , the leading healthcare platform in Spatial computing, announced today that the company secured $6 million in funding led by Asabys Partners, with the participation of NOVA Prime Fund, a venture capital fund created by global innovator LG Electronics and Clearbrook, LLC., and XRHealth’s current investors.

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Becker's Health IT

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hackers pilfered about $7.5 million from HHS last year using a technique called "spearfishing," illustrating the continued cybersecurity threat facing healthcare, Bloomberg reported.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 19, 2024

Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces has ended in most states, with a record number of people selecting a Marketplace plan for 2024. This week, we're highlighting answers to common post-enrollment questions from our Navigator Resource Guide.

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

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Tommy Carls, VP of Product Development & Marketing at Proprio Over the past decade, product development has undergone a transformative shift, driven by the integration of AI , machine learning, and data-driven approaches. Traditional methods that relied on user stories, prototype testing and customer research offered limited control over product development outcomes, often leaving success to multiple iterations of feasibility, testing and field assessment.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The healthcare technology company signed a one-year, $480,000 contract to examine the state's public health and healthcare readiness.

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Digital Health Rewired 2024 will feature a live AI “bake-off”, where a panel of NHS doctors will test AI LLM models on a series of diagnostic questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Host Jordan Sollof is joined by Shuri Network members Tolu Awe and Felicia Akubue to highlight the benefits of being a part of the bursary programme.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

A new year brings a new approach to tracking health tech and digital health investments. | A new year means a new approach to tracking healthcare fundraising. Each week, Fierce Healthcare will publish a roundup of health tech and digital health financing rounds.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine. Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. Elevance Health, the health plan organization comprising XXX plans serving 117 million members, launched a program to channel mobile phones and data plans into the hands of some Medicaid plan enrollees, explained in the organization’s press release on the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the past several weeks, the team here at Healthcare IT Today has been gathering Health IT predictions for 2024. Here is a short video with our favorite video predictions that we captured. Here are the predictions in order of appearance. Heidi Gerner, Chief Operating Officer at OSIS predicts that although AI may dominate the discussion again in 2024, healthcare organizations will also be discussing the UDS+ regulator changes.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Today's briefing includes a new cloud-based platform to recruit retired doctors back to the NHS and an AI system to predict pancreatic cancer.

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McGuire Wood

JANUARY 19, 2024

Vesey Street Capital Partners (VSCP) has announced the completion of a majority recapitalization of Inceptua Group. Inceptua , founded in 1997 and with its U.S. office in Princeton, N.J., is provider of clinical trial supplies and related services. VSCP , based in New York, is private equity firm that specializes in buyouts of lower middle market healthcare services businesses.

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Dossier

JANUARY 19, 2024

Authored By: Geir Arnhoff CEO Linkedin The statistics regarding preventable harm are alarming. According to the World Health Organization , around 1 in every 10 patients is harmed in healthcare, and more than 3 million deaths occur annually due to unsafe care. In low-to-middle-income countries, as many as 4 in 100 people die from unsafe care. F urthermore, the financial burden is significant, with medical errors costing around $20 billion annually.

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