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How AI Is Revolutionizing Digital Patient Engagement

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Annalhees Elm, vice president, Nuance Patient Engagement. So many aspects of our lives happen on digital platforms these days. After the pandemic forced everyone to do more online, we’ve grown accustomed to using technology […] The article How AI Is Revolutionizing Digital Patient Engagement appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Who’s Liable for Bad Medical Advice in the Age of ChatGPT?

Bill of Health

By Matthew Chun By now, everyone’s heard of ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence (AI) system by OpenAI that has captivated the world with its ability to process and generate humanlike text in various domains. In the field of medicine, ChatGPT already has been reported to ace the U.S. medical licensing exam , diagnose illnesses , and even outshine human doctors on measures of perceived empathy , raising many questions about how AI will reshape health care as we know it.

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Taking a more holistic approach to patient engagement

Healthcare It News

Will Cantrell, director of product solutions at InteliChart, sees the need to tie all the pieces of the healthcare journey into one seamless interaction. By making it easier for patients to stay engaged, he says, better outcomes will result.

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Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's a challenging time to be a young person. Study after study has shown that stressors such as social media, bullying, loneliness and the pandemic are causing and exacerbating a wide array of mental health challenges among high school and college kids. And healthcare resources are not always readily available to help them. Among some recent stats: There are never-before-seen levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts among teens, according to a report from the CDC. 71% of college student

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3 Reasons to Retire Pagers from Healthcare Settings

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 Providers, Beware! Why Bad Bots Are A Cybersecurity Threat 

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rob Falbo, vice president of healthcare solutions, Imperva. In most industries, an IT service outage can lead to lost revenue. In the healthcare industry, disruption of network or application services impacts critical patient care. […] The article Healthcare Providers, Beware!

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From Healthcare Dashboards to Valuable Action

Healthcare IT Today

When Randolph Health upgraded to what they call “data-driven operations,” they thought their staff would be excited to pull up dashboards with information. According to Angela Burgess, VP of operations and CIO, the reality turned out to be more complicated. They had built their data strategy for some time using Dimensional Insight and it was key for them to provide value to their organization and not just data.

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Unleashing the Power of Protocols in Critical Care

HIT Consultant

Tammi Jantzen, Co-founder, Astarte Medical Protocol Driven Care Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. Standardization reduces waste, makes treatment predictable and controllable, and defines clear responsibilities for all team members.

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Telehealth, interoperability and health equity at the fore for physician expert

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Dr. Laura Purdy, a telemedicine and digital health expert and a physician licensed in all 50 states, discusses helping medical professionals launch their digital health businesses with the aim of making care more accessible to all.

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Nonprofit hospitals have decreased charity care spending even as operating profits, cash pools grow

Healthcare Dive

The new study is the latest in a string of research suggesting nonprofit hospitals’ balance sheets benefit from the latitude they have regarding charity care spending.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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UNC Health's CIO talks generative AI work with Epic and Microsoft

Healthcare It News

Brent Lamm is CIO at UNC Health, based in Morrisville, North Carolina. He has quite the seat for the artificial intelligence explosion in healthcare – he's sitting right in the middle of it. Lamm and peers at Stanford, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at San Diego are part of a pilot project by electronic health records giant Epic, testing Epic's large language model AI capabilities to enhance the provider experience.

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Psychiatric Care in Crisis

Bill of Health

By Zainab Ahmed Psychiatric care in the Emergency Department is all-or-nothing and never enough. Often, legal holds are the only intervention available, and they rarely are therapeutic. Upon discharge, our patients are, once again, on their own. The ED acts as a safety-net for a failing health system, one that places little value on mental health services, either preventative or follow-up.

