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MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and Flatiron Health Partner to Deliver Advanced Cancer Care

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Gain real-time access to open clinical trials – Patients can be efficiently matched to potentially life-saving research opportunities. said James Hamrick, MD, Vice President of Clinical Oncology at Flatiron Health.

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Despite Current Concerns, AI in Healthcare Has A Long History

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It was developed in 1972 and widely adopted in clinical practice in the 1980s and 1990s. Examples of this technology in motion include: The pulse oximeter , also called a plethysmograph or pleth, uses AI to calculate blood oxygen saturation based on the difference in transmission of red and infrared light in pulsating blood.

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Unleashing the Power of Protocols in Critical Care

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Many clinical practice groups have developed consensus-based enteral feeding protocols for nutrition management to provide evidence-based care with less variability. The starting point of every improvement journey is good, quality data.

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Improving Oral Health Access through Managed Care Quality Initiatives in Pennsylvania

NASHP

As highlighted in a 2020 Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services informational bulletin , Pennsylvania Medicaid has improved oral health access and quality of care by requiring MCOs to hire a dental director and execute performance improvement projects (PIPs) for pediatric preventative dental care.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

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As a computer scientist going through medical training, I felt trapped doing repeatable tasks that could be automated instead of delivering compassionate care to every person who needed it. In the coming years, I expect to see many more companies working to solve this problem.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. California provided an example of billing codes associated with specified palliative care services in its December 2017 guidance.

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Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them 

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These biases erode quality of care and access for underrepresented patients, in turn leading to a lack of trust in, and even fear of, the healthcare system as well as lowering participation by POC in their healthcare journey. Uneven quality and experience: Stark differences in the quality of care exist between races.