Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Developed using OpenAI's ChatGPT and trained on healthcare-specific prose, the online DocsGPT offers doctors a chance to test and weigh in on AI-powered product development. Testing AI for workflow 'scut' OpenAI developed ChatGPT, which launched in November as a prototype, using multiple learning methodologies. Human trainers, in collaboration with Microsoft on Azure's supercomputing infrastructure, created reward models to improve its performance.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cyberattacks on business associates of healthcare organizations have increased to the point where attacks on business associates now outnumber attacks on healthcare providers. In addition to an increase in cyberattacks on third-party suppliers, the impact and destruction caused by those attacks have also increased, according to a recent report from the vendor risk management company, Black Kite.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Providers and payers are still grappling with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the winding down of pandemic-era policies, which will have major effects on hospitals and insurers.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Healthcare organizations have been investing in cybersecurity to improve their defenses against increasingly numerous and sophisticated cyberattacks; however, while an organization’s security posture can be improved, it can only be as good as the weakest link. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the supply chain in their attacks, as these are usually the weakest links in the security chain.

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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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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By Nina Kohn and Irina D. Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. In response, at least one of the state’s largest hospital systems is throwing off the mask despite the continued high level of virus transmission in New York City and most of the rest of the state.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center in Charleston has a unique telemedicine program in place to help pregnant and postpartum women. The program is called Listening to Women and Pregnant and Postpartum People, or LTWP. The technology vendors are REDCap and Twillio. It's a mid-maturity program that is responding to behavioral health needs of pregnant women, and has recently expanded to newborn virtual home visitation for all mothers with births in the hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Kate Barecchia, Global Data Privacy Officer at Imperva. For many of us, change is hard. In cybersecurity, change is essential to defeat two of the most common causes of data breaches: the ever-evolving attack styles of hackers and human error. New products and features designed to protect data from the latest attack vectors and human errors are released regularly.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The American Hospital Association is pushing the FTC to abandon its proposal to eliminate restrictive covenants. At the very least, the lobby wants physicians and senior executives exempt.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleging impermissible disclosures of patient data to Google, Meta, and other third parties due to the use of website tracking technologies without either a business associate agreement with the code providers or authorizations from patients. In the summer of 2022, an investigation into the use of these technologies revealed almost one-third of the top 100 hospitals in the United States had used pixels and other tracking code on their

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By Wendy E. Parmet and Elaine Marshall I. Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. In the past three years, courts, led by the Supreme Court, have endangered reproductive health and handcuffed governments’ capacity to meet a wide array of public health challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. The technology-enabled form of healthcare delivery has huge momentum coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. There's lots going on, to say the least.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Integrated Health Information Systems, Singapore's national healthcare technology agency, has collaborated with Google Cloud and Accenture to promote the development of data-driven applications to "deliver more high-quality and digital-first healthcare experiences." Accenture is helping deploy Apigee, Google Cloud's API management platform, which will provide third-party developers access to data and services across iHiS's managed systems to create new applications and capa

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Health care institutions, like many colleges and businesses, have trouble retaining people. Tiffany A.S. Wright, vice president of operations at CareMax , says that it’s one thing to engage with patients but a much bigger challenge to retain them. Retention is particularly key to maintain the funding for fee-for-value programs, which are growing in popularity.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A whistleblower and the DOJ allege that UPMC’s longtime head of cardiothoracic surgery, James Luketich, regularly performed as many as three complex surgeries at the same time and didn’t participate in critical portions of his procedures.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Karley Yoder, general manager and chief digital officer for ultrasound at GE HealthCare, discusses the company's planned acquisition of Caption Health and why thoughtful integration is important for using AI in healthcare.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. has collapsed. In its place, we are left with an insufficient, impoverished alternative: personal crusades. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Baptist Memorial will deploy LockDeep's advanced telehealth technology throughout its system of 22 affiliate hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS The collaboration utilizes LookDeep's Clinical Action Platform, built on modern SOC2 Type II audited software, to provide Baptist Memorial's nurses, therapists, doctors and others with a way to continuously monitor patients at every moment of their hospital journey, according to the announcement.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Most healthcare consumers have experienced certain pain points in receiving care for family and friends. THE PROBLEM Patient access is a top priority for AdventHealth, a health system based in Altamonte Springs, Florida. For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs. "Looking for ways to solve for bringing the right care to the right patient at the right place and time is imperative to stay ahead of the ever-changi

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jonathan Jesneck , Co-Founder and CTO at Firefly Lab. Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first applied in medicine in the mid-1950s , but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that developments using AI in a variety of healthcare fields started to happen.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Addressing the education pipeline is one thing that legislators can focus on to improve nurse and physician shortages, medical school and health system leaders said during a Senate committee hearing.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Doximity rolls out beta version of ChatGPT tool for docs aiming to streamline administrative paperwork hlandi Sat, 02/11/2023 - 05:02

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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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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When a data breach occurs and sensitive information is disclosed, the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requires affected individuals to be notified. The FTC Health Breach Notification Rule also has breach reporting requirements, and all 50 states have enacted data breach notification laws. What is lacking in many of these regulations – at both the federal and state level – is what these notification letters must include.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

With the Veris Cancer Care Platform, cancer care teams at the New Jersey Cancer Care, PA can now review patients' physiologic and clinical data in real time and deliver personalized care. WHY IT MATTERS Today, NJCC and Veris Health, a subsidiary of New York-based PAVmed Digital Health, announced that the cloud-based clinician portal was successfully integrated into the oncology practice's information technology systems.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan City, Taiwan has become the second-highest-ranking organisation in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. Based on the assessment, it scored 349/400 overall, achieving strong scores in each DHI dimension. In the area of interoperability, CGMH was commended for its "highly structured documentation and medical records" that have enabled "advanced and effective" clinical decision support and data collection for research.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Elation Health continues to expand its primary care offerings. The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD , a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company. The acquisition adds revenue cycle capabilities to Elation’s clinical-first EHR and Best in KLAS , virtual care platform. “Healthcare technology is rapidly evolving, particularly in the primary care sector where we have the greatest opportunity to improve patient outcomes and raise the st

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