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HIMSS24: Oracle Health builds out generative AI tools in its quest to 'eliminate clicks' for clinicians

Fierce Healthcare

ORLANDO, Florida — Software giant Oracle continues to build out generative AI tools in its healthcare solutions as it debuted a new service for care management this week and plans to roll out | Oracle is integrating generative AI and ambient listening technologies into its EHR to streamline medical notetaking for clinicians. "We're not trying to go from 10 clicks to seven clicks.

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Mayo Clinic launches digital health product pipeline

Health Care Dive

The program aims alleviate the cost and difficulty digital health companies face in selling to hospitals, while making it easier for hospitals to find and integrate useful tools.

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Technology, cybersecurity and collaboration are featured at HIMSS24

Healthcare It News

HIMSS president and CEO Hal Wolf discusses healthcare trends, including patient engagement, AI advancements and cybersecurity challenges, and how HIMSS24 offers attendees a chance to learn from each other and collaborate in responding to those trends.

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HIMSS24 Roundup: M&A, Strategic Partnerships, Deployments, Product Launches, Funding, More

HIT Consultant

Strategic Partnerships New Consortium Aims to Ensure Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare A new initiative, the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), was announced at the HIMSS 2024 Global Health Conference. Through collaboration, TRAIN members will help improve the quality, safety, and trustworthiness of AI in health by sharing best practices, enabling registration of AI used for clinical care or clinical operations, providing tools to enable measurement of outcomes associated with t

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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HIMSS24: 'Fasten your seatbelts'—Hackensack Meridian CEO predicts acceleration of gen AI to help healthcare workforce

Fierce Healthcare

ORLANDO — It's almost impossible to have a conversation at HIMSS24 without the topic of artificial intelligence or generative AI coming up. | How will the conversations about AI in healthcare change by next year's HIMSS conference? Hackensack Meridian CEO Robert Garrett predicts that pilot projects underway now will roll out into practice.

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Salesforce’s pitch on healthcare AI

Health Care Dive

The cloud-based software company announced a number of new AI tools in the lead up to the HIMSS conference. Healthcare is a “huge priority” for Salesforce, said Sean Kennedy, global health strategy lead.

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Mayo Clinic Platform Unveils Solutions Studio to Propel Digital Health Innovation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Mayo Clinic Platform launches Solutions Studio , a groundbreaking program designed to accelerate the development, validation, and deployment of digital health solutions. – Solutions Studio addresses a critical challenge in healthcare – bridging the gap between promising digital health innovations and their practical integration into clinical workflows.

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AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare's cyberattack

Fierce Healthcare

Nearly every hospital is feeling the consequences of Change Healthcare’s cyberattack on their finances, patient care delivery, or both, according to reports from almost 1,000 hospitals compiled by | Almost 60% of surveyed hospitals reported at least $1 million of impacted revenues per day, and 74% said that the incident has had "direct" implications on patient care within their facilities.

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HHS opens investigation into Change Healthcare cyberattack

Health Care Dive

The Office for Civil Rights will focus on whether protected health information was breached and if UnitedHealth complied with privacy and security requirements.

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Planned community Lake Nona collects residents' data for longitudinal health study

Healthcare It News

Juan Santos, SVP of brand experience and innovation at the Tavistock Group, opened the Venture Connect Forum by discussing the community's collection of resident data to improve healthcare outcomes.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Feds Launches Investigation of Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Attack

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced an investigation into the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare , a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (UHG). – The cybersecurity attack has significantly disrupted healthcare billing and information systems nationwide, potentially impacting patient care.

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HIMSS24: How Epic is building out AI, ambient technology for clinicians

Fierce Healthcare

ORLANDO — A year ago, at HIMSS23 in Las Vegas, Epic announced it was working with Microsoft to integrate large language model tools and AI into its electronic health record software. | AI technology in healthcare is rapidly evolving, and the potential for generative AI to free up time to focus more on patients is getting clinicians excited about technology, said Jacqueline Gerhart, M.D., Epic clinician and vice president of clinical informatics.

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Trends in telehealth: The future of virtual care

Health Care Dive

In the wake of the pandemic, Healthcare organizations are evaluating the future of telehealth and working to craft a more deliberate, strategic approach to virtual care.

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Technology moving the needle on behavioral health

Healthcare It News

ORLANDO – Behavioral health issues are unfortunately common in today's healthcare environment; suicides, psychiatric bed capacity and lack of access to psychiatrists all occur with some regularity, and as is the case with many aspects of healthcare, technology can help to address some of these issues. Dr.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” When Dr. Grace Cordovano heard this statement on a panel of physicians convening to share perspectives on the future of AI in health care held in early March 2024, the board-certified patient advocate felt, in her words, “insulted on behalf of the patient communities I know that are working tirelessly to advance AI that works for them.” “The healthcare ecosystem and policy landscape must formally recognize patients as end-

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HIMSS24: Google Cloud builds out generative AI solutions to aid healthcare workers

Fierce Healthcare

ORLANDO — Generative AI continues to be a big buzzword in 2024 as tech companies see the potential to use the technology to alleviate administrative drudgery for healthcare workers. | Google Cloud is using its tech muscle to build out generative AI capabilities for healthcare and life sciences companies to help offload administrative burden and support assistive technology for clinicians.

