Healthcare It News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Samsung Medical Center in South Korea has achieved a top score globally for the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. Launched in 2020, the DHI measures a health organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: governance and workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and person-enabled health.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The NSW government has put up an online toolkit that provides information about the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. According to a media release, the Menopause toolkit links to "clear and accurate" information, including locations of NSW government-funded clinics. NSW launches online menopause toolkit.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 6, 2023

A new value-based programme of the Victorian government's Transport Accident Commission has started collecting and analysing patient-reported outcomes and experiences. Meanwhile, The Clinician is enabling more public health organisations across Australia to harness patient-generated information to improve health outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

"Health-related behaviours are significantly more important predictors of health outcomes than medical care. "It’s estimated in Singapore that government-related healthcare expenditure will increase more than two-fold."

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

"The ability to use and build from established standards in real-time and as part of screening practices that help identify specific needs related to insecurity is an important step in enabling more coordinated care and timely assistance or interventions needed to improve health outcomes," according to Argentieri, Meklir and Henry.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But before we can get there, we need to draw out correlations from billions of health records, which requires heavy use of AI, machine learning and advanced analytics. How are AI and machine learning predicting health outcomes and promoting the adoption of evidence-based strategies to improve treatment quality and safety?

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HIT Consultant

JULY 20, 2022

Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell. For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. About Kristin Ballantine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

My career spans over three decades in health information technology, health policy and public health, including roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and in state government. At Bamboo Health, were committed to transforming physical and behavioral health through innovative technology solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – how is the integration of digital health tools, telemedicine, and mobile health applications contributing to the enhancement of population health management, and what challenges exist in ensuring equitable access to these technologies across diverse communities?

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The task force gathered information on AI issues from industry, government, civil society and academia and offered guiding principles, 66 key findings and 89 recommendations. Supporting the development of standards for liability related to AI issues. Supporting appropriate payment mechanisms without stifling innovation.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

"Now, with ClearDATA, we’re able to advance our vision of making it simpler than ever for women to request and share their mammogram images — enhancing health outcomes while keeping patient data entirely secure." " THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2024

"She has been a key contributor to the advancement of digital health in the nursing profession and played a pivotal role in the future of the Australian healthcare system as a member of the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce," ADHA CEO Amanda Cattermole said about Booth in a statement.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work? Recently, population health management strategies have begun to incorporate evaluations for patients' social needs connected to SDOH, as well as interventions addressing these needs.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

" Robust clinical governance ensures the order sets, templates, clinical, pathways and alerts are always current and effective, and appropriate for the relevant departments, " she added. The hospital uses a fully integrated EMR system, complemented by advanced tools such as its next-generation Clinical Data Warehouse (CDW 3.0).

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

That shift, it added, will lead to a "significant increase" in overall health gains and is expected to be a "win-win" for all stakeholders. "While the patients will get better health outcomes and higher satisfaction out of the services they receive, providers stand to get better care efficiencies.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Participants, which included representatives from the federal government, healthcare providers, insurers and academics, as well as tech leaders, touted AI’s potential to reduce administrative burdens.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

” Patient health outcomes were the overarching factor in determining whether public-private partnerships can optimise 5G adoption in healthcare. "We [the government] need to set up regulation infrastructures [for 5G adoption]. After 10 years, gastric cancer frequencies had dropped to zero.”

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

People who are incarcerated already exhibit elevated rates of morbidity , and it is likely that the sleep deprivation associated with corrections only depresses health outcomes. population , a troubling reality not only for COVID-19 mitigation efforts, but also health equity writ large. Jolin is an A.B.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Governments, private and public health care organisations are taking action after the learnings from the pandemic, to increase data quality and equality. Technologies and solutions like cloud, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, and mobile technology can help improve health outcomes.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 10, 2023

Health Justice Moreover, viable replacement options to those appliances are both readily available and cheaper than ever due to funding provided through the Inflation Reduction Act. There is no shortage of data demonstrating that low income and minoritized individuals suffer disparate health outcomes in the United States.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Despite significant obstacles, including data security, data governance, and the high costs of scaling AI in a compliant way, healthcare’s adoption of AI is outpacing other industries. This includes setting robust data governance policies to meet privacy regulations set forth by HIPAA and GDPR. She is based in Silicon Valley.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The payer mix of health insurance is typical, with 35% of patients representing government insurance such as Medicare or Medicaid, 60% commercial insurance, and 6% self-pay patients. Virtual-first primary care has been shown to improve health outcomes by increasing access, he reported.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

First and foremost, we see that COVID decreased peoples’ ability to trust in institutions — generally government being the least-trusted (except for in India, where media are least trusted as an institution). residents told Edelman that since COVID, science was less respected by “my government.” specifically.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

“When healthcare professionals collaborate with patients, it leads to more informed decision-making and improved health outcomes,” ECRI recommends… with the prescription for misinformation being health literacy. Consider the growth of TikTok in medical information, for example.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead. Community and Data Governance: Catalyzing Action It’s been said before that “data exchange and community action happen at the speed of trust”– this couldn’t be truer.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2024

Since then, efforts to improve care for those diagnosed with primary or secondary behavioral health conditions as well as grow a larger behavioral health workforce ensued.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 8, 2023

To achieve such intersectional approaches, the social determinants of health provide a useful framework. It explains how conditions, forces, and systems, including poverty, discrimination, underlying health disparities, and governance, not only shape daily life but also vulnerability to climate-induced disasters (Figure 1).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2025

A recent report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighted telehealth as an option for addressing limited provider accessibility in rural areas. The report noted that rural residents tend to have more significant healthcare needs than their urban counterparts due to their increased age and worse health conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A new Digital Health Command will be established in Victoria as part of the state government's latest hospital infrastructure project. It will also monitor health outcomes, providing data to support future clinical trials and the development of new medical technology. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 9, 2023

"It is clear more work is needed to improve this technology as well as to ensure the health care community develops appropriate standards governing the deployment and use of AI," he added.

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AIHC

MAY 17, 2023

Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. While healthcare providers focus on how to capture SDoH data on patients to improve health outcomes, a counter force may be working in the background which hurts struggling families as they fall victim of fraud schemes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

"There is a considerable opportunity for this sector and for the insurance industry to strive to deliver better risk mitigation and risk transfer," Smith added. THE LARGER TREND. Telehealth expansion appears to be at a major tipping point, with key players such as Amazon signaling their plans to establish app-based care nationwide.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so. Taking a systems approach to public health emergencies Second, the scope of the Principles is broad, spanning prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery measures relating to public health emergencies.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 22, 2022

The federal government and several states have implemented strategies to improve and promote OUD treatment access, especially for the relatively inexpensive and effective medication buprenorphine.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

There's help for providers who want to help aging patients navigate complex government websites and access the information and resources they need to overcome isolation, lack of transportation and limited financial resources barring full access to healthcare opportunities. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Population health and precision medicine defined. When President Barack Obama announced during the 2015 State of the Union Address that the government was launching the Precision Medicine Initiative, a debate began about whether and how precision medicine and population health management could coexist in the U.S. health system.

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