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Did President Biden backtrack on his pledge for increased public access to Medicare data?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The unavailability of physical data from Medicare and Medicaid through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services jeopardizes the accountability of the entire healthcare system in the US through research that needs to be rigorous, reproducible, and conducted with academic freedom.

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AI’s Executive Order and Its Key Healthcare Implications 

Sheppard Health Law

In addition, Veterans Affairs must host, within one year of the order, two three-month nationwide AI Tech Sprint competitions to advance AI systems that improve veterans’ healthcare quality and support small businesses’ innovative capacity. Protect Privacy.

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Cybersecurity for the Clinician

Briggs Healthcare

It is increasingly understood that threats to healthcare cybersecurity present a shared challenge and therefore a shared responsibility, including among those whose principal responsibility is patient care and healthcare quality.

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Clarify Health Secures $150M for Value-Based Payments Platform

HIT Consultant

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round and was joined by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock and Memorial Hermann Health System , along with existing investors Insight Partners , Spark Capital , KKR , Aspenwood Ventures , Rivas Capital , and Sigmas Group.

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Professional Development: The Overlooked Solution to Nurse Burnout & Turnover

HIT Consultant

Despite having relatively good health overall, American seniors account for one in four doctors’ visits , and many are currently living with chronic health conditions (31% with at least one; 18% with six or more).

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Cultivating an Early Warning System in Healthcare Quality Through Bi-Directional Patient-Physician Engagement 

HIT Consultant

From a big-picture perspective, bi-directional data exchange allows providers to aggregate patient data for short-term learning while still accounting for long-term longitudinal studies.

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FemTech: 5 Tips to Protect Reproductive Health Information

HIT Consultant

If they have, they may want to deactivate their proxy access or the portal account to ensure their information remains confidential. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provides patients with the right to request a restriction on how a provider or hospital uses or discloses protected health information.