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Small, financially struggling providers at risk from Change cyberattack: Moody’s

Health Care Dive

Larger providers, however, aren’t immune from cash flow challenges, especially if UnitedHealth Group is unable to restore systems by mid-March.

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Intelichart CEO details patient engagement trends for HIMSS24 attendees

Healthcare It News

Patient engagement is high on the list of important trends that healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders at provider organizations are working on. Intelichart, in Booth 3920 at HIMSS24, is a vendor of patient engagement technologies for provider organizations. It is showcasing its Healthy Outcomes platform, which offers technologies tailored to each stage of the patient journey designed to simplify patient engagement, improve health outcomes and increase profitability.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Availity Processes More Than $5B in Claims Stuck with Change Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Change Healthcare cybersecurity breach continues to disrupt the healthcare industry three weeks after the initial incident. Hospitals, physicians, pharmacists, and health plans are struggling to maintain operations amidst logistical and financial challenges. Patients nationwide face uncertainty regarding their ability to receive necessary care. – Availity , the nation’s largest real-time health information network, has emerged as a key resource in he

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MedPAC report slammed by insurers and docs over Medicare Advantage and physician reimbursement

Fierce Healthcare

Health plans and providers alike are disgruntled with a new report (PDF) to Congress released | It seems everyone was left unsatisfied by MedPAC's newest report to Congress. Providers objected to its proposal to give physician reimbursement relief, while plans disagreed with its attitude toward Medicare Advantage.

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Microsoft forms health AI governance network

Health Care Dive

The tech giant is standing up the group with 16 health systems, two healthcare technology companies and zero AI development rivals.

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Primary care goes up against the healthcare disruptors

Healthcare It News

ORLANDO – The future of primary care and how retailers are disrupting the traditional experience was the focus of a fireside chat between Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, chief physician executive at Press Ganey and Sashi Moodley, chief medical officer at Walgreens. Phillips, former president of Clinical Care for Providence St.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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6 Tips for Patients to Avoid Healthcare-Associated Infections

CDC

When a loved one is hospitalized, the last thing anyone wants is for them to get an infection while receiving care. Yet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on any given day, about 1 in 31 U.S. hospitalized patients has a healthcare-associated infection (HAI). An HAI is an infection that develops during or soon after receiving health care or being in a healthcare setting, such as a hospital, clinic, doctor’s office, surgery center, or nursing home.

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New Mayo Clinic program to qualify, integrate digital health offerings into clinical care

Fierce Healthcare

Mayo Clinic wants to help digital health more quickly—and more cost-effectively—bring its innovations into the hospital. | The Mayo Clinic Platform's Solutions Studio program will work with digital health companies "from idea to integration into clinical workflows." The system pitches it as a cost-effective way for innovators to bring their offerings to the point of care.

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Biden’s proposed budget for 2025 boosts cybersecurity funds, extends ACA subsidies

Health Care Dive

The budget request includes proposals for “Medicaid-like” coverage in non-expansion states and future penalties for hospitals that don’t implement cybersecurity standards.

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Takeaways from the Virtual Care Forum at HIMSS24

Healthcare It News

Experts discussed new emergency department models using telemedicine to build trust in virtual healthcare environments and public-private sector collaboration.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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Mental Illness Shouldn’t Preclude Organ Transplant Eligibility

Bill Of Health

By Sana S. Baban At present, there is a population of patients who would physiologically benefit from transplantation but are rejected based on pre-determined non-medical criteria: the presence of psychotic disorders. An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice. The existing organ allocation system has historically marginalized individuals diagnosed with psychotic or affective disorders, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and delusional disorders

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HIMSS24: AWS, symplr collaborate on AI assistants to automate complex workflows, mundane tasks

Fierce Healthcare

ORLANDO, Florida—HIMSS24 just kicked off today, and there's already a stream of AI innovation news. | ORLANDO, Florida—Symplr is working with Amazon Web Services to develop AI assistants to help automate complex workflows and mundane tasks for healthcare workers and also power chatbots to help patients find and schedule the right care.

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White House meets with UnitedHealth, industry groups on Change cyberattack fallout

Health Care Dive

Officials called on payers to cut red tape and offer financial support to providers, including advanced payments.

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AI tools empower clinicians to focus on patient care

Healthcare It News

Amid healthcare staffing struggles, Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, assistant professor of biomedical informatics and pediatric endocrinology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says AI-generated documentation can give clinicians more time with patients.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.