Healthcare It News

JANUARY 21, 2025

As the healthcare industry faces growing patient demand , artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are giving hospitals and health systems the opportunity to rethink how they deliver care. ” Healthcare organizations already have strong foundations in IT governance, privacy, security and user experience.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The CMS fails to check hospitals’ pricing data for accuracy and completeness, raising questions about whether the data can be used as intended to help payers and patients shop for services, according to the government agency.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 18, 2024

Regulators seeking to erect guardrails around AI are facing a Sisyphean task, experts said at HIMSS. How do you oversee something that is constantly changing?

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 30, 2024

On Wednesday, hospitals will no longer be required to report COVID-19 admissions, capacity or occupancy data to the federal government.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Demonstrating benefits The panel also discussed challenges and best practices in hospital and health data integration and sharing. "I could go to a hospital in central London… and [go] down the street to a private hospital. One has an EMR while the other's on paper. It also guides their lifestyle changes."

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

Take the case of Mount Alvernia Hospital, a 300-bed private not-for-profit medical institution in Singapore. " "These solutions offer a robust governance model tailored for enterprise software factories and come with compliance designations like SOC2, HIPAA, and more.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The following post is adapted from the edited volume AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare. To learn more about these and related issues, you may read our new volume on AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare published by Cambridge University Press.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

What You Should Know: – A new organization dedicated to accelerating the creation of smart hospitals has been established: the Alliance for Smart Healthcare Excellence (the Alliance). Its key objectives include: Promoting the SHMM: Making the survey and model widely available to hospitals. Environments: Clinical care spaces.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Latrobe Regional Hospital upgrades medical training with VR. Latrobe Regional Hospital, a specialist referral and trauma centre in Gippsland, has tied up with Vantari VR to incorporate a virtual reality platform in its medical training. Coding issue leads to COVID-19 hospitalisations undercount in NZ.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The New Jersey-based drugmaker is trying to get the courts’ backing to pay hospitals rebates for two drugs in the 340B drug discount program, instead of offering upfront discounts.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

(Originally posted on his LinkedIn) There’s a secondary AI land grab happening in health care to commercialize “governance” of AI software. You might be surprised who’s staking out positions in the nascent Health AI Governance market: 1. Makes sense: measurement is way harder.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2023

The letter, sent by a bipartisan group of senators to tax commissioners, comes as the federal government increases scrutiny into nonprofit hospitals’ charity care spending.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 11, 2023

The court’s ruling on Tuesday is the latest update in a yearslong legal dispute between safety net hospitals and the government over payment rates.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Myongji Hospital, a tertiary healthcare institution in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, is developing an AI-driven care robot to assist patients with dementia. The hospital will also craft cognitive intervention content. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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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. HIMSS noted the hospital's regular tracking and reporting of KPIs, with each department having its own departmental-level indicator.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2010, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital made digital health history by being the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve Stage 7 for the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The robust HIMSS validation serves as the foundation for SNUBH’s commitment to leading global healthcare standards."

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2025

Past employers and clients have included Johns Hopkins Medicine International, Stanford Children's, Sutter Health, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Alberta Health Services, Hamilton Health Sciences, University Health Network and others.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

China Medical University Hospital in Taichung, Taiwan has proven its capability in digital health by scoring well above the global average in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. The hospital views its DHI score as an opportunity to partner with HIMSS and other leading global health systems to drive its digital transformation.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Threatened with steep sanctions and loss of its agreement with Medicare and Medicaid, Johnson & Johnson is rolling back a plan to give hospitals after-the-fact rebates for drugs in the 340B drug discount program.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Johnson & Johnson is escalating its fight with the federal government over its controversial plan to change how it doles out drug discounts to hospitals. Johnson & Johnson is escalating its fight with the federal government over its controversial plan to change how it doles out drug discounts to hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian government claims it has been committed to addressing the supply and demand crisis in the sector by pursuing reforms and making significant investments in both workforce training and retention and filling gaps in and raising mental healthcare access. It will be implemented initially over the next two years starting in November.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Plus, there’s a complex maze of national and state laws which govern when and how healthcare data can and should be shared. We start off our interview with asking Weitnauer about what’s required to reconcile the competing requirements of government regulations (CURES Act, Interoperability Regulations, HIPAA, etc).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Announced in a meeting with general practitioners led by the Chinese Medical Association, the said programme will be developed in partnership with major hospitals and the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. It also facilitates referrals, hospital appointment bookings, nursing care, and post-discharge follow-ups.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2024

Queensland Virtual Hospital extends to emergency care The Queensland state government has set aside A$27 million ($18 million) to expand the Queensland Virtual Hospital's services to cover emergency care. It noted that cases of aggressive assaults on public hospital staff have increased in recent years.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2025

The Providence health system has an internal service available to its 51 hospitals and other rural and community hospitals in its eight-state service area, bringing specialists and other high-demand providers virtually to the hospital bedside. In fact, most hospital stays require at least one specialty consultation."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

It has increasingly become evident that digitalisation – from nationwide networks down to individual hospitals – has become the rule in a post-pandemic world. Meanwhile, government hospitals in Thailand have [started installing] telemedicine kiosks to [provide more] healthcare coverage.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The South Korean government seeks to streamline access to the personal health records of over eight million patients held in tertiary general hospitals in a single platform by next year. WHAT IT'S ABOUT My Healthway allows Koreans to view their medical records in a standardised format from various hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2024

"With most ERs lacking in-house behavioral health professionals, typically our agency would be contacted by hospital staff, and we would have our on-call licensed therapist go to the emergency room to conduct a full evaluation," explained Larry Smith, CEO of Grand Mental Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and many cybercriminals are specifically targeting hospitals and health systems. Regularly Assessed and Exercised Culture is vital to any hospital and health systems business resilience efforts. Healthcare delivery organizations business resilience efforts must evolve accordingly.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) typically only assesses eight out of 180 HIPAA provisions during audits, leaving hospitals and healthcare organizations exposed to significant compliance and security risks. Other sectors of the government are addressing this issue by adopting more stringent models that HHS should consider.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

THE LARGER CONTEXT The project started in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) with support from the SA government's Go2Gov programme. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Made possible through pilot funding and informed by user experience research, Mayo Clinic's Clinical Trials Beyond Walls initiative leverages telehealth, remote assessments and other hospital-at-home innovations to bring all or some trial aspects into patient homes or a local community.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

From 1 to 4 October 2024, our reporters will be onsite to keep you updated on pressing discussions around artificial intelligence and innovations in smart hospital development. By HIMSS TV | August 13, 2024 News Seoul National University Hospital latest to achieve Stage 6 INFRAM It is now working toward its Stage 7 validation.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 5, 2024

The American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association pushed the federal government to offer more financial support as the outage limits providers’ ability to receive payment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

So when MNGHA started developing a new virtual reality-enabled application – designed in alignment with Saudi Arabia's Digital Government Strategy (2023-2030) – that sought to help connect hospitalized inpatients with their distanced loved ones, "Bynahm" felt like the right name to choose for the app.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

More healthcare stakeholders in China are contributing to the government's vision to make smart Chinese medicine popular and standardised. The Chinese government is focusing on smart hospital construction to meet the perceived increase in healthcare services demand over the coming years.

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