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South Korea begins move to make telemedicine permanent

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a doctor deems it necessary and safe for target patients. They include patients with chronic diseases who have done their first in-person visits; paediatric patients seeking follow-ups (only during holidays and at night); people living in islands and other re

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Friday Health Plans to shut down as state regulators step in

Healthcare Dive

In a statement, the insurer said it was “unable to scale our financial infrastructure to match the pace of our growth and secure the additional capital required to run our business.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

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

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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HIMSSCast: Five steps to a better patient experience

Healthcare It News

IDC Research's Research Director, Value-based Healthcare IT Transformation Strategies, Jennifer Eaton had this to say in recent research: "To meet consumer needs and demands, healthcare is using technology more than ever to support meaningful, productive and engaging interactions. Using comprehensive data collection and deep learning insights are further supporting these efforts by highlighting individual needs and preferences that in turn creates a more engaged customer and can lead to

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On Experiencing IBD as a Woman

Bill of Health

By Amalia Sweet At the end of last summer I stopped eating. It wasn’t that I wasn’t hungry — I was, constantly — but rather that pretty much everything I tried to put in my stomach triggered excruciating abdominal pain. While still in Chicago where I was working toward my master’s degree, I went to University Health Services. When tests revealed I was anemic but free of ulcers and Celiac disease, they suggested I work to reduce my stress and follow up with a gastroenterologist when I returned h

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Not covering emerging Alzheimer's drugs could cost Medicare billions: study

Fierce Healthcare

Emerging Alzheimer’s disease medications come with high price tags, but researchers with the University of Chicago calculate that in the long run, it’s much less costly to cover these therapies for | Emerging Alzheimer’s medications come with high price tags, but researchers with the University of Chicago calculate that in the long run, it’s much less costly to cover these therapies for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Google, Mayo partner to explore generative AI in hospitals

Healthcare Dive

Mayo Clinic, a longstanding collaborator with Google, will be an early adopter of a Google Cloud tool that allows organizations to create chatbots and other search applications using generative AI.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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NEC expands digital elderly care system trial to Chiang Mai

Healthcare It News

The Thai unit of the Japanese IT and electronics company NEC is helping turn Chiang Mai, a city north of Bangkok and the second largest city in Thailand, into a smart city by first digitising its delivery of care to the elderly and patients with chronic diseases. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The municipality of Chiang Mai and NEC Thailand recently signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of smart city solutions, including smart hospital technologies to support its provision of elderly car

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If 20% of RNs quit by 2027, could virtual nursing be enough to fill the gap?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual nursing has been getting an increasing amount of attention in healthcare, especially with telemedicine entering the mainstream during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Baptist Health has a successful virtual nursing program up and running, as does Providence. (For more on virtual nursing, click here and here and here.) Toby Eadelman is chief technology officer at AvaSure, a virtual care technology and services company that works in virtual nursing.

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The latest generative AI efforts in healthcare: Carbon Health, Tempus launch tools for docs

Fierce Healthcare

Advancements around large language models and generative AI in healthcare are ramping up quickly and it's challenging to keep up with the evolving news. | Carbon Health debuted hands-free charting — an AI-enabled notes assistant — in its proprietary EHR across each of its clinics and providers while Tempus rolled out an AI-enabled clinical assistant for oncologists.

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CMS exploring models centered on social health factors

Healthcare Dive

Regulators said they're trying to work around restrictions regarding what groups Medicare is allowed to pay as they look to address social determinants of health.

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Real-Life Examples of HIPAA Violations and How to Avoid Them

Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer

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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Reimbursements and EHR integrations are high priorities for RPM, says KLAS report

Healthcare It News

To better evaluate rapidly evolving remote patient monitoring technologies, KLAS researchers explored customer experience with RPM in several key areas, including partnership, innovation, ease of use and integration with electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS RPM has demonstrated earlier intervention and reduced utilization – particularly critical outcomes for value-based care arrangements – but healthcare organizations that are piloting the technology are looking at reimbursement

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Roundup: Telehealth providers needed in rural New Zealand and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Te Whatu Ora seeks rural telehealth service providers Te Whatu Ora, in collaboration with Te Aka Whai Ora, is seeking providers of rural telehealth services. Based on its proposal request, Te Whatu Ora aims "to provide rural communities with reliable and sustainable after-hours access, improve the access to primary and community care, and commission a national telehealth medical and specialist referral service.

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FTC adds a third GPO to its investigation into pharmacy benefit managers

Fierce Healthcare

The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again. | The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again.

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Study predicts widespread use of digital twins in healthcare but warns about privacy, cybersecurity risks

Healthcare Dive

More than half of respondents to a survey from Tata Consultancy Services saw wide implementation of digital twins in life sciences and healthcare in the next three years.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.